21century newspaper reading test.pptVIP

Scanning Complete the sentences below with words from the reading passage. 1. Timothy Doner is ____________ years old. 2. Doner is a student at the Dalton School in ________________. 3. Doner’s first foreign language was _________ . 4. When school was out, he would spend up to _______a day teaching himself languages. 5. Doner received ________ after he posted videos about his language-learning experiences on YouTube . Using information from the passage, write T for true and F for false. 1. Timothy Doner doesn’t like getting an after-school snack from a street vendor.( ) 2. He found it that memorizing song lyrics and repeating them helped him learn languages. ( ) 3. English is his native language. ( ) 4. Doner never practices languages by speaking with cab drivers. ( ) 5. Doner and his father had a fight with the three diners who made insulting comments about them in Hebrew. ( ) 6. Doner thinks that interest is very important in learning foreign languages. ( ) Ted周末来时，仅仅穿着短裤和t恤，在这样的天气穿这样真是一件愚蠢的事。 这是你们刚才谈论的电影吗？ 3. Doner also practices his language skills in the real world by speaking with cab drivers and talking with people at restaurants. Doner也通过和出租车司机交流、和在饭店的人们谈话，在现实生活中练习他的语言技能。 其中by doing sth. 是通过某种方式或手段。 3. If someone you know wants to get a test-tube baby, what will you do?a. Encourage them.b. Stop them.c. Ignore them.d. Help them. Scanning Complete the sentences below with words from the reading passage. 1. Edwards is the________ of “test-tube baby” technology.? 2. Edwards started his experiments as early as the _______. 3. He said that he felt _____________ at the time. 3. Edwards received a Nobel Prize in 2010 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II the following year. Edwards在2010年获得诺贝尔奖，第二年伊丽莎白女王二世封他为爵士。 * for Senior 1 12-13学年第36-37期总第515期 Speaking in tongues (P1) Which languages can you speak? 2. Do you think it is good to be able to speak more than one language? Warming up 3. How do you learn foreign lang