1. Communicative-ability oriented teaching mode Li Liqun

2. Factors may affect communication Personality Knowledge and vision Occasion and participants Oral English---practice---what

3. Spoken English and Written English Common words ---useful (esp. for oral expression) and difficult to learn Rare words ---possible to guess the meaning from context

4. Focus on those useful and difficult e.g. issue,way, hard, above,fit Various meanings for the words How --- how words combine (collocations) When --- what register they usu. appear in why --- what they tell us about the speaker ’ s attitude

5. Receptive and Productive Central core of around 7500 --- both receptive and productive for advanced learners Most common of around 2500 --- the whole advanced dictionary is based on

9. Other reasons Persistent problems for Chinese students: 1. prepositions and adverbs, articles, modal word, gerunds, participles, to infinitive, clauses … 2. Exam orientated education in high school, 5000 3. pronunciation, intonation

10. Possible Solution Teaching and learning material --- focus on those common words teaching mode --- translation, corpus, 100

11. 海伦：我真搞不懂人们怎么会认为凯渥肯医生所做的事情是正当的。 迪克：呃，帮助人死得有尊严不是件坏事，是不是？ 海伦：你难道不知道吗？留得青山在，不怕没柴烧。 迪克：算了吧。想法要实际一点。那些寻死的人饱受折磨。还是不要让 他们受到痛苦，快快地死去比较好。 海伦：你们男人都是铁石心肠。 迪克：你们女人都没脑子。

12. H: I don ’ t understand how people can think Dr. Kevorkian is doing the right thing. D: Well, helping people die with dignity is not that bad, is it? H: Don ’ t you know? Where there is life, there is hope. D: Come on. Be realistic. Those people who want to die are suffering. It ’ s better that they go quickly and painlessly. H: All you men have no hearts. D: All you women have no brains.

13. Worries? Lack of vocabulary? --- those 7500 core words are sufficient in speaking and reading original text less → more Shallow? common → deep

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