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give some examples.3. Ask the students to read the passage in Warming Up and then guess which of the following words is British English and which is American English:apartment/flat bathroom/toilet can/tin candy/sweet elevator/lift fall/autumn game/match line/queue penal/pen friend mad/angry mail/post mom/mum movie/film pants/trousers repair/mend sick/ill cookie/biscuit crazy/mad drugstore/chemist’s gas/petrolStep 2 PrereadingGet the students first to discuss the two questions with their partners and then answer them.1. How many people speak English in the world today?2. Why do so many people speak English?Suggested answers:1. About 1500 million people speak English as their first, second or foreign language.2. The reasons why so many people speak English:1)English is one of the official languages of the Olympic Games and the United Nations.2)English dominates international websites and provides nearly all of the new puter terminology.3)Tourism and trade from Western Europe and North America has contributed to the spread of English.4)Satellite TV, radio programs and, of course, Hollywood films all broadcast English into China. Also, a number of Chinese films include English subtitles.Step 3 Reading1. Listening amp。 SkimmingAsk the students to listen to the tape and read the reading passage to get the main idea of the text. (Let them find out key sentence of each paragraph or ask them to summarize the main point for each paragraph in their own words. )ParagraphsMain ideasParagraph 1Paragraph 2Paragraph 3Paragraph 4Suggested answer:ParagraphsMain ideasParagraph 1The spread of the English language in the worldParagraph 2Native speaker can underst