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期数： 0510 YYG3 029
学科：英语 年级：高三 编稿老师：徐 卓
审稿老师：孔 军
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Unit 8 Learning a Foreign Language

I. Background Information
Some Tips about learning English from Kung Guru
What is the easy and best way to learn English? Unfortunately, there is no easy way to learn English. English can be difficult but there are ways to make learning more effective and enjoyable.
Enjoy learning English!
It is difficult to learn anything if we do not enjoy it. Therefore, try to have fun with English and try to make it a challenge rather than a chore.
Become a member of an active language club!
Meeting regularly with other keen language students will give you a lot of practice time and many good experiences. It is often easier to learn more from your friends in a social and fun environment.
Be active!
To really learn a language, especially speaking and listening, you need to be an active participant. Don't just be a bystander or spectator. Get in there and go for it ---full steam ahead!
Fluency?
Some students think that the faster they can talk in English then the more fluent they are. Remember if people cannot understand you then you are not actually fluent.
Perfection?
Many students want to speak “perfect English”. They will even try to speak English until they ARE perfect. Your English will never be perfect---even native speakers do not use perfect English especially in day-to-day conversation and in other informal situations. Your Chinese is not always perfect either so why expect your English to be perfect?

Study Tips from Sonja
Listen to the news or other programs in English
By listening to the news in English on the radio we not only get a lot of information but it’s also a great way to hear the correct pronunciation and intonation patterns of the announcers. Listening to the radio can be difficult, but don’t give up too easily. Get into the habit and keep listening regularly!
Read articles or books in English
If you choose this study tip, remember to choose an interesting topic! It’s much harder to read something that doesn’t interest you. Choosing a story or article about something you enjoy will make your reading more worthwhile, more fun and more effective.
Increase your vocabulary
You can do this by checking new words in a dictionary and writing them down with their meanings or in an example sentence. But don’t just write them down and forget about them! Go back and look at those new words every few days and try to use them when you speak or write in English.
Study Tips from Naomi
I had English lessons regularly at school. Many of my friends also took English courses after school hours. So at first they had better English than me. I never took an English course but I used my time effectively and studied English all the time. But actually, the most powerful reason for me to learn English is my hobby ---music. I have loved music since I was 5 years old, especially English language songs. But I didn't have much money to buy all the cassettes that I wanted. Even now when I like a song I always need to know the lyrics. So I listen to the song on the radio carefully and try to write down the lyrics according to what I hear. Sometimes the lyrics of songs can't be heard clearly, especially if there are slang words. Nevertheless I can still learn a lot about vocabulary. You can do the same too. Now, my hobby is watching movies. This helps me a lot to increase my English skills. Now my English proficiency is far better than before and it is the result of all the time I spent listening, writing and learning. I still write down songs lyrics that I like and as many as I can. I believe our hobbies can be very useful to help us study English. If you have a hobby then use it to study English, okay?
---Naomi uses songs and films to learn English, and what a great idea that is!
I Think in English
I used to be quite proud of my English in junior middle school. After all, at that time English is simple: by learning the meaning of each word and sentence, there is no difficulty in understanding a whole article. However, I realized the problems in such a method back then.
With more confidence I began to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I had thought it would be easy, but I ended up extremely frustrated.
Admittedly, Mark Twain did a really wonderful job and didn’t use too many difficult words (except for those passages written in dialect), yet I found it hard to concentrate continuously on the plot---new words just kept cutting in. I kept losing my train of thought. I was able to figure out the meaning of each sentence without a dictionary, but my progress was so slow. One passage was not clear, let alone a chapter or even the whole book. It seems my “reading unit” was too small. Then how could I improve it?
Soon after I gave up Huck I got my first issue of 21st Century Teens, and within a few weeks I realized it’s what I needed.
To be able to handle long reading materials (a novel, for instance), one must learn to ignore details so as to grasp its theme, and try to think in English. Both tasks require a lot of extensive reading.
Therefore, from the very beginning I regarded 21st Century Teens as a way to train my English thought progress, rather than to learn words or patterns, which, I believe, doesn’t demand much attention. One will remember a word “automatically” after several encounters.
Thus it began---my friendship with the paper. I will never know exactly how I benefited from Teens, but that hardly matters. After all, by the end of the semester I finished Huck and moved on to Robinson Crusoe and Harry Potter. I always believe a dictionary, however large it is, won’t produce an expert in English, for language must not only be learned but also used. And 21st Century Teens seems to provide an ideal example.

II. Goals

Topic

Talk about learning and study skills

Vocabulary

motivation dictation correction alphabet stick acquire acquisition awful
instruct data academic comprehension anxious secure translator
interpreter everyday patience adopt PLA tyre overweight operation
level junior senior association appropriate postcode

make progress make sense of in other words take a risk experiment with
piles of put an end to knock down fall behind

Function

Ways to give advice:
You’d better… It’s much better to…
You should… You shouldn’t…
Don’t… You need to…
If I were you, I’d… Why not…?
What about/ How about…? Please…

Ways to talk about attitude and motivation:
The stronger the motivation is, the more quickly a person will learn a foreign
language.

Grammar

Review the Subjective Mood

III. Language points in Warming-up& Speaking sections

1. memorize vt. learn by heart; commit to memory 熟记；记住 （记忆的过程）
e.g. If you memorize a poem, you can say it without looking at the book.
You all should have your lines memorized by Friday.

remember vt. vi. have or keep in the memory; call back to mind in the memory 记得；忆起
（记忆的结果）
e.g. I can’t remember his name.
I remembered to post his letter.
I remember having heard you speak on that subject.

2. dictate
a. vt. say or read aloud words to be written down by others 口授以供他人听写
e.g. He dictated a letter to a secretary.
The teacher dictated a passage to the class.
b. vi. dictate to… order…命令……
e.g. I won’t be dictated to. 我不接受你的命令。

dictation
a. n. (uncountable) what is dictated 口授的内容
e.g. The typing of the secretary is perfect. She takes dictation swiftly.
b. n. (countable) what is taken down when sb. is being dictated to听写出来的东西
e.g. Hand in your dictations, please.
The teacher likes to give a paragraph as a dictation.
c. n. (uncountable) one of the ways to train listening听写训练
e.g. I often practice dictation.
d. n.（uncountable）order命令；发号施令
e.g. She is tired of her husband’s dictation so she left him.

3. correct vt. make…right 改正
e.g. Please correct my pronunciation.

correction
a. n. (uncountable) correcting 改正；修改
e.g. the correction of schoolchildren’s homework 学生作业的批改
b. n. (countable) sth put in the place of what is wrong 改正的东西
e.g. a writing exercise with corrections in red ink 有红墨水修改的写作练习

4. stick (stuck, stuck)
a. vt. vi. put something pointed into…插入…；刺入…
e.g. Stick the fork into the potato
The cushion was stuck full of pins.
The needle stuck in my finger.
b. vt. stop 使停滞
e.g The heavy snow stuck the traffic for hours.
Our cars were stuck in the traffic jam for hours.
stuck adj. unable to go on or escape 陷入困境的；卡住的；无法脱身的
e.g. I’m stuck. Can you give me some help?
My job got stuck.
c. vt. stick sth out cause sth to stand out 伸出；突出
e.g. Don’t stick your head out of the car window.
The boy stuck his tongue out at his sister.
d. vt. become fastened or joined with 使附着；使粘合
e.g. stick a stamp on a letter

5. come across sb/sth find or meet sb/sth by chance 偶遇……
e.g. I came across the book in a bookstore.
I came across him in Japan.

6. phonetic adj. concerned with the sounds of human speech 语音的
phonetics n. 语音学 phonetically adv. 语音方面地

7. alphabet n. all the letters used in a language arranged in order (全部)字母
phonetic alphabet (全部)音标
alphabetical adj. in the order of alphabet 按字母顺序的
e.g. The words in a dictionary are in alphabetical order.
alphabetically adv.

8. progress
a. n. (uncountable) forward movement; advance 进步；改进；发展
e.g. make good (great, fast) progress in her studies
He didn’t make any progress. =He made no progress.
Our project is in progress.
b. vi. make progress 进步；进行
e.g. The work is progressing steadily.
She is progressing in her studies.

9. motivate vt. make sb willing or eager to do sth 给…以动力(动机)
e.g. These children just sit around all day doing nothing; they need something to motivate them.
The murder was motivated by hatred.
motivated adj. 有动力(动机)的
e.g. I’m not motivated.
an intelligent and highly motivated student
a politically motivated decision
motivation n. (uncountable) eagerness and willingness to do sth 动机
e.g. Jack is smart, but he lacks motivation.
The stronger the motivation, the more quickly a person will learn a foreign language.

Plus: the following phrases are useful and deserve remembering and adopting----
study skills/strategie/methods/tips学习方法 make a study plan 制定学习计划
make correction(s) 修改 have a group discussion 进行小组讨论
grammar rules 语法规则

Exercises:
Choose the best answer.
1. The manager has a good business ________, so the company is doing well.
A. idea B. sense C. thought D. thinking
2. The three sisters decided to hold a family party to ________ their parents’ silver wedding.
A. celebrate B. memorize C. congratulate D. welcome
3. The other day, my brother drove his car down the street at ________ I thought was a dangerous
speed.
A. as B. which C. what D. that
4. ---Do you think I should get a good guide book?
---Yes, of course. ________, you also need a good camera and comfortable shoes.
A. What’s more B. In other words C. By the way D. All in all
5. Look at the trouble I am in! If only I ________ your advice.
A. followed B. would follow C. had followed D. should follow

Keys:
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. C