发布时间 : 星期三 文章A guide to English Learning更新完毕开始阅读
Classroom Instructions
? Clean up the teacher’s desk and the blackboard, and get everything ready
before class.
? There’s no need to stand up at the beginning or end of each lesson.
? You’ll have two minutes’ warming-up exercise before each lesson，that is,
before the bell rings, start practising speaking or reading aloud by yourself, or with your partner, with your books open or without your books. Keep on until the bell rings.
? Don’t do anything about your books until you are asked to. That is, don’t open
it, don't write a single word on it, don't make any marks on it until you know how to do them.
? Don’t droop your head in class. When your teacher is speaking, look at him or
her, paying special attention to her body language, that is, his or her mouth, facial expressions and gestures, which will enable you to have a better understanding of what she is saying.
? Be active in thinking and speaking so as to give your teacher quick responses.
The more we get together, the happier we’ll be
The more we get together, together, together The more we get together, the happier we’ll be.
For your friends are my friends, and my friends are your friends. The more we get together, the happier we’ll be.
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Say something about yourself and your studies according to the following questions:
1. What’s your name? How old are you?
2. Are you a city boy / girl or a country boy / girl? 3. You are the only child in the family, aren’t you? 4. Where do you come from? Or where are you from? 5. Which school were you at last year?
6. Of all the school subjects you have learnt, which are you most interested in? 7. Which subject do you like best, Chinese, Maths or English? And which do you prefer, English or Physics? 8. How do you like English?
Do you enjoy learning it? Or has it always been a headache to you? Do you feel it easy or difficult to learn Junior English? Are you quite good at or not very good at or even poor at it? 9. What do you find difficult in learning English?
10. Have you found anything different between junior English and senior English? What is it? Do you think you can learn senior English well? Why?
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How to Learn English well
Questions to think about
1. How did you feel when you first began to learn English?
2. When you had to remember more and more words and grammatical rules and found it hard to do so, How did you feel? Did you still find it a joy or a headache for you to go on learning? What did you want to do then? Give up or keep on?
3. Whenever you came to any difficulties, that is, anything you didn’t know, what would you do? Ask your teacher for help or pass them by?
4. Did you often practise listening and speaking in and out of class? Do you think grammar is the most important thing in learning English?
5. Which did you prefer in learning English, having oral practice or doing a lot of written exercises?
6. Which would you rather do in class, try to answer your teacher’s questions or just sit there silently, waiting for the answer to be spoken out by your teacher or your classmate? 7. When you failed again and again in the English examinations, did you still believe that you could learn it well? Would you keep on trying your best?
Part One
To learn English well, we should, first of all, remember three important words: Confidence (believe in oneself), Determination (try one’s best) and Perseverance (keep on trying). We cannot avoid meeting with all kinds of difficulties. It’s quite natural for us to fail, perhaps sometimes again and again. But always remember:
No matter what happens, keep on beginning. Each time you fail, start all over again. You will grow stronger each time, until you can do and finish what you started out to do.
So whatever we do, we should always believe in ourselves. And once we have make up our mind to do something, we should try our best to do it well. What’s more, no matter what difficulties we may come across, we should not be discouraged, nor should we give up. Instead, we should keep on trying until we succeed.
Everybody should be sure of his success in English learning. So long as you can speak, you will certainly be able to learn English well. But be realistic in your language learning at the same time. If you set impossible goals for yourself, you can only be discouraged in your progress.
Learning English is like taking Chinese medicine --- the effects come slowly but surely. Thus don’t expect to learn it all overnight and don’t give up along the way. With the three words in heart, learn slowly, slowly every day and the effects of your study will come --- like Chinese medicine.
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Part Two
Now that you have confidence, determination and perseverance in learning English, you should have to know what’s language for. That is, what’s the use of a language? For the exchange of ideas, for communication. So the purpose of learning a language is to understand and to be understood. To do that, we have to learn a language in a communicative way so as to develop our skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, that is, the ability to use the language to communicate.
It’s no good knowing all about a language if you can’t use it. Many students know hundreds of grammatical rules but they can’t speak correctly, because they put grammar first, and not communication. And if you can’t speak English after six years of study in middle school, it’s simply waste of time and energy!
Then what should we do and not do to learn English well?
Firstly, be an active rather than a passive student in class, that is, actively participate in the learning process. Don't expect your teacher to fill you like an old vinegar bottle, which can only make you become deaf and mute learners of English.
① Listen attentively in class no matter how much you can understand. ② Be bold enough to open your mouth to speak as much and often as possible. ③ Look at your teacher when she is speaking and try to imitate.
④ Use your head to understand what you hear and to think and remember what you
have learned. ⑤ Make use of your hand to take some notes when necessary.
Try to be masters of your own, that is, learn to do what you should do willingly and rationally after class in your spare time without being asked to do this or that by your teachers.
Secondly, don’t be afraid of losing face, that is, don’t be shy. This is the biggest obstacle which prevents you from learning English well.
① Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Perhaps, at present, the more you speak, the more mistakes you will make. But the more mistakes you make, the more chances you will get to correct your mistakes. And the more chances you get to correct your mistakes, the more progress you will make. Thus you are forming a good circle of language learning, which will prove to be of great help to you in your further studies.
② Don't be afraid of asking questions. There’s nothing wrong with not knowing, but there is something wrong with not asking. When you have any questions, the most important thing you need is courage. With courage, you’ll get knowledge, and ability will come to you. Lastly and most importantly, you should have a strong sense of cooperation as well as participation in the learning process. A closed-door policy can only perpetuate
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