雅思考试主要是通过对考生听、说、读、写四个方面英语能力的考核,综合测评考生的英语沟通运用能力,实现“沟通为本”的考试理念。对于雅思考生来说,也有很多考试难点和政策盲区需要帮助解答。今天雅思无忧网小编准备了名师支招:写好雅思作文的语言准备过程 纯英文:外教谈雅思作文如何获得高分,希望通过文章来解决雅思考生这方面的疑难问题,敬请关注。
雅思考试首先是一个语言能力的考试,因此,在雅思作文的评分标准里面,语言永远都是最重要的一项。我们不用过分纠结于雅思官方评分标准里面对语言晦涩的描述,请大家想一想雅思考试的目的是什么?除开G类而言,是测试考生是否具备在英语(论坛)国家的高等学校里面学习的能力,也就是在英语的学术环境里面生存的能力。试想,如果在雅思作文考试里面答非所问、错误百出、词不达意,怎么可能在以严谨、严格著称的英语学术体系里面生存呢?考官自然而然就会给这样的作文以低分,因为他认为这个考生没有或者欠缺在英语学术体系里面生存的基本能力。
心中了然这个雅思考试的基本目的,对我们写好雅思作文是很有帮助的,它能让我们在准备雅思考试的过程中做到有的放矢,少做无用功。现在各种雅思作文考试的辅导资料浩如烟海,各种培训机构多如牛毛,但只要仔细打量,就会发现其中龙蛇混杂、良莠不齐。很多辅导资料都很强调总结雅思作文的常用句式、常用词汇甚至常用的段落模板,这些工作固然重要,但永远不要忘记所有这些都是为了让我们的雅思作文符合英文学术写作的标准和要求。如果不是这样,一味纠缠于一些表面的词句段,那无异于照猫画虎、舍本求末了,万望各位考生注意。
那怎么才能让我们的雅思作文符合英文学术写作的标准和要求呢?首先大家应该了解一下什么是真正的英文学术语言。正式的英文学术语言首要的一个特征就是正式性和严肃性,具体体现为不用简写、不用口语、不用个人语气、不直接引用别人的原话或对话。道理很简单,学术文章不是小说,小说为了生动,给人一种身临其境的感觉,经常使用口语话、个人化的语言,也经常直接引用人物之间的对话。而学术文章则要求客观、严谨、条理清楚、逻辑清晰,没有或者极少个人的感*彩。举例来说,我们在口语或者小说中经常使用词的缩写形式或简易形式,比如you're, there's等等,但在雅思作文中我们就不能用这些简写形式,而应该用完整形式you are, there is;又比如口语中经常把冰箱叫做fridge, 雅思作文中我们就应该用refrigerator不用fridge。另外,在论述的时候最好不要直接引用别人的话:如"......", says 某某某,而应该用According to 某某某,然后再用自己的语言简述他的观点,这样显得很专业。当然,你如果用了这些简写或者口语化的语言也不能说你错了,考官也能理解你的意思,但会极大影响考官对你作文的整体印象和评分。
Safeguard your writing score – don’t squander marks
As an IELTS examiner and trainer I have marked thousands of Writing Tests; both in the real test environment and in New Oriental School courses. When students receive their results they often ask me how they can improve their writing score, or how they should modify their answer to achieve a higher score. What many students fail to realise is that improving a writing score is not simply a matter of writing a better answer; one common reason for a low writing score is that the answer was penalised for failing to meet certain important criteria within the marking system. An examiner will penalise an answer for a number of problems which, for the sake of this article I shall describe as Writing Crimes. Once you have identified these crimes and eradicated them from your answer, a higher score will be easier to achieve, more importantly you are not simply throwing marks away unnecessarily.
Task One General Training – The Letter
There is one sure-fire way to lose marks on this simple writing task, an answer which does not cover all the points listed in the question will instantly be penalised, regardless of the quality of the letter itself. All letter questions present the candidate with an outline of the situation followed by three or four bullet points of required content. An answer which fails to present just one of these (i.e. only three of the four are present in the answer) will automatically be penalised.
Combined with this idea is the problem of not sufficiently emphasising the intention of the letter. If the reason for the letter is inviting a teacher to a student party; simply describing the party and signing off the letter with “hope to see you there” is not acceptable. In the early stage of the letter you should state your aim, “I am writing to invite you to our party”. The body of the letter should contain sentences such as, “all of the students really want you come, so it would really mean a lot to us if you could join us”.
Another easy way to throw away marks here is to use the wrong style. If you are writing to a friend then an informal style is required. If you are writing to a company or someone you do not know, obviously the writing style requires an informal and polite tone.
Academic Task One – Graphs and Charts
An answer which omits key details will be penalised. This raises the question of “What is a key detail”; this will vary from task to task. In pie chart task which has only three countries and three categories of data (e.g. nuclear, coal and oil energy) failing to describe one country or category will be interpreted as “omitting key details”. Obviously it is not necessary to describe every piece of data for each country and category. In questions where there is an abundance of data, more details can be ignored but it is mandatory to include some mention of each country and category.
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