What is the biggest headache for you in college? I believe that most people's answer will be English, and Xiao Li is also one of them. Xiao Li is an ordinary junior in college, and looking back on his first two years of college life was not as relaxed and pleasant as his high school teacher described to him. He has always felt that studying in college is more painful than high school. Because Xiao Li's English is relatively poor, and their school's degree certificate is linked to the score of level 4, and failing to pass level 4 means that he cannot get the degree certificate, so English level 4 has always been a big stone in his heart, which makes him breathless.
Freshman and sophomore students are working hard to learn English, insisting on getting up early every day to memorize words, but the efforts of the past two years have not been able to pass the English level 4 exam, and in the blink of an eye it is the third year, if the junior year has not passed the level 4 exam, and the senior year has to prepare for the graduation project, then there is no time to learn English, and the degree certificate is really a bit hanging, so he made up his mind that no matter how hard he put in, he must pass the English level 4 in the third year. In the first two years, he mainly focused on memorizing words, and did not pay much attention to English listening, which is indeed his weak point, but the listening part does account for a high proportion, so he decided that in addition to insisting on memorizing words every day to maintain a basic English level, he also decided to prescribe the right medicine and specialize in English listening.
But how do you practice English listening? Xiao Li's mind was also blank, so she consulted Yang Yangyang, an English student in the Department of Foreign Languages. Yang Yang shared his English listening learning experience with Xiao Li. She said that English listening is actually more than just listening, and we can speak it after listening to it to prove that you understand it. When I took the 4th and 6th grades, I took the listening questions of the 4th and 6th grade exams in the previous ten years as my daily practice materials, and I followed the recordings every day until it formed a conditioned response.
In the following days, Xiao Li got up at half past six every morning and came to the playground to practice reading the listening questions of English Level 4 over the years. In addition, he also hangs a headset all day long, making full use of the time he eats and walks to listen to English, hoping to turn English into his instinctive reaction through constant repetition. After a semester of hard work, Xiao Li finally passed the English Level 4 test with a score of 580 in the second semester of his junior year, and obtained a good score of 210 points in the listening part.
Of course, Xiao Li also did quite well in the reading section, scoring 220 points. This is due to his continuous insistence on memorizing words in recent years, in fact, Xiao Li has also tried to memorize words in different ways in recent years, but she still thinks that the method of using root affixes to remember words is more suitable for herself, because the words themselves are extended on the basis of root affixes, so mastering root affixes, basically can, see words and be able to think of the meaning of words.
Today we are going to continue to learn the root affix to memorize English words, today the root of the word we are going to learn is sacr, the root sacr means sacred, and having mastered this root, we can use it to help us understand words based on English.
The word sacred, this word consists of two parts, the root sacr means sacred, and the suffix ed is an adjective, and the two parts combine to form the adjective sacred.
The word is sacrifice, this word is composed of three parts, the root sacri means sacri, the root fic means to do, the suffix e means verb, and the three parts are combined to denote to do something sacred, so the word means the verb sacrifice.
The word desecrate, this word consists of three parts, the prefix de means negation, the root secr is a variant of the root sacr to indicate sacred, the suffix ate means verb, and the combination of the three parts means to negate the sacred, so the word means blasphemy.
Today we learned the root sacr means sacred, and the words made up of the root sacr, have you memorized all these words? Remembering words with root affixes makes it easier for us to remember English words. Of course, in order to make it more convenient for everyone to learn, the machine farmer has also sorted out more examples of root affixes to remember words efficiently.