英語快速提高的方法：閱讀與朗讀

　　Improve your Pronunciation 改善發(fā)音方式

　　Choose a paragraph and read aloud.

　　選擇一個段落并大聲朗讀。

　　Choose a paragraph and mark each sentence with a sound script (helpful pronunciation markup). This will help you read more naturally and thus pronounce correctly.

　　選擇一個段落并給每個句子標上音標(這是很有用的讀音標記)。這樣你就能更自然準確地發(fā)音了。

　　Choose a few sentences from your reading material and highlight content words. Read these sentences focusing on accenting these content words, while quickly speaking over the structure words.

　　從閱讀材料中選擇一些句子并突出實義詞的讀音。然后在朗讀這些句子的時候，注意重讀這些實義詞，而功能詞則只需快速讀過。

　　Once you become comfortable reading a single paragraph aloud, read an entire page by reading a paragraph aloud and then reading one silently.

　　當你開始游刃有余地大聲朗讀一個段落的時候，那就大聲朗讀一整頁中的一個段落，然后再默讀一個段落。

　　Choose some nursery rhymes to practice. They will help you with pronunciation through rhythm.

　　選擇一些童謠來練習。這樣會使你在朗讀的過程中更有節(jié)奏感。

　　Read a short story or a few paragraphs to a friend who is also studying English. Compare the differences and discuss what might be the reasons for the differences.

　　跟一位正在學英語的朋友讀一篇短篇故事或者是幾個段落。比較它們之間的區(qū)別并討論造成差異的原因。

　　Choose a paragraph, short article or newspaper story with new vocabulary. Use the Babylon dictionary or other online pronunciation resource to help you learn the correct pronunciation of these words.

　　選擇一個有新詞匯的段落，短文或者是報紙新聞，使用巴比倫詞典或者其他在線讀音資源來幫助你糾正這些單詞的發(fā)音。

　　Read a play with some friends. Each friend takes a different part. Start with short scenes. Once you are comfortable, read longer pieces together.

　　和朋友一起朗讀劇本，每個人扮演著不同的角色。首先從短劇開始，然后當你適應了，再進行長劇的練習。

　　Improve your Vocabulary 擴大詞匯量

　　Construct vocabulary trees from short stories or articles you are reading.

　　通過閱讀短篇小說或文章構(gòu)建詞匯樹形表。

　　Build mind maps based on the stories or articles you are reading.

　　以正在閱讀的文章為基礎構(gòu)建思維導圖。

　　Photocopy a page or an article and highlight all the words you do not understand. Look up those words and add them to your vocabulary diary.

　　復印一頁或者是一個篇章并標出所有你不認識的單詞。查字典并把它們記錄在你的詞匯本里面。

　　When you come across a word you do not understand, first try to understand based on context.

　　當你遇到不認識的單詞的時候，首先聯(lián)系單詞所在的語境來推測單詞的意思。

　　Focus on prefixes and suffixes and find examples in a text you are reading. Underline and try to understand based on the prefixes or suffixes. Try to come up with the antonyms. These are words with an opposite meaning and are often related (unhappy - happy, misinformation - information, etc.)

　　注意單詞的前綴和后綴并從文本中尋找例子。把它們用線標出來并嘗試通過前綴和后綴來推測單詞的意思。也可以通過反義詞來推測。例如，unhappy(不開心的)- happy(開心的)，misinformation(誤報)- information (信息)，等等。

　　Read a short story and try to retell or rewrite the story using as much vocabulary from the story as possible.

　　朗讀一篇短篇故事，并嘗試使用原文中的詞匯復述或重寫這個故事，詞匯越多越好。

　　Note down nouns and adjectives you do not understand. Use a thesaurus to help you find synonyms to these words. Finding synonyms will help you learn groups of words with similar meanings.

　　記錄下你不認識的單詞和形容詞，使用 thesaurus.com 來幫助你找出單詞的近義詞，這樣能夠幫助你學習到許多具有相同意義的單詞。

　　Improve Your Conversational Skill 提高對話能力

　　Choose an article or short story to read with a friend or classmate. Discuss the article together.

　　選一篇文章或故事，找一位小伙伴，兩個人一起朗讀和討論。

　　Choose an article or short story to read with a friend or classmate. Each person should write down five questions about the article and his / her partner.

　　選一篇文章或故事，和小伙伴一起朗讀，然后每個人寫下五個關(guān)于文章和同伴的問題。

　　Read a few articles to develop a debate. Hold the debate in class making arguments based on what you have read.

　　閱讀一些文章，并根據(jù)所讀的內(nèi)容，在班上開展與文章相關(guān)的辯論賽。

　　Read a short play with a few friends. Continue the conversation by each taking a character from the play and having a discussion about something that happened in the play.

　　和小伙伴們一起讀短劇。然后進行關(guān)于劇中人物和劇情的深入討論。

　　Read dialogues. Once you've practiced the written texts, improvise a continued conversation using the same characters as in the dialogue.

　　朗讀對話。當你們完成了文本的練習，可以扮演劇中的角色即興開展后續(xù)的對話練習。

　　Read short biographies. Pair up with a friend or classmate and take on the roles of interviewer and famous person (taken from the biography).

　　朗讀短篇傳記。結(jié)伴扮演采訪者和名人(從傳記中獲取相關(guān)信息)。

　　Improve Your Grammar 提高語法水平

　　Focus on various tenses or forms, by highlighting examples of a specific form in a text you are reading.

　　注意不同的時態(tài)和形式?？梢酝ㄟ^注明文本中特別的語法例子來練習。

　　Highlight all auxiliary verbs in a text. Discuss which tenses take the highlighted auxiliary verbs.

　　把文本中所有的助動詞標出來。討論每個助動詞所表示的是什么時態(tài)。

　　Choose a few sentences from your reading material and highlight content words (main verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs) in red and structural words (articles, auxiliary verbs, any and some, etc.) in yellow or another color.

　　從閱讀材料中選一些句子，用不同的顏色標出不同的詞類。用紅色標出實義詞(主動詞，名詞，形容詞，副詞)，用黃色標出功能詞(冠詞，助動詞，等等)。

　　Find linking words (although, however, but, first, next, etc.) and notice how they relate sentences to each other.

　　找出連接詞(although, however, but, first, next,等等)，并注意它們是怎么連接相關(guān)句子的。

　　Use a text as a basis for a sentence auction in class. Change some of the sentences to an incorrect version and see if you can fool your classmates into thinking they are correct.

　　選一篇文章，在班上玩句子拍賣的游戲。把一些句子改成錯誤的結(jié)構(gòu)，再看看哪位同學能夠被你欺騙了!

　　In small groups, highlight sentences using different tenses. Each student explains the reasons for the tense in each sentence.

　　在小組里，著重強調(diào)使用不同時態(tài)的句子。每位同學解釋一下不同句子使用不同時態(tài)的原因。

　　Mark-up a few sentences from an article selecting subject, auxiliary verb, main verb, adjective, etc.

　　從一篇文章中選擇主語，助動詞，主動詞，形容詞等的詞來造句。

　　Improve Your Listening Skills 提高聽力水平

　　Read the text as you listen to it on an audio book.

　　聽有聲讀物的時候，一邊聽一邊看聽力文本。

　　Take advantage of audio books. Read a page and then listen to that page. Repeat once a day.

　　充分利用有聲讀物，首先朗讀一頁，然后再聽音頻。每天重復一次。

　　Read aloud to each other in small groups. Each student is responsible for explaining new vocabulary in the paragraphs he / she reads.

　　在小組中互相大聲朗讀材料。每個同學都要講解他/她所讀到段落中的新單詞的意思和用法。

　　Ask your teacher to choose a book to read aloud to the class. Do a few pages each day.

　　讓老師選一本書，每天給大家大聲讀幾頁。

　　Listen to easy audio books in English on your way to and from work.

　　上下班的時候聽一些輕松易懂的有聲讀物。