2016年2月雅思口语新题解析第2期

话题合并与分析方法
Describe a family (not your own) that you like 描述一个你喜欢的家庭（非本人的家庭）
这题大家可以从人物介绍的角度着手，跟准备的人物类话题一定程度得合并。

 

基本框架
第一部分，简要介绍：简单介绍一下这个家庭（谁的家庭，成员都有哪些，住哪儿etc）
第二部分，为什么：你喜欢这个家庭的原因（这里最好举出具体事例、经历）
第三部分，总结&升华：这个根据每个人讲的内容而异，但基本一两句话概括。

 

范文
Well, speaking of a family that I like other than my own, it really brings my memory back to when I was in high school (高中的童鞋们就不要说high school了，可以自行换成junior high或者primary school). In my class we had a guy, Jason, from the states, whose parents were both working in Nanjing at that time. I soon became friends with Jason, and it so happens that his family lived not too far from mine. So I would often go hang out with him at his place or the other way around.
The reason why I liked his family is two-fold. Well first, I very much enjoyed hanging out with Jason cuz we shared a lot of common interests and had so much to talk about: languages (both Chinese and English), basketball and NBA players (we were both crazy Knicks fans at the time), and of course, food (此处应有笑声). But not only that, but also that I could talk with his parents without feeling too much of a generation gap. Although they were in their 40s and I was a teenager, we still had a lot of topics that we were both interested in, for example, sports, movies, sometimes we would even talk about social issues in China and in America.
The second reason is that, I saw that the way they raised Jason was quite different from the Chinese way. You know, in China, typically parents are the “authorities” at home. Children usually have to “obey” their parents without too much of a chance of expressing their own opinions. But in Jason’s family, they discuss everything. I remember one time, when Jason and I were talking, he told me that his family were thinking about moving to Shanghai but he talked them out of it. So I asked him how he persuaded his parents. He told me that for one thing, he didn’t like Shanghai as much as Nanjing, cuz it seemed too big for him; for another, he had already made friends here; moving to Shanghai meant that he had to start all over at school. And since he was an equal member in his family, his parents respected his thoughts and stayed in Nanjing.
The second reason is what I liked his family the most. I think all families should be like that, and if they were, there would be a lot less domestic problems between children and their parents.

 

相关词汇
Bring one’s memory back to … 让我回想起…
It (so) happens that… 碰巧…
Hang out with someone与某人玩耍、消磨时间（小孩子玩耍才用play with）
Two-fold 双层
Generation gap代沟
Authority权威
Talk someone out of something劝某人不去做某事
Domestic problem 国内、家内问题（domestic表示内外的内，是一个相对的含义，具体意思看语境）
【人物类词汇】
cute; adorable可爱的
naive天真的
dilligent勤奋的
curious好奇的
dependent依赖的
versatile多才多艺的
obedient听话的
candid 正直的
dutiful尽职的
hospitable 好客的
humble谦逊的
open-minded 开明的
persevering 不屈不挠的
punctual 严守时刻的
optimistic乐观的
ambitious 有雄心壮志的
enthusiastic 充满热情的
trustworthy值得信赖的
audacious 有冒险精神的
adaptable适应性强的