"Learning a language is not just an academic activity. English students hope to be able to use the language they have learned like the British. They not only want to understand spoken English, but also want to understand themselves; They also hope to enjoy English TV and radio programs, listen to English jokes, sing English songs and read English newspapers. This last wish often causes some disappointment, for example, when a student who passed the exam with high marks and won the teacher's praise finds that he can't understand the new articles that he knows the British read every day. He realized that he was missing something.

"The defect is not entirely his fault. The difficulty of the fact that British newspapers have their own style; Or rather, each newspaper has its own unique style, which constitutes a part of the general news reporting mode, and we can roughly classify it as "newspaper English". The more popular daily newspapers use small talk, slang and the latest writing style, which often confuses foreign readers, if not completely wrong impression. The following is a typical example of this kind of report:

Graceful Patricia Potts, the girl with charming figure, is a dish in Scunthorpe in October and the most delicious dish in the region. Last night, on her way home from bingo, a tro uble dish was served. Two people who wanted to commit robbery tried in the dark street near her home, but she let them leave with their bags, fingernails and clogs.

"Even the most serious students can be forgiven for giving up at this point. However, it must be recognized that this style has no problem for millions of people who read every day.

"Headline news is another problem. English readers browse the headlines to find out the content of news stories; Foreign students must read these stories and find out the meaning of the headlines.

"In order to print as much information as possible in as small a space as possible, the mass media has created a sentence with rich content, which is usually filled with very complex compound words and needs to be treated with caution. For example:

Warwickshire police announced late last night that Arthur Prentice, a 35-year-old truck driver from babur Thorpe, Cambridgeshire, was wanted for the disappearance of Glenys Dennis, a 7-year-old boy, at his home in Cambridge last March. He had been arrested in Solihull, Birmingham and was assisting the police in the investigation.

This sentence has at least 15 facts. This needs to be digested slowly. If an English student tries to absorb a lot of such things quickly, he will understand very little about what he is reading ... "

What's in the news? Jeffrey Rand

Precautions:

1. Often; Quite frequently

2. curvy: having many curves, referring to a well-proportioned female figure.

Scunthorpe/kloc-The dish of the month in October-the most delicious dish in this area-was served with a troublesome dish. ...

Special of the month: the most attractive girl of the month

The most delicious dish: the most attractive girl

Be given a plate of trouble; She was given a trouble that some people had prepared for her.

She let them pack up and leave: she let two people who wanted to commit robbery escape.

5. Clogs with thick soles: Clogs with thick soles are shoes made for platform dancing.