Foreign language learning

1. Foreign language learning

1) What do you think of learning a foreign language?

2) How important is it to learn a foreign language today?

3) How to learn a foreign language effectively?

2. Family stories

Every family has special stories. Family members share their happiness and sadness. Some stories can make a deep impression on you.

1) What is generation gap? Is there generation gap between your parents and you?

2) How could your parents and you share mutual understanding? If there is divergence on a problem, what would you do?

3) What family stories impressed you most?

3. Making a good impression

It is vital to make a good impression on others in our daily life. On such occasions as a job interview, a good impression can give you more advantages over others.

1) How do you judge people?

2) Why do we say that it is important to make a good impression on others？

3) How can we make a good impression on others?

4. How to fight against AIDS

1) What is AIDS?

2) What are the symptoms of AIDS?

3) What are the ways of AIDS infection?

4) How to prevent yourself from being infected?

5. A successful college life

College life is an important and colorful period of your growth. When entering college, some students make ambitious plans to be successful, while others want to stay at the same level as they did in the past.

1) What do you think your college life will be？

2) Do you have any plan to make your college life meaningful and colorful？

3) In your opinion, what is a successful college life? What will you do to achieve it?

6. Stand up for honesty

Honesty is one of the great virtues we cherish in Chinese tradition. Nowadays, however, many people are lacking in it.

1) What’s your definition of “honesty”? Have you ever lied to your parents or your best friends? Why did you do so?

2) Can you give us some examples about those who are lacking in honesty?

3) As a college student, what can you do to stand up for honesty?

7. The attitudes toward time in different cultures

In the current competitive society, time is money. It is a precious resource and many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime.

1) Why do many people cherish time?

2) What is considered to be a waste of time?

3) As a college student, how do you make full use of time in your study?

8. Pros and cons of mixed marriages

People often harbor reservations about a mixed marriage because racial and cultural differences may complicate the marriage life. However, still many people have harmonious and happy marriages across nations.

1) Would you mind marrying a person from a different culture or nation? Why or why not?

2) How to deal with the cultural difference in mixed marriage?

3) What factors do you think may lead to the failure in one’s marriage?

Ｂ班背诵段落：

第一册

1A: para. 8

3A: paras. 5-6 4A: paras. 1-2 5A: para. 14

第二册

1A: paras. 1-2

3A: para. 4 5A: para. 6 6A: para. 3