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Unit 1 Lesson 3 Language Learning Tips(第一课时) Lesson Focus • Dealing with difficult words • Talking about problems in learning English and giving suggestions Warm-up Exercise 1 Purpose: to help students in talk about what they think is difficult about learning English · Brainstorm aspects of learning English with your students. You may have them glance through the student book for ideas, for example, vocabulary, pronunciation, reading, listening, speaking. Ask a more proficient student“Which of these is difficult for you?” · Elicit an appropriate response. Ask that student, “What do you do to help with that?”Elicit an appropriate response. You may skip this step if you feel students are ready to do the exercise. · Direct students to the Example, and read it aloud or have a student read it. Then have students get into pairs or small groups. Ask“What do you think is difficult about learning English? What do you do to improve your English? Discuss with your partner / group members” · Come together as a class and have students share their thoughts. Expansion: Take a Poll! Note: Use this activity with more proficient students. Take a poll to see which are the most common problem areas in learning English. Have students discuss how they have improved their English. Reading Exercise 2 Purpose: to help students answer questions based on a text · Direct students to the online discussion. Ask“What type of reading is this?”Students will most likely be able to recognise it as an online discussion. Then say“Read the first line. What's the discussion about?”Elicit David's English learning problems. If you feel your students are ready, you may skip this step. · Direct students to the questions. Have students read them silently before they read the text. Then say“Read the discussion and answer the questions”. Monitor, offering assistance as needed. · Go over the answers, first having students compare their answers with each other. Then ask individual students to say the answers alo