时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:托福英语


英语课

   考试技巧:托福作文提升抓住核心重点


  托福作文提高的最好的办法也许就是作文批改了。理想状况下,如果我是学生,我写一句,老师帮我改一句,还能告诉我为什么原来我自己的是不对的,那再好不过了。但事实上找个靠谱的老师改作文很难。找外国人吗?老外对于语言的容忍度那不是一般的高,以至于我自认为有很多问题的一封辞职信拿给英国朋友改,结果和没改一样。其实如果学会一些硬性的标准,自己就可以搞定了。
  我们先举两个托福写作里常见的需要避免的形容词
  【Good】
  Your English is good. 如果一个老外这样跟你说,千万不要觉得自己英语就真的很好。相反,你需要反思自己的不足之处,因为如果真的很好他会说:“are your born in America”. 区别就在于后者更加具体,而前者很含糊,不够具体。我们以后再看到自己的作文中出现Good这样的词,是不是可以考虑一下换成更具体的表达?就像上面的例子那样,这种更换不一定是词换词,也可以是词换句子。比如当我们写到I found myself a good job. 就可以改成很多更好的版本,比如well-paid job, satisfying job, a job with friendly working environment…
  【Important】
  我们很喜欢用这个词,但问题是important的意思范围太大,以至于如果老板交代任务的时候说“this is important”很难引起员工的重视。我们可以换一些更加具体的“重要”,来表达不同场景下不同级别的重要。比如我们想说honesty is important to friendship.可以换成honesty is vital to friendship. 当然也可以换成句子,比如honesty is to friendship as what wheels to carts.
  我们来看一个学生写的一小段:
  I felt very angry and worried about being late for work. Then I asked my neighbor to move his can as soon as possible in an impolite way.
  结合上次动词具体化的要求,这里同学们需要觉得“扎眼”的地方有:angry, ask, impolite.
  【改一下】
  I yelled (angry) at him, warning (ask) that if his car is not moved, I would scratch a “fool” on his car (impolite).
  【改进的方法】
  1:积累足够多的形容词,辨析他们之间的不同,vocabulary.com是个很棒的网站。里面有近义词的辨析。比如significant, vital, crucial, critical, indispensable都是重要,那具体有什么区别呢?
  2:不要放过英语场景,那是学习形容词准确意思的非常好的机会。比如某期美国好声音里shakira在形容一个歌手声音的时候用的词是otherworldly,那么因为我们实际的听到了那个声音,所有会真正的理解在老外眼里什么声音是“空灵的”。
  3:在写作过程中觉得有个词不好,又没有积累的情况下,可以找相关的可能出现这个词的英语场景。比如我写了a good job, 但是不知道还能用什么词来替代good, 那我认为在wikipedia上搜索“the pursuit of happiness”《当幸福来敲门》应该会找到答案。

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