New Horizon College English

Unit 1Learning a Foreign Language

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•Ⅰ.Worm-up•Ⅱ.Presentation•Ⅲ.Summary•Ⅳ.Assignments

•Task One: Watch a video•Task Two: Detailed study of

Para 8•Task Three :Oral practice

•Watch a video and discuss the topics as follows:

1.What insight can we get from the video?

2.What new light does the video throw on our English learning?

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• The video gives us better insight into the relationship between the unfamiliar and the familiar. As shown in the video, when the teacher teaches children the notes “Do, Re and Mi”, they are empty, meaningless and dull to the children. Once they are replaced with the words “ Doe—a female deer, Ray—a drop of golden sun and Me—a name I call myself”, however, they come to be concrete, meaningful and interesting. Now the children are eager to follow the teacher, thus making a good combination of the unknown with the known.

• The big problem with our current English learning is that what we have learned from the books, although good in themselves, have little to do with our real life. As our experience proves, anything new, if separated from our old knowledge or our daily life, is more likely to go out of our memory soon. That is why we are still far from free to express ourselves in English despite six years of study. The video suggests that a sound way of learning something unfamiliar is by bridging the gap between the unfamiliar and the familiar

Revision

• Language Points Play a role Become aware of

Task Two Detailed Study of Para 8

• (1) Learning a foreign language has been a most trying experience for me, but one that I wouldn't trade for anything. (Para. 8)

Language points

• (2) Not only did learning another language teach me the value of hard work, but it also gave me insights into another culture, and my mind was opened to new ways of seeing things. (Para. 8)

•(3) Talking with people is one of my favorite activities(Para.8)

Grammatical structure: verb-ing works as a subject

• 1) Learning a foreign language has been a most trying experience for me, but one that I wouldn't trade for anything. (Para. 8)

• 2) Talking with people is one of my favorite activities(Para.8)

Task Three Oral Practice

• Group work• Share your experience of learning

(of anything) with your classmates. Using the language points and grammatical structure. Try to use sport terms as many as possible.

•1. language points•2. grammatical structure

•1. Review the words and phrases

•2. Do the exercises.

Thank you very much!