📖 Unit 9: World Englishes - Reading lớp 9

Some people find it really difficult to learn English, and here are some of the reasons. Firstly, English has one of the biggest vocabularies (1) __________ all languages. Therefore, it is very hard for English learners to remember all the words and phrases as well as use them (2) __________ in different contexts. Secondly, English grammar is complex. For example, there are twelve basic tenses in English. This (3) __________ learners confused when they have to use the tenses correctly in different sentences. (4) __________ grammatical points, such as prepositions, reported speech, and the passive voice are not any less challenging. Thirdly, a lot of learners find English pronunciation very (5) __________. Words which have the same combination of letters may be (6) __________ differently. For instance, the ‘ou’ in ‘rough’ is not pronounced the same as that in ‘through’. Another problem is sentence stress. Stress (7) __________ we put on different words may lead to the difference in meaning. In general, English vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation may (8) __________ learning it not an easy task.

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British English and American English (1) differ in some ways. The most remarkable difference between the two (2) varieties is vocabulary. British people call the place where people take their car to buy (3) petrol or oil a petrol station. However, Americans call it a gas station. The British live in flats (4) while the Americans live in apartments. Another difference between these two varieties of English is the (5) spelling. There are hundreds of minor differences of this type. Some words (6) like humour, flavour or neighbour exist in British English while in American English these words are written without 'u' before 'r'. Besides, verbs (7) ending in -se in British English are written with the ending -ze in American English. Some of (8) these verbs are analyse - analyze, organise - organize, and minimise - minimize.