Unit 1 Part I A
1. Oxford / commitment / academic record
2. oldest/ largest / reputation / research / science
3. first / Australia / 150 years / excels
4. excellence / / location
5. largest / 1883 / situated / 26,000
6. 1636 / enrollment / 18,500/ schools
7. awards / degrees / 20,000 8. located / 135 / third
B
1.2,700 languages / 7,000 dialects / regional / pronunciation
2.official / language
3.One billion / 20 percent
4.Four hundred million / first / 600 million / second / foreign
5.500,000 words / Eighty percent / other
6.Eighty percent / computers
7.African country / same
8.1,000 / Africa
9.spaceship / 1977 / 55 / message / the United States
C 1 – (a) 2 – ( c) 3 – ( d) 4 – (b )
All right, class. Today we’re going to be looking at different language learning styles. You may be surprised to find that there are different ways of going about learning languages, none of which is necessarily better than the others. Researchers have identified four basic learner “types”–the communicative learner, the analytical learner, the authority-oriented learner and the concrete learner. Communicative learners like to learn by watching and listening to native speakers. At home, they like to learn by watching TV and videos. They like to learn new words by hearing them. In class, they like to learn by having conversations. Now, concrete learners like to lean by playing games, by looking at pictures and videos in class, talking in pairs, and by listening to cassettes at home and school. Now, authority-oriented learners, on the other hand, like the teacher to explain everything. They like to write everything down in their
notebook, and they like to have a textbook. They like to learn new words by seeing them. And finally, we have analytical learners. These learners like to learn by studying grammar. At home, they like to learn by studying English books, and they like to study by themselves. They like to find their own mistakes. Now, of course, it’s unusual for a person to be exclusively one “type” rather than another. Most of us are mixtures of styles. What type of learner do you think you are Part II A3
GCSE examinations students / higher education
student/ second year / high school / college general exam / School Certificate
sitting University Entrance Examination bachelor’s degree: 3/ 4 years
master’s degree: another year or two doctorate: a further 3-7 years
Well, in Britain, from the ages of five to about eleven you start off at a primary school, and then from eleven to sixteen you go on to a secondary school or a comprehensive school and at
