事实上，词汇一直是很多烤鸭们的心病!在教学过程中，常常可以碰到这样的情况：学生碰到某些话题有很好的想法和思路，对于应该说一些什么样的话也有很好的把握，但是由于自身词汇量的不足，感觉难以表达。下面小编为雅思口语备考词汇大全之常见词语的内容，供大家参考。
Useful idioms
1. Turning over a new leaf is like turning over a page in your life and seeing what is on the other
side.
2. You start from scratch in cooking when you cook a meal starting with only the smallest food
ingredients.
3. Better late than never means that even if you are going to be late, you should still go ahead
and do the thing, because it is better to do it late than to never do it at all.
4. The early bird catches the worm means that the person who arrives early will be successfully.
5. You are at the last straw when you are just about to lose your patience. The straw that broke
the camel’s back is the last thing that that happened that finally made you upset.
6. You are working against the clock when you are trying to finish your work within a limited
amount of the time.
7. Why can’t just do it the way everyone else does? Why do you always have to go against the
grain?
8. I hope you can help me. I want to learn the ins and outs.
9. She is kind of player who never hides how she’s feeling. Once look at her and you know if she
is winning or losing. She wears her heart on her sleeve.
10. You can’t judge a book by its cover.
11. I feel I work harder when I am under pressure. I mean get much more done when I am under
the gun.
12. Great minds think alike.
13. Don’t worry about it. It’s just a drop in the bucket. That car has more scratches on it than I
can count.
14. His nose is out of joint because we forget to invite him to the party.
15. Great-they wined and dined us all week.
16. Skeletons in the closet.
17. We will be there, come hell or high water.
18. Don’t bother. Those are a dime a dozen where we are going.
19. A penny saved is a penny earned.
20. a piece of cake
21. I didn’t mean to say that! It was just a slip of the tongue.
Useful adjectives
表达个人感情：
disappointed, embarrassed, fascinated, annoyed, inspired, thrilled, exhilarated, overwhelmed,
delighted, disillusioned, astonished, appalled, mystified, relieved
描述人物性格：
talented, ambitious, co-operative, aggressive, driven, warm-hearted, open-minded, even-tempered,
easy-going, analytical, introverted, extroverted, outgoing, empathetic, creative, imaginative,
loquacious, philosophical, sophisticated, na?ve, loyal, trustworthy, determined, motivated,
persistent, goal-oriented …
Useful adverbs
hopefully, strangely, luckily, unfortunately, usually, rarely, frankly, seriously, actually, certainly,
definitely, surely, probably, possibly, scarcely, hardly, barely, frequently, normally, absolutely,
entirely, perfectly, virtually, merely, simply, distinctly, specifically, substantially, exactly, vividly,
explicitly, consistently, reluctantly, deliberately, accidentally, (e)specially, personally, drastically,
slightly, positively, moderately, fairly, utterly, apparently, theoretically, realistically, obviously,
roughly, approximately, logically, typically, thoroughly, considerably, significantly, ultimately …