北师大初中英语九年级Unit 5-18（MP3+LRC）

[00:00.59]Unit 5 English and English-speaking Countries

[00:05.27]Lesson 18

[00:10.49]Exercise 1.2

[00:13.21]I stayed with an English family for a few

[00:15.95]weeks last summer,

[00:17.45]I had a fantastic time and learned a lot about

[00:20.07]English history and English culture.

[00:22.12]I even learned s few new English words!

[00:25.21]What do you mean ?

[00:26.79]You already speak English,don't you?

[00:29.69]Yeah,but in England they have

[00:31.39]different words for things.

[00:33.85]Such as ...?

[00:35.81]Well,let me give you some examples,

[00:38.06]One day, we went into a building.

[00:40.53]Peter,my English friend told me

[00:42.06]"We must take the elevator at the first floor"

[00:45.70]"Elevator"?They're the same as "lift",right?

[00:49.71]Yes ,It was also very strange .

[00:51.97]When I looked for the lift on the first floor.

[00:54.15]I couldn't find it ,

[00:55.64]Peter told me that in England.

[00:57.38]"the first floor"referred to

[00:59.14]the second floor of the building.

[01:01.20]They call the first floor"ground floor."

[01:04.02]Oh,I see.And what else is different?

[01:08.27]Well,another day we were out in the street

[01:11.31]and I started to feel a little hungry.

[01:14.01]So I said ,"I want something to eat,

[01:16.73]Let's go to that store over there

[01:18.02]and buy some chips.

[01:19.81]And Peter said ."They don't sell chips there.

[01:22.98]It's not a restaurant,you know ,"

[01:25.10]You see ,in England chips is the word

[01:28.10]that use for French fries ,

[01:30.47]When they talk about the things

[01:31.86]that we call chips.

[01:32.94]They say crisps.

[01:34.44]This is very interesting.

[01:37.09]Are there many different words

[01:38.84]between American and British English?

[01:41.18]No,there are't many,but there are some.

[01:45.04]We have cookies but in England

[01:46.92]the word is biscuits.

[01:48.53]And in England.people don't eat candies.

[01:52.43]No?

[01:53.46]What do they eat?

[01:55.26]They call candies sweets.

[01:58.04]Wow!You really learned a lot of new words!

[02:06.31]Exercise 1.5

[02:09.64]Apart from food and drink.

[02:12.02]there are also differences

[02:13.30]in the names clothing.

[02:15.47]For example,the things that we call pants.

[02:19.08]they call trousers,And they call pants

[02:22.91]what we call underpants.

[02:25.49]The piece of clothing that they call a vest.

[02:27.79]we call an undershirt,

[02:29.86]And the thing that we call a vest

[02:31.82]is called a waistcoat in England.

[02:33.99]Isn't it interesting?

[02:39.54]Exercise 2.1

[02:42.07]It is sure that most Americans would say,

[02:45.86]"Excuse me ,do you have ...?",

[02:48.17]while in Britain it would be more common to say,

[02:51.34]"Excuse me ,have you got...?"

[02:54.21]However,both forms would be understood

[02:56.98]in both countries ,

[02:58.81]This is also true for the

[03:00.47]differences in vocabulary.

[03:02.96]The British say"petrol"and "filling station",

[03:06.70]while the American say"gas"and "gas station."

[03:10.77]But ,if an American asked for "gas

[03:13.20]"in a British "Filling station,"

[03:15.25]he would get what he wanted ,

[03:17.02]and an Englishman who askd for"petrol "in a "

[03:19.94]gas station"would drive away with a full tank.

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