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1. Why do they want to put on an English play?
2. What is the novel about?
3. This is the second time in the history of the college
Pair work: Talk with each other about your New Year resolutions, using the nominal clauses when necessary.
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After half a year of study in Xinjiang University, what I have learned is more than the book knowledge. I have learned that in order to learn English well, what I need is not just accuracy or fluency. Accuracy and fluency should go with each other. To achieve the two goals, I should take every opportunity to put what I’ve got from the course book into real communication. However, the problem is that I am too shy to speak in front of strangers. Have you heard that all English majors will have to pass a proficiency test before they graduate? And I have been told that there is likely to be an oral examination. Therefore, 2015/7/27 18 it’s high time that I did something right now.
Dialogue 1
Warming-up
questions Teacher’s questions Language points Retelling outline
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1.What do you usually do on Friday evenings? 2. Are you willing to study or work on Friday evenings? Why? 3. Have you ever acted in a play? 4. If you are going to put on an English play, are you willing to sacrifice Friday evenings for the rehearsal? 5. What will happen if a performance is a flop? What is the best way to avoid a flop? flop v. to fail n. failure 2015/7/27
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◆ put on: to perform a play or show on the stage put on/ stage a play/ performance ◆ adapt ①adapt to: get used to e.g. adapt oneself to the new environment ②change e.g. adapt the novel to a film a four-act play adapted from the novel: a play of four acts that is changed from a novel and made suitable for the stage
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Language Structure Practice LSP I A. Seeking and making clarification B. Giving one’s opinion LSP II A. Seeking and making clarification B. Expressing agreement LSP III Asking for and making confirmation LSP IV Asking for the confirmation of somebody’s intention

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LSP I-A
• rumour: information or a story that is passed from one person to another and which may or may not be true • critically ill/ important, etc: very seriously ill,
Language Structure Practice
1.______ A the baby could speak made his parents very happy. A. That B. What C. Why D. If A. that B. if 主语从句
2. I wonder ____ C you will go shopping or stay at home.
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jumper: a woolen sweater that does not open at the front. It may also be called a pullover.
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◆ It is a very moving and uplifting novel about how Hong Kong people have been working together to build a new and prosperous community under the principle of “one country, two systems” since China resumed sovereignty over this former British colony in 1997.
Unit 2
Language Structures Dialogue I Friday Evening or Not Reading I Stunts in the Cinema Exercises
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Language Structure Practice 1. What is nominal clause?
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LSP III
proficiency: a good standard of ability and skill proficient: able to do something well or skillfully
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very important.
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Hale Waihona Puke 8LSP I-Bcompetent: having the ability, knowledge, power to do sth. be competent to do sth. competence (n.)
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A nominal clause is a clause (a group of words containing its own subject and verb) that is taking the place of a noun or pronoun in a sentence. 2. What roles can nominal clause play? or What does nominal clause contain?
to stage such a grand performance, isn’t it?
4. Why B is unwilling to rehearse on Friday evenings?
5. Are all the members of the play asked to come to
the rehearsal every Friday evening? 6. What may happen if they don’t rehearse often
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◆ uplifting: adj. encouraging ◆ prosperous: adj. successful and rich ◆ resume: v. to begin again after a pause/ take back again ◆ sovereignty: complete freedom and power to govern
The nominal clause contains subject clause, object clause, complementary/predicative clause and appositive clause.