如何丰富雅思口语词汇

如何丰富雅思口语词汇

1学习近义词，适当使用难词

笔者在教学及模拟测试的过程中会发现，考生在紧张的情况下，通常张口说出来的，都是开始学习英语就接触的最简单的词汇。这个很好解释，是因为这些词汇已经扎根在了他们的脑海里，根深蒂固，几乎可以不假思索的脱口而出。例如，当问到喜欢的事物的时候，考生的答案里会充斥着like、love等字眼，而“许多、大量”等词，则通常用“lots of”、“many”等表达。然而，后果也是显而易见的，如果考生所使用的词汇一直单一重复的话，则无法吸引考官，那么，当然也就无法取得理想的成绩。

学习近义词是拓展词汇量的一个好方法，尤其是形容词的同义词替换。当然，此类同义词替换不能只做同级的替换，像把“like”替换为“love”, 这样的做法丝毫没有任何意义，考生需要做的，是将本想使用的词用稍难一点的词汇表达出来。为什么要在考试中适当使用难词呢?这是因为雅思口语考试注重考查与考生日常生活和所学领域密切相关的话题，考生如果能适当使用一些难词来描述日常生活和所学领域，不但能避免千篇一律的模板式回答，而且会增加表达亮点，引起考官兴趣。

以雅思口语考试Part 1的一个常见话题为例，让考生体会一下如何适当使用难词。在Part1中，考官经常会问到一个问题：“Areyou a student or do you work?”考生该如何回答才能更出彩呢?我们可以对比一下两种回答方式。

回答一：I’m a student. / I’mworking now.

回答二：To be honest, I graduatedlast year and now I’m an entrepreneur, since I launched my first company lastmonth.

点评：回答一属于中规中矩的回答，没有亮点可言。回答二不但信息量大，而且使用了不少难词，如entrepreneur、launch等，还灵活运用了过去和现在时态，会给考官留下更深刻的印象。

2适当使用词组和合成词

在雅思口语中，绝大多数考生表达时常使用简单的单词，而忽略词组与合成词的运用，从而影响口语的得分。下面我们举例来比较“使用单词”与“使用词组和合成词”的效果差异。

A.Students of the poor regions have no advanced education.

B. Students of thepoverty-stricken regions have no access to the advanced education.

点评：这两组表达意思一样，但是B句显然要比A句更有感染力。而B句与A句的区别就在于使用的词汇。

不同：B句利用合成词poverty-stricken和词组haveaccess to分别替换了A句中的单词poor 与have，使得B句表现力更强，更体现考生的词汇水平。以下笔者再列举几个可用来替换单词的合成词与词组。例如：

1. bekeen on替换love, 如：“I love football”替换为“I’m keen on football”。

2. beavailable替换have, 如：“Famous universities have delicate facilities.”替换为“Advanced facilities can be available in well-knownuniversities.”。

3. cost-effective替换cheap, 如：“Metrois cheaper than bus”替换为“Metrois more cost-effective than bus”。

4. time-consuming替换waste(time), 如：“Shoppingwastes time”替换为“Shoppingis really time-consuming”。

3使用俚语锦上添花

既然口语总分是从四个方面来评定的，词汇又是中国考生比较容易拿分的一个方向，为了确保总分拿到理想的分数，那么考生可以在“词汇”方面多下功夫，争取拿高分。在掌握了基础词汇的基础上，还要求一些复杂的词汇技能，其中之一就是要使用俚语。

俚语是非正式的常用语言，诙谐幽默。有一些单词，如clever就是俚语出身，最终成为了标准英语中的一员。但是也有些俚语寿命不长，一些七八十年代的俚语现在听起来已陈旧不已。而一些俚语则在特定的人群中使用。考生如果在日常表达中加进了一定量的俚语，会让考官觉得你的英语非常的地道。但是在使用俚语时，也应该考虑到说话的对象、场合与时间，有些俚语并不适合在正式的场合使用。所以在学习俚语时，不光要学习俚语的含义，还要了解其用法和使用的语境。

下面是英式英语和美式英语中经常出现的一些俚语，供大家参考：

24/7= 24 hours a day, 7 days a week=all the time

bust a gut= tryextremely hard to do something

heads up= update ona situation

hook up= to meet upor to join in

no sweat= used tosay that you can do something easily

rip-off=overly expensive

take the piss=to make fun

up to speed= having the latest information or knowledge about something

最后，考生在准备考试的时候，最忌讳的就是死记硬背词汇，扩大词汇量也有一定的技巧，比如记同义词及不同的词性。除此之外，一定要活学活用，如果背了单词及成语，不去用就永远都记不住。在日常练习的过程中，可以把刚记的词汇融入到自己的口语表达中，多去重复几次，下次自然而然就直接替换成了非常用词汇了，对考生的“词汇”分非常有帮助。

2020年9-12月雅思口语范文part1：Food

1.What kind of foreign food are popular in your country?

I suppose the so-called “junk food” in the western country has gained a lot of popularity in China.There is a large number of restaurants serving hamburgers, pizzas and French fries. People,especially youngsters, are really enthusiastic about them probably because eating this kind of food is time-saving and also very fashionable. But personally, I don't regard it as a positive trend in our society.

2.What kinds of new food have you tried recently?

Well, I am always willing to try new things and last month I saw a newly-opened Mexico restaurant,so I decided to take a taste. I ordered nachos and tacos, which are two types of Mexican food. I thought it might take me some time to get used to the food but surprisingly I fell in love with it from the first bite! The spicy flavor is exactly my cup of tea.

3.Do you like to try new food?

Yes, of course! I am passionate about trying new restaurants especially those that serve foreign food.Every time I have meals in a restaurant that I have never been to, it is like having an adventure. Also,as a real foodie, I’m fond of cooking with different ingredients, hoping that I can invent my ownrecipe one day

2020年9-12月雅思口语范文part2：上网搜信息

1.What are the differences between getting information from library and getting information from the newspaper?

I think it is more complicated to get information from the library than from a newspaper. Whensearching information in a library, you are forced to first find books that you are looking for,write down their locations, and then go searching for them

through the aisles of the library. You must then gather them all up and read through them, trying to find relevant information. However,the newspaper is generally thinner than books, which means less reading times. Moreover, the newspaper has a certain theme. If you want to find financial information, you can buy a financial newspaper. And the newspaper contains current information.

2.In what ways can people get information these days?

Now we are living in an era of technology. With the development of the Internet, we can getinformation fast. These days, we have lightning fast search engines that can give us thousands oflinks based on specific keywords. The internet allows for an unbelievably large amount ofdownloads and uploads of information, music, videos, attachments, and all sorts of other things as itis the engine of the Information Superhighway of our Information Era, in which we live. What’s more, we can also get information from TV programs.