The goal of listening training is to try to understand what you can read and what you should understand. What you can't understand can only be solved by improving your vocabulary.
You should choose the appropriate listening materials according to your actual level (which can be roughly equivalent to the vocabulary level).
We can roughly divide the listening materials on the market according to the degree of difficulty. The original materials include New Concept English 2, VOA Special English and high school English listening materials. The Foreign Languages Department of East China Normal University once published a book called Introduction to English Listening.
Step by step, the first volume and the second volume are also preliminary materials. Intermediate CNN students
News. Advanced materials include V0A Constant Speed, BBC, CNN, New Concept 4, Economist, original audio books, etc.
2. Listening training is divided into intensive listening and extensive listening.
Intensive listening:
Can hear all the details (especially numbers) in the original text, including tense, singular and plural, third person, etc. Although I can't understand uncommon names and proper nouns, I should be able to judge that they are proper nouns. To put it more vividly, when you listen attentively, you can imagine that you are taking a listening test, and you must try your best to remember every detail you can hear.
1. Listen to this article from beginning to end to get the main idea.
Listen again and see what words you don't hear.
Go back and listen to it again and see what you don't understand. If you don't understand, refer to the original listening text to find out why.
4. Listen for the last time. After listening, retell the material in English. You can repeat these materials in short paragraphs. You don't have to repeat the original word for word, you can express it in your own words and use as many words, phrases and sentence patterns as possible.
Please choose political and economic news materials, such as CNN Student News, BBC, The.
Economists, etc. All listening materials must be accompanied by a complete listening text. Entertainment programs such as American dramas and movies are not recommended as listening training materials.
Listen widely:
The range of listening materials for extensive reading is wider than that for intensive reading. In theory, it is enough to choose materials suitable for your own level, which can be both informative and interesting, and you don't have to listen too much. The main purpose of extensive listening is to absorb, reproduce and consolidate knowledge points from listening materials, cultivate ears' sensitivity to English and acquire new knowledge. At present, there are many extensive listening materials on the market. Here are two recommended, one is an audio book and the other is a podcast.
The whole process of intensive listening and extensive listening almost ends here. In practical practice, intensive listening is the main thing, supplemented by extensive listening. You can get into the habit of setting aside a fixed period of time (more than half an hour) for intensive listening training every day, and review and consolidate the words accumulated in the process of intensive listening in time. Listening training is a systematic project, so we must make a good plan. We can't fish for three days and dry the net for two days. After selecting materials, we must stick to it, and we can't do one thing in the east and another in the west.