1. Let’s discover more about English!
Unit Two
English Around the World
(Period One)
Let’s discover more about English!

2. Fun Time
Are you a native speaker of Cantonese? If not, where is your native place? Use you native language to say “Hello” to your classmates!!!!!!!

3. Small Quiz
Let’s do a small quiz to distinguish the national flags of different countries, and find out the languages spoken in these countries.

4. Great Britain

5. Australia

6. Canada

7. India

8. Ireland

9. New Zealand

10. South Africa

11. The U.S.A.

12. Singapore

13. English
Why are there so many countries speaking English as their first or second language?
Do you think the Englishes spoken all around the world are all the same ?

14. English around the world

15. Listen to a dialogue. 1, Where did the dialogue take place?
2, Where was the man from?
3, How did he travel?
4, What was he looking for?
5, Did he find what he wanted?
6, What happened to him?Why?
Englishes spoken in different countries are different.

16. World Englishes American English New Zealand English British English
Singapore English
Australian English
Indian English
Canadian English
African English

17. Do you know the American way of saying the following words
candy
elevator
sweet
lift
drugstore
chemist’s
flat
apartment
rubbish
trash
rubber
eraser
trousers
pants
mum
mom
holiday
vacation
petrol
gas
the first floor
ground floor
toilet
bathroom
the second floor
first floor
autumn
fall
underground
subway
film
movie
lorry
truck
pen-friend
pen-pal
football
soccer

18. Do you know how Americans spell the following words
theatre, centre
theater,center
colour,honour,labour
color,honor,labor
traveller
traveler
fulfil
fulfill
programme
program
tyre
tire
realise, apologise
realize,apologize
smelt,spelt
smelled, spelled

19. Speaking Task: Use your knowledge about the
differences between American English
and British English to make a dialogue
on the misunderstanding caused by the
differences between Am. E and Br. E.
like the sample dialogue you just listened
to.

20. Homework 1.Oral work:Why do so many people speak English?
2.Preview the reading