Spoken English Learned Quickly http://www.FreeEnglishNow.com J.2
However, using a newspaper to study spoken English will require that you do
more than merely reading an article once. When you chose a newspaper article to
study, you must read it a number of times and read it aloud. You must always look
up words you do not know in your dictionary and attempt to use these new words
and expressions when you speak.
- Print an article from a newspaper web site. (Always select a newspaper from
the country using the English you are studying.) - First, read the article out loud looking for new vocabulary.
- Whenever you read a word you do not know, stop and find it in your English
dictionary. - Write the English words you do not know in a notebook. Then write the
meaning of the word in your own language. - If a word you do not know is used more than twice in an article, put a check
mark ( 3 ) by it. The check mark means that the word should receive special
study. - You do not need to write names of places or people in your notebook.
- After you finish reading the article for the first time, review the meaning of all
the new vocabulary words you wrote in your notebook. Study these words
enough so that you know what they mean when you read the article. - Now read the entire article aloud for fluency practice. Try reading the article
as smoothly as possible without stopping. Read it aloud twice. Your purpose
is to read it so that an English speaking person could easily understand what
you are saying. - Read the article again for meaning. Always read aloud. If you do not
understand a sentence, stop and figure out exactly what it means.
a. If some of the meanings you have written in your notebook do not make
sense in the article, find the word again in your dictionary and see if it has
other meanings. Write the meaning in your notebook that makes the most
sense as a second meaning for that word.
b. If you still cannot figure out the meaning of a sentence, it may be because
two or three words are used together as an expression. Try to figure out the
meaning of expressions. Look for similar expressions in other articles. If