IELTS口语第三部分：媒体与新闻
贴近当下、观点密集，也是没有依据的说法最可能被质疑的主题。
你能否说明出处并加以限定。这些问题会引你去断言“the media”做了什么，而7分体现在你多谨慎地说明是谁、在多大程度上。
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 do most people get their news now?
- Can the news be truly objective?
- Is too much news bad for people?
- Who should be responsible for stopping false information online?
- Has social media changed how news spreads?
- Do people trust journalists less than they used to?
- Should there be more positive news reporting?
- Is it important for young people to follow the news?
这里如何组织回答
- 区分不同媒体机构，而不是把“the media”当成一个整体。单这一招就能提升这个主题里的大多数回答。
- 说明说法的来源——“from what I've read”、“people often say”——而不是生硬地断言。
- 在虚假信息的问题上，说出难点而不是提出解决办法。认识到一个问题很难，比十秒钟就把它解决掉更有力。
- 利用随时间的转变。这里几乎每个问题底下都藏着一个今昔对比的版本。
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。
outlets
避免把“the media”当成铁板一块的精确名词
sensationalise
形容夸大报道的准确动词
take it with a pinch of salt
地道的怀疑表达
there's a tendency to
概括但不夸大
an echo chamber
贴近当下，在这里特别有用
hold power to account
描述新闻业职能的标准说法
这个话题的陷阱
笼统地说“the media”在撒谎，考官问是哪些媒体时却答不上来。
边说边限定。“Some outlets, particularly the ones funded by advertising, have an incentive to…”比生硬的指控更稳妥，也是更好的英语。
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。
Can we trust the news?
Individual outlets, sometimes; any single story, rarely without checking. I don't think the main problem is fabrication — outright invention is fairly rare and gets caught. The bigger issue is selection, which is invisible: what gets covered, what doesn't, and how much space each gets. That shapes what you think is important without any individual sentence being false. So I'd say read several sources with different incentives rather than trying to find the one that's reliable, because I don't think it exists.为什么有效区分了捏造和选择性报道——大多数回答完全忽略的区分——并把分析转化为实用建议。
How has the way people get news changed?
It's moved from a scheduled event to a continuous stream, and I think that's a bigger change than the shift from paper to screen. My parents watched the news at a particular time and then it was over. Now it arrives all day and there's no moment where you're finished, which I think explains a lot of the exhaustion people report. The other change is that the feed is personalised, so two people in the same house genuinely see different events as important.为什么有效指出不那么显眼的变化才是更重要的那个，并用一个后果加以支撑，这正是第三部分奖励的分析性做法。
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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