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摘 要:书面表达训练是一项系统工程,只有贯穿于英语教学始终并有所侧重地加强训练,才能切实提高学生的实战能力。
关键词:系统 基础 技巧
书面表达是高考英语试题的重要组成部分。是对学生语言基本功的综合书面测试,审题、想象、表达、评价等能力是解题的基本素质。教者必须在平时教学中有意识地、持之以恒地系统训练学生的能力,学生才能在激烈的高考竞争中,立于不败之地。笔者在高三训练书面表达中采用了以下五个步骤:
一、紧扣教材,循序渐进
英语书面表达能力的提高并非是一蹴而就的,必须经过量变到质变的过程。它必须由浅入深、由简到繁、循序渐进、一环紧扣一环地进行训练。美国作家德尔文 .G. 舒伯特在其"Read is writing"一文中指出:教科书所编的阅读课文是写作素材的集散地,是语言现象的展示厅,是语法规则的剖析室,是文章体裁的示范本。由此可见,课文是我们学习的最好范文。在深入理解的基础上,对课文进行缩写、改写、仿写、扩写和读写,不仅可以巩固所学课文,而且更利于训练书面表达。平时我们学完课文后,总是提出与课文有关的topic叫学生集体、小组讨论;然后学生代表发表自己的观点。说是写的基础,叫学生把交流的内容整理成文,这样,有具体材料的书面表达,学生写起来就容易多了。如:学SB3A U4 Feed The World时,我叫学生讨论中国山区目前的粮食问题,然后我再出了以下这道题叫学生写。
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教师还应注重抓基本功训练,严格要求学生正确、端正、熟练地书写字母、单词和句子,注意大小写和标点符号。进行组词造句、组句成段练习(Word-Sentence-Passage)时,要求学生写出最简单的短句,为以后英语书面表达打好扎实的基础。如写"我的英语老师"时,指导学生写出一些简单句。例:My English teacher, Mr Sam, is a funny and tall man. He always wears a pair of thick glasses. He can make his lessons lively. After class he likes chatting and having sports with us. He loves us. We all loves him as well.这种练习可以安排在刚开始的一轮复习的过程中,要求学生写出含有一般过去时、一般将来时、现在或过去进行时、现在完成时等形式的句子。例:Last week I went to call on my friend. He was repairing TV sets. He told me that he began to do that in 1990. He said he would teach me if I liked. Up till now he has been a repairman for ten years.
二、模仿实战,限时训练
训练时当场发题,限时交卷,促使学生瞬间接受信息,快速理解信息,迅速表达信息,提高实际应用和应试能力。堂上布置课后完成,答题时间较盲目,不利于训练学生快速反应及实战能力。让学生明白高考书面表达题不同于汉译英与作文,切忌任意发挥,要学会整理所给材料内容,展开思维,准确有条理地表达意思。通过教学实践我总结出以下口诀:"先读提示审题意,弄清要点与格式;时态语态要当心,前后呼应要一致;句子结构和搭配,语言习惯莫违背;文章写好检查细,点滴小错别忽视。"要求学生牢牢记住。训练的时间要有梯度,时间上由松到紧,逐步做到25分钟内完成任务,决不拖沓。
三、范例引路
学生在进行书面表达训练时,教师应提供各种文体的范文,讲明各种文体的要求,如日记、便条、书信、通知的格式等,并给予必要的提示。范文在格式、内容要点、语法修辞与语言习惯上给学生以导向。此外,教师要指导用多种方法表达同一要点,不要拘泥某一种方式。以求文章生动耐看。学生经过比较规范的答卷和自己的作业,可初步衡量出自己的答题的准确度,找出差距,及时查出作业中的毛病。要教会学生根据不同体裁选择适当的行文方式,常见较易掌握具有代表性的行文方式有:(一)、 段落组织式(Planning a Para):给出topic sentence,然后找一些supporting sentences来进行阐述或论证。如:People need energy to live. They eat different kinds of food which change into energy. The energy is measured in calories. Even when you are sleep, you are using energy-about 65 calories an hour. While you are at school, or walking home, your body is burning up 100 calories an hour. When playing basketball, you might be using 400 calories an hour. (二)、时间顺序式(Development by time):即根据时间先后顺序来描写事物,多用于叙事。如:Abraham Lincoln, the son of a poor family, was born in Kentucky, USA, on February 12,1809. As a child he used to work hard and help his father on the small farm where they lived. His mother, who loved him very much, died in 1818. Happily for him, his father's second wife was kind to him too.(三)、承接顺序式(Development by process):多用来描写动作如何开展。如:He put a finger in his mouth, tasted it and smiled, looking rather pleased. Then he handed the cup around the class of students. Each student dipped a finger into the mixture and sucked it. Instead of smiling, each of them made a face. The mixture tasted terrible.(四)、空间顺序式(Development by Space):多用来描写地理位置。如:Australia is the only country in the world which covers an entire continent. From north to south the distance is 3,220 km and from east to west 3,860 km. In area it is about the same size as the USA (without Alaska), which has more than thirteen times as many people. Today about 85% of the population of 18 million live in the six major cities around the coast. Two thirds of the country is dry or desert.
四、自改互改面改
对照范文,学生先对已查出的表达有误的地方进行初改。范文表达方式虽然具有代表性但毕竟单一,学生作业中的错误也不尽相同,因此,同桌两人互改作业也是必要的。批改者对有疑问的地方作上记号,待互相讨论取得一致意见后再更正。若有争议的问题,可当场请教老师。同时,教师当面公开批改两位学生事先写在黑板上的作业,使学生进一步明确如何避免与改正常犯错误。通过肯定与被肯定,他们的写作兴趣自然就会提高。最后,要求学生再对全文通读几遍,琢磨一下是否符合要求,尽量做到准确无误。如发现错误,可作最后修改,誊写工整,交老师查阅。
五、及时讲评,各有所获
落实讲评,及时反馈信息,是提高学生书面表达能力不可缺少的一项工作。具体做法如下:
1、如果时间紧,则抽查部分学生的习作,重点抽查中下水平的学生的习作,采用个人当面批改的形式,争取全面丰收。
2、批阅过程中,认真记录习作中存在的带有普遍性和典型性的错误,讲评课时印发给学生讨论修改,然后教师发表见解。要求学生对照自己,将错题收集到各人错题记录本里去,以便借鉴查阅。
3、将较好的的习作张贴出来,或讲评时读给全班学生听,给予鼓励。
4、面向全体,使不同层次的学生在每次习作中都能有所获。
通过长期的书面表达训练,学生的基本功不断得到巩固与提高,促进了学生写作能力的提高。众所周知,英语的听说读写是相互影响、相互作用的有机统一体。训练英语书面表达要贯穿于英语教学的始终。如我国英语界老前辈葛传教授在其专著《英语写作》(The Writing of English)中谈到解决中国学生用英语写作的困难时说:"You ought to read very carefully. Not only very carefully,but also aloud,and that again and again till you know the passage by heart and write it as if it were your own."这就强有力地说明了熟读成诵对写作是多重要的重要性。因此,教师要多鼓励和指导学生多读多练,才能熟能生巧,运用自如。
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