时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:词汇大师(Wordmaster)


英语课

Broadcast: December 22, 2004


AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: English teacher Lida Baker 1 suggests five resolutions for people who want to improve their English in the New Year.


LIDA BAKER: "My first resolution that I would recommend people make is to spend a certain amount of time listening to English -- and it can be five minutes a day or it can be 10 minutes a week or it can be whatever suits a person's work schedule, life schedule or whatever. But it's really important to set goals and to stick to them. And it would be very helpful if people had Internet access to do this, because what I'm going to recommend is listening to sites that have scripts included. "


RS: "What do you do if you don't have access to a computer, how can you listen better?


LIDA BAKER: "Well, almost everyone all over the world has access to pop music. And one of my resolutions would be to spend time listening to English music. The advantage of listening to music is that it's a really wonderful way to work on your pronunciation, because you get a feeling for the stress and the rhythm of the language when you're singing. And also music is full of idioms, so it's a terrific way to learn colloquial 2 vocabulary and to work on your pronunciation. And a third advantage of listening to music is that it's really easy to remember.


"So for people who have access only to a radio, even they can do something to improve their English just by listening to pop music. And I might add, if you do have access to the Internet, there are lots of Internet sites that will give you the lyrics 3 to pop songs. Do a search, type 'music' or 'songs' plus 'lyrics,' and you'll find sites where you can type in the name of the song and it will give you the lyrics to the song.


RS: "So spend a little bit more time listening, or have a goal for listening. Listen to English music. What else?"


LIDA BAKER: "Something else I tell my students, and they're always surprised when I tell them this, is read children's books."


AA: "That makes sense, though."


LIDA BAKER: "Yeah. Why do you say that?"


RS: "Well, few words."


AA: "It's simpler."


RS: "Direct, simple. Lots of pictures."


LIDA BAKER: "There you go."


RS: "That puts it in a context."


LIDA BAKER: "There you go. And the other thing is, you can find children's books at all levels. If you were a total beginner in English, you start with books that have just a few words on the page and lots of pictures, and you can work your way up to books that have relatively 4 speaking more text and fewer illustrations. But again, children's books are very motivating. To this day I enjoy reading the books that I read to my daughter when she was a little girl."


AA: "So now we've got the listening to the radio, listening to music, going online and looking for scripts of programs to go with the audio, reading children's books. What's your next resolution?"


LIDA BAKER: "Learn a new word every day. And if you don't have time to do it every day, do it every other day. Again, pick a realistic goal. Choose your word, look up the meaning, but then don't stop there. Look at the examples in the dictionary for how the word is used. Is it used as a noun? Is it a verb? Is it used to talk about people? If it's an adjective, does it have a positive meaning or a negative meaning? So look for what's called the connotation of the word. And then, when you're sitting in your car, or you're walking to the bus stop or sitting on the bus, practice. Put the word into your own sentences. Think of ways that you could use that word.


"And so now we come to our last resolution, which in a way is the most difficult one, because my last resolution would be, even if it's only very occasionally, talk to native speakers every chance you get."


AA: Lida Baker from the American Language Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, with five New Year's resolutions that people can make to improve their English.


RS: Before we go, as we come to the end of another year, we note the passing of Mary Newton Bruder, the linguist 5 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known as The Grammar Lady. She dedicated 6 her life to helping 7 people improve their grammar. We are grateful for her contributions to Wordmaster. Mary Newton Bruder died in August at the age of sixty-four.


RS: That's all for Wordmaster this week. Our e-mail address is。。。。。。。。。And Internet users can read and listen to all of our segments at voanews.com/wordmaster.


RS: Wishing you all the best this holiday season, with Avi Arditti, I'm Rosanne Skirble.


 



n.面包师
  • The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
  • The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。
adj.口语的,会话的
  • It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.外语里的口头习语很难懂。
  • They have little acquaintance with colloquial English. 他们对英语会话几乎一窍不通。
n.歌词
  • music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
  • The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。
adv.比较...地,相对地
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
n.语言学家;精通数种外国语言者
  • I used to be a linguist till I become a writer.过去我是个语言学家,后来成了作家。
  • Professor Cui has a high reputation as a linguist.崔教授作为语言学家名声很高。
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
学英语单词
absorben
almond crescent
along in years
arc-stream voltage
assembly level
automatic steering device
black butter
bowl pack
braeriaches
broad-band antenna
carrier frequency amplifier
catastro-fuck
chilean natural potassium nitrate
cipher
clenoliximab
concentrating zone thin layer plate
contorsion
cypripedium calceoluss
dementia polysclerotica
Diploclisia
dot matrix size
dough plasticity
excess product
execution pripeline
extractum polygoni hydropiperis fluidum
extraperiosteally
extuberance
fayalite peridotite
fixed-arch bridge
fuckless
full-rich position
gap filling strategy
gear shaping machine
genemotor
give thanks
given the shaft
go hit the spot
gothicized
graving
handelsgesellschafts
homogeneous bounded domain
Japan Air Society
Krestsy
kryptol furnace
leaved
lens equation
long diagonal of indentation
longwall undercutter
machine wrench
maidservants
marry into money
mixture colours
molecular amplitude
money-man
monitoring device
montigny
mopstick handrail
moral wear
name-days
Navahoes
newkirlite
notice of suspend payment
OSAT
paedologist
paracholesterin
pcr products
platinum (pt)
plot elements
prangers
pulse regenerator
punchers
r-plasmid
ray cell
reactive potency
retch
Rhinophis
ribbon structure
river branching
rocker side dump car
shriveling up
sleeps out
smoke vapour meter
social exclusion
solar equation
soughingly
stone-carvers
stoop vault
sulcus for radial nerve
svat
taken out a patent for
temporized
to blast something
topic for discussion
torpe
trailing characteristics
trupentine camphor
Vasoconstrictine
vodeness
weak light source
weather controlled message
Wendlandia luzoniensis
X-ray tube voltage