Unit 4. Learning a foreign language

Lesson 1: Getting started and listen and read
Unit 4: Learning a foreign language
I. Getting started and listen and read
Your ways of learning English.
1. Do the home work
2. Do more grammar exercises in grammar book.
3. Read stories or newspapers in English.
4. Write English as much as possible.
5. Learn by heart all new words and texts.
6. Speak English with teachers, friends and foreigners.
7. Use a dictionary for reading.
8. Practice listening to English tapes or English programs on the radio.
9. Watch English programs.
10. Learn to sing English song.
II. Presentation dialogue.
1. Set the scene.
2. Prediction.
* What exactly did the examiner ask Lan ? Look at the list of questions and guess
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 your free time?
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.
* Answer key.
1, What is your name?
2, Where do you come from?
3, Why are you learning English?
4, Do you speak any other languages?
5, How do you learn English in your country?
6, How will you use English in your free time?
7, What aspect of learning English do you find most difficult?
8, Read this passage.

3. Practice the dialogue.
4. Model sentences.
a. Where do you come from?
The examiner asked me Where I came from .
b. Do you speak any other languages?
The examiner asked if (whether) I spoke any other languages.
c. Read this passage.
The examiner asked me to read that question.
III. Practice.
The examiner asked me what my name was.
She asked me where I came from
She asked me why I was learning English
She asked me If (whether) I spoke other language.
She asked me how I learnt English in my country.
She asked me how I would use English in the future.
She asked me what aspect of learning English I found the most difficult.
She asked me to read that passage.