2016年3月雅思口语新题解析第3期

话题合并与分析方法
Describe a time when the weather changed your plan 描述一次你需要因为天气原因改变你的计划的经历
you should say
when it happened
what you planed to do
what did you do after you changed your plan
and explain how you felt about it when the weather stopped your plan
分析：天气相关话题，其实跟烤鸭们准备的事件类雅思口语话题很好合并。只需要讲一个自己准备过的事件，再加上天气如何干扰了这次事件以及之后你和小伙伴干嘛了，就可以了。

基本框架
1.事件本身：要准备一个能被天气干扰的活动，比如野餐之类的室外活动
2.准备工作、过程：这里可以突出准备的艰辛，比如为了野餐你们买了很多东西、跑了很远的路，等等
3.感受&如何应对：感受一般就是很沮丧很失望之类的，如何应对方面，可以用准备的另一个事件去说，几句话带过。

范文
这里我给大家分享一个我的真实经历。
I recall one time when I was particularly frustrated to have to change my plan due to bad weather. The plan was for me to pick up my friend coming from the states at Shanghai Pudong Airport. He was carrying a lot of luggage with him, so it would have been quite painful for him to take the subway (if you have taken the subway from Pudong to Hongqiao, then you know what I’m talking about) and train back to Nanjing, so we had planned that I would drive to Shanghai and pick him up. Plus the cost for driving there and back would have been pretty much the same as if he took the train, and it would have been much more comfortable.
So the day came, and I was already on the road. I didn’t check the weather beforehand, cuz it wasn’t during the rain season, and it hadn’t rained in a week, so I wasn’t even expecting it to rain. But it did. Halfway to Shanghai, after I pulled over in one of the service areas to take a break, the rain started. And it wasn’t like a shower – that would have been fine, it was pouring rain, like there was no tomorrow. No cars in the area dared to leave, and more and more cars were coming in from the highway. Soon the highway police started broadcasting an emergency warning on the radio to advise people not to return to road. There was no way for anybody to drive in that condition, so everyone just waited.
It was particularly frustrating for me cuz I thought my friend had arrived by then and been waiting for me. He didn’t know any Chinese other than ‘Ni Hao’ and ‘Xie Xie’, and he didn’t have a working SIM card, so it would have been difficult for him to contact me. And I couldn’t do anything about it because of this rain.
To kill some time, I started checking his flight status cuz I was wondering if this heavy rain was also affecting the airport. And it was! It turned out that no plane was being allowed to land because of this rain and extremely low visibility. So that was a silver lining.
Fortunately, the rain stopped after about an hour. And I eventually got to the airport about an hour later than planned, and picked him up. Everything turned out fine.
I guess the takeaway from this experience is to prepare for the worst and hope for the best, cuz when this kind of thing happens, there’s nothing you can do.
 

词汇
the states 美国（口语和非正式书写中可用）
pretty much 差不多
pull over 停车
service area（高速）服务区
shower 小雨、细雨
pouring rain 倾盆大雨
like there is no tomorrow 习语，表示某个东西很强烈，很激进（文中表示雨下得很大）
emergency warning 紧急通告
kill time 打发时间
flight status 航班状态
land （航班的）降落
low visibility 低能见度
takeaway （口语）经验、教训
prepare for the worst 做最坏的准备
hope for the best 抱有乐观态度