Unit 1 How can we become good learners? Section B 3a-Self Check 九年级(全)

Free talk How can we learn English well? by taking part in relevant activities in English

by reading English story book by listening to tapes over and over again

by making word cards by watching videos

3a Your friend wants to improve his/her English and asks you for help 3a Your friend wants to improve his/her English and asks you for help. What are the three best ways to learn and why? Make some notes in the chart. Best ways to learn Reasons Examples 1. Being interested in what you do If you are interested in something, your brain will be more active and … If you like music, you can learn English by listening to English songs.

Best ways to learn Reasons Examples 2 3 Taking part in relevant activities in English by doing English game practice oral English by reading English story books improve your reading speed Reading some books

3b Write a letter to your friend. Give him /her some advice about the best ways to learn English. Use your notes in 3a. Use the following expressions to help you: There are three good ways to … I think you should ... If you do this, you will ... It is also a good idea to ... because ... You could try to improve your English by ... This will help you to ...

Complete the following letter. Dear Mary, There are three good ways to help you learn English. The first way is being interested in what you do. Because if you are interested in something, your brain will be more active and smart. For example, if you like music, you can lean English by listening to English songs. The second way is…

Writing task 2 Write a letter telling a friend how to be a good learner.

Sample writing Dear Li Lei, I know it isn’t easy to learn English well, but I have some ideas that may help. You said you couldn’t understand people who talked fast. Well, you can try to listen for the most important words, not every word.

You can also do lots of listening practice. I think it’s one of the secrets to becoming a good learner. Another thing that I think important is English grammar. In order to learn it well, you have to take a lot of grammar notes in every class. You can write English sentences using the grammar you are learning. You can

also read more English books also read more English books. Reading is as important as listening for us to learn English well. If you do so, I believe that you can learn English very well later on. Yours, Meimei

Writing task 3 根据提示内容写一篇题为“ How to be a good learner” 的作文。要求： 必须用上提示内容，语句通顺，书写规范。 词数80左右。 提示：habit, way; get ready, listen; go over, homework; study in groups, help each other; work hard, do sports…

How to be a good learner As a good leaner, we should have good habits and ways of learning. We need to get ready for our lessons before class and always listen carefully in class. After class, we must go over the lessons and finish our homework on time. It’s good to study in groups and help each

other. As a student, working hard is important but don’t forget to do sports and keep healthy. We should do more reading in our free time. If we have any problems, we’d better ask others for help. I hope all these will be helpful to us.

Self Check 1 Fill in the blanks with the words in the box. practice develop remember prepare take notes until worry about everything Are you stressed out each time you have a test? You don’t have to be if you _________smart study skills. Remember to _________ in class and review them on develop take notes

your own or with friends after class. Then ________ what you learned by doing exercises. Try to study and ___________ information bit by bit instead of waiting __________ the last minute to study __________ at once. If you __________well for a test, then there’s nothing to _____________! practice remember until everything prepare worry about

______ Well, I practice my listening by listening 2. Number these sentences in order to make a conversation. ______ What’s the matter? ______ Well, I practice my listening by listening to the tape over and over again until I can understand everything. ______ So you want to practice your listening? ______ Hi, Jake. I need your help. ______ Uh-huh. Do you have any advice? ______ OK, I’ll try that. ______ I have a listening test next week. 2 6 4 1 5 7 3

3 Give advice to these people. 1. Jane is a very slow reader. She should improve her reading speed ____________________. 2. Li Ming wants to improve his listening. He could practice his listening ___________________. Meiping doesn’t know many English words. She could learn more words ________________________. by reading word groups by listening to tapes by using dictionaries

Exercises

一. 单项选择 1. Good learners often ask ____ because they know knowledge comes from _____. A. question, question B. questions, questions C. questions, questioning D. questioning, questioning

2. I sometimes learn English by _______ English-language videos. A. Watch B. watching C. looking D. looking at 3. —____ do you study for an English test? —By making vocabulary lists. A. What B. When C. How D. Who

4. Jean practices English by ________ English-language videos. A. read aloud B. reading aloudly C. read aloudly D. reading aloud 5. My pronunciation is not good._______ reading aloud to practice pronunciation? A. How B. What C. What about D. Can

6. ______ the English club at school is the best way to improve our English. A. Join B. Joined C. Joining D. Joins 7. If you don’t know a word, you must ______ in a dictionary. A. look it up B. look up it C. look over it D. look it out

二. 根据句意及汉语或首字母提示，填写单词。 Don’t let them ________ (影响) your decision. Just do it as you like. 2. My brother became a _____ (军人) five years ago. Now he is a policeman. 3. I ____ (失去) interest halfway through the book. 4. I think f_________ between classmates is important and we should get on well with each other. 5. Martin is f_____ the biggest challenge in his work. influence soldier lost riendship acing

三. 用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。 1. We can ____ (easy) finish the task today. 2. A good _______ (science) should learn from those of other countries. 3. They were ________ (success) in winning the contest. easily scientist successful

4. I was just a young girl from a small town and I felt very ___________ (important). 5. -- Education is an important part of our ___________ (develop). -- Yes. That’s why I’m studying so hard at school. unimportant development

四. 根据句意及汉语提示，用适当的短语完成句子。 I don’t know how they will _______ 　　　　 (处理) the problem. 2. Arguing about small things may ________ (中断) your friendship. deal with break off

3. Don’t ___________ (担心) your daughter at school. She is doing well now. 4. Mrs Yang _____________ (生……的气) me today because I was late for the meeting again. 5. If you want to finish this job in such a short time, you’ll have to __________　　　　 (尽全力). worry about was angry with try your best

五. 根据汉语意思，补全下列英语句子。每空词数不限。 1. 除非我被邀请，否则我不会去参加 晚会的。 I _________ the party _____ I’m invited. 2. 在史密斯先生的帮助下，我才能够在 上周末及时完成了作业。 ______________ Mr Smith, I could finish my homework in time last weekend. won’t go to unless With the help of

3. 乔决定不一个人去见他的网友。 Joe ____________ meet his Internet friend alone. 4. 时光飞逝，我已经在这个城市生活20 年了。 Time _______, and I ______________ in the city for 20 years. decided not to goes by have been living

六. 翻译下列句子。 1. 许多学生常常会抱怨老师。 2. 我们必须学习如何将这些问题变为挑 战。 Many students often complain about their teachers. We must learn how to change these “problems” into “challenges”.

3. 作为年轻人，我们应该在老师的帮助下尽自己所能去解决学习中的每一个挑战。 As young adults, it is our duty to try our best to deal with each challenge in our education with the help of our teachers.

Write an article about your own experiences of learning English. Homework Write an article about your own experiences of learning English.

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