module 1 british and american english(reading and speaking)
step 1 lead-in.
the teachers says:
as you know, china is big in size and full of many dialects. hong kong is part of china. do you think we will have difficulty in understanding people from hong kong ? what difficulties in understanding do you think people from hong kong will have when they are in beijing? do people from shanghai sound the same as those from xi’an? what about chinese characters? do you think people from different regions of china have difficulty in understanding chinese characters? what about britain english and american english? do you think they are quite different? can people from the two countries understand each other?
step 2 finish activity 2.
read the passage and find ways in which british and am