第二部分话题卡事件与经历

描述一次你记忆深刻的旅程

关键词是journey(旅程),不是目的地——这个区别值一分。

话题卡

Describe a journey or trip that you remember well.

You should say

  • where you went
  • who you went with
  • what you did there
  • and explain why it was memorable

准备1分钟 · 最多说2分钟

如何说满两分钟

是四个节拍,不是四个答案。卡片上的提示只是脚手架——一段自然流过这些提示的讲述,比四个互不相连的回答得分更高。

  1. 你要去哪里、为什么去、和谁一起。
  2. 旅程本身:怎么去的、多长时间、路上是什么样子。
  3. 让它难忘的那件事——一次延误、一个陌生人、一处风景、一场灾难。
  4. 你现在怎么看待它,这往往和当时的感受不同。

这张卡适合用的词汇

词汇丰富度占你分数的四分之一,而7分的标准明确允许偶尔用错词——一味求稳、只用简单词汇,正是很多人卡在6分的原因。

set off

表示踏上旅程的自然动词

the scenery

还有“the scenery was spectacular”这个现成搭配

we hit traffic

具体而地道

it dragged on

用于感觉比实际更漫长的旅程

in hindsight

用于结尾处的回顾视角

a story we still tell

为难忘旅程收尾的有力句子

这张卡的陷阱

描述度假,却完全跳过了路上的过程。

话题卡写的是“journey”。大巴、机场、公路——这些才是主题,不寻常的素材也在这里。

一个8分回答,以及它为什么有效

读它是为了看清其中的技巧,而不是背下这些话。考官每个工作日都会听到背诵的答案,这会体现在你的流利度分数上——背诵者的停顿方式和真正在思考的人完全不同。下面的细节都是虚构的,你的回答应该讲你自己的故事。

The journey I'd describe is an overnight train I took from my home city to the coast when I was nineteen, with two friends and almost no money. We'd booked the cheapest class, which meant no reserved berth, so we sat on the floor at the end of a carriage for about fourteen hours. It should have been miserable. What actually happened is that by about midnight there were maybe eight of us down there — us, a soldier going home on leave, an older couple, a man who produced an alarming quantity of food and insisted on sharing it — and it turned into one of the better nights of my life. Nobody exchanged numbers. I have no idea what happened to any of them. What made it memorable wasn't the destination, which was fine but unremarkable. It was that the discomfort forced a kind of contact that a comfortable journey would have completely prevented. I've taken that train since in a proper berth and it was nothing.

拿到这个分数的关键

  • 结尾刻意提到舒舒服服的返程,证明了论点,而不是断言。
  • “Forced a kind of contact that a comfortable journey would have prevented”是在压力下清晰表达出的第三类条件句的意思。
  • 用具体的陌生人而不是“some people”来填充场景,这才是让叙述得分的关键。

第三部分接下来会问什么

第三部分和你的长篇独白有松散的联系,但问题会变得抽象——问的是一般人,而不是你自己。这张卡之后通常会谈到:

  • how and why travel has changed over time
  • the benefits and drawbacks of tourism
  • whether travel really broadens the mind

如何应对第三部分讨论

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