UNIT 4:
LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Lesson 1: Getting started
Listen & Read
1. GETTING STARTED
How do you learn English?
Do the homework.
Do more grammar exercises in grammar books.
Read short stories or newspapers in English.
Write English as much as possible.
Speak English with friends.
Watch English TV programs.
Practise listening to English tapes or English programs on the radio.
Do the homework.
Do more grammar exercises in grammar books.
Read short stories or newspapers in English.
Write English as much as possible.
Learn by heart all the new words and texts.
Speak English with friends.
Use a dictionary for reading.
Practice listening to English tapes or English programs on the radio.
Watch English TV programs.
Learn to sing English songs.
How do you learn English? Add more things you do or you want to do. Then work with a partner and compare your list.
2. LISTEN AND READ
aspect (of): phương diện, lĩnh vực
candidate (n): thí sinh, người dự thi
examiner (n): giám khảo, người chấm thi
oral examination (n): kì thi vấn đáp
written examination (n): thi viết
exactly (adv): một cách chính xác
passage (n): đoạn văn
course (n): khóa học
college (n): cao đẳng, đại học
Vocabulary
READ
ROYAL ENGLISH COLLEGE
Examination in English as a foreign language
Stage One: Oral Examination
(This list must not be shown to the candidates)
1. What is your name?
2. Where do you come from?
3. Where do you live?
4. Do you live with your parents?
5. When did you begin studying English?
Answer: What exactly did the examiner ask Lan? Look at the list of questions and check () the boxes.
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6. Why are you learning English?
7. Do you speak any other languages?
8. How did you learn English in your country?
9. How will you use English in the future?
10. What aspect of learning English do you
find most difficult?
11. What are you going to learn?
12. What are your hobbies?
13. Look at this picture. Describe it.
14. Read this passage.
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1. What is your name?
 She asked me what my name was.
2. Where do you come from?
 She asked me where I came from.
Reported speech
3. Why are you learning English?
 She asked me why I was learning English.
4. Do you speak any other languages?
 She asked me if I spoke any other languages
5. How did you learn English in your country?
 She asked me how I learned English in my country.
Turn the other questions below
into reported speech.
6. How will you use English in the future?
 She asked me how I would use English in the future.
7. What aspect of learning English do you find most difficult?
 She asked me what aspect of learning English I found most difficult.
8. Read this passage.
 She asked me to read that passage.
FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH THE APPROPRIATE WORDS: aspect – examiner – attended – be able to – terrible
1) What ________ of learning English did he find most difficult ?
2) He thought his pronunciation was ________.
3) He ________ the evening English class for a
month or two.
4) The strict ________ asked him many difficult questions.
5) He hopes he will ________ speak English well soon.
aspect
terrible
attended
examiner
be able to
Learn new words by heart.
Prepare Lesson 2: Speak.
HOMEWORK
THANK YOU
FOR
YOUR ATTENTION!