This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community talking about different English dialects from around the world!
English is a worldwide language. It’s an official language in 67 different countries and is spoken by people in every single country on earth. And yet, there is no one English.
Around the world, English is spoken very differently, by both its native speakers and those who use it as a second or third language. English is incredibly diverse.
Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about how English differs around the world!
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Conversation Questions: How Does English Differ Around the World?
1. Which English dialect do you feel most familiar with?
2. When people from your home country speak English, what differences stand out?
3. What is your favourite English slang? Which country is it from?
4. Which kind of English around the world do you think is most interesting?
5. Should English teachers teach slang instead of formal English?
6. Does your language have national or regional differences?
7. Have you noticed a change in how people speak your native language?
8. Is it a good thing that English is so different around the world?
9. As an English learner, does it matter what kind of English you learn?
10. “The English language is like a river, always evolving and adapting”
What do you think of this quote?
Vocabulary List:
- Dialect
- a form of a language that people speak in a particular part of a country, containing some different words and grammar, etc.
- Familiar
- easy to recognize because of being seen, met, heard, etc. before
- Stand out
- to be very noticeable
- Slang
- very informal language that is usually spoken rather than written, used especially by particular groups of people
- Formal
- Formal language, clothes, and behaviour are suitable for serious or official occasions
- National
- relating to or typical of a whole country and its people
- Regional
- relating to or coming from a particular part of a country
- Evolve
- to develop, or change gradually
- Adapt
- to change, in order to suit different conditions or uses
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Model Answers:
B1 (Intermediate) Model Answers
Vocabulary:
B2 (Upper Intermediate) Model Answers
C1 (Advanced Level) Model Answers
See you all at this week’s conversation club!
