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;Dictation;sentences;3. The accent, which ____ most ____ ____ British English, can be heard on the East Coast of the US. 在美国东海岸能够听到跟英式英语非常接近的口音。 4. When the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw ____ the famous ____ that the British and the Americans are two nations _____ by a common language, he was obviously ______ _____ the differences. 当爱尔兰作家萧伯纳讲那句名言—英语和美国是被同一种语言分开的两个民族—的时候，他显然想到了它们的区别。;;Turn on the TV;;;Learning paper;I. Fast reading：Read the titles and the first sentences of each paragraph and find four ways in which British and American English are different. ___________________________________________________________________II. Further reading: Could you tell the structure of the whole passage?Which paragraphs tell the ways in which British and American English are different?___________________________________________________________________Which paragraphs predict the future of these two varieties?___________________________________________________________________;III. Detail reading: 1. Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases.1.)There are ___differences between American and British varieties of English. A. no B. a few C. lots of 2.) Americans ____ understand what the British are saying.  A. sometimes B. usually C. never 3.) There are ___ differences between British and American grammar. A. no B. many C. not many;4.) American spelling is __ British spelling. A. the same way B. simpler than C. harder than 5.) For a Londoner, an American accent may be easier to understand than ___. A. a Chinese accent B. some British accents C. a CNN newsreader6. )Television and the Internet have made it ___ for the British and Americans to understand each other. A. harder B. easier C. impossible;2. True or False1). Americans always have difficulty in understanding what the British are s