If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice. There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills you should first master the skills of reading and listening.

Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.

As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.

For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.

If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve automatically, and you can be sure that with a little effort they will become perfect.

As we all know, English is an important language that is widely used in many countries around the world. It is not only important for communication but also for success in study and future jobs. Therefore, it is important to learn English well. 【小题1】

You need to practice speaking, listening, reading and writing in English as often as possible. 【小题2】 Watch English movies, listen to English songs and read English books to improve your listening and reading abilities.

Surround yourself with English as much as possible. Change your phone and computer settings to English, listen to English news or podcasts, and try to think in English. These will help you become more comfortable with the language and improve your fluency.

Making mistakes is a natural part of the learning process. 【小题4】 Just pay attention to improving your skills. Ask for feedback (反馈) from others and use it to correct your mistakes and improve your performance.

【小题5】 Find topics that interest you and use them as a way to practice your English skills. Join a language exchange program or travel to an English-speaking country to experience the culture first hand.

In conclusion, learning English takes time and effort, but with dedication and perseverance, anyone can improve their skills.

Reading is very important to help you learn English. To learn as much as you can from reading, you need to read different kinds of English. This book provides not only different kinds of English but also a good way to check your reading ability.

There are four parts in the book:

Part 1 is Messages: In this part somebody wants to send information in writing to somebody else. There is a test on timetables and a test on text messages.

Part 2 is People: In this part all the tests are about people. For example, there is an informal letter between friends. There is formal ( 正式的) English in biography ( 传记). There is a job application as a model to help with your writing, as welt as testing your reading.

Part 3 is Places: In this part, too many different kinds of English are shown, some informal and some formal. There is the informal English of a holiday postcard. There is also the formal English in a letter of complaint.

Part 4 is Things: You will find some descriptive writing in this part. There are descriptions of clothes and of a computer.

You can do these tests in any order you like, or you can do all the tests with a formal or informal text. I enjoyed writing this book and I hope you enjoy using it,