Recently, friends who have just finished CET-4 and CET-6 have complained that listening is a heavenly book. Come with me today to see why college English listening is so difficult?
After the test, there is a survey on Weibo: do you think CET-6 listening is difficult this year? Many people have chosen difficult.
Some netizens vividly used a video to compare the differences between xuezha, Xueba and ordinary people in English Listening:
The first version I heard was this:
Learning slag listening version
Secondly, let's look at what Xueba heard:
Xueba listening version
So what do we ordinary people hear?
Ordinary people edition
Several pictures show the basic situation of different people in English listening. Is listening to CET-4 and CET-6 really that difficult? What's so hard about it?
Most people have difficulty in speaking English listening because they regard learning English as simply memorizing words and even reciting grammar sentence patterns. They never listen to it most of the time. In their eyes, it is much more important to be able to read English than to master English listening. Therefore, over time, we can't listen or speak. This is what we often say in dumb English.
English is a tool for communication. Since it is used for communication, the first thing to learn is to listen. Only by listening carefully and understanding what others say, can you get the information of his speech and know how you should answer next.
Illiterate Americans can listen and speak, while most Chinese students can't understand and speak clearly, and can't express their ideas accurately.
Of course, you might say that English learning is really difficult. Admittedly, it is undeniable that it is really difficult for a student whose mother tongue is non-English major. However, for a foreigner, why doesn't he find it difficult to learn Chinese?
Therefore, every language has its own characteristics. If you want to learn it well, you must master its laws. Learning tyrants can learn well, naturally by mastering the corresponding methods, supplemented by the corresponding practice. There has never been a quick success in the world. Many times, they need to use the most stupid methods. Just like listening, the stupidest way is to listen more. On the reform of listening policy of CET-4 and CET-6
From June 2016, CET-4 and CET-6 will make partial adjustments to the listening questions: the short dialogue and short dictation questions that have been used for many years will withdraw from the historical stage. Instead, three short stories are added to CET-4 listening, and academic lectures are added to CET-6 listening.
The total score of CET-4 and CET-6 is 710, and the scores of four parts of the single score are: listening 35%, reading 35%, comprehensive 10% and composition 20%. After the reform, the total score of CET-4 and CET-6 English listening remains unchanged, and the scores of "listening chapter" and "lecture / speech" in CET-4 and CET-6 have increased, accounting for 20% of the total score.
According to the current situation of the examination, most people are very serious in English listening. So what is the difficulty of CET-6 listening? Many candidates responded that the reform of the new question type is more difficult. Let's take a look at how to break this question type that puzzles many candidates!
Understand the investigation mode of news lectures
Since the TOEFL reform, there have been a total of 10 new IELTS questions, but we should not be familiar with the international IELTS test. Since the reform, there have been a total of 10 new IELTS questions, so we have been in contact with the international IELTS test.
The basic investigation mode of this type of CET-6 listening questions is to give you a speech or lecture draft with 450-500 words and 3-3-4 questions. Most of them are about details. Because they are not like the articles with the nature of discussion in the short part, the details will be more difficult to hear than the short part, and there will be some synonymous substitution. Therefore, this part is still the key to the positioning we talked about before, The sensitivity of location words is particularly critical, but CET-6 is a little faster. Therefore, if you are not familiar with location words, you may not be able to hear clearly or be skipped directly.
Consolidate basic knowledge
If your basic knowledge is not very solid, you can't understand the news lectures and speeches of CET-6 listening. So what method can help you master the basic knowledge quickly?
It is suggested that you choose to analyze the detailed Juwei English "true questions of band 6 / sentence by sentence". The analysis in the book is very detailed. The vocabulary notes and grammar analysis are basically the same as the notes in the reference book. You can not consult any review materials, which saves you a lot of review time. Moreover, learning vocabulary and grammar knowledge by using the real topic context will not make you feel boring, and you can deeply understand these knowledge points in combination with the context, so as to achieve the purpose of thorough mastery.
Learn the problem-solving skills of news lectures / conversations
The study of problem-solving skills can help you improve the speed and accuracy of CET-6 listening. If your basic knowledge is stable and the article can be understood, but the title is wrong, it is suggested to learn some problem-solving skills.
The "full score summary of art of war" attached to Juwei English systematically summarizes the problem-solving skills of various types of questions, which you can learn. Of course, the problem-solving skills of CET6 listening are no exception. Here are some simple problem-solving skills for you, hoping to help you.
1. Lecture listening is the same as essay listening. The order of questions is as follows: Question 1 is at the beginning of the article, question 2 or 3 is in the middle of the article, and the last question appears at the end of the article. Pay attention to this principle when doing questions.
2. The first and second sentences of the opening chapter are often the summary of the whole lecture or the introduction of the theme. Therefore, there must be an examination point. This is also in line with the outline given by the CET6 examination committee, which points out that we should not only test the ability of listening to grasp the details, but also the ability of grasping the main idea.
3. If you encounter new words that you can't understand and hear in listening, don't tangle, which will lead to not keeping up with the rhythm and understanding the next content. As a result, the new words may not be the test site. Especially in lecture listening, after a new concept is put forward, there will be simple language to explain the terms in the lecture, and the content of these explanations is the real source of the examination site.
4. Learning to preview is to read the listening options of the same lecture and find out the relationship between them. Especially when there are repeated capital letters, nouns, etc., these may be new words or listening tips in the article.
5. After grasping the theme of the article and the key words and core concepts in the paragraph, you should also quickly activate your relevant knowledge in the topic field and make a reasonable prediction of what you may hear. Being able to use the skill of prediction to reasonably speculate the content of the following text, so as to achieve the ideological exchange with the author, which plays a multiplier effect for us to master the whole article with half the effort.