雅思口语电视剧话题

雅思口语电视剧话题

追过的电视剧【Describe a TV drama series you’ve watched】

You should say:

How does it look like

Where did you see it

When did you see it

And how do you feel about this work

1.适用人群：全适用

2.主题：Power

3.故事线：讲述的是一个来自贫困社区的男人，他靠卖毒品赚了很多钱——然后他决定要去合法的地方;他想把自己的过去留在身后，用他的夜总会真理来做一个合法的生意。

Okay, so recently I’ve been watching “Power” – a TV series about a guy who comes from a poor neighborhood and makes a lot of money selling drugs – and then he decides that he wants to go legit; he wants to leave his past behind and make a legitimate business with his nightclub Truth. So, the series follows the problems he and his family have to face while trying to get out of the drug business and make a legal living running clubs. Obviously, it’s not as easy as it might sound – because all his old friends still try to involve him in drug trafficking, and there always seems to be some crisis or something which stops the guy from simply making a clean break and starting afresh.

A friend of mine recommended the series; I hadn’t heard of it before, but I gave it a try. Watching a couple of episodes, and I kind of liked it. Each episode has good pacing, and the characters are interesting enough to hold your attention. The plot is also quite well written and has just enough twists and turns to keep you wondering what will happen next. Another thing I like about it is that the things that happen are credible; they’re not fantastically impossible scenarios like in some TV series – you can actually imagine how such circumstances might occur in real life and how these people would deal with them. So, the main characters are a guy called Jaimie and his wife Tasha and their two children, and Jaimie’s ex-drug partner Tommy Egan, who is still involved in the drug business. The other main character is government lawyer, Angela Valdez, who has an affair with Jaimie while the special task force she is a member of is trying to prosecute Jaimie and Tommy for drug related crimes. There are some other characters which recur throughout each episode, people who work in the club and other friends and contacts that appear repeatedly throughout the series.

It’s now in season four, although I haven’t watched this current season yet – I watched up until the end of season three, so I guess I’ll catch up with it when I have some more free time. I like watching the episodes all at once rather than one each week. But it’s one of the best TV series I’ve seen for a while – the fact that the time flies past while watching it is always a good sign that it’s enjoyable.

雅思口语地图话题

Do you ever use a map?

Yeah I do. I mean, I often use a GPS when I’m driving somewhere that I’m not familiar with, and I find it super helpful, because I don’t have a very good sense of direction!

是的。我的意思是，当我开车去一个我不熟悉的地方时，我经常使用GPS，我发现它非常有用，因为我没有很好的方向感!

When do you use a map?

Let me have a little think… umm….when do I use a map….umm…. oh yeah, I guess the time when I most often use a map is when I’m on holiday somewhere, because I find it helps give me a better understanding of the place, and also saves me from getting lost.

让我想一想…我什么时候用地图…，是的，我猜我最经常使用地图的时间是在某个地方度假的时候，因为我发现它帮助我更好地了解这个地方，也避免了我迷路。

Who taught you to use a map?

I don’t actually think anyone taught me how to use a map, you know, I kind of just figured it out for myself. And I’ve never really had a problem understanding them because they tend to be pretty self-explanatory, 【at least for me anyway】.

我真的不认为有人教我如何使用地图，你知道，我只是自己想出来的。我理解它们从来没有遇到过任何问题，因为它们往往很自我解释【至少对我来说是这样】。

Do you prefer to use electronic maps or those made of paper?

I’d say I generally prefer using electronic ones, because they basically have more functions. For example, if you’re not sure how to get somewhere, electronic maps will be able to actually highlight the best route to take, and 【not just that, but they】 also give you detailed timings for each part of the journey, which is something that paper maps can’t really do.

我想我一般都喜欢使用电子的，因为它们基本上有更多的功能。例如，如果你不确定如何到达某个地方，电子地图将能够实际突出显示要走的最好路线，并且【不仅如此，而且它们】还为您旅程的每个部分提供详细的时间安排，这是纸质地图实际上无法做到的。

Have you ever asked others for directions?

Yeah, sure I have, and I think it’s fair to say most people have at some stage or other. You know, asking others for directions can save a lot of time wandering around getting hopelessly lost, and I’ve always found people to be very helpful whenever I’ve asked them how to get somewhere.

是的，我有，我认为大多数人在某个阶段都是公平的。你知道，向别人问路可以节省很多无可救药地迷路的时间，而且每当我问别人如何去某处时，我总是发现人们都很乐于助人。

雅思口语fruit and vegetables话题

What’s your favorite vegetable or fruit?

How often do you eat vegetables?

Do you think people should eat more fruit and vegetables?

Is it convenient to buy fruit and vegetables where you live?

我们现在来聊一下比较健康而且有营养的一个主题，fruit and vegetables，它也是比较常出现在part1里面的一个话题。

思路：

这是一个常规话题，就是问大家喜不喜欢吃水果或者蔬菜。我们的思路可以是不以单词量取胜，但是要说到位并且有逻辑性，比如可以先说我爱吃很多种水果，但是最喜欢的一定是哪一种，并且讲清楚原因就好。

What’s your favorite vegetable or fruit?

I enjoy eating all kinds of fruit like plain fruit, tropical fruit or berries. But if you ask me, I think apples should be on the top of my list. I’ve been eating them since I was little because my mom always says that one apple a day can keep the doctor away and it’s essential for a teenager to keep a balanced healthy diet. I don’t know but it’s quite juicy and I enjoy the flavor especially when they are sweet.

语料分析：

plain fruit纯水果

tropical fruit热带水果

berries浆果类

dried fruit干果类

flavor口味：

salty咸的

sweet甜的

bitter苦的

spicy or hot辣的

sour酸的

思路：

作为一个Information question来说，第一个要注意的就是how often，问的是频率。然后我们可以聊一下这样做的好处是什么，也就是后面我们要处理的那个为什么要多吃的原因。

How often do you eat vegetables?

I do have them on a daily basis because I suppose it’s quite a healthy habit and I can benefit a lot form them like necessary vitamins and keeping me energetic. I also have a sweet tooth so tomatoes with sugar is absolutely my cup of tea. I eat them almost every day in summer.

雅思口语Environment话题

1. Tell me about some of the environmental problems that are affecting countries these days?

这个题目看起来应该是非常好说的，环境问题，大家应该多少都是知道一些的。题目要求说some，我们大概说两个就差不多了。每个环境问题，我们可以把它的起因，现状和影响都陈述一下，回答的内容一定会是很充分的。下面列举一些常见的问题和对应的思路表达。

全球变暖：global warming/ temperature rise/ carbon emission/ ice glaciers and caps melt/ sea level rise/ fishing industry/ residents living in coastal areas

空气污染：air pollution/ exhaust from cars and factories/ burning of fossil fuels

水污染：water/ ocean pollution/ chemical runoff/ untreated sewage

白色污染：white pollution/ plastic bags/ non-biodegradable materials

水土流失：soil erosion/ soil fertility decrease

乱砍乱伐：deforestation/ unbalance ecosystem/

下面也给大家一个范例回答：

The most serious pollution that is widely discussed these days is global warming. With the increasing carbon emission and the loss of ozone layer, the global temperature is on the rise, which makes the ice glaciers and caps melt and the sea level increase. Therefore, many coastal areas have been flooded and people living there become displaced.

2. Do you think that governments around the world are doing enough to tackle the problems?

我个人觉得，比较真实的回答应该是没有的。因为如果有的话，其实这些问题就不会存在了，或者得到很好的缓解。而事实是，很多问题不但没有改善，而且还在恶化。那么，显然，政府做得还不够。I think governments have not done their best to deal with the environmental problems.

下面就说说为啥：

很多环境问题，比较宏观，影响面非常的广，根本没法一时半会解决，甚至根本不太可能解决。

Many environmental problems are affecting very large areas, so that they cannot by dealt with in a short time or be tackled by one country.

以中国为例，为什么我们对于一些污染治理不够?因为，社会经济的发展，很多时候，不可避免地会造成环境的破坏。比如我们这几年非常流行的雾霾的天气，其实就是工业高速发展的一个必然产物。当年伦敦也是一样的。所以，如果要做到绝对的杜绝污染，所有的排放物不能有一点的脏东西，那么，很多的产业就会收到严重的影响，经济会有巨大的打击。

Also, take China as an example, if we impose strict rules on reducing the emission and on forcing factories to release their waste with no harmful material at all, many of the industries will be influenced. The local industry will be damaged.

比如汽车，如果全部环保，都用电动的，那么很多人都买不起汽车了，那么人们的出行，社会的基本效率的保持，都会收到严重的影响。

If we want to control the air pollution in the cities and replace all the existing cars with the electricity cars, many of the car users cannot afford buying cars and the productivity of the society will be reduced because they all have to take public transport instead.

法律制定的得不是很完善，有些问题没有被写到法律中去。

The current legal system is not perfect, many of the urgent issues have not be included in the law.

法律的处罚措施太轻，不能起到约束的作用。比如我乱扔垃圾，通常是没有人回来阻止我，或者罚款的。及时罚款，可能就5块钱，10块钱。那么，下次，我可能还会扔垃圾。假设，扔垃圾一定会被捉到，每次罚款5千，我想我这辈子都不会再丢垃圾了。

The punishment of the laws is not strict enough to restrict people from violating laws. For example, if the factory emits some chemical waste, they may not be immediately fined or only a small amount of money which is comparable to their benefit they make.

相关环保法规的宣传力度不够，或者我们都知道要绿色出行，要绿色生活的方式，但是，到底怎么绿色，用什么方法，其实我们并不知道，所以，政府应该多做一些宣传片，或者学校里面增加相关的课程，去指导人们绿色环保。

There is limited publicity of the environmental regulations. We may have some basic idea of law carbon lifestyle, but we fail to live that way because we are not told about how to live environmental friendly or how to recycle and reuse all the waste materials. The authority should make more videos and booklets to tell people the detailed steps in becoming greener in life.