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Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,*,How to Learn English,2,斯坦福英语,Language is a skill!,Forget everything you know about learning,You cannot pass and English exam by starting to study a few days before.,A language cannot be memorized,English is a Skill!,You need to treat it like learning a skill,3,斯坦福英语,Language is a skill!,If you are planning on playing a basketball match,you do not start learning to play a few days before.You learn by practicing and playing for months and years until you are great at it.,Learning a language is the same.You need to understand the rules,you need to use it and practice until you improve.If you try to learn it like you learn,Maths,or History,you will fail.,English is a Skill!,Today you will learn how to learn a language.,4,斯坦福英语,Active Learning,To learn a language well you need to be active about your approach to learning it.,When reading a new sentence or new word,try saying it aloud.Use a new word in a sentence,or a replacing some parts of a new sentence with other words.,English is a Skill!,i.e.If you run everyday,you will lose weight,Now try some changes to the verbs and the nouns.,i.e.If you eat chocolate everyday,you will get fat.,If you watch TV all day,you will get lazy.,5,斯坦福英语,Active Learning,When trying to learn a new word,dont try an think of the Chinese word every time you want to use it.Connect the word to the imagine or idea of what the word represents.,For example:City=think of tall buildings and skyscrapers.,Difficult=think about something which you have difficulty with.,Red=think or the color directly.,English is a Skill!,Its important to develop a direct connection between words and ideas so that you do not have to translate between English and Chinese and then back to English.,6,斯坦福英语,Understand dont memorize,It is important to understand why a sentence is made the way it is.Not just grammar rules,but have an intuitive feeling about why and how things work.,English is a Skill!,If you see a sentence like this:,Tomorrow I will go to the park.,How can I change it?Will is still work.,I will go to the park tomorrow,These are both correct.So in English the time can go before and after the clause.,It is important to discover rules for yourself and get a feel for them.Do not wait to be told,always think about why something happens.,7,斯坦福英语,Learning Styles,People remember things in three main ways:Visual,Auditory and Kinesthetic.,English is a Skill!,If you only use one of these methods to learn you will only get about 30%of the total retention.,For example:If you just read something,you are only using Visual,If you just listen to someone you are only using Auditory,If you want to get 100%you need to activate all 3 of these.When learning new sentences,you need to read them,listen to them and say them to remember them properly.,8,斯坦福英语,Language is a skill!,Applying this to the,Stanford English E-Learning Software,English is a Skill!,English is a Skill!,9,斯坦福英语,When doing dialogues,you should not just click on the right answers.You need to listen to each of the options and repeat them out loud first.Think about what they mean and why that meaning is said in that way.,Dialogues,If you dont understand a word,use the dictionary option to find out what it means.Repeat it.Why is this word used here.How else can we use it?Write that word down as something you need to learn later,It does not matter which type of dialogue you do,you need to understand the various answers fully.Why are they right,why are they wrong?,English is a Skill!,10,斯坦福英语,Practice pronouncing the word until you receive at least 5 but preferably 7 green bars 3 times in a row.,Word Pronunciation,Once you are good at saying this word,think about a sentence it can be used in.Try putting it in different places in a sentence.,i.e,yellow,yellow is my favorite color,I dont like the color yellow,My shirt is yellow,When you learn new words try and think about what the word is,NOT the Chinese translation.,i.e,yellow=,yellow,11,斯坦福英语,When using the word association activity,you should think about the relationship between the two words.Are they synonyms,antonyms or just related words.,Word Association,Try making a sentence with the word on the left.Now use the same sentence with the word on the right,how does this change the meaning?Does this sentence work?How would you need to change it.You should try saying these sentences aloud when making them.,English is a Skill!,12,斯坦福英语,When doing the Sentence practice,you should speak the sentence aloud before writing the answer.Doing this allows you to feel if the sentence is right or wrong and helps you develop sentence structure intuition.,Sentence Practice,Remember to do them allowed as this will also help you remember the structure by using a different learning style also if you write it first,it becomes more difficult to work out an error if it is wrong.,English is a Skill!,13,斯坦福英语,When d
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