口语自学宝典20110302

英语口语自学宝典 概述 英文单句复述 英文短文复述 常用万能词汇点点通 中文单句英文翻译 中文短文英文翻译 看图说话 第一节：图片表达 第二节：图表表达 第三节：话题演讲 攻破死角——如何说数字、日期 日常生活中事物的描述 第一节：物品描述 第二节：人物描述 第三节：事情描述 魔鬼跟 概述 笔者深信有兴趣看本文的读者，必定是对英语口语学习感兴趣的人，而对于英语的学习应该也会有几年的历史。有一个问题，不知道大家有没有问过自己，“我们学习英语学了这么多年，用了自己多少的精力，花费了自己多少的金钱，可学来的英语是用来做什么呢？” 那么，到底什么是英语？什么又是语言呢？在美国传统字典里对语言Language的解释是：The use by human beings of voice sounds, and often written symbols representing these sounds, in organized combinations and patterns in order to express and communicate thoughts and feelings. 翻译成汉语就是：人类声音的使用，并且经常是代表这些声音的文字符号，并以有条理的组合和形式出现，目的是为了表达和交流思想和感情。 简而言之，语言包括汉语、英语、法语、德语、日语、韩语等等，是人们用来交流和沟通的工具。工具诞生和存在的意义是被有效的使用，而不是让人们终生学习“使用说明”和“制作方法”。语言的应用无外乎两个方面，读和写。尽管绝大部分的国人对于英文写作的水平有限，但是经历了这么多年的考试的历练，至少还是得到了一定程度的锻炼，可以应付一般的交流，当然是在没有十分苛刻要求的前提下。 尽管语言最主要的应用是说，通过声音的交流。很不幸，在传统教育的体制下，英语语言表述的能力被残忍并有效的忽略了，原因很简单，因为不考，高考也不考，甚至大学的毕业证、学位证和口语能力也没有直接的在考核方面的挂钩。试想如果我们从小一路走来，在学习英语的时候，口语能力的考核就开始要求。那么在大学毕业的时候，每一个同学都可以说一口倍儿地道的带有中式口音的英语了。 学习英语的目的是用来与人交流和沟通的，如果不想让自己多年学习英语的辛苦付诸东流，从现在起，就要开始练习开口说了！ 笔者对于英语的学习和研究也有十几年的历史，对于口语的水平也是略通皮毛。点滴心得希望与大家分享 英语口语的学习其实与婴儿学话的过程是一样的。再次问一下自己，“如果以分钟累加计算，我们曾经开口讲英语的时间是多少呢？”注意，此处一定是自己开口说的时间，是与 他人用英语交谈的时间减去他人讲话时间。一个星期！相信这是一个比较实际的平均值，可能还有略低。大家用自己的发达脑细胞琢磨一下，一个星期就想把英语说的流利地道，这可能吗？充其量也就是一个美国幼儿园水平，绝对不会超过小学生水平。 婴儿是如何学会开口讲话的呢？无论任何国家任何地区任何民族的小孩子的语言能力都是从叫爸爸妈妈开始，逐渐说一些简单的并且一定程度上带有语法错误或者词汇使用不当的句子，然后才是聊一些简单的日常的话题，（显然，谈朝核问题是不行的），随着接受家庭、学校和社会教育，5年左右的时间就可以很流畅应用英语了。 所以，不要幻想，我们是大学生或者成年人，就要谈那些用汉语可以随心所欲交流的生僻的话题，比如军事、历史、政治、文学等等。首先，我们要很谦虚谨慎的给自己一个定位——我们仅仅是幼儿园以下的水平。 如果我们可以很平和的接受自己的定位，那么，英语口语学习的征途就可以启程了！在后面的几个章节中，对于口语的练习都有详细的方法和。希望大家可以按照要求不断地练习，也祝福大家在口语能力方面会有一个质的飞跃！ 本文，尽量在书写和材料筛选上增强知识性和趣味性，并认真的做了一些修订，但由于笔者水平有限，难免会有诸多的错误和不足！欢迎大家批评指正交流！（douglas_zhao@163.com） 更多的学习和交流请登录道格拉斯英语论坛：www.douglasenglish.c 英文单句复述 练习时间：不低于24小时（以分钟为单位累加计算）。3小时/天，即8天；1小时/天，即24天；半小时/天，48天；时间不确定或者无法坚持的同学，还是坚定不易的飘过吧！推荐每天练习1-3个小时； 练习方法： 读一遍本章中给出的句子，如有不认识的单词，请查阅相关工具，确保理解句子的含义，这也是增加自己词汇量的一个很好的途径。 讲本书合起或者将目光一直别处或者将双眼闭起。 回忆刚才所看到的句子，用自己的语言，当然是英语，把它说出来。 查看原句，对比自己说的和原句是否在句子含义上是一致的。 如果对这个句子含义的表述已经很准确了，那么加快自己的说这句话时的语速，和正常阅读时候的速度差不多 如果这个句子的练习，您已经很满意了，那么，请对下一个句子进行练习，直到结束。如果有兴趣的话，可以任意找一些其他的英文句子，以同样的方法做强化训练。 注意事项： 在把这个句子表述完成之前，一定不要看原句 你可以把句子表达的不完整或不准确，但是在把这个句子表述完成之前，一定不要看原句 你甚至可以句子说的与原来的含义南辕北辙，但是在把这个句子表述完成之前，一定不要看原句。 不要试图把句子背下来，看一遍即可 练习项目： 初级： I am a good person. I believe I can do it How have you been? What a clever boy he is! He wants to buy a textbook She loves to travel by air a lot How do you like Hong Kong? I’m looking forward to seeing you Is it good for child to sleep too much? Dog prefers bones to normal dog food I am going to speak very good English I am going to put my cloth on in 5 minutes Did you leave your hometown 10 years ago? She traveled all around the word in 20 years Flowers look more beautiful in summer than in spring The increase of private car makes the traffic jam seriously Computer is being used more and more in all fields nowadays Douglas has been working for a private company for 8 months Is it possible that the price of apartment will rise for a long time? It takes 5 days to achieve the task which seems to be impossible 中级： I didn’t mean to offend you Thanks for taking me the movie The show is supposed to be good I thought you could do a better job It really depends on who is in charge I’m sure we can get you a good deal I didn’t realize how much this meant to you It does not make any sense to get up so early. Can you imagine how much he paid for that car? Do you realize that all of these shirts are half off? It’s not his work that bothers me; it’s his attitude If I had been more careful, I would not lose the game. You will not beat your kid if he failed in exam, will you? Did you know that Stone ended up marrying his secretary? I was wondering if you were doing anything this weekend She will go to visit Tibet if she has spare time this weekend The meeting was scheduled for two hours, but it is not over yet Jane didn’t go to school until she recovered from serious sickness. The food in Chengdu is too much spicy; however it is still quite delicious The precious animals are going to die off if we take no action to protect the environment immediately 高级： I will greet this day with love in my heart. Stress is a reaction, physical, mental, or emotional, to demands or changes in your life. But 20th century medicine did little to increase the natural life-span of healthy humans. However, a dream was a dream. Half a year later, both my husband and I lost all we gained. The only payment we receive when we study is the grade that we get in return, whether it is good or bad. When Americans travel, they rarely say, “I’m foreign to your place.” They tend to say, “ I'm new in town She was surprised and suspicious, when I called and suggested the two of us go out to dinner and a movie When you must cut short a conversation to get to work, it helps to announce your reason in a friendly manner She is teaching English as a foreign language and she used to work in Beijing, now she is teaching in Sydney. In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeed lies in the difference of their habits. Unwanted sound, or noise, such as that produced by airplanes, traffic, or industrial machinery, is considered a form of pollution Most bosses expect their employees to get along with one another and, more important, to get along with clients and customers. I can't remember my mother or father ever asking me about what I actually learned in school or if I enjoyed a particular subject. These are practical things and I hope that people who read your English Salon will think about it before going overseas to study I am not on this earth by chance. I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand It's a sad day in Toontown. Cartoon pioneer William, co-chairman and co-founder of Hanna Studios, passed away on March 22 at his home in North Hollywood. Few business leaders names get to be highly recognized in the world at large or even in the broadest business community like the team of William Hewlett and David Packard I had taken a couple of finance courses and learnt some basic concepts about stocks, such as “ Buy low, Sell high”, “Don't put all your eggs in one basket” and “ Invest for the long term.” I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay. 强化训练： The paper analyses data from 2,547 groups dining at 20 different restaurants. The lack of humor in workplaces is a real shame, according to experts in corporate culture About 120 wealthy Americans had signed or supported a petition to oppose phasing out the tax The ambassador entered the Oval Office a minute early, at 10:59 A.M. on December 10th of a year in early 1980s. As you and your superiors will understand,” the president said, “we will deploy our ships and aircraft to observe yours. It's the one parental motto every kid knows by heart: Just because everybody else is doing it, that doesn't mean you should, too. The ability to access satellite systems reduces ground station dependence and protects against jamming and direct tracking attempts This was the first time the two had worked together closely as adults, and Big George came to appreciate his son's political instincts. Similar success followed, as the pair went on to help the creation of many of the most recognizable cartoons over the past four decades When we perceive that the danger has passed, our brain stops producing the chemicals that cause the physical reactions, and our bodies return to their normal state. As aircraft became more reliable in the l960s and l970s, they also became more expensive. Fewer could be bought, so the Air Force had to get more out of each aircraft Often, pressures from outside sources can cause stress. We have two options: we can either change the demands on us or change the way we perceive and react to the demands An old song says that “love makes the world go around.” If you watch Americans on Valentine's Day, you can believe it. The whole country breaks out with little red hearts It was refreshing to see Buffett and George Soros and a number of other extremely wealthy luminaries stand up in opposition to President Bush's proposed repeal of the estate tax. Forget the worries of the day. Write down any worries, thoughts or questions before bed. Next, come up with14 solutions. With these written down, you'll have less to think about and sleep should be easier For the first time, the sadness in his eyes had meaning. Now I understood why I chose to come talk to this man about marriage instead of taking an easier route and getting married outside both our religions While we yet hold and do not yield our opposing beliefs, there is a higher duty than the one we owe to political party. This is America and we put country before party. We will stand together behind our new president. But in one of God's unforeseen paths, this belatedly broken impasse can point us all to a new common ground, for its very closeness can serve to remind us that we are one people with a shared history and a shared destiny The thinking behind that 1990 effort can be tracked back to HP's beginnings, about which Packard said: “We weren't interested in the idea of making money. Our idea was, if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself. Someone said that Bush's political base was built on twin platforms: his Rangers celebrity and the prodigious31 campaigning he had done for his father throughout Texas in 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992. In 1992, after his father lost in his presidential re-election, Bush began to run for Governor of Texas. 英文短文复述 练习时间：不低于24小时（以分钟为单位累加计算）。3小时/天，即8天；1小时/天，即24天；半小时/天，48天；时间不确定或者无法坚持的同学，就不要浪费时间尝试了！建议每天练习1-3个小时； 练习方法： 通读一遍短文，如有不认识的单词，请查阅相关工具，确保理解短文的。 再读一篇短文，加深对于文章内容的记忆 讲本书合起或者将目光一直别处或者将双眼闭起。 回忆刚才所看到的内容，用英语进行复述。 查看原文，对比自己说的和原文在表述的内容上是否一致。 如果对文章的内容表述已经很准确了，那么再重复训练直到自己复述的语速和正常阅读的速度差不多 以同样的方法进入下一篇文章练习，直到您对当前的短文练习已经达标。 注意事项： 在把短文内容表述完成之前，一定不要看原文 你允许把短文内容表达的不完整或不准确，但是不可以在短文复述结束之前忍不住偷看原文 你甚至可以短文的内容表达的与原文完全不同，但是复述结束之前，一定不要看原文。 不要试图把短文背下来，否则，你的写作能力会得到很大的提高而不是口语能力 强化训练部分，难度较高，通读一遍，查找字典弄清楚文章的意思，让后用自己的语言把文章的主要内容复述下来即可。 练习项目： 基础训练： Some kids, playing near a pool, saw many Frogs in the water and began to throw stones to them. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: "Please stop, my boys: what is fun to you, is death to us.” I was born in a quite small village with no long rivers or high mountains; Sky is alwys blue, air is fresh all the time, we could see all kinds of plants and wild animals everywhere. All the people are very friendly and nice to each other. They make their living on farming on the poor land which could not make them rich but enough to raise families. I went away from my home village 10 years ago, I miss my village a lot. One day, the tiger and the fox are talking. The fox says, “Do you believe that all the animals in the forest are scared of me not you?” The tiger doesn’t believe and follows the fox to the forest. All the animals are very frightened when they see the tiger and run away. The tiger is shocked and thinks that the animals are scared of the fox. The fox is very happy because in fact it depends on the terror of the tiger to frighten the animals One day, a little horse is going to see his grandpa, on the way to grandpa’s house, he needs to cross a river. He has no idea how deep the water is, so he stays by the river waiting for help. Later, one rabbit comes, and warns him not to try because one of his friends was drawn right here. Little horse is scared by the words of the rabbit. After the leaving of the rabbit, an elephant arrives and tells the little horse to cross it right now, as there is no any danger at all, he crosses the river several times each day. Little horse is so confused; finally he decides to have a try by putting one of his front legs into the river. It is not deep for him at all, he arrives the other shore safely. A boy, returning alone from the pasture, was pursued by a Wolf.  Seeing he could not escape, he turned round, and said:  "I know, friend wolf, that I must be your lunch, but before I die I would ask of you one favor, you will sing a song for me to which I may dance."  The Wolf agreed, and while he was singing the Kid was dancing, some hunting dogs hearing the sound ran up and began chasing the Wolf.  Turning to the Kid, he said, "It is just what I deserve; for I, who am only a butcher, should not sing songs to please you." A cat and a monkey live in the same house. They are very close friends. One day, they sit by the fire. They are watching some chestnuts on the fire. They want to get them. “I am happy to get them,” says the monkey. “But you are much better at such things than I am. Take them out and both of us can eat them.” The cat is happy with the words. She tries many times and takes all the chestnuts out. But her paw is injured. They eat the chestnuts up. Then a man comes in and finds all the chestnuts are gone. He finds the cat’s paw is injured. So he thinks the cat eats all the chestnuts. He is angry with the cat and drives her away Tom put his hand into a pot full of candies.  He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pot. Unwilling to lose his candies, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears. A bystander said to him, "Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand." A dog and a cock being great friends, agreed to travel together. At nightfall they took shelter in a thick wood. The Cock flying up, perched himself on the branches of a tree, while the dog found a bed beneath in the hollow trunk. When the morning dawned, the Cock, as usual, crowed very loudly several times. A Fox heard the sound wishing to make a breakfast on him, came and stood under the branches, saying how earnestly he desired to make the acquaintance of the owner of so magnificent a voice. The Cock, suspecting his civilities, said:  "Sir, I wish you would do me the favor of going around to the hollow trunk below me, and waking my porter, so that he may open the door and let you in." When the Fox approached the tree, the Dog sprang out and caught him, and tore him into pieces A pair of oxen were drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road. They had to use all their strength to pull the wagon, but they did not complain. The wheels of the wagon were of a different sort. Though the task they had to do was very light compared with that of the oxen, they creaked and groanded at every turn. The poor oxen, pulling with all their might to draw the wagon through the deep mud, had their ears filled with the loud complaining of the wheels. And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to endure. “Silence!” the oxen cried at last, out of patience, “What have you wheels to complain about so loudly? We are drawing all the weight, not you, and we are keeping still about it besides” Lion was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up in anger, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: "If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness." The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came up, and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and setting him free, exclaimed: "You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; but now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion. 强化训练 Eight cyclists have been killed in southern Italy after a car collided with them on a two-lane road. Reports from the scene say the driver apparently lost control of his car while trying to overtake another vehicle, and collided head-on with cyclists.  Seven died instantly and the eighth died while in medical care. Several others were injured. The driver of the car, a Moroccan national, was arrested. Police are quoted as saying he tested positive for marijuana. The accident took place near the city of Lamezia Terme, near Italy's southern tip XUZHOU, Jiangsu - One of China's high-speed trains broke the world record for unmodified commercial use on Friday during trial service, the Ministry of Railways said The train CRH380A hit a speed of 486.1 kms per hour on the tracks between Zaozhuang city of Shandong province and Bengbu city in eastern Anhui province, which form a segment of the world's longest high-speed rail line linking Beijing and Shanghai The train's previous speed record was 416.6 kms per hour set on Sept 28 during its run between Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital city of east China's Zhejiang province "It not only marks a milestone in the construction of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, but also is a major achievement of China's technology innovation," said Wang Yongping, spokesman of the Ministry of Railways (MOR) It shows China leads the world in high-speed railway development, he said A new dawn in communications is heralded by the launch of the UK's first English-language Chinese paper China Daily, China's leading English-language newspaper, will appear as a new weekly edition on UK news stands from Friday, December 3 Eager to help bridge the current affairs gap that exists between China and Europe, China Daily European Weekly follows the highly successful launch of the China Daily US and Hong Kong editions. Today, China Daily has a worldwide circulation of nearly 400,000. The European edition will be distributed in the UK and from Brussels, building on China Daily's aspiration to be a newspaper which provides a window for China to understand and be understood by the world. It will cover politics, business, culture and society, delivering in-depth and intelligent analysis of news and issues of interest to both European and Chinese readers Renzhong Zhi, General Manager of China Daily UK, said: "We identified a gap to provide a useful source of news and analysis to European businesses seeking to better understand and engage with China. As more partnerships develop between China and the West, it is crucial that there exists a regular source of insight on changing trends While there is an element of breaking news, the majority of the paper seeks to provide a more in-depth review of headlines of the week – a useful guide to help readers understand the emerging opportunities that exist between China and Europe," he added China Daily European Weekly is available from news agents and through distributors from 3 December 2010 A Bangladeshi-flagged ship is believed to have been seized by pirates off southern India, say shipping officials. The MV Jahan Moni was attacked after a long pursuit near the Lakshadweep group of islands, some 300km (185 miles) from the Indian coast. The ship, with 25 Bangladeshi crew on board, was on its way from Singapore to Europe via the Suez Canal. Bangladeshi Rear Admiral Bazlur Rahman said the crew had raised the alarm and the ship was now moving erratically. "We lost contact with the ship at 5.38pm (1138 GMT) Bangladesh time after it was attacked by pirates for the second time. We suspect the ship has been captured by the pirates," Adm Rahman told the AFP news agency. "All symptoms are there that the pirates have take