1. Unit 5 Communication Workshop （ 1 ） 北京市王平中学 王峰

2. Learn a lot of grammar rules. Keep hundreds of words in mind. Listen to lots of recordings. What do you think are good ways of learning English?

3. Read a large number of books. Talk in English with other people often. Learn to sing a lot of English songs.

4. Take part in English Corner. Watch English movies / TV programmes.

5. Read the diary and answer the questions. How many paragraphs are there in the diary? What did the student have trouble with? What is the main idea of each paragraph? Three. Listening and speaking. Paragraph 1 talks about her English learning experience in the past, two years ago. Paragraph 2 talks about how her teacher helped her. Paragraph 3talks about her English learning improved and how she feels now.

6. Read the diary quickly and match the descriptions. Now Two years ago good at writing and reading doesn’t give up spoke slowly tries to understand general meaning didn’t understand fast recordings not afraid of mistakes

7. Talk about Nancy’s English learning experience according to the descriptions. Now, she doesn’t give up, tried to understand general meaning, and is not afraid of mistakes. Two years ago, she was good at writing and reading, but she spoke slowly and didn’t understand fast recordings.

8. Read the diary again and answer the questions. 1.What were Nancy’s problems in learning English two years ago? 2. Why did she speak slowly? She had a lot of trouble with listening and speaking. Because she wanted to use the perfect words and didn’t want to make any mistakes.

9. 3. What suggestions did her teacher give on her listening problem? Don’t try to understand every word. Just try to catch some key words and try to understand the main idea.

10. 4. How about her speaking now? She speaks more and she is not afraid of making mistakes.

11. Make an outline of the writing. 1. How did your English learning change in the last two years? 2. What is it like now?

12. Homework 思考并完善自己的写作提纲。