雅思口语练习中的背景阅读_雅思英语口语

雅思口语练习中的背景阅读

　　From day one of a prototypical IELTS reading class, the students are given outdated textbooks that are aimed at educating a non-native speaker how to read, and understand a text that has little or no relevance to real life or real life experiences. Again the student is taught to read and understand some texts that a native speaker may have difficulty in understand, not because of the complexity, but because, lets face it, its boring and does not relate to anything we can talk about. I am a great sports fan. I enjoy reading about all sports International football, F1 racing or track and field. That inrestes me. So why dont we find things for the students that interests them and then TALK about them before trying to answer the questions about the article. Stress the understanding of what the article is saying and talk about it. NOT read and answer. TALK about it. Maybe the students grammar is poor, maybe their pronunciation is poor, but still lets talk about what we just read. Certainly we can not please every student, but articles from the local English language newspaper will initially suffice, if there is no newspaper, then the WWW. Any news site will give the student more reading material than they will ever need to know. Day to day news will not only teach a student how to read, it will educate them in relevant topics they can discuss. It may be the weather, a major news story, or some very simple 2 paragraph item about a talking dog. It may sound stupid, but current events will further discussions. AND discussions will improve both understanding and communication skills.