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1、提高英语听力:把握重读和语调你知道英语的语音语调的重要性吗?英语是一门强调重音和语调的语言,把握好句子的重音,会让你的听力水平提升一个台阶哦。Saythissentencealoudandcounthowmanysecondsittakes:大声的朗读这个句子,看看你花了多长时间:ThebeautifulMountainappearedtransfixedinthedistance.Timerequired?Probablyabout5seconds.Now,tryspeakingthissent
2、encealoud.需要多久?5秒钟?现在试着大声朗读这个句子:HecancomeonSundaysaslongashedoesn'thavetodoanyhomeworkintheevening.Timerequired?Probablyabout5seconds.需要多少时间?大约5秒钟.可是第一个句子比第二个句子短哦。ThissimpleexercisemakesaveryimportantpointabouthowwespeakanduseEnglish.Namely,Englishisc
3、onsideredastressedlanguagewhilemanyotherlanguagesareconsideredsyllabic.Whatdoesthatmean?Itmeansthat,inEnglish,wegivestresstocertainwordswhileotherwordsarequicklyspoken(somestudentssayeaten!).Inotherlanguages,suchasFrenchorItalian,eachsyllablereceivese
4、qualimportance(thereisstress,buteachsyllablehasitsownlength).这个简单的例子说明了我们是怎样说和使用英语的。在英语中,一些词读的很快,一些词会重读。在法语和意大利语中,每一个音节都同样重要,没有轻重之分,但是每个音节长度不同。Manyspeakersofsyllabiclanguagesdon'tunderstandwhywequicklyspeak,orswallow,anumberofwordsinasentence.Insyllab
5、iclanguageseachsyllablehasequalimportance,andthereforeequaltimeisneeded.Englishhowever,spendsmoretimeonspecificstressedwordswhilequicklyglidingovertheother,lessimportant,words.讲这些语言的人就不明白一个句子中的一些词为什么需要快读,或者慢下来。对这类语言来说,每个音节都同样重要,所以需要同样的时间。但是,英语在一些特别的需要
6、重读的词上花的时间多些,一些不重要的词就快速略过。Let'slookatasimpleexample:themodalverb"can".Whenweusethepositiveformof"can"wequicklyglideoverthecananditishardlypronounced.Ontheotherhand,whenweusethenegativeform"can't"wetendtostressthefactthatitisthenegativeformbyalsostressi
7、ng"can't".Asyoucanseefromtheaboveexamplethesentence,"Theycan'tcomeonFriday"islongerthan"TheycancomeonFriday"becauseboththemodal"can't"andtheverb"come"arestressed.举一个简单的例子。情态动词can。在我们需要强调can的肯定意义的时候就会快速略过,发音不明显。可是,当你要用can的否定形式的时候,我们就会重点强调"不能"这个事实,也就是"c
8、an't"So,whatdoesthismeanformyspeakingskills?Well,firstofall,youneedtounderstandwhichwordswegenerallystressandwhichwedonotstress.Basically,stresswordsareconsideredCONTENTWORDSsuchas·Nounse.g.kitchen,Peter·(most)principalverbse.g.visit,construct