How to learn English with friends?

Written by someone who doesn't know his name, he turned decisively.

Since I began to review the TOEFL test, no, no, it should be said that since I fell in love with English, my friends have been in my ear almost all the time. Whether to practice listening, speaking and writing; Whether it is to understand American culture and customs; Or recommended by friends and teachers. In a word, Friends is an insurmountable series for those of us who want to go abroad. Compared with Prison Break, the three men in Friends don't have Mi Shuai Shuai. Joey is too short, Chandler is too girly and Ross is too shy. All these led me to be very pessimistic about my friends and once gave up. But it turns out that experience is called experience because it is magical. During my sudden practice of English, I suddenly found that friends are very helpful to practice English. It is because of this period of practice that I have greatly improved the TOEFL test.

Finally, the practice of friends is only applicable to children's shoes that prepare for TOEFL for a long time, that is, it takes 2-3 months. If you have an exam in half a month, this method is not very suitable.

Let's talk about the use of Friends in detail: Listening: The speaking speed in Friends is very similar to TOEFL, because the TOEFL listening test is also a daily speaking speed, while the workbooks such as Barang and Delta are specially invited announcers, and the more they imitate, the less they look like. So the listening there is not as similar to TOEFL listening as the casual conversation in Friends.

When listening to Friends, you can basically ignore it: Joey, Ross, and especially Ross talk to Rachel at the same speed as Forrest Gump? So when practicing listening with friends, we should focus on the conversation between girls and Chandler. Their speed is similar to that of TOEFL. _? )O .

If you haven't read Friends carefully before, you can read it carefully in my way to make sure that you can understand all the conversations in TOEFL or Balang after practice.

Below: A friend's six-part listening exercise:

Step one: listen naked.

Step 2: Listen sentence by sentence:

Repeated listening here means pausing sentence by sentence or paragraph by paragraph with the remote control without looking at any subtitles, and then listening to each sentence and paragraph carefully. This will give you enough time to think or think about the meaning of each sentence. In fact, we already have enough vocabulary, just because we don't use it often. Many times, even when we hear that word, we still can't react. This sentence will give you enough time to think and help you remember many uncommon words.

Step 3: Listen and read.

It's actually a continuation of the second step. When a sentence is paused, it is better to repeat it. In fact, if you practice before, you will find some words that others can't understand, but you can make it clear by repeating them yourself. In addition, this step can also help us to increase sequential memory. The more you practice, the longer you will remember. Listening to a passage in Chinese, I may be able to repeat most of it, but I can only repeat 1 sentence or half sentence in English. This step is to improve this retelling ability to Chinese level. Finally, write down what you can't repeat and don't understand

Step 4: Look at the lines.

I have put the lines in the attachment, because Friends is a life comedy, which contains many words commonly used in life. When reading the lines of Friends, you must read them by yourself, which will help you better understand the usage of what Americans say.

Step 5: Listen again with the written materials.

Step 6: abandon the written materials and listen from the beginning.

Don't read all the reading materials, then listen to them again from the beginning, and try to understand everything they say. It is best to copy while listening. This does not mean copying down every sentence, but trying to write down the general meaning and key words here.

Practice steps of friends' oral English:

In fact, the third step of listening and speaking practice has already begun. Listening and reading in the third step is a good opportunity to practice pronunciation. When you listen to a sentence, you must try your best to imitate the pronunciation. What I want to emphasize here is that everyone should not imitate, but pick someone to imitate. For example, I recommend boys to imitate Joey's voice and girls to imitate Rachel's voice. By practicing oral English with friends, girls have an advantage, because Rachel has more lines, more distinctive voice and faster speech. Boys should imitate not only Joey, but also Chandler's speech speed.

The second step of oral English: after the sixth step of listening practice is completed, that is, you have listened carefully to your friends and recorded the main ideas and keywords in your listening. The rest is to tell others according to what you remember. It's best to find someone who knows English and has never seen a friend. Tell the story of this episode to your friends in your own words according to what you remember. See if he can understand, understand, and then let him tell you in Chinese, and you can compare your general content. Is his retelling consistent with what you read?

Last note: When doing this step, try to imitate the voice of Joey or Rachel. Don't imitate their pronunciation when practicing, and change it back to Cnglish when you speak it yourself.