IELTS口语第三部分：家庭与人际关系
考生最常滑回第二部分、开始讲自己家故事的主题。
你能否对一件极其私人的事做出概括。这确实很难：问题是关于社会的，但离你最近的素材是你自己的家。
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 have family structures changed in your country?
- Are extended families becoming less common?
- Should grandparents be involved in raising children?
- Do people spend enough time with their families?
- Is it better to live near your relatives?
- Why do some people choose not to have children?
- How do families keep in touch when they live far apart?
- Are family relationships more important than friendships?
这里如何组织回答
- 从你们国家的普遍模式说起，再逐步收窄。顺序反过来就是陷阱。
- 描述任何变化都要给出原因——工作、住房成本、人口迁移、女性就业。没有原因的变化只是半个回答。
- 比较不同代际，而不是比较个人。“My parents' generation”是一个有用的单位，能让你保持在一般层面。
- 说一个趋势无所谓好坏完全没问题。拒绝一个虚假的二选一，在这里是有力的一招。
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。
traditionally
引出今昔对比
there's less of a stigma around
描述社会观念变化，很精确
my parents' generation
让个人化的指称保持一般性
it's becoming the norm
用于已经发生的转变
for better or worse
不做道德评判，但仍然回答了问题
close-knit
形容家庭关系紧密的标准搭配
这个话题的陷阱
用自己祖母的故事回答“are extended families less common?”。
用一句家庭细节作为证据很好；讲三十秒就成了在第三部分里给出第二部分的回答，考官会判定为没有展开话题。
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。
How have family structures changed in recent decades?
The biggest change where I'm from is that the extended household has largely gone. My grandparents lived with my parents for years and that was completely ordinary; now it's rare enough that people comment. What replaced it is smaller, more mobile households, which suits careers and doesn't suit childcare or old age at all. So a lot of what the extended family used to absorb invisibly has become either a paid service or a crisis, and I don't think we've fully worked out the second one.为什么有效把一个结构性变化一路追到两个后果，而“absorbed invisibly”这个说法精确地指出了真正失去的是什么。
Should elderly parents live with their children?
I'd say it should be genuinely optional, which it currently isn't in either direction. Where I'm from there's real pressure to say yes, and people who can't manage it carry a lot of guilt about it. In other places the assumption runs the other way and the alternative is expensive and often poor. Neither of those is really a choice. What would actually help is making both options viable, so the decision is about the particular family rather than about what's available.为什么有效拒绝了两个给定的立场，把问题重新界定为关于现实约束而不是价值观，这是能给出的最高明的回答。
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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