雅思口语话题关于House

雅思口语话题关于house

有趣的住家Describe an interesting house or apartment you visited.

You should say:

Where this place is

What it is like

When you want to live in there

示意范文：

I have visited many houses and apartments, and I liked most of them.But here, I would like to talk about a house, which I find very interesting.This is the house of my aunt and uncle, who live in Chandigarh.

It is a double story house with four bedrooms, one kitchen, one hall and one drawing room.I find the house very interesting, because the total energy needed to run the house is obtained from solar panels.They have set up solar panels with a cost of 10000 yuan and now all their air conditioners and geysers run on solar panels.They also do not have to worry about power cuts because they are generating their own power from solar panels.Otherwise also that house is very energy efficient. During the daytime there’s so much light from the windows that they do not need to turn on the lights.The house is so well ventilated that they do not need to switch on the fan also at times.

My uncle was telling us that now they have to pay the electricity bill of 20 yuan per month, whereas earlier it was about 120 yuan a month.The maintenance cost of the solar panels is quite less.They have decorated the house with minimalistic approach, and there is no clutter of unnecessary furniture.The woodwork is also very simple, which looks very good and is evergreen. I would definitely like to live in such a house one day.

雅思口语waited for something话题

Describe a situation you waited for something.

You should say:Where this place wasWhen this happenedWho you were withand explain why you had to wait for it.

题目的变化与思路Describe a situation you waited for someoneDescribe a time you waited in a traffic jam有时候这种题目重点放在感受，你等待的过程是一种怎样的体验。当然这也是这种题目的难点。因为如果你之说一个’烦’字，就很难撑到两分钟。所以感受可以一分阶段的方式展开，比如说可以说开始感受是很ok，觉得没什么;然后在等待10分钟以后可能就开始比较烦躁了【start to feel cranky and annoyed】，这时候你可以打电话或者催促一下你等的等等;再过一段时间，感情可能就要变成着急了又生气【really mad】，因为无限的等待让你觉得会耽误接下来的行程，或者是让你不知道该怎么做了【don’t know what I’m supposed to do next】。

选题材：很多等待的经历，但是有时候是很短暂很普通的等待，比如等公车，排队买电影票。这种题材就算是英语大神也很难延伸，因为实在是没有什么可说的。 所以题目中其实暗含着一个字，就是‘impressive and special’, 有什么等待的经历让你觉得比较特别呢?你可以是等待假期的到来，好去旅行;或者等待你最喜欢的电影上映，这些话题中其实都有可以延伸的点，旅行你可以说途中看到的感受到的;电影你可以说为何如此喜欢那部戏。

那在这里选题我是选择了旅行，并受了一句歌词的启发，叫做‘是等太阳升起，还是意外先来临’，于是加入了途中等日出这个环节。这样可以把一些熟悉的话题和这个题目有效的结合在一起。

Actually, we all have some experience of waiting for a moment or someone and now I’d like to talk about a situation that I waited for the sunrise. I remembered it was on the top of the Tai Mountain which is one of the most popular tourist sites in Shandong Province. So my friend Kim and two other classmates decided to visit it with me. It was in last summer holiday but surprisingly, when we reached the top of the mountain, it felt freezing cold. That experience really impressed me because we went hiking during the night, starting at about 1:30 am and the trip to the top of the mountain cost us about three and a half hours. And all these efforts were for the sunrise. As to why we waited for that moment. Well, most importantly, the sunrise at the Tai Mountain was famous for its spectacular scenery so we really would like to watch it in person. Also, it was said not everyone could see the sunrise because the weather could be pretty unpredictable and if the day was too cloudy and foggy, the views and sunshine might be blocked. Only the lucky persons could see it. So I guess we kind of wanted to try our luck as well. And at the beginning of the waiting, we were a bit nervous and worried because all the hard works and long trip might be a waste of time and obviously, we didn’t want to be the unlucky persons. But after one hour and 40 mins waiting and got totally freeze, we finally saw the marvelous sunrise and the view was amazing. The sun was surrounded by the cloud and the sunshine just came through fog, making everything look very warm and dreaming. It was a moment that totally worth waiting!

雅思口语Colors话题

What's your favorite color?

解析：part1问到的都是与我们生活相关的话题，但这并不是说考官对我们的生活感兴趣，而是要考查我们是不是能够熟练运用英语来谈论这些熟悉的话题。所以，我们喜欢什么颜色不是重点，甚至我们有没有一个最喜欢的颜色都不重要，所以需要提醒同学的是，我们不需要在这个颜色本身的词汇上做太多文章。真正的重点在于表现我们的相关语言。首先，我们可以通过细节、举例、原因、结果的方式，扩展我们的答案，答得更多，且内容相关相连，提高我们的流利度和连贯性，让内容变得丰富，而且这样也可以引出更多的相关词汇，并且让我们在表达过程中能表现不同的语法现象和句型结构，从而得到更好的分数。不过，在讲原因的时候不要说喜欢红色是因为象征中国、象征革命，不要说看到蓝色就能平静下来，这样的理由用中文说出来都会显得太不自然，太“作”

语料：red… one of the brightest colors… passion… put me in a good mood… clothes… vivid… go well with… look great in…

blue… light blue… match my skin… sportswear… look pretty on me…

don’t know… care much about… dark colors… black… doesn’t show the dirt... hate doing the laundry…

参考答案1：

I would say I like red the best, mostly because it’s one of the brightest color and represents passion or something. Anyway, it seems that the vivid color can usually put me in a good mood. I guess that’s why I love wearing red clothes. And of course, red goes well with my skin.

参考答案2：

I don’t know… I’m not sure, really. Actually I never care much about colors of my clothes. If I had to choose one, I guess I would probably go for the dark colors, something like black or dark grey, because you know, they don’t show the dirt easily. To tell you the truth, I really hate doing the laundry.

Are there any colors you don't like?

解析：相对喜欢的颜色来说，这一题不是那么简单，所以完全可以答得模糊一些，就像你生活中遇到有人问你这个问题一样，可以边答边想，这样也是最自然的。同样的，关键不在于我们对颜色的选择，而在于我们语言的扩展，以及针对四个评分标准来表现我们的语言能力。对于不太好描述的颜色，不要急于查字典去找到准确的词，而是尽可能尝试用语言去描述，去解释，这样的paraphrase能力是让我们的词汇分数上到7分的有利证据。

语料：… pink… pinkish red… can’t bear it… girly… won’t even touch it… put up with…

… something between… lighter/darker… mixture of… look like… similar to… old-fashioned… out of style… never dress myself in…

参考答案1：

Colors I don’t like… let me see. I’ve never thought about that before, but .. I suppose I would never put up with pink, or any pinkish red. I just can’t bear it because it’s too girly. You know, if I had anything in that color, either a piece of clothing or a daily item, I guess I would never touch it.

参考答案2：

Well, I don’t think there is a color that I really hate, but I don’t appreciate the color… how can I put it… it’s something between light brown and dark yellow. It looks like a mixture of them and it’s similar to the color of dirt or soil… if you know what I mean. Anyway, I guess I will never dress myself in such colors because it’s really old-fashioned.

Are colors important in your everyday life?

解析：关于一个东西重要不重要，我们尽量从正面去回答，而不要从反面去讲没了这个东西有什么不好。这是一些同学答得很偏、答得很怪的方向【比如说，讲世界上没有了颜色，一切都很单调，或者没有了颜色就没有交通信号灯了…】。另外，颜色在生活中重要是什么意思呢?其实就是我们是不是很重视各种东西的颜色，是不是很挑剔，是不是影响我们的心情等等。不论你的答案是怎样的，都要尽可能扩展出细节、例子、原因、结果，让内容更丰富，语言更充实。

语料：

… pay much attention to… particular about… affect my emotions… bright colors… put me in a good mood… feel terrible… spend a lot of time in front of the mirror… shopping for clothes… hesitate a lot… repaint my room…

… care much about… mind… in style… go well with … picky… bear with it… not much of a problem…

参考答案1：

Yes. Actually I pay much attention to the colors in my life because I believe they can significantly affect my emotions. For example, bright colors can generally put me in a good mood but some dark colors just make me feel terrible. So, I’m quite particular about colors and that’s why I often spend a lot of time in front of the mirror when I go shopping for clothes and I hesitate a lot before repainting my room.

参考答案2：

No, not really. In fact I don’t care much about colors. To tell you the truth, when I shop for clothes, I don’t even mind whether the color is in style or not. I don’t know whether they go well with my skin either. I’m not picky about that at all. Whatever it is, I can bear with it. It’s not much of a problem.

Were colors important to you when you were a child?

解析：回忆过去的题目，记得就说记得，不记得就说好像是什么样子。要知道，考官关心的永远是语言，不是我们真实的生活。同样的方式进行思路扩展。同时不要忘了，需要注意过去时态的使用。

语料：

… hard to please… balloon… keep crying and screaming…

… good boy… willing to put on…

参考答案1：

Well, I don’t remember that clearly, but my parents used to tell me that I was quite hard to please. I mean, I was quite particular with colors. For example, when they bought a balloon for me, I would ask for a specific color. If they didn’t get the right one, I would keep crying and screaming.

参考答案2：

When I was a child… let me see… as far as I remember, I wasn’t choosy about colors. In fact, I was willing to wear anything that my parents bought for me. In retrospect, some of the items they bought for me were in outdated colors. But I accepted all of them.

雅思口语Handwriting话题

Do you usually write by hand or write using a computer?

误区：

我们一听题就会发现这是一个选择疑问句，很多同学自然会想到我就说单方面，用手写多一点，因为我是学生;或者用电脑多一点，因为我需要用电脑工作。但是老师想在这里强调一下，这个问题不同于一般疑问句，回答是或者不是那么简单。这道题目既然给你了这两种备选项，其暗含的内容其实是想让考生能够都有所涉猎，但比重是可以自行调节的。当然，在语料准备不充分的前提下，保守起见我们只回答单方面也是没有太大问题的。

思路：

在刚刚拿到这个问题的同学们一定会这样想，谁会用电脑写东西比较多呢?应该都还是用笔写字吧。其实不然，很多工作的人事基本上都可以无纸化办公paperless office, 但是我们仍然把参考答案设定成为学生视角，这样无论是学生还是工作人士，都是有共同经历的，着手准备起来也比较好操作。

当你确定了要说用手写比较多以后，举出原因和相应的例子就显得尤为关键了。比如我们要做大量的作业a huge amount of homework; 其次，我们也可以简单聊聊你都用电脑干些什么，以此来证明：一，电脑用的少，但是也在用，充分回答题干中的问题;二、展现出你愿意去表达和表达英文的能力。

I constantly write by hand since I’m still a student right now. I spend most of my time in school so I need to do a huge amount of school work and homework on a daily basis using pens or pencils. Teachers also check our handwriting in case we just doodle on papers. Actually I’m still working on it because of my poor handwriting. However, from time to time, I feel exhausted to write by hand. So when all the work has been finished, I frequently drop my pen and turn on my laptop to chat online. In addition, I’m always trying to memorize more shortcuts. I think using a keyboard to type is easier and a lot more fun.

语料补充：

• nice/poor handwriting优美的/糟糕的书写; calligraphy书法; traditional Chinese culture中国传统文化; mother tongue母语; keyboard键盘; capital letters大写字母; shortcuts快捷键; backlit背光; PC personal computer个人电脑; flexible fingers灵活的手指; e-mails电子邮件; reports报告

• inherit继承; handwrite手写; take notes做笔记; sit/take tests/exams参加考试; send/receive发送/接收;type打字; write/type smoothly流利地写字/打字; doodle乱涂乱画接下来这个问题问的仍然是电脑和用手写字之间的关系。

Do you think computers might one day replace handwriting?

误区：

此问题并没有标准的答案，我们不必须从任何教科书或者老师那里得到任何一个标准答案，到底是会代替还是不会。因为问题开端就告诉大家，do you think，是你认为，而不是究竟将会如何。所以首先我们不用担心是否回答错问题。但是即便你的答案真的是错的，也不必太慌张，把你的注意力更多的放在展现语言能力上就好了。