Unit 9:
ENGLISH
IN THE
WORLD
Lesson 1: Getting
Started

English Club

I. Vocabulary
- accent /ˈæksent/
(n)
- master /ˈmɑːstə(r)/
(n)
(v)
- simplicity /sɪmˈplɪsəti/
(n)
- variety /vəˈraɪəti/
(n)
- dialect /ˈdaɪəlekt/
(n)

Chất giọng
Chuyên gia
về…
Sự đơn giản
Sự đa dạng
Tiếng địa
phương
Linh động
Từ chuyên
ngành

II.
Practice

1. a. Read the conversation
again and find the nouns of
the adjectives 'simple' and
'flexible'.

simplicity
flexibility

1b. Convert these adjectives into
nouns. You may use a dictionary.

darkness
stupidity
popularity
happiness
punctuality

1c. Read the conversation again
and choose the correct answers.

Star 1 : Which language is most
spoken as a first language in the
world?

You are given 3 candies
B. Chinese
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Star 2 : One of the reasons why the vocabulary of
English is open is that it has………

You are given 1 candies
C. Borrowed many words
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Star 3 : Some English verbs
are……..their nouns or adjectives.

You are given 10 candies
B. The same as
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Star 4: English has about ……
words and technical terms.

You are given 4 candies
C. 800,000
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Star 5 : The ……of form makes
English easy to learn.

You are given 7 candies
A. simplicity
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2. Match the words/phrases in column
A with the definitions in column B.
A

1. first language
2. second language
3. official language
4. accent
5. dialect

B

A. a way of pronouncing the words of a language that
shows which country or area a person comes from
B. this language is generally used in the government,
public administration, law and the education system
C. the language that you learn to speak from birth
D. a regional form of a language in which some words
and grammar differ slightly from the standard form of
the same language
E. a language that you learn to speak well and that
you use for work or at school, but that is not the
language you learned first at home

3. Match the beginning of each
sentence (1-6) to its ending (a-f). 

What do you know about the
It is one of six major
international
languages.
English
language?

- English is used as the 1st language in at least 75 countries around the
world.
- About 375,000,000 people speak it as a second language and no one
knows how many people speak it as a foreign language
- It has more words than any other languages, 500,000 words and 300,000
technical terms.
- the grammar is simpler than any other languages
- Immigration, new technologies, popular culture and even war have
contributed to the growth of English
- Now there many varieties of English in the world such as British English,
American English, Autralian English, Indian English.....
- There are many differences in accents and dialects between varieties of
English.

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