跟讀練習: IELTS Reading: Where Your Marks Are Actually Leaking - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Stuck at a 6.5 in IELTS reading?
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Let's fix it.
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Reading is different from writing and speaking.
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Your score is the number of correct answers, not an average of criteria.
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To move from a 6.5 to 7, you need a few more correct answers per test.
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We'll go through exactly where those marks are usually leaking and how to get them back.
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Let's do a quick overview on how reading scoring works, works because the strategy depends on understanding it.
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Reading is not marked against criteria like writing or speaking.
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Your score is simply the number of correct answers converted to a band score.
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40 questions, 60 minutes, three passages.
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For academic reading, around 30 correct answers gives you a band seven.
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For general training, the conversion is slightly different, more like 35.
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But the principle is the same.
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you need a few more correct answers than you're currently getting.
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This is actually good news.
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Reading is the most directly trainable section.
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There's no examiner judgment, there's no marker variance.
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Either your answer matches the answer key or it doesn't, which means improvement comes from the right strategy plus practice,
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not from improving general English.
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The four blockers I'll cover today aren't about your reading ability, they're about how you handle the test.
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Blocker number one, time management.
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This is where most students lose the largest single chunk of marks.
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60 minutes, three passages.
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That gives you 20 minutes per passage on average.
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But here's what students often do.
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They spend 25 minutes on passage one because it's the easiest and they want to be sure.
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Then 23 minutes on passage two.
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This leaves them only 12 minutes for passage three, which is also the hardest passage with the most challenging questions.
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The result?
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They rush through the last 14 questions and they leave four or five marks on the table.
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The fix is non-negotiable.
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Spend 18 to 20 minutes per passage.
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Stick to it.
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When the clock hits 20 minutes, move on, even if you haven't finished.
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back later if you have time, but never let one passage eat into the time for another.
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A practical tip, if you're running out of time on the last few questions, guess strategically.
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Never leave answers blank.
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There's no penalty for wrong answers in IELTS reading.
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A guessed answer just might be right.
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A blank answer is definitely wrong.
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One more time-related habit, pre-read the questions before you read the passage.
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Spend two minutes scanning the question types and topic clues.
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That two minutes saves five minutes of confusion later.
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Blocker number two, and this one feels counterintuitive, is that most candidates approach a passage by reading the whole thing first carefully,
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then turning to the questions.
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That's the slowest possible strategy.
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The passages are long.
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They contain information you don't need for the questions.
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Reading carefully from start to finish takes 10 to 12 minutes, which leaves you only eight minutes to answer the actual questions.
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The faster strategy?
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Skim the passage in two to three minutes.
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Skim means to read the title, the first sentence of each paragraph, and the last paragraph.
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Don't worry about details.
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You're building a mental map of where things are.
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Then go to the questions.
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For each question, scan back to the relevant section of the passage and read carefully only there.
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You're using the passage like a reference book, not a novel.
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This approach saves you around five minutes per passage and dramatically improves accuracy.
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Why?
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Because when you read the whole passage carefully first, by the time you get to question 12, you've forgotten exactly what paragraph 4 said.
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Now you're hunting through the passage anyway, so you may as well start that way.
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Blocker number three, question type traps.
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Each question type in IELTS reading has its own logic
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and students who don't know that logic lose marks they could have gotten.
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The two question types where most marks leak are true false not given and matching headings.
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For true false not given, the trap is in the third option.
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True means the statement matches what the passage says.
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False means the passage clearly contradicts the statement.
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Not given means the passage doesn't say either way.
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The mistake students make is choosing false when the answer should be not given.
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If the passage doesn't mention something, you can't conclude it's false.
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You can only conclude it's not given.
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Reread that sentence.
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It's the entire trick.
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Quick test.
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Imagine the passage says, the library opens at 9 a.m.
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The statement is, the library is busy in the mornings.
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What's your answer?
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It's not given.
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The passage tells you the opening time.
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It doesn't tell you anything about how busy it is.
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Don't infer.
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Don't add information.
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If the passage doesn't say it, it's not given.
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Matching headings is the other big mark leak.
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You're given a list of paragraph headings.
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You match them to the right paragraph.
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The trap is that students try to match key words.
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They see the word climate in heading C and the word climate in paragraph 2 and they make the match.
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But matching headings tests your understanding of the main idea of each paragraph.
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Keywords appear in multiple paragraphs.
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The right heading captures what the whole paragraph is about, not just one word in it.
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Read the topic sentence and the conclusion of each paragraph.
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The heading should describe both.
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Chapter number four is vocabulary, but not the way you might think.
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Many students sit at 6.5 because they hit unfamiliar words and panic.
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They assume the unfamiliar word is essential to the answer.
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It often isn't.
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The skill that separates band 7 readers is deducing meaning from context.
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You don't need to know every word in the passage.
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You need to know what each word probably means based on the words around it.
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Let me show you what I mean.
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Rule one, look at the words around the unfamiliar word.
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Take plummeted.
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Maybe you've never seen that word before, but the phrase right after it, by more than 50% since the 1970s, tells you it's a sharp drop.
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The surrounding words tell you whether something's positive or negative, big or small, going up or down.
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You don't need the dictionary.
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The sentence already gave you the meaning.
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Rule two, look at the structure of the sentence.
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Take resilience.
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The next sentence tells you exactly what it depends on.
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A delicate balance of temperature, light, and chemistry.
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When a passage defines or explains a word inside the same sentence or in the one immediately after, You don't need a dictionary.
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The author is doing the work for you.
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Watch for sentences that explain themselves.
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Rule three.
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If you really can't decode the word, check if the question even depends on it.
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Look at anthropogenic.
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That's a hard word.
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Maybe you can't decode it from context, but look what comes after it, including emissions from industry and transport.
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The question might just be asking for the examples, and the examples are right there in plain English.
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You can answer the question without ever knowing what anthropogenic means.
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The unfamiliar word felt scary, but the question didn't actually even need it.
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The longer-term fix?
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Build academic vocabulary by reading actual academic content for 10 minutes a day.
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New Scientist, National Geographic, The Economist, or practice passages on the E2 platform.
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This is exactly the register IELTS Reading uses, and exposure to it pays directly into your score.
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Quick aside, to find which blocker is costing you the most marks, track your practice sessions.
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Free tracker, link below.
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Now, the practice routine.
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Let's talk about your practice routine for reading.
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Daily, 10 minutes.
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Read one academic style article in English.
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New Scientist, The Economist, BBC Longform, E2 platform.
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Time yourself.
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Before you start, scan the first sentence of each paragraph for two minutes.
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Then, read carefully.
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You're training yourself to use the skim then read habit using real content.
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Three times a week, 25 minutes.
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One full reading passage under timed conditions.
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Strict 20 minutes plus five minutes review.
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Mark your answers.
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Note specifically which question types you got wrong.
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Was it always TFNG?
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Always matching headings?
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That tells you what to drill next.
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Once a week, 45 minutes.
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A full timed reading test.
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Three passages, 60 minutes flat, followed by review.
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This is a non-negotiable in the four weeks before your exam.
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Endurance matters as much as strategy.
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Most students don't realize how tiring sustained reading is until they sit the full test.
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Don't let that be the first time you do it.
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And same as writing and speaking, get expert eyes on your practice once a week,
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not on every answer on your patterns of answer where the marks are leaking.
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That diagnostic is what most candidates can't do for themselves.
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Let's do a quick recap.
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Four blockers.
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One, time management.
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20 minutes per passage.
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Strict.
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Two, don't read the whole passage first.
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skim, then questions, then scan.
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Three, question type traps, especially TFNG, where not given means the passage doesn't say either way,
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and matching headings, where the whole paragraph idea matters more than the keywords.
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Four, deduce vocabulary from context.
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You don't need to know every word.
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The free tracker I mentioned earlier is linked in the description.
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the fastest way to see which blocker is costing you the most marks on your own practice.
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If reading actually isn't your weakest section, say it's writing, speaking, or listening that's holding your overall score down, there's a dedicated video on each of those in the channel.
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The last one, listening, comes out next week.
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Same diagnostic approach applied to each section.
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And if you want a full reading practice with timed mock tests and detailed answer breakdowns,
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e2language.com has materials updated for the 2026 format.
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Sign up for free.
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Thanks for watching.
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I'm Bailey and I'll see you in the next video.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這段影片共有 177 個句子、1630 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 12:08。 說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 134 個詞，很適合跟讀。 83% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| passage 名詞 | /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ | 片斷 /片斷, 片段 |
| paragraph 名詞 | /ˈpæɹəɡɹæf/ | 段, 段落 |
| heading 名詞 | /ˈhɛdɪŋ/ | 標題 /標題, 題目 /題目 |
| carefully 副詞 | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | 小心地 |
| trap 名詞 | /tɹæp/ | 陷阱, 圈套 |
| leak 名詞 | /liːk/ | 漏洞 |
| unfamiliar 形容詞 | /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/ | 陌生 |
| depend 動詞 | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | 信任, 信賴 /信賴 |
| vocabulary 名詞 | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | 詞匯 /詞彙, 語匯 /語彙 |
| topic 名詞 | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | 主題 /主題, 話題 /話題 |
| routine 名詞 | /ɹuˈtin/ | 常規 /常規, 慣例 /慣例 |
| habit 名詞 | /ˈhæb.ɪt/ | 習慣 /習慣 |
| leaf 名詞 | /lif/ | еезы, еер |
| dictionary 名詞 | /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/ | хуадян, цыдян |
| practical 形容詞 | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | 使用的, 實用 /實用 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| come out 動詞 | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | 出, 出來 /出來 |
| go through 動詞 | 通過 /通過 | |
| go up 動詞 | 上昇 /上升, 上去 |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 41 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, you're, doesn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, sharp /ʃɑɹp/, exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: unfamiliar /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, diagnostic /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnɑ.stɪk/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
如何用這段影片練習
- 先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
- 用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 passage, paragraph, heading 這類單詞。
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | haven't finished · you've forgotten · you've never seen |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | is not marked · should be not given · is linked |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | three, which is · students who don |
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