Name: 如何通過閱讀提高英語水平 (How to improve your English by reading)
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Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on "How to Improve Your English By Reading".

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So, it might be very obvious how reading can help you improve, you know, your speaking

in English, particularly your vocabulary, but there are a number of reasons and a number

of things that reading regularly and reading in specific ways can actually help you to

improve your English, and also not only like your reading English, but your ability to

And again, this applies not only to English as a second language learners, but also to

So pick up a book, and here's how picking up a book can help you to improve your English.

So, number one: You can improve your English by picking up any book, reading out loud,

You might think: "This sounds ridiculous", but if you are a second language learner,

this is a fantastic way to improve your enunciation, your pronunciation, and presentation skills.

Even if you're not a second language learner...

So, for example, it doesn't matter what type of genre you like, what type of books you like.

Me, personally, I love science-fiction, I love fantasy.

And I can turn to, you know, pages in any of these books and read out loud, exaggerate

what I'm saying, and just the act of doing this, of speaking out loud what I'm reading

makes me feel, again, more confident speaking in front of an audience, for example.

So I'll just open to a random page here and...

Okay, so in this book, just so you know, there's a horse, his name is Artaq.

The wolves came after, soundless, fluid, black terror.

Will was sure that this time they would not escape.

Allanon was no longer there to help them.

I'm trying to exaggerate: "They were all alone."

And focus on every letter when you're reading, because this type of reading, reading out

loud, exaggerating, if you are a professional, this is a great way to build that clarity

in your speech when you're speaking in front of people, and pacing yourself, how fast you

speak as well is important, obviously, when you're giving a presentation.

Again, this one can apply to both native speakers of English, but it's more specifically geared

towards English as a second language speakers, and that is: Paying attention to word endings.

So, specifically past tense words, like "wanted", okay?

Or plural words, like "hawks" instead of one hawk, because a lot of, again, English as

a second language learners sometimes forget the "ed" ending when they're reading.

I've taught classes where, you know, students have to read out loud, and they're so focused

on reading and getting the words correct, but the pronunciation, they just drop the

ends of words sometimes, especially "ed", especially "s".

So let me see if I can quickly find an example.

Okay, here's one: "When he stayed on his feet..."

So: "When he stayed on his feet" this is one part of the sentence.

Again, you have the verb "stayed", so some new learners of English will sometimes read

that as: "When he stay", "When he stay", and they just drop the end.

So please, please, please focus on those "ed" and "s" endings, and this will really help

your fluency, the ability of others to understand you, as well as your enunciation.

Number three: Pay attention to punctuation.

Now, punctuation refers to the use of commas, periods, question marks, exclamation marks

By paying attention to these things, you can actually focus on improving your intonation

So, the intonation refers to the up and down movement of your voice when you are saying

In the second part I said: "Raise intonation for yes or no questions."

So if you notice when you're reading that, you know, this person is asking a yes or no

question, then your voice should be moving up at the end.

And, you know in speaking, this also improves that.

So, for example, in this book there is...

Okay, here's a yes or no question, the question is: "Did you find her?"

So, I see a question mark, I see a yes or no question, and let's say I want to read

And it sounds ridiculous, I understand, when you're reading out loud, exaggerating, but

after some time, you know, that exaggeration, that focusing on your enunciation, which is

kind of like making your sounds as clear and distinct as possible, focusing on every "l",

every "e", every "s" in a word, that will actually improve your pronunciation and the

ability of other people to understand you long term.

Another thing punctuation does: Pause briefly after periods, and pause after commas.

So, again, if you're giving a list of things, if you're reading and it says: "They went...

He went to the store and he bought apples, pears, and oranges", you could say:

"He went to the store and he bought apples, pears, and oranges", or:

"He went to the store and he bought apples, pears, and oranges."

It might not sound like there was a pause, but I did pause very briefly between each

So, paying attention to those things also teaches you, again, how to clearly enunciate

Now, again, your fluency is how smooth your language sounds when you're speaking.

So if you're just saying: "Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah", it's fast and you think:

I mean, people do speak like that, it's more difficult to understand them, but it's better,

obviously, if you pay attention to short pause.