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Language learning Lesson 1. Get ahead with your English. Step 1.Pair work. Do you think learning English is important for your future ? Why ? Do you think it is difficult to learn English well ? Why or why not ?. Step 2. Talk about your English learning strategy:.
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Language learningLesson 1 Get ahead with your English
Step 1.Pair work • Do you think learning English is important for your future ? Why ? • Do you think it is difficult to learn English well ? Why or why not ?
Step 2. Talk about your English learning strategy: P. 17. What do you think can help you learn English well ? * Difficult sentences:
1. I do remember that one day my English teacher said that my pronunciation and intonation were quite good. 2. Then I realize that this may be due to my imitation. 3.I think (that) by imitating, I get not only beautiful pronunciation and intonation, but also a kind of “feeling” for English.
4. come across sb/ sth = find or meet by chance 5. But I was so involved in the story that I didn’t want to stop to check its meaning. 6.By doing this, my guessing ability improves and moreover, my reading speed increases !
7.The secret here is that the pictures that go with an article are usually closely related to the content of the article. 8. It’s a good way to get the gist of an article in a short time. get the gist of sth: get the main points of sth
Step 3. New words learning: Ex. 5. *Match the definition: • Individual ,local or national way of pronouncing: • Exactness, correctness: accent accuracy
3. Putting full-stops, commas, etc into a piece of writing. 4. The quality of being able to speak smoothly or readily: 5. Information produced from sth, (a computer): 6. What is put in: punctuation fluency output input
Step 4. Which of the following methods do you think is the best for learning a foreign language ? • Learning all the words in a dictionary. • Watching TV in the language. • Living in a country where the language is used as the mother tongue.
Step 5. Read the text, and check your understanding: P. 6. Ex. 3. * Talk about the main idea of each paragraph.
Step 6. Read the text and find noun clauses and difficult sentences in the text: Step 7. Language points:
1.早在18世纪…就被预测到…. 2.在过去的几十年里情况被证明如此. 3.能够说多种语言是你怎样在当今世界能脱颖而出并 遥遥领先. 4.一些关于语言习得的权威理论相信… It was predicted as early as 1700s that … That has proved to be the case… Being able to … is how you stand out and get ahead. Some respected theories… believe that…
5. 但可悲的是,我们能生活在说英语的国家的 机会很小. 6.这就意味着老师必须确保通过各种媒介有大量 充足的英语信息传达给学生. 7. 这就是他们所推荐的: But sadly, the chances that … What this means is that… Here are what they recommend:
8.为了保持不断努力的势头,你需要记住为什么要学英语.8.为了保持不断努力的势头,你需要记住为什么要学英语. To stay dedicated, you need to keep in mind why you are learning English.
Vocabulary: The first paragraph: 1. Sth prove(s) to be …谋事被证明是... The weather proves\ turns out to be fine. 2. Start the trend for sth \ doing sth : 开始...的趋势 3. stand out : 突出;显眼 4. get ahead of sb:领先… get ahead with/at /in sth …取得成功, 获得进步
The second paragraph: 1. In the absence of….: = lack of …. In the absence * ______________ of any evidence, the police had let Mike go. 2. The chances that…… are small/big. The chance that…..is small/big. 3. rely on sth/sb
The third paragraph: • encourage sb to do sth. • create a rich language environment • convey sth to sb • take the form of …. tell sb sth 以….形式出现 takes the *The training programme __________ _______ a series of workshops研讨会. form of
The fourth paragraph: 1.To get ahead means putting in extra work outside of the classroom. • mean doing sth: • mean to do sth: 意味着 打算做…. * 增加课外额外的工作 2. 15 minutes of extra-curricula study a day. 每天15分钟的额外课程学习
Recommendation: • set achievable targets: • 2.. enlarge your vocabulary by 10….: • 3. reach a target : • 4. Treat sb/oneself : • 5. Inform sb of sth: • 6. Sth be well worth the extra effort: 制订可以达到的目标 每天扩大10个生词量 达到一个目标 款待/招待…. tell sb sth …..很值得额外的努力
7. take dedication: • 8. stay dedicated : • sb dedicate oneself to sth • 9. keep sth in mind : • hold the key to sth: 需要奉献/努力/专心致志 保持努力/专心的势头 =devote …. to…. learn sth by heart 把握…..的关键
holds the key to • The weather _______________ our success or failure. • Together or separately, the two of them may ___________________ power after the election. hold the key to * There is no point (in ) doing sth. = It is no use doing sth. ^ There is no point in getting angry.
Noun Clauses 名词性从句 • 在句子中起名词作用的句子叫名词从句 (Noun Clauses)。 名词从句的功能相当于名词词组, 它在复合句中能担任主语、宾语、表语、同位语、介词宾语等,因此根据它在句中不同的语法功能,名词从句又可分别称为主语从句、宾语从句、表语从句和同位语从句。
主语:That he is still a student is not true. • 他仍然是个学生并不是事实. • 宾语:Tom said that he would returned to London at Christmas. 汤姆说他圣诞节要回伦敦去。 • 表语:The fact is that he has told a lie to us事实是他对我们撒了谎 • 同位语:The fact that he has told a lie to us made everyone angry他对我们撒了谎,这一事实让每个人很生气。
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