【正文】 ed as standard Chinese. 2. Roleplay: Get students to work in pairs. Let one student be a Chinese and the other a foreigner. Roleplay a conversation about the Chinese language to have them discuss why Putonghua has to be used in China. II. Reading 1. Get the students thinking about the topic of the text to predict what it says. 2. Skimming: Read quickly to find the topic sentence for each paragraph. Para. 1: There is no such a thing as Standard English. Para. 2: American English has many dialects whose words and expressions are different from “standard English”. Para. 3: Geography plays a part in making dialects. 3. Scanning: Work in pairs. Read the text to locate particular information. 1). Do you know what Standard English is from the text? 2). What is a dialect? Why does American English have so many dialects? 4. Language focus: 1) believe it or not: used when you are going to say something that is true but surprising: Believe it or not, John cheated in the exam. 2). there is no such a …as: used to say that a particular person or thing does not exist: These days there is no such a thing as a job for life. 3). standard English: the form of English that most people in Britain use, and that is not limited to one area or group of people 4). dialect: a variety of a language spoken only in one area, in which words, or grammar are slightly different from other forms of the same language 5). play a part/role in: be one of the causes that make something happen: Besides dieting, exercising plays an important part in losing weight. III. Listening To introduce the students to a dialect and a form of standard “English”. You may follow these steps: 1). Set the context for the students by describing the situation。 ambitions 2. Further applying To get the students thinking about the topic of the reading passage. 1). Have a student list on the board all the Englishspeaking countries in the world that they can think of. 2). Give the students hints about the places they haven?t mentioned. 3). Provide the students with an opportunity to think about the reasons for the spread of English around the world. ★ English is one of the official languages of the Olympic Games and the United Nations. ★ English dominates international websites and provides nearly all of the new puter terminology. ★ Tourism and trade from Western Europe and North America has contributed to the spread of English. ★ Satellite TV, radio programs like Joy FM, CDs and, of course, Hollywood films all broadcast English into China. Also, a number of Chinese films include English subtitles. II. Reading 1. Skimming Read quickly to get the main idea of the text. Let the students find out key sentence of each paragraph or ask them to summarize the main point for each paragraph in their own words. Paragraph 1: The spread of the English language in the world Paragraph 2: Native speaker can understand each other but they may not be able to understand everything. Paragraph 3: All languages change when cultures municate with one another. Paragraph 4: English is spoken as a foreign language or second language in Africa and Asia. 2. Scanning Read to locate particular information and plete the prehending Exercise One. 3. Following up Work in groups. Discuss the two questions and then ask two groups to report their answers to the class. 1). Do you think it matters what kind of English you learn? Why? Possible answer: I don?t think so. Here are the reasons: ★ Native speakers from different parts of the world have no difficulty in understanding each other despite the fact that they speak a bit differently. ★ It is necessary for us to learn the narrow difference between different kinds of English if we hope to municate fluently with native speakers of English from all over the world. ★ Different kinds of En