Sách giáo viên Tiếng Anh 9 Thí điểm 2 tập (Pilot English 9 for Teacher)

SKILLS 1
Reading
1 Read the following text about English as a
means of international communication. Look
at the words in the box, then find them in the
text and underline them. What do they mean?
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settlement
swimming pool touchdown immersion check-out
derivatives pile-up establishment mix-up dominant
full board
English has become a global language
thanks to its establishment as a mother
tongue in all continents of the world. The
English language mainly owes its dominant
status in the world to two factors. The first
is the export of the language, which began
in the 17 th century, with the first settlement
in North America. The second was the great
growth of population in the United States,
which was assisted by massive immigration
in the 19 th and 20 th centuries.
Nowadays, more and more people around
the world are learning English as a second
language and the way that they study it
is changing. In some countries, English
immersion schools have been built to
create all-English environments for English
learners. In these ‘English communities’,
learners do all their school subjects and
everyday activities, such as ordering food
at the canteen, in English.
However, these new English speakers are
not only learning the English language
but they are also changing it. There are
hundreds of types of English in the world
today, such as ‘Singlish’, a mix of English,
Malay, Mandarin, etc or ‘Hinglish’, the
Indian mix of English and Hindi. New words
are being invented every day all over the
world due to the free admissions of words
from other languages and the easy creation
of compounds and derivatives.
2 a Read the text again and match the
headings (a-c) to the paragraphs (1-3).
a. A changing language
b. A global language
c. Learning English almost 24 hours a day
b Read the text again and answer the
questions.
1. What has given the English language its
dominance in the world today?
2. What was the great growth of population in
the United States in the 19 th and 20 th centuries
assisted by?
3. What do English learners do in English immersion
schools?
4. What is Hinglish?
5. How are new English words being invented
every day all over the world?
Speaking
3 Put the list of ways to improve your English
in order of importance for you. Can you add
any more ideas?
a. taking tests
b. memorising English vocabulary
c. writing emails and texts
d. speaking for fluency and not being
corrected all the time
e. listening to songs in English
f. reading English social media websites
g. writing essays
h. imitating English pronunciation
4 Work in groups. Compare your lists. Explain
your order.
5 Work in pairs. Take one of the ideas from 3
and think about how you can achieve it.
Example:
A: I think we should try to imitate English
pronunciation.
B: So then we should watch English videos online.
A: Good idea. We can pause the video and repeat.
B: We can even record ourselves and play it back.
38 Unit 9/ English in the World