Do you have a headache about learning English? Here are some tips that may help you to understand the language better.
The biggest problem that most people face is their own fear.
Surround(围绕) Yourself with English
Listen to English Music
Music can be a very effective method of learning English.
| A．Speak Without Fear |
| B．In fact, it is a way to help us understand English. |
| C．Listen to Native Speakers as Much as Possible. |
| D．Some people worry that they won’t say things correctly. |
| E．If you listen to the news, you can also hear different accents. |
| F．The best way to learn English is to surround yourself with it. |
| G．In this way you can practice your listening and reading at the same time. |
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【推荐1】When we’re studying a new language, many of us approach it with dread. If we make a mistake or say something wrong, we judge ourselves strictly. But as it turns out, however, we’d benefit by shifting (转移) our focus and worrying less about getting it right, according to Marianna Pascal, a communication skills trainer.
As a teacher who’s spent 20 years in Malaysia helping people speak better English, Pascal noticed that some students didn’t get a high language level but could still communicate very effectively. She remembers one specific student named Faisal. Despite not knowing much English, she says, “This guy could just sit and listen to anybody very calmly, clearly, and then he could respond and express his thoughts beautifully.”
She also observed some students knew quite a bit of English but struggled to make themselves understood. Pascal noticed that a lot of these students’ attitude towards English is like her daughter’s attitude towards playing the piano. Pascal says her daughter hated piano and hated practicing, because she was afraid of being wrong. To her, her success in piano was measured by how few mistakes she made.
Then she shared her experience in a cafe. The person sitting next to her was playing a game while his friends watched, and he just wasn’t a very good player. But at the same time, she saw something amazing. Even though this guy was terrible and his friends were watching him, there was no embarrassment or shyness. There was no feeling of being judged. Instead, he focused completely on the task at hand. Pascal says, “I suddenly realized that this is it. This is the same attitude that people hike Faisal have when they speak English.”
Pascal believes that speaking a language isn’t like those exams many of us had to take in grade school, where a tiny mistake would result in a big red X from the teacher, In the real world, what matters is whether we can make ourselves understood. She says, “If you want to speak English well, don’t focus on yourself but focus on the other person and the goal you want to achieve.”
1. What does the underlined word “dread” mean in paragraph 1?| A．Fear. | B．Doubt. | C．Curiosity. | D．Confidence. |
| A．To provide some advice. | B．To offer some details. |
| C．To state a reason. | D．To present a fact. |
| A．Never minding others’ opinions. | B．Not judging a person too soon. |
| C．Improving through practicing. | D．Playing a game with patience. |
| A．It is important for teachers to encourage students in exams. |
| B．It is OK to make small mistakes in speaking a language. |
| C．Language has to be fluently spoken in daily life. |
| D．Language is an art difficult to fully master. |
【推荐2】When you are reading something in English and you see a word or words you do not know what do you do? Do you pause and look up the meanings? Or do you put down the reading and find something different to read?
Neither solution is satisfying. Unless you are reading at a level that is clearly too high for you, avoiding reading may leave you feeling defeated. And pausing to look up every word can slow down your reading. Using context clues works. A context clue is a piece of information that appears near an unknown word or phrase and makes its meaning clearer. Context clues are right there in the text. But sometimes we don’t see them. There are some kinds of context clues that can help you become a better reader.
The first kind is synonyms. As you come across unknown words while reading, look for synonyms. A synonym is a word or phrase that has a similar meaning to the unknown word. Antonyms are words that mean the opposite of a word. One way to identify an antonym is to look for contrast words, such as “but”, “however”, “though”, “although”, “unlike”, “whereas” and “despite”. These words signal that some opposite idea or meaning is coming. Another kind of clue is appositives. An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that comes after another noun, where the second gives the meaning of the first. Examples can also help explain the meaning of a word or idea. In English, the most common ways we introduce examples are with the phrase “for example”, “for instance”, “such as” and “like”
And now for some closing thoughts. Leaning to use context clues can take time. Don’t pressure yourself to be great at the skill too quickly. Also, it is often not necessary to know the meaning of every word to understand what you are reading. So next time you come across a word you don’t know, ask yourself whether you can understand the sentence without it.
1. When you meet with new words in English reading, what should you do?| A．Use context clues. | B．Ask teachers for help. |
| C．Look them up in the dictionary. | D．Stop to read another new book. |
| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Five. |
| A．To inspire us to learn English. |
| B．To tell us English is easy to learn. |
| C．To persuade us to buy an English dictionary. |
| D．To introduce a way of English learning. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
【推荐3】While there are not any magic shortcuts to learning words, the larger your vocabulary becomes, the easier it will be to connect a new word with words you already know, and thus remember its meaning.
Be aware of words. When meeting new words, instead of avoiding them, you will need to take a closer look at them.
Read. When you have become more aware of the words, reading is the next important step to increasing your knowledge of words.
Use a dictionary.
Study and review regularly. Once you have begun looking up words and you know which ones to study, vocabulary building is simply a matter of reviewing the words regularly until you fix them in your memory.
| A．First, try to guess at a word’s meaning from its context. |
| B．This will give you a quick form of review. |
| C．Read the entire entry for the word you look up. |
| D．It is also the best way to check words you have already learned. |
| E．Reading alone may not be enough to make you learn new words. |
| F．Whatever interests you. |
| G．So your learning speed should increase as your vocabulary grows. |
