从雅思小作文用词到大作文指代方法 雅思考官1周备考答疑

编者按：关于雅思作文的一篇。有讲小作文的用词问题，简单准确要优于复杂模糊；有关于大作文的，第一人称代词的使用问题。

1.IELTS Writing Task 1: easy but accurate

雅思小作文：简单但准确

If you can use "less common" vocabulary correctly, that's great. However, using "difficult" words or grammar often leads to lots of mistakes. It would be better to choose "easy but accurate" language instead.

如果你可以准确地使用不太常见的词汇，那再好不过。但是，使用高级词汇或语法常常导致各种错误。更明智的做法是选择简单而准确的语言。。

Here are the sentences from last week's lesson, with problems underlined:

下面是一些画线部分存在毛病的句子。

1) The highest number of people residence in Australia are those living in cities.

2) The highest population of birth are those born within Australia.

3) This figure was over 50% of those given birth to outside Australia.

Let's rewrite these sentences in an "easy but accurate" way:

1) The majority of Australians live in cities.

2) Most of the people who live in Australia were born there.

3) This was over 50% higher than the figure for people born outside Australia.

解读：这些是典型的无法用简单明了的语言表意的例子了。通过上下句子的对比，可以说是高下立现，后面的三句话的意思非常的清晰易懂，这就是最高明的语言，虽然在结构或表达不及上面三句来得复杂。

有些烤鸭是表达能力太弱，原本就没办法用常用词来表达;有些烤鸭则是醉心于把记住的高级单词往作文里塞，结果就产生了这种有异物感的句子(某些单词或表达跟整个句子觉得不搭)

Task:

Can you rewrite sentence 1 using residence, resident(s) or reside correctly?

FROM SIMON:

It's difficult to use "residence" in a natural way in this context, so I would avoid using that.

You could write:

- The majority of Australians are residents of cities.

- The majority of Australians reside in cities.

2.IELTS Advice: misinformation!

This week someone asked me a question which included the following statement:

Some examiners do not agree with the use of "I" in the writing test.

烤鸭的一个疑惑：有些雅思考官不认同在写作中使用“I”?’

My question is: who are these examiners? I can't believe that examiners would ignore their training and penalise the use of "I". How are candidates expected to answer the question "Do you agree or disagree?" without using "I" or "my" (e.g. I completely disagree)? Also, if the personal pronoun "you" is used in the question, why would personal pronouns be prohibited in your answer?

我的回答是：这些考官是谁?我无法相信这些考官能无视他们受过的培训，居然惩罚“I”的使用。考生应该如何在回答“Do you agree or disagree”时不去使用"I" or "my" (e.g. I completely disagree)?还有，如果代词”you”能在问题中使用，为什么你的回答中禁止使用人称代词?

My guess is that this misinformation about the use of "I" is coming from teachers, not examiners. In my experience here in the UK, examiners are all well trained and they all work in the same way. They expect you to use phrases like "I believe" or "I agree" when the question asks for your opinion!

我估计这个关于”I”的使用的错误信息来源于老师而不是考官。以我在英国的经验，考官都接受了良好的培训，所以他们的评判标准是统一的。当问题是在询问你的观点时，他们希望你你用"I believe" 或"I agree"之类来回答。

以上就是小站雅思频道为大家带来的一周雅思考官备考答疑，希望大家能有所得，早日与雅思分手，永不相见。