1) Pay attention to the accumulation of English vocabulary and idioms. American linguist Driller (1978) points out that if we identify the 25 most common English words, we can identify 33% of the words on each page on average. 50% if common words of 135 are identified; If 2500 is recognized, it is 78%; If you recognize 5000, it is 80%; Once you remember 10 000, you can reach 92%. It can be seen that the level of reading ability is inseparable from the size of vocabulary. At present, most students have a small vocabulary, which is the main factor affecting the improvement of reading ability. So how can we improve students' vocabulary? 1. Word-formation memory method estimates that there are 1 10,000 to1.20,000 English words, but most of them are word-formation. Word formation includes derivation, synthesis and transformation. In teaching, let students master the meaning and usage of common prefixes (un/dis/im/il /super. ) and suffix (ly/ less/ ful/ ment…), so that they can guess their derivatives from known words, so as to expand their vocabulary. For example, the prefix "super" has the meaning of surpassing and surpassing. You can guess the meanings of the words "supermarket", "supernatural", "superman" and "superstar". . 2. Associative memory method associates a word with related or unrelated words. For example, when you see the life of live vi, you will think of other parts of speech and usage, such as live broadcast and live. 3. Famous saying "To read well, you need a strong voice ... To build a strong vocal music, you need to read well." Talk about the relationship between reading and vocabulary. To read fluently, you must have a rich vocabulary. Reading a lot can enrich your vocabulary. (2) Grasping grammar knowledge firmly In recent years, the sentence structure of NMET reading comprehension essays tends to be complicated, and the role of grammar knowledge in reading is prominent. If you encounter a long and difficult sentence that is difficult to understand in reading, you can analyze the sentence properly with the help of grammar, and make clear the relationship between the parts, so as to accurately understand the meaning of the whole sentence. Take decision-making as an example-thinking is not like playing poker-it is not only about your thoughts, but also about what others think of your thoughts and what you think they think of your thoughts. (NMET 2000) as an example. The 29 words in this sentence include subject clause, object clause, compound sentence and additional explanation of dash connection. Among them, there are complex sentences in complex sentences and complex sentences in complex sentences. Only by sorting out the components of a sentence one by one can we grasp its meaning. (3) Accumulate certain cultural background knowledge and life knowledge. Improving English reading ability requires not only certain language knowledge, but also certain cultural background knowledge and life knowledge. For example, NMET2003, Reading Comprehension A involves geography and introduces two farthest/farthest inhabited islands, one is Tristan da Cunha recognized by Guinness Book of Records; On the other hand, there are many proper nouns in the articles on Easter Island, which will interfere with students who are inexperienced in reading, but it will be better for students who know Easter and other background knowledge. In addition, in chapter C, there is a book number. If you are familiar with these, you will reduce a lot of reading difficulties. (4) Cultivate good reading habits and master effective reading skills. Cultivating good reading habits requires reading more books and reciting more wonderful paragraphs and articles to cultivate a sense of language. In addition, some students read aloud, click or read back when reading, which will affect the reading speed and understanding of the article. Therefore, we should overcome these bad habits, do not read back, do not read silently, and do not click to read. Only in this way can we speed up reading and improve the accuracy of understanding. Besides good reading habits, we should also master correct reading skills. Teachers should guide students to form correct thinking methods. In general reading, we should pay attention to the following points: 1. Skimming is to quickly browse the full text, grasp the main idea and topic sentences of the article, and clarify the author's attitude and intention. 2. Skipping is to quickly find a relevant information, look at ten lines and pass irrelevant content. 3. Guess new words. In the process of reading, you will inevitably encounter new words. If you look up a new word in the dictionary or skip it, it will affect your understanding of the article. So we have to guess the meaning of new words. Words have different meanings in different contexts. So we should guess according to the context clues and word formation. Four rules of fast reading Many people feel that their reading speed can't keep up with their own needs when reading English materials or exams. Some friends feel that their English foundation is not good, and then they try their best to memorize words. In fact, if you can use the correct method to train fast reading, you can significantly improve reading speed even on the original basis, not to mention that it is not a problem of English foundation at all. Now let's look at four ways to practice fast reading. 1. Fast extensive reading (fast extensive reading) You should get into the habit of fast extensive reading at ordinary times. Extensive reading here refers to extensive reading of a large number of books involving different fields, which requires fast reading, understanding and mastering the main contents of books. Determine a clear reading quota, which should be practical and more or less combined with your own reality. For example, if you read 20 pages a day and a semester is calculated as 18 weeks, you can read 2 1 book with medium thickness (each book has about 120 pages). 2. Reading regularly (reading regularly) You should get into the habit of reading regularly after class. Regular reading can be done for 5 ~ 10 minutes at a time, not too long. Because reading fast at a fixed time, you are highly concentrated. After a long time, you are easy to get tired and distracted, but it is boring. When reading, write down the "start time", after reading, write down the "end time" and calculate the reading speed. Write it down casually and stick to it for a long time, and it will certainly receive obvious results. 3. Skimming skimming, also known as reading and skipping or skimming, is a special and very practical fast reading skill. Skimming means reading as quickly as possible, just like having a bird's eye view of the obvious signs on the ground from the plane, and getting the main idea or central idea of the article quickly. In other words, skimming requires readers to read selectively. In order to grasp the outline of the article, some details can be skipped, thus speeding up reading. According to statistics, a well-trained skimmer can read 3,000 to 4,000 words per minute. When reading, first skim the article to see if there are any materials and information that you need or are interested in, and then determine whether this article is worth reading carefully. When looking for information, if there is not enough time and you don't need a high degree of understanding, you can use skimming skills. "You don't need a high level of understanding" does not mean that the level of understanding can be very low when skimming, but that the level of understanding is allowed to be slightly lower than the general reading speed. The goal of general reading is to reach the highest possible level of understanding, usually 70% or 80%, while maintaining the general reading speed. When skimming, the expected understanding level is slightly lower, with an average understanding rate of 50% or 60%. Skimming has the following four characteristics: (1) reading a lot of materials at a very fast speed, looking for the main information literally or in fact and a small amount of explanatory information. (2) You can skip a part or not watch a part. (3) The level of understanding can be slightly lower, but not too low. (4) Adjust the reading speed flexibly according to the difficulty and purpose of the article. Skimming can use the following skills: (1) Preview and skim books and articles by using printed details, such as titles, subheadings, subheadings, italics, bold words, footnotes, punctuation marks, etc. To predict skimming, we should understand the author's thinking and the way (mode) of the article, so as to grasp the general idea, relevant details and their relationship of the article. (2) Read the first and second paragraphs at the beginning of the article at the general reading speed (200 ~ 250 wpm), and try to grasp the general idea, background, author's style, tone or intonation of the article. (3) Read the topic sentence and conclusion sentence of the paragraph. By grasping the topic sentence, grasping the main idea of the paragraph, and then omitting the details, we can get the skimming speed. (4) Pay attention to turning words and sequential words. Turning words such as how, more, other, etc. Sequential words first, second, and so on. (5) If it is not necessary, don't look at the details.