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Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Contents 本季度新题 （2024 年9-12 月新题） ...............................................................................................2 Fishing（钓鱼） ................................................................................................................................2 Teachers（老师） .............................................................................................................................5 Making friends （交朋友）................................................................................................................9 Teamwork （团队合作） ................................................................................................................ 16 Perfume（香水） ............................................................................................................................ 19 Roads and streets （道路） ............................................................................................................. 22 Coins（硬币） ................................................................................................................................. 24 Laughing （笑） .............................................................................................................................. 26 Bikes（自行车） ............................................................................................................................. 28 Good views（美景） ....................................................................................................................... 32 Place of work/ study（工作、学习的地方） ................................................................................... 34 本季度保留老题 .............................................................................................................................. 37 Challenges （挑战） ........................................................................................................................ 37 Sharing （分享） ............................................................................................................................. 40 Language（语言） .......................................................................................................................... 41 Plants（植物） ............................................................................................................................... 43 Pen& pencil（笔） .......................................................................................................................... 47 Happy things （快乐的事） ............................................................................................................. 49 Exciting activities （令人兴奋的活动） ........................................................................................... 53 T-shirts （T 恤衫） .......................................................................................................................... 54 Number （数字）............................................................................................................................ 57 Relax（放松） ................................................................................................................................. 59 Breakfast （早餐） .......................................................................................................................... 60 Morning routine （早晨作息） ........................................................................................................ 62 Daily routine（日常作息） .............................................................................................................. 65 The internet（互联网） .................................................................................................................. 68 News （新闻） ................................................................................................................................ 68 Science（科学） ............................................................................................................................. 75 1 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 E-books and paper books （电子书和纸质书） ............................................................................... 77 Doing sports（做运动） .................................................................................................................. 78 Schools（学校） ............................................................................................................................. 80 Holidays（假期） ............................................................................................................................ 85 Childhood memory（儿时记忆） .................................................................................................... 88 Staying at home （呆在家） ............................................................................................................ 90 Social Media（社交媒体） .............................................................................................................. 94 Music （音乐） ............................................................................................................................. 101 Musical instruments （乐器） ....................................................................................................... 108 Films （电影） .............................................................................................................................. 110 常年在考主题： ............................................................................................................................ 114 工作或学习（最高频） ................................................................................................................. 115 关于住房（次高频）..................................................................................................................... 134 关于area you live in ...................................................................................................................... 141 关于家乡 ....................................................................................................................................... 143 2024 9-12 Fishing 1. Is fishing popular in your country? ① I would say, fishing is popular in China and has been a traditional activity （传统活动） enjoyed by many people for centuries（多世纪以来）, especially among older people. There’re numerous lakes and rivers in our country; therefore, it’s a relatively easy thing to do. （以下可以不说：On top of that, I’ve also seen this tendency（这样一个趋势） of increasingly more young people enjoying fishing in recent years（最近几年）. I think young people 2 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 find it a great way to unwind（放松的方式）and escape from reality, spend some quality with their family and friends（享受和家人朋友的高质量陪伴时光）, enjoy the nice weather and also experience the excitement of catching a fish. So, it has been becoming even more on trend（流行） lately. ）（原因， 强调补充） ② No, fishing is not that popular in China, from what I’ve seen/ based on my observations（从我观察看来）. While there are some people who enjoy fishing as a hobby, it is not as widespread（普遍的）as it is in other countries. ③ Depends on what kind of fishing we are talking about. Fishing by a lake or river is pretty popular, especially among older people. They love it as they enjoy the tranquility it offers. It’s a great way to unwind and escape from reality. But when it comes to boat fishing（坐船钓鱼）. It’s definitely not for everybody. Many people hate being on a boat. （分情况） 2. Do you like eating fish? ① I'm definitely a fish person/ fish lover（爱吃鱼之人）. Don’t get me started on talking about it（别让我开始说这个）. It will make my mouth water（我会 流口水的）. Fish is really healthy lean meat（健康瘦肉） and at the same time, super tasty. It's a great source of protein（很棒的蛋白质来源）. I especially love grilled salmon（煎三文鱼） and Chinese fish soup（中式鱼汤）. My mom makes the best fish soup with tofu. God, I’m drooling（流口水） just talking about it. （原因，强调补充） ② Call me a weirdo, but I'm not a big fan of fish（叫我怪咖，但是我不是爱吃鱼 之人not a fish person）. I guess I just find the taste and smell of the fish quite off-putting/ unpleasant（令人反感的、不悦的）. It's just too fishy, you know, it stinks（臭）. But I know that for many people, they actually love 3 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 that stinky and fishy smell. Instead, I’m very into steak（牛排） and lamb （羊肉）. （原因） 3. Have you ever been to a place where there are lots of fish around you? ① Yes, so, this summer, I visited a beautiful beach in California, the US（或 者任何其他有海的地方）, and I went for snorkeling（浮潜） there. While snorkeling, I was surrounded by a variety of colorful fish. It was a truly enchanting/ fascinating/ one-of-a-kind experience（迷人的、独一无二的经 历）, being immersed in（沉浸在） the underwater world（水下世界）. I was totally mesmerized/amazed（被惊艳）. （讲故事法） ② This summer I went to one of the biggest aquariums（水族馆） in the world where there were a variety of fish swimming around（游来游去）. It was a fascinating experience to be surrounded by such a diverse range of underwater creatures（水下生物）. The vibrant colors and the diversity of different kinds of fish left/ made a deep impression on me（给我留下了深刻 影响）. （讲故事法） ③ Unfortunately（很遗憾的是） I haven’t been to a place like that so far（目 前为止）. I wish I could one day go snorkeling or visit an aquarium to explore the underwater world, but I haven’t got the chance yet. Oh, one time（有一 次）, I went to the local wet market（菜市场） and saw a lot of fish there. If that counts（如果那样也算的话）, haha. （原因，讲故事） 4. Have you seen any movies with a lot of fish? ① Yes, one movie that comes to mind is "Finding Nemo." I know, it’s a super famous one, right. So yeh, it's an animated movie（动画电影） that takes place in（发生在） the ocean. Therefore, in that movie, you can see a variety of fish. To be honest, I don’t remember the details about the story but I do 4 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 remember myself being amazed by all the beautiful fish characters（小鱼角 色）. （讲故事法） ② Not that I can remember（想不起来了）, to be frank. I remember myself watching movies that take place in the ocean, like Titanic, but I don’t think Titanic focuses on the fish in the ocean at all. Uhmmm, so no, maybe I have seen movies with lots of fish, but I don’t have any recollection/ I can’t recall （想不起来）. （原因） 5. Do you like fishing? 根据第一题回答里的素材去拼接答案 6. Did you ever go fishing when you were a child? ① Not that I can recall（想不起来了）. I don’t have any memory of going fishing with my family and friends when I was little. It was just not something we did when I was little. ② Yes actually. My late grandfather（已故的爷爷/外公） loved fishing. So, I went fishing with him a lot. We would go to the little pond（小池塘） close to our home and spent several hours there, fishing, chilling, chatting and bonding（增进情感）. It was one of my favourite childhood activities.（原因， 细节） Teachers 1. Do you have a favorite teacher? Yes, my favorite teacher was my high school English teacher Miss Zheng. She was like a breath of fresh air（一股清风）, a ray of sunshine（一束阳光）, very caring and loving（充满爱和关怀）. I feel like we were not just in a teacher-tudent relationship（不仅仅是师生关系）. It was more than just that 5 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 （比那还多）. She was like my friend. She would care about what I was doing outside the school, like where I went to on holidays or on weekends. We had a beautiful relationship. （细节） 2. Who is your favourite teacher? 和上题一样 3. In what way did your favourite teacher help you? Well, for starters（首先）, she helped me with my English. Because of her, I fell in love with（爱上） this subject（其他科目也完全可以）. And on top of that, when I went through some tough times（遇到挫折，陷入困境）in life, she was there for me（支持我）, supporting me, providing me with useful advice（给 我有用的建议）. She was my mentor（人生导师）. （罗列） 4. Do you want to be a teacher in the future? ①Well, if I'm just daydreaming（白日做梦） without considering my current major or my future career path（不是考虑我目前的专业和未来的职业路线）, I would love to become a teacher. I'm a very patient person and I love sharing my knowledge and skills with people; I love helping people fulfill their potential（实现潜力） and become a better version of themselves（成 为更好的自己）. So yeh, it’s a good fit for me（挺适合我）. （原因） ②教育学的宝宝可以说，那就是自己的目标。参考录播赠课第二节内容。 ③No, being a teacher is definitely not an option for me/ I’m not built for（不 是那块料） being a teacher/ I’m not cut out for（不是那块料） being a teacher. I'm a terrible teacher（很不擅长教学）. I never know how to explain things to people in an easy and understandable way（我从来不知道如何用简单明了的方 式把事情解释清楚）. I just make things even more complicated（越解释越糟）. On top of that（在这个基础上）, I'm not very articulate（很善于言辞，口齿清晰）. 6 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 I get nervous when I give public speeches（做公共演讲）. And additionally, I'm not the most patient person in the world（我不是很有耐心）. So, I guess, the answer is no. （罗列原因） 5. Are you still in touch with you primary teachers? ① Well, not all of them, but I do still stay in touch with my math teacher in primary school. +WHY 自行回答 ② Not really. I mean, it’s been almost 20 years since I graduated from primary school. It’s hard to maintain a relationship with your old teacher from 20 years ago, you know. （原因） 往年同样关于“teachers”的主题，还问了什么问题？（有时间可以看一下） 1. Do you remember one of your teachers? ① Yes, I remember my high school English teacher. She was so nice to me and she saw a lot of potential in me（看到我的潜力）. We had an amazingly strong bond/ connection. She was all the time encouraging me to speak up more（多发言） during class and shared with me a lot of her favorite movies and TV series. Because of her, I fell in love with English（爱上英语）. （原因， 细节） 别的科目也可以！ ② I remember a teacher that I really, really disliked in middle school. She was so unprofessional（不专业）. She never paid attention to our needs（不 关注我们的需求） and was very impatient（没耐心）. The worst part was（最糟 糕的是）, she only favored those ones who had better grades（她只喜欢成绩 好的学生）. And she even formed a little group（搞小团体）/clique （小党派） 7 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 with those students. She was so mean（刻薄） to students who were outside the group. And we were all the time feeling belittled（感到很渺小） and looked down upon（被鄙视）, so it was a really bad memory, and I was traumatized. （原因，细节） 2. What were your primary school teachers like? ① Some were very nice and some were just okay（okay表示凑合，马马虎虎）. I remember I had some teachers who really cared about me and paid a lot of attention to my needs. And they would go above and beyond（做得超出 标准） and visit my home and talk to my parents about my performance at school（和我的父母聊我的表现）, which I really appreciated. But there were also teachers who didn't care about who I was, or how my family was. They didn't even know who my parents were. They were just doing the bare minimum（凑活，干活干到最低标准）. （分群体讨论） ②They were the best! My teachers during primary school years were professional, patient, respectful and paid a lot of attention to our needs（非 常留意我们的需求）. They encouraged students to think outside the box. They made learning fun and efficient. （原因） ③ I loved my primary school teachers! They were so creative! For example, sometimes, our homework was to DIY things（手工做东西）. Like, when we took geography classes, we learned different countries and cultures, our teacher asked us to DIY things related to this country! And then she would put them in the school hallways（学校走廊）, like an exhibition（就像展览一 样）! One time, we were learning about Egypt（埃及）. So, I remember the hallways were full of cardboard pyramids（硬纸板做的金字塔）! Hahaha! （举 例子） 8 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Making friends 知识点： • a strong sense of community and belonging 一份强烈的团体感和归属感 • support one another 相互支持 • share tears and laughter 分享眼泪与欢笑 • spend time with friends • hang out with friends • meet up with friends （以上三种表达都很常见，但是注意不要说 play with friends） • keep each other company 陪伴彼此 • enjoy each other’s company 享受彼此的陪伴 • kill the time/ while away the time 打发时间 • think alike/ be on the same wave length 想法一致、在一个频道上 • get each other 读懂彼此 • therapeutic 治愈的 • essential for mental health 对于心理健康很重要 • emotional support and companionship 心理支持与陪伴 • I feel so grateful for …感到感恩 • …mean the whole world to me …对我意味着全世界 • I can’t live without… 没有…我活不了 I can’t live without my friends. They mean the whole world to me! • choose quality over quantity 质大于量 • I’d prefer only having a few close friends（少数亲近的朋友） rather than a large group of acquaintances（一大堆认识的人）. • a people person 喜欢人群的人 • a social butterfly 交际花 9 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • a sociable person 善于交际的人 1. Do you like making friends? ① Well, I would definitely see myself as a people person（喜欢和人打交道的 人）. I love knowing like-minded people（志同道合之人）/ people who are on the same wave-length（在同一个频道上的人）. My friends and I support one another, and share tears and laughter（分享欢笑与眼泪）. It’s nice to feel loved and supported. （原因） ② As an introvert（内向之人）, making new friends has always been a challenge for me. That’s why often times （很多时候）I feel jealous of those social butterflies（交际花）/ extroverts（外向之人） who can make friends easily on the fly（没有提前计划，临时即兴操作）. But don’t get me wrong（别 误会）, I’m actually really good at maintaining/ keeping old friendships（维 系现有的友谊）. I have some life-long and loyal friends（一辈子的忠诚的朋友） who are like my family（向家人一样）. （原因，转折） 2. Did you make a lot of friends when you were a child? ① I’ve always been fairly extroverted and out-going（外向开朗的）. So yeh, I remember myself having quite a lot of friends when I was little. （原因） ② I’ve always been fairly introverted and shy/ timid（内向害羞的）. For example, I would never approach someone（接近某人） and start a conversation out of the blue（突然之间）. Instead, I would always wait for people to come to me and initiate a conversation. I had some close friends 10 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 （亲近的朋友） but definitely not a lot. I was never into having a big group of friends（有很大的朋友圈子） anyway. （细节） 3. Have you made any new friends recently? ① Yeh actually, I went to my friend’s birthday party the other day（前两天） and met a girl there who I had a lot in common with（有很多共同点）. We hit it off（投机） right away（立刻）. And at end of the party, we decided to exchange phone numbers and socials（交换电话号码和社交媒体）. And just like that（就这么简单）, now we are friends and planning to hang out soon. （讲故事法）适合社牛的宝宝们 具体的的 social setting 可以是任何场合： at a wedding, at a dinner, at a art show…etc. ② Ummm, no, haha, not that I can think of（想不起来）. Lately I’ve been focusing on IELTS test and my social circle（社交圈） has been quite small and closed-off（闭塞）. （原因） 4. What do you often talk about with your friends? Everything under the sun（太阳能照到的一切事物都可以聊）! Small and day-to- day things（日常小事） like food, drinks, movies, music, gossips, boys（聊聊 男人，哈哈。男孩可以改成 girls）, haha. Bigger topics like, our plans for the future, career paths（事业规划）, life philosophy （人生哲理）. We share everything, and no topic is off the table/ nothing is off-limits（没有话题是不 能聊的）. （分类讨论，大事小事） 5. Do you like meeting new people? 和第一题差不多 11 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 6. Where can you meet new people? Well, I think if you’re in the mood of（有心情，愿意） meeting new people, you can meet them pretty much（差不多） in all kinds of place（差不多任何 场合都可以交朋友）. The most typical place would be at a party, a gathering, a dinner, social settings（社交场合） like this are perfect for people to connect and mingle（连接和社交应酬）. And then, if you have a hobby, you can make new friends while enjoying your hobby. For example, when you go to a cooking class, or a painting class, or the gym, chances are（很大几 率） you will start talking to your new peers there, and from there（从那里 开始）, perhaps you can form some new friendships（搭建一些新友谊）. And what else, oh yeh, workplaces and schools are really common places to mingle（社交应酬） with people. I mean, you don’t necessarily make good friends at work or at school, but these are great places to meet new people and expand your life circle（拓宽生活圈子）.（罗列） 7. Do you enjoy talking to new people? 和前面的题很重复了。考官只会挑选几道来问，不会都问一遍。 ① Oh I love it. Like I said, I can learn so many things from talking to new people. Especially when I talk to people who are on the same wave length （想法一致的）, it’s the best feeling. It’s like we get each other（懂彼此）. And that’ll normally be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. （原因） ② No, not really. Sometimes I can be super socially awkward（社交上笨拙尴 尬的） to the point that（以至于） my mind just draws a blank（大脑一片空 白）, and I’ll start blushing and stuttering（脸红和结巴）. I’m terrible at making small talk（寒暄，小聊天）. （原因） 8. Do you meet new people more often now than in the past? 12 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ① I would say, I’ve always been pretty socially active（社交上很积极活跃的）. Nowadays I meet new people all the time, and it was the same situation for me in the past. （原因） ② No, it’s actually the other way around（反过来才对）. I used to be more socially active before. When I was a university student, I joined several school clubs（加入了若干个学校社团）. And through those club activities, I got to know a lot of people. Whereas nowadays, I just go to work and then come back home. My life is very simple, in other words（换句话说）, boring. I don’t meet that many new people anymore. （时间分层） 往年同样关于“making friends”的主题，还问了什么问题？（有时间可以看一下） 1. How important are friends to you? ① Oh yes, for me, friends are so incredibly important. They provide me with a strong sense of community and belonging（一份强烈的团体感和归属感）. We support one another（相互）, and share tears and laughter（分享眼泪与 欢笑） together. I really enjoy spending time with my friends. Those moments are so therapeutic（治愈的） and essential for my mental health （心理健康）. （原因） ② Yes, I love all my friends and they mean the whole world to me（他们对我 意味着全世界）. My friends provide me with emotional support and companionship（心理支持与陪伴）. We always do things together, and try new experiences together. We learn and grow together. I feel so grateful 13 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 for those relationships I have, and I know that we will always be there for each other no matter what（无论如何我们都会永远支持彼此）. （原因） ③Well, I appreciate the value of friendship, but many times, I find that I’m more productive and fulfilled when I am on my own. Yes, friendship is important, but I would always choose my own personal growth over friendship. Especially at this stage in my life（人生的当前阶段）where I’m more focusing on my career path, and I value my personal time a lot. Therefore, I choose quality over quantity（质大于量） when it comes to friendship. I’d prefer only having a few close friends（少数亲近的朋友） rather than a large group of acquaintances（一大堆认识的人）. （原因） ④ Well, friendship is really important, but at this stage in my life, as a new mother（作为一个新手妈妈）, I have to choose my baby and my family over friends. I haven’t seen my friends for quite a while as I don’t even have the time to practice self-care（自我照料）. But before I got married and built my own family, I used to be such a people person（喜欢人群的人）, a social butterfly（交际花）, and I loved hanging out with my friends. （时间分层） 2. Do you often go out with your friends? ① Oh yeh, a lot! I can’t live without my besties（最好的朋友，适合女生的表达， 小姐妹的意思）! We see each other all the time. I love spending time with them, whether it's going out for dinner, go to the mall for shopping, watching a movie or just hanging out, doing nothing much but chitchatting（不做什么正经事就是聊聊天）. It’s always so nice to see them, to keep each other company. My friends really get me（特别懂我）, and we really think alike（想法一致）/ are on the same wavelength（在一个频道）, so we have endless things to talk about. （原因，细节） ② Not very often, but once in a while, we will see each other and catch up with each other’s lives（互通有无）. The thing is, my friends and I are all very 14 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 busy with our own career, this is the main focus in our lives, so we can’t afford to hang out all the time like we used to（我们没有办法像以前那样频繁聚 会了）. But it doesn’t mean that（并不意味着） we don’t care about each other anymore. We still love each other, and we have very deep and meaningful conversations when we meet up. The quality of our communication is incredible. We just choose quality over quantity. （原因， 转折） ③No, not really. Like I said, I don’t even have the time for myself, let alone for my friends. However, I wish I could be able to spend quality time with my close friends. I’m hoping that one day, when my baby is older, I would have more time for myself and my friends. I really look forward to that day. （先抑后扬） ④ No, like I said, I don’t need a lot of friends, and I enjoy solitude（独处时光） /my time alone so much. I consider myself more of a loner（独行侠）. I build my own happiness based on the books I’ve read, the movies I’ve watched, and the conversations I’ve had with myself in my head. I see my close friends probably once or twice per month. （原因） 3. Where do you often meet each other? ① Oh there is this cozy coffee shop that my friends and I usually meet up at. It’s located at the city centre and it looks stunning inside. We love the comfortable atmosphere and the delicious coffees there. It's the perfect place to catch up with one another and just chat over a cup of coffee, you know. It’s our regular meeting spot（固定聚点） in the city. （细节） ② It depends on our mood, I guess. Sometimes, we want to be healthy and outdoors, we will hike up a mountain and have a picnic there; and sometimes if we are in the mood of shopping, we will go to the mall together; and sometimes if we just want to sit down and have a heart-to- heart conversation（走心的对话）, we’ll go to a cozy and quiet coffee shop, and chat over a cup of coffee. （分情况） 15 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ③ Usually at my place as I have a big apartment, and I don’t enjoy going out that much. I have a nice coffee machine at home, so I can treat my friends to a cup of delicious coffee and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere at home. （原因，细节） 也可以说是某个朋友家 4. What do you usually do with your friends? 和上题很重复 5. Do you have a friend you have known for a long time? Yeah, I have this childhood best friend（童年最好的朋友，发小） whom I’ve known since forever（很久很久以前）. I don't even remember how my life was before I met her（久到我都不记得认识她之前我的生活是什么样的了）. And up till today（直到今天）, we're still really good friends. We don't see each other very often anymore, but I know she will always be there for me（永远支持 我） and I will do the same for her. And from time to time when we catch up with each other（互通有无）, everything still feels the same（一切感觉照 旧）. It's like we haven't changed over the years. So, I’m confident to say that she will be a lifelong friend（一生好友）. Teamwork 1. Do you like teamwork? ① I’m definitely a people person（喜欢和人打交道的人）, so to speak. I see myself as（把自己视为） a good communicator and a good listener. I enjoy teamwork, bouncing ideas off each other（分享、获取想法）, sharing different skills （分享不同技能） , things like that. It keeps the team 16 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 productive and efficient（多产又高效）, and makes things easier and more enjoyable. （原因） ② To be completely honest, I’m more of a loner（独行侠） at work. I get things done（把事情做完） way faster（远远更快） when I’m working on my own. Maybe I have trust issues（对人不够信任，固定说法）, or I’m a control freak（控制狂）. I just love having full control over my tasks. Don’t get me wrong（别误会）, it’s not that（不是说） I hate people, but I just don’t like working with people. （原因） ③ To be honest, it depends. I like working with people when everyone’s willing to communicate（愿意沟通）, on the same page（想法一致） and nobody is slacking off（偷懒）. But if the group isn’t well-organized, and some people work too much while some others underwork（工作量不足）, then it’ll be really annoying, frustrating and unfair（讨厌且不公平）. Trust me, I’ve been there（我深有体会）. Based on my personal experience, sometimes teamwork sounds amazing, but in reality（事实上）, it can be a headache. （分情况） 2. Have you teamed up with someone else before? ① Yeah, all the time（经常）, actually. At work, my job is all about teamwork （全都是小组活动）, and it’s usually a good experience. I feel that the outcome of teamwork also has a lot to do with（与……有很大关系） experience, meaning（意思是）, the more teamwork you do, the better team player（组员） you become, and the more pleasant the outcome is. （细节） 17 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② Yeh, from time to time. But honestly, it’s not always my favorite. Sometimes it’s hard to get everyone on the same page, and it can be a bit chaotic. That’s why I said I prefer to work alone（独行侠，答案②）. / That’s why I said it depends（分情况讨论，答案③）. 3. What do you learn from working in a team? ① I learned how to communicate better. In a team, you learn to listen to others and share ideas. When I said listen, I didn’t mean just hear someone talk, no, it’s about listening wholeheartedly and actively（全身心地、积极地 聆听）, and being able to put yourself into others’ shoes（换位思考）/ empathize with other team members （ 共 情 ） , and be willing to compromise when needed（在必要时妥协）. （细节） ② Honestly, it teaches me patience more than anything! Sometimes you have to deal with different personalities and ways of working（思维方式）, which can be tricky（棘手的）. 4. What do you dislike about teamwork? ① People slack off（偷懒）/ don’t pull their weight（不出力，不“放置自己应有 的重量”）. It can be frustrating when you’re working hard, and others aren’t putting in the same effort. It makes the whole process slower and more stressful. ② People don’t listen to each other. Pool communication skills. ③ The lack of control（缺乏控制）. People have different work styles or ideas. I hate it when people don’t stay on track and get all over the place（凌乱， 乱七八糟）. 挑一到两个来说就好。 18 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Perfume 知识点（如何形容香水）： 1. Scent 味道： • Floral 花香型，闻起来像 rose, jasmine（茉莉花）, lavender（薰衣草） • Citrus 柑橘香，闻起来像 lemon, orange, or grapefruit（柚子） I love fresh scents like lemon and orange. • Woody 木香 I love perfume with earthy, warm scents like cedar or pine. • Spicy 辛辣的 I love sharp, spicy and warm scents like cinnamon or pepper. • Fruity 水果香型 I love sweet and fruity perfume like peach. Intensity: 2. 浓烈程度 • Light 清淡的 subtle, soft, and not overpowering. • Strong 浓烈的 powerful and easily noticeable. • Subtle 若有若无的，很不明显的 faint but noticeable when close by. • Bold 张扬的 striking and makes a statement. • Overpowering 太浓烈 too strong, to the point of being overwhelming. 3. 持久度 • Long-lasting 很持久的 stays on for hours. • Fades quickly/ short-lived 很短暂的 4. 给人带去的感觉： • Romantic (floral) 浪漫的 • Refreshing (citrus) 清爽的 19 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • Sophisticated (woody, floral) 成熟的 • Playful (fruity, spicy) 俏皮的 • Relaxing (citrus, floral) 让人放松的 1. Do you like perfume? ① I like perfume but I don't necessarily wear it on a daily basis（每天）. And I tend to go for lighter, more subtle scents（往往选择清淡低调的香型）, for example, something citrus and woody（柑橘香+木香的）. I hate those really bold or overpowering scents（过度张扬浓烈的香）. They feel too intrusive（侵 入性太强）. A good fragrance（一款好香） can really boost my mood and my confidence（提升我的情绪和自信）. I just feel good about myself when I wear it. （细节，原因） 还可以补充一个你的常年爱用香水，以至于成为你的招牌香气： I’ve been wearing this perfume called “Daisy” from Marc Jacobs （自己换你 真正喜欢的香） for years; it’s become my signature scent（招牌香气）. ② No, not really. I don’t feel the need to（感觉不需要） wear perfume. I find most fragrances on the market too strong and overpowering（不部分市场上 的香水都太浓烈了）, and I don’t feel like myself（感觉不像自己） when I wear them. Honestly, I don’t have body odor（体味）, and I shower every day, so I smell good naturally. I’m not into（不热衷） perfume at all. （原因） ③ Yes, I love it because I enjoy exploring all kinds of scents. I have a really sensitive sense of smell（嗅觉很灵敏）, so I enjoy figuring out the different notes（发觉不同的香调） in perfumes, like how they blend together. Collecting perfume（收集香水） is actually a hobby of mine. I’ve got a whole collection（收藏量大） at home. I love the unique designs of the bottles（香 20 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 水瓶的独特设计） too. They’re like little works of art（以小件艺术品）. For me, it’s not just about smelling good, it’s about the fun of discovering new fragrances and building my collection（拓展我的收藏）. （香水的前调、中调、后调：top notes, middle notes, base notes） ④ 可以组合前面的知识点，你喜欢具体什么样的香水：Oh yeh, I’m a big fan of perfume! A good fragrance（一款好香） can really boost my mood and my confidence（提升我的情绪和自信）. I really love those floral, romantic, sophisticated and long-lasting（花香型的、浪漫的、成熟的且持久的） fragrances. （原因，细节） 2. Do you use perfume? 和上题差不多 3. Where do you spray perfume? ① For me, my wrists and neck are my go-to spots（首选的地方）. It's just my habit. And I feel like the scent lasts longer（持续更久） there. Some people say the best place is behind your ears（耳朵后面）, but I just don't like it. I feel like it's too close to my face. （原因） ② I always spray（喷） a little on my clothes if I want the fragrance to stay throughout the day（保持一整天）. But I know it’s not good for my clothes. （细节） 4. Do you send perfume to others as a gift? ①Yes, I do send perfume as a gift sometimes. In my culture, perfume is a really popular type of gift because it’s both practical（实用） and feels luxurious（奢华） at the same time. The perfume bottles are usually quite 21 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 delicate and visually appealing（精美，赏心悦目）. So yeh, nobody will hate it when they receive a nice bottle of perfume as a gift. （原因） ② I do but only to people who I know really well. Perfume, the way I see it, is a really personal thing（很个人化的东西） as everyone has different preferences and tastes（不同倾向与品味）. And you can ever assume things. For example, you see a really young and innocent-looking（清纯长相的） girl and you assume she likes really light and refreshing scents, but in reality, maybe she loves bold and strong perfumes. Then, it’ll be a waste of money （浪费钱）. So, it’s risky to give perfume as a gift.（原因，举例子） 5. Do you spend a lot of money on buying perfume? ① Yeah, I do like to buy good-quality（高质量的） perfume because I believe “you get what you pay for”（一分价钱一分货）. A good fragrance really stands out（鹤立鸡群） and makes a difference（不一样）. Plus, it tends to last longer（持久）, so I don’t have to reapply（补喷） it throughout the day. I’d rather invest in（投资） one or two great perfumes that last and smell amazing than buy cheaper ones that fade quickly（很快没有味道了）.（原因） ② I do like wearing perfume, but I don’t spend a lot of money on it/ I wouldn’t break the bank（花很多钱，砸钱） for it. As a student, I don’t have the budget for it（没有预算）. I usually buy a bottle that I really like and make it last for a long time, so I don’t feel the need（不需要） to keep buying more. （原因） Roads and streets 1. Are the roads and streets in the area where you live busy? 22 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ① Yeah, the roads are very busy and congested（堵塞的）, especially during rush hour（高峰小时）. It’s a big city, so traffic is always an issue（总是一个问 题）, almost 24/7（24 小时，7 天全周，表示无时无刻不堵）. It’s fairly frustrating trying to get around（转悠） in my city. The streets and roads are full of cars, buses, and motorcycles, and sometimes even the sidewalks（人行道） are packed with pedestrians（塞满了行人）. （细节） ② Not really. I live in a small City, so there is no much traffic most of the time. The roads in my area are pretty quiet. （原因） 2. How do people cross the road in the city where you live? Well, in my city, most people would cross the road following the rules; but from time to time, you will see people jaywalking（闯红灯）, especially when they're in a hurry. Jaywalk：行人闯红灯； run the traffic light: 司机闯红灯。 3. What's the condition of the roads in your city like? ① To be honest, the roads in my city aren’t in the best condition（路况不太 好）. There’s a lot of traffic, so the roads get worn out（被磨损） pretty quickly. The roads are bumpy（不平）, and you’ll often see potholes（路面上 的坑坑洼洼的大洞） and cracks（裂缝）. （细节） ② I’d say the roads are pretty decent（体面的，状态不粗的） in my city, especially the main streets and bigger roads（主街和大路）. They’re well- paved and well-maintained（铺设的很好，也维护的很好）, so driving on them is fairly smooth. Some of the smaller roads could use a bit of work and patching up（需要一点修补）, but overall, it’s not a big issue（不是大事儿）. （分情况） 4. Do you think the roads in your city need improvement? 23 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 结合上题答案，自己回答 5. Are there any famous roads or streets in your country? Yes, everybody in China knows Chang’an Street, in Beijing, just like everyone in the US knows Wall Street, or, 5th Avenue in New York City. Chang’an Street is a really long and important road that runs through the heart of the city（穿过城中心）. It passes by（经过） some iconic landmarks （著名地标） like Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, so it’s a major street for both locals and tourists.（原因） Coins 1. Do you often carry coins with you? ① No not really, I hardly ever carry coins these days as I use mobile payments（手机支付） or my credit cards（信用卡） for everything. Coins are so annoying. They're heavy and occupy a lot of space. Nowadays in China everywhere I go, all the places accept digital payments. Therefore, I rarely find myself in a situation where I have to use coins. （原因） ②（在国外生活）Yeah, I have coins with me for small snacks, drinks, or parking. They can be annoying sometimes, but it’s still handy（方便） to have some loose change（有些散落的零钱） on me for small things. （原因） 2. Have you ever collected coins? ① Actually, yes. I used to collect coins from different countries when I was little. Each time when I had family members traveling to other countries, I would ask them to bring back some local coins for me to add to my collection （ 添 加 到 收 藏 里 ） . It brought me such a strong sense of 24 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 achievement（成就感） to have a beautiful collection. And also, I got to learn some culture and history about other countries. （细节，原因） ② No, I’ve never really been into collecting coins. I guess it just wasn’t something that drew/ grabbed my attention（吸引我）. Coins just seem like something practical to me, so I never thought of collecting them for fun. I used to collect stamps/ music CDs/ dolls… when I was little. （原因） 3. Is it convenient to use coins? ① Oh I hate coins! I find them bulky（笨重的） and chunky（大块的）, and they make my wallet really heavy. That's why I never carry coins with me. Plus, there's no need to use coins in China nowadays.（原因，补充） ② At times they could be convenient if I just want to grab a coffee（来杯咖 啡） or pay for parking. But I don't like how heavy and bulky they are. 4. Do you use coins in your daily life? 和第一题差不多 5. Did you use coins as a child? Oh yeh! I used coins a lot when I was little because things were way cheaper back then（当年东西便宜多了）. I remember getting allowances/ pocket money（零花钱） from my parents in coins and I would use them to buy candy, cookies, ice-cream, even little toys at the convenience store（便 利店） in my neighborhood. It made sense to carry them around. For example, it only cost me five cents to get my favourite candy. I really miss those good old day（美好的旧时光）. （原因，细节） 25 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Laughing 1. Do you enjoy watching interesting and funny movies? ① Oh I'm 100% a comedy fan/ comedy lover（喜剧密、喜剧爱好者）. Comedies can boost my mood（提升情绪） and take my mind off things（让我忘记烦 恼）. I rarely watch tearjerkers（催泪电影）, thrillers（惊悚片）, or horrors, as I just want to rest my brain（放松大脑） and have a good time after a long day（漫长的一天下来）! Life is already difficult enough（生活已经很不容易了）, you know! （原因） ② 还是喜欢喜剧，但换一个答题风格： I'm a big fan of comedy. Laughter is such a universal language（全球通用的语言）, and I feel that a good laugh can heal everything（一场大笑可以治愈任何事儿）. I like all the witty jokes（诙谐的小笑 话）, smart wordplay（聪明的文字游戏） and exaggerated performances（夸 张的表演）. I love watching a comedy movie alone after a long day（漫长的一 天之后）, just put my feet up, let my hair down, indulge myself in the world of comedy, and blow off steam（放松的一系列表达）. It’s a great escape（很棒 的逃离方式）. （原因） ③ No, I’m not really into comedies. I love romance movies. Call me a hopeless romantic（没药可救的浪漫主义者）, but there's just something magical about watching two people fall in love on the big screen（课上经典 句型）. Each time when I see a beautiful love story, it makes me believe in the power of love（相信爱情的力量） again, haha. （原因） ④ Not, not really! Comedies are too vanilla（香草口味，表示无聊）/ too happy for me. Instead, suspense movies are my favorite! They are intense, nerve- wracking（令人紧张的） and action-packed（快节奏的）. I love the adrenaline rush（肾上腺素兴奋） and the feeling of being on the edge of my seat（坐在 26 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 椅子的边缘，表示非常紧绷，随时要跌下椅子的感觉）the whole time, never knowing what's going to happen next（永远也不知道下一秒会发生什么）.（原 因） 2. Do you think you are a funny person? ① I think I have a good sense of humor（幽默感很强）. I like to joke around and keep things light（让事情保持轻松愉快的状态）, especially when things get too serious. Like I said, life’s already difficult enough, so why make it worse, right? My friends even call me “Tara, the Joker（爱开玩笑之人）,” haha, but, you know, in a good way（是褒义啊，夸我呢）! （原因，细节，身边朋 友对自己的称为） ② I wouldn't say that I'm the funniest person in the world（谦虚地说，自己不 是一个特别搞笑的人）. Sometimes I have this dry sense of humor（很干的幽默 感） which some people find it funny and some people don’t get it at all（有 的人喜欢，有的人压根听不懂）. My friends think I’m quite a serious person. And for me, being funny and witty is all about timing（卡点） and reading the room （察言观色）, and I’m just so bad at it. （细节，原因） 3. Are you a person who often makes others laugh? ① Yeh, for sure, remember I’m Tara the Joker, right? I’m like a free comedian（免费的喜剧人） around my friends. I crack them up（把他们逗得捧 腹大笑） all the time. Whenever you see me in a social setting（在社交场合 里）, you will hear people laughing. I enjoy telling witty jokes（讲幽默诙谐的 笑话） and playing on words（文字游戏）. / I enjoy wordplay（文字游戏）./ I like making puns（一语双关的笑话）. Humor is a form of art（一种艺术形式）! （细节） 27 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② Very rarely! Like I said, I have this dry sense of humor that only a few people get it. Most of the time, I’m just a boring person in many people’s eyes（在很多人眼里）.（原因） 4. Do you always laugh at funny things? ① Yeah, most of the time I do. I mean, I'm a happy camper/ goofball（乐天 派，整体乐乐呵呵之人）, and I enjoy a good laugh（享受一场大笑）. Sometimes even silly jokes can get me. Don't get me wrong（别误会）, It’s not that I have 0 taste in humor（并不代表我一点幽默的品味都没有）, sometimes when it’s obviously forced humor（很明显硬挤的幽默） or not really my style（不是 我的风格）, I’ll just smile. （主流情况，特殊情况补充） ② No, not always. I mean, like I said I’m more of a boring and serious person, I don’t laugh all the time at funny things. Sometimes, when I’m not in the mood or I have something else on my mind, it’s hard for me to even squeeze out a smile（挤出一个微笑）, no matter how funny something is. But when I’m relaxed, I usually enjoy a good laugh. （分情况） 5. When was the last time you laughed? ① Oh actually , just now, right before coming in. I was talking with another test taker（考生） outside, and she told me this was her third time taking the test. I laughed and said “I hope it’s my last time doing it”! And we both had a good laugh. （讲故事法） ② 其他具体故事 Bikes 知识点： • training wheel 辅助轮 28 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • handlebar 车把手 It had these adorable tassels hanging from the handlebars 车把手上挂着 漂亮的流苏 • break 车闸 The break is not working properly. 车闸有点问题 • bell 铃铛 I loved ringing the bell while riding my bike. • Pedal （脚蹬子 n. / 用脚蹬 v.） It was such a joy to pedal（脚蹬车） and feel the wind touching on my face and my hair. • Seat 车座 The seat is so comfortable. • Basket 车篮子 The bike had a lovely basket attached to the front 车前面有一个可爱的小篮 子 • painted in XX colour 刷成XXX 颜色 • cycle=ride a bike 骑车的动词 • cruise around 到处巡游 • shared bikes 共享单车 I sometimes ride a shared bike（共享单车） if I can't find a taxi. 1. Did you have a bike when you were young? ①Yeh, everyone had a bike when they were young, and mine was this bike with bright red color that instantly caught people’s eye（获取人们的注意）. It had these training wheels（辅助轮） that helped me stay balanced（保持平 衡） as I learned to ride. The handlebars（车把手） were just the right size 29 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 for my hands. I loved ringing the bell（按铃铛） as I cruised around（巡游）. Everything was perfect, perfect size, perfect colour and perfectly comfortable.（细节） ② Oh I love my childhood bike. It was a beautiful little thing（漂亮的小东西）, painted in pink（刷成粉色）. I was around six years old when I received it as a birthday gift. It had these adorable tassels hanging from the handlebars （车把手上挂着漂亮的流苏）. And, it had a lovely basket attached to the front （前面有一个可爱的小篮子）, perfect for carrying my favorite toys. It made me feel like such a grown-up （ 大 人 的 ） , having my own means of transportation（有自己的交通工具）. Haha! （细节） 2. Did you ride a bike when you were little? ①Oh yeah, every day. I was all the time cruising around the neighborhood, minding other people's businesses（管别人家的闲事）, like who was having an argument on the street（谁在街上吵架）, who threw the garbage in the wrong place（谁把垃圾扔错地方了）, things like that. It was my way of getting entertained（娱乐方式）, one of my favorite pastimes（最爱的消遣之一）. I feel like kids nowadays don't do that anymore. They just stay at home. （细节， 时间分层） ② Well, I didn’t cycle on a daily basis as I didn't have too much time being out and about（在外面转悠闲逛） after school. I had a lot of homework to do. But on weekends, my parents would take me to the nearby park and let me ride my bike there. And I remember one day, they took off the training wheels and that was how I learned riding a bike for real. It was such a liberating feeling（自由的感觉）. I remember feeling free like a bird.（像鸟儿 一样自由） （分情况，细节） 3. Did you ride a bike to school? 30 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ①No, I lived really far away from school, so it was impossible for me to ride to school every day. My parents drove me to school every day and picked me up by car（用车接我） later. （原因） ②Yes, when I was around 10 years old, I started to cycle to school every day. My parents thought I was old enough to do that. I enjoyed my independence so much by going to school myself every day. Come to think of it, it was also a great chance to get some exercise done. There were a lot of ups and downs（上上下下的坡） on my way to school, so it was really good cardio training（有氧锻炼） for me. Cycling was also really relaxing and therapeutic for me. I loved it! （细节） 4. Do you have a bike now? ① Yeh I have a bike! It’s a very light-weight（自重轻的）, foldable（可折叠的） bike. I commute by bike（骑车通勤） on a day-to-day basis（每天）, as it’s a greener option to get around（更加绿色的出行方式） and it gives me the opportunity to exercise a bit. And this cool bike is just the prefect tool for me. it’s easy to ride（好骑）, easy to carry around（好随身携带）. When I arrive at work/school, I can just fold the bike and put it in a corner（放在一 个角落里）. （细节） ② No, I don’t. I have a car, and most of the time, I use my car to get around. When I don’t drive my own car, I will call a taxi.（原因） ③ No, I don’t have a bike or a private car. I use/ take the subway to get around. （原因） 5. Do you often ride a bike now? ① Yeh, like I JUST said, all the time, every day! 31Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② Occasionally（很少，有时候）, I ride a shared bike（共享单车） if I don’t drive or can't find a taxi. But most of the time, I'm just too lazy to cycle around. （主流情况+少数情况） ② No, like I said, the subway is my major means of transportation（主要交通 方式）. It's super affordable and accessible（便宜又随处可见）. I can go anywhere really fast and I don't need to worry about the traffic（不需要担心 交通）. It's like a perfect way to get around（转悠）.（原因） 6. Are bikes popular in China? Oh yeah, China is well-known for being a “bike country”（自行车国家）. Private cars only became common about 25 years ago, so before that, bikes were the main way of getting around for most families. Even now, with many people owning cars, bikes are still popular because they’re easy, convenient, and cheap. We definitely have a big bike culture（很深厚的自行 车文化）. （原因） 其他思路，也可以分城市。大城市开车多，小城市骑车、骑摩托车更多。 Good views 1. What is the view like around the place where you live? ① The view around where I live, which is at the heart of the city, is pretty bleak（荒凉的）, to be honest. It’s just a concrete jungle（钢筋混凝土丛林）, you know, endless tall buildings, crowded streets, and hardly any greenery （几乎没有绿色）. It can feel a bit depressing/ hopeless（令人绝望的、抑郁的） 32Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 at times, especially when the weather is gloomy（灰暗的）. There’s not much to look at, but I guess I’ve got used to it already.（细节） ② Well, I live in the city, so the view is mostly of tall buildings and busy streets. But I’ve got a nice park around the neighbourhood with lots of trees and a lake, which is great when I want a break from the city. I love going for a walk/ stroll（散步、漫步） there, soaking up the sun（晒太阳）, getting some fresh air（透透气）, listening to birds chirping（听听鸟叫）, getting closer to nature（接近大自然）. It’s like a little escape（逃离） from all the noise and traffic in the concrete jungle（钢筋混凝土丛林）. （细节） ③ I live in a quiet neighborhood in a small town/city, so the view is quite peaceful, and a little bit country（小乡村）. There are lots of trees and plants, small houses, some open fields not far away, and a little creak（小溪） near by, gorgeous views. One thing I love the most is fact that I can see beautiful sunset every day through the windows of my living room. When the sun is setting（太阳正在下山的时候）, the whole living room is bathing in orange light. The view just looks stunning. （细节，强调补充） 2. Have you seen an unforgettable and beautiful view or scenery? Definitely! Two months ago, I went to the beach at sunset in Sanya, and the view was unforgettable（令人难忘的）. The sky turned pink, yellow and orange, all kinds of shades（各种颜色色相）. And you could see the reflection （倒影） of the sky on the water. It looked stunning! It’s one of those moments that was beyond memorable.（细节） 根据自己的实际经历去准备真情实感的回答 3. Would you take photos when you see a good view? ① Yeh, for sure! I’m a typical photo person/ lover（照片爱好者）. I will never lose the opportunity to capture a nice photo when I see something 33Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 beautiful or special. My mobile phone is full of photos of beautiful views, delicious cuisines, people around me, things like that. （原因，细节） ② No, not really. When I see some gorgeous view, taking out my phone and snapping a shot（快速拍一张照片） would be the last thing I want to do（是 我最想不起来做的事情）. Because it’s too intentional and distractive（太刻意且 让人分心的）. Instead, I will let my eyes, my heart and my soul enjoy the view, and take it all in（全部吸收）. （原因） 4. What is your favorite place and why? Again, 这题很 personal. 或者可以就说自己家以及家周围。 Place of work/ study 1. Do you prefer to study at home or in a library? （只问学生党） ① For sure the library. It’s quiet and peaceful to study in the library. I love the great natural light（自然光） and giant tables there. Plus, I have easy access to all kinds of information and resources. I’d say I prefer the library. Additionally, being around other people who buries their noses in books （埋头苦读） motivates me to concentrate and stay on track（保持在正轨上）. I can definitely get things done more easily in the library. （罗列原因） ② I’m a homebody. I prefer to study in the comfort of my own place. It’s more comfortable, and I can take breaks whenever I want and lie down on my couch. （原因） ③ Ummm, I don’t think I have a strong preference（没有明显倾向）. I enjoy studying at home as well as in the library. It all depends on my mood. Sometimes when I’m not in the mood of getting dressed and getting ready （穿好衣服准备出门）, I’ll study at home; and sometimes when I feel like 34Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 going out and study in a public place just to feel more motivated, I’ll study in the library, or even in a café. （分情况） 2. What’s your favorite place to study? （只问学生党） 和上题差不多，可以选图书馆或者家来回答，或者你还有别的选择 ③ Actually my favourite place to study is this quiet café just a stone’s throw away from（很近） where I live. It’s got a really nice and inviting vibe with soothing jazz music. Their coffee tastes amazing. I love going there, sitting in a corner and just staying in the zone（保持状态）. It’s my favourite place to be. （原因，细节） 3. What part of your school do you like the most? （只问学生党） ① I love our school library. The building itself is a 100-year-old historic building with glazed tile roof（琉璃瓦屋顶）. The outside look is impressive. And inside is spacious and functional（宽敞又功能性强的）. I can spend hours and hours of time studying there, or watching a movie, or reading a magazine. It’s my favourite spot in the school. （原因，细节） ② Oh there is this little botanical garden（植物园） in my school that I adore! I’m a plant person, a flower lover, so spending time in the garden, even just sitting there and doing nothing is therapeutic（治愈的） for me. There’s just something about that little corner（直播课句型） in the school that can clear my mind and lift my mood（提升我的情绪）, kind of like my secrete retreat （秘密心灵基地）. （原因，细节） ③ I’m a gym rat/ freak（健身狂人）, so obviously our school gym is my all- time favourite place（一直最爱的地方）. I go to the gym almost on a daily basis. There’s a little lounge area in the gym where I can study and use my laptop there. I spend so much time there. It’s like my home away from home（除了家以外的另一个家）. 35Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 4. Do you prefer to work at home or in the workplace? （只问工作党） ① I know that everyone is talking working from home（远程在家办公） and how awesome it is, but I still prefer working in the workplace. For me, it’s easier to stay focused/ stay on track and separate professional life from personal life（区分职业生活和个人生活）. I slack off（偷懒） sometimes when I work from home. On top of that, I’m a people person（喜欢人的人）, which means I need to be with people. I like being around my coworkers, collaborating with them and have a nice chat during lunch breaks. It feels good. （原因） ② I vote for working from home. It feels so good not having to wake up early, get dressed formally, and commute to work every day, which is a huge bonus（好处，奖励）. Working from home gives me a lot more flexibility, and I can just start my day in a more relaxed way. It really takes the stress out of my morning routine（接触早上的作息压力）. And sometimes when I’m really tired, I can take a 20-min break, and just lie down on my couch and sip a cup of coffee（小口抿一杯咖啡）. It’s way more comfortable. （原因） 5. Do you prefer to work alone or in a group? 和“teamwork”主题第一小题几乎一样 “Do you like teamwork”? ① I prefer working in a group. I’m definitely a people person（喜欢和人打交 道的人）, so to speak. I see myself as（把自己视为） a good communicator and a good listener. I enjoy teamwork, bouncing ideas off each other（分 享、获取想法）, sharing different skills（分享不同技能）, things like that. It keeps the team productive and efficient（多产又高效）, and makes things easier and more enjoyable. （原因） 36Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② To be completely honest, I prefer working alone. I’m more of a loner（独 行侠） at work. I get things done（把事情做完） way faster（远远更快） when I’m working on my own. Maybe I have trust issues（对人不够信任，固定说法）, or I’m a control freak（控制狂）. I just love having full control over my tasks. Don’t get me wrong（别误会）, it’s not that（不是说） I hate people, but I just don’t like working with people. （原因） Challenges 知识点： 1. 讨厌挑战之人： • Timid/ insecure/ unadventurous/ risk-averse: 胆小的、缺乏安全感的、没 有冒险精神的、害怕风险的 • Stay in one’s comfort zone: 呆在舒适区里 I always prefer to stay in my comfort zone. • Take the path of least resistance：选择阻力最小的路径 I’m so lazy. I always take the path of least resistance, avoiding any potential challenges. • Bury one’s head in the sand 鸵鸟。头埋在沙子里，胆小，假装看不见。 Whenever a challenging problem arises, I immediately bury my head in the sand, pretending nothing is happening. • Throw in the towel 扔毛巾、举白旗，表示放弃 I tend to throw in the towel easily when I have the tiniest trouble. 37Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 2. 喜欢挑战之人 （以上表达可以反过来用） • Brave/ fearless/ courageous/ confident/ adventurous/ a risk-taker/ bold：勇敢、自信、充满冒险精神的、一个冒险鬼、张扬的 • Challenge-seeker: 寻找挑战的人 • Take something in stride: 从容面对某事 He takes every challenge in stride and never lets it overwhelm him. • Embrace it/ run with it: 拥抱、接受、面对某事 When given a tough task, she just embraces it/ runs with it and finds a way to succeed. • Go the extra mile/ go above and beyond 不遗余力的，超出要求去做事 He’s willing to go the extra mile to ensure that the challenge is successfully overcome. • Rise to the occasion 应对挑战，在关键时刻发挥自己的最佳水平 You can always count on him to rise to the occasion. 你可以信任他可以 应对挑战。 1. What subject do you think is the most challenging at school? ① Well, it varies for everyone. For me, personally, the one that challenged me the most was maths. I guess I was just not built for/not cut out for（不 是这块料。课上反复讲过的表达） this subject. Maths is never my thing（不是我 的兴趣）. We don’t see each other eye to eye（看彼此不顺眼。幽默）. （原因） 可以把maths 改成其他理科科目。自己加一点理由。 ② I struggled a lot with history classes. Don’t get me wrong（别误会我）, it’s not that I hate history. I just hated memorizing those names, numbers and all the boring details. I don’t have the best memory（记忆力不太好）. Memorizing things is not my strong suit at all（一点都不是我的强项）. I’m not cut out for rote learning（死记硬背）. 38Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 2. Do you like to challenge yourself? ① Yes, I would say that I’m a challenge-seeker（寻找挑战之人）. I’m adventurous and courageous. I take those challenging situations in stride （我沉着面对挑战） and try to see it as a learning opportunity（学习的机会）. And on top of that, overcoming challenges and difficulties gives me adrenaline rush（给我肾上腺素的兴奋） and a sense of satisfaction（满足感）. It definitely boosts my ego/ confidence（激增我的自信）. I feel bored and dead inside（内心枯竭） when my life lacks challenges and adventures. （原 因） ② I’m not a big fan of challenges. I prefer to stay in my comfort zone（呆在 舒适区里） all the time, enjoying my life and staying comfortable. I’m the kind of person who buries my head in the sand（鸵鸟人格） when a challenge arises（课上经典句型）. I’m pretty unadventurous and insecure, I would say. It makes me so nervous and unsettled（紧张不安） to face a new challenge and force myself to rise to the occasion（强迫自己去解决难题）. It’s too much pressure. （原因） 3. Do you like to live a life that has a lot of challenges? 和上题差别不大 4. How do you usually deal with challenges in daily life? ① First, I’ll stay calm and focused when a challenge arises. Second, I deal with challenges by breaking them down into smaller, manageable tasks. And finally, getting help, advice and guidance from people who have experience and knowledge is also something I would do. （罗列） ② 不喜欢挑战的人可以吐槽自己不知道怎么做。 39Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Sharing 1. Did your parents teach you to share when you were a child? ① Absolutely! Both my parents were keen on/ big on（热衷于某事） teaching me the concept of sharing（分享的概念）. It was a big part of my upbringing （成长环境）, I’d say. My parents always encouraged and asked me to share my toys and snacks with my friends and family members, even though sometimes I would cry and refuse to do it. They always said that “sharing is caring”. And gradually, little by little（慢慢地）, I learned to be more considerate（想法周到的） of others. （回忆细节） ② Not really, to be honest. My parents didn't focus too much on the importance of sharing. It wasn't something they actively taught or modeled（这不是一件他们积极教育或示范的事情）. I guess they were really busy with their work. I kind of figured it out on my own（自己琢磨清楚） through experiences in life with people. I learned that people love someone who’s generous（慷慨的） and loves sharing. （回忆细节） 2. What kind of things do you like to share with others? （内容很长，宝宝们自己删减）I share all kinds of things, tangible things and intangible things（实体的东西，以及非实物的东西）. With tangible things, for example, sharing food is really common, during gatherings or celebrations; and then I share tools and equipment with friends and family to save money and resources; I also love sharing books as well to spread and share knowledge and wisdom（分享和传播知识以及智慧）. And then when it comes to abstract things, sometimes I share knowledge and information, food recipes（食谱）, personal stories and experiences, even secrets. Sharing these things can bring people closer （ 拉 近 距 离 ） and nurture the relationships（滋养感情）. （分类讨论） 3. What kind of things are not suitable for sharing? 40Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Well, off the top of my head（首先想到的）, personal hygiene stuff（个人卫生 用品）, like toothbrushes, makeup brushes, towels, slippers, items like this should not be shared as they can spread germs（传播病菌）, and it’s disgusting. And then, things that are private definitely shouldn't be shared among people. For instance, things like your financial status（个人经济状 况）, your bank account number, your personal identification details should remain private. （罗列，举例子） 4. Do you have anything to share with others recently? ①Recently, I've come across（偶尔读到） some fascinating articles about the latest advancements（最新发展） in renewable energy technologies（新 能源科技）. I shared the article with some friends, and I want to keep sharing it with more people. I think sharing this information could be valuable, as it can raise awareness（提升意识） about the environment and encourage more people to consider eco-friendly approaches/ alternatives（其他环保措 施） in their daily lives. （细节） ② Recently, I've been watching the series adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem”（三体） on Netflix. It's been incredibly engaging and thought- provoking（好看又引人入胜）. I would like to share my thoughts on this series with people around me, and maybe it could spark some interesting conversations with them. （细节） Language 1. What languages can you speak? ① Well, Chinese is my mother tongue/mother language（母语）, English is my second language（第一外语）, and I also speak a little Spanish, which is 41Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 my third language（二外）. But I have to say, I’m still learning, there’s a long way to go（任重道远）. My lousy Spanish（差劲的西班牙语） is still at a toddler’s level（幼儿水平）, haha! ② Well, Mandarin（普通话） is my mother tongue/mother language, English is my second language, and I’m from Guangdong Province, so I also speak Cantonese（广东话） on a daily basis with my friends and parents. 粤语是一门语言，不是方言。所以广东的宝贝们，你们都是三语宝宝哦！ 2. What languages would you like to learn in the future? ①I would like to learn Japanese, because I love Japanese anime（日本动漫）. My favorite one is called XXXX. My dream is to be able to watch it without subtitles（不带字幕能看懂）. （原因） ②I would like to learn Korean. I went to South Korea multiple times and I really liked the culture there. It is similar to Chinese culture, but different in its own unique way. And I really like the sound of Korean. I think it's very cute-sounding（听起来很可爱）. Plus, I like K-pop culture, and my favorite band is XXXX. I’ll be over the moon（极度快乐） if one day I can sing their songs fluently. （原因） ③或者某个国际友人是来自于某个国家，因为想和 ta 更好交流，给 ta 惊喜，想学一点 ta 的母语。 3. How do you learn a foreign language? ①Well, my way of learning a foreign language is just like a child. I will immerse myself in this language（沉浸学习） by listening to songs or watching movies or videos in this language. And I will repeat what I hear, and try to mimic the intonation and emotion（模仿语音语调和情感）. And then over a certain period of time, I will start to get the hang of it（上手）. 42Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 It really works well for me（很适合我） and that's the method I would recommend to everybody. （细节） ② Well, my way of learning a foreign language is like a typical adult（典型 的成年人）, very logical and 0 intuitive（非常有逻辑性，一点都不直觉性）. Normally, I will spend a lot of time on learning the grammar. First, lay a foundation（奠定基础） of grammar and then slowly build my vocabulary （建立词汇）, and finally, I'll put vocabulary into sentence structures to form a sentence（制造一个句子）. It's like math for me, and it's really lacking imagination（很缺乏想象力）, but it works for me. （细节） 4. How are languages taught and learned in your school? In my school, we take English classes and Chinese classes. Well, Chinese is my mother tongue, so I don’t have problems speaking or using it. But when it comes to learning English, I would say it is taught and learned in a very boring way. It's definitely not the most suitable way for young students. For example, we spend a lot of time memorizing the rules, the grammar, the new words, but everything is done in a silent way. We don't really speak, let alone（更别提） using it in conversations. It’s really bad! （原因，细节） Plants 知识点： 很喜欢、擅长养植物的人： • a gardener 喜欢在自己家后院养花养草的人、同时也表示园丁。（职业植物养育 的人属于 farmer，不属于gardener） • a plant lover/person/freak 植物爱好者、狂人 • a plant lady/ a plantsman 植物女士、植物先生 43Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 有一个表达是 a (crazy) cat lady，家里养很多猫的那种视猫如命的女人、老太太； 这几年疫情关系，很多人在家养植物，延伸出了一个新的表达 a plant lady，表 示家里杨很多很多植物的女人、老太太。Plantsman 是更正统的表达，表示特别 专业且有天赋喜欢植物的男人（或女人）. • a person who’s good at caring for plants 一个很会照顾植物的人 • a person who has a knack for making any type of plant grow well 一 个天赋异禀可以让任何植物长的很好的人 (have a knack for sth.有某方面天赋) • have a green thumb 有一个绿色大拇指。表示很会照顾植物的人。 （因为给植物施肥照料会产生一种绿色物质，不戴手套容易手指也绿绿的，因此出 处在此。） • a botanist 植物学家（也可以夸张地方式来使用这个表达） My mom knows so much about caring for plants. She’s like a botanist or something. • Common houseplants 常见的家养植物 44Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 1. Do you keep plants at home? 按照自己的喜好去回答。 ① No, I don’t. I’m not a plant lover, nor do I have the time or knowledge to take care of plants at home. I can barely take care of myself to be honest, haha. I’m constantly in survival mode（求生状态，苟活）. 45Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② I’m definitely a “crazy plant lady”, haha! I have so many plants at home. It’s a crime（我有罪！表示知道自己很过分）. I have several cacti (cactus 仙人掌 的复数), snake plants（舌兰） and ferns（蕨类植物）. And I have an endless number of succulent plants（多肉植物） on my balcony. 后面可以+ 你认为养植 物的好处。 （细节、原因） 养植物的几点好处： - Plants are decorative. They can make your home feel fresher and more vibrant. They add a touch of greenery to your home. - Plants can purify/ clean/ freshen the air（净化空气）. - Taking care of plants is a great stress reliever and therapeutic（治愈的）. You can get distracted by caring for plants. It takes your mind off things. It helps you unwind and while away the time（打发时间）. And they don’t require too much attention like pets. 2. What plants did you grow when you were young? Oh, I remember in elementary school we had this science project where we grew tomatoes. It was so cool! We learned about the whole life cycle（生命 周期） of the plant, from seeds（种子） to seedlings（幼苗） and then to full- grown plants with tomatoes. We learned about photosynthesis（光作用） and how the plants use sunlight to make food. It was a really hands-on experience and made learning fun. （讲故事） 3. Do you know anything about growing a plant? ① Well I don’t have much experience regarding growing a plant other than the experience I’ve just mentioned in primary school. Now I’m too busy to keep plants at home. 46Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② Yes, I’m not a botanist but I know all the basics about growing a plant. The life cycle of a plant. I know photosynthesis（光合作用）, pollination（授 粉） and fertilization（施肥）, things like that. 4. Do Chinese people send plants as gifts? ① Yes, they do. It's actually quite common to give plants as gifts in China. For example, lucky bamboo（幸运竹） is very popular because it’s believed to bring good fortune to people（人们相信它能带来好运） according to my culture. People often give lucky bamboo during the New Year. It's a nice way to wish someone luck and prosperity（祝好运）. （细节） ② Definitely! Plants are a popular gift in China. You often see people giving things like orchids（兰花） or bonsai trees（盆栽盆景）. They symbolize luck, longevity（长寿）, nobility（高尚） and harmony（和谐）. People give each other beautiful and meaningful plants during the New Year, housewarmings（暖房） and weddings. （细节） Pen& pencil 1. Do you usually use pens or pencils? 这道题问的是：你平时是一个会用笔写字之人吗？（对应电脑打字来说） ① I do. I’m quite old-fashioned in this sense（从这个角度来说我还听老派的）. I like the feeling of writing things down, on a piece of paper, with a pen or a pencil. It’s more tactile. It feels right, feels good, feels real, you know? I often carry a notebook with me, scribbling（潦草地写写画画）/ scrawling（聊草地胡 写）/ handwriting/ writing down my ideas about things, and later I can go through my ideas easily, I like that. （原因+举例） 47Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② I don’t, to be honest. I’m living an almost paper-free life-style. I try to use less paper（paper 不可数）. And because of this, I don’t really use real pens or pencils anymore. Instead, I type down everything on my laptop and my smartphone, and sometimes I even use the voice memo app on my phone to record things. （原因+举例） 2. Which do you use more often? A pen or a pencil? ① I prefer to write with a pen. Pencil writing doesn’t last long, it fades over time. So, I don’t like that idea. I like writing with a pen. It’s more solid, and it lasts longer. （原因 分类讨论） ② I don’t really care, frankly speaking. I’ll just grab（抓） whatever is next to me. I like the fact that I can adjust what I write more easily when using a pencil, and I also like the confident and solid look from pen writing（我喜欢 水笔笔迹的自信和实在之感）. （原因 分类讨论） 3. When was the last time you bought a pen or pencil? ① I don’t really remember. I got my pens and pencil from my office, and also from the hotels I stayed in during a business trip. I haven’t bought them myself for quite a while. I don’t need to. （原因） ② It was at the beginning of this year. Yes, that’s my tradition actually. At the beginning of each year, I will go to the stationery store（文具店） near my home, and buy new notebooks, pens, pencils and all kinds of new stationery. It makes me feel so good, like I’m a new person. 4. What do you think if someone gives you a pen or pencil as present? Well, it depends on the quality of the pen or the pencil is. I mean, if it’s just a normal pencil or pen that you can find anywhere, then, probably I would be a little disappointed as it doesn’t feel like a particularly thoughtful or special gift. But if the pen is of high quality, such as a Parker pen, or has some unique design or sentimental value（特殊的情感价值）, then I would feel pretty happy about it. （分类讨论） 48Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Happy things 知识点： 针对乐天派和牢骚鬼的一些表达： • optimistic：乐观的； optimist：乐观主义之人 • pessimistic: 悲观的； pessimist：悲观主义之人 • realistic: 现实的； realist：现实主义之人 • a happy camper： 乐天派 • a goofball/ a goofy person： 傻乐之人 • happy-go-lucky: 具备“快乐能带来好运”的态度 “I’m a happy-go-lucky person.” “I’m always with a happy-go-lucky attitude.” • 兴奋的： excited, pumped, stoked, psyched • buzzing: very excited and happy. 非常英国式的表达，在北美不常见。 如： I’m buzzing now! • Overjoyed/ thrilled/ super glad: 非常开心 • Ecstatic/ euphoric：极度狂喜的（高级词） • Over the moon： 月亮之上，表示很开心 • On cloud nine：九霄云外， 同上，表示开心 • I was filled/overwhelmed with joy and happiness. • My heart is full. 我的心很满足、开心，别无他求 • I was smiling from ear to ear. 嘴巴咧到耳朵根，开心 • Words can’t describe how I happy feel. 文字都表达不出来我有多开心 • I was speechless. 可以表示无话可说，震惊、愤怒，也可以是太开心 49Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • I got really emotional, and started crying happy tears. 我很感动，留下 了快乐的眼泪 • It brought me to tears. 当时我感动到哭泣 • I couldn’t stop smiling. 我当时止不住地高兴地笑 • cranky/crabby/grumpy: 易怒的，总是很暴躁的 • whiny：爱抱怨的，这个看不惯那个看不爽的 • whiner： 满腹牢骚的人 “Don’t mind her. She’s always a whiner.” 1. Is there anything that makes you feel happy lately? （懒人备考回答）Ummm, lately I took a few days off（休了几天假）as I was about to have a burnout at work. So, I stayed at home and became a homebody for a few days. I cooked every day, read books, went to the gym, practiced self-care. Taking some me time really can cheer me up and take my mind off work. Now I’m mentally sane and feel much happier. ① Yes, I recently got a dog, and his name is Michael. I just feel so excited and thrilled to have him in my life. He’s been making my life so much fun. I enjoy doing everything with him. We sleep together, watch TV together, take a walk together. （养了一条宠物，用 get 动词。 原因，细节） 语法：用完成进行时，表示这份快乐一直持续到现在。 ② Oh yeh, I’ve just received/got an offer from my dream school in the UK, and I’ve been over the moon since then. I fought so hard and prepared so much for this school, and now I’m in! It’s been like a dream. （原因，细节） 50Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ③ Yes, actually, many things make me happy, and most of them are just small things. I’m a happy camper（乐天派）. For example, recently, I finished a book. It talks about how to be a better thinker and communicator. It is very informative and helpful, and that makes me feel very happy and contented（满足而快乐的）. （举例子） 任何事情，做志愿者，看了一本很喜欢的书，看了一部很棒的电影，和很久不联系的朋 友约饭，找到另一半…… 2. What made you happy when you were little? It was so easy for me to be happy when I was little. I was so easy to please. Candy, toys, cartoons, play dates（和小朋友玩儿）, getting a good grade（考 好成绩）, …life was much simpler at that time. （列举） 3. What do you think will make you feel happy in the future? ① In the near future（在近期）, I want to get promoted（晋升） and get a pay rise（涨薪）. I’ve been working really hard in the same position for 3 years, so it’s about time（该是时候了） to climb (up) the ladder（往上爬）, and prove myself（证明我自己）. That will make my very proud and happy. （原 因） ② My biggest dream is to become a home owner（有房子的人）. Having my own space, living a happy and peaceful life, building a beautiful family（建 立一个美丽的家庭） there. Not like some people, all they want is being successful and rich, I just want to have a home and a peaceful life. （原因） ③ Passing this exam will make me REALLY happy, hahaha!!! I can’t wait to study and live abroad, explore the world, meet new people, and spread my wings（展开我的翅膀，意味着独立成长）. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for me（我迫不及待想知道未来是什么样子的）. （原因） 51Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 自己结合实际情况回答，想买一辆车、出国上学、为人父母…… 4. When do you feel happy at work, why? 这题只会问工作党 ① I feel thrilled when I get paid, ahaha! When I see more money in my bank account（银行账号）, I feel that all the hard work is paying off（所有辛苦都值 得了）. And I’m happy to see that I have financial security（有财产保障） and a good future. （原因） ② It brings me a strong sense of achievement when my clients tell me that I’m doing a fantastic job, or my boss tells me that I’m irreplaceable（不可替 换）, that means I’m a top performer（表现很突出的员工）.（原因） 5. Do you feel happy when buying new things? ① Yes, I am a shopaholic（购物狂）. Shopping definitely makes me happy. Sometimes when I feel moody, I will swipe my card like there’s no tomorrow（像世界末日一样刷卡）. When I see all the shopping bags in my hands, I feel very satisfied. It can lift/boost my mood（提升、激增情绪）. ② Not anymore. I used to be a shopaholic. But now I’m trying to get rid of the habit of impulsive shopping（冲动消费）. It’s a waste of money and energy（浪费时间和精力）. I don’t need that many things. Now, I’m trying to declutter（断舍离） and enjoy the beauty of “less is more”（享受“少即是多 “的美）. （时间分层） ③I’m a minimalist（极简主义）. I hate having too many things. I only feel happy when I buy things I really really need. I feel nervous and frustrated when I get things I don’t need. （原因） 6. Do you think people are happy when buying new things? 52Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Most people feel happy when they buy new things. Our human brains are actually wired/made to be attracted to novelty（novelty：新奇的事物，我们 的大脑被设计成天生对新鲜事物充满好奇）. Buying new stuff means they can have exciting new experiences. But the problem is, nowadays, people are over consuming things（过度消费）. Consumerism（消费主义） is actually making people UNHAPPY. The more people buy, the more they need, and the more they compare themselves with others. And that causes the feeling of inadequacy and depression（自我价值感不足和抑郁的情绪）. That causes low self-esteem（自我价值感很低）. （原因，反向辩证思考） Exciting activities 知识点： • Exciting 的同义替换或近义词： thrilling, exhilarating, captivating, interesting, engaging, stimulating • Keep myself busy 让自己保持忙碌，保持新鲜 • Mix things up/ switch things up 把不同事情混着做，找新鲜感 • Try new things 尝试新鲜事物 • A novelty seeker/ a thrill seeker/ an explorer/ curiosity-driven/ have an adventurous spirit: 有猎奇精神的、对新鲜事物感兴趣的人 • Spice up my daily life 给我的日常生活添加佐料 1. Have you ever tried any exciting activities? 上主题里的语料很多都能用。比如： I’m always a very adventurous person, a thrill seeker and risk taker. So, all my life, I’ve been trying new and exciting things. They really spice up my daily life. I’m passionate about “the new”. （原因） 2. What do you think were exciting activities when you were a child? 53Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 自行回答 Any small things that were out of my daily routine（日常作息之外） or out of the norm（常规操作之外的） were stimulating（刺激） for me. Compared to how well-experienced and picky I am today, I was so easy to please（很好取 悦）, you know, haha. Anything, like riding my bike in the mountains, going for the ice cream, taking some art classes, they were all incredibly interesting and thrilling! （时间分层，细节） 3. Has anything exciting happened to you recently? 自行回答 4. Would you like to try scuba diving and bungee jumping? 自行回答 T-shirts T 知识点： • regular fit: 常规版本的 T 恤，不大不小 • slim fit: 修身T 恤，没有到特别紧的地步，但是显身材，也更时尚 • relaxed fit/ loose fit: 宽松版本的T 恤 • V-neck: V 领的（V-shaped neckline）适合想要展现自己锁骨的人群 show off their collarbones • Crew neck: 圆领的（round neckline） • Henley: 带扣子的 T 恤 It gives a more dressed-up look. 看起来更显正式 • T-shirt with graphic/ graphic T-shirt 带图案的T 恤 • T-shirt with text/ text T-shirt 带文字的 T 恤 54Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • Printed T-shirt 带图案、印花、文字的 T-shirt • go-to piece of clothing（首选的衣服单品） • wardrobe staples/ wardrobe basics（衣橱里的基本款） • comfortable/ comfy 舒适的 • casual 休闲的 • easy to wear 穿起来很简单; easy to style 很好做造型 • versatile 有很多穿法 1. Do you like wearing T-shirts? ① Yes! T-shirts are my go-to piece of clothing（首选的衣服单品）/ choice when I just want to feel relaxed and comfortable. They are comfortable, casual, and easy to wear（穿起来很简单方便）. And also, I feel that they can be dressed up or down（可华丽亦可简朴） depending on the occasion. They can go with a variety of other items（跟其他单品也很好搭配）, like jeans, dress pants, blazers, and long skirts. For me, they are my favourite wardrobe staples/ wardrobe basics（衣橱里的基本款） that can be paired with a lot of items. （原因） （不用都说，挑选局部内容来说） ② I’m not a massive fan of T-shirts（我不是太喜欢T恤）. I find them too casual or informal for certain occasions（我感觉它们在有些场合显得太休闲、不正式）. Besides, usually t-shirts don’t flatter my figure（突出我的身材优势）. I prefer blouses（女式衬衫）/shirts. （原因） ③ I do, but I’m picky（挑剔） when it comes to wearing t-shirts. I prefer those plain and simple ones in solid colours（单色实色）. They are more elegant and mature-looking（看起来成熟）. I don’t like t-shirts that are 55Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 visually busy, like with a lot of different colours, or graphics, or texts. I find those ones to be a little childish, and not “me”, you know.（原因） 2. How often do you wear T-shirts? ① All the time, I wear them almost every day. I love white and grey t-shirts. They look clean and fresh. I have these two colours in crew neck, V-neck, regular fit and slim fit. They are so versatile. （原因，细节） ② Not very often, usually on weekends. During the week, at work I need to dress up and look professional. But on weekends, I just want to feel comfortable and relaxed. I love wearing casual when I’m off work（下班）. （分情况） ③Very rarely. Like I said, I’m not a t-shirt person, so, not very often. Sometimes I wear a basic white t-shirt underneath a hoodie（帽衫） or a sweatshirt（运动衫） to feel warmer. （原因，细节） 3. Do you like T-shirts with pictures or prints? 这道题我没明白 pictures 和 prints 的区别。Pictures 是有图案的，prints 也是印花 图案的意思…… ① I like printed T-shirts. Different prints or pictures can allow me to express my personality, attitude or even my sense of humor（我的幽默感）. For example, I remember once I wore a T-shirt that said “Sorry I’m late. I didn’t want to come” to a party, which was hilarious. People at the party loved it! It’s a great way to showcase（展示） your unique personality or style. I love it. （原因，讲故事法） ② I only like plain and simple（简简单单的） T-shirts. No graphics or texts, nothing. It’s just my style. I’m more of a minimalist（极简主义的人）. （原因） 4. Do you think older people who wear T-shirts are fashionable? 56Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 It depends on the individual. Some older people wear t-shirts with a really cool design, and then they pair the T-shirt with other items that create a fashionable look. Meanwhile, some other old people just wear a super loose-fitting t-shirt with a lot of wrinkles（褶皱）. 0 fashionable, 0 stylish. （分群体） 5. Would you buy T-shirts as souvenirs on vacation? ① I love buying T-shirts as souvenirs! They are a practical, lightweight, and inexpensive way to remember a special place or experience. My favourite one is the “I love NYC” T-shirt I have. It’s a classic one as almost everyone who travels to NYC will buy that T-shirt. （原因，举例子） ② As I said, I’m not a T-shirt person, so I wouldn’t buy them as souvenirs. I love buying coffee mugs（咖啡杯） when I travel to a new place. （原因） Number 1. What’s your favourite number? 自行回答。 I love 7. It’s been my lucky number（幸运数字）my whole life, my all-time favourite（一生挚爱）. If someone were to ask me to choose a random number（如果有人问我去随机选一个数字，虚拟假设语气）, I would always start with 7. And also, I like the sound of it in Chinse. It’s a very beautiful- sounding number（很好听的数字）. （原因， 补充） 2. Are you good at remembering phone numbers? ① Yes, I do. I have a great memory. This is my thing（是我的特长）/ It’s my strong suit（强项）. My friends all call me “the memory queen/king”（记忆 力女王、国王）. I've always been able to memorize numbers and phone 57Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 numbers really quickly. I’ve got a natural knack for it（有天赋）, and also, I train my memory all the time to keep my brain busy and sharp（保持脑子的 快捷好使））. （朋友们的评价，细节，原因） ② Phone numbers? No. I mean who remembers phone numbers these days? I heavily rely on my smartphone to keep all my contacts（联系人）. But I would say that it’s pretty easy for me to pick up and remember something visual, like a picture, a painting, an image. It's like, if I put my mind to it（下 定决心，全力以赴） and really focus, I can remember things quite well, especially when it comes to something visual, exciting and vibrant. （转折） 3. Do you usually use numbers? 自行回答，in daily life? At work? At school? ① I’m a university student, and my major is XXX. This major is closely related to maths and numbers, so yeh, I’m taking XXX, XXX…（介绍一下正在 修什么和数学有关的课） ② No, not anymore. My job has nothing to do with numbers, which is great… 4. Are you good at maths? ①I’m a math person. Math is my thing. Actually, I solve math problems for fun when I have time on my hands（有空的时候）. It’s like solving puzzles （解谜）. （原因，细节） ② I don’t have a knack for maths（没有数学天赋）. I personally find it really hard. I’m terrible at it. And I hate solving math problems. Sometimes I even have nightmares about taking math exams. I guess I might have “math- phobia”（数学恐惧症）. （原因） 58Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ③ Uh, it’s a love-and-hate relationship. I’m good and bad at it at the same time. I mean, I love geometry（几何）, but I suck at algebra（代数）. For me, I can understand geometry like a piece of cake; but I just can’t wrap my head around（努力搞明白） algebra.（原因） Relax 知识点： 放松的多种表达： Wind down; unwind; loosen up; chill; chill out; rest; take some time off; put one’s feet up; let one’s hair down; blow off some steam, take a breather… 1. What would you do to relax? ① Well, when I want to loosen up, I will put on some of my favorite music, lie on my couch, close my eyes, and just do nothing, take a breather. ② Uhmmm, I’m a gym freak（健身狂人）. I go to the gym on a daily basis to keep fit and unwind. Going to the gym can really help me take my mind off things. All I need to do is, focus on my body and my breaths. ③ Call me a weirdo（怪人）, but I get relaxed through solving math questions（解数学题）. I’m a math lover, and I enjoy spending time watching math-related videos and solving math problems. ④I’m a napper（打盹的人）, so I will take a nap whenever I get a chance. I find napping really soothing and relaxing. It helps me forget about everything. ⑤ When I feel anxious and stressed out, I clean my house. My mom calls me a clean freak（洁癖）, and maybe I am. I just enjoy tidying up things and cleaning up my place. Everything smells so fresh after the clean-up. Seeing my place spotlessly clean really lifts my mood. 59Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 2. Do you think doing sports is a good way to relax? Definitely! I’ve read somewhere that（我有在某处读到过） exercises can stimulate the release of dopamine（释放多巴胺）, boost the mood and increase the level of relaxation. I totally feel that way. For example, each time after I go to the gym, I feel completely relaxed and rested. It even improves my sleep quality. （原因+举例子） 3. Do you think vacation is a good time for you to relax? ① Yes, if I have plenty time on my hands and I have enough budget, I’ll for sure go on vacation somewhere far from home. Forget about my work, my life, and my troubles, experience a different life style in a different place. Make new friends, try new food, and soak up a new culture. （原因） ② I wish I could take a vacation and relax! But unfortunately, I’m very busy at the moment, I haven’t gone on vacation for quite some time（很久）. It’s definitely a good time for me to get fully rested and recharge the batteries, works like a charm（屡试不爽的有效） each time. 4. Do you think students need more relaxing time? It’s hard to generalize. Students at different ages have very different study schedules. From my personal experience, I feel that middle school and high school students are spending too much time studying. They need more time to chill, do sports and socialize with people; adult students, like university students, probably don’t need more time as their schedules are pretty flexible. They can slow down anytime if they want to.（分群体） Breakfast 1. What do you usually eat for breakfast? ① I'm a typical Chinese person, and my breakfast is super Chinese-styled （超级中式）. I always have a bowl of congee（一碗粥）, a cup of soy milk（一 60Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 杯豆浆）, and Chinese bread, which we call “manto”. After that, I'm good to kickstart the day（准备好新的一天）. It's a meal packed with lots of protein, fibers and carbs（蛋白质、纤维和碳水）. （细节） ② As Chinese, my breakfast is actually pretty Western-styled（西式风格）. I always have a bowl of oatmeal（一碗燕麦）, some scrambled eggs（炒鸡蛋）, and toast with butter and jam（带着黄油和果酱的土司）. I usually have a cup of coffee on the side. After that, I'm ready to go about my day（准备好我的一 天）. It's a meal packed with lots of protein, fibers and carbs. （细节） ③ I actually follow an intermittent fasting routine（间歇式断食）, so I skip breakfast（不吃早饭）. I usually start my day with a big glass of water and maybe a black coffee. My first meal is lunch. This routine keeps me more focused and energetic in the mornings. So, I’m loving it. （原因，细节） 2. Do you think breakfast is important? ① I'm a firm believer（坚信者） that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It really sets the tone for my whole day（给整个一天奠定基调）. It helps me kickstart my day with full energy and keeps me going till lunch time. If one day I didn’t have breakfast, it would really affect my mood and concentration. （原因，反向假设） ② Many people would say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It sets the tone for your whole day. However, from my personal experience, all these years of following intermittent fasting actually helps me improve my overall energy level（提升我的整体精力水平）. I feel that my mind is sharper and more active in the morning. And, it helps a lot with my weight management（体重管理）. So, the key is to listen to your own body and find what works best for you. （主流观点 对比自己观点） 3. Are there any differences between the mornings of your childhood and now? 61Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 自行回答 4. Would you like to change your morning routine? 自行回答 Morning routine 知识点： • 早起型的人： morning person/ early bird • 晚睡型的人：night person/ night owl • seize the day: to make the most of the present moment 珍惜每一天 I love waking up early and seize the day. • Set the tone (for)：奠定基调 Mornings are the time when we set the tone for rest of the day. 早上的时光把其余的一天的基调奠定好。 • Mornings are when I feel the most energetic and can get things done. 早上是我感到最有能量以及能把事情做成的时候。 • I love the quietness and the calmness in the morning. 我喜欢早上的宁 静 • 熬夜晚睡：stay up • 熬通宵: pull an all-nighter • 早睡早起：go to bed early and wake up early • I’m a big sleeper: 我是特别爱睡觉的人 • set alarm 设置闹钟 62Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 I always set my alarm earlier so that I don’t need to rush around（由于要 迟到而窜来窜去） in the morning. • turn off the alarm 关掉闹钟； hit snooze 点击“小憩” • create/make/brainstorm a to-do list 制作一个“做事”清单 Every day, in the morning, I will create a to-do list. • write a list of everything I need to get done for the day • make/develop a schedule 1. What do you usually do in the morning? ①During the week, I go to work. I wake up around 7 am, have my breakfast, and then rush to work（着急忙慌上班）/commute to work（通勤去上班）. Normally I have a lot of meetings in the morning, as that’s when my mind is the sharpest（锋利） and I feel the most energetic. I can get a lot of things done during this time. On weekends, I normally go to the gym in the morning to seize the day. （分情况） ②During the week, I have a lot of classes in the morning. Therefore, usually I’ll be taking my classes during this time. And on those days when I don’t have classes, I normally go to the school gym to work out a bit, you know, seize the day, make the most of it. And on weekends, I always sleep in（睡 懒觉） to recharge the batteries. （分情况） ③I usually have a nice breakfast with my family. We are the kind of people who must have a nice breakfast every day to go about our day. And then, I’ll go to the gym with my gym buddy（健身伙伴） Jessica/Mike. We spend 2 hours there, training（训练） and later stretching（拉伸）. My mornings are pretty chill and slow-paced. I start working in the afternoon. (WH 法) 63Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 2. Is breakfast important? ① I'm a firm believer（坚信者） that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It really sets the tone for my whole day（给整个一天奠定基调）. It helps me kickstart my day with full energy and keeps me going till lunch time. If one day I didn’t have breakfast, it would really affect my mood and concentration. （原因，反向假设） ② Many people would say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It sets the tone for your whole day. However, from my personal experience, all these years of following intermittent fasting actually helps me improve my overall energy level（提升我的整体精力水平）. I feel that my mind is sharper and more active in the morning. And, it helps a lot with my weight management（体重管理）. So, the key is to listen to your own body and find what works best for you. （主流观点 对比自己观点） 3. What’s your morning routine? 和第一题差不多 4. Do you like getting up early in the morning? ①Yes! I’m a typical morning person. I go to bed early and wake up early, around 6 am every day. It’s always so quiet in the morning. I enjoy listening to the birds chirping and the cool morning breeze touching my face（早上 的徐徐小风吹在脸上）. I find my body the most energetic and my mind the most productive in the morning as well. I can always get more things done in the morning（我在早上总是能做成更多事儿）. （原因，细节） ②Well, I would call myself a morning person, but I don’t get up super early in the morning. I set my alarm for 8 am every morning. If it’s much earlier than that, like 6ish（六点来钟）, I would look like a zombie（我会看起来像是一 个僵尸）. My mind would be still sleeping. （原因） 64Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ③No, not really. I hate waking up early. I’m more of a night owl. Nights are when magic happens（魔力产生的时候）! There’s just so much going on in the evening（晚上的事儿太多了）, food and drinks, movies, gatherings, parties, meeting new people…I can never do those things in the morning. I can never be a morning person. I look like a zombie in the morning（我早上 的时候看起来像个丧尸）. （原因） 5. What did you do in the morning when you were little? Why? Well, I remember it was like war（像是战争一样） in the morning. I was always late for school（上学迟到）, always rushing（着急忙慌）. My mom would be scolding and nagging me（责备，叨叨我）. And then, I would grab my breakfast（抓起早餐） and finish it on my way to school in the subway. At school, there were so many classes in the morning. By the time when I had lunch, I felt exhausted/beat up（累死）. （细节） Daily routine 知识点： • set alarm 设置闹钟 I always set my alarm early so that I don’t need to rush around（由于要迟 到而窜来窜去） in the morning. • turn off the alarm 关掉闹钟； hit snooze 点击“小憩”键 • create/make/brainstorm a to-do list Every day, in the morning, I will create a to-do list. • write a list of everything I need to get done for the day 65Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • make/develop a schedule • daily/weekly/monthly schedule • dedicate…to I always make sure I dedicate a certain time of the day to my schoolwork. And during this time, I’ll put my phone on mute and stay off the web until I’ve got everything done. • A good daily routine makes it easier to stay organized, and will help you to get the most (out) of the day. • A planner can help you keep track of（追踪） your classes, school work and extracurricular activities（课外活动）. • A daily routine can keep yourself on task（让你有事情做，有任务忙）. 1. What’s your daily study routine? ①I set my alarm for 7 am every morning. I have classes starting from 8:30, and finishing around 3 pm. So, between 08:30 am and 3pm, I’m pretty swamped（很忙，任务很多）. I don’t even have the time for a proper lunch. I just grab something between classes（课间随便买点东西来吃吃）. And after that, I’ll take a breather, loosen up, go to the gym, chill out a little bit, have a nice dinner. And then, I’ll go to the library around 7pm to study again, and spend a couple of hours there. （细节） ② I don’t have a fixed daily routine. My study schedule revolves around （以……为中心） my class schedule（课表）. If I have a lot of classes during the day, I’ll study from morning to evening continuously, very intense. But, if I don’t have a lot of classes, I’ll be very chill. I’ll hang out with my friends, go to the gym, watch a movie, just chillax. （分情况） 2. Have you ever changed your routine? ①Certainly, I have. I remember when I graduated from high school and became a university student, my routine changed dramatically. I didn’t need to study that much anymore. Suddenly I had a lot of time for myself. In the beginning, I was even feeling guilty for taking some “me time”. And 66Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 now, I love my new life and my new routine! I’m having a perfect school- life balance. （原因，细节） ② Definitely. After I started working, my daily routine changed in 180 degrees. I was used to my university life. It wasn’t very relaxed, but it wasn’t crazily intense either. But working life is another level of intensity. I wake up around 7am, leave home at 8, and come back home at 8pm. During this period of time, I don’t get to take a break except for the 30-min lunch break. （原因，细节） ③ No, not really. My daily routine has always been very organized and busy, as I’d like to keep myself on task, and make the most out of my day. I have a planner which can help me keep track of the things I need to do, and the things I have already done. I have more or less the same schedule throughout these years. （原因，细节） 3. Do you think it is important to have a daily routine for your study? ① Oh, yeh absolutely! If you want to stay efficient and organized, you need to have an agenda to follow. It keeps you on task, gives you a sense of direction, and prevents procrastination. If you didn’t have a daily routine, you might be too easy-going with yourself, and end up accomplishing nothing. （原因，反向假设） ② Although I don’t have a fixed daily study routine, I think it’s important to have one. It keeps you on track, gives you a sense of direction, and prevents procrastination. I’m gradually realizing the importance of having a routine. I’m working on getting into the habit of create a schedule every day, and slowly develop a study routine. （原因） 4. What part of your day do you like best? ① I love mornings. I’m a big morning person. I’m more energetic and clear- minded in the morning. I can definitely get more things done during this period of time. Everything feels right in the morning. （原因） 67Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② I love nights. I’m such a night person. At night, I become very productive and creative. I always come up with the best ideas at night. During the day, I don’t feel that excited to throw myself into all kind of tasks. Especially in the morning, I always act like a zombie. （原因） The internet 这道题和social media 非常接近，学生们自行练习。 1. When did you start using the internet? 2. How often do you go online? 3. How does the internet influence people？ 可以罗列一些人们可以在网上做的事情(getting information, taking online classes, watching lice streaming to kill the time, shopping ans find good deals online. Etc) 高分学员可以再转折，提到互联网的 negative impacts. 4. Do you think you spend too much time online? 5. What would you do without the internet? 句型： I can’t imagine my life without the internet. I can’t life without it. News 1. Are you interested in the news? ① Since I'm really into politics and economy, I’m very into political news. I’m interested in knowing the latest developments（最新发展） in China's 68Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 economic policies or international trade relations（国际贸易关系）. I love watching the news on CCTV news channel（新闻频道）. （细节） ② As someone who's quite into the show business（娱乐界）, I pay much more attention to celebrity news. It's always exciting to see what new projects they're working on or any behind-the-scenes stories（背后故事） or even gossips.（细节） 2. How do you usually find the news? These days, I don’t read newspapers anymore as I find it too old-fashioned （落伍的）. I normally find the news on social media or on TV. 3. How do your friends get the news? They’re the same. Social media is the go-to option（首选） for the news. There, you can not only find the news, but also see what people are thinking and saying in the comments（在评论里）. Sometimes, if you’re in the mood（有心情）, you can even leave a comment（留言） and have some interaction with netizens（网民）, which is fun. （原因） 4. Have you read the news this morning? 具体情况自行回答 Actually no, I was too excited about my IELTS exam that I didn’t have any time to check out the news. 5. Do you often talk with your friends about the news? Sometimes we do, normally about the headlines（头条新闻）, or something really sensational（危言耸听的，哗众取宠的）. For example, recently my friends and I have been talking about this famous actor got married again with an online influencer（网红）. And what’s worth talking about is that this influencer has the weirdest, fakest and plastic face（最奇怪、最假的塑料 脸） that she looks inhuman（不像人类）, more like a robot. I know, it is 69Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 pure gossip, but my friends and I love talking about it. It’s way to pass the time. （细节） 往年新闻主题内容参考：Celebrity news （名人新闻） 知识点： 1. 关于名人的正面表达： • Talented: 有天赋的 She's incredibly talented, effortlessly excelling in both acting and singing（演戏和唱歌双栖明星）. Her talent is undeniable, especially when you see her breathtaking performances. • Down-to-earth: 接地气的 Despite her fame, she remains down-to-earth and connects with people in a genuine way. • Nice to her fans: 对粉丝很好 He's always nice to his fans, taking time to sign autographs and engage in meaningful conversations. • Approachable: 亲切的 好接近的 • Charismatic: 有人格魅力的 As a fan of his music, I just love his charismatic presence on stage. • Humble: 谦逊的 He's incredibly humble about his achievements, always attributing his success to his team. • Relatable: 让人感同身受的 Her songs are relatable. They can touch my emotions every time. • Speak to me/ resonate with me: 让我产生共鸣的 Her songs always can speak to me on a person level. The lyrics of his songs resonate with me so much to the point that I would get goosebumps（起鸡皮疙瘩） when listening to his music. 70Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • Hardworking: 努力工作的 • Versatile: 多变的、百变的 • Stylish/ fashionable: 有风格的、时髦的 She's always stylish, setting trends（引领时尚风潮） on the red carpet （在红毯上） with her unique fashion sense. • Inspirational: 启发人心的 • Culturally impactful: 有深远文化影响力的 Her work has been culturally impactful, influencing a generation of young artists（影响一代年轻艺术家）. 2. 负面的表达： • Make headlines/ hit the headlines : 上头条 • Stay in headlines: 保持头条状态 • Lands in the news/ get on the news/ make the news/ appear in the news: 上新闻 • Sensational: 耸人听闻的 Lately, her actions have been quite sensational, focusing more on shocking the public（使公众震惊） than on her actual talents. • Seek/ grab Attention: 吸睛 It seems like he's always trying to grab attention. • Making a fool of oneself: 哗众取宠 She often makes a fool of herself just to stay in the headlines（保持头 条状态）. • Overly dramatic: 过度戏剧化 His behavior can be overly dramatic, almost like he's performing for the cameras all the time. • Lack authenticity: 缺乏真实度 71Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 I find his public persona lacks authenticity. It's hard to know who he really is. Therefore, it’s hard to connect with her. • Controversial: 有争议的 She often lands in the news（上新闻） for controversial reasons. • Try too hard to be relevant/ stay relevant: 太过分想红、保持当红状态 It feels like he's always trying too hard to stay relevant, which can be off-putting（使人厌烦的）. 1. Who is your favorite celebrity in your country? 可以从知识点1 里面找内容来回答（每个学生喜欢的明星太不一样了） I really Na Ying（那英）. She’s an amazing singer（很棒的歌手）, super talented, and well-liked（深受喜爱的） by her fans. And on top of that, I love how down-to-earth（接地气的） and approachable（亲切的） she is. She is incredibly nice to her fans and quite low-key（低调）. She's quite humble about her achievements, always attributing her success to her team（把成 就归功于她的团队）. 2. What kind of famous people do you often see in the news? ① Since I'm really into politics and economy, I often see government officials（政府官员） and economists（经济学家） in the news. They usually discuss the latest developments（最新发展） in China's economic policies or international trade relations（国际贸易关系）. Their insights are particularly interesting to me. I love watching the news on CCTV news channel（新闻频 道）. （细节） ② As someone who's quite into the show business（娱乐界）, I come across （遇见，看到） news about celebrities more often. It's always exciting to see 72Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 what new projects they're working on or any behind-the-scenes stories（背 后故事） or even gossips. Plus, with the rise of social media（随着自媒体的兴 起）, I also see a lot of online influencers（网红） appearing in the news（上 新闻） even making headlines（上头条）, which has been a new thing in recent years. （细节，补充） ③ In the news, I often see two types of celebrities. On one hand, there are those making positive impacts（带来正面影响）, like actors involved in charitable work（慈善工作）, or musicians using their platform to raise awareness about important social issues（利用自己的平台来提升对重要社会问 题的认知）. They use their fame for good causes（利用自己名气做好事）. On the other hand, there are also celebrities who seem to try too hard to stay relevant（太过努力保持热度）. They often appear in the news for sensational acts（耸人听闻的新闻） or controversial statements（有争议的言论） rather than for their work. It feels like they're more focused on staying in the public eye（想要留在公众视野里） than on making meaningful contributions. （分群体） ④ 也可以不提自己的兴趣点，说能看见政客 politicians, economists, and celebrities…结合①-③的内容自己来组合拼接回答 3. Do you pay attention to famous people in the news? 前面一题如果已经提到自己关注 celebrities，考官就不会问这题。如果没提到自己的兴 趣点，才有可能会问到。 Not really, to be honest. I'm not much into celebrity culture（明星文化）. My interest in the news is more about the current events, the important things directly affecting my life. I do occasionally come across（遇到） some 73Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 famous people making headlines（上头条）, but it's not something I actively follow（积极在关注） or pay much attention to. （原因） 4. Do you believe that the news about famous people in the media is true? ① Well, I tend to take the news with a grain of salt（take something with a grain of salt, 表示对某些事情听听就行，不全信）. You never know what is the true story behind the scenes（幕后故事）, right? I’m pretty sure a lot of it is exaggerated, sensationalized or even completely made up（被夸大的、或者 编的） just to grab more attention. Especially news you see from gutter press（小道新闻、有点颜色那种报刊）, someone did so-and-so or said so-and- so or cheated on someone（做了什么什么，说了什么什么， 或者出轨了谁）, I never take it seriously. It’s all about selling the story! （原因，强调补充） ② For me, it depends on the source of the news（看新闻来源）. If it’s from a reliable and legit source, I tend to believe the news more; but if it’s something obviously sensational（明显耸人听闻） from the gutter press/ the tabloid press（小道报刊）, I wouldn’t buy it（不会信，不会买账） at all. （分情 况） 5. Would you like to be a famous person in the news? （个人愿望） ① Ummm, I wouldn't mind（不会介意） being famous if it's for positive reasons（如果是积极的原因）. I'm comfortable being in front of the camera （在镜头前蛮自在的）/ 0 camera shy（一点都不害羞）, and the idea of being in the public eye（在公众视野里） is quite appealing to me（很吸引我）. Maybe I’m a true attention seeker（喜欢关注的人）? Haha! More importantly, if my fame could be used to influence others in a positive way, then that would be amazing. （原因） 74Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② Actually, no, I wouldn't want to get on the news（上新闻）. For me, privacy is vital（隐私至关重要）. I value my personal space and the freedom a lot. Being famous means having to give up on（放弃） that privacy, which would be a horrifying idea. I would much prefer a quieter, more peaceful and more private life away from the spotlight（远离聚光灯）. （原因） Science 1. Do you like science? ① What’s not to like（有不喜欢的理由吗）? Science is the root of everything in our world. It helps us explain how things work, all the phenomena around us. Like, why does water freeze in a cold environment, why do things fall to the ground, etc. It’s an amazing tool we can use to explain our world. （原因，举例子） ② Oh yeh! I’m a science person. I think my dad got me into loving science. He used to take me to the local science museum during weekends. Sometimes we would spend the whole day there. And what else, we made all kinds of experiments at home. The one that I remember the most is the “baking soda volcano”. That was a crazy experiment. Anyway, that was my first introduction to science. （细节） ③I’m a science fan. I’m always a “why person”（充满疑问的人）. It’s never enough for me to accept everyday phenomena at face value（从表面上）. I enjoy developing a deeper and fuller understanding of those things in life that we take for granted（被是为理所应当的事儿）. Learning about science enables my critical thinking skills. （原因） 75Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ④ Well, I don’t feel crazy about science. I mean, it’s cool, but I care more about people’s feelings and emotions, not about facts. Science is too rational and cold for my taste. （原因） 2. When did you start to learn about science? ① I started to learn about science when I was very little. My parents got me a series of books, called “the 10 thousand why”. Those books are famous in my country as they basically explain everything related to science in our life. I used to love that series. I read them over and over again when I was little.（细节） - I don’t remember, to be honest. I still remember how excited I was when my mom took me to a very cool science museum when we were traveling in another city. I guess, that was when I stared to really like science. （细节） 3. Which science subject is interesting to you? 常见的科学学科（高中）： Earth/Physical Science; Biology; Environmental Science; Zoology; Astronomy; Chemistry; Physics. ① I’m always intrigued by Biology. First, it covers such a vast range of topics that it is one of the broadest subjects a person could ever study. And then, biology helps me develop a profound understanding of all lives on earth. It’s a science subject that studies all forms of life. It’s unique and vivid, I love it. （原因） ② I’m an animal person, so zoology definitely sparks my interest. By studying animals, we can develop a better understanding of ourselves, how we function and interact with the world around us. To study animals is to study ourselves. （原因） ③ Astronomy is definitely a lot of fun to me. The universe is so thought- provoking, humbling（使人谦卑的）, intriguing and even scary at the same time. I never get tired to know stories about black holes. Sometimes, I just 76Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 gaze at the night sky, and immerse myself in the world of stars and space. （原因） 4. What kinds of interesting things have you done with science? I remember when I was in primary school, I did a lot of experiments in the school lab. I don’t recall too many details about what I did exactly, but I remember how much fun I had. One thing I still remember is when I first time looked through a microscope. I saw cells moving and everything. That was very exciting and unforgettable. （细节） E-books and paper books 1. Which do you prefer, e-books or paper books? ① I don’t really care for E-books（我不喜欢电子书）. I guess I’m a little old fashioned. I just love the smell of print books/paper books. And personally, I like to mark up（做标记） my books, journal in the margins（在每页的边边角角 做笔记）. I underline the things that stand out to me（我会在一些引发注意的内 容下方画下划线）. I can’t do these things to E-books, right. So yeh, that’s why. I love the whole tactile experience（可触摸的体验）, the smell, the scribble（潦 草的写写画画）, and running my fingers through the pages（用手指翻 页）…things like that. （阐述原因） ② I consider myself quite “tech savvy”（懂科技的）, so I prefer e-books. I have a Kindle（著名电子书品牌）, normally I’ll take it with me when I commute every day. An E-book device is easier to carry around, as it’s light-weight（自 重轻的） and usually smaller than a traditional book. It’s like a portable（可移 动的） small computer which can store many books（储存很多书籍）. So, yeh, I would go for e-books. （阐述原因） 77Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 2. When do you usually read online? 自行回答 3. Will you read more online in the future? （给不看电子书的人的问题） I don’t really use E-books or read online, even though they are super popular now. I guess I’m a little behind the times（过时）. I mean, I just don’t know how to do it properly. I don’t have anything against E-books or online books （ 我 也 没有 任 何对电 子 书 的抵 触 心理） , I think they’re super cool and environmentally friendly. I will try it one day for sure. （先抑后扬） 4. Do you think paper books will disappear in the future? 可以把第一题里答案①里面的纸质书的 tactile 这一点拿出来讲，说明纸质书不会完全消 失，因为依然会有人喜欢纸质书的独特体验。 Doing sports 1. What sports do you like? ① I love playing all sorts of ball games（球类运动）. Tennis, badminton, Ping pong, you name it. I find them so interesting. They are physically challenging（很消耗挑战体能） and involve a lot of skills and techniques. I get fully relaxed by playing ball games. （原因） ② I love running. I go for a run every day in the morning before going to work. My favourite place for running is the botanical garden near home. 78Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Each time when I run there, I could get some sun, listen to birds singing, smell the flower fragrance in the air, just get closer to nature. It’s the best way for me to start the day. （WH 法） ③ I go to the gym to work out on a regular basis（规律性健身）. That’s the best way for me to stay in shape（保持好的状态） and keep fit. Working out definitely helps me blow off steam（减压） after work/after school. It definitely boosts my confidence（让我自信激增）. Each time after a workout, I always feel like the hottest guy/girl in the world（每次健身之后，我都感觉自 己是世界上最辣的人儿！）. And plus, I get to make new friends at the gym. A gym is a perfect place to meet new people. （原因，补充） 2. Where did you learn how to do it? ① My parents used to love playing Ping Pong and badminton. They taught me how to play those games when I was very young. We used to play on the playground, near my home, in the evening after dinner. My passion for ball games started from there, and now, I love all of them. （WH 法，时间分 层） ② Nobody taught me how to run. I guess it’s like a human instinct, right? When I was little, I used to run with my best friend all the time. It was like, we didn’t know how to walk properly. In stead of walking, we ran to places, as if there was some animal running behind us（我们当时好像不会好好走路一 样，去哪儿都是跑着去，仿佛有动物在追我们）. （细节） ③ My best buddy（好哥们）/best friend introduced me to the world of fitness（带我走去了健身世界）. He took me to his gym, and helped me sign up（帮我注册了会员）. He showed me how to do weight-lifting（作力量训练）, how to train my legs, shoulders, and arms, how to use different machines, things like that. Thanks to him, I became a gym freak as well. （细节） 79Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 3. Did you do some sports when you were young? 前面的题都说了很清楚了 ball game 和run 都提到了小时候，就不会问了 gym freak 可能还会问 ① Now I love going to the gym. But when I was young, I wasn’t into sports. I never really did sports other than the ones we had to do at school. （时间 分层） ② Yes, I’ve always loved doing sports. I used to play basketball in high school. I was one of the best players in the school team. I remember at that time, each time when I had a game（有比赛的时候）, there would be many girls sitting courtside（坐在场边） and cheering for me（给我加油）. They screamed my name! That was the prime time of my life（我的人生巅峰）. （细 节） 4. Do you think students need more exercise? Definitely! In China, kids nowadays are snowed under with schoolwork（被 功课作业雪埋）. They have much less time for doing sports than before. And when they finally catch a break and take a breather, they normally spend the time scrolling, staring at the screen, which is so wrong. Kids today need more physical activities to wind down and fully relax. Exercises make them physically healthier and stronger, and helps them unwind. （原因） Schools 这个主题是在part1问完工作还是学习之后，学生回答“学生”，才有可能问这些问题。 且，在现实生活中，当人们用 school 这个词的时候，往往指的是大学阶段以下的阶段。 小学、初中、高中。这道题，我感觉不会是特别针对大学生的问题。 80Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 “In both British and American English, a school is a place where children are educated, and a university is a place where students study for degrees.” 摘自Collins 字典 知识点： -形容学校的表达： 1. 正向： • one of the best schools/ one of the top 5 schools… • rank XXX： My university ranks the 6th in China. • well-equipped 设备齐全 • offer the best/top-notch facilities 提供最棒的设施、场馆 • have access to educational resources 有教育资源 • accommodating 为人着想的、助人为乐的、提供帮助的 An accommodating school fulfills all your wishes and needs. • great students, great teachers, great faculty, great leadership 学生也棒，老师也棒，全体教员（一般大学里会用 faculty，而不是 teacher），领 导层也棒 • school spirit 学校精神，团结精神 The students at this school have a strong sense of school spirit, they are always cheering on their classmates during a sports game. The school spirit is one of the things that makes this school special, the students, staff, and parents are all proud to be part of the community. • clean/ tidy/ well-kept 干净整洁的 I love how everything is so clean in my school. It really helps students stay focused. • innovative 创新的 81Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 My school uses creative and innovative approaches to learning while encouraging students to think outside the box. • Scholarly 学术的、勤奋好学的 My school is very scholarly. It promotes learning and rewards hard work. • great/ positive/intense learning atmosphere 超棒的、积极的、激烈的学 习氛围 • 其他：modern/ spacious/ supportive/ flexible… 2. 负向： • My school has nothing. It’s super small. 啥也没有 • My school lacks facilities and resources. 缺乏设施和资源 • Things could be better at my school. 学校还有进步空间，不咋地的意思 • Not the best school in the world. 很委婉的语气，也是不咋地的意思 • It’s a famous party school. 很有名的“爱玩儿“的学校 • old-fashioned/ outdated 老派的 • narrow-minded 眼光狭窄的 • It’s just a whatever school. 就是个啥也不是的学校 1. Where do you go to school? 大学生①：I study here in this city. The school is called XXX university/ college. It’s a little bit far away from home（home 这里指家乡）. I only see my parent once per year during Spring Festival. ② I study in another city, not very far from here. The school is called XXX university/ college. 高中生：My high school is 30 mins away from here. It’s located in the south of the city. And it’s super close to my home. I walk to school every day. 2. Do you go to a good school? 82Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ① Uhmmm, I would say, it’s a pretty good school, yes. It’s top 10 in China. Great students, great faculty, great learning atmosphere. Very accommodating, flexible and innovative. I’m learning a lot and having so much fun here. So yeh, I’m a proud student（很骄傲的学生） of XXX university.（原因） ② Yeh, my high school is one of the best schools in my city. It’s spacious and clean. Well-equipped, and offers the best school facilities. We have our own gym and swimming pool. The teachers are professional, patient, respectful and pay a lot of attention to our needs（非常留意我们的需求）. The students are amazing as well. （原因） ③ Uhmmm, it’s not the best school, if you know what I mean. Things could be better at my school. For example, we don’t even have our own sports field（体育操场）. （原因） 3. Do you like your teachers? ① Yes! They’re the best! My teachers are professional, patient, respectful and pay a lot of attention to our needs（非常留意我们的需求）. They encourage students to think outside the box. They make learning fun and efficient. （原因） ② 适合高中生：Yes, I love my teachers! They’re so creative! For example, sometimes, our homework is DIY things（手工做东西）. Like, when we take geography classes, we learn different countries and cultures, our teacher asks us to DIY things related to this country! And then she puts them in the school hallways（学校走廊）, like an exhibition（就像展览一样）! Now we are learning about Egypt（埃及）. So, the hallways are full of cardboard pyramids（硬纸板做的金字塔）! Hahaha! （举例子） ③ Uhmmm, not really. I mean, some are OK… and some are just doing the bare minimum（应付了事，做到最低能接受的范围）. They couldn’t care less 83Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 about the students（完全不在乎学生）. For example, I’ve been at my school for 3 years, and some of my teachers still don’t know my name yet. （原因+ 举例子） go above and beyond 4. Do you like your current learning atmosphere? ① I love it! The learning atmosphere here is really positive. Not super intense, but students are pretty hardworking and scholarly/studious. However, it doesn’t mean that（不代表） we don’t know how to have fun. We study hard and party hard（我们学习努力，玩儿得也认真）. At my school, there are more than 100 school clubs（兴趣团）.（转折） ② My university is a famous party school. So, there’s no such thing as（没有 这回事） learning atmosphere. Haha! The “partying atmosphere” is pretty intense, I’d say（派对氛围很浓烈！幽默的语气）. （原因） ③Yeh, my high school is very scholarly. Students are hardworking. It’s competitive（有竞争的）, but not in a negative way（但不负面）. We enjoy the whole learning process. （原因） 5. What are the differences between your school and other school? 自己可以结合语料回答 6. Is there anything you want to change about your school? ① I wish my university could have it’s own gym. It would be so much easier for me to work out. Right now, I have to take the bus and go to a gym that is 30 mins away from my dormitory. It gives me a headache just thinking of it now（现在想一下都头疼）. （原因） ②I wish there could be more support from my school. For example, last year, I took part in National High School Student English Speech 84Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Competition（我随便编的）. My school didn’t offer any help or tutoring. They couldn’t care less（完全不在乎）. （举例子） Holidays 知识点： -holiday 和vacation： -on holiday 英式表达 VS on vacation 美式表达 -holiday 还是holidays？ *holiday 单数，指的是： ①某一个具体的一天节日 例句： Friday is a public holiday. （注意holiday 不一定是公假public holiday） ②休假 例句：I’m on holiday. (澳大利亚人貌似会说I’m on holidays. 复数) I really need a holiday after I finish this project. *holidays 复数，指的是： ① 某一个文化节日附带的一个时间段，好几天加在一起。在西方，往往指的是圣诞节前 后的十几二十天。 例句：Are you visiting your family over the holidays. （圣诞节前夕的时候提问） ②所有节假日的总称 My husband and I spend our holidays every year at my parents’ house. 85Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -一般英语里都说：Happy holidays! （而不是 Happy holiday!） 或者 Have a happy holiday! 1. Where did you go for your last holiday? ① I can’t never be a homebody（ 宅家之人）and stay at home during holidays. I have to travel somewhere. Last holiday in May, I went to Japan with my boyfriend. We spent two weeks there, trying all kinds of tasty local food, visiting many natural landscapes （ 自 然 景 观 ） and historical attractions（历史景点）, and soaking up the local culture（吸收当地文化）. It was a fantastic trip/ beyond memorable. （WH 法） ② My last holiday was the Labour Day holiday. Actually, I didn’t go anywhere far as I felt lazy（感到很懒）. The thing is, everybody was on holiday and traveling. Therefore, I stayed at home to avoid seeing an ocean of people（人山人海） everywhere, which is always the case（总是这种情况） during public holidays like this. Instead, I just saw a bunch of friends and some family members, practiced self-care（实现自我保养） at home, hit the gym（去健身房）, binge-watched（刷剧） some good shows, you know, just took plenty of “me time”（留时间给自己） and rejuvenated（重获能量）. （原 因，细节） ③ Nowhere as I couldn’t afford to travel（旅行玩不起）. I’m between jobs（委 婉的说自己没有工作） and I don’t have a lot of savings（存款）. Therefore, I just stayed at home and played a lot of video games, which was quite sad（很 可悲）, I know. （原因，细节） 2. Do you like holidays? Why? 86Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ① Who doesn’t?! Nothing excites me more than holidays（没有什么比假期更 让我兴奋的了）! They’re the only reason that keeps me going/ keeps me motivated at work! I mean, you get to do anything you want, including doing nothing at all. You can get away from the daily routines and tight schedules. And if you can afford to travel somewhere, you get to explore something new and different. We’re are all novelty-seekers（猎奇的人）. That’s why we love spending holidays traveling somewhere far. Holidays are the time when I can escape from the daily grind（总日常内卷中逃离） and truly practise self-care（实现自我照料）. （原因） ② I must be a weirdo（怪人）, because I don’t enjoy holidays. I don’t know where to go or what to do. I mean, I don’t have money to travel, and then I feel bored at home. I’d rather go to work every day, and have something to do. And, during the public holidays, I hate gathering with my family and catch up with each other（叙旧） nonstop. It’s exhausting to socialize with people, especially often times people don’t really care about you; they’re curious about you just because they’re nosy（爱打听的）. （原因） 3. Which public holidays do you like the best? ① I like Spring Festival the most. It’s the most important festival in China, just like Christmas in western countries. During the holiday season, you get to see all your family members, and you eat a lot of tasty food. My favorite part is the red envelop（红包） moment, also known as the time for lucky money. Basically, the older family members will give the young ones some allowance（零花钱） for the coming year. I always make a lot of money during that time. （原因） ② I like National Day. We get 7 days of holidays. It’s the longest stretch/break（时间最久）during the year, and also, it’s in autumn. I mean, autumn is always the best season in the year to travel around. Every year, during National Day holidays, my family and I will travel abroad. It’s been a family tradition. （原因） 87Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 4. What do you do on holidays? 结合前面的素材，自己总结，乐高法走起。 5. Do you like to spend your day at home? 结合前面的素材回答你是 homebody（宅家之人）, 还是a social butterfly, 或者特别 into outdoor activities， 还是说depends on your mood. 自己回答。 比如： Most of the time, I enjoy being out and about（在外面浪）, hanging out with friends, seeing my family, or go to the mountains to get some fresh air（透透气） and unwind. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m not a homebody（宅家之人）. However, having said that, it doesn’t mean that I hate being at home. From time to time, I enjoy a moment of solitude（独处 时刻） in the comfort of my home（在家里）. I’ll spend the day at home, watching movies, reading and winding down. （主流情况，特殊情况补充） 6. Do you prefer a leisurely or busy holiday? I don’t enjoy a holiday with over-scheduled events and plans. After all, I’m on holiday to take a breather（解压，松口气） not to suffer. Having a good time without feeling stressed out is my ultimate goal（终极目标）. However, I don’t like a holiday with no plans either. If there’s no structure in my holiday, I’ll feel aimless and goalless, and wasting my life doing nothing. I still expect to experience something new and different, and to be able to have/create some memories that later I could look back and feel happy and proud of myself. （反向辩证思考） Childhood memory 1. What did you enjoy doing as a child? Everything except for going to school and doing homework, haha! To name a few（随便举几个例子）, I loved playing with my little friends, going for an 88Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ice cream, mucking around after school（放学后闲逛鬼混）, going to the park with my parents, going fishing with my grandfather,…the list just goes on （名单很长，说都说不完）. （举例子） 2. Did you enjoy your childhood? ① Yeh I think so. Despite having a lot of studying to do when I was little, I still cherish my childhood a lot. It was innocent and care-free（天真的无忧 的）. I remember myself laughing and giggling all the time. That shows how much fun I had. （原因） ② I would I could have enjoyed my childhood more, as it’s supposed to be the most care-free and innocent period of time of your life. But there was just too much pressure from schoolwork（学业压力太大了）. My day started at 7:30 am until 6pm. And after that, I had to do my homework. Sometimes I needed to stay up（熬夜） to finished everything. It was pretty tough. I rarely had the chance to take some me time（给自己时间）. （原因，细节） 3. What are your best childhood memories? 讲故事法，可以讲一件经历，短小。 也可以讲重复的儿时活动，比如： I used to love going fishing with my grandfather. We would go to the little pond（小池塘） close to our home and spent several hours there, fishing, chilling, chatting and bonding（增进情感）. That was one of my favourite childhood activities.（原因，细节） 4. Do you think it’s better for children to grow up in the city or in the countryside? ① Growing up as a city boy/ city girl（都市男孩、女孩）, I would for sure vote for the cities. There’re so many good educational resources in the city. To name a few（举几个例子）, good schools, libraries, museums, movie theatres, 89Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 botanical gardens, zoos, etc. I’m afraid there’s nothing much in the countryside. （原因） ② Oh hands down（绝对的）, the countryside! Growing up as a country boy/ country girl（乡村男孩、女孩）, I’m telling you（我跟你说吧）, nothing beats （什么都比不了） the freedom and peace in the countryside. You get to be super creative and imaginative with nature, without the distraction from all these fancy and flashy modern facilities in the city. I played so much with my imagination, and ran so much in the field with my friends. I think this childhood experience has shaped who I am today（塑造了今天的我）, and I feel grateful for having this unique upbringing. （原因） 5. Who did you like to play with as a child? I played a lot with my childhood best friend Wei. She was like my soul mate （灵伴）. We were on the same wavelength（想法一致、有默契）. We really thought alike（想法很接近）, like mind twins（思想上的双胞胎）. We got each others’ jokes（懂彼此的笑点）. Talking to her was like the easiest thing on earth（和她聊天是世界上最容易的事）. We spent so much time playing and hanging out together, cracking each other up（逗彼此笑）. I loved her so much! （原因） Staying at home 这个主题和4 月份新素材里面“weekend, happy things”, 4 月day1 直播课里休闲 娱乐放松有关的表达homebody, unwind, take some me time 全可以用上。 题库 范围越来越大，学生们一定要培养知识的融会贯通能力。 90Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 另，2023 年5-8 月份有一个 “day off” 主题，里面很多内容都可以借鉴。以下分享给大 家： Day off （请假、休假、小短假 2023 年5-8 月） 知识点： 休假的相关表达： • unwind/ wind down/ relax/ chill/ chillax 放松 • let off steam/ blow off steam 解压 • recharge/ recharge the batteries 重新蓄电 • take some “me” time 花点时间给自己，滋润自己的灵魂 • practice self-care 实践自我照顾，同上差不多意思 • enjoy solitude 享受独处时光 • spoil/ pamper oneself • stay up 熬夜晚睡 • pull an all-nighter/ stay up all night 熬通宵 • go to bed early and wake up early 早睡早起 • go to bed/ go to sleep/ hit the sack（俚语）/ call it a day（结束一天，准 备休息）睡觉 • Sleep in 赖床、睡懒觉 • Have a lie-in 睡到自然醒 • Catch up on my sleep 补觉 • I’m a big sleeper: 我是特别爱睡觉的人 • Go to the gym 去健身 • hang out with/ meet up with/ spend time with friends 见朋友 • Binge-watch TV shows 刷剧 • Eat healthy 吃的很健康 （这个表达比 eat healthily 更常见） 91Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • Spend quality time with friends and family 和家人朋友共享高级陪伴时光 • Go for a hike 去徒步 • Hike up the mountain 去爬山 • Explore a nearby city 去周边城市探索 1. When was the last time you had a few days off? ① Last time I had a few days off was during the Labor Day holiday. I had the opportunity to really take some “me” time, practice some self-care, just recharge. I spent some time catching up on sleep, ate really healthy food, went to the gym, and spent some quality time with my loved ones. After the break, I felt well-rested（充分休息） and returned to work with full energy（精力十足）. Yeh, I’m the kind of person who really enjoys staying at home and getting cozy on holidays rather than traveling far. I’m a true homebody（宅男宅女）. （细节） ② 可以讲具体去到某个周边城市、镇 Last time I took a day off was a month ago, and I went to my grandparents' hometown, since it was my grandmother's 70th birthday（70 大寿）, so it was really a big deal（大事件）. I took a day off on Friday and took the bus to her town and spent a whole weekend there. We went out and celebrated her birthday. And later I took her to the mall to buy her a gift （给她买礼物）. I felt proud to be able to give back to her（回报她） and express my gratitude（表达感恩）. It was a really nice vacation. （讲故事） 2. What do you usually do when you have days off? ①Well, if it's just a couple of days off, I wouldn't go far, like traveling. I would just rather stay at home, recharge the batteries, take good care of myself, and just unwind. （细节） ②It depends on how I feel. If I'm in a social mode（社交模式）, I will meet up with my friends or go to parties or visit my family. But if I'm not really 92Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 feeling myself（感觉状态不好，不对头）, and feeling lazy to socialize（懒得社 交）, I'll just stay at home and practice some self-care, maybe binge watch TV shows（刷剧）, trying to wind down（试着放松）. （分情况） 3. Do you usually spend your days off with your parents or with your friends? ①Sometimes with my parents if I haven't seen them for quite a while. Sometimes with my friends. I'm a very sociable person. I have my circle of friends and we meet up pretty regularly. And sometimes if I'm not in a social mode, I'll just spend time with myself, enjoy a moment of solitude （享受独处时光）. （分情况） ②Well, as a person who doesn't have many friends（作为一个没什么朋友的 人）, I don’t hang out with my friends often. And I don't really want to bother（打扰） my friends just because it's my day off. Normally I will take the opportunity to visit my parents, have dinner with them, and help them around the house（帮助他们打理房子）, trying to be a good kid（努力当个好孩 子）, you know? （原因） 以下为 Staying at home 小问：自行写关键词练习 1. Are you a person who likes to stay at home? 2. What do you do when you stay at home? 3. What is your favourite place at home? 4. What did you often do at home as a child? 5. Would you like to stay at home a lot in the future? 93Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Social Media 相关知识点： • 介词 on 的使用：表示“在”某个social media platforms 社交平台上 （不是用in 或者at 这样的介词） The other day, I was on YouTube, and I saw…. • social media 社交媒体（更加抽象的概念） on social media I follow Gu Ailing on social media. • social media platform 社交媒体平台（更加具象的概念） Weibo is one of the most popular social media platforms in China. I’m following Gu Ailing on all her social media platforms（全网关注）. • social media sites 社交媒体网站（和 platform 接近，但更加具象的概念） Sometimes when I’m bored, I just look through different social media sites and find interesting posts（推文） and videos. • social media user（社交媒体使用者）; social media lover（社交媒体爱好 者）; social media freak（疯子）; avid social media user（狂热的社交媒体 使用者）。另，常见的其他 avid 组合：avid smoker（烟鬼）; avid reader （特别爱看书的人）; avid traveler（爱旅行的人） • YouTuber：在 YouTube 上有一定粉丝量的大 V • influencer：网红（强调的是对大众的影响力） Nowadays a lot of advertisers and big companies love getting in touch with influencers to promote their products. 如今很多广告公司、产品公司会 喜欢和网红接洽来对自己的产品进行宣传。 94Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • hater: 喷子（四处留言、泄愤的那种普通级别的喷子）The best thing to do to a hater is: ignore them. • keyboard warrior 键盘侠、杠精、道德楷模 • troll：喷子+黑粉（会针对性给某个网红留言，目的是伤害攻击ta，并且期待得到 回复，好进一步攻击对方） a troll（名词）: 一个喷子、黑粉、杠精 troll someone（动词）: 喷、杠、黑的动作 He’s just a troll online, ignore him. Stop trolling each other online. • cyberbully: 网暴 v. • cyberbullying: 网暴 n. Cyberbullying is such a very serious social phenomenon because people can comment anonymously online. 网暴是一个非常严重的社会现象因为人们可 以在网上匿名留言评论。 • follower：关注者（粉丝） Tara has a lot of followers on social media. • fanbase：粉丝基数 An influencer would do anything to widen their fanbase. 网红会倾尽全力来拓宽增大自己的粉丝基数。 • netizen 网民 ：people online He got involved in a political argument with some netizens. • feed：推送 。既可以表示一条推送 a feed（也可以说a post）， 也可以表示你 的整个社交媒体推送界面。 One day I saw a link showing up/popping up in my social media feed. 95Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 有一天我在我的社交媒体推送上看到了一个链接显示出来/弹出来。 • algorithm：算法 • clickbait：标题党 The reason why people hate clickbait is that it’s sensational（耸人听闻 的）. Many times, the content and the title are irrelevant. • live stream：（名词）直播 ; livestream/stream：（动词）直播 In order to grow her fanbase, Tara streams every other day on Weibo. • live-streamer：直播主播（anchorman/anchorwoman 并不是真有针对性， 因为也表示电视节目主播） • 打赏（刷火箭）：tip, reward, send gifts When a live-streamer is streaming, viewers（观众） can buy tokens（代 币） and send them to the streamer, or send gifts to reward（奖赏） the streamer. She gets a lot of tips（小费） during the live stream. In China, when someone livestreams, viewers can send gifts to show their support. And we call these gifts “the little rockets”. Basically, those streamers will get a lot of little rockets, and each rocket equals to certain amount of currency（真钱货币）. They can cash them out （取现）later. • 一键三连：国外没有这一说（这是 b 站的术语），类似的表达： If you like this video, please hit the “like” button/please give it a thumbs- up. Leave a comment. 留言 Share this video. 转发视频 • social eating live stream: 吃播 （或者韩语 Mukbang 发音“么科帮”） 96Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • big eater: 大胃王 • hashtag：话题标签 • viral：网络内容的病毒式传播 That video really went viral last year and got millions of clicks（点击）. • meme 发音[mi:m]：梗图 假笑男孩就是一个著名的 meme. There’s a famous meme in China, and we call it the “the fake smile boy”. Basically, it’s the picture of a boy who smiles super awkwardly, and some netizens just put his smile everywhere to portray a very socially awkward moment. 1. When did you start using social media? 回忆的口吻： • I think it was around my first year of university/ college/ high school; • I got into social media when I was in high school, so that’s gotta be around 2010（推算，高中开始玩，所以那肯定是 2010 年左右）; • Give or take 多多少少这个数目、时间 It was around 2014, give or take. • I started with Weibo, I think（我记得我一开始是从玩儿微博开始的，介词 with）. ① Umm, I think it was around 2017 when I was in uni. To be honest, I jumped on “the social media bandwagon” pretty late (jump on the bandwagon 表示随大流，赶时髦). I first started with Weibo. At that time/ Back then（那个时候）, it was all the rage（特别火的意思，等于 super popular）. And all my friends were using that platform, so it was a great way to reconnect with old friends and stay in the loop （保持信息敏感度） with what's going on in the world. （细节） 97Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② I got into social media was when I was still a high school student, so that's gotta be around 2010, give or take（差不多这时候）. I started with WeChat, which was all the rage（特别火） back then in China and still is today（当时很火，现在仍然很火）. I remember, in the beginning, I only had maybe 20, 30 friends on WeChat and we were just posting random stuff （发一些有的没的东西） and silly jokes, or complaining about our lives（抱怨生 活）, it was like a place to journal（写日志） and have fun with friends. And nowadays as we grow older, we share more important life updates on WeChat, like a job promotion, starting a family, having a baby, things like that. （细节，时间分层） 2. Do you think you spend too much time on social media? be hooked on sth.被迷住/ be addicted to sth. 对某物成瘾/have one’s eyes glued to sth.眼珠子都离不开某物/be crazy about sth. 对某物疯狂 ① I hate to admit it but yes, I definitely spend too much time on social media. I’m really hooked on（被勾住、迷住） those short funny videos on TikTok. They are meaningless（无意义的）, but they are highly entertaining （特别搞笑）. Sometimes I just lose hours and hours of time（浪费好几个小时） without realizing it. I really want to cut down on my screen time（减少屏幕 时间）. It’s a huge waste of time, and I could have used that time to do something more meaningful（虚拟语气，表示可以做点更有意义的事情）. （细节， 原因） ② Yeh for sure! I’m so addicted to（成瘾） social media, and so does everybody around me. To give you an example, when my friends and I hang out together, sometimes we are together but not together at the same time（我们即在一起又没在一起）, because everyone has their eyes glued to their phones. It’s so sad to think about. （细节） ③ Ummm, not really. I’m not super crazy about social media / I’m not a big fan of social media. Maybe I’m a little old-fashioned（落伍的）? My friends 98Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 call me the “grandma/grandpa”（朋友们都管我叫“奶奶/爷爷”）. I’m just not into all the clickbait content（标题党内容）, the sensational things（哗众取宠 的东西）. Each time when I scroll on social media（刷手机）, I’m flooded with all kinds of feeds（我被各种推送像洪水一样淹没）. It’s too much/overwhelming. （原因，周围人评价，分析感受） 3. Do your friends use social media? ① Oh yeh, most of my friends are avid social media users（狂热使用者）. They love getting on social media platforms and browsing around（四处浏 览）. Some of them love watching videos on video-sharing platforms（视频 分享平台）like TikTok or Bilibili (which is a Chinese social media site). Some of them are more interested in online articles and the news. （分群体） ② For sure! My friends and I are millennials（1981-1996 年出生的人，广义 上的80 后90 后； 1997 年-2013 年出生的孩子们叫 Gen Z， generation Z）. We grew up with social media. It’s a huge part of our lives! It’s a source of information（一种信息来源）, it’s a way to connect with people（一种和人们连 接的方式）, and it’s a life style（生活方式）. （原因） ③ Ummm, some of them are very keen on using social media（热衷于使 用社交媒体） on a daily basis, but not all of them（不是所有的朋友都热衷）. I’ve noticed that some of my friends are trying to cut down on（削减） their screen time（屏幕时间）, so that they can find more inner peace（找到更多内 心平静）. Some of them even have deleted their social media accounts to avoid the temptation（删除账号来避免诱惑）.（分群体） 4. What do you people often do on social media? 结合之前的众多版本回答，总结这道题（很简单） 99Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 之前几个季度有出现过这个social media 的主题，当时还有几道不同的小题，有时间可 以拓展学习： 5. Do you want to work in social media? Why? ① I’m interested in social media marketing（社交媒体市场营销）, and being able to work with advertisers, big companies, and online influencers. It sounds like such a fun experience! And plus, everybody can see that social media is the future（是未来）. Anybody, any product can get famous overnight（一夜成名）. It’s all about fanbase（粉丝数）, viewership（观众总 量）, algorithm（算法）, and exposure（暴光）. Knowing how to utilise the information to promote and sell products sounds very interesting. （原因， 补充） ② I want to be a successful influencer, and I’m actually working on becoming one! So far, I’ve been building my personal brand（个人品牌） on several platforms, and I’ve been growing my fanbase. Currently I’ve got 250,000 followers. So yeh, definitely I’d like to work in social media. I like the flexible working hours and location in this industry, and also, I love the fact that I can have an influence on people. （细节，原因） ③ No, not really. That would be the last thing I want to do（最后一件想要做的 事。=不想做）. I’m not interested in this field at all. It’s not for me. I’m 0 sociable, 0 tech-savvy, and I have no sense of marketing（我一点不爱社交， 一点不懂电脑技术，一点营销感知都没有）whatsoever（丝毫也不）. I’m definitely not qualified for this kind of jobs. （原因） 6. What’s the most popular social media platform in China? Why? Off the top of my head（首先想到的）, “little red book”（小红书）is super trending/ all the rage（流行的） in China, especially among females. It’s kind 100Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 of like the Chinese version of Instagram（中国版的 Ins）. This platform is mainly about sharing pictures and short videos. People share everything on little red book, from product reviews（产品评测） to parenting（为人父 母）, from life philosophy（人生哲思） to travel tips（旅行贴士）, from vlogs to Out Fit of the Day(OOTD), everything. People like how informative（信息 量很大） it is. And also, it's like you can take a sneak peak at other people’s lives（可以偷窥别人得生活）. And then, what else, Bilibili is another super popular and well-liked social media platform. It’s like the Chinese YouTube （中国版油管） where people sharing all kinds of videos, usually longer videos with quality content（高质量内容）. It’s a place where people can learn things and get information in depth（深度学习）. Self-education（自我 教育） has been becoming a major trend around the world, including China. （列举，细节，原因） Music 知识点： 班级微信群资料里2号文件夹“音频版词汇集”第二集有详细的针对音乐歌曲的表达，可 以找来阅读以及收听音频。这里摘抄局部： 1. 针对音乐的形容词: • Beautiful, pleasant, happy, cheerful, playful, upbeat, delightful, ecstatic（狂喜的）, energetic, powerful, passionate, sexy, catchy（朗朗 上口的）, soaring（空灵的翱翔的）, poetic（诗歌感的）, uplifting （使人振 奋向上的）, peaceful, relaxing, soothing, slow （慢歌）, soft （柔软的）, empowering 给人力量的 101Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • awful, boring, distracting, loud, chaotic, noisy, depressing, sad, downbeat, gloomy, unpleasant, ear-splitting （ 炸 耳 朵 ， 太 吵 ） , uncomfortable, riotous（不受约束的，乱的吵的）, explosive, brassy（刺 耳的）, annoying（烦人的）, piercing（穿透的刺耳的，pierce 作为动词表示 打耳洞）, scratching（音乐或者人的声音很刺耳）, nerve-racking 让人紧张 2. 音乐的种类 (music genres)： Blues 布鲁斯； Jazz 爵士乐； Rhythm and Blues 节奏布鲁斯 Rock and Roll / Rock 摇滚乐；heavy metal 重金属 Country 乡村乐；Folk 民谣乐；Soul Music 灵魂乐 Dance 舞曲； Hip Hop 嘻哈乐；Kpop 韩国流行乐 Pop 流行乐； Classical 古典乐； （pure）instrumental 纯乐器的音乐 3. 音乐带给人的感受： • resonate with sb.: 与某人共鸣 This song really resonates with me so much! • click with sb. : 让人很喜欢，很敲中内心，尤其是第一次接触时 The song really clicked with me the first time I heard it. • hit sb.: 击中内心 • bring sb. to tears: 催人泪下 • amaze/stun/ astound/ touch sb. : 震撼感动某人 • make sb. want to dance: 让人听了想跟着跳舞 • give you positive energy: 给你积极的力量 • heal the wound: 抚平伤口 102Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • motivate sb./ give sb. motivation and hope： 激励人心，给予希望 • cheer sb. up: 让人心情变好 • give somebody goosebumps/ the creeps: 让人浑身起鸡皮疙瘩 • keep sb. calm: 使人平静 • give sb. a sense of security: 给人安稳安全之感 • Listening to music is a way to release my inner emotions that are weighing me down（把我往下拉的沉重情绪） at that moment. 4. 其他表达： ① Lyrics: 歌词 If you don't listen to the lyrics, you won't know what a song is about. 注意lyrics 作为歌词一直是复数形式 ② Beat：拍子，节拍 Dance music always has a strong beat. ③ Rhythm： 整首歌的节奏 The rhythms of African music are much more complex than those of European music. ④ Melody: 旋律 I love the melody of this song. I can whistle（吹口哨） the melody. ⑤ Music album：音乐专辑 His latest music album wasn’t a massive hit（销量很好） but I love it. This album was released in 2011. But it didn’t sell well. 1. Do a lot of people like music? 103Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 I think so. I find that most people believe in the magic of music, the power of music. And people listen to different styles of music in different life situations（生活场景）. When people feel down and blue（心情不好）, they will listen to soothing and comforting music（安抚人心的音乐） to feel better and heal the wound（安抚伤痛）. A beautiful song can touch people's hearts （抚摸心灵）, soothe their souls（安抚灵魂）, and cheer them up（振作精神）. When people feel excited and thrilled, they will go for joyful and upbeat music（欢快的音乐） to motivate them even more. When people work out in the gym, they will listen to work-out music with a strong beat（带着很强鼓 点的） to stay motivated（保持动力）. Listening to music is definitely a way to release people's inner feelings and emotions（释放内心的感受和情绪）. It's therapeutic（治愈的）. I’m not exaggerating（我没有在夸张哦）! There’s a new field nowadays called “Music Therapy”. （原因，分情况） 2. What music do you like? ① I like almost every type/kind/genre（种类） of music. Pop, Jazz, Hip-Hop, country…basically, I just love exploring new stuff（探索新事物）. I especially love experimental music（实验性的音乐） and fusion style music（混合风）. It’s so fun to listen to unique things. I’m very accepting（有接受度的） and openminded（开化的） when it comes to music. （细节，强调补充） ② I love country music. My favourite country music singer is Taylor Swift. I just love her music, the rhythm, melody and lyrics, everything. Her music really clicked with me（让人很喜欢，很敲中内心，尤其是第一次接触时） the first time I heard it. I fell in love with（爱上） her and her music right away/immediately. I can relate to（感同身受） many of her songs. （原因，细 节） 答题思路：I love XXX. My favourite XXX singer/band is YYY. 之后解释原因。 104Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 之前标题3 里的关于音乐带给人的感受，里面的语料都可以借鉴。 如： • give somebody goosebumps/ the creeps: 让人浑身起鸡皮疙瘩 • keep sb. calm: 使人平静 • give sb. a sense of security: 给人安稳安全之感 ③ I like dance music and Kpop（韩国流行乐） . They’re just so catchy and danceable（适合跳舞）. I love dancing and clubbing（去夜店跳舞）. A powerful and sexy dance song with a strong beat（鼓点强） can really make me go crazy/nuts（让我发疯）. （原因） ④ 不一定回答音乐种类，可以是一种风格。如慢歌、快歌、安静的歌。 I love slow and tranquil music, very soothing（安抚人心的） and relaxing. Especially pure instrumental music（纯轻音乐）. When I need to study/work, I’ll play this kind of music. It really helps me get in the zone（进入状态） and stay concentrated. Recently I’ve been listening to a lot of Lofi. At first, I didn’t feel too strong about it（没有太大感觉）, but it started growing on me （越来越喜欢，成长出来的喜欢） more and more. Now I love it. （原因，强调补充） Lofi /ˈləʊ.faɪ/：低保真音乐。指的是音乐制作中故意使用不完美的音质录制的音乐作品， 会将录制过程中的杂音、呼吸声等一并录制下来，多是出于艺术性考虑而刻意为之。低 保真音乐在 1990 年代即被视为流行音乐的一种曲风。多为很适合学习工作时听的轻音乐。 grow on: 慢慢喜欢上。I love this song! It’s growing on me! 3. Is it easy to learn music? Ummm, learning music is just like learning any form of arts（任何一种艺术形 式）, it has a lot to do with talent（和天赋有很大关系）. If you are talented, if 105Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 you have a knack for（有天赋） it, then perhaps it's not that difficult. For those music geniuses（音乐天才）, they can pick up（学起来，捡起来） musical skills just like that; but for other people, arguably more people（而 且肯定是更多人）, including myself, we are just ordinary people. Music can be quite challenging for us, especially when it comes to mastering a musical instrument（学会一门乐器） or writing music songs. It takes a lot of time and dedication before you get the hang of it（上手）. The learning curve is quite steep（学起来很难）. But I would say, it will be incredibly rewarding once you master the art of（精通） music. （分群体） 4. Do you have music lessons at school? 高中生：Yes, we do have music lessons at my school. They're part of the regular curriculum（是基本课程设置的一部分）, and we usually have them once a week. It's pretty basic things though, such as learning about different music genres, a little bit history of music, and a bit of singing. And we also learn to play this simple instrument called “Shu Di” in Chinese. It’s a type of clarinet （/ˌklær.ɪˈnet/单簧管). It looks like a flute（笛子）, but it’s played vertically. 大学生： Well, as a university student, I don’t have music lessons anymore. But I used to have them when I was in middle school and high school. It was part of the regular curriculum. 几年前考到Music 主题时还有以下这些小问，有时间可以看一下。 1. What music do you dislike? ① I can never care for jazz（喜欢不起来）. I just don’t get it（我不懂它）. Most jazz songs are so, how do I put this（我该怎么形容呢……）, so chaotic and busy（嘈杂忙碌）. Lots of things going on at the same time（同时有一堆东西 在作响）, too many instruments. You know? （原因） 106Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ② I don’t like slow music. It’s just boring for me. I love music with a strong beat（鼓点很强）, powerful and interesting. I work out a lot, so I always listen to workout music（健身音乐）. XXX is my favourite singer.（原因） ③ I’m never a big fan of rock music, especially heavy metal（重金属）. It’s just too loud, chaotic and crazy. I know for many people, it’s cool and empowering, but not for me. It’s ear-slitting（吵到耳膜炸裂） and nerve- racking（令人紧张） to me. Definitely not my thing（不是我的菜）. （让位驳斥） 2. Do you often listen to one type of music? ① No, never! Like I said, I’m an open person（情感丰富，思想开化的）, and I love exploring different types of music. Only listening to one genre of music sounds very boring for me. （原因） ② It depends on my mode（看我什么状态里）. When I’m in an insecure and lazy mode（缺乏安全感又懒惰的模式）, I might just stick to（坚持、一直做） one type of music for quite a while. But sometimes, when I’m in an exploring mode, I’ll listen to ANYTHING. （分情况） ③ I hate to admit it but yes…I AM a little stubborn with music sometimes. For example, I love instrumental music, and it’s all I have been listening to lately. Which is not a good thing. In the future, I wish I could become more accepting and less stubborn, and get to know more music genres. （先抑后 扬） 3. What’s the most popular type of music where you live? ①Well people have different tastes in music, so it’s hard to say. I would say, among young people, we love pop, especially Kpop songs. They are easy to dance to, catchy and fun. Those Korean boy and girl bands have a HUGE fanbase （粉丝团） in China; and for older people, maybe they like folk, soft 107Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 rock（慢摇滚）and classical. I don’t know, my parents don’t even listen to music, haha. I don’t know what music older people prefer. （分群体） ② Well, right now, the MOST trendy（流行的） type of music is pop. All kinds of pop, local pop music（本土流行乐）, American pop music, Korean pop music. Pop is pop, it’s popular, it’s for everybody（人人都喜欢）. It’s catchy, easy to remember, upbeat and joyful（朗朗上口、好记、积极的、欢乐的）. Unlike other music genres that cater to（迎合） a specific group of people, pop can be enjoyed by people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures（所有 年纪、文化背景的人群）. That’s why it has a much wider audience（观众群更 宽）. （原因） 4. Which singer or musician would you like to see in person? I’d like to meet XXX in person, as I’m his/her massive/biggest/diehard fan!! I love his/her music so much….（原因，从语料里自行搬运）…and on top of that, he/she seems to be a very nice person（感觉是个很不错的人）. He/She is honest and down-to-earth（接地气）. Not like some super stars who are full of affectation and pretension（充满装模做样的装逼感）, he/she is very modest （谦虚）and lowkey（低调的）. 在这里也可以举举例子（原因） Musical instruments 1. Have you ever learned to play a musical instrument? 108Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ① Yeah I actually learned to play the piano when I was a kid. In my family, learning to play the piano was something everybody did as they grew up. My mom knows how to play the piano, and so do my grandparents and my uncle. I took lessons for a few years but I'm not a piano master by any means（无论从哪个角度来说我都不是一个钢琴大师）. I don’t consider myself an expert. I mean, I can definitely play a few tunes（能谈几个调调）, but that's all I've got nowadays（如今我的全部本事）. Haha! （细节） ② Unfortunately I haven't learned to play any musical instruments. My parents didn’t take me to any music classes when I was a kid. And now, I’m too busy to pick up a musical hobby（太忙以至于没有时间捡起音乐爱好）. But I have to say, I've always admired people who can play musical instruments, especially the violin, it's such a beautiful and expressive instrument. I wish I knew how to play the violin. Maybe I'll give it a shot（试一下） in the future when I have more time. （先抑后扬） 2. What musical instruments do you enjoy listening to the most? ①I love the piano. (Maybe because I know how to play it) . It’s is so classic and timeless（经典又永恒）. There’s something enchanting and soothing （迷人又安抚人心） about it that really draws me in（吸引我）（经典句型）. It blends so well with other instruments（和其他音乐很好融合） and can adapt to various musical genres（适应各种音乐种类）, for example, jazz, classical, and even country music. It’s really versatile（多面玲珑）. （原因） ② Like I said, I love the violin. There's something so expressive and soulful （充满表达和灵魂感） about it that can evoke my emotions（唤醒我的情绪） each time when I listen to it（经典句型）. It can sound extremely upbeat（极 其轻快欢乐） and it can also sound deeply sad（深度悲伤）. It's amazing how versatile（多面玲珑） it is. （原因） 3. Do you think children should learn to play a musical instrument at school? 109Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 I’m all in for it（全力支持） as there are so many benefits for children to learn music and musical instruments at school. Number one, it introduces children to the world of music（介绍音乐世界）, helping them learn and appreciate different music styles. Number two, it can increase their hand- eye coordination skills （ 手 眼 协 调 能 力 ） , foster their patience and concentration（提升耐心和专注力）, and boost their self-esteem（增加自我价 值感） as they progress in their musical skills. Number three, if they play in groups, it can also foster the sense of teamwork（团队合作意识）; and lastly, playing music is an incredibly effective stress reliever（解压器） for kids. So, I root for it 100%（百分百支持）! （罗列） 4. Do you think music education is important to children? 和上题差不多 Films 知识点（摘自付费课附赠资料“音频词汇表达集”）： 1. 电影的种类 (movie genres) action 动作片； comedy喜剧片；love story/romance 爱情故事；horror恐怖片； chick flick 少女片（贬义）；romcom (romantic comedy) 爱情喜剧片； thriller 惊悚片；sci-fi (or "science fiction") 科幻片 ；popcorn movie 爆米花电影； Hollywood blockbuster 好 莱 坞 大 片 电 影 （ blockbuster 大 片 、 炸 弹 ） independent 独立影片，也可以叫 indie movie； low-budget 小制作；drama 剧 情片; fantasy 奇幻魔幻电影；western 西部片 2. 形容一部电影 （和形容书有很多共用的）： 110Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • captivating/engaging/charming/interesting: 迷人的、有趣的 • amusing/entertaining: 有趣的、有娱乐性的 • adventurous: .充满冒险的 • informative: 充满信息量的、提供有用信息的、教育性的 • educational: 有教育意义的 • heartwarming 令人感到温暖愉悦的 causing gladness and tender feelings • heartfelt: 走心的、真诚的 • hear-wrenching: 令人悲伤的 • insightful 有深刻见解的、有洞察力的 • thought-provoking 引发思考的 making you think a lot about a subject • laugh-out-loud funny 能让人笑出声的好笑 extremely funny, hilarious • tear-jerking 催泪的 tear-jerker 催泪弹 This movie was a real tear-jerker. • moving/touching 令人感动的、打动人心的 • delightful 令人快乐愉快的 • uplifting 提升一个人的思想境界、情绪，振奋人心的 This movie is uplifting and inspiring. I feel very encouraged after watching it. • fast-paced 节奏很快的 This movie is so fast-paced and intense. • action-packed: full of activities, events and excitement. 令人激动的，充 满各种情节的 • suspenseful 悬疑的 • gripping/attention-grabbing： 吸引人的，非常非常有趣 1. What films do you like? 111Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ① Romance 浪漫电影: Oh call me a hopeless romantic（没药可救的浪漫主义者）. I absolutely adore romance movies. There's just something magical about watching two people fall in love on the big screen（课上经典句型）. Each time when I see a beautiful love story, it makes me believe in the power of love（相信爱情的 力量） again, haha. I can't get enough of（我看不腻，看不够） that warm and fuzzy feeling（温暖又毛茸茸温馨的感觉）. （原因） ② Comedy 喜剧: I'm a big fan of comedy. Laughter is such a universal language（全球通用的 语言）, and I feel that a good laugh can heal everything（一场大笑可以治愈任 何事儿）. I like all the witty jokes（诙谐的小笑话）, smart wordplay（聪明的文 字游戏） and exaggerated performances（夸张的表演）. I love watching a comedy movie alone after a long day（漫长的一天之后）, just put my feet up, let my hair down, indulge myself in the world of comedy, and blow off steam（放松的一系列表达）. It’s a great escape（很棒的逃离方式）. （原因， WH 法 ） ③ Suspense 悬疑片: Suspense movies are my favorite! They are intense, nerve-wracking（令人 紧张的） and action-packed（快节奏的）. I love the adrenaline rush（肾上腺素 兴奋） and the feeling of being on the edge of my seat（坐在椅子的边缘，表示 非常紧绷，随时要跌下椅子的感觉）the whole time, never knowing what's going to happen next（永远也不知道下一秒会发生什么）. Sometimes, I feel that watching a suspense movie is like solving a jigsaw puzzle（玩拼图游戏）. You need to be patient enough to put all the pieces together and see the whole picture. It’s so exciting and captivating. （原因） 112Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ④ Drama 剧情片，伦理片: Drama movies always have a special place in my heart. They delve deep into（深入研究、探讨） the humanity and human emotions. I love how they can make me think and reflect on my own life. They're like a window into the human soul（通往人类灵魂的窗户）, and that's why I find them so captivating. （原因） 2. Did you often watch films when you were a child? ① Oh yeh, I was such a movie fan/movie freak when I was little. Going to the movie place was my favorite thing to do. I still remember how excited and thrilled I was each time when my parents took me to the cinema. （细 节） ② No, unfortunately I didn't often watch films when I was a child. It just wasn’t a thing in my family, you know（在我们家没有这么一种氛围）. My parents would take me to the movies occasionally, like twice per year（一 年两次）. But they would rather take me to the park on weekends and holidays. （细节） 3. Did you ever go to the cinema alone as a child? ① Uhmmm, maybe once or twice? I can’t remember. Maybe when I was a little older, like 14 years old or somethings, my parents allowed me go to the cinema alone a couple of times（一两次）. They were like typical “helicopter parents” （直升机家长，比喻那种永远在上方盘旋，操心+控制欲强的父 母）. （细节） ② Uhmmm, yeh, sometimes. When I was little, if my parents were very busy, sometimes they would drop me off（把我送去） at the movie place, let me 113Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 watch the movie alone, and pick me up（接我） after the movie. They didn’t really let me walk to the cinema myself though. （细节） 4. Do you often go to the cinema with your friends? ① Yeah definitely, all the time! I love going to the movies with my friends. To be completely honest, I feel a little awkward（感到有点小尴尬） to sit in the cinema just myself. And for me, it's also a great bonding experience with my friends（很好的搭建友谊的机会）. We can enjoy each other's company, catch the latest movies and discuss the plot（讨论剧情） and the storyline afterwards. You know, to have more things to talk about. （原因） ② Not really, very rarely. Call me a weirdo, but I prefer to go to the cinema alone（课上经典句型）. I guess I'm more of a 'loner' type of person（更像是独 行侠类型的人）. I just enjoy fully immersing myself in the movie, feeling and experiencing everything it has to offer. Especially when it comes to serious, profound, and educational films（严肃的、意义深远的、教育性强的电影）, I'd rather take in the entire experience by myself, without the distraction from friends. （原因） 5. Do you think going to the cinema is a good way to spend time with friends? 和第四题答案①大同小异的内容 主要说说 bonding time, have something more to talk about, enjoy each others company. 一般按照逻辑，问了第四题不会问第五题。 114Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 25s - Do you work or do you study/ are you a student? 1. I’m a ___①___ student, (currently) studying/ majoring in__②___, at ___③____. ① university undergraduate ; graduate ; PHD ; high school + student -I’m a year 12 / 12th grade high school student. -I’m a first/ second/ third/ final-year university student. -I’m in my first year of study at XXX university. 115Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Freshman, sophomore, junior and senior?? ② studying: Computer Science; English Literature; Education… Or study for/ pursue a xxxx degree. -I’m studying for/ pursuing a bachelor’s degree/ undergraduate degree in Computer Science; English Literature; Education… -I’m studying for/pursuing an MA/Msc in English Literature/ Computer Science , … Or PhD I’m doing/working on a PHD in XXX, XXX… ③: XXX University; XXXX High School;… - I’m now a university student, studying Computer Science at Wuhan University. I’m in my final year, I’ll graduate in June (this year). - I’m now a second-year university student, majoring in Computer Science at Wuhan University. 2. 116Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 1 I'm studying Mathematics at Cambridge, one of the world's renowned universities. 2 I'm a student at Wuhan University, where I'm majoring in Biology. 3 I'm currently enrolled in a Math program at Wuhan University. 4 I'm a biology student at Wuhan University, focusing on Applied Biology. 5 I'm studying English as an undergraduate at Wuhan University. 6 I'm currently in my second year of studying English at Wuhan University. 7 I'm studying at Cambridge University, with a focus on mathematical analysis. 8 I'm an English major at Wuhan University. This is my second year. 3. -apply to graduate school/ graduate programs abroad/ in a foreign country. -pursue further(adj.) education in XXX -pursue a Master’s degree. -continue my education/studies in XXX (at graduate level) -further(adv.) specialize(v.) in my field of study. 117Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -further(v.) my studies. - I finished my undergraduate studies last year and earned/got a (bachelor’s) degree in English Literature. /I completed my undergraduate degree last year. And now I am planning to apply to graduate programs abroad in order to further specialize in my field of study, and gain international academic experience. - I have been researching graduate schools outside of my home country/ China, and I'm preparing my applications to pursue a master's degree in a foreign country. - I’m considering pursuing further education in the UK in order to broaden my horizons, immerse myself in a different academic and cultural environment, and gain a global perspective in my field of study. - I'm excited about the idea to continue my education at the graduate level in a foreign country. Right now, I’m in the process of exploring various options, and meanwhile gathering all kinds of information on application requirements and scholarships. -I've decided to pursue a PhD program abroad to further my research interests. It would be great if I could expand my academic network and meanwhile explore a different country with a different culture. 4. gap year - I just graduated, and I'm currently taking a gap year before deciding on my next step. 118Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 - I just graduated, and I'm currently taking a gap year to explore my options/ gain some real-world experience. - I've graduated and am currently on a gap year to take some time off, take a break from the academic world, and gain some practical experience before furthering my studies or entering the workforce. Besides, I studied so hard in the past, now I want to focus on my personal growth more, live a little, travel more, just to enjoy my life more in general. 5. - I'm in the transition period between graduating and starting my career, so I'm doing an internship right now. - I just completed my bachelor's degree and now I'm gaining practical experience through an internship. - I'm currently interning after graduating from my undergraduate studies. -I’m now in the process of job hunting/ Currently I’m trying to find a job. I graduated last year and got my bachelor’s degree in XXXX. - What major/ subject are you studying? Major British English subject - I'm studying Chemistry as my subject at the University of Oxford. 119Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 - Are you happy that you decided to study this major/ subject? (why or why not) - Why did you choose this major? 1. YES: - Yeh, I absolutely love it! It's been a great fit for me and I'm passionate about it. -OH yeh for sure. I’m a big fan of my field of study. I’m learning so much and having so much fun. - The faculty is great, the department is amazing, very accommodating and flexible . My teachers really care about me and listen to what I need. And the learning atmosphere is very positive. I’m loving it! - I love this major and this filed. It's a constantly evolving field with endless opportunities for creativity and learning. And it has a lot of career/job prospects . - This major truly sparks/triggers/kindles my curiosity and fuels my passion for art/music/technology/ English/ education. 2. NO - Not really. I find it really challenging to balance the demands of my major. - Not really, I mean, the major is quite intensive sometimes. The workload is overwhelming and it's been difficult to manage/juggle everything. - No, actually. It's been a real struggle to juggle everything in my major. 120Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -No. I’m actually regretting now. I chose this major without fully knowing what it was about. And now, I find it less interesting than I initially imagined. -No. I used to think that I liked XXX, but now I realized that my interest lies/is elsewhere . I don’t know what I like yet, but I know that my current major doesn’t align with it . -No. I don’t think this major is the perfect fit for me. For example, it involves a lot of math, and I’m not good with numbers at all. I’m the kind of person who’s great with people , definitely a people person. So, I would be better off studying Human Recourses, or something like that. 3. Yes and NO. - Hmmmm, yes and no. I mean, I enjoy my major for the most part. There are some aspects I really like, but there are also some challenges. For example… 2 -I have mixed feelings about my major. There are things I enjoy, but there are also times when it can be overwhelming. 2 -It's a love-hate relationship. I find some parts of my major really interesting, but there are also things that I struggle with. 2 -Well, I'm still figuring out if my major is the right fit for me. Sometimes I enjoy it, but there are also moments when I question my choice. 2 121Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 1. Computer Science : -I absolutely love this major. It perfectly combines my passion for technology and problem-solving . I enjoy programming, designing software applications, and creating solutions to real-world challenges . And plus, when I see my code come to life , I feel incredibly rewarded. 2. English Literature -I'm deeply passionate about English Literature as it allows me to explore human emotions, experiences and cultures through the lens of literature. I’m fascinated by the power of words and the beauty of language. Studying English Literature really can give me insights into the complexity of the world. I feel so incredibly fortunate/lucky to be able to immerse myself in the world of literature. 3. Translation and Interpreting : -I love this major so much because it allows me to bridge language barriers, as well as facilitate communication between people from different countries. I enjoy the challenges and rewards of delivering messages from one language to another. When I can convey 122Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 ideas accurately and help people, it brings me a strong sense of accomplishment. 4. Mathematics : -I love studying Mathematics because it's a fascinating world of patterns, logic, and problem-solving . I find so much joy in solving complex mathematical problems. And additionally, the way I see it, math is a universal language that helps us understand the fundamental rules in our world. It’s the foundation of everything. I’m constantly amazed by the beauty and elegance of math . I feel absolutely lucky to be in this field. 5. Biology : -I’m having so much fun studying Biology because it allows me to explore the wonders of life. I love all living things , from the tiniest cells to animals and plants. I love how Biology can offer me a window into the diversity and beauty of the natural world. 6. Medicine : -I enjoy studying Medicine a lot as my dream is to become a doctor one day. Studying this major allows me to make a meaningful impact on people's lives by providing care and treatment. I feel that, Medicine is a field that combines medical knowledge and empathy towards patients. That’s why it's so challenging and fulfilling/ rewarding at the same time. 7. Education : 123Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -Being a teacher has always been my dream, and that’s why I’m living my dream now . Nothing excites me more than being able to help my students and shape their future through teaching and guiding. I love sharing my knowledge and skills with my students, facilitating learning, helping students develop their potential, and making a positive impact on their lives. Education is such a meaningful and beautiful field that I feel so passionate about. 8. Economics and Finance : -I love it! I mean, I’ve always been fascinated by how economy works and how to manage money. In the future, I want to become a financial specialist, and help people manage their wealth, and help companies create investment strategies, and perform risk assessment. It’s a highly promising field with a lot of job opportunities. 9. Psychology -This is my dream field of study as I have a high/huge interest in human behavior. Like, why humans think, feel or act in certain ways, and what’re the psychological reasons behind it. And I’m highly motivated to help people who’re struggling with mental health . It’s a challenging major but it’s also super rewarding. My goal after graduation is to become a psychologist and provide therapy and counseling services to people. - What will you do when you finish studying? 124Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -Well, I’m studying to become a _______. So, after finishing my studies, I will try to find a job in this field, and start working. That’s my goal. Gap year: I’m planning to take a gap year before deciding on my next step. Meanwhile, I’d like to travel a little bit more, and get to know different cultures and people. gap year : -I like the idea of taking a year off, traveling to different places, meeting different people; meanwhile trying to make some money, and pushing myself to become more independent. And also, taking a gap year can allow me to live a little . I mean, I’ve been studying so hard since forever. - How much time do you spend on your study every week? nerd/geek -I would say, a lot of time/a big amount of time / a great deal of time. Right now, it’s the busiest time of the year, I’m preparing for my school 125Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 assignments, final exams, and also, IELTS. I study from the morning till the evening, and sometimes even till midnight, so, 50-60hours? Maybe. - What do you do to help you study better? -The first thing is, I will always study in public places, like the library or a café. Studying in a public place makes me more disciplined. I don’t know why, maybe when I’m surrounded by people who’re also studying or working, I feel more motivated to stay focused or feel embarrassed when slacking off ? Maybe. And secondly, I will always make sure that I put my phone aside and put it on mute/silent so that I won’t get distracted easily. That really helps me stay focused. I think I’m a little addicted to my phone. I will reward myself from time to time. Listen to the music while studying. Keep changing/switching locations for studying every now and then. - Do you feel tired when studying? What do you do to relax? -Sometimes yes. I mean, it’s so important to keep the balance between life and school. I make sure that I don’t overstudy and get burned out eventually. There’re several things I do to unwind. A, going to nature. Like, go to the woods , take a walk along the beach, hike up a mountain , things like that. It takes my mind off things and helps me wind down. B, I always make sure that I spend quality time with 126Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 my family and friends. I’m a people person , socializing with people definitely cheers me up and makes me forget about my worries at school. - Do you prefer to study in the morning or in the afternoon? -Well, I’m not a morning person, so I usually study in the afternoon, unless I have classes in the morning. Normally I go to the school library with my roommates to study. It’s a really nice place to get focused and get things done. WH -Well, I’m a morning person. Studying in the morning is the best. I feel like my mind is clearer and sharper/snappier during that time. Normally I’ll go to the school library/little garden behind my dorm, and study for a couple of hours there, without having breakfast. I’m the most efficient in that way. WH - Are you looking forward to working? -I am, I want to start working and making money, become more independent, and be able to feel like a grown-up. But my mind is also conflicted/ in conflict/ I feel torn, because I’m scared of growing up and starting my career without winter and summer holidays. On one hand,…..on the other hand,… 127Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -No, I enjoy being a student, and have nothing much to worry about. All I need to do is (to) focus on my studies/academic performance. And, the best part is having summer and winter holidays. - Do you study or do you work/ What work do you do? 1. I work as a at . I’m currently employed as at . I’m a , and I work at . - I work as a software engineer at a tech company called XYZ Tech, developing software applications for various industries. - I work as a registered nurse at a local hospital, providing medical care and support to patients. - I work as a high school teacher at a local high school, teaching, educating and guiding students. 128Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 - I work as a sales representative at a clothing store. I’ve been working there for almost 5 years. -I’m an accountant, and I work for a financial company, managing financial records and providing advice to businesses. - I work as a customer service representative, assisting customers with their inquiries and issues. - Currently I work as a marketing specialist at a company called ABC Marketing, creating and implementing marketing strategies to promote products. - I work as an administrative assistant at a local university. - I’m self-employed/ I work for myself, and I’m running a small business right now, and it focuses on… -I’m a project engineer, and right now I’m working for an engineering company, taking charge of …. projects. - I’m a stay-at-home mom, a homemaker , so to speak, taking care of my two young children/babies and my house. - Actually, I just quit my job, and now I’m full-time preparing for IELTS test and applying to schools abroad. I used to be a… - Oh, I do a bit of both! I work as an electrician , but I'm also studying Computer Science on the side. - I'm currently employed as a high school teacher and I'm also studying Psychology part-time. 129Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 - What do you like about your job? - Why did you choose to do that type of work? -I really enjoy my job. It's a typical and stable 9-to-5 job with a very good salary. I never need to work overtime. I have plenty of time for myself. For me, being able to keep the work-life balance and enjoy my personal life is vital. That’s why I feel grateful for this job. The pay is good; this job pays well; the salary is great, makes me satisfied; It provides me with the stability I need. It provides me with the financial security I need. I'm really content with my job. I'm happy with my job. It allows me to maintain a good work-life balance and feel financially secure. It’s a decent/ glamourous job. / -I love this job. I find so much happiness in my job when I feel that my work is meaningful and aligns with my values and passions, and also, when I can make a positive impact on my clients. Nothing excites me more when my clients come to me saying how much they appreciate my work or my boss gives me recognition and rewards. That gives me a feeling/ sense of achievement/ fulfillment. - The best part/thing about my job is that I can/get to travel a lot and discover about places all around the country/world. I really enjoy the 130Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 feeling of building deep connections with different people and culture. This job really gives me a lot of insights into different cultures. - I’d always wanted to become a teacher since I was very little. I really enjoy teaching and spending time with my students. We get along really well, they make me feel very happy and valuable. - What do you do to work better? 1. Set clear goals: When I work, I always define specific goals and priorities for my work tasks. This will help me stay focused, efficient and organized. 2. Manage time effectively: I always use time management skills, such as making a to-do list, prioritizing tasks, and scheduling my work time, to ensure that I’m using my time efficiently. 3. Avoid multitasking: Believe it or not , multitasking can actually reduce productivity. That’s why I always try to focus on one task at a time to deliver better outcomes. 4. Communicate effectively: For me, communication is such a big thing. Promoting good communication is essential for effective teamwork and collaboration. I always try as much as I can to clearly communicate my expectations, concerns, and ideas to my colleagues and my boss, and I listen to others carefully and actively to avoid misunderstandings. 131Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 5. Taking short breaks: Taking short breaks throughout the day, even for just a few minutes, can help recharge my energy and improve productivity. I normally use these breaks to stretch my legs, take a walk, or do something fun to clear my mind. 6. Using productivity tools: There are numerous software apps available that can help me stay organized and efficient. For example, I use…for… - What happened on your first day at work? Well, the first day at work? (Let me think)…uhmmm, nothing much, basically, it was a mix of meeting new coworkers, attending meetings, and participating in training programs. There was a lot of information to take in , and I was trying to familiarize myself with the work environment. It was a little bit overwhelming, I have to say, and my memory of the day is a little blurry as it was 5 years ago, but overall, it was an exciting and busy day getting acclimated to my new job. -What are the things that can be improved at work? - Lack of communication: I feel that there is a lack of clear communication from upper management in my company. It can be frustrating at times when important information is not communicated in a timely manner , which can lead to confusions, misunderstandings and delays in our work. 132Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 - Heavy workload: Many people, including myself, are complaining about the heavy workload at my workplace. Sometimes we need to work until midnight, which is crazy and overwhelming. I really think that the upper management should try harder promoting a healthier work-life balance and reducing employees’ stress levels. - Limited opportunities: To be honest, I feel that there are very limited opportunities for personal growth. And I’m worried that it might lead to stagnation in my career development. I want to participate in more training programs and career development plans so that I can enhance my skills and advance my career. - Nothing big that I can think of. I wish we could have a bigger room with bigger windows, and more natural light. Sometimes, especially during the winter time, the office could be a little dark and it feels cold. So, yeh, that’s the only thing that I can think of. - Have you thought about changing your current job? 1. (YES): Yes, I have been giving some thought to changing my job. I feel like I have gained enough experience in my current role/position, and I am ready for new challenges and opportunities for growth. And like I said, there’re things that I’m not happy with at my workplace, so, I think it’s time to switch my job. It’s about time . 2. (No): No, not really, I haven't seriously considered changing my job at this point. I am content with my current job. Like I said, it pays well, and it’s a good fit for me. And plus, I feel like I am making a meaningful contribution. I am satisfied with the work-life balance that my current job offers. So, that’s why. 133Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 + - Tell me about the house or the apartment you live in. - Do you live in a house or a flat? - Can you describe the place where you live? What kinds of housing do you live in? apartment or house house, (independent house, detached house, single house, semi- detached house, town house, two-story house) : (X-bedroom) apartment, flat, penthouse duplex apartment studio apartment, one-bedroom apartment. (Bachelor pad) dormitory, dorm, school dorm, student residence, residence hall 134Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 I’m now living in the student residence on campus. cafeteria, dining hall, refectory academic building/ teaching building Location: In the suburbs of my city, in the central area of my city, in the centre of the city, in the heart of the city, on the outskirts of the city/town, in the west (part) of my city, in the east (part) of my city, not far from city center, right next to the school, on campus, right next to the subway, in a great location, conveniently located, the location couldn’t be better The neighbourhood: safe; quiyet; clean; well-kept; conveniently located; family friendly; close to public transport/ transportation; The area has easy access to public transport; There are lots of shops/ grocery/convenience stores in the area; There are a lot of lively bars and restaurants in the neighbourhood; All the hot spots in the city are within walking distance; right next to the subway/ university/ hospital/ shopping center, XXX is just around the corner, just a stone’s throw away from XXX -I live in a beautiful house in the suburbs of my city. The house is very big/ spacious, I have a beautiful back yard where I could plant some flowers. And the neighbourhood is very safe and quiet, and… very convenient as well, I mean, my house is really close to the grocery store/convenience store, so I like it a lot. 135Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -I live in a spacious four-bedroom apartment in the heart of downtown Beijing. It’s a big apartment, big windows, great natural light, lots of storage. …And… it’s just a stone’s throw away from the city’s cultural district. And plus, we have easy access to public transport, which is really convenient. It’s a nice place to live. -I’m now living in a studio apartment. It definitely has a bachelor pad’s vibe, like, exposed brick walls, exposed ceiling with pipes and everything, all black industrial style kitchen, big floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the bustling street. Definitely a cool place. -I live in a three-bedroom apartment located in the north of my city. It’s a corner unit , which means the apartment gets light from two directions. Therefore, my home is filled with natural light all year round, which I LOVE. It’s conveniently located. Everything is within walking distance. The grocery store is just around the corner, the gym is just a stone’s throw away, and it only takes me 2 mins to walk to the subway. The location couldn’t be better, and I feel so happy to live there. -I live in a beautiful townhouse located in a quiet residential area on the outskirts of the city. It’s a very safe, tranquil and family-friendly neighbourhood. It’s a three-story home with a big backyard and a garage. It’s a perfect place for my growing family. 136Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -I’m now living in the school dormitory with three roommates. It’s not very spacious/the biggest, but it’s/it feels cozy / comfortable/ warm/ homely. And plus, it’s in a great location. It only takes me 2 mins to walk to the academic building, and it’s super close to the cafeteria and all the other essential facilities. I’m overall quite content with this place, it’s very affordable and convenient, and it has everything I need. So, it’s an ideal place for me to live. - Who do you live with? -I live with my parents and my dog. I see my dog as my little brother/ sister. I really enjoy living with my family, it’s super convenient, and at the same time, we can enjoy each other’s company. I love seeing and petting my dog every day. -I’m living by myself. It’s really cool to live on my own, I enjoy the freedom and the sense of independence. I was under the control of my parents for so many years, now it’s really fun to live just myself. -I’m now sharing this apartment with two other roommates. They are really nice, easygoing and cool. We get along well, I mean, they really give me a sense of home. I enjoy their company. 137Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 A sense of home/ belonging/ independence/ achievement/ community/ security/ nostalgia … Have a good sense of humor/ direction/ fashion… - Which room in your house/flat do you like most? My/the sun room , the bedroom , the living room , the kitchen , the study , the home theatre , the gym , even the bathroom. • my own space/ kingdom/ world/ little paradise • man cave “ ” house man cave • girl cave/ lady cave/ woman cave man cave • This room suits my needs. • This room is dedicated to my own pursuits. • time alone I really enjoy my time alone in this room. • take some “me” time • This room is filled with essence of thing I enjoy, from movies and books, to music and art. • light-filled/ bright • cozy/ comfortable 138Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 • welcoming/ inviting The room feels welcoming and inviting. • multifunctional/ versatile • a retreat corner • my sanctuary • calming/ therapeutic • tranquil/ soothing -I love my bedroom. It’s like my little kingdom/man cave/my retreat room where I could enjoy my time being alone and disconnect with the world. I have a big and comfy bed next to the windows. Most of the time I will just lie in my bed, play some games or read magazines, just unwind. -I love the sunroom in the house. It’s my heaven, especially during winter time. When it’s snowy outside, my sun room always feels warm, cozy and light-filled. Additionally, I have a reading corner/nook in the room with a beautiful yellow fabric armchair. I spend a lot of time snuggling up（蜷缩） with a good book in that chair, reading and enjoying my time alone. -I definitely love my living room. I have a giant and comfy couch in the living room. It’s an L-shape couch（转角沙发）, big enough for me to lie in it and binge watch（刷剧） TV shows or movies. My couch is so comfy that it’s turning me into a couch potato（沙发土豆，表示躺在沙发上的懒人。我的沙发太 舒服了，把我逼成一个葛优瘫的懒人）. It’s a place where I spend most of my time when I’m at home. I’ve had so many parties and get-togethers（小型 139 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 聚会） in this room. It holds so many beautiful memories. It’s my cozy retreat where I can just put my feet up and unplug. -What’s the difference between where you’re living now and where you have lived in the past? -Mostly just the size difference. I mean, the living space I have now is much bigger than before. Before I moved to where I live now/ my current apartment, I was living with my parents, and I only had a very small bedroom. But now, I have my own apartment, I have a big living room, and a big bedroom, and I even have a dressing room/walk-in closet for myself. -Nothing much, it’s just the people I share my space with are different. I was living with my parents, and now I’m living with my roommates. -Everything is different! I’m now sharing the dorm room with my roommates. I don’t even have a bedroom now. And I used to have plenty of storage, whereas now, I almost have none. - How long have you lived there? -For about two years, not for too long. -Oh I was born in that apartment, so, XXX years. 140 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -I moved to that place 5 years ago, and I absolutely love living there. I can totally see myself spending many more years there. -Do you plan to live there for a long time? - why: Not really. I mean, it’s kind of small, and it’s jammed with furniture. I need bigger space to do stuff/ things , right now the space is too tight for me. I’ve been thinking about moving to somewhere bigger. -No, actually I’m planning to move. I’m not a big/massive fan of that place, to be honest. It’s just too remote, too far. Even ordering a taxi will take me forever. It’s in the middle of nowhere. - why: Oh yeah, absolutely. I love that place. I can’t imagine any other place that suits me better. It’s in a great location/ perfectly located. And it’s so spacious and cozy. The windows are huge, so the whole place is filled with natural light. And the rent is totally affordable. I can totally see myself spending many more years there. area you live in - Are the transport facilities to your home very good? -Absolutely! The transport facilities to my home are excellent/super good. Everything is within walking distance, including the subway station and 141 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 the bus station, making it incredibly convenient to commute every day and get around in the city. -No, it’s really bad actually. There’re very limited options when it comes to public transport. I have to either ride my own bike or walk to get around, since I don’t have a car. And that’s why I really want to move. - Do you like the area you live in? -Absolutely, I do. I think it’s the perfect area to live in. It’s not right at the city centre, but it’s close enough. There I have subway stations and bus stations to get around in the city. And at the same time, it’s not that busy and noisy. I like it. -I don’t like it very much, to be honest. It’s just too remote, too far. Even ordering a taxi will take me forever. It’s in the middle of nowhere. It takes forever to do sth. -What do you like the most about the area you live in? -I would say that I truly appreciate the beautiful environment in my neighbourhood. Lush greenery, scenic views, and clean and well- kept streets. The neighbourhood is tidy-looking, peaceful and safe. It’s a delightful area to live in. 142 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -I love the people there. My neighbours are so thoughtful, educated and friendly. They always say hi to me, and offer a helping hand to me whenever I need them. And they don’t do parties very often as they’re respectful people. It’s just a very very nice and family-friendly area to live in. - What’s (the name of) your hometown? -small, tiny, quaint, compact -medium-sized, average-sized -big, major, metropolitan -huge, massive, cosmopolitan -Nanjing is my hometown which’s a densely populated city located/ situated in the Southeast of China/ my country. It’s the capital of Jiangsu Province. -Beijing is my hometown. The capital of China. I’ve been living there for XXX years. 143 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 -My hometown is called Sanya, a coastal city on the South end of Hainan Province, in China. - Is it a big city or a small place? -Actually, it is a quite big city with about XX million people, a typical international/ metropolitan/ cosmopolitan city, a concrete jungle, I would say. Very busy and bustling. -No, It’s not big at all, it’s a small town/ it’s a quaint little town, about 100,000 people. (And it’s scenic and peaceful. Not like those big cities with tons of tourists, busy and congested all the time. I love my town.) - Can you describe your hometown a little? 30-40 welcome to my hometown. you should definitely come to my hometown, and my people will welcome you with their open arms. hilly city, lots of hills, lots of ups and downs, It’s a big city located in the southwest of china. It’s a beautiful, gorgeous city. It’s in a very hilly area, lots of hills in the city, lots of ups and downs. That’s why we hate driving or riding a bike in the city, instead, we walk a lot. Maybe that’s why we are all in great shape. Almost all of us have really 144 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 nice and beautiful legs. One thing I really love about my hometown is the local cuisine. Chongqing is famous for its local delicacies, especially spicy food. I can’t live my life without spicy food. So, it’s like the heaven for spicy- food lovers. My hometown is Huhehaote. It’s located in inner Mongolia. And the name, Huhehaote, actually is Mongolian, which means “green city”. I guess, it’s because we have many endless grasslands, the whole city is beautiful and green. There are two ethnic groups in here, Mongolian and Han. Han culture means the modern Chinese culture. So, the city is a mixture of both cultural heritages. It’s really interesting to see the two cultures growing, blending and thriving together. -XXX is famous for many things,…its landmarks and food. -We have…. beautiful/ stunning sea views; natural sceneries; mountains and lakes; gorgeous views of nature… -People there are… pretty laidback, friendly, hospitable, welcoming. They know how to enjoy their life/lives. -Food is amazing in my city,.. Food is everything in my hometown. -One thing I love about my city is that… -It’s a very livable city/ place. city 1. ancient/historic/old: a place that has a long history. 145 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Rome is an ancient city, which was established thousands of years ago. modern city 2. dull/boring/sleepy My hometown is boring/ sleepy. As a young person, I always feel that there’s nothing much to do. 3. bustling: a crowded and busy place It’s a busy and bustling city. Hustle and bustle (noun phrase) It’s a hustle and bustle city. fast-paced/ lively Shanghai is a busy and bustling city, one of its nicknames is “The City that Never Sleeps”. 4. compact/small: Santorini is a very compact town. You don’t need transport to get around . 5. expensive (costly)/ inexpensive (cheap, not costly) 6. picturesque: ; scenic, quaint, charming, 7. touristy/ tourist city: a shopping paradise 146 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 Lijiang is beautiful and scenic, but it’s just TOO touristy for my taste. 8. There’s always something going on in the city. It’s a city that never sleeps. 9. vibrant: /exciting/ lively 10. it’s got such a rich culture. 11. It’s a real 24-hour city, and you can meet people from all over the world. 12. It’s such a small place that you can get to know your neighbors and easily have a sense of community. 13. The cost of living is really high. You have to think about how to make (both) ends meet. 14. Air quality is an issue there. 15. There’s nothing much going on/ not much night life. 16. It’s a little isolated. It feels a bit cut off from the wider world. 1. ①Do you study or do you work? * What do you like about your job? * Do you like your major? 147 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新Tara老师口语2024 年9-12月part1 素材 拒绝盗版 人品端正 逢考必过 “补票“请加微信tarayasi9 * * 2. : Can you describe the place you live? Which room is your favorite? What’s the difference between where you’re living now and where you have lived in the past? 3. : What’s the name of your hometown? Please describe your hometown a little. 148 闲鱼(鹿酱酱呀)独家整理 其余均为倒卖,倒卖的不会更新