Skills(Listening/Speaking/Reading/ Around the Task Writing world Listening and understanding familiar topics(road accidents) Participating in a role-play with the teacher's guidance An Writing a news e Reading and understanding the main idea; finding specific emergency report about an information; understanding the sequence of events landing accident e Writing a simple passage about an accident based on clues e Listening and understanding familiar topics(population) e Saying large numbers: talking about population problems World e Reading and understanding the main idea; finding specific information; understanding and explaining the information population Making a graph and water provided by a population graph e Writing about population problems e Listening and understanding familiar topics(weather) e Giving a weather forecast based on clues: predicting the The Giving advice on weather using probably, may, might A mazon the best time to using because, so and but e Listening and understanding familiar topics(customs) Giving advice to e Talking about customs at school/at the dining table e Reading and finding specific information Traditional foreign guests e Writing a short passage giving advice about customs and presents who are visiting rules in your home town a Chinese family e Listening and understanding familiar topics(first aid) e Participating in a role-play with the teachers guidance Special Making a poster Reading and understanding the main idea; finding specific buildings in about preventing information accidents at o Writing simple instructions about what to do in an Japan schoo earthquake; revising your instructions through pair work Vocabulary. Pronunciation guide............ P151 Irregular verbs P152
E1How to learn English Module task: Making your English study plan Unit 1 Let's try to speak English as much as possible. Listening and vocabulary 1 Read the instructions and check (v) the ones you understand I Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions 2 Correct the spelling 3 Listen and check the words you hear 4 Practise saying the words 5 Match the words with their meanings 6 Complete the sentences with the words in the box 2 Listen and answer the questions. Use the words and expressions in the box. a dictionary grammar letter look up make a mistake understand 1 Which word did Daming not understand? 2 What mistake did Lingling make? 3 How does Daming usually check the spelling of a word? 4 Why was it difficult for Daming to check the spelling of cinema? 3 Listen and read Ms James: Welcome back, everyone! Today, we're going to talk about good ways to learn English. Ready? Who has some advice? Lingling: We should always speak English in class Ms James: Good! Let's try to speak English as much as possible Daming: Why not write down our mistakes in our notebooks? Ms James: That's a good idea. And don't forget to write down the correct answers next to the mistakes. What else? Lingling: It's a good idea to spell and pronounce new words aloud every day Ms James: Thanks a lot, Lingling. How about listening to the radio Daming: Yes, thats good for our pronunciation too. But there are so many new words Ms James: You don 't need to understand every word. You just need to listen for key words and main ideas Daming: Thats the same for reading. English stories are so interesting. I get to know a lot about the world Everyday English through reading Lingling: I think writing is also important. Why dont we.Ready? try to find some English pen friends? We can Thats a goo write to them o What else?Idea Ms James: Excellent! I agree with you o Thanks a lot a Excellent! 2
Unit Now write notes about learning English. Listening: listen to the radio Speaking: Reading: Writing d Learning new words 4 Underline the correct words and expressions Here is my(1)advice notebook on learning English. Speak English(2) always /as much as possible in class, and listen to English (3) in the newspaper/on the radio. I (4)agree/ forget it is a good idea to look up new words in the(5) notebook/ dictionary You can find the(6) correct/excellent pronunciation and learn the meaning Pronunciation and speaking 5 Listen and mark the intonation I We should always speak English in class 2 Lets try to speak English as much as possible 3 Why not write down our mistakes in our notebooks? 4 It's a good idea to spell and pronounce new words aloud 5 How about listening to the radio? Now listen again and repeat. (/ 6 Work in pairs. Talk about problems in learning English and give advice Problems Advice I cant low/what about.? I dont know Why don' t you/not.? I cant speak English well What should do? Why don' t you try to talk to our classmates In Englis 3
odo 1How to learn English Unit 2 You should smile at her Reading and vocabulary 1 Work in pairs. Talk about problems you have with understanding English speaking English learning vocabulary 2 Read the passage and find out what problems the students have. a Questions and answers Send your questions to Diana, the Language Doctor Many students ask for advice about how to improve their English. Here are three basic questions The first question is about understanding English films and songs. Li Hao from Hubei wrote, I like watching English films and listening to English songs, but I dont understand very much. What can I do? Watching films and listening to songs are great ways to learn English! Watch and listen several times, and guess the meaning of the new words. Each time you will learn something new. I also advise you to talk about the films or songs with your friends The second question is about speaking. Wang Fan from Jilin wrote, "Our school has a teacher from the US. I am shy and i am afraid to speak to her. what should I do You can say, Hello! How are you? "Do you like China? "These are good ways to start a conversation. And before you begin, you should smile at her! Remember this: Do not be shy. Just try down new words, but I forget them quickly. How can I remember them s."I write The third question is about vocabulary. Zhang Lei from Anhui wrote Do not worry. It is natural to forget new words! I suggest you write four or five words a day on pieces of paper and place them in your room. Read the words when you see them, and try to use them. 3 Complete the table Advice from Diana Li Hao Wang Fan Zhang lei 4
Unit 2 4 Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in the box advise basic conversation improve meaning shy suggest Diana, the Language Doctor, gives some (I advice about learning English She(2)youtotlkaboutfimsandsongs,andguessthe(3) of the new words. The second piece of advice is this: Start your (4) with greetings or a question. She (5) that you smile before you speak and do not feel (6) Finally, (7) your vocabulary with four or five new words every day Writing. 5 Check (v) what you are good at or not good at in English. What I am good at What I am not good at Listening Speaking Reading Writing 6 Write a letter to Diana asking for advice Use the letter below to help you Learning to learn Dear Diana List all the things you are good at in learning I understand English in the classroom, English. Try to use what but it is sometimes hard to understand you are good at to help American and British people. Can you you learn what you are not good at help me? Thanks Lingling 7 Work in pairs. Read your partner's letter Write your advice. Dear Lingling, You should watch films and TV programmes in English 5