Unit 4. Learning a foreign language

welcome
to our class
1. What is your favorite subject at school?
I. Warm up: * Answer the questions:
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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Friday, November 4th, 2009
Unit 4: Learning a foreign language
Lesson 1: Getting started - Listen and read
Listen to music
Learn English on the internet
Do grammar exercises
Read English books
Write English as much as possible
Learn by heart
I/ Getting started
How do you learn English ?
Learn to sing English songs
Use dictionary for reading
Talk with foreigners
Read English newspapers
Watch English TV programs
I- Vocabulary:
- attend (v):
take part in, join in:
- aspect (n):
- oral examination (n)
- examiner (n):
- candidate (n):
tham gia
kh�a c�nh/ �nh h��ng
Giám khảo
thí sinh
Kì thi vấn đáp
-written examination (n)
Kì thi viết
Rub out and remember
oral examination(n)
Candidate(n)
Written examination(n)
Aspect(n)
Attend(v)
Examiner (n)
Kì thi vấn đáp
Thí sinh
Tham gia
Kì thi viết
ảnh hưởng/khía cạnh
Giám khảo
Are Paola and Lan talking about an oral examination or a written examination?
2. How many questions did the examiner ask Lan?
→They are talking about an oral examination.
Lan
Paola
7. Do you speak any other languages?
2. Where do you come from?
ROYAL ENGLISH COLLEGE
Stage One: Oral Examination
1. What is your name?
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?
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 this passage.
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How many questions did the examiner ask Lan?
8 questions
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II-Model sentences
Examiner: What is your name?
Lan: My name is lan.
Paola: What did the examiner ask you?
Lan: She asked me what my name was
=>form: S+ asked+ o + wh+ s+ v

S+ asked+ o + if/whether + s +v
Answers:
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☻Match each direct question with its reported speech.
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*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.
IV. Conclusion:
Reported with “Yes/ No – question”
Eg: Do you like English  She asked me If I liked English.
2. Reported with “WH- question”
Eg: what is your name?
 She asked me what my name was.

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)
-Prepare: lesson 2: speak P.34
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