雅思口语Part2话题之【地点类】

2022-06-08 05:37:04

  雅思口语Part2话题之【地点类】!在雅思口语考试中经常需要描述自己周边的一个商店、购物中心等等,这类属于地点类话题,下面

  经常出现的地点类考题如下:

  1、Describe a foreign city/ country you’d like to visit

  2、Describe an interesting shop

  3、Describe a workplace

  4、Describe a hotel/restaurant

  5、Describe a historic site

  6、Describe a nature beauty

  7、Describe your ideal house

  8、Describe a park/garden

  9、Describe a special street

  10、Describe a river/lake

  11、Describe a place near the water

  在日常的教学过程中,我们会发现同学们在口语考试中之所以觉得无言以对主要有以下几点原因:1. 考生对该话题缺少熟悉度;2. 考生对该话题的理解容易造成偏差;3. 话题本身相对抽象。而雅思口语考试的地点类考题中可能会涉及到一些考生们没有去过的地方,或者是去过了但是没有特别深刻的印象,而这些原因会导致考生们对地点类的某些话题产生害怕的心理,从而在考试过程中无话可说,或者越说越偏,找不到重点,让考官听不到所期待的内容,于是分数也上不去。下面专家将为考生们支招,和考生们探讨一下地点类话题的难点和其应对方法。我们对所有的地点类考题进行分类,从地点的大小和地点的类别,2012年上半年常考的考题可以分成四类:

  I. 相对较大的地点

  Describe a foreign city/ country you’d like to visit

  Describe a place near the water

  Describe a river/lake

  在这一类地点题中考到了foreign city/ country, 并且还出现了a place near the water, 所以专家建议各位考生可以准备一个靠近海的外国城市,这样就能成功应对两个考察相对较大地点的考题了,像悉尼,墨尔本,洛杉矶,马尔代夫……都是很好的选择。该考题的原题如下:

  Describe a foreign city/ country you’d like to visit

  You should say:

  Which city/country it is

  How you know this city/country

  Who you would like to go with

  and explain why you like to travel there

  这道题目其实是一道常规考题,只是对城市的考察加了特定的限定词,国外的城市,这道题目的难点在于很多考生可能没有去过,所以心里没有底,于是在考试中会觉得无话可说,各位考生可以多搜集一些资料,准备好相关背景知识,自然能够轻松应对。对城市的描写可以从地理位置,特点以及你对该城市的感受着手,组织好语言,自然高分不难。并且考生们可以增加对海景的描述,从而当考到a place near the water时也可以顺利的进行转化。

  而river/lake这一题目,各位考生可以选择有特色的江、河或者是湖泊,比如说西湖,除了可以描述它秀美的风光,还可以把白蛇传的故事插入进去,就更加引人入胜。

  II. 稍小一点的地点

  Describe a park/garden

  Describe a special street

  在稍小一点的地点中,park/garden是让广大考生头疼的一道考题,原题如下:

  Describe a park or a garden

  You should say:

  What the park is called

  Where the park is located

  What features the park has

  and explain why you love the park or the garden

  这道题目的难点在于要描述一个公园,除了简单带出公园中的风景和娱乐设施,还要描述公园中的一些特色,建议考生在介绍普通的公园之外,还可以准备一些主题公园,比如说Disneyland, 首先各位考生可以从地理位置上进行简单的介绍,可以选择全球任意一处Disneyland进行描述,无论是否去过,背景资料的搜集工作一定要做足,比如说它的来历:

  Disney World and Disneyland

  Two theme parks built by the Walt Disney Co. (see Disney Co.), a U.S. corporation that became the best-known 20th-century purveyor of entertainment. Disneyland, an interactive, family-oriented fantasy environment that opened in Anaheim, Calif., in 1955, was Walt Disney's response to typical amusement parks, which entertained children but not their parents. The park, which has architecture that is a blend of futurism and nostalgic 19th-century reproductions, has different sections devoted to specific themes. Walt Disney World opened near Orlando, Fla., in 1971. Besides containing Epcot Center (an idealized city), Disney-MGM Studios, and the Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom theme parks, Disney World was the first amusement park to incorporate hotels (including two designed by Michael Graves) and sports and other recreational facilities into its master plan.

  相关的资料各位考生可以自己进行搜集和整理。而special street这一题目,各位考生可以选择用一条街来烘托出整个城市的特色,每个城市都有一些有特色的街道,来自各个城市的考生都应该有自己独特的材料来说。

  III. 建筑物类

  Describe an interesting shop

  Describe a workplace

  Describe a hotel/restaurant

  Describe your ideal house

  在建筑物的话题中,考生们往往只能根据题目作出简单的回答,之后便无话可说。这一方面是因为许多考生与建筑相关的知识和词汇积累非常有限,没有可以表达的内容;更重要的一方面则是许多学生受到表达能力的限制,无法迅速的进行paraphrasing, 因此回答起来张口结舌,极大地影响了个人的考试表现。hotel/restaurant这个经典考题从08年至今一直活跃在雅思口语的考场中,原题如下:

  Describe a hotel/restaurant

  You should say:

  Where the hotel/restaurant is

  What the hotel/restaurant is famous for

  What you can enjoy at the hotel/restaurant

  and explain why you often go to this hotel/restaurant

  在对此类建筑话题进行描述时,往往要求考生描述以下方面:建筑所在地点(where), 参观此建筑的时间(when)/多久去一次(how long), 参与的人(who), 以及为什么喜欢/不喜欢这个建筑(why)。这种类型的问题对大多数考生来说都比较简单,只需把重点放在喜欢或者不喜欢的原因即可,学生很容易找到相关思路并且做出清晰流畅的回答。而对于特定的建筑物而言,专家提醒同学们要注意,需要重点描述的是为什么在这么多的图书馆、餐馆、博物馆、宾馆、建筑物中,你不选择其他作为描述对象,而偏偏选择这个,也就是说这个地点或描述对象本身具有较多的特征或特别之处,才值得一提,所以,在选择对象的时候,要注意一些其自身的特色,以及可以提一下在此建筑物中的经历。

  IV. 景点类

  Describe a historic site

  Describe a nature beauty

  在景点类考题中,考生们在备考中要准备一个人文景观(historic site)和一个自然景观(nature beauty),自然景观可以参照城市类的考题进行准备,而A Historic Site这个考题考生们可能不太熟悉,题目如下:

  Describe an interesting historic site

  You should say:

  where it was

  what you saw at this site (or, what it looked like)

  what role it played in history

  and explain what interested you about that place

  这道题的难点在于对于历史建筑的描述,在强调它的历史作用时多少会涉及到历史知识以及一些专有名词的表达。而不管各位考生是选择中国的还是国外的历史建筑,鉴于平日里谈论得极少,考试前没有足够的准备就很难开口。所以各位考生在考前可以结合其它描述地点或建筑的话题一起准备:Describe a museum/an old building/your favorite building/an important traditional building等,例如北京故宫里的建筑,即是古老而传统的建筑,又是很重要的博物馆,也可以是自己最喜欢的建筑。不过故宫和颐和园之类的话题考官已经听过太多了,所以考生们可以参照类似的例文,跟考官描述一个当地的著名历史建筑,例如长沙的岳麓书院,杭州的雷锋塔,南京的明孝陵之类的,提前做好充足的功课,搜集相关的背景知识,遇到其它问题也都可以迎刃而解。

  Sample:

  Well, you know, China is a country with a long history, and I have visited some of those historical places. Here I would like to talk about one of them-the “Summer Palace”. To be frank, it is too hard for me to describe this famous historical place in only one or two minutes. I will just give you a brief introduction of Summer Palace.

  It was built in 1764, located in west of Beijing, far from the city center. It was known as the biggest Royal Garden. There are a large quantity of trees and flowers. The long corridors, pavilions together with the lake make a marvelous landscape. It has been destroyed for several times. After 1949, our government rebuilt it and protected it well. Now it is a famous historical place in the world heritage list. I think it is worthy to take visit there.

  而nature beauty这一考题,各位考生可以和上面提及到的a foreign country/city以及river/lake进行转换,是非常容易答题的。

  以上为雅思口语Part2话题之【地点类】分享,雅思口语话题其实是较为固定的,所以同学们根据考试题库中现有的话题结合练习就可以在考试中必定能轻松应对地点类话题。


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