Many Chinese people want to improve their English in different ways. Last year, twenty-four young singers     1     part in a competition by singing English songs.

Jiang Mei, the winner of the women’s group said that studying English helped     2     win the prize. Six months earlier, she felt her English was not good enough, so she spent     3     time learning English.

Sometimes this kind of     4     encourages people to speak English. Many people agree that they make     5     progress after learning English songs. Other ways like watching English movies and reading English books are good for learning English,     6    .

Many students learn English     7     using it often. Liu Li thinks the best way to learn new words is to read English magazines. However, Wei Ming doesn’t agree with her. He has     8     English for six years. He thinks remembering grammar is a great way. He said, “Four years ago, I found grammar was hard, so I took lots of grammar     9     in every class. Then I started to make sentences using the grammar I learned. It is amazing     10     much this helped. Now I enjoy learning English.”

Do you have dreams? Some children wish to be writers when they grow _________. That means they want to write stories or books. They would be happy if many people read their stories or books some _________, but I would like to tell these children that they will need to be good readers and read a lot before they become good writers.

Nearly all great writers often listened to _________ stories long before they started school. They also _________ on reading for years. Even when they had become writers, they spent much of their time _________ books instead of watching TV in the evening.

_________ you are a good reader, it won’t take you long to do the reading homework your teacher asks you to do. Then you _________ have time to read more books for fun. You will read so well that you will _________ want to look for more books to read.

If you want to be a writer, reading is very _________. When you decide to become a writer, you had better tell __________, “I must read more and more if I really want to become a good writer.”

I often hear some students say English is difficult, and they can’t learn ________ well. But English is very easy for me. I’m good at it, and I’m very glad ________ you something about how I study English.

First, I think ________ interest in English is very important. When I began to learn English, my teacher often taught us ________ an active way. It made me become interested in it, I worked hard at it and often got very good marks. The harder I did in it, the ________ I learned it. As a result, I could do better and better in it.

Second, you’d better have good ways to learn it, such as ________ to the teacher carefully, speaking bravely and reading aloud every day. What’s more, you should practice again and again. I also have a good habit. Whenever I have a problem, I will ask my ________ for help. It really helps me a lot.

Besides, I often read stories, jokes and easy novels in English and also listen to English songs and watch movies. A movie ________ Zootopia is really funny. From them I learn English is not only interesting, but also useful. Reading helps me to ________ what I have learned and improve my English a lot. ________ I think doing more reading is also an important way to learn English well.

Of course, if you want to get good marks in an exam, it’s necessary for you to do some exercises. I hope my ways can help you.

In learning English, one should first pay     1     to listening and speaking. It is the groundwork(基础工作) of reading and writing. You’d better     2     your best to speak while you do much listening. Don’t be afraid of     3     mistakes, but be careful not to let them     4     you from improving your English. While you are doing this, a good way is to keep     5     diary, write notes or letters. Then if you can ask some others to go through     6     you have written and tell you where there is a mistake. Many     7     in your speaking will be easily found when you write.

    8     you want to improve your speaking, the     9     important thing is to choose something interesting to read. It mustn’t be difficult for you. When you are reading in this way, don’t stop to look     10     the words if you can guess their meanings when they have nothing important to do with the sentence. You can do that some other time.

8 . When you are learning English, reading can be very helpful. When you read, you can not only learn some new words, but also you can learn how to use these English words. When you read, it gives you a good example for writing. Here are some good reading tips.

Try to read at the right level. Read something that you can (more or less) understand.

Try to increase the number of your new words. If there are four or five new words on a page, write them in your notebook. But you don’t have to write them while you are reading the passage. First, try to guess the meanings. When you finish the passage, try to remember them.

Try to read regularly（定期地）. For example, read for a short time once a day. Fifteen minutes every day is better than two hours every Sunday. Fix a time to read and keep to it. For example, you could read for fifteen minutes when you go to bed, or when you get up or at lunchtime.

Read what interests you. Choose a book or a magazine about a subject that you like, because you are going to spend time and money in reading it. You can also read newspapers. There are many English newspapers in China and there’s something interesting in them.

9 . We will never study English just     1     reading books or listening to the radio. We must practice it. Listening and speaking are very important for beginners. The children in English-speaking countries first listen to others. Then     2     try to imitate(模仿)and speak. We can listen to English programs on the radio. We can also watch programs in English. You may just understand a few     3    . It doesn’t matter. Just be relaxed. Try to catch every word.

Somebody may be a good listener. But he is afraid to speak. He’s afraid of     4     mistakes. Don’t be afraid,     5     we can learn from mistakes. If you really want to learn English     6    , you must try to speak English as much as possible. It’s the best way to practice your     7     English. The more you speak,     8     fewer mistakes you’ll make.

Reading and writing are also important. First we must choose the books we’re     9     in. A lot of reading will increase your words. Keep     10     English diaries. We can also write English articles.

Let’s practice English from now on. I’m sure you’ll study English well!