The teacher of the New Oriental English training class is not bad ... If you like reading, you can buy a new concept book yourself ... 12 years old ... Well, look at his English level ... The new and new ones should be able to ... There is grammar behind the text ... It is neither too simple nor too difficult ... In fact, English is not difficult ... interest is the key ... If you have never been exposed to English at all ... = = ... His Chinese Pinyin ... (It should be impossible ~ ~) ... is mainly a matter of personal interest ... There are a lot of knowledge about swords, swords, but there is no Chinese explanation ... It is mainly in English ... You'd better look at his aquatic products to choose ... The right one is the best. ..
Books that stimulate interest in learning English ... I'm afraid not! Let him watch movies online ... almost everyone watches English ... and gradually gets used to it ... it's easy to learn ... so he naturally likes English ... makes him feel that learning English is easy, so he will like it ... such as getting high marks in English exams ... then junior high school is his turning point. ...
If economic conditions permit, the courses in New Oriental are very good. I suggest you sign up for a course. In addition, in the case of your brother, we must first cultivate his interest. English learning is a long process. If you force him to study blindly, cramming will only be counterproductive. I suggest buying more simple English comic books or taking him to watch interesting American cartoons. The simpler the better. If possible, you can guide him or introduce him to some interesting western cultures. As his interest increases, consider taking him to learn English systematically. I wonder if my answer can help you ~ps: I am also an English lover. You can contact me if you have any questions ~
In our place, boys are very disgusted with English, and sometimes they often hate it with teachers. But girls are different. They often learn better, which may be a gift. So girls don't have to worry, as long as you don't let girls hate you, she will help them learn English well. For boys, we should first make him fall in love with English classes, and then don't assign some tasks that make him disgusted, such as reciting many words, reciting them often and doing test papers often. This will only make them hate English even more. Of course, the first thing they hate is the teacher. Usually, boys can be taught some answering skills and methods to make them gradually interested in English. Don't force it, or I think it will be counterproductive.
Traditional English teaching methods: whole class grammar, whole class words &; Translation, exercises, these are very boring.
Even some English teachers use early reading and late reading to do problems. Born to hate.
There are some interesting things. I remember that our senior high school English teacher often plays some English songs, movie clips or English jokes.
Also, when English teachers answer students' questions, even simple questions, they should be patient and don't make people feel stupid.
First of all, guide children to understand the importance of learning English, teach students in accordance with their aptitude (that is, according to their personality, hobbies and different inspiration modes), be good at encouraging children, stimulate their interest in learning, and let them learn unconsciously in a relaxed, happy and pleasant atmosphere. Encourage more and criticize less.
Don't think English is difficult. Chinese is the most difficult language. English is actually not that difficult. Then listen to more English songs and watch more English movies. Usually you can talk to people around you with English sentences and words you know. These are all good ways to cultivate English interest.
How to learn English in your spare time?
Studying for a degree is the top priority. In addition, you may expect to experience the feelings of local people. This article provides you with many clues on how to enter American society and get familiar with American culture.
In the federal United States, each state has its own local conditions and customs. So, when you refer to this article and start living abroad, remember that except for some big principles, the rest will vary from state to state, from person to person and from situation to situation.
ask a question
Most Asian students, either because of their cultural background or because of their personality, often feel ignorant of asking people simple and trivial things; I will also be shy and afraid to speak because of my limited English ability, for fear that others will laugh. But in the American concept, no matter big or small, as long as you are not clear, you should start looking for answers. Especially for foreigners, the pain of lack of knowledge stems from your ignorance of local culture, society and ways of doing things. In other words, the less you know, the more difficulties and setbacks you will encounter.
So if you have any questions, just ask. If the first person ignores you, ask the second one, and don't give up. Except for some specific information in life, such as "Where is the nearest gas station?" , or "Where is the barber shop?" In addition, sometimes you will ask Americans about their experiences and views on things, and you will find that everyone's views are different, and the understanding of the United States from books is only an understated stereotype, or it is suspected of being too general.
Learn local English.
Most Americans can't speak a second language except English. Maybe they will worship people who can speak more than two languages, but they don't think it is necessary to learn another language. On the contrary, they expect people from other countries to understand and learn English. Therefore, people who can speak or understand English have more and better opportunities to get to know Americans.
"Local English" is often an expression of another interpretation of culture or language by local people. Although American linguists speak "standard American English", the idiom usage, words, pronunciation, speech speed and even communication mode will be different from place to place. If you want to do as the Romans do, it is necessary to learn "local English".
Here are some ways to improve your English:
(1) Learn standard American English from TV.
(2) listen to radio programs.
(3) Read local newspapers: For example, The New York Times in new york and Los Angeles Times in Los Angeles are representative local newspapers.
(4) hire a mentor.
(5) Language communication.
(6) Take the initiative to talk to people: neighbors, bus drivers, bus passengers, passers-by or the elderly in the cinema are all talking objects.
(7) Write down unfamiliar words and idioms that you have seen or heard. If necessary, ask Americans how to use these words.
Life journey
Observing every place in your life on the spot is an effective way to deeply understand the living habits, game rules and culture of a place, and provides you with another medium to enter American society.
1. Stand at a busy intersection and observe people and cars coming and going: At this time, you can ask yourself questions about the observed phenomenon. For example:
How do drivers respond to traffic signals? How fast does the car go? How often does the driver honk his horn? Under what circumstances do they honk their horns? What do they do in traffic jams? Where do pedestrians go? What is the walking speed? Do they touch each other? Where are their eyes fixed? Do they speak loudly?
2. Observe the interaction between parents and children: follow them and try to listen to what they say. What do children call their parents? How loud is it? Will parents pass on their experiences or opinions to their children? What is the child's reaction at this time? How do parents react when their children's behavior is not what their parents want?
3. In the restaurant: Sit down and order dessert or drinks. Pay attention to the way the waiter and the customer talk. In what tone? How loud is the volume of people eating? What did they talk about? How to attract the attention of the waiter when the customer needs extra service? How do customers pay? How to tip?
4. Take the bus: If you can get the map, you may wish to follow the bus route. And don't forget to observe the passengers. Notice where they are sitting? Look where? What do you talk about?
5. Walk around your house: What do you see in their yard? How do neighbors interact? Are they all open doors and windows?
6. Go to the grocery store, drugstore or department store: See when there is a discount? See how they display their goods. Where is the price tag? How do customers and shop assistants interact? How do they pay? What departments do parents and children go to in these places? About what?
7. Attend church parties: What kind of clothes do people in the church wear? What are their behaviors when they walk into the church? What do they do before the church ceremony officially begins? What did the priest or priest say? Do what? How did the masses react? What was everyone's reaction at the end of the party?
8. Go to the police station: Ask the police to explain that you are a new member of this community and ask him what you need to know. Pay attention to how the police treat you. Are you patient? Polite?
9. Visit American families: Pay attention to their interior decoration. As foreign guests, how do they entertain you? What kind of rooms can I visit when I have the opportunity? If it's an invitation from a couple, tell us how they divide their work and how they interact with their children. What topic did the host talk to you about? How do they treat their pets? If you attend family gatherings at Thanksgiving or Christmas, you can learn how Americans celebrate these festivals.
10, watch the ball game: whether it's baseball, basketball or football, we should pay attention to the audience's dress and behavior. How do they bet on the whole game? How did they express their reactions and emotions during the whole competition? If you don't understand the rules of the game, the people next to you will be happy to explain it to you.
1 1. Look at the classroom: You might as well come to the classroom ten minutes in advance and find a seat opposite the door. You can see what happened. What do students bring to class? Where do most people who arrive early sit? What are they doing before class? What was their reaction when the teacher arrived? And how did the students who were late react? What do students do in class besides taking notes? What are the actions of the students near the class time? What is an official course? How do students know they can leave the classroom?
Life's Journey has brought us an opportunity to learn about the United States and sharpen our English, and it can spread Chinese ability from the field of professional research institutes to the level of public life. As long as you use snacks and spare time, you will have a different life experience on the way to study abroad. If possible, write down your observations and personal experiences at any time for your explanation or evaluation. When you finish your studies, you will become a local cultural observer.
Taboos for learning a foreign language
First, pay too much attention to methods and skills and don't want to work hard. The use of language is a skill, but this skill can not be acquired by skill alone. Paying too much attention to methods and skills will take up a lot of time and energy, while investing less time and energy in the learning content itself, so it will affect the learning effect. For example, a young man who took the self-study exam in higher education subscribed to more than ten kinds of publications about self-study and exams, studied and studied hard, and talked about methods one by one, but most of the subjects he referred to failed every time. This is because he only studies methods and skills, spends too little time and energy on learning content, and develops the habit of being opportunistic and unwilling to work hard. Only when the methods and skills are used correctly, can we find out the methods and skills that suit us from our own learning practice, and it will really work.
Second, pay too much attention to speed and efficiency, and don't want to spend time repeating (reviewing) what you have learned frequently, just seeking understanding. The use of language is not only a skill, but also a skill that can only be perfected through practice. It takes constant repetition to be proficient, and only when you are proficient will you form skills that can be used freely and without thinking.
Three or three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, no perseverance, can not persist in learning for a long time. Mastering skills requires a process, in which you will encounter all kinds of difficulties, but don't bow to the difficulties, you should persevere in repeated learning and persevere.
Fourth, do not pay attention to listening training. Language has sound. Our sense of language is that the sound of language first acts on our brain. If we don't practice listening, we just read and recite words silently. In this way, we not only can't understand others speaking foreign languages, but also can't improve our reading level.
Fifth, learn without "using" and learn a foreign language with the attitude of "learning". Language is very practical. If you only learn and don't use it, you will never learn well. The purpose of learning a language is to apply it, and we should learn to learn by using it, so as to improve our interest and achieve good learning results.
It is worth noting that "use" is not only conscious use, but also unconscious use in many cases. For example, when eating, washing dishes, chatting, surfing the internet, washing your face, feet, washing clothes and doing housework, you can turn on the recording and listen to English on TV; For example, watching movies, watching news, listening to songs and reading novels should also be in English; For example, English operating system and application software can be installed on the computer; For example, chatting online in English, etc. In short, we should create a foreign language environment according to our own conditions. In this environment, we can make ourselves listen, see, read and write fluently ("Four Shun"), just like practicing Qigong to achieve the realm of "Shun". In this way, after a period of time, you will find that you have learned a lot, and you will find it not difficult to learn a foreign language. If you just "intensive reading" and "rote learning", you will find it difficult, boring and slow to learn a foreign language. After studying for more than ten years, I still can't listen, read or write ("three noes"). Take myself as an example. I have been learning English intermittently for 20 years from the age of 20 to 40, but I still can't do three things. So I started at the age of 40 when I was "40 and didn't study art" and spent more than two years doing the "Four Shun"-ha! It's all settled now.
Enjoy English
After learning about my self-study process, some people think that this kind of self-study is very hard and bad for my health. In fact, many people are willing to play hard, and sometimes they really forget to eat and sleep. I am the same myself. Before I made up my mind to teach myself English, I often played poker and chess in my spare time in the evening. After lying in bed, I couldn't calm down and couldn't sleep alone for a long time. Sometimes I even play all night on holidays. Looking back now, I don't know how many precious and beautiful times I wasted. Speaking of harm to the body, I feel groggy when I go to work the next day because of lack of sleep. When playing, some people smoked one after another, and the indoor smoke was dense. Even non-smokers don't know how much smoke they passively inhale, and the harm to their health can be imagined. How empty and boring this amateur life is! Self-study in your spare time can make you learn new knowledge continuously, stimulate your curiosity and motivate people to make progress, so it is very meaningful. Dictation learning English is highly focused, but you don't need to rack your brains like solving math problems. Its effect is much like calligraphy and fishing, and it is also good for the body. Sometimes after a hard day, I feel groggy and can't sleep in bed for a long time. But if you can listen to the English recording for a while before going to bed, you can fall asleep quickly. In addition, in life and work, you will inevitably encounter some unpleasant or distressed things, and you will be unhappy or angry, and you can't get rid of it. At this time, you can also concentrate on English by dictating English recordings, so as to get rid of your troubles. These are all good for health.
From real life, we can see some people who have no goals and do nothing all day. Day after day, they feel that life is slow and even tired of it. On the contrary, if a person has a clear goal and feels that there are endless things waiting for him all the time, he will feel that his life is full, he can see the fruits of his labor, enjoy the joy of victory and have confidence in himself and the future. A person's life is like a sports competition. It is only a moment to set a new record, but behind this moment is a long effort. Some people think my life is boring because I study hard all day. Learning English, especially self-study, is really monotonous and boring at first. It is a "chore" or a "burden", and it is hard to say that it is a kind of fun and enjoyment. However, as long as you persist and work hard step by step, you will certainly gain something and improve your English. The more English you have, the more you will use it and be more happy. Starting from the basic understanding, we can make continuous progress-we can basically understand by dictation, just listen without writing, and understand while doing, gradually reducing the translation process from English to Chinese in our minds, directly understanding from English, understanding various special programs, understanding standard English, freely talking with foreigners, and undertaking interpretation tasks. Every step forward has a new layer of joy. If it is a burden and distress to serve English when you are struggling with dictation and recording in the primary stage, then it is a pleasure and enjoyment when you master English and apply it to your work and life. It opens a new window for you to understand the world, and you will have an unspeakable joy in your heart. All the efforts in the past were not in vain and paid off.
In today's reform and opening up, the use of English is directly proportional to proficiency. For example, when you can read English materials like reading chinese materials, you can keep abreast of foreign developments. When you can listen and speak, the information you get is by no means comparable to when you need a fake mouth and a fake ear to communicate with foreigners. Here, the author takes the improvement of telemetry scheme in the process of introducing some equipment as an example to illustrate this point. This equipment is made by a company, and its telemetry system can only monitor about 1000 km, while we require that it can monitor about 2000 km. To this end, we asked the company to develop a new telemetry system at a cost of about $50,000, and formally signed a contract accordingly. All the people involved in the negotiation agreed to do so, as if there was no other way. However, I also translated at a technical meeting after the contract came into effect. When explaining the telemetry system, the staff of the company inadvertently mentioned that every machine has a signal that flashes once a second. I asked what was the use of this signal, and he replied that this signal was used for the alarm of this station and had nothing to do with the telemetry system. But I had the idea of using this signal in my mind, and clung to it, and proposed to control the telemetry signal with this one-second interrupt signal, so that the system that could only monitor 1000 km was expanded to monitor 2000 km. At first, the technicians of the other side thought that their equipment had been installed for tens of thousands of kilometers in the world, and they had never heard of it. They brought a lot of information for the director of the institute to discuss with me. Finally, I persuaded them to remove the development fee from the contract, saving the country more than 50 thousand yuan at once. It took less than two hours from capturing the signal that the machine was interrupted every second to both parties agreeing to cancel the development project from the contract. In this process, my English level played a decisive role. As far as technology itself is concerned, I mentioned that many people in China immediately understood it. But their English level is low, they can't understand and speak, let alone know this signal, let alone use it. Similar problems are difficult to find and solve through unskilled translation, because the other party inadvertently mentioned this signal, which really has nothing to do with the telemetry system to be discussed, and the general translation may not be able to grasp it. Even if we seize it and give it to someone who knows the technology, and then the technician puts forward the possibility of using it to discuss with the other party, the two sides will discuss some innovative issues without ready-made precedents. For a professional translator who doesn't know technology, it is difficult to express it accurately. Go back and forth several times, and the other party will give up as soon as they answer impossible. Now, the equipment modified according to my opinion has been put into use smoothly. Whenever I recall this incident, I always feel a sense of satisfaction: "The hard work in the past was not in vain, and I am no longer a senior engineer in China with a piece of paper in my pocket". So whenever someone asks me, "Is it worthwhile for you to study English so hard for several years?" I always quote this example to answer: "Just because an import job can save so much foreign exchange for the country, it is worthwhile for me to spend a long time learning a foreign language, not to mention the use of foreign languages is far more than that!"
Tips for learning English
Learning English requires perseverance and perseverance, because there are so many words and grammar in English that students can't remember them at all. Some students just want to find shortcuts. In fact, the foundation of learning should be down-to-earth, accumulate more and precipitate more. But in the process of learning, you can think of some suitable learning methods to help us remember and understand faster and deeper. For example, many beginners don't know the usage of the be verb in English, but it may be better if we memorize it in another form.
I am, you are, he is,
Is to follow him, him, her, her, it,
Plural numbers are all are, are, are,
If you want to ask "yes" in advance,
Negative "not" plus be.
Use this formulaic sentence to help us learn the usage of the be verb, which is catchy and not boring.
We can also remember "possessive pronouns" like this:
Mine, mine; Yours; ;
"His" is his.
A woman's "hers" is hers.
The object "its" is its.
His (her, his) theirs.
Read this formula several times, remember the usage of "owner pronoun"? In fact, as long as you can think hard, you will find that learning English is not so difficult and boring. The key is not to learn English mechanically, but to pay attention to learning methods. Only in this way can the efficiency of learning be high and the happiness of learning be realized.
Learning methods on the road to success
Learning any subject requires good methods, because good methods can make you get twice the result with half the effort. Learning English is like building a house. Laying the foundation is the first and most important step. Memorizing words and texts has always been a difficulty for most students. Here I will introduce some learning methods.
Methods of memorizing words:
1) tape storage. Listen to the vocabulary tape first, then read aloud after the tape and read the words to be memorized. Then I began to write words, read, write and recite. When reciting the text, when you encounter new words, strengthening your memory will better master the pronunciation and usage of the words.
2) Associative memory method. When you recite a word, think about its synonyms, antonyms and phrases. In this way, you can not only remember this word, but also deepen the impression of the old words you have learned before.
3) Flexible memory method. Just hang a note or write a label, card, etc. You can put these signs on objects, such as the word "book". You can put them on the book and put the "bed" on the bedside. You can write some long and difficult words in your notebook, put them in your pencil box or pocket and take them out at any time.
Of course, different students can choose different methods. As you are a novice in English, it is difficult to adapt at first. You can spare some time to recite a few words every day, without asking too much. The important thing is persistence. After a long time, it is good to form a habit.
Reciting the text is very important, so how to recite the text will be better?
1) Listen. Find out the pronunciation of the old and new words. Listen to the vocabulary tape first, listen again and again, and read after it. Be sure to pronounce each word correctly and know what it means. After listening to the tape, you can repeat it after listening to it several times.
2) Know the meaning. Understand its meaning on the basis of clearly repeating every sentence and word. If you understand the meaning of each sentence, then the whole article will understand.
3) Recite. From reading words, repeating sentences to understanding the meaning of sentences, and finally connecting them into articles, we can really recite the text.
4) Dictation. Through dictation, you will find some mistakes, spelling mistakes or omissions, and correct them in time to deepen your impression.
In short, learning English should not be reported as a fluke. Method is the means to reach the society, and ultimately it can't replace hard study. As long as you study hard and study correctly, you will surely embark on the road to success.