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1、文本为Word版本,下载可任意编辑英语中级口语lesson 16 Lesson 16 How to Improve Your Study Habits Text A Maybe you are an average student with an average intellect.You pass most of your subjects. You occasionally get good grades, but they are usually just average. You are more interested in hiking than in history, and in
2、 sports than in scholarship. The fact is that you dont study very much. You probably think you will never be a top student. This is not necessarily so, however. Anyone can become a better scholar if he or she wants to. It is true that you may not be enthusiastic about everything that you study, but
3、by using your time properly you may improve your grades without additional work. Heres how : 1. Plan your time carefully. When you plan a trip, one of the first things you must do is to make a list of things, to take. If you dont you are almost certain to leave something important at home. When you
4、plan your week, you should make a list of things that you have to do. Otherwise, you may forget to leave enough time to complete an important task. After making the list, you should make a schedule of your time. First fill in committed time-eating, sleeping, dressing, school, meeting, ete. Then deci
5、de on a good, regular time for studying. Be sure to set aside enough time to complete the work that, you are normally assigned each week. Of course , studying shouldnt occupy all of your free time. Dont forget to set aside enough time for entertainment, hobbies , and maybe just relaxation. A weekly
6、schedule may not solve all your problems, but it will force you to realize what is happening to your time. 2. Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study area. Keep this space , which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No gam
7、es, radios, or television! If you cant find such a place at home, find a library where you can study. When you sit down to work, concentrate on the subject! And dont go to the place you have chosen unless you are ready to study. 3. Scan before you read. This means looking a passage over quickly but
8、thoroughly before you begin to read it more carefully. Scanning a passage lets you preview the material and get a general idea of the content. This will actually allow you to skip less important material when you begin to read. Scanning will help you double your reading speed and improve your compre
9、hension. 4. Make good use of your time in class. Take advantage of class time to listen to everything the teacher says. Sit where you can see and hear well. Really listening in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says. When the teacher gets off the subje
10、ct, stop taking notes. 5. Study regularly. When you get home from class, go over your notes. Review the important points that your teacher mentioned in class. Read any related material in your textbook. If you know what your teacher is going to discuss the next day, scan and read that material, too.
11、 This will help you understand the next class. If you do these things regularly, the material will become more meaningful, and you will remember it longer. 6. Develop a good attitude about tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. The world wont end if you dont p
12、ass a test, so dont get overly worried. Tests do more than just provide grades; they let you know what you need to study more , and they help make your new knowledge permanent. There are other techniques that might help you with your studying. Only a handful have been mentioned here. You will probab
13、ly discover many others after you have tried these. Text B Some kind of planning is essential. For one thing it reveals whether you really have enough to say on the topic you have chosen while there is still time to change to another topic. It is also important because it stimulates your ideas and h
14、elps to fix them in your mind Without some notes to help you, you may find that you begin writing with several ideas in your head but you forget some of them as you are writing. When you have chosen your topic, and perhaps have a general idea of your theme, make quick short notes of all the ideas th
15、at come into your head.Remember that these should be notes-words or phrases-not sentences , which would slow you down. As you do this you will find that new ideas will come to you, for one idea leads to another. This should not take more than ten minutes, for in an examination you have no time to wa
16、ste. If you have not yet decided on your main theme , you can do so now, and then on the main idea of each paragraph. You may have to rearrange your ideas, to decide which paragraphs they will fit into, and which ideas will be left out altogether. It is for you to decide how detailed your plan shoul
17、d be. If you are good at writing, and have had plenty of practice, probably only a few brief notes will be necessary, but if you are not, then you may require a more detailed plan. But remember that everi the best writers need to make some notes if they are going to produce a well-organized piece of
18、 writing. You will of course be given marks for the arrangement of your ideas. With your plan in front of you, you should be able to write your composition. There should be no need to write a rough verseon first, then correct it and make a final copy. This is a waste of time. Additional Informstion
19、There is a lot of misunderstanding about studying. Most students have not been taught the principles behind really effective working. Above is a graph showing the amount a person learns against the number of honrs he works in a day. If he doesnt do any work, he learns nothing (point 0). If he does a
20、n hours work he learns a cerain amount (point 1 ). If he does two hours work he learns about twice as much (point 2). If he does more work hell learn still more (point 3). Now, it he tried to do 23 1/2 hours work in 24, hell be so exhausted that hell hardly remember anything: what he learns will be
21、very little (point 4). If he did less work hed learn more (point 5). Now whatever the exact shape of this curve, it must have a crest. Point X is the very maximum anyone can learn in the day. And this represents the optimum, the best, amount of work to do. It is the best possible compromise between
22、adequate time at the books and fatigue. Fatigue is an absolutely real thing; one cant escape it or try to ignore it. If you try to, if you press yourself towork past the optimum (and any fool can prop his eyelids up and do 14 hours a day ) , you can only get on this downward slope and achieve less t
23、han the best-and then get exhausted and lose your power of concentration. The skill in being a student consists in getting ones daily study as near the optimum point as possible. I cannot tell you what the optimum is. It differs with the type of work, it differs from person to person, andeven in the
24、 same person it varies from week to week. You must try to find your own. Every day you study, bear this principle of the optimum in mind. When you feel yourself getting fatigued, if you find yourself repeatedly reading over the same paragraph and not taking it iri, thats a pretty good sign youve rea
25、ched the crest for the day and should stop. Most ordinary students find their optimum at about five hours a day. Yours may be a little more or a little less-but if you get in five hours good work a day, you will be doing well. Now. what are you doing with yourself when you arent working? Before exam
26、inations some students do nothing at all except sit in a chair and worry. Here is another misunderstanding. Peope too easily think of the mind as if it worked like the body, it does not. If one wanted to conserve physical energy to cut the maximum amount of firewood, one would lie flat on a bed and
27、rest when one wasnt chopping. But the mind cannot rest. Even in sleep you dream, even if you forget your dreams. The mind is always turning. It gets its relaxation only by variety. That is what makes mental rest. When youve finished your optimum hourage you must stop. You must not then sit around in the chair thinking about the work-that only tires without any learning. You must get out and do something. It doesnt matter what-anything so long as you are actively doing something else but work.第 9 页 共 9 页
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