Read ahead
How to read ahead and paraphrase the paragraph well is the mainly goal of the English interpretation class in this semester. The teacher asked us to practice reading a short paragraph for about five minutes every day. First of all, reading a paragraph fluently is the basic part of the class. After that we have to learn to read ahead and paraphrase the paragraph or an article.
Reading ahead is very useful for the speakers to give a speech. For example, after I practice it several times, I found that I could read a paragraph more fluently than before because I could see the front words before I read them. Besides, we have to practice reading in front of the class when we take the course. It is very exciting and challenging for me. But I think I could do it well and by practicing it every day I could improve my ability well.
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Aha! You have provided a description of the goal of "oral interpretation". I still don't understand what it's about, but this is a good start. I will have to ask someone in the English department to explain it to me. The name has no obvious meaning.
"the mainly goal" ==> "the {main/primary} goal"
I had to put my son to bed. Now I'll continue.
"for the speakers to give a speech." ==> "when giving a speech." I hate to disagree with you, but unless you're a speaker who has others write your speeches and you don't read them before you deliver them, this is simply not true. A good speaker already knows what she's going to say, so there's no need to read ahead and summarize, unless you're running out of time and have to compress your speech.
How often do you think you'll be asked to read technical articles out loud? How often do you think you'll be asked to read something out loud that you haven't read before? I never have to do that. At all the meetings we used to have with the former president of STUT, however, he used to read newspaper articles to us. But he had read them before, so he summarized them.
Yes, I agree with the rest of your last paragraph. The more you do something like reading aloud in front of the class, the better you will become at it. I have been practicing reading aloud for the past four decades. I enjoy doing it. But I hate reading technical articles aloud. I do like reading stories and novels and plays and poems aloud, though.
Your post is very well written. Very good.
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