In this unit, you will

2. In this unit, you will • first listen and then talk about learning strategies • read about how to learn effectively • write about how I learn … • practice reading skills: major supporting details • practice the use of subjunctive mood • learn how to write a notice (for a lecture) • visit culture salon about quotations on learning strategies

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5. ___________ your study skills. Discover new learning _________. Here are several _______ why. You can: ◇ get better ________ ◇ get a better _______ ◇ ________ your mind ◇ have more __________. ______ great, doesn’t it? Read this unit and get some useful _____ Approach learning from different, _________ and you can be a Master Student. Listen and complete Improve strategies reasons grades job expand free time Sounds tips viewpoints

6. Student Teacher Dialogue Samples Dialogue 1 After class, a Chinese student goes to her foreign teacher to consult him about English learning strategies. Consulting a Foreign Teacher on Learning Strategies

7. listen again Dialogue 1 Key words and patterns: I’m so worried about my … Could you give me some advice on … don’t worry about it you’d better … could you show me some tips That’s a good idea.

8. Student Teacher Listen and imitate Dialogue 1 After class, a Chinese student goes to her foreign teacher to consult him about English learning strategies. Consulting a Foreign Teacher on Learning Strategies

9. Wang Mark Dialogue 2 At the English corner, a Chinese student meets a foreign friend and asks for his advice on learning English. Consulting a Foreign Friend on Learning English

10. Dialogue 2 Key words and patterns: I felt a little nervous. Can you help me … It’s Okay. Everyone makes mistakes. it might be a good idea to … That’s true.

11. Wang Mark Listen and imitate Dialogue 2 At the English corner, a Chinese student meets a foreign friend and asks for his advice on learning English. Consulting a Foreign Friend on Learning English

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13. Passage ANot Just a Job, an Adventure: Undergraduate Research

14. 1. Some people say, “We learn more outside class.” Do you agree? Why or why not? 2. According to the passage, what benefits can undergraduate students get by doing research at college? Think About It

15. 1. Sophia Stella...is one of many undergraduates who become involved, one way or another, in research performed at the university. Sophia Stella is one of many students who participated somehow in undergraduate research at Columbia’s School of Engineering. Notes to the Text

16. 2. Students and professors agree that an undergraduate research project can be uniquely beneficial to both parties. Students and professors both find undergraduate research helpful. 老师和学生都认为，大学生从事研究工作 对师生双方都有特别的好处。

17. 3. Ideally, undergraduate research is an opportunity for the kind of intensive study that can expand the mind in ways traditional courses can’t. Undergraduate research allows students to think more deeply for themselves than traditional courses do. 的确，大学生从事研究是一种深入学习的机会， 能拓展思维，而这是传统教育做不到的。

18. 4. When students see a discipline as evolving rather than fixed, they usually get a lot more excited about learning. Students enjoy the process of seeing new knowledge being created. 当学生认识到一门学科是发的而非静止 的，他们就会对学习产生更大的兴趣。

19. 5. He also describes how creating a piece of original research instilled a “pride of authorship” in his work. Students are proud when they see their own work becoming part of the new knowledge created by the research. 他还认为，一项有创意的独特研究会让你 的工作充满“独家创造的自豪”。

20. 6. In some departments a research project might constitute an honors thesis. A research project may meet a requirement in a special program for honors students, who must write an extra research paper to graduate with honors. 有些系的学生通过做研究项目，可能据此写出一 篇（教学计划规定之外的）论文，从而在毕业时 获得（这个学科的单科优秀）荣誉。

21. 7. paid research work gives her an opportunity to transform a work-study job into an engaging aspect of her education. Working part-time for the college can be made more interesting and informative if it involves research. 有偿研究工作使她的勤工俭学演变成其教 育的充满魅力的一个方面。

22. 8. Usually, these are students pursuing a career that requires some demonstration of altruistic commitment, such as medicine. These students have chosen careers which involve helping other people, such as being a doctor. 这些学生将来从事的职业通常需要他们关 心他人，比如当医生。

23. 1. Who can get benefits from an undergraduate research? Both students and professors. 2. Why does Professor Ralph Edison say that research can be exciting? Because a research project gives students an opportunity to answer real-life questions. Understanding the text

24. 3. Why does Arthur Hannah say that undergraduate research is a whole new mode of learning? Because research forces students to look for information they don’t know, not for knowledge they already have.

25. 4. Why do some students do research without caring for money or credit? Because they work as volunteers, pursing a career that requires altruistic commitment.

26. 5. What kind of learning strategies does Professor Edison encourage the students to use in learning a discipline? To learn actively, to see a discipline as evolving, and to rethink things constantly. 6. What’s the passage mainly about? The various benefits of doing undergraduate research.

27. Undergraduate research is a good way to develop a student’s mind. It can also give the student a head start on a career or even earn the student some money. When doing research the student must work independently, which builds confidence while practicing useful skills. Summary of the Text

28. By applying knowledge learned from a book or a classroom to a research project, the student learns much more than could be learned in another way. Mastery of facts is only the beginning of our learning. It’s what we do with them that really matters.

29. Passage B The Best Way to Learn: Creative Emulation

30. 1. In what main way (or ways) do you usually learn? Do you learn a language the same way you learn a sport, a skill or a scientific theory? 2. When learning something new, what benefits can be found in other people’s successes? Think About It

31. 1. I used creative emulation to help me attain my goal of playing tennis on the pro circuit. 创造性模仿让我实现了参加职业网球巡回 赛的目标。 Notes to the Text

32. 2. I examined back issues of every tennis magazine looking for articles on techniques. 我仔细研究每一本过期的网球杂志，寻找 各种关于网球技术的文章。

33. 3. I wrote most of these ideas in my personal journal, which consisted of several notebooks and thousands of index cards. 我将绝大部分心得写在日记里,我记的日记 有好几本，还做了上千的索引卡片。

34. 4. This process converted me from a third- string player on a second-rate college tennis team to someone who could win a few minor tournaments on the pro circuit. 就这样，我从一个二流大学网球队的候补 队员变成一个小型职业比赛的夺冠者。

35. 5. I established a goal of starting a part- time business lecturing and conducting seminars. 我又打算开办一个业余行当——开学习 班。

36. 6. These went so well that I was able to leave traditional education for good in 1989. These (lectures and seminars) were so successful that I could quit my fulltime classroom teaching job permanently in 1989. 这些是如此成功，以至于我在1989年能够 永远舍弃传统教育这一行。

37. 7. … the key to successful creative emulation is to emulate the successful people, the doers of the world. (para. 5) 创造性效仿的成功秘诀在于效仿世上那些 成功的人和实干的人。

38. The author has been successful in several different fields, such as academics, sports, computers, and business. In each case he uses the same strategy, which he calls creative emulation. He finds the people who are already successful and tries to model his behavior on theirs, adding his own personal features. Summary of the Text

39. Using this approach he has built a large and successful business. But he also notes that his young son uses the same strategy for learning about daily living. With such a smart father to emulate, this should be no surprise. Students may do likewise by choosing especially successful classmates or teachers as their role models.

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41. Quotations on Learning Strategies “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.” -- Plato, philosopher

42. Quotations on Learning Strategies “Learning without thought is labor lost.” -- Confucius, philosopher and educator

43. Quotations on Learning Strategies “For learning to take place with any kind of efficiency students must be…actively working on projects which they can relate to their values and goals in life.” -- Gus Tuberville, College President

44. Quotations on Learning Strategies “They know enough who know how to learn.” --Henry Brooks Adams, literati

45. Quotations on Learning Strategies “I haven’t failed; I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” -- Thomas Edison, inventor

46. Quotations on Learning Strategies “You can’t teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.” -- Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist

47. Quotations on Learning Strategies “He who has seen much will have remembered much.” --Jean de la Fontaine, poet

48. Quotations on Learning Strategies “I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn…I have no special gifts. I am just passionately curious.” --Albert Einstein, physicist

49. Thank You!