Warming up

Read the passage in warming up, and answer the following questions? 1.Can you name some countries in which English is spoken?

2. Are the English in those countries the same? Does it matter?

Read the dialogue on Page9, then tell the difference between the English the men speak. (One is in British English, the other one is in American English.)

& American English British English Do you know the differences between American English and British English? American English & British English

spelling ask dance wheel not box mail, movie, post, film, words British English American English colour, favourite, color, favorite, spelling theatre, centre, theater, center, travelled, metre traveled, meter ask dance wheel pronunciation not box mail, movie, post, film, words I think, shop, I guess, store,

words lift (电梯) elevator petrol (汽油) gas apartment flat (公寓) autumn British English American English lift (电梯) elevator petrol (汽油) gas apartment flat (公寓) autumn fall words subway underground(地铁) university(大学) college garbage rubbish(垃圾) dustbin(垃圾箱) trash can holiday vacation fortnight(两星期） two weeks

Listening 0n Page 48:

Work out the name of each student’s country and find the hints that help you identify them. Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3 Speaker 4 Country name Hints the Philippines India Singapore Ireland South Asia, a huge Green island in Western Europe very small A country has more than 7000 islands a city more than a billion people in Southeast Asia British rulers British rulers very rich

What these countries have in common? They all speak English(English is their official language); they were all Non-English speakers before being conquered or colonized by English-speaking people.