Period 5 Listening

Unit 2 English around the world

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

Revision ( 2m )

Listening – I ( 5m )

Ex. 5 on Page 12.

Listen to these dialogues. Find the British and American words which are different but have the same meaning.

Dialogue 1: candy----sweets

Dialogue 2: truck----lorry

Dialogue 3: fall----autumn

Listening – II ( 13m )

Listening on Page 14.

1. Listen to the tape for the first time and try your best to get the main idea of what is talking.

2. Listen to the tape for the second time, pay attention to the exercise of page 14. Try your best to find out the answers to these questions.

Answer keys for the exercises on page 141. He believes it’s almost a different

country from the US. 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.

5. Jane is the second speaker, Buford’s teacher. She is from Britain.

6. She says “Hello”.

Listening – III ( 10m )

Listening Task on Page 51.

• 1. Ask the students to tell the names of the countries where English is spoken.

• 2. Finish the listening task.

• ( Students give their own answers after listening.)

Conclusion for listening skills (10m)

• After each step of listening, ask the students who did best to tell how he / she did it, other students can have a discussion or ask him / her some questions.Everyone should try his best to find a good way for himself to improve his listening ability.

Assignment

• 1. Finish the listening task on English Weekly.

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