基本信息
task 1 individual work before class.
1. read the passage and find the topic sentence for each paragraph.
para 1 __________________________________________________________.
para 2 __________________________________________________________.
para 3 __________________________________________________________.
2. find the answers to the following questions.
1). why do many people believe there is standard english? what is it?
2). what is a dialect?
3). how many kinds of american english dialects are mentioned according to the passage? what are they?
4). why does american english have so many dialects?
5). do you think americans have any difficulty in understanding each other though they use their dialects? why do you think so?
task 2 work in class.
play a game.
invite some students from different places to say the same sentence using their
native lauguages.
think: 1. what do you think causes them to say the same sentence using different words and expressions? can you understand them?
