1. Welcome to My Class!
Nice to see you !

2. Self-introduction
Full Name: Surname/Family/Last Name: First/Given Name:
Hometown:
Academic Major:
Hobbies/Interests:

3. The way to contact me: Mobile phone: 13002931125

4. It’s time to show yourself!

5. My name is…
I’m from…/My hometown is…
County, town, province
I like my hometown because…
I lived there for … years.
I lived other places, such as …
I can speak…(Mandarin, dialect)
This is the …time I come to Xi’an.
My major is.../I’m majoring in materials science and engineering.
In my spare time, I like/love/am interested in

6. Start a conversation with your partner
Start a conversation with your partner. Ask him/her questions as many as possible and try to get to know your partner (including his secrets). Then make an introduction to your partner to the whole class.

7. Greetings & Introductions
Unit One
Greetings
&
Introductions

8. Listening 1: Formal and Informal greeting and Introductions

9. To greet people The first time’s meeting How do you do?
Nice to meet you.
It’s a pleasure to meet/know you.
Pleased to meet you.
It’s good to know you.
I’m glad to know you.

10. Between Acquaintances
Hello. Hi.
How are you?
How are you doing?
How’s it going?
What’s new?
What’s new with you?

11. To introduce someone to others
Formal-between strangers or business partners
May I introduce… to you?
I’d like to introduce… to you.
He’s…. (background information)

12. Informal- between friends
I’d like you to meet my classmate, … .
This is… .

13. Formal or Informal? F I F F I
______ speaking with a boss or manager at work
______ talking to your brothers and sisters
______ talking to your teacher for the first time
______ speaking to an older adult
______ speaking to classmates
______ meeting someone for the first time I F F I
Depends

14. Do it by yourself
Use the expressions you’ve just learned and make up a dialogue about greeting and introduction. Suppose you and your roommate are walking on campus and come across your good friend. Greet your friend and introduce him/her to your roommate.

15. Talk about your experience of studying English to your group members
Present your experience of studying English to the class

16. Questions for discussion
what do you think of English? Is it interesting or boring? Difficult or easy? Give reasons.
Among the four skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing, which one do you think is most difficult? And which one are you good at?

17. At a gathering of students from China and some other countries
At a gathering of students from China and some other countries. Yang Weiping and Virginia Wang, both first-year college students/freshmen, are talking about their learning of English.

18. Peking
University
北京大学

19. What do you know about Singapore ??

20. National University of Singapore
新加坡国立大学

21. 南洋理工

22. first-year student
second-year student
third-year student
fourth-year student
Bachelor’s degree
Master’s degree
Doctor’s degree
freshman
sophomore
“suffer-more”
junior
senior

23. Notes Taking e.g. + (plus; and; more)
To form the habit of notes taking is very important at the beginning of listening practice. The things you should note down are some important details, so you should pay special attention to the content words (verb, noun, adj. et.).
My name is Yang Weiping. I’m a freshman at Peking University and I’m majoring in chemistry.
Notes: Yang, freshman, Peking University, major chemistry
You can also use some symbols to stand for certain word.
e.g. + (plus; and; more)

24. Name
Yang Weiping
School
Peking University
Major
chemistry
Reasons for studying English
like listening to English programs, enjoy English pop songs
Time already spent in studying English
started learning English several years ago
Favorite activity
listening
Difficulty
speaking
Hope
visit Britain and USA in the future

25. Name
Virginia Wang
School
NUS
Major
Library Science
Reasons for studying English
to get a good job,one has to be fluent in English
Time already spent in studying English
started learning English in high school
Favorite activity
reading
Difficulty
writing
Hope
work in the City Library after graduation

26. Use your own words or original sentences of the recording to retell what you have just listened.

27. Incomplete plosion（不完全爆破） Unit 1, Book I; P3
Listening Strategy
Incomplete plosion（不完全爆破）
Unit 1, Book I; P3

28. Making a Dialogue topic（主题，话题）: Studying English
situation: a gathering of students from different countries
persons: Yang Weiping & Virginia Wang (They are strangers.)
Communicative function: Greetings and Introductions

29. Part c
skills worry
focus feel
understood carefully
problems main
details