在第二部分開始前,考官會(huì)先說明題目要求,例如:“And now here’s your topic. I’d like you to talk about a news story that interested you.”
以福島核泄漏事件為例,考生在話題卡上寫下了下面這些單詞:
nuclear disaster (核災(zāi)難) safety (安全)
radiation – vegetables – traces (輻射——蔬菜——痕跡)
contamination (污染) wind (風(fēng))
ocean (海洋) tsunami (海嘯)
media (媒體)
A news story that real ly impressed me in 2011 was about the nuclear disaster in Japan, in Fukushima. Um, I remember very clearly that night, when the news came out, I was at a bar in Shuang jing, and we started getting news. People were receiving news on their phones. Some people were trying… onto the net. They were going online, and I know my first reaction was to call my mum and to ask her to close the windows in the house and also I remember texting my best friend who has a young brother and, you know, sort of saying to her, “Hey, you need to check out what’s happening online. Maybe there’s a nuclear disaster happening in Japan.” And in fact here in China we were lucky. I mean the wind blew a lot of the, um, the radiation into the ocean rather than towards us here, but even in China they found there had been some traces of radiation in vegetables. But I mean it was an absolutely terrible disaster and the Japanese people were… Actually my dad has been to Sendai. It’s so heavily populated… The whole of Japan, it’s not a very big country in terms of landmass, but it’s got a big population, and people were overwhelmed. That tsunami, terrible… The farmers that lived in that area, I mean they couldn’t leave their land because otherwise who would feed their animals and so they just had to kind of sit there and hope for the best. So it was a terrible disaster, and of course it has made people all around the world much more cautious about nuclear power… Um, I saw on CCTV 9 that people in Europe are worried about nuclear power at the moment too, and they want to get rid of their nuclear reactors.
考官點(diǎn)評(píng):
1) 注意news 和story 要連讀。
2) 表示要結(jié)合個(gè)人的經(jīng)歷來談?wù)摚黾恿松鷦?dòng)性及可信度。
3) 進(jìn)行時(shí)態(tài)是中國(guó)學(xué)生時(shí)常忘記使用的時(shí)態(tài)。
4) 一句話中進(jìn)行不同時(shí)態(tài)的轉(zhuǎn)換,可以起到放慢語速的作用。
5) you know 用來填充思維出現(xiàn)的短暫空白。
6) 不關(guān)注新聞就很難積累到radiation(放射)這樣的詞匯。
7) rather than 表示轉(zhuǎn)折,這種表達(dá)對(duì)中國(guó)學(xué)生來說比較新穎。
8) there be 句型和完成時(shí)態(tài)的結(jié)合,表示一種客觀事物已存在一段時(shí)間。
9) 表示程度嚴(yán)重的時(shí)候,heavily是比較合適的選擇。另外,“大雨”是heavy rain 而不是big rain。
10) overwhelm 表示受到了程度比較大的打擊,同時(shí)具有強(qiáng)調(diào)結(jié)果很嚴(yán)重的意味。
11) 說明該考生興趣面很廣,因?yàn)樗粌H知道福島的情況,也知道其他國(guó)家對(duì)此事的反應(yīng)。
考官總評(píng):考生是如何應(yīng)對(duì)這一話題的呢?他談到了自己對(duì)該事故的反應(yīng)、災(zāi)難對(duì)中國(guó)潛在的影響、災(zāi)難對(duì)日本人的影響以及可能對(duì)歐洲產(chǎn)生的影響。要做到這些,考生平時(shí)就要積累大量的信息??忌窃诟u核事故發(fā)生后參加雅思口語考試的,所以對(duì)這個(gè)事件并不陌生,仍記得風(fēng)將放射物吹入了海洋,并在中國(guó)的蔬菜中檢測(cè)出了核輻射物(traces of radiation 讓人印象深刻)。顯然考生也了解日本農(nóng)民處理災(zāi)后影響的困境,以及災(zāi)難對(duì)他們生活的影響。日本不是一個(gè)大國(guó),仙臺(tái)市靠近福島,這都是常識(shí),所以考生知道這一點(diǎn)??忌€意識(shí)到,考試中可能會(huì)問到歐洲核安全的問題,所以也進(jìn)行了準(zhǔn)備。
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