雅思口语P2基本话题答题实例讲解--事件经历类话题

首先粗略总结统计一下 5-8 月口语题库中的事件经历类话题。

早起时刻 Describe an occasion you got up extremely early. 近期让你开心的事情 Describe a recent happy event that you had. 助人的时刻 Describe a time you helped someone. 改变计划的天气 Describe an occasion when the weather changed your plan.初次用外语与他人沟通 Describe the first time you communicated with someone in a foreign language. 特别的短途旅程 Describe a short trip that was special to you.儿时的幸福家事 Describe a happy family event from your childhood 积极的改变 Describe a positive change in your life 一次犯错的经历 Describe a mistake that you once made 帮助保持健康的活动 Describe an activity you do to keep fit. 一次生气的经历 Describe a situation that you got a little angry 一次婚礼 Describe a wedding you have been to 糟糕的假期 Describe a (short) journey that you disliked 学校活动 Describe an activity that you do in your school.

很多烤鸭在答题时容易讲成流水账式的叙述，没有突出重点。事件类的话题往往牵涉到描述事件的时间、地点、人物、发生的事情这几大要素。因此，要想清晰地描述出事件的始末，不妨先列出需要表达内容的提纲，这样，按照提纲来描述就顺理成章了。根据事件经历类话题的特点，我们可以把话题的内容分为几个部分：

1. 事件发生的背景(Why it happened);

2. 事件发生前的情况和状态(Prepare for it);

3. 事件发生的时间、地点、人物(When/where/who);

4. 事件的具体内容(What the people did in the event);

5. 一至两个亮点的细节描述(What impressed you most);

6. 感受(How do you feel about it 或 What you learned from it);

事件经历类话题的答题重点依然要放在最后一个问题上(一般来说最后一个问题会问 why it happened 或 how do you feel about it)，多数考生也基本可以回答到 3 和 4，但容易忽略的是细节描述和事情发生前的一些铺垫，也就是说答题过于平淡，缺少亮点。

口语话题的内容很重要，描述能否引起考官的兴趣，能否在结束后给考官留下一个深刻的印象，是烤鸭是否能得到高分的关键。所以答题中的亮点是必不可少的。所谓亮点，是指叙述中能够吸引听者的有意思、波澜起伏的细节或片段。它可以是举例、某个具体的动作、事物的色彩、形状等能够给别人想象空间，从而引起兴趣的点。亮点的范围比具体内容还要细致入微，因此我们在组织语言时可以抓住一至两个点来提升答题的新鲜感和趣味性。

下面以一道曾经的 part2 的答题范例为例，和大家分享下时间经历类话题应该是体现答题亮点的。

Describe a time you experienced a long-time traffic jam.

You should say:

when and where it happened;

how long you were in the traffic jam;

what you did to try to get out of the problem situation;

and explain how you felt about that traffic jam.

参考范文：

Several weeks ago, I was on a bus to my workplace, as usual. But I didn't expect that the bus would get stuck right in the middle of a bridge. A car got rear-ended by another one, the two drivers were quarreling ferociously, they almost broke into a fight at some point. The traffic police were there, but there was nothing they could do. And all the cars and buses where just stuck there, with drivers honking and passengers cursing. It was totally chaotic.

Since I'm just a passenger, I could do nothing about the problem. But if I were the traffic policeman, I would stop those two drivers with forces, and towed away their cars, so that the rest of us could get pass. About this traffic congestion, I felt completely irritated. My work begins sharply at nine o'clock, but it was already eight forty, and there were still six stops to go. I could never make it on time. I tried to tell myself to calm down and read some news reports on my cellphone, but I was distracted and disgusted by the foul language of those two angry drivers, and the complains of other passengers around me. And what upset me even more was that the traffic policeman was just writing stuff on his notebook, without doing anything practical. And I felt sorry for those two drivers. Had they acted more rationally, they wouldn't have caused such a scene. But I guess they would never know that until they saw their pictures on the front page the next day. That traffic jam lasted for about an hour, and it utterly ruined my day.