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dialects are there in China ?

dialects family in China dialects family in China

北方方言北方方言吴语吴语

闽南语闽南语

客家话客家话

湘语湘语赣语赣语

粤语粤语

ChineseChinese

dialects in Guangdong province

dialects in Guangdong province

粤方言

粤方言

客方言客方言闽方言闽方言

代表地区代表地区

梅州梅州


梅州梅州地区地区

广州代表广州代表

地区地区

广州代表广州代表


潮汕地区潮汕地区


潮汕地区潮汕地区

English dialects in different countries

English dialects in different countries

BritainBritain

The U.S.AThe U.S.A

CanadaCanada

AustraliaAustralia

IndiaIndia

New ZealandNew Zealand

Do you think there are some dialects in English?

Fast reading:

Read the text on page 13 for 1 minute and answer the following question.

Is there standard English?

Detailed Reading Read the text for 3 minutes and answer the

following question.

1.How many dialects of American English have How many dialects of American English have been listed in the text?been listed in the text?

2.Why do people from both Northeastern and 2.Why do people from both Northeastern and Southeastern of U.S. speak with almost the Southeastern of U.S. speak with almost the same dialect? And what kind of dialect is it?same dialect? And what kind of dialect is it?

3.Why are there so many dialect in American English?

Mid-western, southern, African American, Spanish

Because when Americans moved from one place to anther, they took their dialects with them.

That’s because people come from all over the world. And geography plays a part in making dialects.

Read the passage, then fill in the following form:

Notes on James Murray’s life

Country

Education

Job

Most important task

Its difficulties:

Qualities needed:

Who worked on it?

Date of completion

Other information

Reading Task on page 51

Village school then taught himself.

Work in a bank, teacher.

Scotland

Murray, his two daughters and other editors.

1982

Most important task

Other information

Its difficulties: the biggest dictionary, work in a place where it is too hot or cold, work alone at first, only used pen and paper.

Qualities needed: hard work, interest in the job, patience.

Ideas for this dictionary from a meeting in Britain in 1857. Begin to do it in 1895. Hoped to finish it in ten years.

Listening

Ask some students to tell the words that are different in American English & British English

Revision

3. Listen and put these 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.

1

2

3

4

5

6

Answer keys for the exercise 4 on page 14

1. He believes it’s almost a different country from the USA. The listening text tells us it is so.

2. The boys thought that the catfish was almost the size of a house.

3. He thought the catfish would eat him.

4. They laughed because Lester believed the catfish would hurt him.

Assignment• 1. Finish the listening tasks in

workbook on page 51-52.

• 2. Make a conclusion of the skills learned in this class.

Speaking

and

writing

Make a dialogue

There are three situations. Please make dialogues using commands or requests with your partner. You are encouraged to imagine interesting dialogues.

Situation 1 You need to ask someone to close

the door but you cannot do it yourself. There are many people in the room but you cannot tell who are important and who are not. so how do you do it politely?

Situation 2

You are standing in the middle of a train carriage and you need to leave. You must not push your way to the door, so how do you do it politely?

Situation 3

A bear is about to approach a boy. What do you say to him to make sure that he won’t be hurt?

Reading and speaking

Read the dialogue on page 15 and find out the different British and American English words.

Amy (American) Lady (British)



subway underground



subway underground

left left-hand side



subway underground

left left-hand side

keep going straight go straight on



subway underground

left left-hand side


two blocks two streets



subway underground

left left-hand side



right right-hand side


subway underground

left left-hand side



right right-hand sitemovie

filmbar pubthe first floor ground floor

Group work

Student A: is from American. Don’t know the directions, so ask Student C for help. But

doesn’t know the British well.

Student B: is a speaker of British English, but know both American and British English.

Retell C’s words to A

Student C: is the native British there and is familiar with the directions. But doesn’t know

American English.

Form a group in three , and make a dialogue according to the following map, try to use the words that are different in Br.E and Am.E as many as possible.

My problems

Ideas for improvement

Why I like English

My future with English

.

.

My experience of learning English

Writing – I ( 4m )

Pair work: Fill in the chart after discussing in pairs.

My problems

Ideas for improvement

Why I like English

My future with English

Listening Listen to BBC. Listen to music and movies.

Help me realize my dream.

Writing Practice making sentence

Enjoy original works

Words Memorize new words

Travel

My experience of learning English

Writing – Write a passage:

Title: Why should we learn English?

Words: at least 100.

Content:

Paragraph 1 The importance of English in today’s life.

Paragraph 2 The benefits of understanding English.

Paragraph 3 What I like about learning English and how to learn it well.

Checking the composition.

• 1. Ask the students to check the poster for their partner.

• 2. Show some compositions on the screen, other students should give some advice.

Assignment1. Try to correct the composition .

2. Finish the exercises of unit 2 in workbook.

3. Review the whole unit.

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