Unit 8 learning a foreign language

eg.2. he made great progress in speaking english.              他在英語口語方面已大有進展。reading   learning a foreign language: twice as hard? 學習外語：雙倍的努力？    [點撥]此句為省略句，完整的句子應為：does learning a foreign language have to be twice as hard as learning our mother tongue? as…as用于事物比較時，根據上下文可以省略被比較部分。   eg.1. i work very hard，but she doesn’t work as hard (as me).               我工作很努力，但她工作不如我努力。   eg.2. i play tennis well. you can’t expect to play tennis as well( as me).               我乒乓球打得好。你不能期望像我一樣好。   eg.3. if you were to spend as many hours studying english ,you would make progress.如果你花同樣多的時間學英語，你會有進步的。learning a language is obviously more than just memory words, phrase and structures.學習語言顯然不僅僅是記憶單詞、詞匯或句型。[點撥]more than意為“不僅僅是”：eg: he is more than our teacher .he is our friend.        他不僅僅是我們的老師還是我們的朋友。more than 還有“超過”、“很”、“非常”的意思：    they were more than glad to help.        他們非常樂意幫助。instead we learnt or acquired our mother tongue by communicating with the people around us.相反，通過與周圍人的交流我們學會我們的母語。 [點撥]acquire經過一個過程或通過自己的努力等得到eg.1. by the time, james was twenty, he had acquired a store of his own.            詹姆斯20歲的時候，他擁有了自己的店鋪。eg.2. it’s sometimes possible for a student to master english grammar and acquire a large vocabulary, even without the help of a teacher.     即使沒有老師的幫助，學生也有可能掌握英語語法和大量的詞匯。[點撥]communicate with意為“與……交流/聯系”：    eg: they used carrier pigeons to communicate with headquarters.                他們用信鴿與總部聯系。and perhaps most puzzling of all, how were we able to make sense of what we heard. 大概最令人迷惑不解的是，我們如何能夠理解我們聽到的話。[點撥]most puzzling of all最令人迷惑不解的      most important of all最為重要的