Write some personal ideas about the above questions and share them with the class

Can you think which is the connection between learning English and to ride a bike?

Tick the one you think the best choiceDo you remember how you learned to ride a bike…?

Read booksStudy bicycle rulesYour parents help youPractice

Draw your own conclusion: I learned how to ride a bike by… now watch the “Life is short” video

After watching the video: Use the pictures and some words to express the main video message:

Fall Try Better

Studying Doing

Listen Speak

Need Balance Confident Successful

Should you focus on the shape of the language or

the meaning?That is, g------ or v---------?

Discuss these questions with your partners

Ask someone in your class:Have you studied lots of grammar rules over the

years?

Or spent a long time studying vocabulary?

SoWhich one is more important

for you?Which one will help you become more

fluent?The shape or the meaning?

cubical cylindrical straight curved crooked broad narrow flat steep solid hollow

Vocabulary

Sure, you know the previous shape words. Can you explain them to your partners with your own words?

Coming back to our topic, well, actually neither grammar nor vocabulary will help you become more fluent!!!!

Why is that?

Watch the card trick video to be able to undestand something about the mind…

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