Unit 7 Canada
卢浮宫英文Teaching aims
通過本課学习．让学生了解加拿大人上如何使用英语的，并初步了解美国英语和加拿大英语的差别．同时，帮助学生掌握一些讨论语言的日常交际用语．
Step 1 Revision
1. Check the homework exercis.
2. Ask the students the questions:
In which countries in the world do people speak English?
How many languages can you speak?
Which language is spoken by the largest number of people?
How are you getting along with your English study?
Do you often read and speak English?
Have ever met a foreigner and talked with him in English?
Plea say something about the difference between American English and British English.
3. Show the students a map of Canada and get them to talk about this country.
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T: As we know, in Canada there are two official languages, English and French. Also, Canada and the USA are neighbors. In your opinion, are there any differences between American English and Canadian English? Do the people in Canada speak English the same way as the people in the USA do?
Step 2 Prentation
1. Brief introduction
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Show the students a picture and introduce the two characters in the dialogue by raising th
e following questions.
1) What can you e in the picture?
2) Do you know who this man is?
3) Is he American?
4) Do you know the girl’s name?
5) Can you guess what they are talking about?
2. General understanding
what s upLet the students listen to the dialogue and listen the following questions:
1) Is an America accent quite different from a Canadian accent?
2) Do people have the same accent all over Canada?
3. Further understanding
1) Ask the students to read the dialogue silently and think about the question: which of the following does Dean talk about, grammar, vocabulary, spelling or pronunciation?
2) Get the students to tell whether the statements are right or wrong. Do Ex. 1.
Step 3 Practicelb是什么意思
1. Let the students fill in the form below, using the follow questions as a guide.
American English Canadian English
Pronunciation
vocabulary
spelling
Questions:
1) Are there any many differences between them?
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2) Do they sue any different words for the same meaning?
3) Are there any differences in pronunciation?
4) Do they u American or British English?
2. Let he students listen to the tape and repeat after it. Then get them to practi in pairs.
3. Ask the students to retell the dialogue with reference to Wb, Ex.2.
4. Get he students to practice the dialogue in pairs.
Step 4 Dialogue Production
1. Ask the students to work in groups of four and discuss the following questions:
Which is greater, the difference between British English and American English, or the difference between British English and Canadian English?
The difference is not so important, but understanding is more important.
2. Ask the students to make dialogues similar to the one in the textbook by using the phras below:
Situation 1: You are talking about the English language with a person from England.
Situation 2: A foreigner who is visiting China wants to know the difference between Chine and Japane.
Step 5 language points
1. A lot of people can’t tell the difference between an American accent and a Canadian accent.
* tell the difference between A and B 说出……之间的区别
payoffBetty and Alice are twin sisters. Can you tell the difference between them?
Who can tell the difference between the two phras?
* tell A from B 把……和……区分开
We can’t tell the good apples from the bad ones.
You must try to tell the chickens from the ducks.
* tell a lie/lies 说谎, 撒谎
Don’t tell a lie! I can’t believe you.
He is always telling lies.
* tell/speak the truth 说实话
We should tell the truth.
* to tell the truth 老实说--- 用作插入语
To tell the truth, I don’t believe you.
* tell about 告诉关于……的事
大连高端日语学校I will tell about it later.
2. Generally speaking, newspapers follow the American way.
1) follow
* 遵循, 按照．．．．．．行事
Are you going to follow her advice?
Finally we decided to follow our teacher’s suggestion.
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linger* 听得懂， 明白 ＝ understand
Can you follow my argument?
The teacher spoke so fast that I can’t follow him.
We can’t follow what he said.
* 跟随，跟着，＝ come, go have a place after
You go first and I will follow you.
They followed us for miles.
* 沿着．．．．．．而行，循着 ＝ go along , keep to
Follow the road until you get o a church; then turn to left.
2) generally speaking 一般地說
Generally speaking, the students from the countryside are working harder.
Frankly speaking, I don’t enjoy the performance.
