Welcome to Oral English Class!

1. Welcome to Oral English Class! Week 1 Made by 李蕊 SFl，SIAS

2. 李蕊 Kristy Syllabus • 12 weeks • Icebreaker • Sounds( minimal pairs, sentences, tongue twisters) • Idioms • One topic/ each week • Useful vocabulary • Function skills ( group discussion, skit, etc. ) • Oral report/homework

3. Classroom Expectations You’d better • come here 3-5minutes earlier; • switch your phone to silence mode; • not sleep; • encourage each other(group work); • speak English here; • prepare a pen and a notebook.

4. Vacation • How do you like your winter vacation/ break? • What did you do? • good, fantastic, interesting, amazing, exciting • boring, so-so, awful

5. More questions: • Finding Someone Who During the break, did you…-------- set off fireworks or firecrackers?-------- read a book? Do you like it ? Why? -------- do any sports ? What sports? --------travel somewhere? Where did you go?--------visit relatives?-------- miss being at Sias?--------go to a wedding? Whose wedding?--------get a new cell phone/computer?--------see some friends and make a new friend ?-------go to KTV? What song did you sing? Did you learn a new song?-------watch CCTV Spring Festival Gala on New Year’s Eve?-------help your family to make dumplings? -------learn how to do something new?

6. Idiom习语

7. Idiom习语 • Idiom: phrase or sentence whose meaning is not clear from the meaning of its individual words and which must be learnt as a whole unit; • use of language that is typical of or natural to speakers of a particular language

8. Idiom “let the cat out of the bag”

9. Can you guess the meaning of it? Garfield

10. “let the cat out of the bag” • to tell something that is a secret, often without intending to. (泄露秘密) • E.g. “Amazingly, not one of the people who knew about the surprise let the cat out of the bag.” • Task: making up a sentence using this idiom correctly.

11. Vowels and Consonants

12. Long Vowel Sounds and Short Vowel Sounds

13. Long Vowel Sounds

14. Short Vowel Sounds

15. short E and short A /e/ and /æ/

16. Articulation Chart nose鼻子 hard palate 硬腭 upper teeth上齿 upper lip 上唇 alveolar ridge 齿龈 lower lip 下唇 soft palate 软腭 tongue舌头 lower teeth下齿

17. Short E /e/ How to pronounce it?

18. Words • edge frequent • enter September • excellent education • Internet generation

19. Short A /æ/ How to pronounce it? short A

20. Words • habit manner • thank fantastic • family January • trash satisfaction

21. Minimal Pairs • end/and • guess/gas • bed/bad • wreck/rack • gem/jam • flesh/flash • peck/pack • lend/land • mesh/mash

22. Tongue Twister • Freshly fried fresh flesh. • Ann sent Andy ten hens and Andy sent Ann ten pens. • Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread. • Jack sat near the track. • Cat, cat, catch that bad rat. Do you dare to have a try?

23. Vocabulary • Spring Festival春节 • firecrackers 鞭炮 • fireworks 烟花 • Spring Festival couplet春联 • New Year paintings 年画 • happiness 福 • lucky money 压岁钱 • red packets 红包 • New Year’s Eve 除夕 • propose a toast 敬酒 • family reunion dinner团圆饭 • dragon/lion dance舞龙/狮 • lanterns 灯笼 • Lantern Festival元宵节 • Tomb-sweeping Day清明节 (Qing Ming Festival) • Dragon Boat Festival端午节 • Mid-Autumn Festival中秋节 • Double Ninth Festival重阳节

24. Interview • Could you tell me some customs of Chinese Spring Festival? What do people do during Spring festival? • Which festival do you like best? Please share your reasons.

26. Bye!