一、请考生试想以下10 种情况

 

1、一个炎热的下午，考官已经在你之前面试了10 个学生，经受了各种发音的考验和折磨，你是第11 个进入test room 的考生。请问：你认为考官想看到你怎样的表现?你想给考官留下什么样的印象?

 

2、考官在面试的过程中，觉得你的成绩介于5.5 分和6 分之间，给你5.5也行，给你6 分也行，他应该根据什么来判断呢?

 

3、考官已经对诸如以下的回答感到崩溃：

What is the most popular sport in your country? Ping Pong.

What is your favourite animal? Panda.

What is your favourite festival? Spring Festival.

What is your favourite movie? Harry Potter.

What is your favourite flower? Rose.

Why do you like taking subway? Because it is convenient.

 

4、考官在竭尽全力地试图理解考生的观点，但是考生动辄就拿出具有中国特色的词汇：

我有关系： I have a good relationship with somebody.

人人网：I often talk with my friends on Renren.

喜鹊：My favourite bird is Xi Que.

扭秧歌：In China, people like to dance Yangge.

世上只有妈妈好：The song I would like to talk about is“My Mum Is the Best in the World.”

这时候考官是不是眉头紧锁呢?

 

5、考官给出一个话题：Describe what you did last weekend.

考生答案：Well, it was a great day, I went to a really great restaurant, I had a great lunch with my girlfriend, the environment was so great, they had great background music and food. From where we sat, we could have a great lake view and after that, we went to see a movie nearby, it was so great…

考官是不是有点hold 不住了呢?

 

6、在两个人聊天的十几分钟里，考生从不转换语调，也不会强调句子中的某个重要单词，整个句子都是一个调调。考官在想：这是在背书吗?

 

7、考官问了一个问题：What’s your ideal job?

考生答案：Well, you know, I am still a student, so I don’t have a job.

考官在想：你有听到“ideal”吗?

 

8、考官问：Do you like music?

考生答案：…en…I like pop music, because it is…um…very…popular, and I also like rock, because it is…also welcomed by…um…young people, sometimes, I also listen to some…um…hip hop.

考官是不是有点想调静音模式的冲动呢?

 

9、考官在听一个考生充满感情地抒发自己喜欢火车的原因：Well，I like train very much, last summer vacation, I took the train to Yunnan Province,when the train was coming out from tunnel ( 隧道), wow，the sunshine was shining upon my body and shining upon my soul, I felt that my whole spirit and mind had been uplifted and raised, I felt so good, it seemed that I was reborn ( 涅槃重生了). So, I like train so much!

考官是不是有点不淡定了呢? Why ?因为答案貌似压根跟火车没有关系!

 

10、考官在听一个女生讲她的男朋友：Well, I want to talk about my boyfriend, she is very nice to me, and we often go travelling to different places, he often told me some jokes and if there is any problem, she could take care of me.

考官在纠结: Is your boyfriend a boy or a girl?

 

而以上10 种情况恰恰诠释了雅思口语考试的四项评分标准

 

● Fluency and Coherence

● Lexical Resource

● Grammatical Range and Accuracy

● Pronunciation

 

在这四项中，没有一项跟回答内容有关，也就是说考官考察的是你的英文水平，对你的答案和内容并不做限定，你可以对问及的事物表示喜欢或者反感，但前提是你一定要能够自圆其说。

 

They don’t care what you are going to talk about, the only thing that matters is the way to support your main ideas. So, you can show your preference, but you need to make sense.

 

二、对于一个6 分以下的考生，考官往往会给出以下评论

 

● Fluency and Coherence

Too many pauses and hesitation 太多停顿和犹豫

Lack of support and logic 缺乏支持和逻辑

Lack of specifics and examples 缺乏细节和实例

Too abstract and general 过于抽象和笼统

 

● Lexical Resource

Limited range of vocabulary 词汇有限

Lack of connectives 缺少连接词

Lack of flexibility and variety on different topics 对不同话题的表达缺乏灵活性和多样性

Rare attempts on paraphrase 很少尝试改述

 

● Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Too many basic errors 太多基本的语法错误

Lack of self-correction 缺乏自我纠正

Lack of complex structures 缺乏复杂句式

Apparent dependence on prepared utterances 明显依赖于准备好的段子

 

● Pronunciation

Lack of variation and tones 缺乏变化和声调

Lack of clarity 发音不清楚

Lack of vowels 缺少元音

Mispronunciation 错误发音

 

大多数考生都会在以上的评论中找到各自的弱项，而这也恰恰是考生需要提高和改进的地方，考官看得很清楚，听得也很清楚，他们可以在很短的时间内判断出以下几个方面：

● 考生平时使用英文的频率

● 考生用英文描述不同话题的能力

● 考生是否使用准备好的段子应付考官

 

所以，雅思口语考试是中国学生很难准备和走捷径的考试。它需要考生能够静下心来从最基本的做起，不要去想所谓的技巧或者方法。英语口语其实很简单，就是用下面的这个公式来表达自己的观点：

 

三、合适的句型：名词或者动名词( 观点) ------形容词或动词短语( 理由)

 

考官问： What is your most favourite music?

名词： Well, personally, my most favourite music is classical music

句型： simply because

 

形容词和动词短语： it is really powerful and besides, it could purify my heart and boost my personal cultivation( 古典乐很有力量，另外，它可以净化我的心灵并提高我的个人修养).

 

考官问： Do you prefer eating at home or eating at restaurants?

动名词： Well, mostly, I prefer eating at restaurants

句型： mainly because compared with eating at home,

形容词： it is more time-saving and more labour-saving( 跟在家吃比，在餐厅吃更省时间更省事).

 

此时，我们要问问自己：

我们积累的单词够多够全面吗?

我们积累的句型能够表达出我们的意图吗?

我们背诵的形容词和动词短语能够给出足够的论据吗?

如果答案是NO 的话，Simon 希望和各位考生一起来重新审视我们的雅思口语，重新定义我们的学习方式。