Unit 1. Education is a Key.

Part 1. Warming up.

A. Key words. Oxford, Cambridge, The university of Sydney, The university of Victoria,

The university of Auckland, Harvard University, Columbia University, Boston University.

Vocabulary. commitment, undertake, innovation.

excel, cosmopolitan, stimulating, enrollment.

You are going to hear some people introducing some universities in some English speaking countries.

Supply the missing information.

What kind of student comes to Oxford?

The answer to this is,there is no "Oxford Type".

Common qualities they look for are commitment, enthusiasm, and motivation for your chosen area of study backed by a strong academic record.

The university of Cambridge is the one of the oldest university in the world and one of the largest in the United Kingdom.

It has a world wide reputation for outstanding academic achievement

and the high quality of research undertaken in a wide region of science and arts subjects.

The university of Sydney was the first to be established in the Australia

and after almost 150 years of proud achievement, still leads in innovation and quality.

The university excels in sport,and social activities, debating, drama, music and much more.

Known for excellence in teaching, research and services to the community, the university of Victoria serves approximately 17,000 students.

It is favored by its location on Canada's spectacular west coast, in the captial of British Columbia.

New Zealand's largest university, the university of Auckland, was established in 1883,

and has grown into a international center of learning and academic excellence.

The university is situated in the heart of the cosmopolitan city of Auckland and provides an exciting and stimulating environment for 26,000 students.

Founded in 1636, Harvard has a 380 acre urban campus with easy access to Boston.

It has a total enrollment of about 18500 students.

This university comprises many different schools such as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Business Administration and School of Education.

Columbia University is a independent coeducational university. which awards masters, doctoral, professional, and other advanced degrees. with an enrollment of about 20,000 graduates and professional students.

Boston university is located along the banks of Charles River.

With more than 30,000 students from all over the United States and 135 countries,

it's the third largest independent university in the United States.

B. Keywords. languages, dialects, official language

Vocabulary. disc, Somalia

You are going to hear some statements about language facts.

Supply the missing information.

There are more than 2,700 languages in the world.

In addition, there are more than 7,000 dialects.

A dialect is a regional variety of language that has different pronunciation, vocabulary or meaning.

The language in which a government conducts business is the official language of that country.

One billion people speak English.

That's 20 percent of the world's population.

400 million people speak English as their first language,

For the other 600 million, it's either a second language or foreign language.

There are more than 500,000 words in the Oxford Dictionary.

Eighty percent of all English Vocabulary comes from other languages.

Eighty percent of all information in the world's computers is in English.

Somalia is the only African country in which the entire population speaks the same language, Somali.

More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa.

When the American spaceship voyage began its journey in 1977, it carried a gold disc.

On the disc, there were messages in 55 languages.

Before all of them, there was a message from the Secretary General of the United Nations in English.

C. Keywords. language learning styles. communicative. analytical. authority-oriented. concrete.

Vocabulary. identify, analytical, oriented, concrete.

Now listen to a talk about language learning styles.

Focus on the four basic learner types, match column A, the learner types, with column B, ways of learning languages.

All right, class, today we're going to be looking at different language learning styles.

You maybe 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 learning 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 TVs 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 learn by playing games, by looking at pictures and videos in class, by talking in pairs, and by listening to cassettes at home and at school.

Now authority-oriented learners, on the other hand, like the teacher to explain everything.

They like to write everything down at the 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?