如何提高孩子的英语口语能力呢？他现在上小学三年级？

买外研社的《丽声海豚英语分级读物》从第一级开始，再买个点读笔。先看书点读听，跟着重复，念流利后，不看书听，反复这样。听到最后能背最好。学到三或四，先听几遍，没听懂再看书。这套丛书是紧贴学校英语教材的，还有练习册，挺好的。

求一个三分钟的英语口语短文

Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoy my own company, I no longer imagine I can get through a single day much less or my life completely on my own. Even if I am on vacation in the mountains, I’m eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others, using electricity someone else is distributing to my house. Evidence of interdependence is everywhere. We are on this journey together. As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything. Make your own way, stand on your own two feet, or my mother’s favorite remark when I was face to face with consequences of some action, ‘now that you’ve made your bed, lie on it’. Total independence is a dominant theme in our culture. I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to take responsibility for my actions and my choices. But the teaching was shaped by our cultural images. And instead I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally independent, and consequently became very reluctant to ask for help. I would do almost anything not to be a burden and not require any help from anybody.