1.大作文
一開始會覺得思路打不開,各類范文多看看就會有感覺了。有時間的話,也可以偶爾讀讀網上的、《經濟學人》的文章(里面話題很多的,會發現有很多好詞匯和很贊的觀點)。有時間的同學非常建議這么做!讀精了,會很加分!當然,平時的那些reading也都是可以拿來學習的,句式啊什么的,甚至,雅思閱讀里面的文章也可以借鑒的。只要我們帶著一個雅思的心,你就會發現一切都和雅思有關,哈哈!當然,劍橋的范文也得看看,一睹滿分風采。7.5的,7分的sample也是可以看看感受一下,分低的就不要去瞄了。其他還可以接觸的材料有寫作替換詞匯什么的,網上應該有很多的,但我覺得還是自己親自總結比較好,我目前就總結了個make可以在不同況下變成yield, neccessitate, render。
考了兩次雅思,一次是animal test,一次是increasing working time。思路基本上是以下這樣的,開頭就是先描述這個現象,然后說說它的原因,再就著是利和弊,分兩段,利和弊中間的過渡可以裝得糾結一點,兩者之間透露出你的立場,像While I admit that... I am convinced that...,外加給些solution,無非就是政府介入,raise awareness什么的,最后來個歡快結個尾,兩句話以上。
好詞好句
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滋生... have welcomed the new breed of ...
The health-food craze spawned a muli-million-dollar industry. (craze 和 spawn都很好用的,mushroom作動詞也很好用)
先闡述一種熱門現象,however, there is a growing grumble about ...
stir up a discussion ...
the defining challenge of the century ... (很多issue都可以代進去)
The problems caused by ....are never-ending.
There is always controversy over ...
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The reasons for this trend may involve the recognition that ...
Several factors are responsible for this disturbing development ...
Various reasons have been sugegested for this situation ...
This is partially because ... but also...
When ..., it is not surprising that ...
A number of factors are adduced to explain the situtaion ...
...is (not) always the culprit behind such changes .
... is also a key element.
Understandably (應該比較好用吧)
This may be due to a combination of factors
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Meanwhile, ...can also be very stimulating. (句型很簡單,但個人很喜歡stimulating這個詞,可以作為一個論點,寫其好的一面,competition, frusration等,常常是很stimulating的,可用作過渡)
accrue benefitare
grateful for the ...they bring. has become a prime source (所以是indespensible的~)
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which is expensive in terms of ...(不是指價格,是在某方面有代價)
However, there are cons that need to be weighed against the pros of ...
suppresion of individual liberty (同樣可以作為一個論點的)
... with its corresponding undermining/ tend to undermine
adds to (增加負擔:eg. 修路adds to the conjestion)
may encourage extra ... (encourage 也可以作貶義,另外增加負擔,好像也可以用來立新論)
put a financial strain on ...(好像也可以代很多東西進去,又是可以用來立個新論點的) exacerbate the situation
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can be a vehicle for reinvigorating ...(振興各種產業)
other remedies, such as ....should be examined
The best way to tackle ... is ...
from a pragmatic point (從實際角度看問題,有點中庸之道的意思了,pragmatic 這個詞比較好用)
an intermediary position between both solutions (也有點中庸之道的意思啦)
小作文
我小作文練得要比大作文來得多,但參考資料就是劍橋里的范文,精讀!最基本的是要掌握每個圖標的不同功能,和要涉及到的非常典型的語言比如線圖里面上升、下降、持平這些表達法要熟練掌握。
1.條圖(橫向長的那種)
主要功能為體現各個比較者(男女、國家等)之間的差異,入手時,若y軸及分類之間有一個程度的遞近(參考范文劍4T3男女學歷那篇范圍),就按順序寫,在不同level上哪一個比較者占優勢,若沒有(范文劍3T2,里歐洲各個國家的消費情況,英國人最厲害的那個),就從比較者的極值(差異最大的)開始入手;再輪到中勻的。
2.線圖
有相同趨勢的可并在一起說(a similar patterns occur in...),多條線的話,就看看有沒有超過的(overtake, outnumer),詳見劍7T2雞鴨魚肉圖。另外,注意各種句型能用都用上,什么倒裝句啦,強調句啦還有詞盡量少重復;即便是同一個詞,也可以換成各種詞性舉個例子,范文里的一個國家的花費各種表達法。
Britain spent on...
British spending ...(情態動詞作名詞)
Britain is the lowest spender.同樣也可以在use這個詞上使用。