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Explore different kinds of English Period 5 Listening and Talking Unit 5 Languages around the World 1 本课结束时,你将能够: 1. 通过听,感知英、美英语在词汇方面存在差异,能梳理并记忆不同的词汇表达方式及其他不同的差异; 2. 由于英美英语的差异,易造成误解,运用不同的句型来澄清自己的观点; 3. 听前对内容进行预测,听中对事实细节、推理判断及观点态度等技能进行训练,听后自我反思。 学习目标 Watch the short videos of The Lion King & Downtown Abbey. Pre-listening Answer the following questions: Which language has the most native speakers in the world—English, Spanish, or Chinese? How about English? Does it have the second largest number of native speakers in the world? What are the two kinds of English that you has just heard? Do you think they are different? 1 Listen to the first part of the talk. What are the different kinds of English mentioned? While-listening Answer the following questions: In what ways are these kinds of English different from each other? Are these differences great? Do people from these countries have problems in communication? 2 Listen to the second part of the talk. What are the two pairs of words that the student is confused by? Tick them in the boxes. semester / term restroom/toilet gas / petrol subway / underground Listen and tick Look at the pairs of words below. Which words are British English and which are American English? Try to think of more pairs of words like these. Think more of them petrol sweet toilet honour mum flat gas candy restroom honor mom apartment The differences between American English and British English AmE BrE 最后两个字母 顺序不同 meter; theater metre; theatre 词尾的变化 labour; humour labor; humor 同一概念不同词 autumn; railway fall; railroad 改变字母 grey; plough gray; plow Think more of them Read the dialogue and answer the following questions: What does Zhou Wei want to buy? Why does Martin feel puzzled about what Zhou Wei wants to buy? How do they misunderstand each other? How do they clear up the misunderstanding? Post-reading Read and role-play the conversation. What misunderstanding has happened? Don't you like to have somebody tell you if the pants look good or not? In Br