Lesson 2 An Interview on TV characters conversation grammarlistening passage pronunciation reading speakingvocabulary writing Read the sentences and guess the meaning of the underlined words in groups 1 Can you write the Chinese character like 数 象 石 and so on 2 Let s make a conversation A B A B 3 Grammar Grammar refers to the rules in a language for changing the form of words and joining them into sentences 4 Here are four passages in the text Let s read them together 5 Her pronunciation is very wonderful Let s follow her to read the passage 6 Reading will increase your vocabulary 汉字 对话 语法 段落 发音 词汇 Read these sentences together Please try to fill in the blanks with the words 1 She speaks English very well Her pronunciation is quite good 2 He is learning to write Chinesecharacter 3 Sometimes grammarrules are hard to remember 4 I just read an interesting passagein an old book 5 We had a long conversation about the interview on the Internet 6 If you want to learn English well listening readingwriting are very important 7 Here are two passages in the text Let s read them together 8 If you want to increase your vocabularyYou must read a lot more What questions do you want to ask them JamesTina Listen to the first part of the interview and answer the questions 1 When did Tina come to Beijing 2 Did Tina like her teacher 3 What did Tina do in her Chinese class She came in 2008 Yes she did Welots of and exercises But sometimes we games too And we interesting TV programmes didlisteningspeakingwriting played watched Listen to the second part of the interview and complete the notes Listen to the second part of the interview and complete the notes was ten saw was saw looked beganlearning attheUS Thenwent didn t use enjoy helped understand grammar conversations learning passages learn Chinese characters takes practice writing hardlearn difficult Listen to the whole interview and write Tina James or Tina James in each blank Tina Tina James Tina James Follow the tape and read aloud Tell us your English learning experience Here are some questions Maybe they can help you 1 When did you learn English Why 2 What did you do to learn English 3 What problems did you meet 4 How did you solve them 5 Did you enjoy it 6 Do you think it was hard or easy Why 7 How do you feel now Homework Finish Exercise 4 on page 11