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Unit 8 LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE TWICE AS HARD

Lead-in

Learning A Foreign Language

Learning A Foreign Language

Learning A Foreign Language

ways to learn English:

Memorize new words

Watch English films

Practice writing in English

Talk to your classmates

Listen to the tape

Learn from your teacher

Read English stories

Make a study plan

Talk to native speakers

Difficulties in learning English

Memorizing new words

good pronunciation and intonation

understanding English grammar

listening and speaking

writing…

Overcoming shyness

Learning to work with others

Learning about other countries

Differences in learning English and Chinese

Sounds and pronunciations

spelling system

sentence structures

grammar rules

way of thinking,

history

culture

social system

Differences in learning English and Chinese

Learning Chinese (as the mother language)

Learn from parents.

Use the language all the time.

We usually learn it when we are very young.

Learning English (as a foreign language)

Learn in school from teachers, friends and books.

Only use the language in school.

We usually learn it when we are older.

Characteristics of successful learners

a clear goal in learning

making proper study plans

wide interest in anything

high efficiency

self-confidence

a good study habit

Effective learning skills

Reading all kinds of materials

taking notes

using dictionaries

connect English with work and life

listening to English radio programmes

Imitating

Ways of develop confidence

Practice good pronunciation and try to speak in public

learn to express ideas in English orally

try to attend all kind of lectures and sit in front row of seats and ask questions

Reading

Fast reading

1 What is the most puzzling question

in learning our mother tongue?

2 If we develop our study skills and way of learning, is learning foreign language twice as hard or as easy?

Main idea of each paragraph .

1.The environmental factor of learning

mother tongue.

2.Different opinions of language experts.

3.The difference between learning mother

and learning a foreign language.

4.The characteristics of successful language

learners.

5.Different learning ways of successful

language learners

6.The importance of the purpose of learning.

The purpose of writing the passage:

To tell us that learning a foreign

language does not have to be twice

as hard as learning our mother

tongue.

At what age have most children mastered their mother tongue?

2. How do different people explain our ability to learn our mother tongue?

3. How is learning a foreign language different from learning one’s mother tongue?

Answer the following questions

Post reading

Tell the sentences true or false

1. Although experts don’t agree each other, they all share a common opinion :Life is a very successful language school.

2. We study our mother tongue all day long for about 5 years before we master it. But we only spend a few hours a week and in a few years’ time we can speak a foreign language.

3.Successful language learners usually step

away from the academic challenges.

4. The less anxious and more relaxed the

learner, the worse their language acquisition.

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Decide which language ( mother tongue or foreign language) each of the sentences below describes.

A We learn quite fast.

B We are not taught but learn anyway.

C Some people think that we are born with an ability to learn this.

D We can learn faster if we develop study skills.

E Most people have mastered this by the age of five.

F We learn this in a special place where we can get help.

G It takes longer to learn this.

H We Learn this by communicating with others.

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characteristics of successful language learners:

Interested in understanding their own thinking

Curious about the world

Willing to take chances and confident in their ability

Use different ways of learning and plan their studies

Gain confidence

Plan and evaluate their learning

With greater control and a strong sense of achievement

Acquire new skills faster

Put what they know to better use

Less anxious and more relaxed

Self-confident,secure

More willing to take risks and to place themselves in

new learning situations

order vt. 命令，嘱咐，定购（做）叫（饭菜）

If a girl orders the most expensive food for

her first dinner date, she is probably rich or

greedy.

in order of importance / age / position

in alphabetical order 以…的顺序

in order---- out of order/ in disorder

List all the leaders in order of position.

That is a peaceful society, and everything

there is in good order.

2. a call-in show 打电话的节目

a children’s show 儿童节目

a cat/ flower/motor/car/ show

be on show

show sb. around/ round

show off

show up

3. get stuck / be stuck

stick 粘帖, 伸出

stick to 坚持

My car was stuck in the mud.

He stuck his fork into a big piece of meat.

Don’t stick your head out of the widow

of the train.

# Stick to the plan and you’ll succeed.

4.fun ------ 区别funny

Seeing monkeys in the zoo is of great fun.

What fun it is to have a game after work.

May you have great fun.

in fun= for fun 娱乐, 消遣

He couldn’t say such a serious thing for fun.

# Look at the funny person with a strange

hat on

Language Points :

1.receive formal instruction / education

receive a warm welcome

receive a sword-thrust

accept one’s suggestion

2. acquire: gain, get

How I wish I could acquire a good

knowledge of English.

He has acquired a goof knowledge of history in these few years.

acquired adj. 获得的 后天的

3) Drinking is an acquired taste for him.

acquisition n. 获得

He devotes his time to the acquisition of knowledge

3. make sense of make sense

make no sense in a sense

Can you make sense of the abstract theory?

Talking after the accident makes no sense.

what he said is reasonable in a sense.

4. adjust adjust / adapt… to

1) You shouldn’t adjust your computer

without any instruction.

2) He adjusted his errors and continued his

research work.

3) You should adjust your expenditure to

your income

4) When you go to a new country, you must

adapt / adjust yourself to new circumstances

5.regardness of : paying no attention to

The coal boss risked making money

regardless of workers’ safety.

You’d better not buy everything regardless

of what they can be used for.

6. in other words in words in word

in a word with the ( these ) words

(1 ). ______________, he walked away with

a smile.

( 2 ). It’s no use to promise _________, but

in deed.

(3 ). ____________, you are a very good boy.

(4 ).I don’t know how to explain this _______

(5). I soon found that the work I was doing

had been done by someone else._________

I was wasting my time.

With the words

in word

In a word

in words

in other words

6.case 事例; 实情; 病例; 情况

1) Is this the case that you have lost

your money ? (= Is it true)

2) If that is the case,you’ll have to work harder.

3) Such being the case, you can’t go away.

4) There were five cases of influ.

5) It may rain---- you’d better take an umbrella

in case.

6) In case of fire, ring the alarm bell.

7) In this/ that case, none can escape.

7. instruct = teach ,educate

1) Mr. Zhang instructed a maths lesson.

2) The captain instructed his men to fight

bravely.

3) He often instructs me in English (studies).

instructor

instruction

instructive (有教育意义的 )

8. put…to use make use of

come into use in use out of use

1) You should put what you have to (a) better

use.

= You should make better use of what

you have.

2) When will the technology come into use?

3) Something in use today will be out of

use soon.

9. take a risk / take risks

take the risk of doing sth

at the risk of

at risk

In our lives, we have to take so many risk

to succeed.

He took the risk of losing his life to save

the drowning boy.

He saved the boy at the risk of losing his life.

New things may be at risk at the beginning.

10. adopt

1) He adopted my suggestion, which made

me very happy.

2) Mr. Kern adopted the orphan as his own

son.

3) He is not my real father; I’m adopted.

11. secure

adj. 确定的, 可靠的, 安心的

His success is secure.

Our house is secure from flood.

They feel secure about their future.

( free from anxiety)

(certain)