东平县实验中学 牛之泉Section 1 Before You ReadPATRWORK1aHow many English songs can you think of ? Which are your favorites ?pretty boy one love baby one more time come back yesterday once more 1b. How can singing English songs help your English?Make a list.1b.We can learn some new words.Singing English songs can make us more interested in English.We can improve our listening skill.We can improve our listening skill.1.2.3.4.5. .The rhythm of the music helps with pronunciation.stage steid n. 舞台Winner win n. 胜利者Section 2 While You ReadReading strategy:To understand the important ideas from the text , we must “summarize”. Do this by answering “who, what, where, why” questions as you read.After reading: Are these statements true, false, or not mentioned in the reading?StatementsTrue False Not mentionedThree good ways of improving English are mentioned. The winners both agreed that they were the best singers. Studying English helped Jiang Mei win the prize. Singing songs doesnt mean you can speak English well. Reading English books is a better way of learning English than watching movies.3a.Section 3 After You ReadToday many Chinese people try to improve their English in different ways. For example, twenty-four young singers from across China entered a contest by singing popular English songs. Nearly all the singers sang very clearly, and looked comfortable on stage. Some of these singers were able to sing English songs just as well as native speakers. nili adv. 几乎sing过去式 klili adv. 明朗地；明显地steid n. 舞台neitiv adj. 本地的；本国的=from all over China 来自全中国by+名词/动词-ing 通过；以.方式as+形容词或副词原形+as 像一样ent vt.参加；进入kntest, kntest n. 竞赛；Try to do sth.The singers really came from all age groups, and from all over China. The winner of the mens competition was a 40-year-old man from Xian, and the winner of the womens competition was a 19-year-old girl from Dalian. Both winners were very modest, and said that they didnt think they were better than the other singers. Jiang Mei, the winner of the womens competition, said studying English helped her win the prize. Six months earlier, she felt her English was not good enough, so she had to study hard. She also said that singing English songs made her more interested in learning English.mdist adj. 谦虚的；谦让的:li adj. 早的；初期的make sb. adj./make do sth.win n. 胜利者使她对.更感兴趣feel的过去式adj./adv.+enoughThis kind of contest encourages people in China to speak English. “Chinese people should try to speak English more. We should try to make progress before the Olympics,” said a spokesperson from the Olympic Committee. He agrees that it is a good idea to have fun with English.encourage v. 鼓励 encourage sb. to do sth. 鼓励某人做某事 progress prures, prres n. 进步；前进 spokesperson spuks,p:sn n. 发言人；代言人 the Olympic Committee 奥委会 Its + 名词 + to do sth. 做某事是怎样 have fun with sth. 在中获得乐趣 inkrid vt. 鼓励,怂恿； make progress 取得进步 If you go on studying hard, you will make progress.kmitimn., she felt her English was not good enough.拓展：1. feel+名词/代词 “摸.” The sixth man went forward to feel the elephant.第六个盲人去摸大象。 2.feel +宾语+doing sth. “感到.正在 .” He felt someone singing in class.他感觉到有人在课堂上唱歌。 3. feel +宾语+过去分词 ”感觉被. The boy felt his back patted by someone.4.feel +宾语+do sth.“感到.做某事那男孩感觉到有人拍了他的脊背we felt the house shake just now. 刚才我们感觉到这房子的振动 。5. feel (that)+宾语从句 我们大家都觉得他是一个平易近人的人。We all felt (that) he was a friendly man.felt是feel的过去式形式，“感到，感觉”。常用作系动词，后跟形容词作表语 。如：I felt a bit cold yesterday.她感到自己的英语不太好。Have you ever heard of the Beijing Speaks English program? If not, why dont you find out about it? It suggests ways for Beijingers to take an interest in learning English. Besides singing English songs, there are many other fun ways to learn English. What about watching English movies, or reading English books? Maybe you could even make friends with a native speaker of English. If you look hard enough, youll find a good way to learn English better.hear of 听说 suggest sdest v. 提议；建议 suggestion sdestn n.建议 take an interested in 对感兴趣 besides bisaidz prep. 而且；除之外 make friends with 与交友find out 找出；发现Have you ever heard of the Beijing Speaks English program? Have heard 是现在完成进行时native speaker 说母语的人，说本族语的人besides与 except的区别：besides“除外，还有”，指更进一步的拥有，包括 所“除”事物在内。 besides: (prep.)除.之外 ,它这个“除“ 是包含的 Besides Tom, Mary went boating. (Tom和Mary都去boating) Have you got any clothes besides these?除了这些衣 服你还有别的吗? except: (prep.)除了.之外 . 后面的范围比主语的范围 小,除去的和非除去的是同类事物，用except We went boating except Tom (Tom属于“我们(We)“但不没有went boating,但是Tom和We都是人) 不包括所引事物。常与no, none, nothing等否定词或all, everyone, everything等连用，但不可用于句首。 They all went to the Summer Palace except one.除一人之外他们 都去了颐和园。 Discuss in Groups: 3b. Have you ever tried improving your English using any of the ways