Editor's note: During the holidays, many students will embark on a journey to read classic English works and enrich their life experiences in reading. This newspaper specially invited Ma Li, a special teacher in Beijing and a teacher and researcher at the Tongzhou District Teacher Training Center in Beijing, to support everyone.
Ma Li (Beijing Special Teacher, Teacher and Researcher of Tongzhou District Teacher Training Center, Beijing)
Reading classic English works can help us benefit a lot, reading will encounter rich and authentic expressions and massive vocabulary, through continuous cycle consolidation, repeated deepening impressions, can quickly improve our vocabulary, promote the accumulation of vocabulary, and combine the use of context will help us deepen memory and understanding. Reading the classics can cultivate a sense of language. In the process of reading, the classic concise language will make you taste it repeatedly, the vivid image description will make you smile, the emotional changes of the characters will resonate, those rich language expressions will unconsciously enter life, and students will fully feel the richness and vividness of the language. Reading the classics will help us understand the world, develop our thinking, enrich our cultural connotations, and absorb spiritual nutrition.
Classic fairy tales Spread the wings of imagination
The German philosopher Hegel once said: The most outstanding artistic skill is imagination. Students grew up with fairy tales, those classic stories teach us truth, goodness and beauty, we find kindness and innocence in reading, experience friendship and mutual help, understand that true friendship is giving and sacrifice in "Charlotte's Web"; learn kindness and dedication in "Happy Prince", understand wisdom in "Alice in Wonderland", learn rigorous logic, understand the perfect combination of wisdom and fantasy, and fly with the protagonist in fairy tales full of interesting word games, puns, riddles and ingenuity.
Science fiction classics Explore the wider world
Science fiction works open a window for us to understand the unknown world, and stimulate our desire to imagine and explore the future. Curiosity prompts us to look for suspense set up in the book, to figure out the emotions of the characters, to seek the results of the story development, and even to carry out ideas such as continuation. When reading "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", you must admire the author's fantasy of the ocean to the extreme, experience the confidence of human beings to understand and control the ocean, and be impressed by the tenacity and bravery of the protagonist's will! Jules Verne's language is vivid and interesting, both the language of art and the language of science, and the explanation of various underwater things is in the wood, but the exquisite portrait makes us fall in love with reading; Potter's wizarding world has seen the growth experience of young magicians, and has experienced storms with their favorite Harry, Ron, and Hermione; lamented the courage and strength of human beings in the face of evil in the glorious defense of Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings, and science fiction works have stimulated our desire and passion for exploring the unknown.
Read biographies in dialogue with the hearts of great men
Reading biographies can not only enrich cultural knowledge, but also a process of dialogue with great people, feeling the inspiration of the masters, and a process of increasing wisdom and courage. Feel the growth experience of great people, read the growth story of great people, experience the joy and hardship of every discovery, feel the passion and ups and downs of every turning point, we are all breathing with the protagonist and sharing fate, this is a process of growing wisdom and courage, but also an experience of self-growth and breakthrough. Reading "Helen Keller's biography" to feel her love and enthusiasm for life, reading "Marie Curie" collided with the noble heart, felt her dazzling human brilliance and scientific sanctity, her rigor, perseverance, tirelessness, these noble qualities will inspire us throughout our lives. Read Jobs's biography to feel his power to change the world and his harsh pursuit of perfection... Celebrity biography is to learn a person's life experience and wisdom, which is the inheritance of wisdom and faith, and it is also the best spiritual comfort and spiritual strength that books bring us.
For reading classic English works, the following suggestions are for students' reference:
1. Find your own point of interest
Read English classics according to the topics that interest you. Especially in the face of longer English reading content, choosing the topic of interest to yourself is the most important guarantee for completing the reading. Choose your favorite topics and content, whether it is fairy tales or scientific explorations, or celebrity biographies, reading classic English works will make you have the pleasure of reading and improve your reading ability.
2. Choose the appropriate difficulty
It is especially important to choose classic content of appropriate difficulty according to your reading ability and reading level. English classic reading has a version suitable for readers of different levels, both the original text, there are also abbreviated books, shorthand books, there are also suitable for middle school students to read picture books, classic picture books are illustrated and textual, can effectively reduce the difficulty of reading. For students who have just begun to read English classics, they can choose a minimalist version suitable for their own 3,000 words or less, which is very suitable for introductory reading; for students with a certain reading foundation, they can choose the abbreviated version, which does not have a large number of long and difficult sentences, slightly new words, but does not affect comprehension; if the level of students can also challenge themselves to read the original book.
3. Start with an introduction
Starting from the introduction can help us become familiar with the names and place names expressed in English, understand some of the writing backgrounds and character relationships, and simplify the difficulty of reading. The introduction also provides a simple story introduction, so that we can initially understand the content of the book, clarify the context, promote everyone's interest in the details of the story, generate reading expectations, stimulate curiosity, and motivate us to be interested in completing the reading of this book under the impetus of the storyline. At the same time, the introduction can also allow us to find out whether we really like the book and whether it matches our English level. Therefore, reading classic English works starts with an introduction.
4. Take notes and participate in discussions
In the process of reading classic works will encounter some obstacles, such as unguessable new words, longer sentence patterns, new usage of words or a plot that is not quite understood, at this time we need to record it in time, both can consult dictionaries, dictionaries, can also discuss with classmates, or use the Internet to seek help, you can find a lot of students who read a book with you, answer questions together, chat about experience and feelings, timely records and discussions will help you meet new friends and find the joy of reading together.
5. Build confidence to read
This is the most crucial point! Some students will have the idea of giving up after the first few days of reading, or forget to continue reading, or encounter difficulties and lose interest, which is very normal, but if you give up the book you like because of a little obstacle, it is a pity! Therefore, arranging two pages a day, or one chapter, is the best arrangement. Don't covet too fast, calm down, savor, you will be able to breathe with the protagonist and share the fate, will appreciate the wonderful and beautiful reading, with the ups and downs of the plot will make you really love to read.
Students, fall in love with classic English reading, feel the charm of classic reading, and let yourself grow and progress in the company of books. Inspired by the classic reading, explore the unknown, understand the wisdom and profound connotations in the book, perfectly combine the wisdom of growth with fantasy, combine learning knowledge with pleasant reading experience, and take the book as a companion to harvest a holiday of soul fullness, knowledge and character growth.
Editor: Zhao Pingyi
Editor: Liu Hao
Editor: Hao Bin
Final Judgement: Wang Yu, Su Jinzhu, Bao Danhe
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