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(一)充分利用好口语综合任务T3/4/5/6的听力文本。
教授托福近四年,真的应了那句教学相长,与其说是我在教学生,不如说是学生们教会了我如何去教学。一遍遍地批改音频,一遍遍地思考学生的困难所在,进而一遍遍地修改教案,简化教案,寄希望于减轻学生的负担,提高备考效率。在这个过程中,我发现托福口语很多综合类题目的原文都是可以用来解答独立任务(一二题)的,尤其是偏难一些的一二题。这样做的好处也是非常清楚的:
1)取之于托福,用之于托福,选用原文内容能够保证用词的准确,恰当和地道,这也正是OG中托福口语评分标准之一Language Use 中对词汇的要求;
2)原文提供了非常好跟读模仿素材,挑出有用的句子模仿原文中的语音语调,方便高效,这对想要突破23分,语音语调又偏弱的同学尤为有用;
3)通过摘录原文中的句子可以有效地帮助同学们熟悉托福口语综合类题目的常用句型,词组,甚至是常用套路,自然能够事半功倍,综合独立两不误。
多说无益,不如举例,且看如下例题
Should students be required to evaluate their professors at the end of the semester? 此题为2016.07.16 真题,重复2012.10.14ML,可以利用的是TPO47T3.
TPO47T3Reading部分是学校发的一个通告,要求学生在每个学期末在网上对教授进行评价。Listening部分两个学生不同意学校此举并给出两个原因,原文如下:
(1)I don’t think professor would be too happy to have their teaching styles publicly criticized. Besides, they might not even bother reading the online evaluations if they think they’ll be negatively criticized in them. (2) Students who write the evaluation usually do it in a hurry to leave. They don’t wanna bother spending much time on them,so they don’t say anything specific or helpful about the professor or the course. So the whole idea may not work.(85)
(二)听说不分家,听力文本照用不误
此处需要说明的是此处的听力文本并非托福口语综合部分的听力文本,而是听力单项里的听力文本。听力单项里的对话以及涉及到商业,心理学,生物的讲座(商业,心理学,生物是口语综合题考查重心)都是非常好的备考托福口语的素材。相信任何一位有经验负责人的听力老师都会给你布置的一项听力作业是精听精读,那么在精听精读的过程如果遇到好的词组,句子,甚至是例子何不摘录下来,形成自己的语料库,这样不仅上文中提及的益处可以尽收囊中,还可以加强对听力部分的实力,何乐而不为?
示例如下:
TPO 17 Lecture 4 Biology (Octopus)
原文截取:Well, let me back up here a second. Anyone ever heard of Proteous? Proteus was a God in Greek mythology who could change form. He could make himself look like a lion or a stone or a tree, anything you wanted, and he could go through a whole series of changes very quickly. Well, the octopus is the real world version of Proteus. Just like Proteus, the octopus can go through all kinds of incredible transformations. And it does this in three ways: by changing color, by changing its texture, and by changing its size and shape. For me, the most fascinating transformation is when it changes its color. It’s a normal skin color, the one it generally presents, is either red or brown or even grey, and it ’s speckled with dark spots. But when it wants to blend in with its environment to hide from its enemies, it can take on the color of its immediate surroundings: the ocean floor, a rock, a piece of coral, whatever.(172)
利用这段文字,我虚拟了一本书,可以用来回答所有与书相关的题目。
The book named Undersea World.
It introduced me into a brand new world. You know, I was totally overwhelmed by richness of undersea world, especially the chapter about octopus. It says the octopus is the real-world version of Proteus, a god in Greek mythology who can go through a series of transformations. Just like Proteus, the octopus can go through all kinds of incredible transformations. Wow, it’s really amazing.
你可以根据自己的语速进行增减,截取需要的部分。像这样的例子比比皆是,师傅领进门,修行靠个人,方法教给大家,怎么用,怎么修行全凭个人。既然选择了远方就要风雨兼程,趁年轻,你的梦还在,何不为此一搏!衷心的祝愿同学们美梦成真,得偿所愿!