雅思口语学习Part1,2 and3

PART 1

 

The examiner asks the candidate about him/herself, his/her home, work or studies and other familiar topics

范例

 

Friends

 

1.E:Are your friends mostly your age or different ages?(Why?)

C: Well, to be frank, most of my friends are about my age. The reasons are pretty simple.As a student,I just spend most of my time with my classmates who are about the same age like mine. And some of them naturally turned into my friends. I guess another reason is that it's much easier for people with similar age to communi-cate and become soul mates.

 

2.E: Do you usually see your friends during the week or at weekends?(Why?)C: Just as what I have said, most of my friends are my classmates; therefore, the chances for us to see each other are just the weekdays when we are at school. However, if something comes up during the weekend, say, someone is go-ing to throw a birthday party, we will call one another and get together.

 

3.E: The last time you saw your friends, what did you do together?

C: Well, let me see, just three days ago, I and my best buddy, Jack, went to see an American blockbuster Transformer.That was an awesome experience,because we are both English movie fans and have been waiting so long for the release of it.

 

4. E: In what ways are your friends important to you?

C: There is no doubt that friendship is something we should cherish all our lives. I have to say I really love making friends, for I can't imagine a life without any friends. Just like a saying goes "He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone."No one can become successful without the help from his friends. True friends will always be there for you when you are in deep water. Besides, they will be the best listeners when you feel so lonely and need to talk to somebody.

 

参考译文

 

朋友

 

1.E:你的朋友是否大多与你的年龄相仿？(为什么？)

C:说实话，我大多数的朋友都与我差不多大。原因也很简单，作为一名学生，我大部分的时间都是和我的同学在一起，他们和我年龄相仿，自然也就成了我的好朋友。

我认为另外一个原因是因为年龄相近的人更容易沟通且成为知己。

 

2.E:你平时见朋友是在周一到周五还是在周末？(为什么？)

C:就像我说的那样，我大部分的朋友都是我同学，因此，我们在一起的机会仅是上学的时间：周一到周五。但是，如果在周末有什么事，比如说有人要开生日派对啦，我们也会互相打电话，聚一聚。

 

3.E:你上一次和朋友见面时，做了什么？

C:我想想，三天前我和我最好的朋友Jack去看了部美国大片《变形金刚》。感觉太棒了，因为我俩都是英语电影的影迷，而且等这部电影上映等了好久了。

 

4.E:朋友在哪些方面对你很来说很重要？

C:毫无疑问，友谊是我们应该一辈子珍惜的东西。我很喜欢结交朋友，很难想象一辈子连一个朋友也没有会是什么样。俗话说：一个好汉三个帮。没有人只靠自己就能成功的。真正的朋友会在你有难时来帮助你。此外，在你寂寞想找个人倾诉的时候，他也是最好的倾听者。

 

PART 2

 

Describe an interesting historic place

You should say :

what it is

where it is located

what you can see there now

and explain why this place is interesting.

 

You will have to talk about the topic for one to two minutes.

You have one minute to think about what you are going to say

You can make some notes to help you if you wish.

 

范例

 

This maybe sounds like a cliche, but it's an accepted fact that China has a history of more than 5 000 years. As a result, it's a country with numerous historic places. If you ask me to choose one to represent all of them, I will not hesitate and tell you it's the Great Wall. From Shanhaiguan, northeast of Qinhuangdao City, the Great Wall rises and falls with the contour of the mountains westward, crossing several provinces, for 6 700 kilometres, to end at Jiayu guan, southwest of Jiayuguan City in Gansu Province. I went there last year with some of my friends, it was amazing. The Great Wall we saw mostly dates back to the Ming Dynasty, and the best-preserved and most imposing section is at Badaling in Beijing. You can see that the section is made of large blue bricks and has an average height of 7.8 meters. Five to six horses can be ridden abreast along it. The walls are covered with many lookout holes. Apart from its long history, it is also the largest man-made monument ever to have been built and it is disputed that it is the only one visible from outer space. Oh, you know what, recently it was elected as the new 7 wonders of the world and ranked Top 1. If you have a chance, you should definitely pay a visit there. As the famous saying goes, "You're not a real man if you haven't climbed the Great Wall . " It's so worthwhile .

 

参考译文

 

中国有着5000多年的历史，这也许是句老话，但也是不争的事实。因此，它拥有许多历史名胜。如果要我选出最具有代表性的一处的话，我会毫不犹豫地告诉你：长城。它东起于秦皇岛的山海关，向西沿着山脉延绵起伏，经过好几个省，止于甘肃省的嘉峪关，全长有6700多公里。去年我和几个朋友去了那里，长城真是令人赞叹。我们看到的长城主要是明朝的，而且保存得最好、最具震撼力的部分就在北京的八达岭。你可以看到这部分是由蓝砖砌成，平均高度为7.8米。五六匹马能从上面并排走过。城墙两边布满了许多缭望孔。除了其悠久的历史背景，长城是目前最大、据称也是唯一能从太空被看到的人造建筑物。你知道吗，它最近还刚刚被选为世界新七大奇迹之首。如果你有机会，一定要游览一下。俗话说“不到长城非好汉”。这样做是很值得的。

 

PART 3

 

Discussion Topics:

 

范例

 

Looking after historic places

 

1.E:How do people in your country feel about protecting historic buildings?

C: Well, in the past, maybe not many people realised the importance of protecting the historic buildings, instead they tended to focus on economic development. However,people's concept about this issue has changed as time goes by. And more and more attention was paid to the preservation of our ancient buildings.

 

2.E: Do you think an area can benefit from having an interesting historic place locally? In what way ?

C: Oh, absolutely. A city can take advantage of historic places in many ways. For in-stance, a region can try to boom its tourism industry by attracting more travellers to visit those ancient places. More importantly, they can also open those places to the local kids, so the kids can really see and touch the "history" in person, rather than just read them from books. And I believe this is much more significant than the financial reason.

 

3. E: What do you think will happen to historic places or buildings in the future? Why?C: I guess historic places or buildings will be better preserved in the future. As I men-tioned before, both the governments and people are paying enormous attention to this issue. Some modern technology will be employed; meanwhile, new laws and regulations will be made in order to prevent those places or buildings from being de-stroyed, for doing these is equal to protecting our own culture and civilization.

 

The teaching of history at school

 

4.E:How were you taught history when you were at school?

C: I am always fascinated by history. Believe it or not, history was my favourite sub-ject when I was at school. One of the reasons I enjoyed it was because of my high school history teacher, Mr Fu. He was such a knowledgeable and humorous person that he liked to teach us history in an entertaining way which attracted everyone in the class and made us all laugh back and forth all the time. To us, he was an excel-lent story teller. I learned history mainly through his funny and vivid stories and anecdotes.

 

5. E: Are there other ways people can learn about history, apart from at school? How?C: There are some other ways for us to acquire history knowledge besides school. One direct way is to travel to the place where this historic event happened and to explore the buildings and relics there. Another way is pretty simple, you can just watch some historic documentaries or surf online to browse some relevant web pages at home.

 

6. E: Do you think history will still be a school subject in the future? Why?

C: I definitely believe so. History is something so essential to us that I can not imagine a day when we don't have to study it. As people used to say, "knowing the history is knowing your own culture and knowing who you really are. The day we abandon our history is the day we lose our identity."Moreover,we can learn lessons from the past and attempt to avoid the mistakes we made before, such as the two world wars. Anyway, no matter how time changes, we should not and will not forget our history.

 

参考译文

 

保护历史景点

 

1.E:你们国家的人怎么样看待历史建筑的保护？

C:也许很多人在过去没有意识到保护历史建筑的重要性，而只是重视经济的发展。然而，随着时间的推移，现在人们的观念已经发生了很大的改变。人们越来越重视保护历史建筑了。

 

2.E:你认为当地能否从历史名胜中获益？从哪些方面呢？

当然了，一个城市可以从历史名胜中得到许多好处。比如说，这个地区可以通过吸引更多旅游观光客来促进旅游业的发展。更重要的是，还可以把这些地方开放给当地的小孩子，让他们能真正看到和触摸到“历史”，而不仅仅只是从书本上学到我相信这比商业作用更有意义。

 

3.E:你认为历史名胜在未来会怎么样？

C:我想历史名胜在未来会被保护得更好。就像我前面提到的，政府和人们都对这件事非常重视。为了保护它们不受破坏，新科技会被采用，同时相关的法律法规也会出台以保护这些地方或建筑物不受损坏。因为这样做就等于在保护我们自己的文化和文明。

 

学校历史课的教授

 

4.E:你在学校时，历史是怎么样教的？

C:我总是对历史情有独钟。信不信由你，历史课一直是我的最爱，其中一个原因就是我的中学历史老师——付老师。他是位知识渊博又非常幽默的老师，他喜欢用一种轻松娱乐的方式给我们讲述历史，而且总是能深深地吸引班上的每个人，让我们笑得前仰后合。对我们来说，他是一个出色的故事大王。我的历史知识主要就是从他那些生动有趣的故事和铁事中学来的。

 

5.E:除了学校，还有其他方法学到历史吗？怎样学？

C:是的，一种直接的方法就是亲自到历史事件的发生地去考察那里的建筑和遗迹。另一种简单的途径就是，你可以在家看一些历史纪录片，或者上网浏览相关的网页。

 

6.E:你觉得历史在未来还会是一门学校科目吗？为什么？

C:我很坚信是这样的，历史对我们来说十分重要，我很难想象会有不用学习历史的一天。人们曾说，“了解历史就是了解自己以及自身的文化。放弃历史的同时也就失去了自我”。再者，我们能从历史中吸取教训，从而避免犯以前所犯过的错误，比如两次世界大战。总之，无论时代怎样变迁，我们都不应该也不会忘记历史。