1、7 RulesMy name is A.J. Hoge. I live in San Francisco, USA. I am an English teacher. I have a Masters degree in Teaching English. I enjoy travel, scuba diving, motorcycle riding, movies, and learning Spanish. I will teach you a new method for learning. I will teach you how to study-to speak English f
2、aster and more easily. Your First Suggestion Imagine speaking English automatically without thinking. The words come out of your mouth easily, and fast. You understand instantly. To do this, you must change the way you study English. Your first action is to stop studying English words. What? Stop st
3、udying English words. Thats right, do not memorize words. Native speakers do not learn English by remembering single words. Native speakers learn phrases. Phrases are groups of words that naturally go together. Research by Dr. James Asher proves that learning with phrases is 4-5 times faster than st
4、udying individual words. 4-5 Times Faster. Also, students who learn phrases have much better grammar.RULE 1: Always Study and Review Phrases, Not Individual Words Never study a single, individual word. Never. When you find a new word, always write down the phrase it is in. Always. When you review, a
5、lways review all of the phrase, not the word. Collect phrases. Your speaking and grammar will improve 4-5 times faster. Never again study a single word. Never write a single word in your notebook, always write the complete phrase. Learn phrases only. RULE 2: Dont Study Grammar Stop studying grammar.
6、 Stop studying grammar. Right now. Stop. Put away your grammar books and textbooks. Grammar rules teach you to think about English, you want to speak automatically- without thinking! RULE 3: The Most Important Rule-Listen First Listening, listening, listening. You must listen to understandable Engli
7、sh. You must listen to English everyday. Dont read textbooks. Listen to English. Its simple. This is the key to your English success. Stop reading textbooks. Start listening everyday. Learn with your ears, not your eyes. Spend most of your study time listening-that is the key to great speaking. RULE
8、 4: Slow, Deep Learning Is Best The secret to speaking easily is to learn every word and phrase deeply. Its not enough to know a definition. Its not enough to remember for a test. You must put the word deep into your brain. To speak English easily, you must repeat each lesson many times. You must le
9、arn English deeply. Learn deeply, speak easily. Learn deeply, speak easily. How do you learn deeply? Easy-just repeat all lessons or listening many times. For example, if you have an audio book, listen to the first chapter 30 times before you go to the second chapter. You could listen to the first c
10、hapter 3 times each day, for 10 days. RULE 5: Use Point Of View Mini-Stories I call these stories “Point Of View Mini-Stories“. They are the most powerful way to learn and use English grammar automatically. Use Point of View Stories for Automatic Grammar. Use Point of View Stories for Automatic Gram
11、mar. You must learn grammar by listening to real English. The best way is to listen to the same story told in different times (points of view): Past, Perfect, Present, Future. How do you do this? Easy! Find a story or article in the present tense. Then ask your native speaker tutor to write it again
12、 in the Past, with Perfect tenses, and in the Future. Finally, ask him to read and record these stories for you. Then you can listen to stories with many different kinds of grammar. You dont need to know the grammar rules. Just listen to the Point of View stories and you will improve grammar automat
13、ically! You can also find Point of View lessons and use them to learn grammar automatically.It is powerful. It is simple. It is successful. You will succeed. You will use correct grammar naturally and automatically. This is the secret to English grammar. RULE 6: Use Only Real English Lessons and Mat
14、erials You learn real English if you want to understand native speakers and speak easily. Use real magazines, audio articles, TV shows, movies, radio talk shows, and audio books. Learn real English, not textbook English. Learn real English, not textbook English Stop learning textbook English. If you
15、 want to understand native speakers, you must stop learning English from textbook tapes and CDs. To learn real English, you must listen to English that native speakers listen to. You must watch what they watch. You must read what they read. Listen only to real English. Listen only to real English. L
16、isten only to real English. RULE 7: Listen and Answer, Not Listen and RepeatUse Listen & Answer Mini-Story Lessons. Use Listen & Answer Mini-Story Lessons. In each Mini-Story Lesson, a speaker tells a short simple story. He also asks a lot of easy questions. Every time you hear a question, you pause
17、 and answer it. You learn to answer questions quickly-without thinking. Your English becomes automatic. How can you use Listen & Answer Stories? Easy! Find a native speaker tutor. Ask him to use this method: Ask him to tell a story and to constantly ask you easy questions about it. This will teach y
18、ou to think quickly in English! You can also find Listen & Answer lessons. They will teach you to think quickly in English.The Key To Excellent Speaking-By A.J. HogeWhat is the most important English skill? What skill must you have to communicate well? Obviously, number one is fluency. What is fluen
19、cy? Fluency is the ability to speak and understandEnglish quickly and easily without translation. Fluency means you can talk easily with native speakers-they easily understand you, and you easily understand them. In fact, you speak and understand instantly. Fluency is your most important English goa
20、l. The research is clear-there is only one way to get fluency. You do not get fluency by reading text-books. You do not get fluency by going to English schools. You do not get fluency by studying grammar rules. Listening Is The Key. To get English fluency, you must have a lot of understandable repet
21、itive listening. That is the only way. To be a fantastic English speaker, you must learn English with your ears, not with your eyes. In other words, you must listen. Your ears are the key to excellent speaking. What kind of listening is best? Well, it must be understandable and must be repetitive. B
22、oth of those words are important-Understandable and Repetitive. If you dont understand, you learn nothing. You will not improve. Thats why listening to English TV does not help you. You dont understand most of it. It is too difficult. It is too fast. Its obvious right? If you do not understand, you
23、will not improve. So, the best listening material is easy. Thats right, you should listen mostly to easy English. Most students listen to English that is much too difficult. They dont understand enough, and so they learn slowly. Listen to easier English, and your speaking will improve faster! Unders
24、tanding is only half the formula. Understanding is not enough. You must also have a lot of repetition. If you hear a new word only once, you will soon forget it. If you hear it five times, you will still probably forget it! You must hear new words and new grammar many times before you will understan
25、d them instantly. How many times is necessary? Most people must hear a new word 30 times to remember it forever. To know a word and instantly understand it, you probably need to hear it 50-100 times! Thats why I tell my students to listen to all of my lessons many times. I tell them to listen to the
26、 Mini-Stories, the Vocab Lessons, The Point-of-View Stories, and the Audio Articles everyday. I recommend that they listen to each lesson a total of 30 times (for example, 2 times a day for two weeks). So, the two most important points are: listen to easier English and listen to each thing many time
27、s. Suggestions For Powerful Listening and Excellent Speaking1. Practice “Narrow Listening” “Narrow listening” means listening to many things about the same topic. This method is more powerful than trying to listen to many different kinds of things. Students who listen to similar things learn faster
28、and speak better than students who listen to different kinds of things. For example, you can choose one speaker and find many things by him. Listen to all of his podcasts, audio books, and speeches. This is powerful because all speakers have favorite vocabulary and grammar. They naturally repeat the
29、se many times. By listening to many things by the same person, you automatically get a lot of vocabulary repetition. You learn faster and deeper! Another example is to choose one topic to focus on. For example, you could read an easy book, listen to the same audio book, listen to a podcast about the
30、 book, and watch the movie. I did this with my class in San Francisco. We read “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. Then we listened to the audio book. Then we watched and listened to the movie. Then we listened to interviews with actors in the movie. My students learned a lot of vocabulary in a sho
31、rt time, and their speaking improved very quickly. 2. Divide Your Listening Time Which is better: to listen for two hours without a break, or to divide that time during the day? Well, dividing your listening time is best. By dividing your time throughout the day, you remember more and learn faster.
32、So its much better to listen 30 minutes in the morning, then 30 minutes in the car or train, then 30 minutes coming home from work, then 30 minutes before sleep. In fact, that is the exact schedule I recommend to my students! 3. Use an iPod or MP3 Player iPods are fantastic. You can put a big listen
33、ing library on one. Then you can carry your English lessons everywhere. You can learn English while walking, while shopping, in the car, in a train, while cooking,. With an iPod or MP3 player, you dont have to worry about CDs. Also, you can find a lot of English listening on the internet. You can fi
34、nd lessons, stories, podcasts, TV shows, interviews, and audio books. Simply download the audio, put it on your iPod and learn English anywhere! 4. Listen To Movies Movies are great for learning English but you must use them correctly. Dont watch all of an English movie. You will not understand it,
35、and therefore you will not learn anything. Only watch one scene or segment per week (maybe 2-3 minutes). Follow this method: a) First, watch the scene with subtitles in your language. This will help you understand the general meaning. b) Second, watch the scene with English subtitles. Pause. Use a d
36、ictionary to find new words you dont understand. Write the new sentences in a notebook. c) Listen to the scene many times, with English subtitles. Do not pause. d) Listen to the scene a few times, without subtitles. e) Repeat a) through d) everyday for one week. On the second week, go to the next sc
37、ene or segment and repeat again. It will take you a long time to finish a movie. Thats OK, because you will improve your listening and speaking very fast. This method is powerful- use it! 5. Read and Listen at the Same Time Listening and Reading together are very powerful. While you listen to someth
38、ing, also read it. This will improve your pronunciation. Reading while listening also helps you understand more difficult material. Read and listen to learn faster. After you do this a few times, put away the text and just listen. You will understand a lot more and you will improve faster. Always tr
39、y to find both audio and text materials. Another great idea is to get both a book and its audio book. Follow the above suggestions and you will speak excellent English. I have been teaching over 10 years. Every student who follows these methods succeeds. Always! You only need 6 months-6 months and y
40、ou will speak easily to native speakers. 6 months and you will speak quickly and naturally. 6 months and you feel relaxed when you speak English. You have tried the old ways. You tried textbooks. You tried schools. You tried grammar study. It is time to try something new! Good luck. I wish you success with your English learning!
