Unit 4. Learning a foreign language

welcome
to our class
1. What is your favorite subject at school?
* Answer:
2. Do you like English? Why? Why not?
3. Do you find English difficult?
4. How do you learn English every day?
5. Do you usually watch English programs on TV?
6. Can you sing English songs?
7. Do you often use dictionary for reading?
8. Do you have a foreigner pen pal? How often do
you write to his/ her? How often does he/ she write to you?
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Thursday, October 30th 2008
Unit 4. Learning a foreign language
Period 20.
Lesson 1. Getting started + listen and read

1. Getting started.
*How to learn English?
Listen to music
Learn English on the internet
Do grammar exercises
Read English books
Write English as much as possible
Learn by heart
Learn to sing English songs
Use dictionary for reading
Talk with foreigners
Read English newspapers
Watch English TV programs
*How do you learn English?
Check things you do from the list. Add more things you want to do.
1. Do the homework.
2. Do more grammar exercises in grammar book.
3. Read short stories or newspapers in English.
4. Write English as much as possible.
5. Learn by heart all the new words and texts.
6. Speak English with friends.
7. Use a dictionary for reading.
8. Practice listening to English tapes or English programs on the radio.
9. Watch English TV programs.
10. Learn to sing English songs.
II. Listen and read.
*Vocabulary.
- Aspect (n) : khÝa c¹nh, lÜnh vùc
- examiner (n): gi¸m kh¶o
- candidate (n) : thí sinh
- Oral examination (n) thi vÊn ®¸p
- written examination (n) thi viÕt
*Lan is talking to Paola, a foreign student, about the oral examination that she has just taken.
*Answer about you:
Have you ever taken to an oral examination?
Do you think the questions are difficult or easy?
How many questions will the candidates have to answer?
*Guess:
- How many questions did the examiner ask Lan?
- Were the questions difficult or easy?
*Listen to the tape
Answers:
1. How many questions did the examiner ask Lan?
About 7 questions. Besides, she was asked to read a passage.
Were the questions difficult or easy?
They were difficult (according to Lan)
*Practice the dialogue with a partner.
*What exactly did the examiner ask Lan?
Look at the list of questions and check ( ) the boxes.
Royal English college
Examination in English as a foreign language
Stage one: Oral examination

What is your name?
Where do you come from?
Where do you live?
Do you live with your parents?
When did you begin studying English?
Why are you learning English?
Do you speak any other languages?
8. How did you learn English in your country?
9. How will you use English in the future?
10. What aspect of learning English do you find most difficult?
11. What are you going to learn?
12. What are your hobbies?
13. Look at this picture. Describe it.
14. Read the passage.
1. What is your name?
2. Where do you come from?
3. Where do you live?
4. Do you live with your parents?
5. When did you begin studying English?
6. Why are you learning English?
7. Do you speak any other languages?
8 How did you learn English in your country?
9. How will you use English in the future?
10. What aspect of learning English do you find
most difficult?
11. What are you going to learn?
12. What are your hobbies?
13. Look at this picture. Describe it.
14. Read the passage.

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*What exactly did the examiner ask Lan?
These are direct questions. Can you change them into reported questions?
1. Reported with “Yes/ No – question”
ex. “Do you like English?”, said Lan
=>Lan asked me if/ whether I liked English.

ex1. “What is your name?”
=>She asked me what my name was.
ex2. “Why do you have to do this work?”
=>She asked me why I had to do that work.
2. Reported with “WH- question”
*Imagine you are Lan: Change the questions which the examiner asked you.

1. She asked me what my name was.

2. She asked me where I came from.
3. She asked me why I learnt English.
4. She asked me if I spoke any other language.
5. She asked me how I learnt English in my country.
6. She asked me how I would use English in the future.
7. She asked me what aspect of learning English I
found most difficult.
8. She asked me to read the passage.

*Change these sentences into reported speech.
7. "What are you going to study?"
8. "Do you have many friends?"
1. I said to Lan: "Are you a student?"
2. She said: "Do you like to learn a foreign language?"
3. "How many languages can you speak?", said Ha
4. "Who do you live with?", she asked me
5. "Do you go to school by bike?", she said to me
6. He said to me: "Why do you come here?"
*Answer keys:
1. I said to Lan: "Are you a student?"
=>I asked Lan if/ whether she was a student.
2. She said: "Do you like to learn a foreign language?"
=>She asked me if I liked to learn a foreign language.
3. "How many languages can you speak?", said Ha
=>She asked me how many languages I could speak.
4. "Who do you live with?", she asked me
=>She asked me who I lived with.
5. "Do you go to school by bike?", she said to me
=>She asked me if/ whether I went to school by bike.
6. He said to me: "Why do you come here?"
=>He asked me why I came here.
1. Reported with “Yes/ No – question”
2. Reported with “WH- question”
7. "What are you going to study?"
=>She asked me what I was going to study.
8. "Do you have many friends?"
=>I asked Ha if she had many friends.
Redo exercise b (page 35)
Workbook: 2,3
-Prepare: lesson 2: speak + listen.
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