远航雅思中级口语第四期Lesson12.doc

远航雅思中级口语第四期Lesson12

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Lesson Twelve
Part One:Event
35. Describe an exciting trip/long-distance trip you made.
You should say:
when you made the trip
where you went
how the trip was
and explain why it was exciting.

Last summer I had a very nice holiday with my parents in Sanya, Hainan Province. It is a very famous coastal city in the southern part of China. The place is very beautiful, and each year thousands of tourists spend their holidays there.
We spend four whole days in Sanya. We spent our time visiting tourist sites along the coastal area. The blue sky, navy sea, white beaches, my eyes are filled with beautiful landscapes. My parents and I also took the golden chance to swim and enjoyed the sunbathing on the comfortable beach. One more thing worth mentioning is that I also tried scuba diving there. It was so fascinating. I swam very close to the coral beds and beautiful fished swam besides me elegantly. Never shall I forget such a unique experience. Well, of course, that did cost me a lot. Apart from seeing the sceneries, we also had many delicious sea foods like lobster, crab, oyster and so on. Even today, I can still clearly remember the feast I enjoyed in Sanya.
For four years, because my parents and I had always been busy about our own business, our family hasn’t had a chance to spend such a nice holiday together. That’s why this trip to Sanya has been a very exciting one for me. I’ll always treasure this long-distance trip as my best memory.

36. Describe an enjoyable visit.
You should say:
who visited you
what for
what you did
and explain how your friend felt, why.

On my 25th birthday I invited a lot of friends over to my home. The party was scheduled for 6 o’clock. On the morning of that day, I ordered a birthday cake from the baker’s in my neighbourhood. Then I went shopping in a supermarket and bought many balloons, 25 lotus-shaped candles, vegetables such as cabbage, tomatoes, cheese, shrimp, bacon and salad dressing. You know, all the stuff needed to make a salad. On the afternoon of that day I decorated my living room with balloons and candles and then at around 5 o’clock I started to prepare dinner. When my friends entered my home at 6, their faces lit up immediately because of what they called “a romantic ambience”. During that party I received many gifts. We sat around the table and talked of many beautiful memories from the past. We had a great time that night.

37. Describe a project you finished with others.
You should say:
with whom you finished this project
when it was
how you did it
and whether you received any benefit.

Even until this day I can still remember a project I was involved in when I was at college. I took part in a translation group because I wanted to improve both my English and Chinese. Once, we got a job from a government agency to translate a water supply manual from Chinese to English. It was a document of more than 100 pages. Then our group decided to do it together. We decided the number of steps we must go through and the person in charge. Then we distributed the task, translated our respective parts, exchanged our translation with each other, corrected the mistakes, unified the translation of the same English terms and connected our translations and give them to the person in charge for final editing. During the whole process we spent a lot of time together translating and discussing. Sometimes we even had quarrels because of our different understanding of a word. Anyway we ironed out all the difficulties and finished the job an scheduled. To our surprise, we got a bonus later for the translation as the agency was really satisfied with our work

38. Describe one thing you find interesting about cultural difference.
You should say:
what it is
how you learned about this cultural difference
and explain why you think it’s interesting.

I’ve been abroad in my secondary school for a period of time, and in my current college, which is affiliated to the China Foreign Ministry, I also have plenty of chances to get in touch with foreign people. They are either worldly renowned scholars or diplomats from around the world; the Arabian world, the European countries, North and Latin America, and Africa…Foreign culture is then becoming a very vague term. The more people I meet, the harder it is to generalize. It’s like asking a foreigner who’s spent years in China what Chinese culture is. But I can still talk about a most recent case that happened around me though it’s not interesting. One of my classmates failed a course because he’s got a technical problem identified as plagiarism. The professor is from Yale. I mention this because I discovered that though Chinese teachers don’t allow plagiarism, they don’t put emphasis on not doing it. None of my Chinese teachers has ever brought our attention to this issue but we are always warned in the first classed given by my 12 foreign teachers since I’ve entered the college, that plagiarism is seriously banned and we are given detailed training on how to make quotations and bibliography. Though the situation in China is improving, it is still far from enough. I regard this a difference in the degree of respect to people’s intellectual property. Plagiarizers are called intellectual thieves among my foreign professors but we don’t have that serious of wording in Chinese. That’s now what I see about cultural difference, and it’s also an issue we should pay special attention to.

39. Describe an important change in your life.
You should say:
what it is
what the effect on you is
how you feel about it
and explain why it is important.

Actually, that sounds kind of unusual but one of the turning points in my life was when I got my first bicycle.
I remember it was a present my father gave me on my seventh birthday. It was a brand new bicycle. You know, back in the 1980s, having a bicycle was really something, especially for a boy of only seven.
That was a very important day for me. For the first time, I could go out on my own and go as far as I wanted to. I used to polish the bicycle everyday and take really good care of it. Of course, that only lasted a few months, and then I lost interest in it.
I think the reason that it was an important change for me is that for the first time in my life, I realized what a fantastic thing it was to be free, and to go anywhere with your free will. That was the beginning of a lifelong craving for travelling. By the time I graduated from university, I had almost been to most of the major cities in China. And now I’m thinking of the world outside China. Of course, as a return for his kindness, I will buy my father a brand new car on his 60th birthday.

40. Describe a wedding that you attended.
You should say:
when it was
who got married
what happened at the wedding
and explain how you felt about it.

OK, I’m going to talk about my own wedding. My wife and I got married in late September, in Xi’an, my hometown. I remember it was very cold. We held the reception 2 months later in Beijing, my wife’s hometown.
We had quite reception, about 200 guests, I believe. My wife wore a traditional Chinese Qi Pao, but I wore a modern business suit.
We had a lavish dinner, consisting of different dishes from various provinces. Of course, there were the forma speeches, the exchanging of wedding rings, and so on. Afterwards most of the guests indulged themselves in the wedding feast. Quite a number of my friends and I got drunk. My wife was so angry but she was OK the next day though.
Also we took a lot of photos and we even video-taped the whole thing. My wife and I watched the video-tape again and again. We believe that was the happiest moment in our lives.

Part Two: Examples of Questions in Part Three
1. 概述
雅思口语考试第三部分是整个考试的高潮部分，考生的最终得分是高是低主要取决于你在这一部分的表现。
5.5分或5.5分以下的考生，在第三部分是非常困难的，一般考官说的话比考生还多，因为她要不断解释考生才能听懂，而且要不断诱导，考生才能像挤牙膏似的说点东西。面对这样的考生，考官有时候比考生还难受，但又不能提前结束，一般在10-11分钟时，考官就会早早收场。

6-7分的考生在这一部分的突出特点是问题基本都能听懂，只是个别问题需要让考官重复或解释；同时每个问题或多或少都能答上来，尽管有时候是经过考官引导或提示的。在第三部分，考生会面临一个扩展答案的问题，但多数考生在这方面都不是很主动，她们一般是在考官追问下才进行解释的，如Why? Why not? Could you give me an example? Anything else? 等，但这并不会太影响分数只要你能解释得上来。但考官还是喜欢考生自己去论述自己的观点，及：尽可能的提供例证，原因等。总之这一部分是不论你说多长，考官都有耐心听你说下去，除非是你说的她不理解。6分和7分在这部分的区别在于考生的扩展能力，词汇的广度和准确度，语法结构的广度和准确度。考官在这一部分的一般做法就是穷追猛打，逼考生发挥出最大潜能，当然也可能是原形毕露。是骡子，是马，拉出来溜溜就知道了.

2. 题目类型

雅思口语第三部分和第一部分所采取的方式是一致的，可是问题更具挑战性。第一部分主要是关于“你”的，因此多数问题都是围绕“you”展开的，而在第三部分，问题是围绕 “其它人” “你们国家的人” “男人，女人” “老人，年轻人，小孩” “过去的人，现在的人，将来的人” 等主题展开的，其问题更具普遍性，也更抽象。这部分考察的语言技能包括：

3. 典型示例
如果第二部分题目是：
Describe a famous person you would like to meet.
You should say:
who this person is
where you first saw him or her                         
how/why this person is famous
and explain what you would say to this person.
那么，考官在第三部分就可能会和你讨论以下的问题：
1.成名的利弊 2. 成名的途径 3. 过去的名人和现在的名人的不同
4.明星的责任 5. 你对偶像崇拜的看法（特别是青少年）。

Describe a place you know where the public may go to listen to music
You should say:
where this place it
what kind of people go there
what kind of music you can listen to there
and explain how you feel about this place.

那么你在第三部可能被问到什么样的问题呢？

4. 考官在第三部分如何提问
至于具体提问的方式，每个考官可能提问的方式有所不同，毕竟同一个问题能够有多种不同的表述方式：如
How does A differ from B?
=How is A different from B?
=What is the difference between A and B?
可是，在第三部分一般是要你表示自己的观点，因此最常见的提问方式就是：
Do you think….? 或者 What do you think about…?
Why do you think some people…?
Could you give me an example?
How are young people and old people different in their attitudes to…?
What do you think we can do to…?
How do you think…will change in the future? 等等。