Unit 1 Learning to Think All Over Again 创思英语 http://www.tronest.cn

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 Be independent from/of 降低成本 Reduce the cost 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: How do children learn their mother tongue? We must learn to do it again when learning a foreign language. Different sounds are used in different languages to represent the same object. Get away from translating.

Text interpretation Summarize each paragraph: The challenge of new thinking goes much deeper than new words only. An example How to think in a foreign language. Get into the language, and you’ll come to understand it.

Text interpretation Text structure: The need (1-2) The meaning (3-6) The way (7) The effect (8)

Text interpretation Key language points: …what a tree was.. …point to …associate the sound … with the … thing… …our name…the name…they say… …many hundreds of different sounds used… Translating takes too much time …

Text interpretation Key language points: Instead, … …be limited to… …build a house using materials of … sizes… …one set of … …different-shaped building blocks… Where we use two blocks, they…

Text interpretation Key language points: …substitute a foreign word for it. How each language will choose to group… …reduce all these four words to only one. …be converted to new language… …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 What the boy likes to do most is putting together building blocks. In terms of previous working experience, John is the best choice for this position. My physics teacher often uses analogy to explain some difficult concepts. With the help of his family and friends, Tom build up his publishing business bit by bit.

Translation Linda was not able to go to that famous college, but she planned to start all over again rather than give up the challenge. This company has a very good public image. People always associate its product with high quality and good service.

Homework Other exercises Recitation Passage Fast reading Review Preview Don’t forget your plan.