托福口语task 1和task 2中经常出现书籍类话题,比如描述一本你最喜欢的杂志/小说,描述一本你小时候喜欢看的书,描述一本对于你来说最有用的书,等等。如果遇到这类的话题,同学们该怎么组织语言呢?怎么样在保证口语答案说够45秒的前提下,内容上还能丰满一些?
我们都知道托福独立口语的准备时间非常少,只有短短的15秒钟,那在这有限的时间里,我们可以想到哪些内容来描述书籍呢?今天牛学君就来给大家支支招~
首先我们要明白一个道理:托福口语对考生逻辑论述能力要求比较高,需要我们在提供观点时,解释清楚原因,提供例子和细节去支持原因。
我们来看一个经典Task 1,来自TPO1:
Talk about a book you read that was important to you for some reason. Explain why the book was important to you. Give specific details and examples to support your answer.
这个题就是需要考生描述一本重要的书籍,还要给出重要的理由。在这里,我们要知道,考官并不真的在乎我们要说的书是什么!题目需要我们展示的是书为什么重要、如何重要,并不一定要讲述书的内容。只要我们在答题时留言流畅,和话题相关就可以得到不错的分数。
所以大家的思路转换大法是:
1.谈感受
例如:故事很有趣,我们可以这么说:The story in the book was so interesting and appealing that once I began to read it, I couldn’t stop. /The book was so fun to read that I couldn’t help laughing every time I read it. It brought me a lot of happiness.
再或者:故事很有意义,我们可以这么说:The story in the book was not only exciting but also inspiring. It taught me so much about the world we were living and showed me different ways people thought. /The story was meaningful and inspiring. It taught me to keep going and never give up, which is the most important lesson in life.
2.谈功能
例如:书本可能会对你的学业有帮助,我们可以说:The book is beneficial to my academic learning. It provides much extra information on my major courses in addition to school textbooks.
又或者:此书还可能帮你交到朋友:To be honest, I met my girlfriend thanks to this book. We were sitting in the reading room next to each other and reading the same book! What a coincidence! Then we began to talk about how much we liked the writer and his books. Next thing you knew, she gave me her number!
说到这里,有些学生会说“那我想不出来什么书怎么办?”没关系,我们可以make up一本书,或者随便挑一本你知道的但没看过的书(考官并不是博学到什么书都看过~)。因为我们在前面说过了,考官不需要你说出书的具体内容,所以你看没看过都没关系,只要能自信的“侃侃而谈”,谈谈感受,谈谈功能,流畅地说够45秒,这个任务也就圆满完成啦~