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College: Targeted skills and knowledge


Can Do Statement Daily Lessons Summative Assessment

 

Reading Skills Focused

Pre-reading: Predicting, skimming, scanning, previewing with purpose, activating cultural background and prior linguistic knowledge.

During-reading: Rauding, learning, determining text type with the use of textual organizers; identifying main ideas, classifying supporting details, categorizing contextual clues (sequence markers, transition markers, discourse markers, etc.); conjecturing word/phrase meaning from the context; making inferences with in-text cues and/or gap-filling strategies; using comprehension monitoring behaviors to enhance reading efficiency.
 
Post-reading: Summarizing main viewpoints and making inferences about attitudes; memorizing and/or retelling with the use of textual organizers and contextual markers.

Sentence Patterns

  • 时,……
  • 不但+不/,反而……
  • /方式/方法/办法/手段+vp…

Core Vocabulary

核心词汇 Core Vocabulary:
1.         yǒngyuǎn (adj./adv.): forever
2.         yíng (v.): to win
3.         成功 chénggōng (n./adj./adv.): success, successful, successfully
4.         qiúchǎng (n.): a place where ball games are played, (soccer) field
5.         球迷 qiúmí (n.): sports fans
6.         yōngbào (n./v.): to hug
7.         tuō (v.): to take off
8.         梦想 mèngxiǎng (n.): dream
9.         zhuàng (v.): to collide, to bump into
10.       pái (n.): plate, board, card
11.       shòushāng: to be injured
12.       实现 shíxiàng (v.): to realize, to achieve
补充词汇Supplementary Vocabulary:
1.         与众不同yǔzhòng bùtóng (idiom): to stand out from the masses
2.         胜利 shènglì (n./v.): victory, to win
3.         sìqiáng (n.): semifinal, top four
4.         zhìxiè (v.): expression of gratitude
5.         露出lòuchū (v.): to expose, to show
6.         yìn  (v.): to print
7.         zhī: 
1) indicates that the previous word has possession of the next one
    美国之音  Voice of America
2) indicates that the previous word modifies the next one
    人生之路   life journey   
8.         意外yìwài (n./adj): unexpected, accident, mishap, unforeseen
9.         离世 líshì (v.): to pass away, die
10.       悲痛 bēitòng (adj.): sorrow, grieved
11.       万分wànfēn (adv.): extremely
12.       消沉 xiāochén(adj.): dejected, depressed, downhearted, low-spirited
13.       fù (v.): to carry, to bear, to shoulder