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

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

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

4. by making word cards
by watching videos

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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 ...

8. 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…

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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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…

14. 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

15. 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.

16. 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

17. 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

18. ______ 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

19. 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

20. Exercises

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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”.

33. 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.

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

35. Thank You!