时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:托福英语


英语课
  不知不觉的,新托福iBT已经伴随着广大考生走过了好几个年头。在这期间,相信各位考生也是几家欢喜几家愁。近年来,新托福口语1、2两题日益鬼畜化和妖孽化,有的同学拿着自己理想的分数去到了世界名校,而更多的却还在托福中苦苦徘徊。很多同学向我抱怨:“韩老师,1、2题我根本就不知道主题该怎么定,我想不到要说什么。有些话题我平时想都没想过。”那下面,我们就以口语第1题为例,简要分析和探讨独立题的切入和展开方法,希望可以对各位考生有所启迪。
  口语独立题第一题是Free Choice,即给定一个话题,要求考生在15秒钟准备,然后围绕该话题进行45秒钟的阐述,并要求以具体细节和例子加以支撑。例如“Nowadays, 大学生 are often homesick. Could you give some advices to help them relieve? ”
  单就这题而言,考生并不感到头疼,其原因就在于这是一个很现实的问题,人人都会遇到,甚至是已经遇到过这种情况。像这类学生有亲身经历的话题,主题的确定对于学生来说并不困难,大家往往会想到打电话、视频通话或者写信之类的方式。但是问题在于,题目问的是“some advices”,所以只想到一个方式来解决homesick是远远不够的,并且也不符合口语考试三大评分标准中最重要的topic development原则(OG 第三版 Scoring Rubric)。
  这时,考试的难点就来了:除了和家里人多沟通,还能做些什么来减轻思乡之情呢?往往大家就被卡在这里,本身就不可能够用的15秒钟准备时间白花花的流走,自己却束手无策。其实,另外一个方式并不难想,思维宽阔的同学可能已经想到了第二个、甚至第三个解决方式了。大家仔细想一想,当你们在做什么事情的时候会让你忘记自己的烦恼和难过?相信大家对于这个问题的答案多种多样,比如:hang out with friends, read some more books, take part in exercises,enjoy a film, or even go to bed and have a sound dream. 有太多太多的事情可以去帮助你忘记那些不高兴的事情,而当你把“思乡之情”也归类到一种负面情绪的时候,这道题就摇身一变,变成了一道简单题,即“What would you do when you are upset.” 所以说,大家在考虑话题切入的同时,要将题目中的主题词加以类别化,也就是把一些话题和主题进行归类整理。这样一来,就不会钻牛角尖了。
  正如我之前所说的,独立题近年来越来越难,更多时候同学们遇到的题目会比上面的这题更加凶残,比如:“Your 朋友 is going to have an interview. Please give him some good advises.”又如:“Your 朋友 has got a new job. Could you give him some beneficial suggestions?”
  如果说面试建议这题大家还有一些经验和经历的话,那么对于后面那道工作建议大家难免会略显生疏。那当我们遇到这种题,我们又该如何去确定主题呢?大家想一想,不论是面试还是去上班,他们都会有一个共性,那就是让自己为人所接受。那么到底怎么样的一个人才会让大家都接受自己呢?我听到有同学说:“好人!”说的对!好人!只有好人才会被大家欢迎。那我接下来的问题是:“你觉得,怎么样的一个人才是好人?”对于这个问题的答案我深信会比之前讨论的那道思乡之情的解决方案还要多,比如:considerate, genial,punctual, industrious 1, dynamic, erudite等等。所以,这道题一旦按照这个思路去想的话,立刻就变成了“Please describe the characteristics of a good person.”而像这样的简单题,同学们在平日的练习中经常会遇到,拿捏起来也更加得心应手。
  综上所述,在平时的练习过程中,同学们要做一个有心人。一方面多做题、不倦怠;另一方面在做题的同时,刻意将自己做过的题目进行归类,找出题目与题目之间的共性,做到触类旁通。这样一来,我相信,不管ETS再怎么变化独立题的出题方式,大家也会以不变应万变,沉着冷静地面对了。

adj.勤劳的,刻苦的,奋发的
  • If the tiller is industrious,the farmland is productive.人勤地不懒。
  • She was an industrious and willing worker.她是个勤劳肯干的员工。
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accidents frequency rate
active carbon adsorption
aftercourses
air-route traffic control
androstenolone
audio controller system unit
ball and inner ring assembly
Barosma pulchella
be up against
beam-dyeing
biotype(johannsen 1903)
BMX bike
bobbin
bolted joint
bump air
buttonfront
capital gain levy
clandestine dealing
clouseau
colony-forming unit-monocyte macrophage
consecrate
coolant temperature leaving reactor vessel
coquimba ishizakii
curve variation
dawdy
defensive trademark
dipropyltin diiodide
disagreeable smelling gas
double heical spur wheel
drip rail
dripcoffee maker
drive a quill
embryonic axis
floating system
gawming
genus osmanthuss
GFPM (gas fission product monitor)
gingah
Gobannian
Grossröhrsdorf
heat - resisting coating
improvvisatrice
inter-cluster correlation coefficient
Ivan the Terrible
Kambove
keto-sugar
lapb (link access procedure b)
latitudinal running board
leans against
Leucotile
liquor level regulator
live-dead stain
louis brailles
lower class boundary
Luong Thanh
luzardis
Lycoperdon bovista L.
machinery horse-power
medical doctor's certification
merge-sorting
multi-currency trading
musical intelligence
nonprimary path
outer photoeffect
overlay description language file
periodic measurement
philipsburgite
picolinium tungstosilicate(PIWSI)
previous profit and loss
primary ion-processes
principal mechanical components
pseudoisoenzymes
pulls these off
pulsed-field
random stop
real-time task
recidivation
reconstituted emulsion
recordmaker
rift-sawed plank
roll your eyes
semisofts
slotted into
smoky
software project estimation
solid ion laser
spray additive tank
spring tides
stack up against
Stephania delavayi
storage-out bus
substitutions of amino acids
subsurface sewage disposal
Sustac
to get a kick out of
twin subcarrier
unconditional jump debug
wax remover
wildcard construction
willow blue
Yéga
zabajones