广东省广州市培才高级中学高考英语复习课件：新人教选修十Unit4Learningefficiently-UsingLanguage（共41张）.ppt

Hi, Congratulations on your great English mark. I’m proud of you. I wish I were doing as well in my English class. I try really hard but I just don’t seem to get any better. For example, we have to learn 40 new words every week and the teacher tests us on Mondays. I spend half an hour every afternoon learning the words, but I still get only about 20 out of 40 correct in the test. And I’m not much better at reading. I read the passage and half the time it doesnt make sense. It takes me ages to read because I have to keep looking up words in the dictionary. Then I usually foregut what I’ve read. Have you got any suggestions? I need HELP: -(. Best wishes, Donghua Sample Letter Dear Donghua, Thanks for your kind words. I’m sorry you are not doing so well in English and I hope the following suggestions will help. Learning new words: Perhaps your problem is that you haven’t yet found the method of learning new words that suits you best. Have you thought about asking some of the students who are doing well at English in your class how they learn new words? you could then try some of their methods and see which works best for you. My way of learning new words is to first look at each word carefully and then write the words out with dashes between syllables, like this syl-la –bles. That helps me with the spelling. Then I write sentences with the words in them to help me remember the meaning. Finally, I look at the words again just before I go to bed and somehow my brain learns them while I’m sleeping. Of course everyone is different, so this might not work for you, but try it anyway and see if it makes any difference. As for having trouble with reading, I’d like to suggest that you don’t worry about understanding every bit of the text. Why don’t you first just read the passage through without stopping just to get a general idea. Then think about your purpose for reading that particular text, for example, to find some specific details, to summarize the main points, et