Unit2EnglisharoundtheworldI．BriefStatementsBasedontheUnitAsweallknow，EnglishisalanguagespokenallaroundtheworldandEnglishismainlydividedintoBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish．ThenhowmanycountriesarethereintheworldwherethemajorityofthepeoplespeakEnglish?WhatarethedifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglish?Howdidthesedifferencescomeabout?Wecangetalltheanswerstothesequestionsinthisunit．BecausethecentraltopicforthisunitisEnglisharoundtheworld．ThepartofWarmingUpintroducesthesimilaritiesanddifferencesbetweenAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishintheformofadialogue．Itslisteningpartgivesusalotofexpressionsabout“requestandorder”．SpeakingpartchieflypractiseschangingdirectspeechaboutrequestandcommandintoindirectSpeech．InparticulartherulesofinterchangesbetweenthemgetstrengthenedinthegrammarofLanguageStudyinthisunit．Readingpartisanexpositorywriting.ItshowsusmuchaboutEnglish.Weknowmorethan750millionpeoplespeakEnglishastheirnativelanguageorasecondlanguage．Morethan750millionpeoplelearnEnglishasaforeignlanguageoftheworkinglanguageofmostinternationalorganizations,tradeandtourism．Intheaspectofintegratingskills,teachershouldnotonlytrainthestudents’readingability,butalsograduallyimprovestudentabilitytowriteanexpositoryarticleinEnglishthroughpractice.Ⅱ．TeachingAimsandDemandsCategoryContentsbasedonthenewcoursestandardTopics1．Interviewtheheadmasterandotherteacherabouttheschoolrulesandthewaystolearnallthesubjects．2．MakeaworldmapofEnglish—speakingcountries．3．Collectwordsdifferentinspelling，pronunciation，ormeaningbetweenBritishEnglishandAmericanEnglish，tomakealist．FunctionsLanguagedifficultiesincommunicationCanyouspellthat，please?Couldyourepeatthat，please?Whatdoyoumeanby…?Couldyouspeakabitslowly，please?Sorry，Ididn’tfollowyou．Ibegyourpardon?Howdoyousay…inEnglish?Howdoyoupronounce…?Whatdoes…mean?Canyousaythatinadifferentway?用心爱心专心续表categoryContentsbased0nthenewcoursestandardWordsandExpressionsBathroomtowelclosetpronouncebroadrepeatmajoritynativetotaltongueequalgovernmentsituationinternationalorganizationtradetourismglobalcommunicatecommunicationexchangeservicesignalmovementcommandertidystandindependentfallexpressiontyphoonpublishsouthernpresidentEuropeanhowlcookbookcomparereplacemakeoneselfathomeintotalexceptforstayupcomeaboutendupwithbringinagreatmanyatthesametimeGrammarDirectSpeechandIndirectSpeech(2)——TheImperativeSentence1toreportwhatsomeoneaskedfor“Helpmewithmyhomework，please．”shesaid．→Sheaskedmetohelpherwithherhomework．2toreportwhatsomeoneordered“Don’tsmokeintheroom，”hesaid．→Hetoldmenottosmokeintheroom．“Makesurethedoorisshut，littleson．”shesaid．→Shetoldherlittlesontomakesurethedoorwasshut．Ⅲ．TeachingTime：FiveperiodsⅣ．BackgroundInformationAmericanEnglishandBritishEnglishTheAmericansandBritishusedifferentgreetings．IntheUSAthecommonestgreetingis“Hi!”．InBritainitis“Hello!”or“Howareyou?”．“Hi”iscreepinginto(不知不觉地进入)British．too．whentheyareintroducedtosomeone，theAmericanssay，“Gladtoknowyou．”TheBritishsay，“Howdoyoudo?”or“Pleasedtomeetyou．”WhenAmericanssay“Good-bye”,theynearlyalwaysadd．“Haveagoodday．”or“Haveagoodtrip，”etc．tofriendsandstrangersalike．Britainsarebeginningtouse“Haveagoodday”．TheBritishusuallyuse“havegot”inthesameof“have”．TheAmericanshardlyeverdo．Am.E：—Doyouhaveacar／ro...
