1. Unit Lesson
How Marx Learned
Foreign Languages

2. ___ ___ _____ ____ ________ ___ ___ ______
Revision: Correct the mistakes in each of
the following sentences if any.
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1.She said she find some English idiom
and useful expressions hard to learn.
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found
idioms
2. She said she was glad to know I was
getting well with my English studies. ^
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on or along
3. Yang Mei was having a talk with
teacher about learn English. ^
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______
the
learning

3. ___ _____ ___ ___ √ ^ 4. My English has greatly been improved
this term.
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5. I have caught a cold for two weeks.
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had
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6. We came across some monkeys when
we were walking across the wood.
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through
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7. The woodcutter replied the man that
he was going to cut down the tree. ^ to
_____

4. 8. The man saw the woodcutter standing
next to a falling tree, with lots of little
pieces of wood in the front of him.
_____ ﹨
fallen
the ﹨
______
_____
9. If you have a problem with the spelling,
I suggest you do a few spelling exercise
every day. ﹨
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the
exercises
_______

5. Words and expressions:
1. native
2. force
3. homeland
4. base
5. revolutionary
6. limited
7. rapid
8. article
9.praise
10.encourage
11.works
12. master
13.situation
14.translate translate…into…
15.spirit the spirit of the English language

6. A foreign language is a weapon in the struggle of life.
Karl Marx

7. Listen to the record of the text.
Reading comprehension
Read the text fast and choose the
right answer.
1. Marx was forced to leave his homeland
as a young man_______.
A. to make a living .
B. to meet Engels.
C. to work for a newspaper.
D. because of his revolutionary activities.

8. 2. Where did he go first after he left
his homeland?
A.France B. Belgium
C. England D. Russia
3. Marx had some difficulty in
learning______.
A. vocabulary B. grammar
C. some idioms D. B and C
4. According to the text, how many
foreign languages did Marx learn?
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four

9. 5. According to the text, Engels wrote to
Marx a letter to_____.
A. ask for advice on how to learn English
B. exchange political ideas
C. encourage him to study English better
D. ask him to write an article for him

10. Retelling: Para. 1 born in…,German… … still young…
… forced to leave…for…
stayed in Belgium…,then …France
before long …move on…
in ,made London the base for ….

11. Para.2 Para.3 when… got to England , … found ….limited
started…to improve it;
made such rapid progress... began to write... in
English for….
... so…that Engels… him a letter and praised…;
Para.3
In the years …,kept on studying and using it.
had mastered…that … able to write
The Civil War in France in English.

12. Para.4
When…in his fifties, found…to
study the …in Russia, so…to
learn …. At the end of… had
learned…to…in Russian.

13. Para.5
give some dvice on how to learn
a foreign language.
When…learning …should not translate…into…; if so,…have not...
When…use…,...forget all about their own; if not, …not really learnt the spirit of…and can’t …freely.

14. Karl Marx was born in... Homework
Write a short passage about the life of Karl Marx. Start like this:
Karl Marx was born in...