1. English Around the World
Unit 2

2. Learning Goals: The First Period
1. Learn a dialogue about American English and British English.
2. Listen to a material.
3. Do some exercises about sentence transformation.

3. A knowledge quiz:(测试）
How many countries and regions are there in the world?
How many languages are there in the world?
How many languages are used as the working languages of the United Nations? What are they?
About two hundred.
About five thousand languages.
Chinese, French, Russian, English and Spanish
Five.

4. Warming up Q1: What is it that Joe can’t find in the bathroom?
Q2: Why can’t he find it?
The toilet.
When Joe says “bathroom”, he means a place, where there is a toilet.
But in Nancy’s eyes, it is a place where people can only have a bath.

5. Listening
Listen carefully to the tape. Mr. Brown’s landlady has many house rules. Write down five of them.
Example: The landlady asked Mr. Brown to put his coat in the closet.
The landlady asked Mr. Brown:
1._________________________________.
2._________________________________.
3._________________________________.
4._________________________________.
5._________________________________.

6. Pair work:
Suppose you are interviewing the headmaster about the school rules.
Work in pairs and make up a dialogue.

7. Complete the following sentences
1.Emily asked Karen______________________________.
The teacher asked Karen and Emily __________________
______________________.
Karen told the teacher that Emily had asked her
_________________________________________________.
2.Ms Smith told Harry_______________________________.
Harry asked Ms Smith ______________________________.
He also asked her __________________________________.
Ms Smith told Harry not_____________________________.
how to pronounce “kilometre”
if there is anything that
they are not clear
how to pronounce “kilometre”
to take two pizzas to Mr. Thompson
if she can spell the name
if she can repeat the address
to forget to buy her some ketchup

8. Make up a dialogue for three students and act it out in class, using the following expressions to help you.
Useful expressions
Can you spell that, please? I beg your parden?
Could you repeat that, please? How do you say …in English?
What do you mean by…? How do you pronounce…?
Could you speak a bit slowly, please? What does … mean?

9. Complete the following sentences:
“___________________,” he said.
He told me not to drink too much.
2. “Make sure to turn off the light before you sleep,” Jack said to his brother.
Jack told his brother to ______________________________.
3. “__________________________________?” the little girl said.
The little girl asked me to help her to make a kite.
4. “Please buy a pen for me,” he asked Tom.
He asked Tom to ____________________.
5. “Be quiet!” he said to me.
He told me to ___________.
Don’t drink too much.
turn off the light before he slept
Will you please help me to make a kite
buy a pen for him
be quiet

10. Homework: Make a similar dialogue in pairs.
Practise sentence transformation.
Preview reading “English around the world”.

11. Goodbye
Goodbye
everyone
everyone