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1、LECTURE AUDIOSCRIPTSUNIT 1 Whats in a Name?TEACHER: Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Felipe, Monica,Theo, and I cant remember your name.STUDENT 1: Patricia.TEACHER: Patricia, right, Patricia. Those are all beautiful names, and thatsour topic today-names. Names are a culture universal. This mea
2、ns everyoneuses names. A persons name can tell us a bit about a persons family. Today,well begin by looking at first names and how people choose names for theirchildren. And then well talk about family names, and look at the differentcategories of family names. Although the scope of the lecture toda
3、y isEnglish-language names, we can use the same approach, you know, to look atnames from any culture.Lets take a brief look at first, or given names. There are several ways parentschoose the first name for their child.The first way is by family history. Parents may choose a name because it ispassed
4、from generation to generation; for example, the first born son might benamed after his father or grandfather. Although family names are also passedto daughters, it is usually as a middle name. Adding junior or the secondfor example, William Parker the seconds only done with boys, not with girlsnames
5、.The second way parents choose a name is after a family member or friend whohas died recently, or after someone they admire, like a well-known leader ora famous musician. Although most English first names mean something, forexample, Richard means powerful and “Ann means grace, nowadaysmeaning is not
6、 the main reason people select their babys name.The third way is to provide a push for the child. Parents want to choose aname that sounds very successful. A strong name might help them in thebusiness world, for example. Or they might choose a name that works foreither gender, like Taylor or Terry.
7、So, given these three methods, what is themost common way parents choose a name? Many parents choose a namesimply because they like it, or because its fashionable or classic. Fashions innames change just as they do in clothes. One hundred years ago, many namescame from the Bible names such as Daniel
8、, and Anna, and Hannah andMatthew. Then fifty years ago, Biblical names went out of fashion. Nowadays,names from the Bible are becoming popular again.Similarly, parents often choose classic names, names that were popular in1900, 1950, and are still popular now. Classic names for boys include Thomas,
9、David, Robert, and Michael. And for girls: Anna, Elizabeth, Emily, andKatherine, just to name a few. Theyre classic. They never go out of style.Lets look at the origin of last names, also called family names or surnames.Researchers have studied thousands of last names, and theyve divided theminto fo
10、ur categories. The categories are: place names, patronymics, addednames, and occupational names. A recent survey showed that of the 7,000most popular names in the United States today, 43 percent were place names,32 percent were patronymics, 15 percent were occupational names, and 9percent were added
11、 names.The first category is place names. Place names usually identified where aperson lived or worked. Someone named John Hill lived near a hill, forexample, and the Rivers family lived near a river. If you hear the name EmmaBridges, what image do you see? Do you see a family that lives near a brid
12、ge?If you do, you get the idea.The second category is patronymics. Thats P-A-T-R-O-N-Y-M-I-C-S. Apatronymic is the fathers name, plus an ending like S-E-N or S-O-N. Theending means that a child, a boy, is the son of his father. The names Robertson,Petersen, and Wilson are patronymics. Robertson is s
13、on of Robert, Petersen isson of Peter, and so on.The third category is added names. Linguists sometimes call this categorynicknames, but when most of us hear the word nickname, we think of aspecial name a friend or a parent might use. The word nickname is actuallyan old English word that means an ad
14、ditional name, an added name. So Illuse the term added name. This category of last names is fun because thenames usually described a person. Reed, Baldwin, and Biggs are examples.Reed was from red for red hair. Baldwin was someone who was bald,someone who had little or no hair. And Biggs.STUDENT 2:
15、Someone big?TEACHER: Yeah, someone big, right. Now, if we look around the room, wecould probably come up with some new last names, like, uh. Curly or Strong.Now, the fourth category is occupational names. The origin of the familyname was the persons occupation. The most common examples ofoccupationa
16、l names still used today are Baker (someone who bakes bread).Tailor (someone who sews clothes). Miller (someone who makes flour forbread), and Smith. . . . Now, Smith is actually the most common name in thewestern English-speaking world. The name comes from an Old English word,smite, thats S-M-I-T-E
17、, which means to hit or strike. In the old days, a smithmade metal things for daily life, like tools. Every town needed smiths. Whatsinteresting is that many languages have a family name that means Smith. InArabic it is Haddad, H-A-D-D-A-D. In Spanish it is Herrera, H-E-R-R-E-R-A. In Italian it is F
18、erraro, F-E-R-R-A-R-O. And in German it is Schmidt,spelled S-C-H-M-I-D-T. All these names mean smith.Though names may tell us something about someones family history, youneed to keep in mind that they may not tell us much at all about the present.For example, theres usually not much connection betwe
19、en the origin of thename and the person who has it now. Take the name Cook, for instance. Aperson named Cook today probably doesnt cook for a living. Also, manypeople change their names for various reasons. Lots of people who havemoved to the United States have changed their names to sound more Amer
20、ican.This happens less now than in the past, but people still do it. People also usepen names or stage names to give themselves a professional advantage. Forexample, the writer Samuel Clemens used the pen name Mark Twain, andThomas Mapother IV uses the stage name Tom Cruisey.So, lets recap now. In t
21、odays lesson, we looked at how parents chooseEnglish first names. We also looked at some common origins of family names.In the next class, well look at how names are given in Korea and in Japan.This is covered in the next section of the book. Thats all for today.Unit 2 English: A Global Language?TEA
22、CHER: Todays topic is English as a global language. I know many ofyou speak English as a second language, right? How about you, Hiroshi? IsEnglish your first language?STUDENT 1: No, my first language is Japanese. English is my secondlanguage.TEACHER: And how about you, Patricia?STUDENT 2: English is
23、 my second language, too. My first language isSpanish.TEACHER: See, many of you use English as a second language, even as aglobal language to communicate with other people who speak English as asecond language. Today, I want to give you two contrasting points of view onwhether or not English is a gl
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