1. Tricky situations:

  • Take a look at these photos – describe the situation in one English sentence (Who? What? Where? Why?) and use the Present Progressive when you describe an action that is going on!
  • What can help you a lot in situations like these?
Photo 1:
  • These are maybe signs at an airport. They are in Chinese, but there is an English translation, too. So English can help you in this situation
Photo 2:
  • This photo shows a website where you can download music. Everything on this website is in English, so English can help you if you want to download something, for example.
Photo 3:
  • A man is sitting in a car and holding a map in his hand. The other man is showing the man in the car something on the map. Maybe the man in the car is a tourist and needs information. In this situation English can help you, too!
  • Yes, English can help you in a lot of situations … but do you know how many people all around the world (= auf der ganzen Welt) speak English? And where do people speak kinds of (= Arten von) English? Let’s find out!
2. English-speaking countries
  • Try and answer the questions of exercises 1a and 1b on page 102 in your textbooks:
a) In which countries do people speak English as an official language? Look at the map at the back of your book and name ten countries.
  • Canda, USA, Ireland, United Kingdom, Bahamas, Guayana, Nigeria, Sudan, Australia, New Zealand (and many other countries)
b) Do you use English words in your everyday life? Can you list five of them?
  • computer, toast, hamburger/cheeseburger, snack, cool, comic, event etc …
  • Nearly 2/3 of the people on Earth speak one of these 12 languages (= Sprachen). But which languages are the top give? Do this test!
  • OK, so English is not no. 1, but people use it all over the world everyday: in business, on the internet, in universities and school etc.
  • Let’s do exercise 1b on page 102 next: use the phrases in the green box on the right and form four or five sentences.
Germans speaking English – where and who do they speak to?
  • We often speak English on holiday, when we are in a hotel or at the beach and speak to tourists from other countries
  • Sometimes we speak English when we talk to friends from another country on video chat or on the phone
  • Some German speak English at work because some of their colleagues do not speak German
  • Sometimes we speak English in town when a tourist asks us something
3. A film - speaking English:
  • Watch this short film and take notes – what does it show you about English in different countries?
What is it about?
  • The film shows that the people speak different kinds of English in different countries
  • The British and the Americans sometimes use different words
  • English also helps people from two different countries to talk to each other!
Does Marley talk about any of the countries from your answer to p. 102/1a?
  • Yes, he does – he speaks about the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland, for example
  • Watch the film again and say which of the sentences of exercise 2d are right. Correct the wrong sentences!
Right or wrong?
  1. wrong – he is on holiday
  2. right
  3. right
  4. wrong – he can show her where the supermarket is
4. Homework:
  • Learn the new words of Focus 2 and write them into your vocabulary book
  • Page 102/2e : write down a short dialogue for one of the two situations and use words from the box on the right. Write 6-8 sentences into your homework book!
5. Learning languages:
  • Yes, learning languages is easy – but only if you are in the right class and learn the right language, not like in this video!