How to Improve Your Spoken English literature: instrumental and integrative motivation. Instrumental motivation is one in which the learner desires to use the language as a tool to achieve some desirable ends. In contrast, an integrative motivation is one in which \learners may choose to learn a particular L2 because they are interested in the people and culture represented by the target-language group\(Ellis, 1997, p75). In various contexts, both motivations have proved important. Of course, students can have both types of motivation at the same time

Speech sounds seldom occur in isolation. They are nearly always joined together to form words and groups of words. In connected speech, sounds, under the influence of their neighbors,are replaced by other sounds. Sometimes two neighboring sounds influence each other and are replaced by third sound which is different from both the original sounds

1. Learn/master new words and expressions, and be able to use them in actual situations 2. Grasp the main idea of the text and be able to answer the related questions 3. Develop the students' ability of listening and speaking 4. Cultivate proper habits in reading and writing

College English 2 The Course Curricular Participants: First-year Students Majoring Time: 2/2001-6/2001 Second semester of the Academic Year 2000-2001 Teaching Material: College English (Revised edition, published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Major Task of This Semester Text Learning (nine units altogether) Learning to write English composition Integral Training: trying to improve the students' proficiency in reading, listening, and speaking

Unit 6 Day-to-day work 6.1 Talking about your work (1)Listening Listen to Ana Campos talking about her working hours. Are these statements true (T)or false(F)? 1 She starts works at 7.30. 2 She finishes work at 4.00 3 She has lunch at 12.00. 4 She has one hour for lunch. 5 She works a 40-hour week

College English 4 The Course Curricular Participants: Second-year Students Majoring Time: 2/2002-6/2002 (The Second Semester of the Academic Year 2001-2002) Teaching Material: College English (Revised edition published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Major Task of This Semester Text Learning (4 units altogether) Integral Improvement of English Proficiency

1. Learn/master new words and expressions, and be able to use them in actual situations 2. Grasp the main idea of the text and be able to answer the related questions 3. Develop the students' ability of listening and speaking 4. Cultivate proper habits in reading and writing

Explain or explore something, (e. g, process of make a machine, the causes of a natural or ocial phenomenon, the planning of a project, or a solution of a problem) Description mainly deal with appearance and feelings, and narration with events and experiences, unlike the two, the exposition mainly deals with relationships as well as processes

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still hay a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in American dream. I have dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of

Objectives Students will be able to: 1. understand the main idea (Bill Porter the salesman will never give in) and structure of the text (4 parts, 2 flashbacks); 2. appreciate the characteristics of journalistic writing; 3. grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text;