1. Unit 2 Listening & speaking Period Five

2. listening 1.Listen to these dialogues.Mark the sentence stress and intonation.Then practise reading them in pairs.Find the British and American words which are different but have the same meaning. (textbook p12)

3. Listening 1 1 little girl: Hi,I’d like some sweets,please. store owner: No problem.All the candy we sell is sweet. Little girl: I see, so you sell sweet sweets. 2nd British boy: Let’s take the lorry for a trip into the countryside. American girl: Of course,I expect you to take me. British boy: Oh, I’m sorry, Lori, I mean my truck. 3rd British boy: What a lovely autumn day! American girl: Yes, it’s a nice fall day, isn’t it? ___ ____ ___

4. Speaking Do you know the differences in vocabulary between British and American English, like candy and sweets, lorry and truck? List them out.

5. Differences in Vocabulary apartment-flat bar-pub bathroom-toilet can-tin busy-engaged cookie-biscuit check-cheque crazy-mad drugstore-chemist’s elevator-lift eraser-rubber fall-autumn

6. Differences in vocabulary game-match garbage/trash-rubbish line-queue gas/gasoline-petrol mad-angry living room-sitting room mail-post mom-mum movie-film pants-trousers penpal-penfriend repair-mend

7. Difference in vocabulary Santa Claus-Father Christmas schedule-timetable sick-ill soccer-football subway-underground stove-cooker trillion-billion high school-secondary school the first floor-ground floor

8. Listening 2 Imagine that you are in Houston,Texas, a city in the American South. Listen carefully to the way the boy is talking. He is speaking with one kind of South dialect and accent. ( text book p14 )

9. speaking How to pronounce these words in British and American English? after ask neither either box kilometer

10. Listening 3 Refer to your worksheet

11. Homework