When you are learning English, reading plays a very important role. When you read, you can not only learn some new words, but also learn how to use these English words in writing. Here are some good reading tips for you.

Try to read at the right level. Read something that you can understand. 【小题1】 Try to increase the number of your new words. If there are four or five new words on a page, write them in your notebook. 【小题2】 Instead, try to guess their meanings as you read and mark them with a pen. Then come back when you have finished reading to look them up in a dictionary and write them in your own vocabulary book. Then try to remember them.

【小题3】 For example, read for a short time once a day. Fifteen minutes every day is better than two hours every Sunday. Fix a time to read and keep to it. You could read for fifteen minutes when you go to bed, or when you get up or lunchtime.

【小题4】 Choose a book or a magazine about a subject that you like, because you are going to spend time and money reading it. Therefore, choose an interesting one. You can also read newspapers. There are many English newspapers in China. 【小题5】

English is very important to us in the modern world. Many people want to learn it well. Here are some things that I want to say about learning English.

You need two things to learn English well—passion and good learning methods（方法）, and passion is the more important one. Why? Because passion makes you want to learn English, the learning methods only tell you how to do it better and faster.

If you love learning English, you’ll do it regularly and spend more time on it. Learning English will be easier for you. It’ll be easy for you to remember new words and grammars. ______. For example, some people like history and know everything about World War II. If you told a “normal person” to memorize（记忆）all these facts, they would never do it. We know you may not love learning English. And even if you love it, you won’t do it sometimes. This is how human psychology（心理）works—sometimes we’re very lazy and tired, so we don’t want to do anything though we like it very much.

When you don’t feel like learning English, you can do the following things:

First, imagine that you can talk to native speakers just like you talk in your native language. Imagine other people speak English as well as you do. Imagine the possibility of writing e-mail to people from all over the world.

Second, remember there’s a lot that you don’t know. You’re good, but your English probably isn’t good enough. Maybe you can’t understand English-language TV programs, read books in English, talk to English native speakers easily, or write letters without mistakes, etc.

Lastly, use English whenever you can. This is very, very important. The more you use English, the more you’ll want to learn it. Because English is so popular, you can use it everywhere. You can watch American cartoons, you can sing English songs, and you can read interesting books written in English.