Welcome to Inner Mongolia Medical University,Do you like your new school?,Basic Guidance of this Class,Examination → The final examination will be in late December. If you unfortunately fail the final examination, you have to attend a make-up examination. Course mark will be calculated as follows: Final exam, 70%; Class participation, 30% (attendance, 10%; class work, 10%; homework, 10% ),Basic Requirements of this Class,You are expected to be in class on time. I will keep track of your attendance.Whenever I have a roll call, if you are not present, you are marked absent and your attendence mark will be lowered with 1%. Excessive absences will have negative results in your class participation grade and may result in failure.,Basic Requirements of this Class,Class work include discussion, question answering and exercises. If you do well, you will get additional points for your participation marks. If you always keep silent during the class or you always pay no attention to me and cannot answer my questions, there will be a “cut“（减分） and negatively affect your final score.,Basic Requirements of this Class,You are expected to finish homework on time. If you don't hand in your homework, your homework mark will be lowered with 3%.,Happy New Term Everybody!,How was your military training?,→ military training,Unit One College Life,Unit 1 Honesty,,CONTENTS,2,5,,,,Listening and Speaking,Reading,Translation and Writing,Further Development,Grammar,,Part One Listening and Speaking,Part 1,(2) Speaking,(1) Listening,Activity 1,(1) Sound Recognition,(2) Conversations,(3) Passage,Review Some Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Pronunciation Rules,Activity 1,◆ Activity 1 Sound Recognition,Directions: In this part you will hear 10 groups of words. Listen carefully. Pay attention to the underlined parts, and pick out the one that is different from the others in pronunciation.,Answer,Activity 2 CONVERSATIONS Directions: In this part you will hear 5 conversations. Listen carefully and fill in each of the following blanks with the word you have heard. Conversation 1 Conversation 2 Conversation 3 Conversation 4 Conversation 5,Conversation 1 A: Good morning, Zhang Hua. B: Good morning, Li Ming. A: How (1) are you, Zhang Hua? B: Fine (2), Li Ming. Thank you. And you? A: Fine, thank you.,Conversation 2,A: How are you this afternoon? B: Just (3) fine. Thank you very much. And you? A: Just fine, too. Then, how is Wang Xiaofeng? B: He is fine, too. A: Good. See (4) you tomorrow. B: See you tomorrow.,Conversation 3,A: I’m John Smith. Are you Mrs. Helen Jones? B: Yes, I am. A: Very nice (5) to see you. B: Very nice to see you, too. A: Is Bill doing OK? B: He’s doing all right (6), thank you.,Conversation 4,A: Hello, Susan. How are you doing? B: Hi, Jimmy. Pretty well (7), thanks. A: How is Grace? Is she well? B: She is very well, thank you. A: See you later (8), Susan. Good-bye. B: Fine, see you tomorrow evening.,Conversation 5,A: Hi. Are you doing OK? B: Fine (9), thanks. I’m Liu Gang. A: Hello, Gang. B: And you are… A: I’m Jack Brown. B: Hello, Jack. A: See you later, Gang. B: Good-bye (10), Jack.,◆ Activity 3 Passage,Directions: In this part you will hear only one passage. Listen to the passage twice and then decide on the appropriate answer to each of the questions from the 4 choices marked A, B, C and D.,◆In Britain the weather never gets too hot or too cold. There’s not much difference between summer and winter. Why is it so? ◆Britain has a warm winter and a cool summer because it’s an island country. In winter the sea is warmer than the land. The winds from the sea bring warm air to Britain. In summer, the sea is cooler than the land. The winds from the sea bring cool air to Britain.,◆The winds from the west blow over Britain all the year. They blow from the southwest across the sea. They are wet winds. They bring rain to Britain all the year. The west of Britain is wetter than the east. The winds must blow across the high land in the west, so the east of Britain is drier than the west.,Questions and Answers,1. Q: What is the weather like in Britain? A: A. It is cool in summer and warm in winter. 2. Q: When do the winds bring cool air to Britain? A: C. In summer. 3. Q: Why isn’t there much difference between the summer and winter weather? A: C. Because the winds from the west blow Britain all the year. 4. Q: In which part of Britain is there less rain? A: A. In the east. 5. Q: What is the passage mainly about? A: C. The weather in Britain.,Speaking Activity 1 Directions: Work in pairs to greet each other. Activity 2 Directions: Work in pairs to talk about the seasons in your hometown.,Speaking Activity 1,Girl: Hello, Tony. Fancy meeting you here. How are things going with you? Boy: Not so bad. Thanks. And you? Girl: Pretty good. How ar。