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WARM-UP VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION GRAMMAR

Here Here SENTE Here

you you NCE you
would would STRES would
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WORK WITH A PARTNER
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Tell me what questions are suitable for
the following answers:
 I’m an English student.

I’m studying at New Oriental Foreign Language School.

I need to improve my English.

I want to take the IELTS exam.

It’s a lot of fun! OR: It’s an important language to learn.

I come from Beijing.

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Work with a partner. Ask and answer the
following questions.
 What’s your first name?

What’s your family name?

Where do you come from?

Are you a student or do you have a job?

Why are you studying English?
Where are you studying English?
What do you enjoy about studying English?
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Check the meaning of the
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following words.
 About EDUCATION

SUBJECT(n) CLASS(n) CLASS(n)

a group of students who
an area of knowledge that a period of time in
are taught together
is studied in school, at school, college, which students are 
college, or university or university: taught something

PHYSICS(n) CHEMISTRY(n) MATHS(n)

the scientific study of the study of numbers, 
the scientific study of  shapes,and space using 
the basic characteristics 
matter and energy and reason and usually
of substances and
the effect that each has the ways in which
a special system of symbols 
on the other and rules for organizing 
they react or combine them.
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COMPULSORY OPTIONAL(adj) CO-ED(adj)

having male and female 
(adj) not necessary or  students being taught 
(of something) that must be demanded but possible or  together in the
done; necessary by law or available; depending on same school or college
what you decide to do  rather than separately
a rule

SINGLE SEX(adj) PRIVATE(adj) PUBLIC(adj)

controlled or paid for by
for either girls or boys, a person or company and involving or provided by
but not both not by the government the government, usually
for the use of anyone
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HOMEWORK(n
DISCIPLINE(n) ASSIGNMENTS(n)
)
training that a piece of work given to
work that teachers give
makes people   their students to do
someone, typically as
 part of their studies or 
at home
more  job

willing to obey o
TEST(n) MARKS(n)
a judgment, expressed as EXAMS(n)
r
a way of discovering,
by questions or practical 
a number or letter, about a test of a
the quality of student's knowledge or 
more able to co
activities, what someone knows,
or what someone or something
a piece of work done skill in
at school, college, or 
canntrol 
do or is like a particular subject
university
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PRIMARY(adj) SECONDARY(adj) NAUGHTY(adj)
of or for relating to When children are naughty,
the teaching of young  the education of children  or their behaviour is naughty,
children, especially those approximately between they behave badly or do not
between five and the ages of 11 and do what they are told to do:
eleven years old 18 years old
LANGUAGE(n
LIBRARY(n)
a building, room, that has )
a collection of books, documen a system of 
SPORTS(n) ts, music, and sometimes communication 
things such as tools or artwork, consisting of sounds,
for people to borrow, usually
words, and grammar
without payment
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HISTORY
(the study of or a record of)
past events considered
 together,especially events of
a particular period, country,
or subject
HIT
to move your hand or
an object onto the surface of
something so that
it touches it, usually with force
CULTURE
the way
of life, especially the general  someone's freedom to
customs and beliefs, of
a particular group of people a
t a particular time
CORPORAL
PUNISHMENT
any punishment in which
physical force is used and
intended to cause some
degree of pain or discomfort.
STRICT
strongly limiting 
 behave as they wish,
or likely to severely punish so
meone if they do not obey
DETENTION
a form of punishment in
which children are made
to stay at school for
a short time after classes h
ave ended
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GYMNASIUM(n
RULES(n) UNIFORM(n) )
an accepted principle or  a particular set of clothes that a large room with equipment
instruction that states the way has to be worn by  for exercising the body and 
things are or should be done, the members of the increasing strength,
and tells you what you same organization or group  or space for playing sport, 
are allowed or are not  of people especially in a school
allowed to do

LABORATORY(n)
a room or building with ABSENT(n) ATTENDANC
 scientific equipment for someone is not E(n)
doing scientific tests or at work/school or at the number of people 
for teaching science, or the place they are who are present at
a place where chemicals or a place or an event
 expected to be
 medicines are produced
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JUNIOR(n)
a student in the third year of
a course that lasts for
four years at a school or college
 
SENIOR(n) SCIENCE(n)
The careful study of
a student in their final  the structure and behaviour of
year of the physical world, especially 
high school or university by watching, measuring, and
doing experiments,
MAJOR(n)
the most important subject 
that a college or
university student is studying,
or the student himself or
herself
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Li s t en t o t
n k a n d re p e a
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them.
Practice

How many syllables?

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PRO NU
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SENTENCE STRESS
 In English, words
that carry the main

S E N TE N CE meaning, ie.
important words,
S TR E S S are stressed, ie.
they are said louder
or stronger.
What subjects are compulsory
in your school?
 In my school, we have to take
language and maths, but we can
choose history or chemistry.
What are your favorite subjects?
 I really like English because
it’s so interesting and the teacher is
so fun.
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Liste n t o t
s ed w o rd s in
th e s tr e s
underline te n c e.
each s e n
Practice
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EXPRESSING YOUR
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PREFERENCES
 WORDS TO
R ESS L I KI NG
EXP
G
OR NOT LIKIN
hate Don’t like/dislike Don’t mind like Really like love

Hate, like, don’t mind, love + V-ing

 In English, we don’t say:

e p l a y i n g fo o t b a ll .
I v e ry l i k

We say:
e p l a y i n g fo ot b a l l.
I reall y l i k
Say something about your
preferences.
Give at least five.