Unit 1

Learning to Think All Over Again

Learning to Think All Over Again

Useful expressions Text interpretation Word formation Sentence structure Translation Homework

Useful expressions

文字处理指出事实上三个代表直接引语做个类比

Word processing Point out In fact Three Represents Direct speech Draw an analogy (between)

Useful expressions

独立于降低成本摆脱贫困分解任务再三思考树立自信

Be independent from/of Reduce the cost Get away from poverty Break down the task (into)

Think over and over again Build up confidence

Text interpretation

Judging from the title, the text is a (n) .

A. argumentation

B. description

C. narration

D. exposition

Text interpretation

What is the topic to be explained?

How to think in a new way in learning a foreign language?

Text interpretation

The exposition is generally developed in the pattern.

A. cause-effect

B. general-specific

C. problem-solution

D. spatial

Text interpretation

Answer the questions (speaking 3 on p.8) based on the text.

Text interpretation

Summarize each paragraph:

1. How do children learn their mother tongue?

2. We must learn to do it again when learning a foreign language.

3. Different sounds are used in different languages to represent the same object.

4. Get away from translating.

Text interpretation

Summarize each paragraph:

5. The challenge of new thinking goes much deeper than new words only.

6. An example

7. How to think in a foreign language.

8. Get into the language, and you’ll come to understand it.

Text interpretation

Text structure:

1. The need (1-2)

2. The meaning (3-6)

3. The way (7)

4. The effect (8)

Text interpretation

Key language points:

1. …what a tree was..

2. …point to

3. …associate the sound … with the … thing…

4. …our name…the name…they say…

5. …many hundreds of different sounds used…

6. Translating takes too much time …

Text interpretation

Key language points:

7. Instead, …

8. …be limited to…

9. …build a house using materials of … sizes…

10. …one set of …

11. …different-shaped building blocks…

12. Where we use two blocks, they…

Text interpretation

Key language points:

13. …substitute a foreign word for it.

14. How each language will choose to group…

15. …reduce all these four words to only one.

16. …be converted to new language…

17. …know how it was that you understood it all.

Word formation

Foreigner, to process , probability, improbable, pointless, association, associative, objective, objectivity, object to, actual, actuality, vary, variant, variation, variety, representative (rep), direction, in direct, imagine, imagination, imaginary,

Word formation

imaginary, (un)imaginable, imaginative, challenging, analogical, materialism, creative, creature, create, creator, substitution, choice, (in) dependent, Turkey, reduction, conceptual, convertible, conversion, converter, situate, situational,

Translation

1. What the boy likes to do most is putting together building blocks.

2. In terms of previous working experience, John is the best choice for this position.

3. My physics teacher often uses analogy to explain some difficult concepts.

4. With the help of his family and friends, Tom build up his publishing business bit by bit.

Translation

5. Linda was not able to go to that famous college, but she planned to start all over again rather than give up the challenge.

6. This company has a very good public image. People always associate its product with high quality and good service.

Homework

1. Other exercises

2. Recitation

3. Passage

4. Fast reading

5. Review

6. Preview

Don’t forget your plan.