或者是雅思考试的卡片,
抑或就是普通与外国人的交流,
大多数学生都要面对以下三个问题:
1 对内容的陈述缺乏细节,绕圈子,意境朦胧,让人觉得不知所云。
2 对自己生活总结不足,不知道该说什么,想说什么,能说什么。表达的时候缺乏信心。
3 就算准备过的话题也觉得没底,担心考试的时候考的刚好是这个话题中自己没有准备过的分项内容。
针对这么几个问题,我围绕2008年的年度热门话题—体育为例,论述如何合理构思,备考口语的独立任务。
美国的体育选拔机制集中与高中和大学,孩子从小就会参加棒球社区联赛Baseball Little League,女生踢足球Soccer,高中之后很多体现出体育天赋的年轻人开始有目的的象职业联盟努力。 这些联盟包括, NFL(National Football League)国家橄榄球联盟, MLB(Major League Baseball)美国职棒大联盟, NHL(National Hockey League),以及我们中国人已经很熟悉的NBA(National Basketball Association)。 美国人在了解,结交一个新朋友的时候,比较喜欢了解对方的话题之一就是体育爱好,并希望找到志同道合的体育爱好者,开展下一步的交友。 对于体育话题的总结和练习,短期可能是为了取得良好的考试成绩, 长期来说则是为了在国内或者国外更好的融入英语语言国家的社会生活, 结交更多朋友,进而体会更多国外文化。
1 词汇包装,保证精彩和详细
如果背单词的目的不仅仅是识别阅读,听力中的要点,
还包括口语,作文中有效表达的话。 那么我们要明白句子中主要有三种词汇。
1)实词: 名词 动词 数字 形容词 副词
其中名词,动词和数字使答题内容具体细化;
形容词和副词的包装作用可以是答题变得更加华丽。
2)虚词: 助词 感叹词
助动词: 完成句型的时态,语态,语气。 平时要注意语法曲折变位的能力
感叹词: 使答题充满人性,不沉闷,很动态,帮助你展现感性的成分。
3)连词: 答题的理性的成分,制造内容的起承转合,展现口才的逻辑质量。
有目的的积累, 善用各种词性的好词,可以对口语表达进行精彩的包装。
2 亮点论据,升级内容的技术含量。
不管考试时间如何要求答题长度,考生需要意识到,我们不仅要完成填充题目要求时间,
还要保证填充信息的技术含量和精彩程度。
下列论据大家要学会积累,这样才能或具体话题点对点使用或放之四海皆真的广泛应用于各种话题中。
1)fact 摆事实
2)statistics 列数字
3)witness/testimony 亲身经验/别人经验
4)comparison/analogy比较/类比
5)example 贴切的例子
6)anecdote黑色幽默的奇闻趣事
7)quotation名人名言引用
在这样的选词和造句的原则下,我们面对一个话题,要考虑能说出来的信息总量有多少,之后把这些信息都写出来,反复朗读,并使用我给的录音软件来录音,帮助自己不见得要背诵,但是至少要非常熟悉。
下面的体育话题完成了
1 兴趣爱好:运动
2 偶像明星:科比布莱恩特
3 生活大事:偶遇明星
4 体育运动:篮球
5 影响自己的事情/人:篮球的精神层面/科比身上的珍贵品质等话题的备考准备。
这篇口语作文的总字数超过400。
大家需要知道的是,这么长的文章不是全部服务于45秒/90秒的答案。
这些单词,句子和信息,是针对体育这个话题, 大家应该会的内容。
不同的同学会选择不同的内容和多种句子组合顺序,
这样会避免拿着这个材料的很多同学答案出现同质性的问题。
大家用以上的原则,到这篇文章中找找精彩的亮点吧。
娱乐-体育: Basket-ball / Kobe Bryant / LA Lakers
My favorite sport is without a shadow of a doubt basketball.
And, funny story, I met a NBA basketball player for the first time in my life at an airport when I wasn’t that familiar with NBA.
I looked at him and didn’t know who he was.
Now I think about it, it was Kobe Bryant.
Wow! I had no idea! What a waste of opportunity! .
I mean, I could’ve asked for an autograph.
But i didn’t. Ooooh, I hate myself.
I’m a huge fan of the L.A. Lakers.
There’re too many reasons for this.
To start with, it’s dynasty in the forming.
Some people say that Shaquille O’neal and Kobe Bryant,
THAT was a dynasty!
But I’m not a big fan of Shaq; I love Kobe.
Being a guard, he’s all around.
He scored 81 points back in 2006 in a game against the Toronto Raptors.
In 2007, around the same time of the year, he scored more than 50 for four consecutive games.
And this year, he’s taking the Lakers all the way to the Final after beating San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Final.
And before that they beat Utah Jazz.
We often say that there’s no easy game in the West.
And Kobe and his team came all the way.
That could only mean one thing--They’re unbelievably good.
I play basketball whenever I can.
And I even imitate some of Kobe’s moves.
I’m not that tall, but still, I can jump shoot, do the lay-up, and if the hoop is low enough, do a slam dunk.
Being a guard is like being a captain of a team.
You initiate every attack, you decide the offense strategy.
And when you give out assists, you’re helping other teammates;
when you’re hitting three-pointers, you’re encouraging the whole team.
When you do a lay-up in a fast break, you’re pissing off your opponents.
The more you play basketball, the more you find there’s more to basketball than just a physical game.
It has a mental state to it.
How to be selfless, how to contribute to the team instead of just thinking for yourself, how to work with others--these are also questions we have to face in real life.
The NBA has a catch-phrase, i love this game. It’s more than i can say about it.
And this year, i found it was changed.
Now the motto is “Where Amazing Happens!”
David Stern is absolutely a genius.
Basketball provides me more than exercise, but more importantly, inspiration and encouragement in life.
I love it.
娱乐-体育: Basket-ball / Kobe Bryant / LA Lakers
My favorite sport is without a shadow of a doubt basketball.
And, funny story, I met a NBA basketball player for the first time in my life at an airport when I wasn’t that familiar with NBA.
I looked at him and didn’t know who he was.
Now I think about it, it was Kobe Bryant.
Wow! I had no idea! What a waste of opportunity! .
I mean, I could’ve asked for an autograph.
But i didn’t. Ooooh, I hate myself.
I’m a huge fan of the L.A. Lakers.
There’re too many reasons for this.
To start with, it’s dynasty in the forming.
Some people say that Shaquille O’neal and Kobe Bryant,
THAT was a dynasty!
But I’m not a big fan of Shaq; I love Kobe.
Being a guard, he’s all around.
He scored 81 points back in 2006 in a game against the Toronto Raptors.
In 2007, around the same time of the year, he scored more than 50 for four consecutive games.
And this year, he’s taking the Lakers all the way to the Final after beating San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Final.
And before that they beat Utah Jazz.
We often say that there’s no easy game in the West.
And Kobe and his team came all the way.
That could only mean one thing--They’re unbelievably good.
I play basketball whenever I can.
And I even imitate some of Kobe’s moves.
I’m not that tall, but still, I can jump shoot, do the lay-up, and if the hoop is low enough, do a slam dunk.
Being a guard is like being a captain of a team.
You initiate every attack, you decide the offense strategy.
And when you give out assists, you’re helping other teammates;
when you’re hitting three-pointers, you’re encouraging the whole team.
When you do a lay-up in a fast break, you’re pissing off your opponents.
The more you play basketball, the more you find there’s more to basketball than just a physical game.
It has a mental state to it.
How to be selfless, how to contribute to the team instead of just thinking for yourself, how to work with others--these are also questions we have to face in real life.
The NBA has a catch-phrase, i love this game. It’s more than i can say about it.
And this year, i found it was changed.
Now the motto is “Where Amazing Happens!”
David Stern is absolutely a genius.
Basketball provides me more than exercise, but more importantly, inspiration and encouragement in life.
I love it.