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Experiencing English
  • Book Three

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Procedure
  • Lead-in
  • Watch a video clip and summarize it
  • Group Discussion
  • Passage A
  • Warm-up Activities
  • Culture Notes
  • Text Understanding
  • Language Points
  • Difficult Sentences
  • Summary
  • Follow-up Activity
  • Assignment

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Lead-in
Watch a video clip about a certain strange way of
learning English created by some Japanese girls
and then summarize what you have seen and heard.

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Look at the following picture and read the
following words to have a group discussion.
This is a famous etching (???) by Goya, a Spanish
painter and etcher. The title of the etching is
Im still learning.
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  • Intellectual growth should commence at birth
    and cease only at death.
  • ---Albert Einstein

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Group discussion
  • What message do you think the etching conveys?
  • How do you understand this remark of Einsteins?
  • Whats the significance of lifelong education?

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Passage A Tongue-tied
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Warm-up Activities
  • 1. In what way do you usually learn English
    words?
  • 2. How do you understand the German proverb
    Whoever cares to learn will always find a
    teacher?

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Culture Notes
  • The English Language English is the chief medium
    of communication in the United Kingdom, the
    United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
    South Africa, and some other countries. It is
    spoken in more parts of the world than any other
    language and by more people than any other tongue
    except Chinese. For quite a long time, the
    English language has become the linga franca for
    international communication.

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Culture Notes
  • Idiom/Idiomatic Expression A phrase which
    means something different from the meanings of
    the separate words from which it is formed.
  • white elephant
  • kick the bucket
  • lions share
  • follow (ones) nose
  • (out) on a limb

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Culture Notes
  • Proverb A short well-known (wise) saying,
    usu. in simple language.
  • All is not gold that glitters.
  • Dont put all your eggs in one basket.
  • A friend to all is a friend to none.
  • A closed mouth catches no flies.

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Text Understanding
  • Read the passage and answer the following
    questions
  • 1. What was the authors immediate response
    when the driver passed her a slip of paper?
  • 2. What did the author mean by saying clever
    is not clever if it doesn't communicate?
  • 3. Why did the author hope that the driver
    owned a dictionary?

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Language Points
  • 1. rear a. of, at or located in the back
  • Is the puncture in the front or rear wheel?
  • She doesnt like sitting in the rear seat.

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Language Points
  • 2. version n. a particular form of sth. which
    varies slightly from other forms of the same
    thing
  • The two witnesses gave contradictory versions of
    what had happened that night.
  • The latest version of the film is more like the
    book.

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Language Points
  • 3. escape v. to elude the memory or
    comprehension of
  • I'm afraid your name escapes me/ has escaped me
    ( I have forgotten your name).
  • Nothing important escapes her notice /attention.
  • The book's significance escaped him.

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Language Points
  • 4. resort to to use (something) for help,
    because you cannot find any other way of acting
  • The electric lamps went out so we had to resort
    to candles to light the room.
  • The mother resorted to punishment to make the
    child obey.

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Language Points
  • 5. jot down to write down quickly, to make a
    quick short note of (something)
  • I always carry a pen and a notebook with me for
    jotting down my ideas.

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Language Points
  • 6. add up to to combine to produce a particular
    result or effect
  • Your long answer just adds up to a refusal.
  • Their actions added up to a deliberate flouting
    of the rules.
  • These new measures do not add up to genuine
    reform.

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Language Points
  • 7. hang on to depend on (something)
  • His whole career hangs on his passing the exam.
  • The survival of the government hangs on tonights
    crucial vote.
  • The safety of air travel hangs partly on the
    thoroughness of baggage checking.

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Language Points
  • 8. indulge v. to allow (yourself or someone
    else) to have esp. a lot of something enjoyable
  • The rich father indulged his son with plenty of
    pocket money.
  • I indulged my interest in flowers by planting a
    large flower garden.
  • indulge in to allow oneself the pleasure of He
    occasionally indulges in the luxury of a good
    cigar.

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Difficult Sentences
  • 1. He looked confused, reminder that clevers
    not clever if it doesnt communicate.
  • He looked confused, and his puzzled look reminded
    me that my answer was not clever at all because
    it couldnt be understood.

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Difficult Sentences
  • 2. so enthralled by the chance to indulge my
    curiosity about words with another curious soul,
    that I didnt fully grasp the potential for
    linguistic fraud committed in this mans cab.
  • (Id been) so absorbed in the chance to satisfy
    the mans curiosity with my (poor) knowledge of
    English that I didnt fully realize how
    misleading and confusing my and other native
    speakers interpretation might be.

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Difficult Sentences
  • 3. And that he figures out that, no matter what
    his passengers may say, haste doesnt always make
    waste at the gapers block.
  • And that he finds out that, no matter what his
    passengers may say, things may not mean as they
    say.

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Summary
  • This is an amusing short story that illustrates
    how little people sometimes know about their
    mother tongue. The narrator is a woman, the
    passenger in a taxi whose driver is a Pakistani
    man _____ to learn English by ___________________.
    ______ to explain the meanings of a proverb and
    an idiom, she realizes how little she really
    knows about the vocabulary of her ___________ and
    also ____ what kind of answers other,

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Summary
  • probably equally ignorant, native passengers
    might give. In the end she is left hoping the
    driver has a dictionary and that he will use it
    to teach himself rather than _______ the native
    speakers for explanations.

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Key
  • eager
  • asking his passengers about new words
  • Struggling
  • native language
  • wonders
  • depend on

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Follow-up Activity
Work in pairs and complete the following task.
Role B
Role A
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Work in pairs and complete the following task.
Role A
Role B
You are a sophomore at college and not very
successful in the study of English, especially in
building up your vocabulary. No matter how hard
you try, some peculiar English words just wont
stay in your mind. So you come to your teachers
office for help.
As an experienced teacher of English, you know
the trouble your students have and are ready to
help.
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Assignment
  • Write a short essay about how to be a good
    learner of English language in your opinion.

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Passage B Returning to College
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Procedure
  • Warm-up Activities
  • Culture Notes
  • Text Understanding
  • Language Points
  • Difficult Sentences
  • Summary
  • Follow-up Activity
  • Assignment

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Warm-up Activities
  • 1. For what purposes would an adult return to
    college?
  • 2. Do you think most of the college students
    appreciate their college life?

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Culture Notes
  • Plato (428 -- 347? B.C.) Greek philosopher. A
    follower of Socrates, he founded the Academy (386
    B.C.), where he taught and wrote for much of the
    rest of his life. Plato presented his ideas in
    the form of dramatic dialogues, as in The
    Republic.

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Culture Notes
  • Aristotle (384 -- 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher.
    As a pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the
    Great, and the author of works on logic,
    metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics,
    and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western
    thought.

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Culture Notes
  • David Hume (1711 1776) British philosopher
    and historian who argued that human knowledge
    arises only from sense experience. His works
    include A Treatise of Human Nature (1739- 1740)
    and Political Discourses (1752).

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Culture Notes
  • Baruch Spinoza (1632 1677) Dutch philosopher
    and theologian whose controversial pantheistic
    doctrine advocated an
    intellectual love of God. His best-known work is
    Ethics (1677).

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Culture Notes
  • John Locke (1632 1704) English philosopher.
    In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
    he set out the principles of empiricism, and his
    Two Treatises on Government (1690) influenced the
    Declaration of Independence.

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Culture Notes
  • John Dewey (1859 1952)
  • American philosopher and educator who was a
    leading exponent of philosophical pragmatism and
    rejected traditional methods of teaching by rote
    in favor of
    broad-based system of practical experience.

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Culture Notes
  • George Gordon Byron (1788 1824)
  • English poet, who was one of the most
    important and versatile writers of the romantic
    movement. His works include Childe Harold, The
    Prisoner of Chillon, and Don Juan.

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Text Understanding
  • Read the passage and answer the following
    questions.
  • 1. Why didnt the author go back to college after
    his military service in the Army?
  • 2. Why does the author want to go back to college
    now?
  • 3. What does the author think of young students
    on campus?
  • 4. What courses does the author want to take and
    why?

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Language Points
  • 1. draft v. to select from a group for some
    usually compulsory service
  • Every Christmas thousands of people are drafted
    in to help with the post.
  • Forrest Gump was drafted into the army after his
    college graduation.

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Language Points
  • 2. inclination n. a preference or tendency a
    feeling that makes a person want to do something
  • Prices have an inclination to go up.
  • I've no inclination to follow my mother into
    accountancy.

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Language Points
  • 3. turn out take place in the specified way in
    the end prove to be
  • The newcomer turned out to be one of my old
    acquaintances.
  • The job turned out to be harder than we had
    thought.

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Language Points
  • 4. pick up
  • 1) to start again after an interruption
  • The author picks up the theme again on page ten.
  • After lunch shall we pick up where we left off
    yesterday?

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Language Points
  • 2) learn or acquire easily without making much
    effort
  • He picked up a few Japanese phrases when he was
    on a business trip to Tokyo.

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Language Points
  • 5. appeal to to interest or attract someone
  • I've never been skiing --- it doesn't really
    appeal to me.
  • It's a program designed to appeal mainly to 16 to
    25 year olds.
  • I think what appeals to me about his painting is
    the colors he uses.

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Language Points
  • 6. stink v. (informal disapproving) to be
    extremely bad or unpleasant
  • I think her whole attitude stinks.
  • His acting stinks, but he looks good, so he's
    offered lots of movie roles.

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Language Points
  • 7. refresh v. to give new energy and strength
    to (someone)
  • A rest and a cool drink will refresh you.
  • Having had a good sleep and a substantial meal,
    he felt thoroughly refreshed.
  • I looked the word up in the dictionary to refresh
    my memory of ( help me to remember) its exact
    meaning.

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Difficult Sentences
  • 1. I wouldnt want to pick up where I left off.
  • I didnt mean to resume my education by taking
    the subjects I had once missed at college.

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Difficult Sentences
  • 2. Too much of what I know of the great
    philosophers comes secondhand or from
    condensations.
  • My knowledge of the great philosophers came
    indirectly or from some simplified works.

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Difficult Sentences
  • 3. This is just a little conversational conceit,
    but thats life.
  • This is like a trick employed in conversation to
    show off, but I think we all naturally do so.

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Summary
  • In this passage, the writer, a newspaper
    columnist and TV commentator, praises the idea of
    education for educations sake and regrets the
    fact that most college students, motivated only
    by the idea of future professional success, do
    not realize what a wonderful opportunity they are
    missing.

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Summary
  • While at college and not burdened by the
    responsibilities that come later in life, they
    focus their attention only on those courses that
    they think will help make them rich. The author
    himself would go right back to being a freshman
    and study philosophy, calculus, literature,
    history and grammar. He does recognize that if he
    were studying for the knowledge and not for
    earning grades, education would probably become
    less stressful and more fun.

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Listen to a short passage about a continuing
education program and answer some questions.
Follow-up Activities
  • Continuing Education Program

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Follow-up Activities
  • Questions
  • 1. When did the continuing education program
    begin?
  • 2. How many courses does the program offer?
  • 3. Who are the study group leaders?
  • 4. Are the teachers in the program paid? Why do
    they teach?
  • 5. What do members in this program enjoy?

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Assignment
  • Further discussion
  • What are the different ways people continue
    their learning after graduation from school?
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