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Unit 1 Language in mission
Section A
1-2 Text A: An
impressive English lesion
Pre-reading
①
ing to the Beatles
understand a lot better
science
fiction books in English
②
1
?
Yes,
because
the
way
to
learn
English
is
more
interesting
and enjoyable.
?
Yes, because learners
become more motivated when learning
something they like.
?
No,
because
it's
like
a
street
learning
without
formal
instruction.
?
No,
because
learners
may
often
make
grammatical
mistakes
when
talking or speaking.
2.
?
Yes,
I
could
speak
and
write
more
fluently
with
good
grammar
and
vocabulary.
?
Yes,
I
could
better
understand
English
native
speakers
after
watching English
movies and talk shows.
?
Yes, as a result of surfing online in English, I'm
able to
read more quickly than before.
3.
?
Read English
novels and magazines.
?
Listen to radios and watch TV programs.
?
Talk to English speakers
whenever possible.
?
Write
every day such as emails and journals.
Reading comprehension
①
e he is tired of listening
to his father and he is
not interested
in grammar rules.
civilization
of
Greece
and
the
glory
of
Roman
architecture are so marvelous and
remarkable that they should
be
described at least in a brief account; however,
what the
student
could
do
was
only
one
single
utterance:
without
any
specific comment.
e the schools fail to
set high standards of language
proficiency.
They
only
teach
a
little
grammar
and
less
advanced
vocabulary. And the younger teachers
themselves have little
knowledge of the
vital structures of language.
e
teaching grammar is not an easy job and most of
the
students
will
easily
get
bored
if
it's
not
properly
dealt
with.
familiarized his son
with different parts of speech in a
sentence and discussed their specific
grammatical functions
including how to
use adverbs to describe verbs.
e the
son had never heard about the various names and
functions of words in an English
sentence before.
author
uses
map
and
to
describe
grammar
and
vocabulary.
Here,
map
is
considered
as
grammar
and
as vocabulary.
the
subjunctive
mood
his
son
used
is
a
fairly
advanced
grammar
structure,
the
interjection
reflects
the
tremendous
pride
the
father
had
toward
his
son;
it
also
reflects
the author's humor in using the word
because it was once used
by
his
student,
though
in
two
different
situations
and
with
two
different feelings.
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1.
?
Motivation.
?
Family
support.
?
Peer pressure.
?
Financial status.
?
Future career goals.
h grammar helps a lot in the following:
?
Order sentences correctly.
?
Use words properly.
?
Talk with other English
speakers confidently.
English grammar
is of little help:
?
Only
gives rules that are hard to remember
?
Is
not
helpful
in
a
real-life
setting
due
to
the
limited
time
to
think and recall the rules.
?
Not
always
applicable
to
the
real
language,
especially
idioms.
3.
?
Use more
communicative ways.
?
Encourage a lot of interactions.
?
Put sentences in
meaningful contexts.
4.
?
Read more
English from online sources.
?
Watch English TV / listen
to English radio / watch English
online
videos.
?
Talk often with
English speakers.
?
Listen
carefully and extensively.
?
Use dictionaries to look up unfamiliar words.
?
Use new words as often as
possible.
5.
?
Read English newspapers, magazines, and books.
?
Write English as often as
possible.
?
Write emails in
English.
1-3 Text A: Language focus
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1-4 Structure
analysis & writing
Structured writing:
Practice
Some
bookworms
in
my
dormitory
often
spend
hours
reading
their
in that book, but I don't
care about it at all. My assumption
is
since
I
have
never
learned
Chinese
grammar,
what's
the
sense
of
learning
English
grammar?
In
fact,
English
grammar
has
always been a big headache to me.
English grammar is very complicated
because, unlike Chinese,
there are many
verb tenses. Even stranger than verb tenses,
English grammar also contains something
very confusing. For
example,
I
don't
remember
how
many
times
my
middle
school