一.為什么要有細(xì)節(jié)?
空洞的語言會讓考官感到厭倦,增加細(xì)節(jié)會讓答案更加完整、具體,也更易于讓考官快速理解你的觀點!
二.如何展開細(xì)節(jié)?
方法一:像講故事一樣回答,即用具體例子解釋抽象單詞
例子1:I love to hang out with my friends.(quite abstract)
-提問:What will you do when you hang out with your friends? How will you feel?
-展開:I’d especially enjoy playing basketball with my buddies. We laugh, shout and jump, trying to shoot ball into the basket. We will always give each other a high-five after a nice shot.
通過描述自己當(dāng)時的感受和具體的情形來增加細(xì)節(jié)。
-例子2:I have time to read.(abstract sentence)
- try to add more names of books
-展開:I have time to read all sorts of books such as Gone with
the wind, Nineteen Eighty-four 1984 and Divergent.
說出具體的書名,讓回答更有料。
例子3:I’m nervous when I step out onto that stage.
-Well, convince me if you are really nervous. What’s your body language?(more concrete)
-展開:My legs were trembling and my voice was shuttering (顫抖的) when I stepped onto the stage. In fact, my heart was pounding with the beat that even shout to myself.
描述當(dāng)時具體的情境,讓回答更具體。
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Task 2: Do you prefer card games or computer games?
思路提示:If you want to talk about computer games, one obvious answer is about excitement that computer games offer. But don’t just talk about this word over and over again. Tell the audience how you get the feeling and what kind of games are you playing exactly.
For example,
I prefer computer games because computer games offer me great excitement. Sometimes I may compete with other people to see who can be the first one to reach the final destination in a car race. Or who can be the first to find out the treasure that all dim and buried on under the ground. When I win the first prize, that sense of thrill excitement is what car games can never offer.
解釋原因時舉出實例(玩游戲的感受)會增加細(xì)節(jié);做分類(兩類游戲)也能豐富答案。
Another feature of computer games may be the background music. So tell the audience what kind of music? Why it is memorable to you? So following the point of excitement。
Besides, computer games usually contain some really nice background music. Once, I came across a computer game whose background music is the same song from the Japanese animation, Doraemon, and this really reminds me of the cute episode i watched when I was little. So I prefer computer games.
講一段親身經(jīng)歷,講故事要比說理更容易帶出細(xì)節(jié)。
方法二:innovation 創(chuàng)新
即用上你平時看得電影,臺詞,歌詞,笑話,身邊的故事
Task 1: What do you think about the fact that robots finish so many tasks for human beings. Is it a good thing?
Now is the dreary Cliché version:
I think it is a good thing that robots are finishing so many tasks. For one thing, people are freed of the most pedestrian work. So they have more spare time. Second, robots are extremely efficient so we can trust them with all the tasks.
老生常談的答案,不會為自己加分,任何人都能想到的理由,說出來沒有新意
跳出固化的思維版本
I think it is a horrible idea that robots are finishing so many things for human beings. Some people may think that robots can free them from all sorts of insipid and exhausting work so that they have more time for themselves. However, I think that they overlook one important fact, that is, with the progress of technology, robots will get more and more advanced. One day, they may even learn to think for themselves and overturn the whole human civilization. Movies like Terminator and I, Robot are great examples of this. After all, we can’t expect all the robots to follow the rules and behave properly, just like the robot, R2D2, in Star War.
與看過的電影、聽過的音樂或故事相聯(lián)系,活學(xué)活用!
扔掉陳詞濫調(diào),發(fā)揮你的無限創(chuàng)意吧!拒絕cliché!
綜上所述,我們不難看出,要想在托福獨立口語取得高分,并不是一件特別困難的事情,只要你在細(xì)節(jié)上做到內(nèi)容為王,講故事,帶出情境和具體的描述性語言,讓你的論證更具體、更有力;從生活的點滴積累素材,活用看過、聽過的好詞好句,做改寫,做變換,那么突破獨立口語這個任務(wù)就指日可待了。更多托福干貨敬請關(guān)注聽力課堂托??荚囶l道。
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