IELTS Exam Preparation|Daily Reading
For students preparing for IELTS, aside from practicing past questions, it is also recommended to maintain a daily reading habit.
Here Leapy will not recommend any specific reading materials for daily practice; everyone can choose your own materials according to your English level.
Before reading, it is suggested to select an article of moderate length:
First reading:
Read directly, marking unfamiliar words as you go. The purpose of this reading is to gain a basic understanding of the article's main idea.
Second reading:
Read the article from start to finish again. This time, slow down your reading speed. When encountering the marked unfamiliar words, try to guess their meanings and parts of speech from the context, then look up their definitions and annotate their meanings in Chinese.
Third reading:
Read from start to finish again. When encountering unfamiliar words, write them down in a vocabulary book, along with their definitions. If you are unsure how to use a word, also note down how it is used in the text.
Fourth reading:
Read the entire article at a normal speed, paying attention not to deliberately look at the definitions of the unfamiliar words. At this stage, you will find that you have started to remember these new words."
Finally, without looking at the original text, read the new words directly and make sentences orally.
So this is the process of reading an article.
However, it's important to note that any knowledge needs to be consolidated. You need to review the articles you've read and the new words you've noted down according to the forgetting curve.
This means you should review the content on the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 7th, and 15th days. If you can't remember this, you can find an Ebbinghaus forgetting curve review plan template online and check in daily.
In addition, Leapy practices speaking every day, like talking to myself. You can talk about things that happened during the day, describe your feelings, or discuss the news you saw today and your opinions on it.
When practicing speaking, Leapy opens his vocabulary notebook and tries to use the new words encountered that day as much as possible.
Through this method, you can fully realize the combination of output and input, allowing you to apply the new knowledge you've learned and fully convert it into your own knowledge reserve.
So, it's true that in reading, quality matters more than quantity.
