9. Write your own questions写下你自己的问题
This is another activity that I suggest everyone should try at least once. You should of course practise with “real” exam questions too， but there is a lot to be learnt from writing the questions first and then trying to answer them. The way it works is that if you write the question yourself：
这个我建议每个考生至少尝试一次。当然你也是要做真题练习的喽。但是一开始写下自己的问题，然后再尝试回答，也会学到很多。
you are more likely to try and answer it properly and give a full answer because you understand what the question is asking – good practice
你会更愿意去给出完备的答案，因为你非常清楚，这个问题是想要问什么。
you learn to add details to your answers by thinking of more question words. So when you answer the question “Are you a student or do you have a job?”， you are more likely to say “I’m a student at Wuhan University and I have been studying there for the last 3 years” – adding information by thinking of the question “How long” even though you weren’t asked it.
你会打破脑袋想出更多的词汇来增加答案细节。所以呢，比如你要回答，”你是学生还是工作啦?“，你会说，哦，我是武汉大学三年级的学生。虽然问题中没问，但是你加上了念了多久这个信息。
10. Improve your coherence and fluency – easy as 1-2-3 0r 3-2-1 提高你的连贯性和流利度
This is another of my favourite classroom speaking activities. Ideally， you need one or two more people to practise this with， but you can do it by yourself. The idea is that you don’t just practise speaking for 2 minutes. Rather， you start off by speaking for 3 minutes about that topic， then you do the same thing for 2 minutes， then for 1 minute. In the perfect world， you would also speak to a different person each time.
这是也我最爱的练习方法之一。理想状态下，你需要和一到两个或者更多人一起练习，不过你自己一个人也做得到。你不仅仅说2分钟，而是3分钟，以后你再把同样的话说2分钟，然后1分钟。理想状况下，你可以每次对不同的人练习。
How does it work? The first time your answer is probably slightly incoherent and lacks fluency. The next time you speak though， you know what you want to say and， if you have listened to someone else speak， you now have more ideas. The result is that when you speak， you answer becomes more fluent and coherent. Then when you do it for 1 minute， your answer needs to become even more coherent because you now have lots of things to say but not very much time to say it.
这个方法为何有效呢?第一次你的答案可以不那么连贯，也不怎么流利。后一次，你知道你要说什么，如果你听过其他人的，你就有更多的想法啦。结果就是你的答案更加流利连贯。等到你花一分钟来说的时候，你的答案就更连贯啦，因为此刻你有好多好多话要说，而时间却不那么充沛了。
I should add that this activity works best if you have different people to speak to. It works because each time you speak to someone different， it becomes a different conversation – even if you are talking about the same thing.
如果有不同的练习对象，这项练习就会效果更好。每次你都跟不同的人练习，就等于练习了不同的对话，哪怕你只是谈论同一件事情。
