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1.Which language is spoken by the largest number of people

in the world?

Quiz:

2.Which language is most

widely used in the world?

3.How many people speak English in the world today ?

375 million

750 million

more than 1.1 billion

Half of the world’s

population

(by 2050)

as their first language

as a second language

or a foreign language

speak English

will be using it.

4.Can you think of some English –speaking countries?

the USA

Canada

New Zealand

Australia

South Africa

the United Kingdom

Ireland

India

Philippines

Singapore

Map of the world

English Around the World

Do they speak the same English ?

World Englishes include Canadian, British,American, Australian and Indian English.

British English

American English

What are differences between British English and American English?

Dictation

1 ( c )

2 ( )

3 ( )

4 ( )

Listening 1:

Listen and complete the following passage.

My name is Sarah and I’m 14 years old. My______are _________ novels, _________ football and __________ songs. I think that rock music is_____, and I don’t like _______. I don’t enjoy computers

________.

reading

playing

singing

dancing

either

interests

terrible

Listening 2:

Listen to the tape and

complete the following

table.

pictures 1.

2. fall

lorry 3.

4. subway

sweets 5.

movies

autumn

candy

truck

underground

( British. E)

( American. E)

Do you want to come to my flat?

How far is your apart-ment? It is beautiful

Shall we go to the pub to celebrate your birthday?

Wow, bar is a nice place.

Wow, I want a tin of Coko, some biscuits and sweets. What about you, Bush?

Well, I want a can of milktea, some cookies and some candy .

Hey, let’s go and see a soccer game. It is very exciting.

Great. I like football match very much.

Time to go home. Let’s go to the elevator together.

Oh no, the lift must be full of people this time.

Comparison

c-o-l-o-u-r

c-o-l-o-r

autumn

fall

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[ d?ns]

Excuse me, could I take the elevator to the 7th floor?

Pardon?

Why not the 6th floor?

Your room number is 705.

And you’d take what?

I mean, I’d like to take the lift to Room 705 on the 6th floor. We say the 7th floor instead of 6th floor in the US.

Oh, sorry. Come this way,

I’ll show you the lift.

Useful expressions:P48

Pardon?

I beg you pardon?

Can you say that again, please?

Could you repeat that, please?

Can you speak more slowly, please

Sorry, I don’t understand.

Sorry, I can’t follow you.

How do you spell it, please?

An American is having a talk with an Englishman. Because of using different vocabulary ,they have misunderstanding with each other.

Please act out a dialogue ,trying to use the words shown in the listening part and useful expressions above.

Make up a dialogue

1. Try to find out more differences between AmE and BrE, or get more examples to show the differences we discovered today.

2. Preview the text ( p9) and find out the topic sentences for each paragraph.

3. Finish Ex1 on P10.

Homework

By Violet