IELTS口语第三部分：金钱与消费主义
抽象，而且很容易让人放心地泛泛而谈，这个主题恰恰在这里让人栽跟头。
你能否谈论金钱，既不说教也不背诵陈词滥调。“Money can't buy happiness”是这个主题里最常见的一句话，而它一文不值。
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。
- Do people buy more than they need?
- Are young people good at managing money?
- Should personal finance be taught in schools?
- Has advertising too much influence on what people buy?
- Is it better to save or to spend?
- Do people judge others by what they own?
- Has online shopping changed how much people spend?
- Is there too much pressure to own the latest things?
这里如何组织回答
- 任何关于消费的说法都要给出机制——信贷、广告、一键下单、社会攀比。
- 把群体分开。年轻人、家庭、退休人员面临的金钱问题确实不同。
- 如果一个问题有明显的“美德”答案，就把它复杂化。储蓄并不总是对的，说明为什么才是有意思的回答。
- 在建议类问题上使用条件句结构：“if people were taught this at sixteen, they'd probably…”
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。
live within their means
表示在承受范围内消费的标准说法
keeping up with the Joneses
表示社会攀比的准确习语
disposable income
精确的经济学语域
impulse buying
这个主题离不开的搭配
it's a false economy
用于图便宜后来反而花费更多的选择
status symbol
用于为了彰显身份而买的物品
这个话题的陷阱
用谚语填满整个主题——“money is not everything”、“health is wealth”、“money cannot buy happiness”。
谚语是背诵的语言，考官会大打折扣。一个关于人们为何超支的具体论断，胜过三句俗语。
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。
Do you think people spend too much on unnecessary things?
Probably, though I'm wary of the question because 'unnecessary' does a lot of quiet work in it. Almost nothing most of us buy is necessary in any strict sense, and the line usually turns out to be drawn just past whatever the speaker buys. What I'd say more confidently is that a lot of spending is unsatisfying — people buy things they don't use and know at the time they won't. That seems like a better complaint than necessity, and it's one you can actually act on.为什么有效追问问题中那个带倾向性的词，指出通常在哪里划线以及为什么，再提出一个更好的标准。这是第三部分最强的状态。
Is advertising harmful?
Some of it, and the harm is mostly not the one people name. The usual complaint is that it makes us buy things, and honestly it's not very good at that for any individual product. What it does more effectively is establish the background assumption that dissatisfaction is normal and purchasable, which no single advert is responsible for and all of them together are. That's a hard thing to regulate because you can't point at the one that did it.为什么有效否定了显而易见的危害，指出一种分散的危害，再说明这种危害的结构为什么让它难以应对——持续的抽象推理。
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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