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* Word study: notice: eastern: differently: generally speaking: vt. vi. see and observe; I wasn’t noticing. I noticed that he left early. adj. of, from, living in, the east; adv. in a different manner; n. adj. difference different in general; in general situation; Brainstorm: --- Information about Canada: --- What’s this? --- A language school. --- Who studies in it? --- Students from foreign countries. Lesson 25: Dialogue Fang Qun Dean Question for reading: --- What are they talking about? --- Differences between American English and Canadian English. --- What differences are they talking about? --- The difference in accents. Including: Vocabulary; Spelling Pronunciation Questions for listening: What is Dean? Do Canadians use American or British spelling? What spelling does textbooks use in Canada? What do people in other places think of Canadians? 5. Do all the people in Canada use the same pronunciation? Multiple choice: 1. American English and Canadian English sounds ______ each other. A. quite different from B. exactly the same as C. similar to D. opposite to 2. Which of the following has greater influence 影响 on Canadian English A. American English B. British English C. French D. Japanese 3. When Dean says “it looks strange,” he refers to ______; by “sound strange,” he refers to ______. A. Canadian accents; Canadian spellings B. Canadian spellings; dialects 方言 in Canada C. Canadian people; Canadian voices D. “gas” and “tap”; /nu:z/ C A B Passage completion: Fang Qun has just met Jean, a ________ student in the school. They are talking about the __________ between an American _______ and a Canadian one. Dean says that there are not many differences between the two. In fact, Canadian mainly use __________ words, though they also use quite a lot of______ words. _________ speaking, newspapers use American spelling and schoolbooks _______ the British way. ________ fact is that people from different ______of the country spe