发布时间 : 星期三 文章A guide to English Learning更新完毕开始阅读
backwardness.
In a word, to learn Senior English well, you’ll have to keep on practising. Practise listening, speaking, reading and writing. Practise in class and out of class. Practise by yourself, with your partner and with your teacher. You should not stop practising for even a day, because Practice makes perfect.
If you keep on practising , you’ll soon be able to make rapid progress. I sincerely wish you every success in learning Senior English for China.
Two Poems
* The beginning is always difficult We should not be afraid of difficulty
Our failure mostly lies in the lack of perseverance Not in the lack of ability * If you wish to succeed
Take perseverance as your friend Experience as your advisor Prudence as your brother And hope as your guiding star
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How to develop reading habit
Importance of reading First of all, I’d like to make it clear to you the importance of reading. As I’ve told you, there are four basic skills of a language. They are listening, speaking, reading and writing. We call listening and reading input, and speaking and writing output. Only when we have enough input, can we have some output. So reading becomes the most important of the four basic skills, especially for senior middle school students, for reading can not only help improve your listening, speaking and writing, but also increase your imaginative power as well as enlarge your vocabulary. What’s more, you can learn a lot more that cannot be learnt in class by doing reading after class. And while reading, you won’t feel lonely --- you see all kinds of characters moving and acting on the pages, and you hear all kinds of good sayings, which will do much good to you in your studies and lives. So by reading, your are killing two birds with one stone. That’s why to improve reading ability becomes one of the most important teaching aims of Senior English in middle school.
How to improve reading How to improve it? In fact, reading habit or ability is formed by reading itself. That’s to say, the more one reads, the better one will understand, and the better one understand, the more one will read. What you must pay special attention to while reading is not to stop every time you come to an unknown word. Just get on the reading and try to get the main idea of what you are reading. With the help of the context, you’ll understand the unknown word when it appears again and again later on. In a word, you needn’t look up every single new word in the dictionary, for you might guess its meaning as you read on. If, after reading, you fail to understand a certain word, which happens to be an important one that prevent you from enjoying the story or understanding the passage, you may consult the dictionary when you read for the second time, which will enable you to have a better understanding of what you are reading. To ensure the quantity of reading, you should also try to read all kinds of materials like newspapers, magazines, story-books, simplified novels and so on.
Meanwhile don’t forget to improve your reading quality. Here are two suggestions to help you achieve this goal. One is to mark out what you think is useful and important or new to you. You may underline useful expressions, frame importance sentence patterns, circle little words like some prepositions, and you may even use waved line or colored pen to highlight some special uses of certain words. By this means, you can be clear at a glance about what you have learned from your reading when you go over it. The other is to take notes after reading. That is to copy down what you think is wonderful either in the language learning or in character-training, or anything else you may find useful. It may be a phrase or an expression, a sentence or a paragraph, or even, perhaps a complete passage, which can
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serve as materials for reading aloud as well as writing. You may even draw some pictures to add color to your notebook. What to read Textbooks: ① Senior English for China ② Reading Practice
Outside reading materials: ① New Concept English ② 书虫
③ English Coaching Paper 《英语辅导报》 Reference books:
① Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary (Fourth edition)
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》 ② 《建宏词典》
When to read Find yourself sometime every day to read for knowledge, for ability and for pleasure.
Summary
How to read
① Read different kinds of materials.
② Don’t stop every time you come to an unknown word. Just get on with the reading and
try to get the main idea of what you are reading. ③ Use dictionary when necessary.
④ Mark out what you think is useful and important or new to you. ⑤ Take notes after reading.
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How to read aloud
Problems in reading aloud ① Poor pronunciation and intonation (语音，语调差) ② As if singing (唱读) ③ In broken sentences (读破句) ④ Without sentence stress (无句子重音) ⑤ Without understanding (有口无心)
Way and skills to read aloud ① Imitate.
② Put stress on notional words (实词) like nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
③ Read a bit slowly but louder (放慢语速，抬高音量) when coming to words you want to emphasize, even if they are not notional words.
④ Take one deep breath to finish a complete sentence with several proper pauses between groups of words (音断气不断). ⑤ “连读” and “失去爆破”.
Practise step by step --- first slowly, then at normal speed, and finally as quickly and clearly as possible.
What to read aloud ① Textbooks
② Anything you find interesting or important or useful.
When to read aloud ① Morning reading ever other day
② 5 to 10 minutes after each meal every day, or before going to sleep every night ③ 2 minutes warming-up before each lesson
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附1： 英语48个音素
前元音：[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] 单元音 中元音：[ ] [ ]
元音 后元音：[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] 双元音:[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
音素 爆破音: [ ]-[ ] [ ]-[ ] [ ]-[ ] 摩擦音: [ ]-[ ] [ ]-[ ] [ ]-[ ] [ ]-[ ] [ ][ ] 破擦音: [ ]-[ ] [ ]-[ ] [ ]-[ ] 辅音 鼻 音: [ ] [ ] [ ] 舌边音: [ ] 半元音: [ ] [ ]
附2：英语十大词类
Noun (n.) 名词 Pronoun (pron.) 代词
Verb (vt. vi.) 动词 Adjective (adj.) 形容词 Adverb (adv.) 副词 Parts of Speech Numeral (num.) 数词
Article (art.) 冠词
Preposition (prep.) 介词 Conjunction (conj.) 连词 Interjection (interj.) 感叹词
Notional words 实词 Form words 虚词 9