chances to hear and speak Chinese.

S5: If you want to learn a foreign language well, you'd better live in the country where the foreign language is used as your mother tongue.

T: Good! But the chances that we have the opportunity to live in the foreign country are small. So we have to rely on what we can learn at school. Even in our own country we can create a good foreign language environment. We can listen to English radio programmes, watch English TV programmes, read English newspapers and magazines, surf the Internet, and chat online with people from different countries and so on. Now I have another question to ask.

Deal with Ex 2 (Key Words)

T: Why do people learn a foreign language?

Ss: To communicate with people from other countries.

T: What is the most widely used language in the world?

Ss: English.

T: Quite right! English is becoming the common language of millions of people worldwide, helping speakers of many different languages communicate. And why are more and more Chinese learning English?

S6: One reason is that the 2008 Olympic Games will be held in Beijing.

S7: Another reason is that the growth of international companies and the great advances in communications have made English learning very popular.

T: Good answer! What are the four language skills?

Ss: Listening, speaking, reading and writing.

T: Good! Reading and listening are two basic language skills, which will prepare you to speak and write. Please look at the following picture, which shows a simple way to think about how to learn English. It is what people who are good at English do:

It's simple: English goes in, and English comes out, changed into your own stories,