English around the worldListeningListening text on P14Have you ever been to Texas? Now just imagine that you are in this American city and happened hearing an interesting story told in local dialect.Listen carefully and see how much you can understand that.Lester climbed a tree.Buford, Billy Bob and Lester went swimming.Lester thought the catfish would eat him.Buford and Billy Bob laughed.Lester saw a catfish.Now Lester is too afraid to visit the place.Put the sentences in the right sequence1.What does Buford think of Texas? How do you know?2. How large was the catfish? He believes its quite a different country from the US. The listening text tells it is so.The boys thought that the catfish was almost the size of a house.3. Why did Lester get out of the water very quickly?4.Why did Buford and Big Bob laugh?He though the catfish would eat him.They laughed because Lester believed the catfish would hurt him.Hey, yall, this here is Buford. I come from a big oil town in Texas. Now, yall need to understand that we aint really a state, but a whole nother country.Now let me tell ya a story about when I was just a pup. One hot summers day I was swimmin with my cousins Little Lester and Big Billy Bob. We was jumpinin the water and feelin good. Listening textThen along comes this catfish bout the size of a house. Well, alright, maybe a little smaller than that. Little Lester starts to thinkin its goin to eat him sure nough. Man, you shoulda seen him! He got outta the water fast as lightning and climbed up a tree. Big Billy Bob and I just laughed and laughed. To this day, Lester wont go near that place.Listening on P48Look at the map showing some of the places in the world where English is spoken as an official language and guess what you will hear in the tape?Location, climate, people, custom, history, places of interest, and so on.The name of each speakers countrySpeaker 1 is from India.Speaker 2 is from the USA.Speaker 3 is from Jamaica.Speaker 4 is from Ireland.Speaker 5 is from Philippines.Speaker 6 is from Singapore.The hints that help to identify the speakerSpeaker 1 South Asia, a billion people , use English, British rulers Speaker 2 Fat Tuesday, New Orleans, Speaker 3 a beautiful island Speaker 4 a huge green island in western Europe, British rulers Speaker 5 more than 7,000 islands, American rulers Speaker 6 very small, southeast Asia, very rich S1: I live in South Asia.My country is thousand of years old and now has more than a billion people. Unlike many other countries, our people speak a lot of languages.So we use English, which we got from British rulers hundreds of years ago,to understand our neighbours. Listening text Of course, we have our own way of using English.S2: One of my grandmothers speakers French. Her grandmother came from some place in Canada. I like to listen to her talk, although I dont understand much of what she says. Her English is also hard to understand. She cooks delicious food, so I spend a lot of time in the kitchen with her whenever I visit her. I plan to see her again for a special holiday called Fat Tuesday. We will go to New Orleans, Which is near the sea. People will dance in the streets all day and night.S3: Well,I dont live very far from the last student who spoken to you. But I live on a beautiful island where the sun shines most of the year. Its not the biggest island in the sea but its not the smallest island, either. We also got English from British rulers a long time age, and use it in a different way. I think our English sounds a little like our music. Some people say I speak a dialect of English,but I dont agree. To us, its more like another language.S4: I live on a huge green island in western Europe. hundreds of years age my people spoke a very different language from English. Then the British rulers came. Now the old language is spoken in only a few villages in the western part of my country. Most of us speak a lovely kind of English that also sounds a little like our music.S5: My country has more than 7,000islands. Some of them are very large but most of them are quite small. Hundreds of years ago the Spanish rulers changed the way we live. Much later the American rulers taught their own kind of English in our school. Nowadays, we speak a kind of English but is mostly our own.S6:My country is very small. In fact, its really a city. It is in southeast Asia and is very rich. People come from all over Asia to do business here. But our English comes from worker on the street. Some people in my country dont like the sound of this English. They would rather speak British English. Today, you can hear ourkind of English spoken everywhere in the city and on many ships that come here.