Welcome to My Class! Nice to see you ! Self-introduction Full Name: Surname/Family/Last Name: First/Given Name: Hometown: Academic Major: Hobbies/Interests: The way to contact me: Mobile phone: 13002931125
Its time to show yourself! My name is Im 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 Xian. My major is.../Im majoring in materials science and engineering. In my spare time, I like/love/am interested in 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. Greetings & Introductions
Unit One Greetings & Introductions Listening 1: Formal and Informal greeting and Introductions To greet people The first times meeting How do you do?
Nice to meet you. Its a pleasure to meet/know you. Pleased to meet you. Its good to know you. Im glad to know you. Between Acquaintances
Hello.Hi. How are you? How are you doing? Hows it going? Whats new? Whats new with you? To introduce someone to others
Formal-between strangers or business partners May I introduce to you? Id like to introduce to you. Hes. (background information) Informal- between friends
Id like you to meet my classmate, . This is . 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 Do it by yourself Use the expressions youve 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. Talk about your experience of studying English to your group members
Present your experience of studying English to the class 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? 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. Peking University What do you know about Singapore ?? National University of Singapore
first-year student second-year student third-year student fourth-year student Bachelors degree Masters degree Doctors degree freshman sophomore suffer-more junior senior Notes Taking e.g. + (plus; and; more)
To form the habit of notes taking is very important at thebeginning 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. Im a freshman at Peking University and Im 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) 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 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 Use your own words or original sentences of the recording to retell what you have just listened. Incomplete plosion Unit 1, Book I; P3
Listening Strategy Incomplete plosion Unit 1, Book I; P3 Making a Dialogue topic: Studying English
situation: a gathering of students from different countries persons: Yang Weiping & Virginia Wang (They are strangers.) Communicative function: Greetings and Introductions Part c skills worry focus feel understood carefully problems main details