English around the World Unit 2 English around the World

Questions What foreign languages can you use to say “你好”? In what situations do you speak English?

At School On the air (on TV, radio…)

During an international talk/ meeting During the traveling During the trade

English is an international language. Figures More than half of the newspapers and magazines in the world are printed in English. 80% of the computer information in the world is stored in English. 3/4 of the letters in the world are written in English. 3/5 of the world’s radios are using English to broadcast. English is an international language.

WTO China Today Are we native speakers? Is English our official language? WTO More and more Chinese learn to speak English. We have learned English for more than 3 years.

Can you name some English Spoken Countries

the U.K Canada America Singapore Ireland India Australia South Africa New Zealand

U.K. Ireland U.S.A Canada Australia New Zealand India Singapore South Africa

World Englishes Do you think the Englishes spoken in these countries are all the same? American English British English Australian English Canadian English Indian English African English New Zealand English Singapore English …

V.S. American English British English Do you know the differences between American English and British English? American English V.S. British English

Do you want to come to my flat? How far is your apart-ment? It is beautiful.

Great. I like football match very much. Hey, let’s go and see a soccer game. It is very exciting.

Time to go home. Let’s go to the elevator together. Oh no, the lift must be full of people this time.

dance [d:ns] dance [dæns] Br.E or Am.E? vocabulary lift elevator dance [d:ns] dance [dæns] colour color in a team on a team pronunciation spelling collocation

Quiz [] [] [i] [i] centre often flat neither in the street lorry travelled store center often apartment neither on the street truck traveled shop [] [] [i] [i] Br. English Am. English

Quiz Br. English Am. English timetable rubber autumn petrol toilet sweets football schedule eraser fall gas bathroom candy soccer

Do you think the Englishes spoken in these countries are the same? VS

What can we learn? Situation: An American is visiting England. Now he has just checked in a hotel. And his room number is 705. Here is the dialogue between him and a servant in the hotel.

Excuse me, could I take the elevator to the 7th floor? 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. 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? Oh, sorry. Come this way, I’ll show you the lift. England America

A house In America In England The 7th floor The 6th floor The 2nd floor The 1st floor The 1st floor The ground floor

Listening Listen to the tape and find out the words that have the same meaning. pictures autumn lorry underground sweet

Listening Listen to the tape and find out the words that have the same meaning. pictures autumn lorry underground sweet movies fall truck subway candy

Listen again, try to fill in the blanks. It was _____. Amy, Betty and Carl met together. They wanted to go to the ________. There would be a film that’s been playing all ___. It was called ____________. It would start soon. So Betty asked them to _____________.But finally they decided to go by _______. It was just as fast. And they hoped the theatre has _____ _____ _______.

Listen again, try to fill in the blanks. It was _____. Amy, Betty and Carl met together. They wanted to go to the ________. There would be a film that’s been playing all ___. It was called ____________. It would start soon. So Betty asked them to _____________.But finally they decided to go by _______. It was just as fast. And they hoped the theatre has _____ _____ _______. rainy pictures fall Rush Hour 3 take her truck subway some good sweets

To show your difficulty in communication Pardon? I beg your pardon? I don’t understand. Could you say that again, please? Could you repeat that, please? Can you speak more slowly, please? Sorry, I can’t follow you. How do you spell it, please?