1. Session 2: Learning at school
Time: 10: :50 am
Objectives
Identifying the rhetorical structures of the texts
Finding out specific information from the text and synthesizing it in the discussion
reflecting your study problems
practicing your critical thinking skill
Tasks
4. How is the text structured?
5. What are your study problems?
6. Getting more familiar with the text

2. Task 4: How is the text structured?
Text: Common study problems - and solutions
Structure:
Para 1(present problems) - Para 2 (offer solutions)
Para 3(present problems) - Para 4 (offer solutions)
Para 5 (present problems) - Para 6 (offer solutions)
Para 7 (present problems) - Para 8 (offer solutions)
(Please see the text and p9 of your workbook for details)

3. Task 5: What are your study problems?
Questions for discussion:
What are your study problems so far?
Have you come up with any solutions? What are they?
What have you learnt from the text “Common study problems – and solutions”(Unit 1, CE2)?

4. Task 6: Getting more familiar with the text
Students master information by discovering it for themselves.
Teachers do not actually teach, simply help students learn.
Learning takes place through a process of challenging old ideas and asking questions.
The underlying belief
Interactive classrooms
How to realize
Lecture + recitation sessions
Lecture --- present information efficiently through slides, demos and
actual lecturing
Recitation sessions --- homework can be reviewed and questions answered

5. Task 11: Watching an interview (1)
Please answer the following questions:
Do Canadians also say "Please”s and "Thank you”s a lot?
What examples did the guest speaker give about what is good manners in the west is not in China and vice versa?

6. Task 11: Watching an interview (2)
Please answer the following questions:
Do Canadians also say "Please”s and "Thank you”s a lot?
(Yes. However, it depends on the relationship between the speakers.)
What examples did the guest speaker give about what is good manners in the west is not in China and vice versa?
(Chinese students unwilling to address the Western teachers on the first name basis; saying “what” when failing to understand the speakers also causes misunderstanding. )