Part I check your homework

答案 Paraphrase and Translate:

Read Para. 4-11 and answer:

Q5:What is the function of Para 4 and Para.5?

Q6:How do you understand "the King’s English was a term of criticism"?

Q7:Why did people in the pub talk about Australia? Why did the conversation turn to Norman England?

Q8:How does the use of words show class distinction?

Q9:What’s the cultural barrier, built by the French, against the English?

简答题答案

Q5: They are transitional paragraphs，moving from a general discussion of a good conversation to a specific instance

Q6.The word "king's English" is generally regarded by most as standard or correct English, that is, good English that everyone should try to imitate. Now the speaker says the term refers to English that should not be used. The word is now being criticized rather than praised.

Q7: The people talked about Australia because the speaker who introduced the subject mentioned incidentally that it was an Australian who had given her such a definition of “the King's English”. When the people talked about the resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by an upper class to lay down rules for“English as it should be spoken”, the conversation moved to Norman England because at that time a language barrier existed between the Saxon peasants and the Norman conquerors.

Q8: The Saxon peasants and their Norman conquerors used different words for the same thing, when people talk about meat on tables they use French words, but when they talk about animals from which the meat comes from, like pig and pork, they use Anglo-Saxon words.

 Q9. There are other cultural barrier, but the main reference is to language barrier. 

Part II Language study of Part 2 (4-11)

Part III Homework: 见“作业”

p15 Paraphrase 5,6,7

p17 Translate 4, 5