Comprehension check

1. Find these words and phrases in the article. With a partner work out what

they mean. Use a dictionary if necessary.

a learning mindset to define one’s mind to gain knowledge

to discard thoughts to hold true for smth/smb to feed one’s brain

2. Look back in the text and find words that have a similar meaning to

· fast (paragraph 1)	· saying (paragraph 5)
· to be successful (paragraph 1)	· to get (paragraph 6)
· very important (paragraph 2)	· remove (paragraph 6)
· do your best (paragraph 2)	· a lot of (paragraph 6)

3. Comment on the saying “garbage in, garbage out”? Does it always hold true?

4. What way of learning do you prefer?

Get real

Carry out some self exploratory work. Choose one of the sites to read about learning styles. Take the test on Learning Styles and find out your style and learning preferences. Report back to class.

Useful sites to search http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm http://www.metamath.com/lsweb/fourls.htm

Speaking

Divide into groups according to your learning styles. Work out the strategies that will help you to achieve good results in the English language learning. Discuss your strategies in class.

Examples:

Group 1 Visual learners

Group 2 Kinesthetic learners

Group 3 Auditory learners

Writing

Copy this mind map and complete it for yourself. Use this information to write the story of your English language learning.

Study help: Mind maps 1 Mind mapping is a good way to organize ideas before writing. 1. Write down the most important word or short phrase in the centre. 2. Post other important concepts and their words in the circles. 3. Add other key words and ideas. 4. As you expand your map, tend to become more specific or detailed

In the Realm of Science

1. Read aloud the following numbers.

1,520	5,000	100,000	5,000,000

When do we say and?

2. Practise the following phone numbers.

095 837 95 21 0172 375 4431 8 918 506 4348 8 902 771 1129

3. Practise the following dates. 1995 nineteen ninety-five (divide the number into two parts) 2000 (the year) two thousand 2007 two thousand and seven (twenty hundred and seven) 2025 twenty twenty-five April 1^st April the first/The first of April (use ordinal numbers) 20:00 eight o’clock/eight p.m. How do you say these dates? December 12, 1987 26^th August 2001 9^th February 1900 31^st September 2000 June 14, 1846 March 3, 1966 How do you say the time? 14:45 8:15 23:10 12:30 18:55 21:00

Unit 1. Progress Monitoring In this unit you have worked on the following vocabulary related to the topic “Ways of learning”

classroom discussion		to do a course in
to take/to make notes on		to improve knowledge/skills
to take exam in		to help with/to do an assignment
a tutor/to tutor		to focus on
to keep a notebook		risk-taking
learning style		self exploratory work
to organize ideas		to take classes in (subject)/on (time)
to develop one’s strengths		to overcome one’s weaknesses
to cope with problems		to achieve results
to gain knowledge		lifelong learning

Tick (V) the points you are confident about and cross (X) the ones you need to revise.

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