Speak, speak, speak! Practise speaking as often as you can. Speaking to yourself

Speak, speak, speak!

Practise speaking as often as you can. Speaking toyourself is good practice.

Try recording yourself whenever you can.

Compare your pronunciation with the master version（原版）to see how you can do better and have another go.If you do this several times, you will find that each time is better than last.

Why not learn with someone else?

It helps if you can learn with someone else. If youcan persuade a friend or family member to study with you, it will make you keepworking.

Don't get stuck by a word you don't know.

Practise improving ways of getting your meaning acrosswhen speaking spontaneously（本能地），even if you don'tknow the exact words or phrases. Think of things you might want to say wheneveryou have spare time. Use facial expressions, hand movements, anything to makeyourself understood.

Language learning is also about intuition（直觉）．

Guesswork is an important way to learn a new language.When listening to recorded material, you aren't expected to understandeverything first time round. If you play the same piece several times, you willmost probably understand something new each time.

Build up your vocabulary.

A wide vocabulary is the key to successful languagelearning but don’t try to learn too much at once. It’s best to studyfrequently, for short periods of time. Take at most six or seven items ofvocabulary and learn them. Put them into sentences to fix them in your mind,and then come back to them later.

And above all, have fun!

1.  What’s the purpose of this passage?

A．To tell usthe importance of practicing speaking as often as we can.

B．To tell us afew tips to help us learn a new language well.

C．To tell usthat guesswork is an important way to learn a new language.

D．To tell usthat a wide vocabulary is the key to successful language learning.

2. What’s the meaning of the underlined phrase in thefirst part?

A．Have anothertry or attempt.

B．Move awayfrom a place to another.

C．Enter acertain state or condition.

D．Follow ortake a certain course.

3.  To learn English well, we shouldn’t _______according to the passage.

A．practicespeaking as often as possible

B．studyfrequently, for short periods of time to build up our vocabulary

C．try tounderstand everything and stop when we meet a new word

D．try topersuade a friend or family member to study with us

4. According to the passage, to learn a new languagewell, the most important thing is ______.

A．speaking asmuch as possible              B．having fun

C．a widevocabulary                       D．guesswork

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【答案】

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.B

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