UnderstandingWordsUnit1

Thescenarioofinstructionprovidedasfollowsisdesignedjustforreference.Theteacherissupposedtocombineillustratingthefocusedpointswithdoingthegivenexercisesintheunit.Unit1

Classroomteachingiscompletelypresupposedonpre-readingthetextoutsideclassroom.I.Lead-inHowdopeoplecommunicatewitheachother?Mainlybythemeansofspeechandwriting.Howdopeoplecommunicatethroughwriting?First,choosewordstoexpresstheirideasintheirwriting.Second,arrangethewordsintosentencesaccordingtogrammar.Third,linkthesentencesintoatext.Sotheknowledgeofwordsandgrammarisessentialforlearninghowtowrite.

WhatdoyouknowaboutEnglishwords?Givesomeexamplesofwordsfromthetext.Lookatthewordstakenfromthetext:student,secondary,attend,school,five,year,for.Makeupasentencewiththesewords.Wrong:Studentattendsecondaryschoolforfiveyear.Right:Astudentattendssecondaryschoolforfiveyears.Studentsattendsecondaryschoolforfiveyears.Explainwhy.Inthisunitorinthisbook,wewilllearnhowtousewordsaccuratelyandappropriatelyinwriting.I.Lead-in

Activatingknowledgemeansmakingwordknowledgelyinginthemindsofstudentsstartworking.II.ActivatingKnowledgeTherearemanykindsofwordsinEnglish.Doyouknowhowtoclassifythem?Twocategories:contentwordsandfunctionwordsintermsoftheirfunctionsinsentences.(e.g.educationandbut)WordsinEnglishcanalsobeclassifiedinotherways.Formalwordsandinformalwordsintermsoflevelsofformality.(e.g.commenceandbegin)Synonymousandantonymouswordsintermsoftheirsenserelations,i.e.theirrelationsinmeaning.(e.g.bigandlarge;bigandsmall)

Wecanusewordsavailableinthelanguagesystemtoformnewwordsinwriting.Howmanywayscanbe