1. How do you study for a test?
Unit 1
How do you study for a test?

2. Ask and answer A: What things are difficult for you to learn English?
B: I can’t pronounce some of
the words.

3. ____I can’t pronounce some of
the words.
____I can’t understand spoken
English.
____I read very slowly.
____I can’t spell some English
words.
____I make mistakes in grammar.

4. The challenges we may face to
1. can’t get the pronunciation right
2. forget a lot of new words
3. can’t always understand when people
talk to me
4. can’t understand the words in
magazines
5. don’t get much writing practice

5. What are solutions to the challenges?
1.read English words and texts
2.practice speaking English with others
3.listen more
4.take grammar notes

6. Listening Listening 2a 2b
Listen and check the challenges Paul talks about.
Listening 2b
Match the challenges in 2a with the solutions.

7. PAIRWORK A: I don’t have a partner to practice English with.
Make conversations using the information from 2a and 2b
A: I don’t have a partner to
practice English with.
B: Maybe you should join an
English language club.

8. F F T T 1. the teacher’s pronunciation was poor.
Write “T” or “F” before the statements.
The writer found learning English difficult because…
1. the teacher’s pronunciation was poor.
2. people always laughed at her when she spoke.
3. she had trouble making complete sentences.
4. English grammar was difficult. F F T T

9. 5. going out with English-speaking friends.
Her English improved when she started …
5. going out with English-speaking friends.
6. lots of listening practice.
7. using grammar in original sentences. F T T

10. Phrases and sentences 1. first of all 2. to begin with
3. later on .
It’ll be sunny later on, I think.

11. be afraid to +v. + sth.
Don’t be afraid to make mistakes.
Be afraid of + sth./v-ing
She is afraid of snakes.
The boy is afraid of going out at night.

12. 5. laugh at
When people are in trouble, we should not laugh at them
6. decide + to + v. +sth
She decided to buy an English dictionary.

13. 7. I think that doing lots of listening practice is one of the secrets of becoming a good language learner.
Reading in the sun is bad for you eyes.
One of my pens doesn’t work,it’s broken.

14. Prop.(介词) + v-ing
What about going out for a work?
He is good at drawing.
8. Another thing that I found very difficult was English grammar.
某人+ find(s) / found +that 从句
I found that maths was difficult.

15. 某人+find +sth.+ adj
Jim found the book very interesting.
某人+find(s) + it +adj. + (for sb.) + to+v. +sth.
They find it difficult for him to learn English well.

16. 9. Then I started to write my own original sentences using the grammar I was learning.
We’ll have fun learning and speaking English.
The kids went out talking and laughing.

17. practice/finish/mind +v-ing
10. Now I am enjoying learning English and…
enjoy + v-ing
practice/finish/mind +v-ing

18. Explanation
1. Unless 连词，“除非，如果不……”
e.g. I will go to the Great Wall tomorrow unless it is cloudy.
2. be angry with sb. “生某人的气”
e.g. Our teacher is angry with us because we don’t listen to him
in class.

19. 3. see sb. doing sth.
“看见某人做某事”
动词see后面用动词的现在分词作宾补。类似的动词还有：hear, watch, find等。

20. e.g. Please change the Chinese sentences into English.
e.g. When I passed by his room, I heard him singing an English song.
4.change ... into ... “把……变为……”
e.g. Please change the Chinese sentences into English.

21. Thank you for listening