托福考試口語怎么練習能達到預期效果?托福口語是大陸考生比較頭疼的一部分,很多考生反復參考,都無法取得理想成績,這有可能是發(fā)音的問題,或者是表達不清晰,不流利的問題,當然,還有一個可能是你在托??谡Z中犯了“幼稚病”。下面,就為大家講解一下幼稚病的表現。
比如在談論這個話題:Describe a job that you would like to do in the future。的時候,一個學生說:I think good job is no job but have much money。我們暫且不去評論這個學生的語法問題,但從學生想要表達的內容上來看,一個好的工作就是不做事就有錢拿,這樣的觀點,可能很難得到考官的贊同吧。真正的好的內容應該是積極向上的,有自己獨到見解的。所以這樣的回答所能得到的分數就可想而知了。這種回答就極其的幼稚,但是,我們又如何讓自己的回答不再如此讓人發(fā)笑呢?
首先要有足夠的ideas。
我們就以工作這個話題為例,什么樣的工作才算是好工作哪?有人喜歡工作well-paid,secure,有人則更看重challenging,exciting,認為那樣的工作才worthwhile, rewarding。有沒有free time,公司是否提供較好的pension benefit,medical benefit,working condition,和colleague是否相處融洽也都是很多人在擇業(yè)前考慮的因素??梢粋€工作也總有不讓人滿意的地方,如果工作太demanding,職員會感到它stressful。又或者這個工作boring,dangerous,要不就是工人們必須在difficult environment中工作,都會造成負面的情緒。
比如,我們在談論工作的時候可以說:Money is good, but I want a job which is also rewarding in other ways. It shouldn’t be boring like some other jobs, and there should be always something unexpected. Thus I’ll feel I am doing something worthwhile。
此外,在某些話題的論述上容易犯“幼稚病”的一個很重要的原因就是對這個話題的不了解。
就工作這個話題而論,由于很多考生是尚未走出校園的學生,對工作不甚了解,就是由于這種不了解,所以無法很好的回答考官的問題,而偏偏對于學生后期的發(fā)展打算又是托??谡Z考題中的一個組成部分,所以,做好一些背景知識的補充,先去了解一些相關的知識,就顯的尤為的重要了。
比如,我們應該去了解一些常見的崗位,和不同崗位的職責。如對各種崗位職責的描述:
I have to supervise and know about what’s going on in all the different parts of the company. I have to represent the company in all important decisions. (Chief Executive Officer)I am a qualified accountant and a member of the management team. I monitor my company’s financial performance, as well as supervising the budgets for various projects and controlling their costs. (Finance Manager)My job is around the development and training of the managers in the store where I work, and making sure they do their jobs well. Also, I’m responsible for the recruitment of new staff. (Human Resources Manager)I give advice about all sorts of different things connected with food, such as advice on how to market it, developing new recipes; I also write articles about it. (Marketing Consultant)此外,在論述的時候,建議考生也可以結合一些時代的特色。
比如在談論工作時,我們可以談論現代工作的工作節(jié)奏很快,員工們不得不為heavy workload拼命,很容易feel tired, feel fatigued,feel frustrated,feel depressed,每天都必須do paperwork,meet tight deadlines,很少有時間take a holiday。這些問題都越來越被重視,特別是當人們意識到繁重的工作量還能導致很多的symptom,stress-related illness,比如high blood pressure,ulcer, fatigue,對于其心情的影響是毋庸置疑的,bad mood,low spirit會使整個公司面臨low morale的困擾??上驳氖?,很多公司都在著手解決這個問題,比如提供sports facility, create appealing working environment。而員工自己也要學會arrange time,來increase efficiency,而且經常做些運動來relax,這樣可以使自己feel refreshed,keep fit在工作中have good performance。
在論述的時候,我們可以跳出自己個人而泛泛談論一種社會現象,這樣就可以使我們的回答的立意更高遠,也就很容易擺脫“幼稚病”了,比如在談論工作時,我們還可以如是回答:Nowadays the pace of work has increased beyond people’s expectations. They are usually overwhelmed with the heavy workload and feel tired. Overwork will result in stress-related illness, such as high blood pressure and ulcer. Employees will give very poor performance in their work。
托??谡Z中的“幼稚病”是我們很多人都會面臨的一個問題,要想克服這一病癥,不斷的積累背景知識和從更寬廣的角度去談論都是治病的良方。