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Unit 1 How can we become good learners?
Section B 2a-Self Check 教学设计
Class Type
Reading and writing
1. To learn to use dictionaries.
2. To talk about how to be a successful learner.
3. To develop reading and writing abilities and skills.
Objectives
4. Educate the students to learn how to learn and find right ways of
learning English.
5. Overcome the difficulties and make great progress.
1. Everyone is born with the ability to learn.
Key 2. Learning is a lifelong journey because every day brings something
new.
structure
Difficulties 养成积极的学习态度,利用所读内容并结合自身学习情况,反思自己是否具备优秀学
习者应具备的学习习惯和方法。学会或能有意识地结合自身实际选择有效学习方式,
以获取学业上的成功。
Vocabulary born, ability, create, brain, active, attention, connect, overnight, review,
knowledge, lifelong, wisely, be born with, pay attention to, connect…
with
Period 5
Procedure
Read and learn the key words and expressions of this period.
Lead-in
Warm up:
Lead students to do some discussion:
1.Do you think English is difficult or easy? Why?
Step 1
2.How do you learn to learn English well?
3.Do you have any learning habits?
Present some pictures, students look at them and talk about them freely.
Listen to the passage. Which four habits of successful learners can you
find from the passage?
Reading strategies: Using dictionaries can help you find the definition
that matches the context of the word in the text.
Step 2
Students can look at their textbooks while listening to the passage, and
they should pay attention to the headline sentences of each paragraph.
Then summarize four habits of successful learners mentioned in the
passage.
Careful reading:
Work on Para. 2 and answer the following questions, filling in the
Step 3 blanks:
1.Why should you create an interest in what you learn?
Your brain is __________.It is ________ to pay attention to it for a long time.
You will not get _______.
2. How do good learners do?
They often ________ what they need to learn _________
something interesting.
3. What are the examples?
Like English and music: __________________
Like English and sports: __________________
Work on Para. 3 and answer the following questions, filling in the
blanks:
1. What are the two sayings?
2. What do good learners do?
(1) Good learners ____________ what they are good at and
what they need to _____________.
(2) Good learners will _____________ what they have learned
and they are not afraid of _______________.
3. What is the example? Who is he?
What was his invention?
How did he succeed?
______________________ invented the __________.
He succeeded by _______________ and ____________________.
Work on Para. 4 and answer the following questions.
1. What do good learners know?
2. What is the example?
They may _________ by _____________ key words
or by _______ mind maps. They also ________ ways
to review what they have learned.They may do this
by ________________every day or by __________
______________________to another student.
Work on Para. 5 and answer the following questions.
1. When do good learners often ask questions?
2. How do they do it?
Read Paragraph 6 and fill in the blanks.
The main idea of this paragraph is _____________________________ .
Activity 2c:
Read the passage again and answer the questions.
1. Does the writer think that everyone is born with the ability to learn well? Do
you agree? Why or why not?
2. Why is it a good idea to connect something you need to learn with
something you are interested in?
Step 4
3. What do the sayings “Use it or lose it” and “Practice makes perfect” mean?
Do you agree with them?
4. Do good learners learn from mistakes, or are they afraid of making
mistakes?
5. What study skills does the writer talk about? Do you have those study skills?
6. Do you agree that learning is a lifelong journey? Why or why not?
Post reading:
2d Look up the following words from the passage in the dictionary.
Then write a sentence for each word.
Step 5
2e Group work: Do you think you are a good learner? What learning habits
do you think are useful? Discuss with your group and share your ideas with the
class.
Language points:
Step 61. Everyone is born with the ability to learn.每个人天生都具有学习的能
力。
1)be born with意为“天生具有”，常指本来就具有某种天分、性格或患
有某种疾病等。
e.g.He was born with a gift for art.他天生具有艺术天赋。
The baby was born with the disease so he can’t walk like
others.
这个孩子天生就有这种疾病，所以他无法像别人一样行走。
2)be born 意为“天生，出生”为被动语态，be 动词通常用 was 或
were，born 为bear 的过去式。
eg: I was born in Yunnan. 我出生在云南。
My friend was born in spring. 我的朋友出生在春天。
The little cat was born on a cold winter morning. 这只小猫出生在一
个寒冷的早晨。
3) ability 此处用作不可数名词，意为“能力”，其后常接 to do，表示
“做……的能力”。
e.g.He has the ability to speak English fluently.
2.But whether or not you can do this well depends on your learning
habits. 但是你是否能把这做好取决于你的学习习惯。
whether or not意为“是否”，常出现在宾语从句、 主语从句中。
e.g.Whether or not we can win, we are sure that we did our best.
无论是否能赢，我们可以确定我们尽力了。
●whether和if均可引导宾语从句，表示“是否”，在口语或间接引语中
两者可以互换。
e.g. Ask him whether/if he likes Chinese food. 问问他是否喜欢中国菜。
但在下列情况下，只能用whether，不能用if：
a.whether引导的从句常和连词or或or not连用，而if不能；
b.当宾语从句提到首句时，只能用whether,不能用if；
c.whether后可以接动词不定式，if 不能。
Practice:
用whether或if填空。
1. ________ it’s rainy or not, I will go swimming.
2. I don’t know _______ to live with the Smiths.
3. I wonder __________ the old man can give us some help.
3. Studies show that if you are interested in something, your brain is
more active and it is also easier for you to pay attention to it for a
long time.研究表明，如果你对某事感兴趣，你的大脑就会更活跃，你也
更容易长时间关注它。
1）be interested in意为“对……感兴趣”，相当take/have/ (an) interest
in,后接名词、代词或动名词。
e.g.Are you interested in physics?
= Do you have/take an interest in physics?
Practice: 用interest的适当形式填空
1. Are they ____________ in Chinese food in this restaurant?
2. Sorry, I have no ____________ in thrillers.
2)It is +adj.+of/for sb. to do sth.
①若形容词是指人的性格、品质，如kind,good, nice,polite等，用of；
②若形容词仅仅描述事物，如difficult,important, easy等，用for。
Practice:
用of或for填空。
1.It’s kind ____ you to help me.
2.It’s necessary ____ little Jimmy to sit down and have a rest.3. It’s very nice _____ you to say so.
4. Some students think it’s difficult ______ them to learn English well.
4. Good learners will keep practicing what they have learned, and they
are not afraid of making mistakes. 好的学习者会继续练习他们已经学到
的，而且他们不害怕犯错误。
1）keep doing sth.意为“一直做某事”
keep sb. doing sth.让某人一直做某事
e.g： The mother kept her son cleaning the car yesterday afternoon.
昨天下午，这位母亲让儿子一直清洁汽车。
2）practice doing sth.意为“练习做某事”
e.g：He practices running every morning.
他每天早晨都练习跑步。
3)be afraid of意为“害怕……”,其后接名词、代词或v.-ing。
【辨析】be afraid of和be afraid to
be afraid of doing sth. 担心某件不称心的事情会发生
be afraid to do sth. 因害怕不良后果而不敢做某事
e.g：Jack was afraid to climb the tree. 杰克不敢爬树。
Jack was afraid of staying at home alone at night.杰克害怕夜晚独自在家。
Don’t be afraid of making mistakes.别害怕犯错误。
5.Even if you learn something well, you will forget it unless you use it.
1）Even if 意为“即使，尽管”，用于引导让步状语从句，同义短语为
“even though”。
eg: I’ll come to see you, even if it is raining hard now.
即使现在倾盆大雨，我也要来见你。
He keeps learning English even though he is over 80.
即使80多岁了，他还坚持学习英语。
2）forget、remember 后直接跟名词、代词、动词不定式或动词-ing 形
式，但两者意义完全不同。
forget\remember to do sth. 和 forget\remember doing sth.
forget\remember to do sth. 忘记\记得去做某事
forget\remember doing sth. 忘记\记得做过某事
eg:I forget to turn off the light when I go out. 出来的时候我忘记关灯
了。
eg: I forget turning off the light when I went out. 出来的时候我忘记已
经关灯了。
3)unless conj. 除非；如果不
unless“除非；如果不”，作连词，用来引导状语从句，常可以转化为
“if...not...”的同义句。若主句为一般将来时，unless引导的条件状语从
句要用一般现在时表示将来。
eg: I will go to visit my uncle unless it rains.
= I will go to visit my uncle if it doesn’t rain .
Sally said she could call you unless you were in.
=Sally said she would call you if you were not in.
Fill in the blanks in Activity 3a, then use the notes in 3a to write a
letter to give a friend some advice about the best ways to learn English.
思路点拨: 此篇作文以谈论怎样学习英语(how to learn English)为主线，
主要内容是谈论英语学习的方法。写作内容渗透着本单元的话题和语言
Step 7 目标——谈论怎样学习。
在写作过程中要明确以下几点：
（1）由作文要谈及的主要内容决定我们在写作中要运用表示方式的
“by+v. -ing”结构，动名词短语作主语等。
（2）结合话题内容，我们在写作过程中要大量用到表达英语学习方式的短语。
Self Check：
1. Fill in the blanks with the words in the box.
Are you stressed out each time you have a test? You don’t have to be if
you_________smart study skills. Remember to ____________in class and
review them on your own or with friends after class. Then ___________ what
you learned by doing exercises. Try to study and __________ information bit
by bit instead of waiting _________ the last minute to study ___________ at
once. If you _________ well for a test, then there’s nothing to ____________.
2. Number these sentences in order to make a conversation.
____ What’s the matter?
____ Well, I practice my listening by listening to the tape over and over again
Step 8
until I can understand everything.
____ So you want to practice your listening?
____ Hi, Jake, I need your help.
____ Uh-huh. Do you have any advice ?
____ OK, I’ll try that.
____ I have a listening test next week.
3.Give advice to these people.
1) Jane is a very slow reader.She should improve her reading speed.
2) Li Ming wants to improve his listening. He could practice his
listening.
3) Meiping doesn’t know many English words. She could learn more words
