the rudiments of Greek or Latin (spelling, grammar), copying the purity of speech of a given author.
Practice makes perfect.
Thinking in English.
Link to western culture. Google Movie in English Music in English Magazines and news paper (depends on your interests)
challenging, analogical, materialism, creative, creature, create, creator, substitution, choice, (in) dependent, Turkey,
reduction, conceptual, convertible, conversion, converter, situate, situational,
Quotations –the magic of language
Language is the source of misunderstandings
Antoine de Saint-Exupery SaintFrench writer (1900 - 1944)
High thoughts must have high language.
7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Instead, … …be limited to… …build a house using materials of … sizes… …one set of … …different…different-shaped building blocks… Where we use two blocks, they…
13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
…substitute a foreign word for it. How each language will choose to group… …reduce all these four words to only one. …be converted to new language… …know how it was that you understood it all.
How to be a successful language learner
Graham E. Fuller
About language learning
The approach to learning English
Imitation At an elementary level Imitation took place on many levels and students through many methods. used imitation in learning
Vocabulary learning—phrases learning—
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
…what a tree was.. …point to …associate the sound … with the … thing… …our name…the name…they say… …many hundreds of different sounds used… Translating takes too much time …
Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Frogs, 405 B.C. BC),
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961)
Diligence
About author
Graham E. Fuller Mr. Fuller received his BA and MA at Harvard University in Russian and Middle Eastern studies. He served 20 years in the Foreign Service, mostly the Service, Muslim World, working in Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, World, Saudi Arabia, North Yemen, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong, for nearly 17 years of overseas experience. In 1982 he was appointed the National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia at CIA, and in 1986 ViceViceChairman of the National Intelligence Council at CIA, CIA, with overall responsibility for all national level strategic forecasting.
The meaning
The way of learning language The effect
Text interpretation
The exposition is generally developed in the pattern. A. cause-effect causeB. general-specific generalC. problem-solution problemD. spatial
Vocabulary learning—words learning—
Process n. Word processing In the process of … Point v: come to the point. Point out Associate Associate…with… Associate…with…
Vocabulary learning—words learning— formation
foreigner, to process , probability, improbable, pointless, association, associative, objective, objectivity, object to, actual, actuality, vary, variant, variation, variety, representative (rep), direction, in direct, imagine, imagination, imaginary, (un)imaginable, imaginative,
a bundle of: 一束 / 很多 a bundle of roe a:单一的 a:单一的 single ticket. Single life Single bed
Homework
Memorize new words Look up these words in dictionary
Represent vt. The dove represents peace. Three Represents Representative Image [(+of)] The first impression Challenge n/v 挑战 challenging a: 具有挑战性的 Depend [(+on/upon)
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 3 1616), scene 3
Text Analysis
Part I (Para.1-2) Part II (Para.3-6) Part III (Para.7) Part IV (Para.8) The need of learning language
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.