Chapter 51 Ways to Learn English

Yi Yang lay down on Jiang Lili's leather sofa with a big grin, so soft that it almost trapped him. I didn't have a good look at it last time, but this time I observed it carefully, and found that it was decorated with details everywhere and the smell of money everywhere.

He put the peppercorns given by his grandmother on the coffee table and asked curiously, "Mr. Jiang, what does your family do?" ”

"Mom has a little business, and Dad is a lawyer."

Jiang Lili skipped the topic lightly.

Yi Yang said: "A talent like Mr. Jiang is really condescending to us to be a teacher. ”

Jiang Lili said seriously: "Why is it Qu Cai to come here to be a teacher? What do you think I should do to be less talented? ”

Yi Yang was stunned, he really didn't think deeply about this question, he pondered for a moment, and said, "Hmm...... At the very least, you should stay in a big city...... Aren't there many things you can do when you study music, such as musicians, celebrities, and so on. ”

Jiang Lili shook his head and said, "Society is not what you think. Do you think I'm amazing? Actually, no, we belong to the group of people who are not high or low, although they can play the piano and sing, but there is still a big gap from performing on stage, and it is even more impossible to be a star. For most music students, it's good to be a teacher. ”

While speaking, Jiang Lili poured a glass of lemonade, put it in front of Yi Yang, and said, "As for staying in the big city, our best choice is to be a music teacher, but where is there such a good music teacher in a big city." ”

"Didn't you say that your family asked you to be a civil servant?"

Jiang Lili shook his head: "I can only sing and play the piano, what do I do as a civil servant?" Perform a show for the masses? ”

Yi Yang was amused by Jiang Lili's words, and when he thought about it seriously, it seemed that it was really that truth, but he couldn't help but feel a little regretful, he felt that a serious student of the conservatory of music always had a sense of condescension when he was a music teacher in a county like them.

"Does Mr. Jiang plan to be a music teacher here all the time?"

"Hmm...... I haven't thought about this yet, so let's take it one step at a time. What, you don't want me to stay here? ”

"That's not it, I just feel that Mr. Jiang is a little wronged here."

Jiang Lili laughed, "People are small and big, and they want to write things that they shouldn't worry about every day." ”

Yi Yang put the English textbook he had prepared on the coffee table and gradually became serious: "Teacher, let's start directly." ”

Jiang Lili stared at Yi Yang's textbook for a few seconds, revealing a strange expression: "You really plan to learn English......

"Of course."

Jiang Lili was a little surprised, and then sighed softly, "Okay." ”

While talking, Jiang Lili sat down, she took Yi Yang's English book and flipped through it, and said, "English in the first and second years of junior high school...... I haven't touched it in years......"

"Teacher Jiang, are you okay?"

"TOEFL 108! Can I still have a problem teaching you English in the second year of junior high school? ”

Yi Yang stopped talking. Jiang Lili flipped through the textbook for a while, put the book back, and asked, "I want to confirm your English level first." ”

"That's it...... Very poor. ”

Jiang Lili estimated that this was the case, so he figured himself out and said, "In this way, I will talk about the basic methods of learning English first, and then teach you slowly." ”

"Hmm!"

"In fact, the learning of English is mainly about learning three things, words, grammar, and listening and speaking."

"Words are the most important thing. In fact, in junior high school English, even if you don't understand grammar at all, you can figure out the meaning of each word and make a question. I'll give you an example, and I'll give you a paragraph, and each word directly translates to me, driving, car, it's one, printed with a red sign...... Although the semantics are a bit reversed, can you guess that this sentence is to express that I am driving a car with a red logo printed on it? ”

Yi Yang showed a thoughtful expression.

"So don't be afraid, as long as you can recognize every word, you can start to guess the meaning of the sentence, as long as you roughly guess the meaning, you can choose the answer to many questions."

"So, the first step is to memorize words, and words are the foundation."

"You just need to memorize the vocabulary list in the junior high school English book, and it is enough to get a high score. Don't read those messy junior high school must-have words, there's no need. ”

"But after memorizing words, you can only guarantee that you will do some of the questions, and there are many questions that test grammar, so if you want to get a higher score, you must learn grammar."

"How do you learn grammar? The first is to understand, to read, to read explanations, to read example sentences, to understand the meaning of each part of grammar, to understand it all. The second is memorization, like words, grammar must also be memorized, to remember clearly, not ambiguous at all, especially every exception in grammar, every precautions, every fixed collocation, must be as clear as remembering your own name. ”

Yi Yang began to take notes: "Teacher, you speak slowly......"

Jiang Lili glanced down at Yi Yang's handwriting, coughed lightly, and continued: "Actually, as long as you do these two steps well, your English score will have a qualitative improvement." But if you want to advance to a higher level, or even communicate fluently with foreigners, you must start practicing listening. ”

"The practice of listening is a little stranger than word grammar...... I thought about this question for a long time, because no one seemed to be able to figure out which part of the textbook the listening questions in the test were practiced, until I took the TOEFL test, and finally understood how to practice listening, and I will teach you for free today! ”

Yi Yang was a little excited when he heard this, and nodded hurriedly.

"Actually...... Or words! There are many words that you can see and recognize, but you may not be able to hear them. That is, you can recognize it with your eyes, but you can't recognize it with your ears. Listening, to put it bluntly, is to make the connection between the pronunciation of the word and its meaning in the mind. ”

In other words, when many people hear a word, they first think of the appearance of that word in their minds, and then associate the meaning through that appearance, which is not right, just like when you hear a sentence in Chinese now, you will not think about subtitles first, and then know the meaning through subtitles. So what is the correct way, it should be that when you hear the sound in English, you will know the meaning of the word. ”

To be honest, although Jiang Lili had already said it very clearly, Yi Yang was still a little confused, but he still carefully wrote down Jiang Lili's words.

After a pause, Jiang Lili asked, "By the way, is your English teacher's pronunciation standard?" ”

Although, although, Yi Yang's English proficiency is poor, but he still watched some English original movies before he was reborn, and he is still very objective about distinguishing whether the standard is or not, he said helplessly: "Not standard......"

"Then listen to the original tape and read the words aloud. There are also listening exercises in English textbooks, listen repeatedly, don't write when listening, make sure that you can understand what people are saying in every sentence, and if you don't understand, you will come back and listen again, and listen repeatedly until you understand and then enter the next sentence. ”

After Yi Yang digested it a little, Jiang Lili said: "Okay, then let's start, I will only teach you grammar and doing questions, words and listening, and you can learn it yourself according to the method I taught you." ”