1. Warming up

2. Read the passage in warming up, and answer the following questions?
1.Can you name some countries in which English is spoken?

3. 2. Are the English in those countries the same? Does it matter?

4. Read the dialogue on Page9, then tell the difference between the English the men speak.
(One is in British English, the other one is in American English.)

5. & American English British English
Do you know the differences between American English and British English?
American English
&
British English

6. spelling ask dance wheel not box mail, movie, post, film, words
British English
American English
colour,
favourite,
color,
favorite,
spelling
theatre,
centre,
theater,
center,
travelled,
metre
traveled,
meter
ask
dance
wheel
pronunciation
not
box
mail,
movie,
post,
film,
words
I think,
shop,
I guess,
store,

7. words lift (电梯) elevator petrol (汽油) gas apartment flat (公寓) autumn
British English
American English
lift (电梯)
elevator
petrol (汽油)
gas
apartment
flat (公寓)
autumn
fall
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

8. Listening 0n Page 48:

9. Work out the name of each student’s country and find the hints that help you identify them.
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
Speaker 3
Speaker 4
Country name
Hints
the Philippines
India
Singapore
Ireland
South Asia,
a huge Green island in Western Europe
very small
A country has more than 7000 islands
a city
more than a billion people
in Southeast Asia
British rulers
British rulers
very rich

10. What these countries have in common?
They all speak English(English is their official language);
they were all Non-English speakers before being conquered or colonized by English-speaking people.