雅思口语考试中有一类常见题型,即要求考生对于某个时间进行描述。近期常见的考题有Describe an important occasion when you are late等。而分析发现,在以往的雅思口语考题中也有许多与描述事件顺序相关的话题,试略举几例如下: 1. a picnic 2. a meal outdoors 3. a special/strange meal 4. a sport event(describe the process) 5. a party/a party you threw for your family members or friends 6. a public event(except sport events) 7. a traditional event 8. a traditional festival 9. a walk with a friend 10. a traffic jam 11. describe last week
最好的实例当然是剑7 Test 3的Section 2。这是一个旅游场景,说话者对某个景点进行了描述。研究相对应的听力原文并进行归纳,很容易得到如下的几个句型: 1. … start by … , on Day One. 2. After a couple of days to … , you’ll … on Day Three … which will the whole of the day. 3. Day Four takes us … . 4. Then … , that’s Day Five, 5. … before going to … and that’s Day Six. 6. We stay … for Day Seven because then comes the … day, … . 7. Day Nine is … , with part of the day spent in … . 8. Then back down to … and the journey home.
我们还是以剑7 Test 3的Section 2为例。这个旅游路线全程为10天,所以说话者按照10天的顺序,从第一天开始到最后一天结束,进行了分步描述。这种分步描述方法的特点在于,在进行事件描述时,说话者总是会使用十分清楚明确的连接词或者关键词表明每一步行动(详见前一步)。这种描述的顺序并不困难,如果考生在描述中能够按时间顺序依次叙述,就能清楚明确的描述整个事件,不至于再出现说不清楚的状况。