New Horizon College English

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New Horizon College English
New Horizon College English
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Unit 1
Hows your college life?
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Contents

• Lead-in
• Warm-up
• Matching
• Watching and Discussing
• Brainstorming
• Acting It Out
• Fun Time
• Oral Assignment

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Lead-in
Work in groups, discuss the following questions
and then share your answers with the whole class.
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Lead-in

• Questions for groups 1 and 2
• Have you made any friends since you came to this
  university?
• Do you have to make adjustment to university
  life?

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Lead-in
Questions for groups 3 and 4
3. How do you make use of the class hours
and spare time? 4. What do you think of
the facilities in this university?
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Warm-up
Listen to the following passage and try to fill
the missing words in the blanks.
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Warm-up
Hi, welcome to our college. You will
 1. _______ at least four years here. College
days will be the 2. _______ time in your life.
There are many opportunities for you to
3. ______ the unknown and you can 4.
_____________ a lot. You can make 5. __________
friends you can enjoy 6. ________ kinds of
activities you can  7. __________ your personal
interests and you will meet some outstanding
scholars. 8. _______ a good balance and  9.
_____ a solid foundation. There are many doors
to your dreams. You decide how many you can   10.
________.
spend
golden
explore
experience
lifelong
various
develop
Keep
lay
open
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Matching
Ivy League (????? )

• Ivy League is the name generally applied to eight
  famous universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell,
  Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and
  Yale) in Northeastern America that over the years
  have had common interests in scholarship as well
  as in athletics. Stanley Woodward, New York
  Herald Tribune(???????) sports writer, coined the
  phrase in the early thirties.
• There are about 30 university associations in the
  US, such as The Big East (??????), The Big Ten
  (?????), The Pacific 10 (???????), etc.

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Can you figure out the Chinese names of these
world top universities of Ivy League?
Matching
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• Harvard University
• Yale University
• Princeton University
• University of Pennsylvania
• Dartmouth College
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Brown University

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Can you match these blazer badges with the
universities they present?
Matching
HARVARD UNIVERSITY BLAZER BADGE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BLAZER BADGE  
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Matching
BROWN UNIVERSITY BLAZER BADGE
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY BLAZER BADGE  
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Matching
PENNSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY BLAZER BADGE  
YALE UNIVERSITY BLAZER BADGE
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Watching and Discussing
Hows your college life?

• Living on campus
• Accommodation
• Library
• Halls of residence
• Recreation center
• How to learn well?
• know about your learning style
• Visual learners
• Auditory learners

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Watching and Discussing
Living on campus

• Accommodation
• Several accommodation options
• live at home
• share an apartment/flat or live on-campus in the
  Halls of Residence.
• live off-campus in a privately rented house or
  apartment/flat
• in a home stay situation whereby you are looked
  after by a local family

Discussion Question If you can choose, which of
the above accommodation ways would you prefer?
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Watching and Discussing

• Library

internet zone
library study area
Discussion Question Do you often go to school
library? What do you usually do there? Do you
prefer to study at the library or in the
classroom, why?
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Watching and Discussing

• Halls of residence
• (Dormitory building)

Discussion Question How many roommates have you
got? Do you get along well with each other?
Whos your best friend?
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Watching and Discussing

• Recreation center

Discussion Question What kinds of activities do
you like to have on campus? Do you work out
every day? Are you a member of any student
society?
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Watching and Discussing

• Group discussion
• Were going to watch a video clip about college
  life. After watching, work in small groups and
  discuss the following questions.
• How many kinds of activities are shown in the
  video?
• What do you like/dislike about the college life
  
• shown in the video?

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Watching and Discussing
Watch the video and finish the group discussion.
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How to learn well at university?
Watching and Discussing
Watch the first video clip and then answer the
following questions.

• What may have made the difference between a
• positive and negative experience?
• 2. How do we acquire new information?

• Keys to the questions
• 1. The learning style.
• By using our senses of sight, hearing and touch.

video clip one
next video clip
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Watching and Discussing
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Watching and Discussing
Watch the second video clip and try to fill the
missing words in the blanks.
Study tips __________ notes with charts and
pictures. _______ in a neat, clean
environment. To learn new English vocabulary,
___ a picture dictionary.
Organize
Study
try
video clip two
next video clip
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Watching and Discussing
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Watching and Discussing
Look at the third video clip and try to fill the
missing words in the blanks.
Study tips Find a ______________ to study.
In class, use a tape recorder instead of
____________. Create little songs to help
yourself _____________ new English words
quiet place
detailed notes
remember
video clip three
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Watching and Discussing
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Watching and Discussing

• Group discussion
• Work in small groups and discuss the following
• questions.
• How many kinds of learners do the video clips
• introduce? What are they?
• 2. Whats your learning style?

Two. They are visual learners and auditory
learners.
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Brainstorming
Besides traditional education, there emerge a lot
of other forms of schooling especially with the
development of Internet and telecommunications.
Two major ones are virtual university (??????)
and open university.

• Virtual university
• Open university

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Brainstorming

• Listen to the ad for KYVU and try to answer the
  following questions
• Do you think virtual university a good thing for
  people?
• Do you think it is suitable for college students?
  Who are the potential users?
• Do you feel attracted to KYVU after listening to
  its ad.? How can it help you?

References
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Brainstorming
Reference 1

• KYVUA Leader in Online Learning
• Online learning gives you the flexibility to
  meet your education goals at your convenienceany
  place, anytime!
• All you need is access to a computer and the
  Internet, and you're ready to take advantage of
  the many online programs and courses offered by
  Kentucky's best colleges, universities and other
  providers.

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Brainstorming
Reference 2

• Potential users are essentially unlimited
• Adult students
• Place-bound and time-bound students
• Employers and employees in business, industry,
  and government
• Teachers and administrators
• Traditional residential students
• Students living in other states and countries

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Brainstorming
Reference 3

• KYVU's Online Learning Courses and Programs Help
  You to
• Earn a degree from the college of your choice.
• Start or finish a degree program online from the
  comfort of your home.
• Work full time and go to collegeyou "attend
  class" at home.
• Keep a busy family schedule and still have time
  to attend classes.
• Develop your career with professional training
  courses.
• Continue learning about subjects just because
  they interest you.

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Brainstorming
What is Open University?

• The OU is a distance learning university founded
  to bring higher education to people who are
  unable to study at a conventional university.
  It is for people who want to choose when and
  where they study. Its perfect for people with
  jobs, children, disabilities or commitments that
  make it hard to go to a fixed place. And for most
  courses you don't need any previous
  qualifications.

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Brainstorming

• Watch this video clip of a Chinese open
  university student. And try to answer the
  following questions.
• What did she talk about the open university in
  China?
• Do you think she is satisfied with her study at
  the open university?
• What benefits are mentioned in the video?

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Brainstorming
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Acting It Out
Now work in pairs to act out dialogues on the
following situations.

• Situation 1 Ask for permission
• Situation 2 Give approval or disapproval
  responses

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Acting It Out

• Situation 1Ask for permission
• You have a headache and want to go to the
  clinic. You ask your teacher whether you could
  leave the class early.

• Language Reference 1

• Language Reference 2

• Language Reference 3

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Acting It Out

• Reference 1
• Asking for permission

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Acting It Out

• Reference 2
• Giving somebody permission

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Acting It Out

• Reference 3
• Refusing to give somebody permission

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Acting It Out

• Situation 2Give approval or disapproval
  responses
• You got to know a girl/guy through the Internet.
  Now you get in touch with each other through an
  online chatting room almost every day. Finally
  you decide to meet each other and see if this
  online romance can stand up in real life. You are
  telling your best buddy about your decision and
  want to have his/her advice.

• Language Reference 1

• Language Reference 2

• Language Reference 3

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Acting It Out

• Reference 1
• Asking if somebody approves

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Acting It Out

• Reference 2
• Expressing approval

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Acting It Out

• Reference 3
• Expressing disapproval

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Fun Time
Enjoy the music!
cool college kids
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Oral Assignment
Search for information and prepare for a
presentation.
Search for information about physical activities
in your daily life. Get information about what
kinds of activities you can do at home, at work
or at play. Come to the next class with the
information.
Reference
In the next class, youre going to introduce
to the class some major ways of physical
activities in the daily life and some benefits of
daily physical activity.
Reference
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See You Next Time!