Experiencing English

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Experiencing English

• Book One

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Procedures

• Passage A Not Just a Job, an Adventure
  Undergraduate Research
• Passage B The Best Way to LearnCreative
  Emulation

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Procedures of Passage A

• Warm-up Activities
• Culture Notes
• Language Points
• Difficult Sentences
• Summary
• Follow-up Activity
• Assignments

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Unit 7 Learning Strategies

• Passage A Not Just a Job, an Adventure
  Undergraduate Research

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Warm-up Activities

• Questions for discussion
• 1. What strategies do you apply in learning
  English?
• 2. What do you usually do in and after class?

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Warm-up Activities
Quotations on Learning Strategies
Learning without thought means labor lost
thought without learning is perilous --
Confucius, philosopher and educator
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Warm-up Activities
They know enough who know how to learn.
--Henry Brooks Adams, literati
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Warm-up Activities
I havent failed Ive found 10,000 ways that
dont work. -- Thomas Edison, inventor
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Warm-up Activities
You cant teach a man anything. You can only
help him discover it within himself.
-- Galileo Galilei, astronomer and physicist
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Warm-up Activities
I never teach my pupils I only attempt to
provide the conditions in which they can learnI
have no special gifts. I am just passionately
curious. --Albert
Einstein, physicist
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Warm-up Activities

• Do a research project among your classmates to
  sum up their learning strategies.
• Here are some of the questions during discussion
  
• 1. Where do you like to sit in class (in the
  front/middle/back row)?
• 2. What will you do in class( take notes/just
  listen/)?
• 3. Do you have plans in study or study at will?
• 4. How do you consider your progress in learning?
• 5. I can learn best by ______________ I can
  learn best when_________________.

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Culture Notes

• Undergraduate Research
• In many universities, students are encouraged to
  participate in research to develop their own
  original research designs under the guidance of
  instructors. Students are usually paid for their
  research. If they register for a course and do a
  project, they can earn academic credits. In some
  departments a research project might constitute
  an honors thesis.

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Culture Notes

• Ways to Graduate with Honors
• In U. S. education there are four main ways
  students may graduate with honors
• all As --- may graduate with highest honors
• mostly As --- may graduate with high honors
• mostly As Bs --- may graduate with honors
• A student may graduate with honors in the major
  field. This requires high grades in the major,
  fairly good grades overall, and an extra research
  project in the major.

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Culture Notes

• Honors Thesis
• An honors student does an extra research project
  in the major and writes a research paper can
  graduate with honors. This extra research project
  paper is usually called an honors thesis, which
  resembles a short masters thesis.

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Culture Notes
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Culture Notes
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Language Points

• 1. basis n. a foundation upon which something
  rests.
• What is the basis of your opinion?
• Don't evaluate a person on the basis of
  appearance.
• The basis of this drink is orange juice.
• on ... basis (on the basis of)
• on a daily/weekly basis.

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Language Points

• 2. beneficial adj. producing or promoting a
  favorable result advantageous.
• beneficial birds insectsa beneficial
  association
• be beneficial to
• Sunshine is beneficial to plants.
• Cycling is highly beneficial to health and the
  environment.

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Language Points

• 3. cafeteria n. a restaurant where people serve
  themselves
• luncheteria ??????washeteria n.?????budget
  traveling????
• buffet dinner???
• self-help God helps those who help themselves. ?

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Language Points

• 4. constantly adv. consistently
• His report was constantly interrupted by
  applause.
• The area was constantly hit by drought.

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Language Points

• 5. constitute vt. to form or to make up
• Seven days constitute a week.
• Twelve months constitute a year.

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Language Points

• 6. demonstrate vt. to show, describe clearly
• The salesman demonstrated (how to use) the
  washing-machine.
• demonstration n. evidence, proof illustration
  or example
• Our polluted air is a clear demonstration of the
  need for tougher environmental laws.

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Language Points

• (demonstration of ) altruistic commitment
  (evidence of) a desire to help other people
• His willingness to work with AIDS patients was a
  clear demonstration of his altruistic commitment.

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Language Points

• 7. discipline n. control obtained by enforcing
  compliance or order
• The committee consisted of scientists of many
  disciplines.
• military discipline

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Language Points

• 8. evolve vt., vi. to progress
• The developmental history of the society tells us
  that man has evolved from the ape.
• The idea evolved out of work done by British
  scientists.
• The group gradually evolved into a political
  party.

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Language Points

• 9. fund vt. to provide fund for sb. or sth.
• The work is funded by the government.
• a relief fund ????
• a reserve fund ???
• a scholarship fund ?????

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Language Points

• 10. one way or anothersomehow however you can
  (perhaps despite some difficulty)
• Almost every country becomes involved, one way or
  another, when theres a World War.
• If you care about your work, youll always get
  there on time, one way or another.

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Language Points

• 11. it isnt just... but rather...its true
  (that)...but its more important (that)
• It isnt just the award you received, but rather
  the confidence you showed in the competition that
  makes me proud.
• It isn't just the stifling heat, but rather the
  dripping humidity that makes Changsha
  uncomfortable in the summer.

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Language Points

• 12. pride of authorship satisfaction at seeing
  one's own work in print
• It was his first publication, so his pride of
  authorship was understandable even though the
  article was very short.
• I have no pride of authorship in this draft, so
  you may change it however you like.

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Difficult Sentences

• When students see a discipline as evolving
  rather than fixed, they usually get a lot more
  excited about learning.
• When students see that a discipline is developing
  rather than fixed, they would be more interested
  in learning.

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Difficult Sentences

• Ideally, undergraduate research is an opportunity
  for the kind of intensive study that can expand
  the mind in ways traditional courses can't.
• Undergraduate research offers students an
  opportunity to study deeply, which helps develop
  their minds in ways traditional courses cant.

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Difficult Sentences

• He also describes how creating a piece of
  original research instilled a pride of
  authorship in his work.
• Students are proud when they see their own work
  becoming part of the new knowledge created by the
  research.

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Summary

• Undergraduate research is a good way to
  develop a students mind. It can also give the
  student a head start on a career or even earn the
  student some money. When doing research the
  student must work independently, which builds
  confidence while practicing useful skills. By
  applying knowledge learned from a book or a
  classroom to a research project, the student
  learns much more than could be learned in another
  way. Mastery of facts is only the beginning of
  our learning. Its what we do with them that
  really matters.

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Follow-up Activity

• Share your learning strategies with your
  classmates, for instance, talking about the topic
  How I Learn English?
• Tips
• Study on my own with tapes and CDs
• Talk with native speakers
• Keep using what Ive learned
• Dont worry about making mistakes

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Assignments

• Textbook Exercises 2-8
• Preview Passage B

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Procedures of Passage B

• Warm-up Activities
• Culture Notes
• Language Points
• Difficult Sentences
• Summary
• Follow-up Activity
• Assignments

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Passage B The Best Way to Learn
Creative Emulation
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Warm-up Activities

• Questions for discussion
• What is the main way you usually use in your
  learning? Do you learn a language the same way
  you learn a sport, a skill or a scientific
  theory?
• When learning something new, what benefits can be
  found in other peoples success?

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Warm-up Activities

• Watch the video clips
• Joey speaks French 1
• Whats Joeys problem?
• Why does Monica ask Ross such a question?
• Joey speaks French 2
• Hows Joeys learning?
• Joey speaks French 3
• What did Joey do to learn French?
• Did it work?

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Culture Notes

• Pro Circuit
• In some professional sports such as tennis, golf,
  bowling, and track, professional athletes travel
  from town to town and sometimes from country to
  country competing in weekly events. This is
  called the Pro Circuit or Pro The major events,
  such as the U.S., British, French, and Australian
  Opens in tennis are part of the Pro Circuit.

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Culture Notes

• Leading Computer Companies
• The two leading computer companies in the world
  are IBM (International Business Machines) and
  Microsoft. IBM specializes in hardware, and
  Microsoft specializes in software. Windows is
  clearly the dominant software format, and this
  may be Microsofts greatest contribution to the
  computer industry. The PC (personal computer) was
  actually pioneered by other companies such as
  Apple, but IBM has met this challenge with PCs
  of its own and still dominates the field.

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Language Points

• 1. attainv. to succeed in arriving at, esp.
  after efforts reach
• attain ones goal
• attain the top of a mountain
• attain the age of
• She attained her ambition at age 30.
• Leo Ioacoco attained the position of President of
  the Ford Motors.

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Language Points

• 2. bloom vi. to open up, to flourish to
  develop to prosper
• These flowers bloom in the spring.
• Their friendship bloomed.

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Language Points

• 3. consult vt. to advise or look into something
• I consulted George about buying a car.
• I must consult my principal on this matter.

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Language Points

• 3. consult
• Related words
• consult consultant
• assistassistant
• emigrate emigrant
• immigrate immigrant
• serve servant
• inhabit inhabitant

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Language Points

• 4. emulate v. to try to be like someone else,
  through imitation
• You must work hard to emulate your brothers
  success.
• The teacher set a standard for every student to
  emulate.

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Language Points

• 5. enterprise n.
• 1) a business organization
• a transnational enterprise state-owned
  enterprises
• 2) a large piece of work done by many people
• Failure in this final stage means failure of the
  whole enterprise.

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Language Points

• 5. enterprise n.
• 3) the ability to think of new activities or
  ideas
• He is a young man of enterprise.

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Language Points

• 6. convert v. to change into another form, state
  or substance
• That building has been converted into a school.
• This sofa converts to a bed.

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Language Points

• 7. significant adj. of notable importance
• The 1990 Clean Air Act has a significant effect
  on improving the environment.
• The result is highly significant for the future
  of the province.
• significance n.

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Language Points

• 8. in person directly, face to face
• If you want to say you love someone, its best to
  do this in person.
• I can understand your English better in person
  than I can on the telephone.

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Language Points

• 9. for good permanently, forever
• I hope we can be best friends for good.
• Are you going back to America for good?

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Difficult Sentences

• I used creative emulation to help me attain my
  goal of playing tennis on the pro circuit.
• I was able to play tennis in the professional
  tour by using creative emulation.

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Difficult Sentences

• I examined back issues of every tennis magazine
  looking for articles on techniques. (para. 2)
• In order to improve my techniques, I read every
  tennis magazine from previous dates for
  information.

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Difficult Sentences

• I established a goal of starting a part-time
  business lecturing and conducting seminars.
• I planned to have a part-time job, that is to
  give lectures and offer group learning projects.

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Difficult Sentences

• These went so well that I was able to leave
  traditional education for good in 1989.
• These (lectures and seminars) were so successful
  that I could quit my fulltime classroom teaching
  job permanently in 1989.

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Difficult Sentences

• , the doers of the world
• the doers of the world people who do things
  instead of just thinking or talking about them

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Summary

• The author has been successful in several
  different fields, such as academics, sports,
  computers, and business. In each case he uses the
  same strategy, which he calls creative emulation.
  He finds the people who are already successful
  and tries to model his behavior on theirs, adding
  his own personal features.

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Summary

• Using this approach he has built a large and
  successful business. But he also notes that his
  young son uses the same strategy for learning
  about daily living. With such a smart father to
  emulate, this should be no surprise. Students may
  do likewise by choosing especially successful
  classmates or teachers as their role models.

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Follow-up Activity

• Work in groups and try to form a plan about your
  own use of the creative emulation strategy in
  your college life.

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Assignments

• Textbook Exercises 11-15