这是我在一个口译培训班里，老师针对水平相对高些的同学制定的学习计划。
Group 9 Study Plan
Designed for Simultaneous Interpretation Class
June, 2004, Beijing China
Note:
1. Please follow the schedule of this plan and stick to it for at least two weeks, before you request for switching to another plan.
2. The time is adjustable according to your own schedule. If you are a student and have lots of spare time, you can double the required time. Or, simply multiply the required time with any number you can afford. For example, in the morning, you are required to read for 15 minutes. If you have lots of time to kill in the morning, you can multiple that number by 4, and you can read for an hour.
Well, if you are unlucky to have so much affordable time, you are REQUIRED to follow the schedule with the stated amount of time, as they are the bottom line!!!
3. If you have any question for this plan, please let me know in class. Good Luck!

Step One: Morning:
Listening Comprehension: 15 minutes I
Materials: Anything you feel comfortable with and use what you have.
Action: Just listen carefully and try to catch every word. If you missed something, stop and listen again, until you get all the key information.
a. Read English for 15 minutes.
Materials: Original English Newspaper Article, like Wall Street Journal, The New York Times. If you can not obtain them, surf online and check out CNN news articles.
b. Action: Try to read in this way: First read it carefully and in a normal speed. Then, read it as twice slower as your normal speed. The third time, read it as twice faster as your normal speed. And at last, read it in a normal speed.
Step Two: Noon: (Or Any time during the day)
Consecutive Interpretation Practice: 30 minutes
Materials: Audio Material –Tapes, VCDs, DVDs…Use what you have, but it’s better to use original speeches, or interviews.
Action: Play the tape for 2 minutes, and stop, translate by yourself, and go on like this till the end of the tape.
You can do English to Chinese for 15 minutes and Chinese to English for 15 minutes.
a. English Conversation: 25 minutes
Action: Talk with someone who speaks English, preferable a native speaker, during the day.
If you cannot find any native speaker, find a Chinese partner! He /She can be your roommate, your classmate, your friend, or co-worker. Just find someone and talk to her/him in English!
Step Three: Evening
a. English Music or English Songs- 15 minutes.
Action: Please do nothing, but enjoy the English songs and music. You are done until you feel happy and relaxed when listening to English songs. If not, continue listening! & Enjoy!
b. Shadowing: - 30 minutes
Materials: New Concept English-Book Four, starting from lesson 10. & other new materials.
Action: You know what is shadowing, so I will not repeat here. But remember, you should listen to something you are familiar with first, after you are 100% accurate with the shadowing, move on with something you never heard of, or completely new to you!
c. Summarizing-B: - 30 minutes
Material: Use what you have, but let’s begin with text-based materials first.
Action: Find an English audio material, like speeches. Listen to the article for 5 minutes, and summarize in your own words the main idea of the article. First in English, and then, in Chinese.

d. Relax! It’s the end of the day, and enjoy another English song before you go to bed!
e. Read one page of an English newspaper, while you are listening to the English songs before you go to bed.
You are required to watch one English movie for each week