1. English around the world
Listening

2. Listening text on P14

3. Have you ever been to Texas
Have you ever been to Texas? Now just imagine that you are in this American city and happened hearing an interesting story told in local dialect.Listen carefully and see how much you can understand that.

4. Buford, Billy Bob and Lester went swimming.
Put the sentences in the right sequence
Lester climbed a tree.
Buford, Billy Bob and Lester went swimming.
Lester thought the catfish would eat him.
Buford and Billy Bob laughed.
Lester saw a catfish.
Now Lester is too afraid to visit the place. 4 1 3 5 2 6

5. 1.What does Buford think of Texas?
How do you know?
2. How large was the catfish?
He believes it’s quite a different
country from the US. The listening
text tells it is so.
The boys thought that the catfish was almost the size of a house.

6. 3. Why did Lester get out of the water
very quickly?
4.Why did Buford and Big Bob laugh?
He though the catfish would eat him.
They laughed because Lester believed the catfish would hurt him.

7. Listening text
Hey, y’all, this here is Buford. I come from a big oil town in Texas. Now, y’all need to understand that we ain’t really a state, but a whole ’nother country.Now let me tell ya a story about when I was just a pup. One hot summer’s day I was swimmin’ with my cousins Little Lester and Big Billy Bob. We was jumpin’in the water and feelin’ good.

8. Then along comes this catfish ’bout the size of a house
Then along comes this catfish ’bout the size of a house. Well, alright, maybe a little smaller than that. Little Lester starts to thinkin’ it’s goin’ to eat him sure ’nough. Man, you shoulda seen him! He got outta the water fast as lightning and climbed up a tree. Big Billy Bob and I just laughed and laughed. To this day, Lester won’t go near that place.

9. Listening on P48

10. Look at the map showing some of the places in the world where English is spoken as an official language and guess what you will hear in the tape?
Location, climate, people, custom,
history, places of interest, and so on.

11. The name of each speaker’s country
Speaker 1 is from India.
Speaker 2 is from the USA.
Speaker 3 is from Jamaica.
Speaker 4 is from Ireland.
Speaker 5 is from Philippines.
Speaker 6 is from Singapore.

12. The hints that help to identify the speaker
Speaker 1 South Asia, a billion people , use English, British rulers
Speaker 2 Fat Tuesday, New Orleans,
Speaker 3 a beautiful island
Speaker 4 a huge green island in western Europe, British rulers
Speaker 5 more than 7,000 islands, American rulers
Speaker 6 very small, southeast Asia, very rich

13. Listening text S1: I live in South Asia.My country is
thousand of years old and now has
more than a billion people. Unlike
many other countries, our people
speak a lot of languages.So we use
English, which we got from British
rulers hundreds of years ago,to
understand our neighbours.

14. S2: One of my grandmothers speakers French. Her grandmother came
Of course, we have our own way of
using English.
S2: One of my grandmothers speakers
French. Her grandmother came
from some place in Canada. I like to
listen to her talk, although I don’t
understand much of what she says.
Her English is also hard to
understand. She cooks

15. delicious food, so I spend a lot of time
in the kitchen with her whenever I visit her. I plan to see her again for a special holiday called Fat Tuesday. We will go to New Orleans, Which is near the sea. People will dance in the streets all day and night.

16. S3: Well,I don’t live very far from the last
student who spoken to you. But I live
on a beautiful island where the sun
shines most of the year. It’s not the
biggest island in the sea but it’s not
the smallest island, either. We also got
English from British rulers a long
time age, and use it in a different way.

17. I think our English sounds a little like
our music. Some people say I speak a
dialect of English,but I don’t agree.
To us, it’s more like another language.
S4: I live on a huge green island in
western Europe. hundreds of years
age my people spoke a very

18. different language from English. Then
the British rulers came. Now the old
language is spoken in only a few
villages in the western part of my
country. Most of us speak a lovely kind
of English that also sounds a little like
our music.

19. S5: My country has more than 7,000islands.
Some of them are very large but most
of them are quite small. Hundreds of
years ago the Spanish rulers changed
the way we live. Much later the
American rulers taught their own kind
of English in our school. Nowadays, we
speak a kind of English but is mostly
our own.

20. S6:My country is very small. In fact, it’s
really a city. It is in southeast Asia and
is very rich. People come from all over
Asia to do business here. But our
English comes from worker on the
street. Some people in my country
don’t like the sound of this English.

21. They would rather speak British English. Today, you can hear our
kind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that come here.

22. Thank you!