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rm clock before going to bed the previous night2. Get out of bed when the alarm goes off3. Take a shower4. Get dressed5. Have some breakfast6. Walk to the subway station7. Buy ticket8. Catch next train to Beijing Station9. Get out at Beijing Station10. Walk to the UniversityThis part of the training involves several steps.Step 1 Read the paragraph silently.Step 2 As you are reading the paragraph, try to remember certain key points.Do this in English.Do not need to remember everything。 you may lose some points.Step 3 Tell the story in English from the key points from your memory.Step 4 Repeat the above steps until you feel fortable that you can tell this story smoothly.Repeat the above training processes using another example as shown in the following paragraph.Good software engineering is based on a number of key principles.One such principle is getting a good understanding of the customer requirements. It is also important to deliver in regular increments, involving the customer as much as possible. Another principle is that it is necessary to do testing throughout, with unit testing being especially crucial. In addition to the previous principles, you need to be able to maintain good munications within the project team and also with the customer.As a homework or a classwork, get any other simple English stories and do more of the above training exercise. 訓練模塊4:傾聽并復述中國人在聽英語方面也存在一些困難。而很大程度上來說,“聽不懂”這個問題通常也是由于存在一個語言轉換環(huán)節(jié)造成的,即中國人在理解和記住聽到的英語內容之前,必須先把英語句子翻譯成漢語。這個多余的轉換環(huán)節(jié)是影響聽力的主要障礙。因為當我們剛剛弄懂第一句英語的(中文)含義時,人家的第二句話可能都已經說完了。結果就是,即便我們知道每一個單詞的意思,往往也很難搞清楚人家說了些什么。另一個問題是對方說話的速度比我們翻譯和跟聽的速度更快。因此,本小節(jié)的訓練旨在幫你:直接用英語記住所聽到的要點;減少你在傾聽過程中對翻譯的依賴。下面就來看一看示例練習。這個示例的場景如下:You are working as an engineer in a software pany. The pany is making a software game product. Your manager is giving you a work wants you to write a user guide for the product. After listening to the manager’s instruction, you are to make a response to the manager about this assignment. You restate what you understand in your own words.下面就是經理安排你去做的事情:Our pany is making a software game product. The software has been tested, and there are only a few minor bugs to be fixed. After that, a candidate build for the release will be made for final testing. The product is scheduled to be released in four weeks.I want you to write a user guide for this product.First of all, you need to install the software in your puter, and play the game to get yourself a good understanding about how it works. If you have any question or need any help, you can talk to Peter King who is the responsible engineer.The user guide should include an introduction about this product.To help the user to install and run the software, you need to provide some details such as: what are the basic requirements on the user puter? How to install the software? How to configure the platform environment to run the software?The user guide should also prise a description about how to play the game, including the rules of the game and the method of scoring. There should also be a section about frequent asked questions and trouble please include the contact information about our customer technical support.I want you to give me a first draft in two weeks.Do you have any question about this assignment?訓練步驟第一步 仔細聽別人讀出上面的內容。(如果不是在課堂上,可以找一位朋友來讀。如果一時找不到朋友,也可以自己認真地讀出來。)第二步 在傾聽過程中,盡量挑選和記住關鍵信息。不要試圖記住單詞和句子,因為這幾乎是不可能的。對于記住的那些信息,問一問自己這些信息在腦海里是漢語還是英語形式的?問一問自己在復述過程中,需要進行多少次中英文的轉換?第三步 回憶一下自己都記住了哪些信息。第四步 根據記憶,用英語復述全部內容。將上面的第一步到第四步重復幾遍,直到差不多能夠完整地復述出全部內容為止。而且,每一遍練習,都要竭盡所能地不用漢語詞匯記憶信息。 Training Module 4: Listen to a topic and Restate it in EnglishChinese people also have difficulties in listening prehension. To a large extent, this problem is also due to their unfortunate necessity of translating the English sentences into Chinese words and meaning before they can digest and store the information. This extra step impairs their listening prehension capability because by the time they get the meaning (in Chinese) of one sentence, the speaker probably has already finished the next sentence. So it will be difficult for you to follow the story, even though you may know every single word of what the speaker says.Another problem is that the speaker may be speaking faster than what you can translate and follow.The training procedures provided in this subsection help you to: Remember the key points of what you hear y in English directlyReduce your dependency on the translated Chinese words from thelistening processLet us look at the example exercise below.The scenario in this example is as follows:You are working as an engineer in a software pany. The pany is making a software game product. Your manager is giving you a work wants you to write a user guide for the product. After listening to the manager’s instruction, you are to make a response to the manager about this assignment. You restate what you understand in your own words.The below paragraph is what the manager tells you to do:Our pany is making a software game product. The software has been tested, and there are only a few minor bugs to be fixed. After that, a candidate build for the release will be made for final testing. The product is scheduled to be released in four weeks.I want you to write a user guide for this product.First of all, you need to install the software in your puter, and play the game to get yourself a good understanding about how it works. If you have any question or need any help, you can talk to Peter King who is the responsible engineer.The user guide should include an introduction about this product.To help the user to install and run the software, you need to provide some details such as: what are the basic requirements on the user puter? How to install the software? How to configure the platform environment to run the software?The user guide should also prise a description about how to play the game, including the rules