UnIt 1. BEIng a StudEnt

Lesson 5

IndePendent learnIng

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Цілі: формувати лексичні навички й навички вимови; вдосконалювати навич-

ки читання й усного мовлення; розвивати мовну здогадку й мовленнєву ре-

акцію учнів; вдосконалювати навички користування словниками; виховувати зацікавленість у розширенні своїх знань.

Procedure

1. Warm-up

Name at least 10 forms of communication.

How has communication changed through human history? What is the most basic form of communication?

2. speaking

Do ex. 1, p. 20.

3. Reading

Do ex. 2, p. 20–21.

Key: 1 B, 2 D, 3 C, 4 A, 5 E, 6 F, 7 H.

4. Vocabulary practice

Do ex. 3, p. 23.

Key: 1 autonomous, 2 to access, 3 a target, 4 to get exposure, 5 fa- voured, 6 a resource, 7 to take responsibility (for), 8 a strategy, 9 precisely,

10 memorable.

Fill in the gaps with the new words:

1) What’s your most … moment from your school years?

2) I set myself … of learning 20 new words each week.

3) The police used every available … to track down the killer.

4) Can you tell us more … what happened?

5) Who do you trust … your child’s health?

6) Note that you may only … the oldest 16 mail messages.

7) The Crimea is … holiday destination for families.

skills — NOT to see if they actually use a dictionary.

Once students have answered the questions, ask students to gather in small groups for a discussion and comparison of their answers.

After students have discussed their answers together, ask students to make a list of the three most confusing questions on the survey.

Discuss the students answers in general, focus especially on the list of three confusing questions.

dictionary Survey

1) Do you use a dictionary?

2) Do you use a monolingual or bilingual dictionary, or both?

3) In which setting do you use your dictionary? (i.e. while reading, in the

classroom etc.)

4) Do you look at all of the meanings of the word, the collocations etc. or do you just look at the first plausible meaning?

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Do you use the phonological information?

If you use the phonological information, do you speak aloud and prac- tice the pronunciation?

Do you look at the contextual usage that the dictionary provides (if it indeed provides it)?

How often do you use your dictionary?

Do you keep notes of the information you retrieve from the diction- ary?

Do you ever just peruse the dictionary?

Do you sometimes let yourself make connections to other words, phras- es etc. by information found in the dictionary?

Do you use any of the information found at the beginning and the end of the dictionary? (i.e. grammar reference materials, measurements etc.) If you have both a monolingual and bilingual dictionary, which do you prefer to use and in which situations?

Do you think that you should look up every word that you don’t know while reading?

Can you understand the abbreviations and what the mean? Do they help your understanding?

opening a discussion

You may use the following phrases:

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To begin with,

We need to discuss… Let’s start by (V ing) We’ll start by (V ing) The problem here is…

The important thing (here) is…

The main thing we need to discuss is… Let’s look at…

It looks like…

What do you think? How about you?

How do you feel about that? Any ideas on that?

That sounds like a good idea. Sounds good.

The problem with that is…

6. Reading

Do ex. 5, p. 23.

Key: 1 E, 2 B, 3 D, 4 F, 5 A, 6 G, 7 C.

7. summary

Do ex. 6, p. 24.

8. Homework

Ex. 5, p. 23.

Lesson 6

VoCaBUlarY extenSIon

Цілі: вдосконалювати лексичні навички й навички вимови; вдосконалювати навички аудіювання й усного мовлення; розвивати логічне мислення; вихо- вувати зацікавленість у розширенні своїх знань, а також загальну культуру учнів.

Procedure

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1. Warm-up

What is your favourite subject and why? You may add some more ideas

of your own.

My favourite subject(s) is are

Maths Literature PE

Art Russian English Nature Study

because I

we

is are am

fond of interested in good at

reading books doing sums running jumping

2. Writing

Do ex. 1, p. 26.

3. Listening and speaking

Listen to the text and answer the question: What are the ways to im- prove our English?

PRACTISING ENGLISH OUTSIDE SCHOOL

When you are learning English, it is very important to use and practise

your English as often as possible. If you are studying in a school, you have

some good opportunities to practise. But what can you do after school, or if you are studying alone, to continue practising?

In fact there are many things that you can do outside school to improve

your English. Let us consider the 4 skills that you need to develop to use a language well: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Here are some of the ways you can improve these skills outside school. Listening to English is one of the most important things you can do to

improve your English. Do not try too hard to understand everything. Just

listen and you will soon understand. You have several possibilities: cas- settes and CDs. Listening to songs (on cassette or compact disc) can be use-

ful in helping you to “feel” the language. It does not matter if you do not un-

derstand everything. On television, you have a big choice of programmes:

films, chat shows, documentaries, news. In many parts of the world you can

watch English-language television, for example: BBC, CNN. Many televi- sion stations have Internet sites which give details of frequencies. Radio

is another excellent way to practise your English. You can watch films in English on video at home. Watching with video is a very good method be-

cause you can replay parts that you do not understand. If you watch a video with English sub-titles, you can cover the sub-titles with paper. Then, if there are some words that you really do not understand, you can remove the

paper and look at the sub-title. But be careful! The sub-titles are not always

an exact translation.

Speaking English is one thing that you cannot do alone! You can listen to English alone.

You can read English alone. You can write English alone. But, you run a serious risk if you speak to yourself in English! That is why you should speak as much as possible at school where there are people to speak to.

How can you speak English outside school? That depends on where you are. But you should make a big effort to find somebody for conversation practice. In a large city, it should not be difficult to find people who speak good English. You can put an advertisement in a local newspaper. You may find an English person, for example, who wants to practise your language. Then you can do a conversation exchange.

Reading is an excellent way to learn new vocabulary. But you need to read the right level of English. If it is too difficult, you may become dis- couraged. If it is too easy, you will make no progress. Try to read something that is slightly above your level. Try to understand the meaning of a new word from the context. If you really cannot understand, use a dictionary and record the word. What can you read? Well, there is no shortage of read- ing material: books, poetry, newspapers, magazines, Internet.

Practise your English by writing letters to a pen friend. Today, with the Internet, this is very easy. You can exchange letters by email. To find a pen friend from anywhere in the world, check out English Club ESL Forums.

4. Vocabulary practice

Do ex. 2, p. 26.

5. Grammar practice

Do ex. 1, p. 27.

6. Writing

unreal conditionals — Scrambled Sentences

Write the words for one sentence on the board in mixed-up order. You may use a single column format, with all the nouns together, pronouns to- gether, etc. Students work individually to arrange the words into a gram- matically correct sentence.

7. summary

Say what would happen if you…

1) …were a computer.

2) …were a bird.

3) …could speak many languages.

8. Homework

Do ex. 3, p. 26.

Lesson 7