Unit 1 How to be a Successful([sək'sesful] adj.成功的;如愿以偿的;达到目的) Language Learner 1、 Why are you learning English? 2、 What do you expect(期望) to learn in your English class? 3、 How do you learn English outside the chassroom? How can you learn a foreign language well?According to the author of this text, you might need to think in a new way, a process almost like going back to childhood once again… ○1 Learning to Think All Over Again Graham E. Fuller When you were a child, you didn’t know what a tree was at first. Somebody had to tell you. Probably you parents took you outside, pointed to a tree and said, “Tree!” You had to learn to associate the sound of the word “tree” with the big green leafy thing you saw in front of you. ○2 That’s what you must learn to do again when you are learning a foreign language. You need to learn to associate sounds with objects, and to think in a new way. Only this time, since you are grown up, you will be able to understand what needs to be done much faster. You’ll know why somebody is pointing to a tree and saying a strange word. But you’ll still have to learn the new word. You may even have to relearn it many times before you finally actually learn it. ○3 There is an important idea here. In America our name for that big green leafy thing is “tree”, but in Germany the name for that thing is “Baum”. In Arab countries the name is “shajra”. And in China they say “shu”. These various words are not themselves “trees”. They are just some of the many hundreds of different sounds used in the world to represent that great big green leafy thing. ○4 To learn a foreign language you must get away from th...
