1. Unit 2 English around the world
Period 1Warming up and Reading I

2. Small Quiz
Let’s do a small quiz to distinguish/tell the national flags of different countries which speak English as their native language.

3. Australia
Great Britain
Ireland
New Zealand

4. Canada
The U.S.A.
India
South Africa

5. Singapore
1. Are the English in those countries the same?

6. Do you know the differences between American English and British English?
Listen to the dialogues. Find the British and American words which are different but have the same meaning.
&
American English
British English

7. spelling dance ask wheel not box words post, film, mail, movie,
British English
American English
colour,
favourite,
color,
favorite,
spelling
theatre,
centre,
theater,
center,
travelled,
metre
traveled,
meter
dance
ask
wheel
pronunciation
not
box
words
post,
film,
mail,
movie,
I guess,
fall
autumn,
I think,
candy
truck
sweets
lorry

8. words lift (电梯) elevator petrol (汽油) gas apartment flat (公寓) toilet
British English
American English
lift (电梯)
elevator
petrol (汽油)
gas
apartment
flat (公寓)
toilet
bathroom
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

9. Do you know how many people use English as their native language, second language, or foreign language?

10. number of speakers example countries working situation
the native language
the foreign language
the second language
USA,Canada,Australia,south Africa, Ireland, New Zealand
375 million
China and many other countries
750 million
government,schools, newspapers,TV
India, Pakistan,Nigeria,Philippines.
375 million

11. Fast reading:
Read the text and find out the answers to the questions of Ex. 1 on page 10.

12. Pair work:
1. Read the text and try to find the main idea of each paragraph. (Work in pairs)

13. Describes the extension/development of English in the world.
Native speakers can understand each other but not everything.
The development of English as native language.
Or: English has changed over time.
English is spoken as a foreign or second language in many countries.
Para 1:
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4

14. German French 5—7million identity Australian
Step 3. Intensive reading Activity 1. fill in the chart
German AD
English was based on _______
English was more like _________.
At the end of the 16th century
How many people spoke English? __________
In the 1600’s
Shakespeare made use of a wider ___________ than before.
1828
American English gained its own_________.
Now
__________ English has its identity.
French
5—7million
vocabulary
identity
Australian

15. because Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947.
Activity 2. Answer the following questions
(1)What is the clue of the passage?
(2) Why does India have a large number of English speakers?
(3) When did people from England begin to move to other parts of the world?
time
because Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947.
in the 17th century

16. Step 4 Read the passage again and decide the following statements are true or false.
America has the largest number of English speakers
French ruled England from 1150 to 1500.
3.Native English speakers cant’t understand each other because they don’t speak the same kind of English.
4. Noah Webster wrote the American Dictionary of the English Language.
5. From 1765 to 1947 English was the language for government and education in South Africa. F T F T F

17. Discussion
1. Do you think it matters what kind of English you learn, why?
2. Why do you think people all over the world want to learn English?
3. Will Chinese English become one of the World English?

18. Homework
Try to remember the English meaning of the new words in Reading I.
Review Reading 1.
3. Finish the exercises on Page11.
4. Finish Exercise1~2 on Page49 on WB.
5. Try to recite the first paragraph of Reading1.