IELTS口语第三部分：城市与住房
具体、偏政策性，也是最能靠说出一个真实地名来提升的主题。
你能否在不同尺度之间切换——一条街、一座城市、整个国家——而不丢失主线。问题会不断在它们之间跳跃。
你可能会被问到的问题
比第一部分回答更长——每题三十到四十五秒。考官可能会反驳你，这正是这个环节的设计。
- Why do people move from the countryside to cities?
- What problems do large cities face?
- Is housing affordable for young people in your country?
- Should cities have more green space?
- Are big cities becoming too similar to each other?
- How could public transport be improved?
- Is it better to live in a city or a small town?
- What will cities look like in fifty years?
这里如何组织回答
- 说出城市名。一个具体的地方让之后的每个论断都更容易说出口，也更可信。
- 在人口迁移的问题上，拉力和推力都要讲——城市吸引人，乡村把人推走，两者都重要。
- 谈问题时挑两个展开，而不是列出六个。
- 关于未来的问题需要通篇使用推测性语法。不要用现在时回答。
这个话题需要的表达
第三部分评的是你能否在不夸大的情况下进行概括和推测。这些是在这个领域能起到这种作用的表达。
priced out of
表示房价高到负担不起的准确说法
urban sprawl
精确的城市规划词汇
amenities
统称本地设施的集合名词
the cost of living
这个主题的核心名词短语
commuter belt
用于人们通勤前来的周边区域
I'd imagine cities will
用于预测类问题的留有余地的将来表达
这个话题的陷阱
把城市问题——污染、交通、犯罪、噪音、生活成本——飞快地罗列一遍。
罗列不是展开，而第三部分按展开程度计分。两个带原因和后果的问题，好过只点出六个问题。
其中两道题的8分回答
看的是技巧，不是观点——表明立场，按你真正相信的程度加以限定，给出支撑，并正视最有力的反对意见。你的观点完全可以和这些相反，得分照样一样。背诵的第三部分回答比第一部分更容易被识破，因为考官会就你刚说的话追问，而背好的稿子经不起追问。
Why are so many people moving to cities?
Work, mostly, and I think the other reasons are secondary to it. Jobs cluster because firms want to be near each other and near a deep pool of people, and once that's happening the wage difference does the rest. What follows is a housing problem, because the building never keeps pace with the arriving. The cultural pull is real but I think it's mainly an explanation people give afterwards — very few people move somewhere expensive for the galleries.为什么有效给出主要原因并明确降低其他因素的地位，然后顺着因果链推到后果。最后一句是一个犀利而具体的观察。
How could cities be made better places to live?
The thing with the highest return is probably making it possible not to drive, and that's less about transport than about distance. If the shop, the school and the doctor are within a walk, everything else gets easier — traffic, air, how much people run into each other. That's a planning question decided decades in advance, which is why it's so hard to fix retrospectively. Building more housing near the existing transport would do more than most of the things that get announced.为什么有效找出几个表面问题背后的根本原因，承认时间尺度上的限制，并以一个具体方案而不是一个愿望收尾。
第三部分的其他话题
练习被反驳
Oliver会像真正的考官那样在第三部分反驳你——不是为了为难你，而是因为在轻微压力下坚持立场正是评分的内容。对着问题清单是练不出来的。第一次测试免费。
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