2013雅思考試:考官的口語秘籍(6)

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    9. Write your own questions寫下你自己的問題
    This is another activity that I suggest everyone should try at least once. You should of course practise with “real” exam questions too, but there is a lot to be learnt from writing the questions first and then trying to answer them. The way it works is that if you write the question yourself:
    這個我建議每個考生至少嘗試一次。當然你也是要做真題練習的嘍。但是一開始寫下自己的問題,然后再嘗試回答,也會學到很多。
    you are more likely to try and answer it properly and give a full answer because you understand what the question is asking – good practice
    你會更愿意去給出完備的答案,因為你非常清楚,這個問題是想要問什么。
    you learn to add details to your answers by thinking of more question words. So when you answer the question “Are you a student or do you have a job?”, you are more likely to say “I’m a student at Wuhan University and I have been studying there for the last 3 years” – adding information by thinking of the question “How long” even though you weren’t asked it.
    你會打破腦袋想出更多的詞匯來增加答案細節(jié)。所以呢,比如你要回答,”你是學生還是工作啦?“,你會說,哦,我是武漢大學三年級的學生。雖然問題中沒問,但是你加上了念了多久這個信息。
    10. Improve your coherence and fluency – easy as 1-2-3 0r 3-2-1 提高你的連貫性和流利度
    This is another of my favourite classroom speaking activities. Ideally, you need one or two more people to practise this with, but you can do it by yourself. The idea is that you don’t just practise speaking  for 2 minutes. Rather, you start off by speaking for 3 minutes about that topic, then you do the same thing for 2 minutes, then for 1 minute. In the perfect world, you would also speak to a different person each time.
    這是也我最愛的練習方法之一。理想狀態(tài)下,你需要和一到兩個或者更多人一起練習,不過你自己一個人也做得到。你不僅僅說2分鐘,而是3分鐘,以后你再把同樣的話說2分鐘,然后1分鐘。理想狀況下,你可以每次對不同的人練習。
    How does it work? The first time your answer is probably slightly incoherent and lacks fluency. The next time you speak though, you know what you want to say and, if you have listened to someone else speak, you now have more ideas. The result is that when you speak, you answer becomes more fluent and coherent. Then when you do it for 1 minute, your answer needs to become even more coherent because you now have lots of things to say but not very much time to say it.
    這個方法為何有效呢?第一次你的答案可以不那么連貫,也不怎么流利。后一次,你知道你要說什么,如果你聽過其他人的,你就有更多的想法啦。結(jié)果就是你的答案更加流利連貫。等到你花一分鐘來說的時候,你的答案就更連貫啦,因為此刻你有好多好多話要說,而時間卻不那么充沛了。
    I should add that this activity works best if you have different people to speak to. It works because each time you speak to someone different, it becomes a different conversation – even if you are talking about the same thing.
    如果有不同的練習對象,這項練習就會效果更好。每次你都跟不同的人練習,就等于練習了不同的對話,哪怕你只是談?wù)撏患虑椤?BR>