How to Improve the Four Language Skills (Pary III: Reading)

Reading is like climbing stairs.

Let's go on talking about reading. To read is to grasp language ,patterns from their written representation. In a second language, reading is usually taught to students who are already literate in the source language.We Chinese students spend more time in reading. In my opinion, if we want to advance in reading, we must enlarge our vocabulary and phrases. And we have to form a habit of reading foreign newspapers and magazines, such as the China Post the China News, and the Reader's Digest. They are all very helpful to the improvement of our reading . In addition, I always believe language, like music, has its own rhythm, and reading out loud helps memorization, conversation, and spelling. The most important thing for senior high school students is , when waking up in the morning or after getting home in the evening, to read English out loud assertively 10 or 20 times until our throats are dry. After reading something for a long time, first, we have memorized it, second, we have practiced pronunciation, and third, we have mastered the melody of English. After that, when we speak, maybe we can avoid speaking Chinese-style English. Indeed, this is the secret weapon for laying the foundation of reading.