如何提升日常生活的英语口语？其实你只要1个网站1本书

怎样解决这个问题呢？

一个可行的方法是：多接触与这些日常生活场景相关的英语材料，通过学习这些材料积累相应的表达。

这里推荐一个网站： www.wikihow.com

wikihow是什么？

wikihow可能是 世界上最大的how-to指南网站。

你可以在网站上看到大量教你“怎么做某事”的文章，比如 how to wash a motorcycle, how to become a dentist, how to play basketball, how to fish 等等。

目前网站上有超过5万6千篇文章，几乎涵盖了所有你能想到的主题。而且更重要的一点是，这些文章绝大多数都是用英文写的，用词和句式都非常简单自然，是 非常理想的学习日常生活表达的材料。我们可以用wikihow来准备口语话题。

举个例子，假如你现在拿到了一道口语题目：

Describe an indoor game that you enjoyed as a child.

你想介绍一种室内游戏：国际象棋（chess），但你对于国际象棋的规则和各个棋子的英文表达不熟悉。这个时候就可以用上wikihow了。

在网站上搜索How to play chess

在返回的结果中选择阅读量最高的文章：How to Play Chess for Beginners: Rules and Strategies

在这篇国际象棋入门教程里面，我们可以找到很多有用的信息，比如对象棋的总体介绍：

Chess is a very popular game and is widely accepted as one of the oldest games still played. Although it has a set of easily comprehended rules, it requires a lot of practice to win against skilled opponents. To win, a player must use his pieces to create a situation where the opponent's King is unable to avoid capture (a condition known as checkmate).

以及对棋盘和棋子的介绍：

The board is an 8x8 grid and each space is uniquely identified by a letter followed by a number using a notation called the rank and file system. Each piece has a specific name, an abbreviation (in chess notation), and specific move capabilities.

从上面这些介绍中我们可以知道，国际象棋的规则是：

To win, a player must use his pieces to create a situation where the opponent's King is unable to avoid capture (a condition known as checkmate)

棋盘的英文介绍是：

The board is an 8x8 grid and each space is uniquely identified by a letter followed by a number using a notation called the rank and file system.

棋子的英文说法是piece，在教程里面我们还可以找到各种棋子的数量以及称呼：one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns.

综合以上这些信息，我们可以给出这样的回答：

I enjoyed playing chess when I was a child. Chess is a two-player strategy game, and it is played on a chess board, which is an 8x8 grid. The rules of the game go like this: in order to win, a player must use his pieces to create a situation where the opponent's King is unable to avoid capture, a condition known as checkmate. Each player begins with 16 pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns, and each of the six piece types has specific move capabilities…

后面再谈谈自己下象棋的经历以及喜欢下国际象棋的原因，就可以顺利完成这道口语题目。

除了下象棋之外，很多口语话题都可以在网站上找到素材，比如对于话题：

Describe a leisure activity near the sea.

你可以说在海边烧烤（barbecue），怎么描述烧烤的过程呢？在wikihow上搜索how to barbecue，你会看到非常完整的教程。

同理，对于其他各种各样的活动你都可以在wikihow上找到指南，这些指南用到的英文可能简单到可怕，但它们都有力地传达出了丰富的信息，这也是我们需要学习的地方。

除了参考wikihow之外，要学习日常生活词汇，还可以借助一些专门的书籍，比如下面这本《 朗文日常情景单词书》

这是朗文推出的一本图解词典，全书一共收录了4000多个常见的生活单词，并有配图说明：

书中列出的场景词汇非常丰富，从衣食住行到世界宇宙，几乎无所不包，这些词汇无论是对于考试还是日常生活都很实用，推荐感兴趣的同学阅读学习。

本文系授权发布，From 英文悦读