原版英语口语情景对话第0173集：介绍阅读策略.doc

1、Alexandra就读于法律院校并将成为一名律师，他每天都要阅读许多法律相关书籍并且每个字都要认真读到，他有什么技巧呢Todd: So, Alexandra, youre going to be a lawyer.Alexandra: Yes, I am.Todd: Very impressive and youre in law school and you were saying that in law school the reading load is very difficult.Alexandra: Yes, for each class you have to read a fe

2、w thousand pages over the course of three months, a semester, and it can be very difficult because you have five classes or more depending on your schedule so you end up reading from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep and try not to fall sleep in your book, so that can be difficult

3、, so I try to read for awhile, maybe 50 minutes and take a ten minute break, stand up, walk around the room, and then get back to it or else its too much information. It wont go in my head.Todd: Yeah, how do you retain everything?Alexandra: You just go back. You take notes for every 50 minute block.

4、 You stand up at the 10 minute block and stretch, come back and try write down what you read and try to, you know, do small little bullet points of what you read and that sort of keeps it in your mind.Todd: Thats a good strategy. Wow. Do you do anything to actually increase your reading speed?Alexan

5、dra: No, you cant. With law you have to read each word, because each word has a particular definition. It could be a procedure in a courtroom which has particular steps, so if you omit words, or skip things you might miss the whole point of the case, so you cant speed read as it were. Thats why you need to do it, you read for a long time. You just have to be careful and try to take enough breaks to give yourself a rest.