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TED Talks在英语学习群体中,应该是有口皆碑了,甚至到了逢人说项的地步;但是,到底多少人把这么好的资源利用上了,用的效果如何?这就是另外一个问题了。
下面,我们就以下几个问题展开介绍:How to get access? What can I learn from it? How to make the most of it? 谈谈笔者最近看的两个节目,交流一下学习体会。希望对大家有所帮助,避免入宝山而空手归的尴尬。
第1则 How do I get access?
途径
这其实不是难题,中文网络世界里搬过来好多TED视频,大家都可以轻易获取,百度搜就行。当然,想一窥全貌的话,不如直接去官方网站:https://www.ted.com/
这个网址不需要翻墙。但是其中的视频因为是内嵌的YouTube,而后者被限制,所以播放不畅,推荐大家用手机端app。
第2则
What can I learn from it?
How to make the most of it?
收获
https://www.ieltsadvantage.com/2015/04/26/ted-talks-english-students/ 首先声明,以下部分参考上面网页,进行节译综述。
TED题材广泛,总能找到你感兴趣的问题;这些视频不但可以明显提高听力水平,还可以进行发音、词汇、语法和写作练习。
听力
看标题,可以进行预判,听的时候进行对比,这样就是active listening;视频告一段落时,也可以暂停,预判、对比;有连读或别的发音改变现象时,可以进行精听。
发音
精听的部分,调出字幕,进行对比,分析属于弱读、连读或者别的情况,模仿跟读。
词汇
遇到生词,先用上下文进行猜测,然后调出字母、查字典;不只要积累难词,更要积累地道的表达;
语法
注意演讲者的时态运用;连接表达;长句组织。
写作
复述总结;也可以去视频的评论区参与讨论。
第3则
体会
最近看的两个视频,演讲者都是Ken Robinson,原来是英国华威大学艺术教育教授,现居加州,专注教育改革。
整体感觉,发音方面,英伦味道纯正,铿锵有力;台风很好,虽然下肢不便,但自信洒脱。印象尤其深的是第二个视频的末尾,引用叶茨的诗He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven。
HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
他演讲的主旨是现在的教育扼杀儿童的创造性和梦想,结尾引用这首诗,凸显现在教育的加害者身份:最美好的东西,委之于地,被戕害;心里最柔软的部分不觉被打动。
回头来看,这首诗,也是很好的学习素材。诗歌是最自由的文体,诗人对母语有特权Poetic license。所以诗歌的句子,在语法常规来看,常常很“险”。弄懂诗句,再看常规句,就轻而易举。
以此诗为例,头四行,一个超长的倒装条件句“Had I …”,主句却只有一行“I would spread…”。条件句内,第二行是embroidered cloths的后置定语(enwrought罕见词,但构词法看出en+wrought),三四行是它的同位语。
另外一个感想来自于评论区。本来看过视频,觉得演讲者说的很有道理,无可辩驳;但下面的一个高票评论的见解,好像更上一层。
It disappoints me to see so many people here in the comments treat math as being a non-creative activity. Personally, I think of math as being intensely creative.
The problem is that any subject can be un-creative if taught in a way that discourages creativity. Rote memorization of multiplication tables is not creative. But if music teachers give their students no choice of what notes to play and how to play them, is music really a subject that enhances creativity? The focus should be not on trying to build the curriculum so that students spend more time on *subjects* that we deem to be creative or artsy, but rather on building the curriculum to make sure that it cultivates creative thought of all kinds *regardless* of what subjects are being studied.
-----Jeff Wacker
的确,创造性并不是和某些科目绑定的,看起来枯燥的科目同样可以是creative,关键是教学方式。感觉对我们准备雅思大作文和口语,都很有启发。
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