MISH Speaking

1. before you go to bed everynight, talk to your housemate about what you have done today, you know things like, how has this day been for you, what did you do, where did you go, and all that. try to go in as much detail as you possibly could. try to talk for at least 20 minutes every night. if you do not have a housemate, then talk to yourself. it can not be silent talk, it has to be talking out loud to either your housemate or yourself. think of this as a audio version of your personal diary.

2. buy newspapers everyday, read it out loud, no matter what section, entertainment, finance, politics, whatever, doesnt matter. the point is to make you read it out loud for about 30-40 minutes a day, so you get used to the most accurate grammar you would ever find on a daily basis. the theory is, when you get exposed to something everyday, you gradually get used to it and register it in your brain, so it becomes your subcontious. so next time when you are speaking about something, you would feel weird when you are not using the correct grammar.

3. watch the news every night. you wanna listen to it carefully. if it is just a noise in the background, it wont work. listen to it and try to make sense of it, repeat after the newsreader if you could.

4. talk to people, if you have the chance. english is only a language, a communication tool, like any other tools, the more you use it, the better you get (it sounds cliche, but people wouldnt say this if it wasnt true)

LINMIN 的口語提高經歷和方法

第一是多聽多看，比如說老友記之類的劇，雖然都說太簡單，但是經常看的話有些句子在需要用的時候自然而然地就脫口而出了。或者你自己不說，別人說到 的時候至少很快就反應過來了，不會因為總要人解釋而給交流帶來障礙。我自己看過的比如說Gossip Girl, Kyle XY, Merlin,Desperate Housewife之類的，都不是特別快節奏的，我覺得就很適合。

第二，多讀書，大聲讀，語言的感覺就是那麼出來的。讀多了會很順，不會老是停。還有對語音也有幫助。

第三，是講口語的時候我覺得要做一個有主見的人

第四點：學會鼓勵自己。有的人平時講得很好，可是到考試了，就一下子發揮不好。我記得當時考試前我一直在心裡念的幾句話就是：Are you confident? Yes. Can you do it? You bet. Are you going to past this exam? Absolutely. 類似的話。

我覺得你自己顯得自信的話，考官會受影響，跟你聊天時會像平時的狀態，這樣你就會更加放鬆，把他往你想談的方向引導，反而是你一進去就很緊張， 他也不知道怎麼不讓你緊張，於是他問問題很死板，你更不知道怎麼回答，主動權全沒了。考試時我也抽到我不會的，但是主要是不太緊張，所以才能夠想到要說 的，還有可以把重點放在自己會的問題上補救在不會的問題上少說的。

另外，關於平常練考題的。我喜歡拿著一本只有題目的書，想不同的方法回答它，就是儘量開發自己腦子裡存在的答案，開始時我會不管語法不管什麼，只要 是個新的念頭我就會抓住它，等到主意開發夠了，我會開始組織句子，試著給一個邏輯性強一些的答案。我自己覺得這個方法很有用，也許快要考試的人可以試一 試。