Tham khảo tài liệu 'how to study enghlish 7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | HOW TO STUDY Creative Thinking If you re a right-brain thinker you re probably pretty good at coming up with ideas. If this is you Use your imagination. Pretend the text is a speech or a play and you re the announcer or actor. Come up with your own ideas on this Rhythm Musical rhythms songs or the beats in poetry come easily to you. If this is you Tap your foot or fingers as you read your text as if it were a song or poem. This works with numbers too. Art You like to look at or make drawings sculptures or paintings. If this is you Draw pictures of what something you re reading means to you. Turn the text into your own cartoon. You ve come a long way already. Now you know which side of the brain dominates your thinking and you have used that knowledge to find learning styles that will help you learn more efficiently. In the next three chapters you ll be exploring those styles one by one. WHAT IF ENGLISH ISN T YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE . Now you have a general idea of what your learning styles are. But you spoke another language before you learned English. Reading in English takes a little longer than reading in your native language. Some native English speakers talk a little too fast for you to understand them. What can you do The trickiest part of learning a new language is the simplest. CLOSE YOUR EYES. Let your ears do the work. No matter what kind of a learner 16 DISCOVERING HOW YOU LEARN you are you learned your native language by listening. That s why a native language is sometimes called a mother tongue because the first sounds a baby hears the first words a baby hears are usually from the mother. Do you like to watch television Close your eyes. Let your ears do the work of understanding what s happening. It can be easy to figure out what is happening just by looking. If you learn best by hearing maybe you are already comfortable speaking and listening to English. Maybe you are more concerned with reading and writing in English. If you learn best by seeing maybe
