雅思口语part 1 话题: Jewellery，赶紧和北京新航道小编一起来看看吧！
1. Are jewelries popular in China?
2. What jewelries do you wear?
3. Have you sent jewelries as gifts?
1. Are jewelries popular in China?
Girls normally wear all kinds of jewelries such as rings, necklaces, bracelets, ear-rings or studs. Honestly, adequate and proper jewelry and ornaments elevate a girl’s image and add extra charm to her. And when the jewelries are expensive ones, her status and identity will be shown and more confidence will come automatically to her.
Besides, on some special occasions like a banquet or a business meeting, which require ladies to be dressed elegantly, jewelries prove to be necessary and vital companions.
Generally boys don’t wear jewelries. But that was in the past. Nowadays, boys enjoy having their ears pierced and wearing one or two ear rings. It is beyond me. Maybe they feel cool when they have some ear rings on.
KEY WORDS & EXPRESSIONS
stud n. 耳钉 (gold studs金耳钉)
ornament n. 装饰品
banquet n. (正式的)宴会
have one's ear pierced 打耳钉
be beyond sb 令…无法理解;非…所能及
2 What jewelries do you wear?
Well, platinum and silver ones are good enough to me. Such materials are elegant and economical. Besides, these materials won’t cause inflammation to skins easy. You can simply wear them all day. Pearl ones are good too especially the milk white ones. They are elegant and gentle and wearing them always make you feel graceful.
I love rings, especially those big and cook ones with a skeleton or a hawk or some scare faces. It’s so cool.
KEY WORDS & EXPRESSIONS
platinum n. 铂，白金
inflammation n. 炎(症)
3. Have you sent jewelries as gifts?
Definitely. Last June when it was my girlfriend’s birthday, I got her a rose gold necklace. It was a gorgeous one I should say. The necklace was made of gold particles, very small ones, whose diameters, I think, were only less than one millimeter. And the pendant, a heart shaped ruby, was gorgeous too. It cost me a fortune but I was glad she loved it.
KEY WORDS & EXPRESSIONS
gorgeous adj. 极其漂亮的，美丽动人的
pendant n. (项链上的)垂饰，挂件
ruby n. 红宝石
cost me a fortune 花钱
