Unit 8 Learning a foreign language, twice as hard?
unit 8 learning a foreign language, twice as hard?
teaching goals 教學目標
1. target language 目標語言
a. 重點詞匯和短語
acquisition, correction, data, patience, stick, acquire, instruct, adopt, face, awful, academic, anxious, appropriate, make sense of, distinguish … from ,be equipped with, adjust itself to, be born with, regardless of, consider… put… to use, take risks/a risk, contribute to, take patience
b. 重點句型
learning a language is obviously more than just memorizing words, phrases and structures.
if we develop our study skills, … but can in fact be twice as easy and a lot of fun.
2. learning ability goals 學能目標
help the ss learn how to talk about the different methods of learning a foreign language and the characteristics of the successful language learners.
teaching important points 教學重點
analyse the organization of the text.
the understanding of the reading text about the problems and factors related to learning a foreign language.
teaching methods 教學方法
listening and intensive reading with the aid of the computer courseware.
teaching aids 教具
a computer, a projector and internet.
teaching procedure & ways 教學過程與方法
step1: lead-in
1. what’s our mother tongue?
2. what’s our foreign language?
3. which do you think is harder ?
step 2: skimming
1. if we develop our study skills and way of learning, is learning foreign language twice as hard or as easy?
twice as easy.
2. find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.
main idea
para. 1 learning a language is obviously more than just memorizing words, phrases and structures. it is puzzling how we are able to learn or acquire our mother tongue.
para. 2 language experts have different answers to the question.
para. 3 learning a foreign language is different from learning one’s mother tongue
para. 4 successful language learners share a number of characteristics
para. 5 by planning and evaluating their learning, successful language learners gain confidence which in turn allows them to enjoy the learning process and learn better and faster.
para. 6 if we adopt some of the study skills and characteristics described in the text, we will become more successful.
3、what’s the purpose of writing this article?
a. learning a foreign language is twice as hard as learning our mother tongue.
b. learning a foreign language is more important than learning our mother tongue.
c. learning a foreign language is twice as easy if we develop our study skills.
d. in fact, the number of people learning a foreign language has increased with years.