Getthestudentsthiningaboutthetopicofthetexttopredicthatitsays. Siing:

Readquiclytofindthetopicsentenceforeachparagraph. Para.1:ThereisnosuchathingasStandardEnglish.

Para.2:AericanEnglishhasanydialectshoseordsandexpressionsaredifferentfro“standardEnglish”. Para.3:Geographyplaysapartinaingdialects.

3.Scanning:orinpairs.Readthetexttolocateparticularinforation.

).DoyounohatStandardEnglishisfrothetext? ).hatisadialect?hydoesAericanEnglishhavesoanydialects?

Languagefocus:

)believeitornot:usedhenyouaregoingtosaysoethingthatistruebutsurprising:Believeitornot,johncheatedintheexa.

).thereisnosucha

…

as:usedtosaythataparticularpersonorthingdoesnotexist:Thesedaysthereisnosuchathingasajobforlife. ).standardEnglish:theforofEnglishthatostpeopleinBritainuse,andthatisnotliitedtooneareaorgroupofpeople

).dialect:avarietyofalanguagespoenonlyinonearea,inhichords,orgraarareslightlydifferentfrootherforsofthesaelanguage

).playapart/rolein:beoneofthecausesthataesoethinghappen:Besidesdieting,exercisingplaysaniportantpartinlosingeight. III.Listening

Tointroducethestudentstoadialectandaforofstandard“English”.

youayfollothesesteps:

).Setthecontextforthestudentsbydescribingthesituation;

).Telltheclass:youaregoingtolistentoaboynaedBuford.HespeasaSoutherndialectofAEithanEast,Texasaccent.Reeber:pronunciationisdeterinedbyaccent.ontheotherhand,Buford’steacher,jane,speasstandardBrE.

).Playthetapeforthestudentstolisten.

).EncouragethestudentstogivethestandardequivalentsforthedialecticordsfroBufordsstory,usingthecontext. Dialecticords froBuford’sstor StandardEnglish equivalents he y’all ain’t yer ya pup siin’ jupin’ feelin’ ‘bout ‘nough shouldaseen gotoutta hello

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everyone aren’t your you child siing juping feeling about enough

shouldhaveseen gotoutof

6).Playthetapeagainandletthestudentsanserthequestionsinpairsafterlistening. ).chectheansers. IV.Speaing

aesurethestudentsnothattheordusedfordirectionsoftenvarydependingonhatindofEnglishthespeaeruses.Presentthelisttothestudents: AyLad