1, listen to English weather forecast.
Some teaching tapes deliberately slow down the speaking speed in order to cooperate with beginners' learning, which is not enough for English listening training. If you listen to English at normal speed, beginners will feel at a loss. Although English weather forecast is fast, its vocabulary is simple and fixed, its content is simple, it is likely to be repeated, and it can be confirmed at any time in life. It is a good textbook for listening comprehension.
2. Listen to the English broadcast of Radio China International.
China Radio International has an hour-long English program every morning from 7: 00 to 8: 00, at noon1till 12. The content includes news clippings at home and abroad and various series of special reports. In addition to domestic announcers who are fluent in English, there are also recorded interviews with foreigners or visitors on a certain topic. The content is extensive, but the vocabulary is simple and the speech speed is moderate, which can be used to train or improve English listening.
3. Make good use of tapes to exercise listening and speaking ability.
Some learners are always used to listening to tapes while reading, and use tapes as an auxiliary tool for reading, which can't achieve the purpose of practicing listening. Tapes should be based on the training of listening and speaking ability.
Learners should choose listening tapes suitable for their abilities, and don't rush to achieve success, so as not to be frustrated. Listen to the tape again and again first. At first, just grab the outline. Listen to it a few times, and you will know more and more details. People with poor hearing can read the text first, and then concentrate on understanding the meaning of each paragraph and sentence. This kind of practice helps to cultivate your concentration in listening and make your listening progress quickly.
Listening to English at normal speed can speed up the progress of listening.
Many teaching materials for broadcasting and listening always deliberately slow down their speech in order to match the level of listeners or learners. Although this is an understandable alternative, it will also have some bad side effects.
For example: 1. Accustomed to slow-paced English, it is difficult to adapt to or even understand the English they speak at normal speed in actual communication with foreigners. When you deliberately slow down, you usually read every word in a sentence clearly, but in normal conversation, there will be many phenomena of assimilation, reduction and continuous reading. Therefore, listening to English at a normal speed is extremely important for listening and speaking.
5. Learn the original English from the Internet.
Now the network is very developed, and there are many English learning resources on it. Listening, speaking, reading and writing can all be done online and can be repeated indefinitely until you learn it. However, the resources on the Internet are also mixed, and it is up to you to find a website suitable for your own study. How to find a valuable learning website is actually not very difficult. Now there are many websites with rich resources, covering almost all aspects of English learning.
6. Act out the plot of the movie with friends.
In English learning, we often meet friends or classmates to talk in English to improve our English conversation ability, but we often feel that our language is poor and our content is limited.
Now we might as well try this method: in line with the idea of "learning English from TV and movies" mentioned in the previous section, we should first choose one or more clips according to the plot of the movie, personally choose a role, then try to transcribe the lines into words and memorize them after the movie is familiar, and finally rehearse and perform. Doing this kind of exercise often is not only good for English conversation and listening, but also good for grammar and writing.
7. Recite English poems
Fluency in English depends on a correct grasp of rhythm. According to the stress of words and sentences, English is rhythmic. English poetry is one of the best materials for practicing English rhythm.
For example, Worth's famous "daffodils" (daffodils): "I want to be lonely, like a cloud/floating high in the valleys and hills ..." (I roam alone like a white cloud, floating across the valleys and mountains ...) is a typical weak and strong rhythm. After reading it, read it out loud, which will definitely benefit you a lot.
8. Learn English by singing.
Singing English songs is more effective than reciting English poems. Singing English songs can help you practice pronunciation, intonation and rhythm, and also help you remember many words and sentence patterns in a happy mood. It's killing two birds with one stone. The selected English songs should have beautiful language and standard grammar. You can start with nursery rhymes and then gradually learn to sing lyric songs. Read the lyrics several times before learning to sing, and then learn to sing along with the tape. You can recite it better after singing.
9. Pay special attention to the pronunciation that Chinese does not have.
Some pronunciations in English are not found in Chinese, and are also the most confusing pronunciations for English learners, such as the pronunciation of "th". Pay special attention to the correctness of the mouth shape when pronouncing this sound.
10, recite celebrity speeches and find opportunities to repeat them.
A good speech is the best teaching material for practicing English expression, which requires not only elegant words, but also special attention to communication and persuasion. Learners don't have to recite the speech from beginning to end, just choose their favorite paragraphs or sentences to recite.
For example, President Kennedy's famous saying "Ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" (ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Memorizing such a good sentence is helpful to both speaking and writing.