IELTS口语第三部分：教育
第三部分最常出现的领域，也是个人的学校回忆最常挤掉真正问题的领域。
你能否谈论一个体系，而不是你在其中的经历。几乎每位考生对自己的求学经历都有强烈感受，而几乎每位考生都让这些感受去回答一个关于整体教育的问题。
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。
- How has education changed in your country over the last few decades?
- Should schools focus more on practical skills or academic subjects?
- Is it better to study alone or in a group?
- Do you think class sizes affect how much children learn?
- Should university education be free?
- How important is it for adults to keep learning?
- Do exams measure ability accurately?
- What makes someone a good teacher?
这里如何组织回答
- 先就一般人群作答，再把自己的经历当作证据——而不是反过来。
- 能按群体拆分就拆分：对低龄儿童有效的做法很少对成年人有效，指出这一点比给出一条通用规则更有力。
- 先让步再论证。“There's an argument that exams are the fairest option available, but…”正是考官会联想到7分的结构。
- 明确地比较不同年代。这个主题几乎总有一个今昔对比的问题，而语法分就在比较里。
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。
on the whole
用于有例外的普遍趋势
there's a case for
在表示不同意之前先让步
it varies enormously depending on
避免以偏概全，又不至于含糊到空洞
tend to
概括人群时最稳妥的方式
arguably
表明你知道这个观点有争议
in the long run
用于之后才显现的影响
这个话题的陷阱
用自己学校做了或没做什么来回答“should schools teach practical skills?”。
第三部分问的是学校，而不是你的学校。先提出一般性论点；把你的经历作为一个例子简短带入，然后回到一般层面。
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。
Do you think university education should be free?
In principle I'd say yes, though I think the argument for it is often made badly. The strongest case isn't fairness to the individual student — it's that a country with more graduates is more productive, so the spending returns to the state anyway. What complicates it is that free tuition tends to benefit the middle class disproportionately, because they're the ones who make it to eighteen with the grades. So I'd want it paired with far more money spent much earlier. Free university on its own would probably widen the gap it's meant to close.为什么有效表明立场，立刻把它与同一立场的较弱版本区分开，然后提出最有力的反对意见并加以回应。这个结构就是第三部分的全部。
How has education changed since your parents' generation?
Enormously in access and surprisingly little in method, I'd argue. Far more people go on to higher education than in my parents' time — my mother was the first in her family and it was unusual, and now it would be unusual not to. But if you walked into a lecture theatre today it would be recognisable to her: someone talking at the front, everyone writing it down. I'd have expected technology to have changed that by now and mostly it's changed the delivery rather than the format.为什么有效沿两个方向相反的维度拆分回答，这比罗列变化有意思得多，而个人例子被用作证据，而不是当成答案本身。
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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