雅思考试（口语篇）

1. 前言

    从初中开始学英语，到现在细算一下已经将近14个年头了，但是除了六级考了个优秀外，乏善可陈。从没有像中学写语文作文那样完成过完整的一篇文章，还没发表英语论文，最差的是口语，这么多年了还不能正常用英语交流。面对这些不足，需要做出改变，我打算通过参加一次雅思考试来弥补，因为雅思考得很全面，涵盖了听力、阅读、写作、口语四部分，先从我最弱的口语开始，然后听力、写作，总共用半年时间实现总体提升。

2. 口语练习方式

• X-Term小组模拟考试
• 平时背诵整理
• 外教交流

3. 详细说明

这里针对上一小节中的三部分做出详细解释

3.1 X-Term小组模拟考试

    实验室师姐组织了三个人进行雅思口语考试模拟训练，每个人轮流着当考官以及考生，营造现场气氛，回答题目。在这个环节我打算熟悉所有可能被问到的问题，自己地下都做成详细的回答模板并背诵，这样时间长了就能对答如流同时也可以实现自己最初的目的，流利地用英语交流。因为平时聊天谈到的也就是这些内容，说的多了自然就流利了，而且平时聊天要注意的事项也和考试中的大同小异。

3.2 平时背诵整理

    自己看历年考题等做出些总结摘要

3.3 外教交流

    学校图书馆英语角周一到周五的中午和晚上都有外交交流，前几天去了几次虽然获益挺多，但因为自己词汇的匮乏，这种获益持续下去并不能最大化，需要首先有一定的积淀才能效率最高。所以先做好上面第一和第二步的铺垫工作，和外交交流时自然会水到渠成。

4. 训练过程

这里记下上述三种训练的经过以及自己的改进训练

4.1 X-Term小组模拟考试

第一次（2016-1-13）
杜晓莉
1. Name Hometown
        My name is Liang Mingyuan, you can call me Neo. I’m from LiaoCheng, ShanDong Province, Which locates in the southwest of ShanDong
2. Describe a street you know well
        I’m going to describe a main street in my hometown. The name of this street is DongChang Road. It is a long street that spreads from the east to the west of my hometown. There are parks, museums, artificial lake, a mass of shopping malls along both sides of the street. So no matter how cold or hot the weather is, the street is bustling with people until late night and I also like the atmosphere of the street, especially for the artificial lake. You can see people fishing or paddling a boat in summer and ice engraving in winter when you walk or drive along the street. It makes me feel fantastic to see these things.
3. Have you been stuck in traffic jams for hours?
        Yeah. This happened in my winter vacation of the past year. My home located in the east of my town and I drove back home for dinner from the west of the town in that day. I drove along the main street called DongChang Road of the town, there are usually many people in this street, along with it was the end of the year, people prepared to buy things for Spring Festival. So it was crowd and I was stuck ahead a crossroad with traffic light. Though the traffic policemen had come to direct the traffic, it spent hours to for me to get home.
梁明远
1. How important are clothes and fashion to you?
        No, it is not really important to me. I tend to wear clothes that are comfortable rather than fashionable. So except for special occasions I usually wear casual clothes.
    What kind of clothes do you dislike?
        I dislike tight fitting clothes for the reason of uncomfortable. Though tight fitting clothes can show the good figure, it is not convenient for me to do excercise. I do not want to wear uncomfortable clothes just for showing good figure.
    How different are the clothes you wear now from those you wore 10 years ago?
        Ten years ago, I was in middle school and usually had to wear school uniform. Because I focused in study at that time, so I just wore clothes that my mom bought for me no matter the styles. But now, I buy suitable clothes myself.
2. Describe a festival that is import in your country.
    You should say:
        when the festival occurs
        I want to describe the Spring Festival, it occurs in the last day of lunar calendar.
        what you did during it
         With the development of economy, people usually leave home for working or studying. They will come back home at this time and I will meet them. We eat dinner and play games together.
        what you like or dislike about it and explain why this festival is important
        *I like the firecracker that makes the festival lively and I usually play firecrackers every year. I also

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1. Discussion topics:
       Purpose of festival and celebrations:
           why do you think festivals are important events in the working year?
           
           would you agree that the original significance of of festivals is often lost today? is it good or bad?
       Festivals and the media
           what roles does the media play in festivals?
           How many globalization affect different festivals around the world?

第二次（2016-1-15）
杜晓莉
1. Hang out
    how often, where, group or a few, do what, strangers
2. Describe a journey you remember well
3. You should say:
        when it was, where you went, who you went with, and explain why it is special
赵云祥
1. Are you a student or worker now?
    Why did you choose your major?
    Do you want to be a worker?
    What are the differences between a student and a worker?
2. Describe an ambition you have not achieved yet. You should say:
        what it is
        when you first have this ambition?
        and explain why you haven’t achieved it yet
3. Do you think children should have ambitions
    Do you think parent should stop children from thing too big
    What’s the importance of having ambition
    what are the advantage of feeling ambitions towards your work
梁明远
1. Do you prefer relaxing at home or going out in the evening?
    when you go out for an evening, what do you like to do?
    How popular is this with other people in your country?
    Is there any kind of entertainment you do not like?
2. Describe one of your friends. You should say:
        how you met
        how long you have known each other
        how you spend time together and explain why you like this person
3. What do you think are the most important qualities for friends to have?
    Which are more important to people, their family or their friends?
    What do you think causes friendships to break up?
    What other types of relationship, apart from friends or family, are important in people’s lives today?
    Have relationships with neighbors where you live changed in recent years?

4.2 平时背诵整理

4.3 外教交流

5. 平时词组积累

这里积累积累一些口语里经常用的词
daily needs 日常生活需求
a second year master student 研二学生
pedestrian street 步行街
ice engraving 冰雕
ice sculpture 冰雕
self esteem 自信
in bold 加粗的

6. 考试注意事项

1. you should maintain eye contact with the examiner that shows you are confident
2. do not look around in order to avoid the examiner considering that you are not concentrate your attention wholly or you are thinking what to said too obviously
3. do not look note book frequently. As far as I know,you can make some notes in PART 2, but that does not means you just read from the book.
4. pay attention to tense for what you say because this is the most frequently mistakes made by new candidates for exam
5. do not do little tricks in the oral exam such as spinning pen that make the examiner feels uncomfortable
6. In the part 2, for first few questions, you should use one or two sentences to answer for each. So you can have enough time to answer the last question logically, using the words like firstly, secondly, last but not the least etc.

7. 总结

    我普通话不好，从上大学开始这么多年，一直到现在才算勉强让自己满意。学习英语口语也不会是一蹴而就，需要长时间持续的锻炼，这里只是开始，我会持续更新，不断完善