Unit 2 American English and British English 主讲人：孙维路 Lingxian No.1 Middle School

教学目的和要求： 通过学习，使学生了解美 国英语和英国英语的不同， 以及产生这些不同的原因。

Step 1 presentation “bathroom” in American English means ________ “bathroom” in British English means: ____________ That means there are differences between American English and British English. Today we’ll learn more about their differences between American English and British English. toilet a place for shower

Step 2 Reading Questions: 1. When did America become an independent country? 2.Who wrote the first American dictionary? And when? In 1776 Noah Webster in 1828

Step 3 Main idea of the text: The text mainly tells the differences between American English and British English in ____________ _________ and ________ words/vocabulary spelling pronunciation

Step 4 Differences between American English and British English I guess autumn typhoon center colour traveller dance not /nat/ /da:ns/ English words ways American English British English words spelling pronunciation fall I think tornado color centre traveler

Step 5 Reasons for the differences between AE and BE: 1.After independence from England, ___________________________________ ___________________. 2.Both started________________________. 3.Noah Webster______________________ ______________________________. the language in America stayed the same, while the language in England changed borrowing words from other languages published his dictionary to make American English different from British English

Step 6 Reading the second part and fill in the following form. American English word borrowed from cent Florida howl cookbook old French Spanish India German

Step 7 Read the text aloud and then fill in the blanks. There are some differences between American English and British English in vocabulary ______ and ______. Sometimes, the same word means different things just like the word “______”, sometimes different words mean the ______ thing like the words “______” and “autumn”, and sometimes the same word has different ______like the word “dance”. How did these differences ______ ______? Because languages are changing and so ______ English. American English has changed ______ the centuries. It’s really a mixture( 混合） of different languages. Most of the words and expressions come from ______ English, some are from Webster’s ______ and some are from other languages such as ______ Spanish or ______. If we know the differences, we can learn English better. spelling pronunciation bathroom same fall pronunciation come about is over Britishdictionary old FrenchGerman

Step 8 Practice American English British English Chinese cab ______ 出租车 ______ main road 公路 ______ middle school 中学 vacation ______ 假期 ______ fortnight 两周 garbage ______ 垃圾 ______ ground floor 一楼 ______ lorry 卡车 ______ favourite 最喜爱 的 meter ______ 米 traveling ______ 旅行 ______ practise 练习 organization ______ 组织 I have ______ 我有 taxi highway high school holiday two weeks rubbish first floor truck favorite metre travelling practice organisation I have got

Step 9 Discussion We just learnt that some American English words are borrowed from our Chinese. In fact, some our Chinese words are also borrowed from English. Now discuss and imagine what words in our Chinese are from English?

Step 8 Summary From this class we’ve learnt the differences between American English and British English and the reasons for the differences. As an English learner it’s important to know about their differences. So when we are in different English-speaking countries, we can use different English language so that we won’t make mistakes by misunderstanding each other.

Thank you and have a nice day!