托福写作考试介绍:写作考试内容及写作方法

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篇1:托福写作考试介绍:写作考试内容及写作方法

托福写作考试分为综合写作和独立写作,综合写作考察大家归纳能力以及听力和阅读能力,独立写作需要大家写出一篇内容完整论据充分的文章。托福写作考试想要拿高分必需对考试有个详细的了解,接下来我们来具体介绍一下托福写作考试。

托福写作考试介绍:写作考试内容及写作方法

一. 托福写作考试详细介绍

托福写作总时长55分钟,需要完成两个写作任务。

1.综合写作

托福综合写作任务有3个,即阅读、听力与写作。大家可以把阅读一篇有关学术性话题的短文,然后在听力部分你将听到一名演讲者从不同的观点讨论同样的主题。通过阅读或听力材料当成是基础的写作试题,写作时间大概是20分钟。考生们必须要阅读一篇学术演讲,阅读的时间大概是三分钟。然后文章隐去,此时考生们要求听一段演讲时间大概是1分半钟。但是后面当考生写作文时,依然能够看见在放听力材料时隐去的阅读材料。考生在听录音的过程中可以做笔记来帮助答题。考生可以使用剩下的20分钟的时间来总结听力材料中的要点,并解释这些要点与阅读材料中的要求有何不同。通常有效的回答应是一篇150-225个单词的作文。

2.独立写作

立写作任务测试你依据自身的经历与知识写作的能力。大家要把一篇写作完成,通过某一个议题阐述和支持你的观点。在此主要是用具体细节来支持你的观点或选择。关于试题方面的时间大概是30分钟。和如今机考托福的写作或托福写作考试(TWE)类似需要考生根据自己的知识和经验陈述、解释同时支持对待其中一问题的某个看法。尽管从理论上字数并未有上限,但是通常有效的回答应是一篇300个单词左右的作文。每个写作任务的分数是0-5分。考查综合语言技能的作文题目的评分以回答的质量、完整性和准确性为依据。

二. 托福写作方法:3步完成写作

第一步:审题、确定立场、列出理由(只需要在草稿纸上用英文单词或汉语列出各个理由,防止遗忘),最少3分钟最多5分钟。要避免两个极端:

a.用时太少,理由没有想清楚就开始写,不仅造成文章逻辑结构不清,还会引起行文中频繁的修正,欲速则不达;

b.用时太多,不要追求一次思考就能把每一条理由及相关例证都想出来。其实想出两条之后就可以动笔,各个理由的例证可以写到该段时边思考边写。这一点你不必怀疑,只要你的思维还是正常的,一定能做到。

第二步:正文写作最少22分钟最多26分钟:

a.各段写作时注意对段落的不同部分给予不同的重视。主题句给予最大重视,注意炼句,别说你不想写主题句,主题句可以使读者和笔者本人更清晰该段落写什么。各段中支持性细节写作不必遵循相同的模式。

有n种选择可供参考:1。举具体事例2。说对方相对缺点3。使用数据4。使用假想例子5。使用类比、比喻、引用等修辞手段来论述。哪一种你最容易想出来,就用哪一种。

b.考前将文章开头、结尾、例证、让步等各种句型背熟练,并且练习和模考时把他们用熟,要象做完型填空一样对待考场作文。别试图在考场上再去临时决定比如哪种开头好,怎样结尾好。使用自己选种的套话。

c.当被告知还有5分钟结束时,一般你应该已经写到最后一条理由,或者已经在做结尾。要确保文章有结尾段(不排除将它和最后一条理由的末段结合在一起的可能性)。

第三步:检查需要1-3分钟,有侧重点地检查:

a.句法:确保每句话是完整的,有谓语,且简单句只有一个谓语。

b.时态:文章绝大部分使用的是一般现在时;一般现在时第三人称要使用单数;使用过去发生的事例时用的是过去时;

c.主谓一致

托福写作中容易混淆的词汇

考生由于对形似、意近的词辨别不清,不知道他们各自的具体用法,而在托福写作中出现失误。比如,有的词虽然意思相同,但他们表达同一个意思的程度是不同的;有的英语单词的汉语意思相同,但他们所限定修饰的词、使用的范围或者连接的成分是不同的;有的单词的文体风格不同,有正式和非正式之分。

要注意自己写文章的总体风格,在正式文体中避免使用非正式的语言。鉴于选词的难度,考生应在平时注意多查词典,注意其中所举得例句,在看英语材料时留心写作词汇的具体使用环境,并摘录一些自己能看明白但说不出的表达。

1、Original: Bill Gates gives a definite answer that college educationdoes count.

Revised:Bill Gates gave a definitive answer: college education does count.

Definite意思是“明确的”、“一定的”,指意思明确,不会误解;definitive也是“明确”的意思,但往往指“权威性、最后决定的”。此话出自比尔?盖茨之口,体现权威性,故将definite改为definitive。

2、Original: …people may attend a university orcollege for various reasons...

Revised: …people attend university or college for a multitude of reasons...

此处将various改为短语a multitude of更为正式,体现人们读大学的原因很多。

3、Original: The kinds of education that we got on school are formaland intense ones...

Revised:The kinds of education that we receive at school is formal and of tentimes veryintense.

不必用kindsof education,直接用education(教育)即可;“受教育”不同get,改为receive;“在学校”不必用at school;把one去掉,用oftentimesvery intense指出学校教育常常是非常严格的。

4、Original: They can foster their interests in some fields to makelife more colorful and meaningful.

Revised: Theycan even pick up hobbies to make life more colorful and enjoyable.

Fostertheir interests是“培养兴趣”,此处用pick up hobbies(开始各种各样的兴趣)更为合适;不同的兴趣是我们生活的调味剂,使我们的生活多姿多彩,乐趣无穷,把meaningful换成enjoyable,与colorful搭配更合适。

5、Original: Needless to say, more employment means more income andless idle life, so that people can enjoy a better life and make investment intheir future.

Revised:Needless to say, more employment means income and less idle time, so thatpeople can enjoy a better life and invest in their own futures.

把idle life改为idle time更为合适,表示“闲散时间”;make investment可改为动词invest,与and前的动词enjoy词性一致;人们各自有自己的未来,故将in their future改为in their own futures。

6、Original: Another important factor that contributes to the extensionof life expectancy is the development of medical science.

Revised:Another imortant factor that contributes to the rise in life expectancy is thedevelopment of medical science.

“人的寿命的延长”可以表示为life extension,但是如果用life expectancy,则要用the increast of 或the rise in life expectancy。

7、Original: the growth of life span.

Revised:the rise in/increase of life span.

Life span意思是“寿命”,growth指“生长,增长”,“寿命的延长”用growth不合适,life span“寿命的延长”可以用rise in/increaseof/extension of.

8、Original: energy saving

Revised:energy efficiency

Energysaving一般作定语,此处名词短语“节能”最好用energy efficiency。

9、Original: with the increasing complicatedness of the job profile

Revised:with the increasing complexity of the modern jor profile

Complicatedness意思是“错综复杂”,但是这种错综复杂是有逻辑的;complexity也是“复杂”的意思,但这种复杂是杂乱无辜的,现代的工作情况用complexity较为合适。

10、Original: Such experience will difinitely be helpful in children'slater life.

Revised:Such experience will benefit them later in life.

Helpful是“提供帮助”的意思,而benefit是“使…受益”。这里作者想说的是孩子将来的人生会受益于这样的经历,用benefit合适,因为这样的经历不一定能对孩子将来的人生提供什么具体的帮助。

11、Original: In my submission, people should sometimes do things thatthey do not enjoy doing.

Revised:Because of these circumstances, I believe it is inevitable that people must dowhat they don't enjoy doing.

In one'ssubmission虽然也可以表示某人所持的观点,但是这是一种非常formal(正式)的表述,用在这里和整体文章的风格不太相符。

12、Original: For no one can promise what will happen in the future, ifyou don't save some money, an emergency will probably make you a cat on a hotbrick.

Revised:Because no one can predict the future, if you don't save money an unforeseenemergency can be financially crippling.

Promise的意思是“承诺、允诺”,用在这里不合适,作者要说的是没有人能与之未来发生的事,应该用predit。还有,作者在这里用了一个惯用语a cat on a hot brick,这又有一个错误。第一,这个表述本身有错误,正确的应该是like a cat on hot bricks。第二,这个惯用语的意思是“忐忑不安,如热锅上的蚂蚁“,用在这里意思也不太合适。

托福写作中的段落拓展题如何做

时间是考试中很关键的因素,但很可惜很多人备战托福时间不充裕。特别是写作上,短时间很难让他们领会到掌握高分的方法。很多人写作的内容过于单调,达不到字数的要求。即使勉强凑够字数,语言也很普通单一,不能取得高分。

这是一部分问题,如果备考时间不足,考生要抓住自己的重点和弱点,集中解决。如果是段落拓展没有丰富的内容,文章字数不够。历年来很多优秀范文就是备考写作最珍贵的资料,我们可以先以此为例子,多背诵多参照。写作是有模式的,看看好的文章怎么写的,再加入自己的内容,排好段落,一篇优秀的文章也就出炉了。

考试的题目虽然都有人猜想,但话题太多,不要抱着自己一定能猜到的心态,因此还是要多去写不同的题目。但要想拿高分,不仅要符合基本标准,就像中文写作文采很重要,托福写作中不同的也会加分。因此平时储备多种,考试用到文章中绝对一个好招数。最后,既然是考试,还是建议大家提早备战,不要因为时间不够匆忙考试,这样心理上压力不小,也不会有好的结果。

托福写作:六种漂亮的开头方式

1. 采用统计数字引出话题,把问题呈现在读者面前;

2. 提出有争议性的问题,激发读者兴趣,使其积极参与讨论;

3. 以新颖的观点,吸引读者注意力;

4. 呈现该话题正反方的观点;

5. 引用名人名言、谚语等作为文章的开头;

6. 对将要讨论的话题进行定义。

其次,要善于运用复合句,从而使引言段简洁明了,开宗明义。下面我们将探讨雅思与新托福各种题材和体裁文章引言段的写作方法。 引用数据呈现讨论的话题,说明问题的严重性或者重要性,引起读者的关注。下面我们结合几道雅思和新托福作文话题进行实战演练。

教师在线指导,如何备考托福写作考试

我们在写关于体罚的话题文章时,可以这样开头:It is reported that a boy in Zhuhai was beaten to death by his father on Father' Day. Ample evidence also shows that children who are frequently abused by their parents or teachers tend to be introverted, pessimistic, indifferent and even world-weary. Recently, there has arisen a fierce argument on whether corporal punishment should be abolished. Teachers, parents and experts take diverse attitudes towards this issue.(据报道,在父亲节那天,珠海有个小男孩被老爸揍死了。充分的证据也显示,经常遭父母或老师虐待的小孩往往比较内向、悲观、冷漠甚至厌世。近来,关于是否应该废除体罚出现了一场激烈的争论,老师、家长和专家各执一词。)

而我们在托福写作写关于该不该禁烟的话题时,可以这样开头:A recent study conducted by Zhongshan University has found that the number of smokers has been increasing sharply over the past five years. Research findings also reveal that the incidence of smoking-related conditions has soared. As a result, the ban on smoking has been in the spotlight. (中山大学最近做的一个研究表明,在过去五年里,吸烟者人数急剧上升。研究结果同时显示,吸烟导致的疾病发病率也急剧增长。因此,禁烟成了个热点话题。)

篇2:托福写作考试题型介绍

托福写作考试题型介绍

新托福考试的写作部分两大题

包括两道试题,分别是综合写作试题部分和独立写作试题部分,两个部分需在大约50分钟的时间内完成。

综合写作试题部分:考生需要首先阅读一篇学术文章,阅读的时间是3分钟左右。然后文章隐去,这时考生需要听一段大约为1分半钟的演讲。但是考生在写作文时可以看到在放听力材料时隐去的阅读材料。考生在阅读和听录音的过程中可以做笔记来帮助答题。考生有20分钟的时间来总结听力材料中的要点,并解释这些要点与阅读材料中的要点有何关系。作文内容是根据考试所提出的问题而定的,不能由考生自由发挥。,需要考生根据自己的知识和经验陈述、解释并支持对待某一问题的某个看法。通常有效的回答应是一篇300个单词左右的作文。

独立写作试题部分:考生需30分钟的时间完成这一部分写作,与现行机考托福的写作考试或笔试托福写作考试(TWE)类似,需要考生根据自己的知识和经验陈述、解释并支持对某一问题的看法。通常有效的回答应是一篇超过300个单词的作文。考生可以自由选择材料、形式和观点等,不受题目的严格限制。本试题属于主观性题目。

托福备考之综合写作高分攻略

首先,大家要了解考试的要求。托福考试的写作部分分为综合(Integrated writing)和独立(Independentwriting)两块,这两块分别独立评分,取平均值后得到最终的分数。也就是说,这两个部分各占一半权重,因此应给予相同程度的重视。有些同学在准备输出端考试(写作或者口语)的时候,居然连评分细则都不看,仅凭自己的主观臆测和对于老师讲解的依稀记忆去打造自己的文章,考不好真的不奇怪。下面,我们就来分析一下托福考试的评分细则。

托福综合写作的满分要求是:

A response at this level successfully selects the important informationfrom the lecture and coherently and accurately presents this information inrelation to the relevant information presented in the reading. The response iswell organized and occasional language errors that are present do not result ininaccurate or imprecise presentation of content or connections.

大家会发现,这里面的关键词是information和organization,也就是信息量和逻辑,至于语言,并没有提出太多的要求,用词和造句“秋裤”一些没有关系。因此,只要听力和阅读的笔记记得较全,并且能够把听力中的观点和细节表达清楚就可以。需要注意的是,这部分对词数和时间都是有要求的,官方的规定是150-225词,我的建议是180-260词,时限是20分钟。关于summary的结构,一定是四段--introduction+3对detail,不需要conclusion。总体来说,这部分得高分的一定是把听力写得很清楚的同学,事实上听力才是考察的重点,阅读是用来帮助对听力进行理解的,同学们在写听力内容的时候切不可有“这个也要写啊,没必要吧”的想法。另外,阅读的内容在写summary的时候决不可照抄。

了解了综合写作的评分细则,我们可以列出同学们需要锻炼的能力列表:

1、阅读能力

2、听力和速记能力

3、一定的改写能力

下面我们来看看应该如何复习综合写作。首先,大家要对自己的阅读和听力能力有一个认识。对自己的能力有大概认识之后,同学们一定要注意复习方法。很多同学认为自己阅读差就是因为不认识单词,所以拼命背单词;有些同学觉得自己听力差,就花大量时间练习听写。这些方法本身都对能力提高很有好处,但是大家一定要记住,实战才是锻炼能力的最好方式,所以还是希望大家多做全套的综合写作习题。这里推荐一个复习的方法,分成4个步骤:1、首先“裸做”题目,即三分钟阅读,听一遍lecture,然后20分钟写summary。写得不好没关系,接下来需要找出阅读和听力中的硬伤,所谓硬伤就是不认识的单词、不理解的词组、没看懂的句型和也认识也理解也能看懂但是听不出来的单词、词组和句型,统统摘抄到笔记本上;2、将阅读材料中的“硬伤”仔细记忆,再细细地读passage,完全读懂为止,如果没有读懂可以参看书后的翻译,接着练习记笔记,这里主要是练习笔头速度和缩写表达能力,尽量积累出定型的缩写表达以在考场上争取时间;3、将听力中的“硬伤”仔细记忆,再精听lecture,如果听不清可参看听力原文,然后练习记笔记,可多遍练习,放一遍记一遍,尽量详细而不复杂(信息量要大但是单词不要全拼符号不要复杂);4、再次仿真练习,读passage,听lecture,再写summary,然后对书后面的sampleanswer,一定做到不要遗漏听力中的信息。

托福独立写作的常见问题与应对技巧

托福独立写作题目相对而言比较多,经典文库中共计185个,但是每年ETS也会研发出新题,即使是在老题的基础做些许的改动,母题的数量也使得“将所有题目写一遍”这一任务变成mission impossible,而且即使做到了,也是一件投资回报率极低的行为,就算考试的时候出现了原题,估计也不可能回忆所有之前写的细节内容。所以针对独立写作部分的备考我们要更多的总结规律,通过总结来节省备考时间。TOEFL独立写作常见FAQ整理如下:

三选一题型如何处理

很多同学不知道三选一的文章结构应该如何处理。这里其实三选一并不复杂,只需要熟记两个注意点就可以轻松应付:一是三者都要提及;二是并没有唯一的正确结构,结构应该根据题目灵活的选择。我们来看一道例题。

Essay Topic

Which one isthe most important for teacher of high school?

1. The ability to help students plan for their future;

2. The ability to find the students who need help most and help them;

3. Teach students how to learn outside the classroom.

就这道题来讲,题型基本结构的选择有两种:三项能力都重要,但是第一项最重要;或者,第一项是重要的,而第二项和第三项是不重要的。其他的文章结构都是这两种的变体。我们拿第二种结构举例:

总论点:规划未来能力最重要(vs. 发现需要帮助的同学 &教会自学)

主体段1:学生最需要规划,而只有老师有能力提供

主体段2:发现需要帮助的能力不重要,因为学生自己会来找

主体段3:课外自学不重要,高中生没有课外时间

The ability to help student with planning their future is definitely the most important capability for high school teachers.

To begin with, high school students are in desperate need for guidance about their future, and teachers are the only competent candidate to provide it. I know this from my personal experience. When I was in high school, a great portion of my classmates’ only goal is to reach for the minimum requirement for graduation, and to be able to get an offer from a middle-ranged college in the US, as all 15-year-old boys are profoundly addicted to either computer games or love affairs. Because of our immature mind, we had no idea regarding the choice of universities, or the selection of a future career path. What made matters worse is that our high school teachers provided us with virtually zero guidance concerning our college applications, not because they lack of the intention, but simply because they know nothing about it. Consequently, the vast majority of our parents had to hire an outside agency that specializes in the college application process which costs tons of money. Later we realized that this is an utter mistake, for what they did was simply giving us the timeline of the application process, translating our personal statements and recommendation letters from Chinese into English, and finally mailing out all our materials to the US. All of these simple tasks could be performed by ourselves, and these misfortunes surely could have been avoided if we had the luck to meet more competent teachers, with the ability to warn students and their parents about the black-hearted agencies and lay out lucid plans for students’ future.

The capability to find the students who need assistance most and help them, on the other hand, is not that imperative. The reason for this is quite simple, since high school students would come to teachers voluntarily if they are in serious trouble. In other words, many times students don’t want to be bothered by a teacher who treats them like a baby-sitter. As for the “help” part, I firmly hold the faith that all teachers are already equipped with the willingness to solve student’s problem gladly, using their prehistoric powers, no matter how difficult the situation can be. So the willingness to help students should be the minimum standard to be qualified as a teacher.

Similarly, the skill to teach students how to learn outside the classroom is completely unnecessary. For one, most high school students have no time outside their classrooms at all, as all their spare time is already occupied by cram school or by extracurricular activities. Even in the rare circumstance that some students may have free time, parents could always play the part of their instructor on how to self-study.

本篇文章在结构的处理上,做到了清晰、简单。第一个主体段在证明第一项能力是非常必要的。第二、三主体段在分别证明第二、三项能力是不重要的。整个段落结构很明确。这样会更容易获得高分。大家要注意避免结构过于复杂和混乱。

如何丰富整篇文章的结构?

先说答案:另外一个大家经常会有疑惑的问题就是:我的三个主体段全部都是讲故事,好像手法太单一了,会不会被扣分?如何丰富?答案是:有可能;以及,偶尔的使用纯解释型段落。众所周知,TOEFL写作中展开手法有两种,exemplification和explanation。例证显然是二者中更简单的一个。因此,大部分同学都更倾向于使用例证。因为它更容易快速上手,并且大家可以通过举例来展开具体化的细节,从而获得高分。但注意,如果三个主体段全部是讲故事展开,未免会有语言太差的嫌疑。因此,除了例证,我们文章中最好可以稍微涉及到一些说理部分。

举例和说理分别的优势?

大家现在可以重新观察一下范文三个主体段的展开手法。三个主体段一共444字。其中第一段259字,第二段116字,第三段69字。第一段的展开手法为例证(讲故事),第二、三段均为解释。大家明显感受到例证的优势即为能够更轻松的展开出有效并具体化的细节,或俗称“好凑字”。解释的好处为语言简练,表达效率高,文章的递进性、节奏会更紧凑。

举例和说理分别的劣势?

例证在TOEFL写作中并无太明显的劣势。解释的劣势就比较明显了。同样的一个分论点,有的同学用例证可以很轻松写到200字,而解释只能说到100字。有的同学可能有个刻板印象:讲故事的语言通常比较简单,句式单一,因此不容易得高分。注意,讲故事语言和句式也是可以复杂的;或者大家可以选择简单但地道的表达,可同样可以获得满分。

答题战略、以及举例和说理的优劣小结

因此我们以后考场上的答题战略很简单。第一段为例证段落。目的为使劲凑字,尽量直接写满200字。第二、三段可以选择简短的小故事或者解释性段落,分别写到60~100字左右。这样主体段已经达到至少320字,再加上开头结尾段,可以轻松满足350字的字数要求。

如何练好说理?

说理对语言和句式的要求要明显高于例证。因此一定要有扎实的基本功的支持才能够写出漂亮的说理段落。关于句式的练法,可以参考强化班上的句型基本构成以及句型转化练习。

如何练好例证?

例证的套路大家都很熟悉。很多同学的问题出在没思路上。比如,一道题目问说:我们的闲钱应该拿去旅游好,还是存到银行好?有同学说,存起来更好,因为可以未雨绸缪。这是一个很好的分论点,那么如何以例证的方式来展开呢?有同学说可以使用反证法:我有一个朋友Foosen,他就不存钱,后来他就死的很惨。用此例来强调存钱的必要性。大部分同学都能够想到这一步,问题会处在如何用故事来展开死的很惨,以及什么事情导致Foosen死的很惨。我们来看一篇来自万炜老师的范文:

To begin with, as a young man living in a big city, I need to start saving up from now on, because there are a lot of things in the future costing tons of money. Take my good friend Foosen for example. He is an optimistic guy who prefers to seize the day. He can spend all his salary within just two days either on luxuries or on trips. Before he was even 22, he already went around the whole Africa. Unfortunately, not everything goes according to plan. Last year during his trip to South Africa, he accidentally broke his leg and had to go through surgery. However, since he could not cover the expense, he had to call everybody to borrow money. It took so long for him to collect the money that the surgery was delayed. As a result, the recovery period for him was 2 months longer than everyone else’s. Now, this example might be a particular instance, and it is out of his expectation. Nonetheless, in today’ssociety, even the potential spending within our expectation is already quite worrying. For instance, in Beijing, if I wish to purchase a 30-squaremeter apartment, it would cost me over 3 million yuan; if I want to invite, say, 20 friends to my wedding, I would have to pay over 200,000 yuan; not to mention if I have a child and want to support his education, it would cost at least 50,000 yuan per year just for him to go to kindergarten. It aches mejust to look at these horrifying numbers. If I don’t save up for my future, there would be no future. (275 words)

故事描述了主人公Foosen,由于是乐天派并且坚持活在当下,进而展开月光、全世界各地旅游;到之后有一次意外摔断腿,需要做手术,但没有存钱,从而导致恢复期比普通人长了两个月。大部分的同学就是这些故事的“细节”想不到,或者没思路。如何解决?很简单,就是多看。因为讲故事并没有一个明显的模式或公式可以使用。According to a Personalized Education: Schooling for Tomorrow published by OECD in , “Brains have the ability to generate rulesfrom examples. All that is needed, therefore, are the right examples – lotsand lots of them.”其实就是我们中学老师总的说的那句话,“量的积累产生质的飞跃。”大家想练好例证,只需要找到优秀的讲故事型范文,仿写10篇左右,自然会掌握规律。关于仿写的方法,大家可以关注我的公众号”Foosen资料库”进一步了解。

托福备考之独立写作题目练习

同不同意:Some people think that 最重要的品质 in choosing the leader of a school organization or club is 诚实.

Leaders of all kinds should have lots of qualities in order to thrive together with the team. Persistence, passion, confidence and personal charisma, to name a few. When it comes to question of whether honesty is the most important qualities of all for a leader in a student organization, I, personally, would say honesty is definitely not the most important even though it is a contributing factor for a qualified leader and there are other qualities that are more urgent than being honest.

First off, being a good listener and able to communicate well with fellow members can be more important than being honest. Only when a leader sits down and listens patiently to problems and concerns of his or her members, can he or she become an effective leader in a student organization. Also, being an effective communicator can also be equally important since it is essential to convey emotions and ideas clearly to others, and when the leader get his or her ideas across to the fellow members, it enjoys a better chance to be implemented. A leader with exceptional communication skills is very confidence and personable when they are interacting with others. Since they can grab the listeners' attention, it is very easy for them to build rapport with strangers and thus they enjoy better chance to broaden their social networks.

Additionally, it is more essential for leaders of student organizations to be compassionate about the community and set exemplars for their fellow members than just being honest. Actually, lots responsibilities of student leaders involve various volunteer programs and philanthropic activities, if leaders of students body are not committed to getting involved in charitable activities, there will be a lack of energy level and passion among his or her fellow members. To be more specific, students organizations involved in lots of volunteer activities, like collecting food, managing the inventory and distributing food to those in need. They also volunteer in homeless shelters to prepare food or even work behind the scene in the business office. If leaders are motivated to take the initiative and contribute their time and other resources to the community in the first place, chances are that his or her members would follow suit.

In all, students leaders should have more important qualities other than being honest like excellent communication skills, compassion about their community and dedication to their endeavors.

篇3:托福独立写作省时写作方法

托福独立写作省时写作方法 5步走快速写出好作文

步骤一 审清楚托福独立写作题目

有的考生抱怨,自己感觉文章内容丰富、语言生动流畅,得分却不高。其实,托福写作跑题是分数偏低的主要原因。因此,审好题、审清题在很大程度上关系到整篇文章的成败,绝不可以掉以轻心。要避免两个问题:

a. 用时太少

理由没有想清楚就开始写,不仅造成文章逻辑结构不清,还会引起行文中频繁的修正,欲速则不达;

b. 用时太多

不要追求一次思考就能把每一条理由及相关例证都想出来。其实想出两条之后就可以动笔,各个理由的例证可以写到该段时边思考边写。这一点你不必怀疑,只要你的思维还是正常的,一定能做到。

托福写作审题,不仅要仔细研究题目,还要结合给出的提示句加以分析。首先要明确文章要写的内容,即文章要围绕什么主题来写,这是保证整篇文章切题的关键;其次,确定文章所需的主语人称,人称混乱是中国学生常犯的一个毛病,而在审题阶段确定人称是避免文章人称混乱的有效途径;第三,注意文章对动词的时态、语气有无特殊要求。

步骤二 先写提纲

这一步很重要。托福写作时时间用得少,从而造成了理由没有想清楚就开始写,不但会导致文章逻辑结构不清,还会引起行文中频繁的修正,欲速则不达。草拟提纲时,要紧紧围绕提示句,尤其是提示句的关键词,尽量多地扩展提示句所提供的信息,从而基本构筑出文章的框架。在扩展提示句时,要注意,可以原封不动地照抄提示句中的关键词,但是绝对不要照搬提示句中的词组和句子,一定要变换意思相同的表达进行替换,这是显示考生语言应用能力的重要一环。为了避免段落内容跑题,要从提示句中的关键词出发,围绕关键词开拓思路,发挥联想,记录下所联想到的东西:可以是句子,也可以是词组;可以是英语,也可以是汉语。然后对所记录的内容进行筛选,选择最有代表性的内容草拟出文章的提纲。

步骤三 写出分段论点和主题句

托福写作主旨句包括全文主旨句和段落主旨句。全文主旨句涵盖全文的核心内容,而段落主题句则是统领段落中心内容的。段落主题句是为全文主旨句服务的。根据英美人的写作习惯,全文主旨句在文章首段的最后一句出现为宜。全文主旨句和段落主题句是作者思维的起点,切题的准绳。好的段落主题句,不但切题,便于围绕主旨句进行扩展,而又常常给读者一种一针见血的感受。看到段落主题句,读者应大致了解段落要阐述的内容,因而段落主题句通常是一个语法结构完整、内容概括、用词简洁、明了的单句。通常将段落主题句置于段落的开头,可使文章结构更清晰,说服力更强。

步骤四 填充文章内容完成写作

有了段落主题句后,还需要顺着段落主题句的方向,参照提纲中的思路,从而完成各个段落。写作段落时,要尽可能多地搜集细节来支持主题。

步骤五 通篇检查文章内容

托福写作考试时间紧张,匆匆完稿之后,疏漏在所难免,因而有必要复查,修改,及时纠正偏差,堵塞漏洞,从而将作文质量再提高一步。着重检查以下部分:

a.句法:保证了每一句话是完整的,有谓语,同时简单句都只有一个谓语。

b.时态:文章大多数都是使用一般现在时;一般现在时第三人称要使用单数;使用过去发生的事例时用的是过去时。

托福考试作文范例:有钱就算成功吗

托福考试作文题目:

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Only people who earn a lot of money are successful. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

托福考试作文参考分析:

不同意此观点。金钱不是衡量成功的唯一的标准,成功的定义更应该基于社会贡献。从多角度论证金钱不是万能的。

托福考试作文范文:

Since people's criteria for success differ, there is much debate over whether only those who make a lot of money are successful. As far as I am concerned, in today's society that stresses on individual achievement, money provides the best evaluation of one's accomplishment.

To begin with, as a standardized measurement used for comparing values, money is objective rather than subjective, so it is considered an authentic reflection of one's achievement. As different people hold different understandings of success, assessing the amount of one's earnings has become universally accepted as a rule to measure one's success. Each year, Fortune Magazine publishes a special issue to rank the top 100 most successful people throughout the world according to their yearly income, because there are no other methods to rely on.

In addition, the amount of money one makes is the consequence of one's hard work and talent. To deny the accomplishment wealth brings is equal to deny the sources from which it springs. In the past, I only believed in spiritual values and then leapt rashly to the conclusion that the best thing in life involves no money at all. It is my uncle who showed me the significance of money and changed my opinion. He told me he respected money and made it a goal to strive for in his way towards success. Because he would have to pay a price for it in terms of time, thought and energy. Gradually, I came to realize it is the mental and physical labor he devotes in the process of making money that paves his way for self-accomplishment, and thus deserves appreciation and respect.

Finally, money is the most powerful possession in one's lifetime. As everyone knows, success is the ability to do whatever one wants to and to be satisfied with oneself. There is hardly anything that can be done without a certain amount of money. Indeed, with money, one can meet his or her material demand in life, such as taking effective medicines, living in magnificent houses, eating various delicious food, and so on. Also, with money, one can do a lot of meaningful things to benefit others, such as donations to poor people. All these will not only satisfy one's need for personal fulfillment, but also add grandness to one's success.

In conclusion, money serves as a measurement of one's achievement. But we should keep in mind that only those who obtain money by hardworking and use it to benefit the society are really successful.

托福考试作文范例:孩子是否应该参加家务

托福考试作文题目:

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Children should be required to help with household tasks as soon as they are able to do so. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

托福考试作文参考分析:

(1)同意孩子参加家务的人群认为能够让儿童理解父母;让儿童发展一些家务技能,还能够让儿童体会到成功和失败的乐趣。本文是此观点。

(2)不同意让孩子做家务的人群认为让孩子过早参与家务劳动,而不顾孩子的承受能力,可能会导致孩子的逆反心理,反倒达不到教育目的。

托福考试作文范文:

Should children be required to help with household tasks as soon as they are able to do so? People have different opinions. Some people think that parents can do all the household tasks without children's help, children are still too young to do house work and sometimes they even make things worse. Other people, however, argue that it is very useful for children to take part in the household work. As far as I am concerned, I agree with the second opinion.

In the first place, children may have the sense of contribution when they take part in household tasks. After a child was born, the parents are always the part that gives, such as feeding, changing clothes, and bathing the baby. Others help children because they are too young to do these tasks. When they grow up, they will gradually have the ability to do something, such as washing clothes for themselves, cleaning the room for themselves. If they are required to do what they can do, after finishing their jobs and looking at the result of their jobs, such the clean clothes and the clean room, children will have a strong sense of contribution and success, which will help them form a good personal character.

In the second place, participating the household tasks will teach children how to cooperate with other people. For instance, when doing a house cleaning, one person cannot finish it all by oneself. Different tasks should be divided among several people. For example, dad cleans the windows, mom cleans the kitchen, boys clean the floor and girls decorate the wall. Gradually, children will get to know that they need to cooperate with others to make things done better and faster.

篇4:托福写作考试有没有参考价值

托福写作考试模板有没有参考价值

模板运用

1.托福的作文就是英文的“八股”,有套路,所以模板用得上。

2.词汇和固定短语要识记,主要是3类: ~环境的,经济的,社会进步等题目经常涉及的名词或者名词短语;~表示程度等的形容词和能够恰当修饰动词的副词;~起承转合作用的连接词和短语。

3.在正确,易懂的基础上,力求句型的变化多端,插入语,从句,倒装,虚拟等。

4.看清题目要求写什么,有比较的,要写出两者的不同,不要只说你支持的。

5.不同的reason不要糅合到一块去,每段中心要明确,且reason段落,要用英文写作的方式,开门见山的在段落开头指出;既然要成段,那么你所选择的reason一定要能扩展,也就是有东西好写,不要为赋新辞强说愁;所以虽然一个论点你可能有N个理由,但那些很有道理,但是你用英文无法表达清楚的,就不用写了,这不是上万字的论文。

on一出就要有example,两三个case足以,并且事例逻辑上能够支持原因。

7.整篇文章不要出现第二人称you,your,这是enjoy life等前辈的指点(指点了pumpkin,然后她又“数落”我的),多用people;你想,you就是阅卷人,你凭什么张口就用人家的书面语言教导人家呢?

8.个人的观点:尽可能的避免单独使用he/she,考虑到性别歧视问题。但是,如果你要顶字数的话,也请用 he or she。

9.口语化是初级者的大问题之一,写作文的时候往往是先想中文改怎么说,然后做个翻译工作;本来对非母语就很能驾驭,这样一来,说大白话,就直接导致句式的单一;所以还是要看看真题阅读文章的文法。

分段介绍

第一段,对题目改写,再用模板的套话扯一下,常用的手法是正反一提。

第二段,最大的reason,事例论据支持。

第三段,次大的reason,事例论据支持。

第四段,一个小的reason,外加一个不碍大事的however的对立。

第五段,对各段reason改写总结,也可以再加展望,但是不要号召。

独立写作

细节一:开头段交代清楚就行,不要一味求长

还记得学英语的时候,老师讲过的英语中有一种很奇葩的用法,就是形式主语(话说好多孩子都在纠结形式主语和强调句怎么区分)。为什么有形式主语呢?很简单,因为真正的主语太长了,容易对我们的理解造成影响,而且主语太长不美观,因此出现了形式主语it。既然语法中都有这样的一个用法,那么我们写作中又为何不遵循这个要求呢?开头段写得太长,占用时间不说,有时候开头段话都说尽了,会严重影响主体段的展开。因此,独立写作的开头段不要写太长,一般50-80个单词是极好的。

细节二:每段写完记得空一行

为什么呢?好看呗!试想一下,如果你的作文各段都连在一起的,你自己看起来舒服吗?更别说挑剔的考官来看了!你的作文如果不能从内容上征服考官,至少要在篇章结构上给人一种舒适的感觉!所以,每段写作记得空一行,你写着舒服,考官看着也舒服。

细节三:正式文体若能坚持不随意缩写,那将是极好的

缩写好吗?不好!因为首先不缩写的话可能是两个单词,缩写完单词数就少了!不过,这个点其实并不是最关键的,重点在于托福写作是应试作文,应该保持正式文体的写作风格!缩写会给人一种非正式的赶脚!所以,能够不缩写的尽量不要缩写。比如can’t,最好在托福写作中写成cannot,而can not则是英式英语的写法,记住了!

细节四:不要一写作文就把你“七大姑八大姨”搬出来

托福写作,太多这些个人的例子会给人一种非常personal的感觉!本身写作是在发表你自己的观点。虽然说托福的写作题可支持亦可反驳,但是关键点还在于你的论述能否让人觉得有一丝丝的可信度!举个例子,难道你姨喜欢吃的水果,大家都喜欢吗?所以,写作的例子若能避开太多个人例子,那又是极好的!或者如果你很强,可以考虑以客观的方式来写个人的例子!

怎样提高托福考试写作速度

速度提升

其实对于托福作文来说,不外乎四个字“熟能生巧”。

但是互相我们写托福 写作的过程,其实2个部分最为消耗我们的时间,第一个就是构思的过程,第二个就是想一句话怎么表达的过程。这两个部分是最为消耗时间的。因此,其实缩减写作文时间的过程,就是减少这两个部分所消耗的时间。

首先说第一个部分,构思的过程。

其实想必绝大多数上过辅导班的考友们都知道托福作文就是传统的,龙头凤尾猪肚子,这样的写作方式。第一段表明自己的观点,然后接下来每一段一开始给出分论点,最后一段进行总结,就这么简单。

但是实际上,这是我们想的方向不对,总是在向很宏观的想。这里的诀窍就是向细分领域想!当我们总是在想建筑对社会很好的时候,我们就是会很想象到理由以及例子,但是如果我们想得很细的时候,就发现好说了,比如我们可以说赵州桥,既有实用价值,也有观赏价值。这就言之有物了!这是第一,减少构思的过程的时间,靠细分领域。

接下来就是表达的过程。

其实对于表达的过程来说,我们也知道一句话,叫做日啖荔枝三百颗,不辞长作岭南人!应该是熟读唐诗三百首,不辞长作岭南人-_-!应该是不会作来,也会吟。换句话说,也就是要第一熟悉这门语言,然后多使用这门语言。

这其实就可以靠多做中译英的翻译,就会有所改进,比如说我们可以用一些网站将我们自己的作文按照对方地道的原文进行修改,这样的方法,通过大量的进行中译英的转换,来增加我们的熟练度,这样就可以逐步削减我们的思考怎样表达的时间。

字数要求

托福作文如果能达到350字-450字就已经很好了,只要达到这个范围内基本上就不会对你的分数产生任何负面影响。然而很多同学会进入一个写作误区,一味的追求字数,把本来简单的意思非要复杂化,讲的特别啰嗦。这样的同学反而不会得高分。

在官方指南中有这么一句话“An effective response is typically about 300 words long。 If you write fewer than 300 words,you may still receive a top score,but experience has shown that shorter responses typically do not demonstrate the development of ideas needed to earn a score of 5。”

关于托福独立写作的字数,唯一的要求就是下限,不能低于180.但是如果点写道了,再少也不可能少于180。托福独立写作基本上是机器评分就下了定论,人工评分部分基本上是重复机器的分。机器的评分标准就是对比你写的点和原文的点以及听力部分的点。答准1点,答全1点,得多少分,然后看你的改写程度,改写程度高,再加分。最后看你的结构是否完整,语法和词汇拼写正确率。注意不要照抄原文来增加字数,照抄原文造成机器认定你对原文的改写程度过低,这是会被扣分的。

ETS官方要求,托福综合写作字数要求都是150-225之间。那么,写作的字数到300字左右就会扣分么?答案是不一定。只要考生所写内容可以回答考题,不会因为超过规定字数而扣分。但是一些托友的经验来说,好文章的字数一般在300到350字左右。官方指南中明确说到:‘Suggested length is between 150 and 225 words. You will not be penalized if you write more, so long as what you write answers the question.’一般来说,大家一句句的想明白写什么,同时合理控制每句长度(一般认为12字左右为短句,25字为长句),之后成文的字数就应当自然而然的落在此区间中。

而针对着文章的字数,ETS也曾指出:考生所写内容能回答考题,考生不会因为超出规定的字数而被扣分。

总而言之,在语言质量相同的前提下,内容充实的文章更能展现出作者的写作能力。但不能为了追求词数而牺牲质量,因为在能力不扎实的情况下, 写得越快犯的错误可能越多,导致优势失去。

最后小编提醒大家,要达到一定的字数,熟练的打字。练习打字也是一项关键的工作,想要让文章内容有充分的表达,提高自己的打字速度是非常必要。

托福写作有哪些必备的转折句?

1. Nonetheless

1) The book is too long but, nonetheless, informative and entertaining.这本书篇幅太长,但是很有知识性和趣味性。

2) The problems are not serious. Nonetheless, we shall need to tackle them soon.问题不严重, 不过我们还是需要尽快处理。

3) Nonetheless, it contains an element of truth.然而它也有些道理。

2. However

1)We thought the figures were correct. However, we have now discovered some errors.我们原以为这些数据正确,不过我们现在发现了一些错误。

2)However, he smothered, as best he was able, these feelings.然而,他尽其所能抑制住了这些感情。

3)If, however, you are an extrovert you are quite likely to enjoy it.然而,如果你是一个性格外向的人,你很可能会喜欢它。

4)It was, however, a little disappointing.不过,这有点儿令人失望。

3. Nevertheless

1) He was very tired, nevertheless he kept working.他累得很,然而仍继续工作。

2) There is little chance that we will succeed in changing the law. Nevertheless, it is important that we try.我们几乎没有可能改变法律。不过,重要的是我们努力争取。

3) Nevertheless, they deserve notice and respect.然而,他们应该受到重视和尊敬。

4. By comparison

1) He was mortified by comparisons between his classmates’ good marks and his own.拿自己的成绩与同学们的优异成绩相比较他感到羞愧。

2) By comparison, expenditure on education increased last year.相比之下,去年教育经费增加了。

5. By contrast

1) By contrast, she was much more outspoken.对比起来,她坦率得多。

2) When you look at their new system, ours seems very old-fashioned by contrast.看看他们的新系统,我们的相比之下就显得太过时了。

6. Therefore

1) He is young and therefore easily pervertible.他年轻,因而容易变坏。

2) All sincere opinions should therefore be respected.因此一切诚恳的意见都应该收到尊重。

3) He is highly strung, and therefore, subject to heart attacks.他神经高度紧张,所以很容易发心脏病。

4) Therefore energy is now not a peripheral but a central issue in the economy.因此,能源在现时经济中并非枝节问题而是一个中心问题。

5) We have a growing population and therefore we need more and more food.我们的人口越来越多,因此我们需要越来越多的食物。

7. Hence

1) It’s handmade and hence expensive.这是手工制作的,因此价格很贵。

2) The computer has become smaller and cheaper and hence more available to a greater number of people.计算机已向小型低价的方向发展,从而使更多的人能够用上。

8. Thus

1) Life was thus made richer.生活因此变得更加丰富充实了。

2) We have failed. Thus we have to take the consequences.我们失败了。因此,我们只得承担后果。

3) We hope the new machine will work faster, thus reducing our costs.我们希望新机器将工作得更快,从而降低成本。

4) We’re able to do in-depth research and thus spot future trends.我们能作深度的研究,因而能看出来未来的趋向。

5) Old people often try to economize on heating, thus endangering their health.老年人常常想方设法节约暖气,结果损害了他们的健康。

6) The universities have expanded, thus allowing many more people the chance of higher education.大学扩招了,这样就使更多人能有机会接受高等教育。

7) A rise in incomes will create increased purchasing power, thus stimulating demand for goods and services.收入增加会提高购买力,从而刺激对商品及服务行业的需求。

8) We give money to charities, and thus salve our consciences.我们给慈善事业捐款,从而使自己的良心得到宽慰。

9. In view of

1) In view of the recent developments, we do not think this step advisable.考虑到最近事态的发展,我们认为这一步不可取。

2) Voluntary work was particularly important in view of the fact that women were often forced to give up paid work on marriage.考虑到妇女婚后常常被迫放弃有偿工作,志愿工作就尤为重要。

10. More often than not

1) Food is scarce and more often than not they go hungry.食物特别少,所以他们经常挨饿。

2) More often than not, his dog will try to bite his guests.他的狗经常会去咬客人。

11、For instance

1) What would you do, for instance, if you found a member of staff stealing?比如说,如果你发现有职员偷东西,你会怎么办?

2) It is a very nice town; it’s got very nice shops for instance.那是座非常好的城镇;例如,它有很好的商店。

3) Taking advertising for instance.以广告为例。

4) Let’s take Napoleon, for instance.以拿破仑为例。

5) Murder, petty theft and tax evasion, for instance, all have different motives and consequences.比如谋杀、小偷小摸和逃税,都有不同的动机和后果。

12. On the one hand

1) On the one hand they’d love to have kids, but on the other, they don’t want to give up their freedom.一方面,他们想要孩子,但另一方面,他们又不想放弃自由自在的生活。

2) The firm was accommodating its customers on the one hand and making aggressive demands on the other.这家公司一方面尽量给顾客提供方便,另一方面则向他们大提要求。

篇5:托福写作

Agree or disagree

Some people argue as if it is a general truth that a_____________________________.But to be frank, I cannot agree with them. There are numerous reasons why I hold no confidence on them, and I would explore only a few primary ones here.

The main problem with this argument is that it is ignorant o the basic fact that______________解释本段中心___________.

Another reason why I disagree with the above statement is that I believe that______________.

What is more, some students are interested in____________.

In a word, ________________.

篇6:托福写作

托福写作中,哪些语法错误你绝对不能犯?!

“我突然想起来,上次作文考试,有个地方犯了语法错误,怎么办?!”

急啥?考官在给分时,对于“失误”是具有一定容忍度的。如果只出现了一两个细小的问题,并且它没有离谱到让人读不懂你想表达什么,就几乎没啥影响。

那这是否意味着语法在写作中就无足轻重了?Of course not.

一方面,评分机器e-rater(Electronic Essay Rater)毫无疑问会关注“语法”这一维度(具体还会细分mechanics, usage, grammar, style四个方面)。大到句子不完整,小到句首字母没大写,所有这些问题都会被电子评分机器(电子鸡)记录在案。

另一方面,读者/考官看到一篇语法问题众多的文章也会浑身不适,从而打出不太友好的分数。

so……今天就来跟大家细数几个,每每批改作文时我总会见到的语法问题。希望看完这篇文章的你,出于关爱作者的慈悲之心,以后不要再犯这些错误啦!

p.s. 本篇提及的是宏观意义上的语法,grammar, mechanics, usage, style四个维度的问题都归到本篇所指的“语法错误”概念之下。

下面将着重从4个角度为大家讲解!

句子不完整

逗号错用

on the other hand=besides?

就是整不明白lack的用法

No.1 句子不完整

由于口语中往往容易出现省略,因此很多同学在写作中也斗胆偷工减料。比如以下对话:

- What's the matter? Why is he looking so sad?

他咋的了?为啥看上去这么难过?

- Cuz (Because) he's suffering from the post-vocation blues.

因为他患上了节后抑郁症。

这句答语放在口语对话环境中OK,但是在书面语里就是错的!具体来说,此类问题属于Fragments类型错误,是写作中最为典型的语法错误之一。为了更正这一点,大家需要谨记:

连词的作用在于连接句内信息

一个连词连接两个东西(可以是两个动词/名词(短语)/句子)

基于此,回到上面的:

病句:Because he's suffering from the post-vacation blues.

这里有一个连词(because),一个句子(主谓宾结构),显然少成分。

正确表述应该是:

He looks so sad because he's suffering from the post-vacation blues.

此时整句话里有一个连词,两个句子(主系表+主谓宾结构),搞定!

既然是连接句内信息,是不是连词只能位于句子中间才正确?并不!上面这句话我们颠倒一下顺序也正确:

Because he's suffering from the post-vacation blues, he looks so sad

不过,现代英语在这个规则上的要求相比以往松弛了不少,出现了三个特殊分子:and, but, so。虽然他们三个也是连词,但是如今确实存在“And/But/So +1个主谓宾”的情况。例如:

But campus leaders and many community donors had a bigger vision.

但是园区领导和捐赠者有一个更大的宏图。

语言随着时间的推进而发生变化,这很正常。而大家作为考生,需要注意3点:

只有and, but, so这三个词可以这样特殊使用

这样的用法毕竟严格意义上来讲还是错误的,不要使用过多

在e-rater的评分细则中,连词位于句首的句子出现过多也会被相应扣分

Style-Too many Sentences Beginning with Conjunctions

No.2 逗号错用

由于在口语中,逗号和句号都体现为短暂的停顿,所以使得许多同学无法区分二者的不同,并且在写作中疯狂使用逗号,从而出现传说中的run-on sentences(连写句)。举个例子:

I can't wait to pick up my girlfriend, I miss her so much.

我等不及了要去接女朋友,我好想她嗷。

所谓run-on sentences(连写句),就是指用逗号来连接众多主谓宾/主系表结构,从而使得你的句子好似脱缰的野马,跑得没有尽头。那么为何这种句子在写作中是错的?

因为英文中一句话里只有一个主谓宾结构。如果想要出现多个,那么可以用连词连接(上一条刚讲过),而不能用逗号。不然的话,就用句号将其决然断开成几个单独的句子。

因此,上面的句子可以改为——

I can't wait to pick up my girlfriend. I miss her so much.

I can't wait to pick up my girlfriend, and I miss her so much.

这种由于逗号乱用而导致的run-on sentences尤其容易出现在例证部分、想要在行文中增添细节的时候。所以大家这个时候除了关注内容本身,语法方面也不要松懈。比如下面这句也是个典型的run-on sentence:

Liu Xiang is a famous running athlete, who comes from an average family, his mother is a baker and his father is a driver, he cannot afford the expensive fee for professional train.

01 基本版:

Liu Xiang is a famous hurdler. He comes from an average family. His mother is a baker and his father is a driver. He could not afford the expensive training fee on his own.

2 高阶版本:

Born in a working-class family whose mother is a baker and father a driver, Liu Xiang, the famous hurdler, could not afford the expensive training fee on his own.

No.3 on the other hand=besides?

在展开段落时,为了让内容更加充实,聪明的选手们往往从多个角度解释论证。鉴于中文里的“另一方面”和“除此之外”似乎差不多,很多同学将on the other hand看作是besides, in addition一类词的替代品,然而他们的英文含义其实并不一样。

从上面柯林斯词典中的解释可以看出,on the other hand是用来引出一个与前者差异极大的/相反的观点/角度。比如:

He is a good guy; his brother, on the other hand, is a very selfish man.

他是个好人,而另一方面,他弟弟自私得要命。

换句话说,如果你提及的两个角度并非截然相反,那么不适合使用on the other hand。

因此,如果你论证时并没打算进行对比比较,那么需要提及其他角度时,就老老实实用besides/furthermore/moreover/additionally 等表示“此外”的词就好。

优秀例句练习,考虑空白处适合填什么连接词:

Juju老师声音也太温柔了吧; _____________, Juju老师批改好细致啊。

答案: in addition/moreover/besides

No.4 就是整不明白lack的用法

由于lack兼具动词和名词词性,加上它的形容词形式和动名词长得一样(lacking),导致好多选手使用起来总是出错。接下来我们就按照词性来一一说明。

lack作动词:及物动词。“缺少”什么,就直接将该事物跟在lack后面作宾语。比如:

You just lack a little confidence.

你只是少点儿自信。

如果以非谓语形式出现,也是后面直接跟宾语,没有其他介词出现:

Lacking a little confidence, he refused to participate this year’s talent contest.

由于缺少一点儿自信,他拒绝参加今年的才艺比赛。

lack作名词:a/the lack of sth. 表示“...的缺失”。比如:

Sometimes Joey's parents are angry at his lack of confidence.

有时候Joey的父母会对他缺少自信这点感到很生气。

先把上面这俩记好之后,再看lack的派生词:形容词lacking,常见搭配为lacking in sth. 比如:

Joey feels nervous and is increasingly lacking in confidence about himself.Joey

有些紧张,并且对自己越来越没信心。

上述内容记准确之后,就会发现:一定不会出现lacking of, lack in的情况!但是lacking后面有无in都有可能。脑壳别晕,先从词性入手,再结合搭配来记!

以上

Reference:

Ramineni, C., Trapani, C. S., Williamson, D. M. W., David, T., & Bridgeman, B. . Evaluation of the e-rater? scoring engine for the TOEFL? independent and integrated prompts (ETS Research Report No. RR-12-06). Princeton, NJ: ETS.

3月30日托福听力考试真题及答案

Conversation

1. 一个男生去问老师project的主题,他修了两门,想用一篇文章。他的电脑编程能力很强,还卖钱了,最后老师同意了。

2. 女生错过音乐会的班车,因为去错误的地方等车。

3. 有关音乐,男生爸爸妈妈都是学音乐的,妈妈跟他说了件事,教授是认同的。

4. 学生问自己没有收到邮件是不是没被在canteen的暑假工作录取(这时候老师赶着回家避免晚高峰所以很急(后面有问老师刚开始的态度) 然后提出能不能换一种工作方式? 老师说那这样别的正式录取的人会怎么想呢 最后建议他外面找工作 可以列一个可以去申请的list申请可以写她的名字。

5. 女孩想卖她的作品,但是学校的贩卖不对学生开放,之后professor建议2种方式:

(1)是寄卖还是什么那个缺点是有手续费什么的,得到的钱太少,必须出高价;

(2)是到市场上,问题是太远,解决方案professor说是有学校bus在那,而且可以获得全部的钱。

6. 女生选了建筑专业,因为一个老师讲的很好,讨论一个她发现的特别的建筑,类似于装配式建筑,好处很多:1省钱,省空间;2对于投资者来说减少交税;3 air beam的作用,提到floating building。可以用到自己的prioject里面。

7. 女生选的夏季课不上了,以为会自动退费,结果没有,于是去找工作人员。然后女生又说想要找个兼职,想做assistant,但工作人员已经满了,结束工作在那可以提供的只有ssa,女生觉得太低级,不愿意做。

Lecture

1. 天文课,关于Vesta.

2. 有关简奥斯汀,他没有傲慢与偏见的作者出名,因为她翻印了两版,给了四次钱,但是她一生都没有靠书挣钱。

3. 有关婴儿辩色和认大小的,用婴儿的目光停留在事物上的时间判断他们是否有辨别的能力。当然,婴儿的学习是没有目的性的,不像成人。

4. 有关气候。

5. 讲到ITCZ的移动和Titan,讲了水循环就是液化然后形成气体再降雨。一个证据是卫星发现了有黑的spot,而且消失的速度和云消失的速度差不多。第二是ITCZ的位移。重复10月31日

6. 生物节律。

7. 迪士尼早期电影艺术。

203月30日托福阅读考试真题及答案

上月底的托福考试,受到了留学生的一致关注,那么真题和答案究竟是怎样的呢?下面就跟着出国留学网一起来看看年3月30日托福阅读考试真题及答案。

1.自然选择环境因素对蛾子的影响。 一种白蛾子一种黑色蛾子。开始白蛾子活的好,黑蛾子不好,因为会被发现。之后,工业革命了,树干都黑,于是白蛾子都要死翘翘了;但是之后开始治理环境了, 白蛾子又多了,黑蛾子又少了。并且这次的影响很大。

2.讲猫的嗅觉

3.煤和英国的工业化

4.昆虫的分工

5.商周的青铜器

6.几种植物生长方式,年度周期植物,常绿植物,落叶植物,针叶植物。

7.磁性虫子的分工,从保姆到Forger的转变,因为受到体内某种激素影响,这激素会因为周槽环境多了更多成熟的已经完成转变的虫子的影响。

8.关于一个地方的文明发源

9.动物对飞行的感应

10.鱼怎么呼吸,用gill 和bubble

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篇7:托福写作

托福独立写作题目:It is easier to become educated today than it was in the past.相比过去,人们现在更容易接受教育?

思路讲解:

今昔对比类的老题,思路总体不难展开,按照上课讲的理由作答即可。

选择同意,即现在受教育比过去容易

1.现代社会,接收知识和信息的方式增多,这可以给各类人群提供受教育的机会:网络课程(在职人士、异地学生等);各类培训班(出国考试、考研、CPA等)而在过去,适龄学生基本只能在学校受教育。

2. 政策扶持: 如中国让出生在贫困线(家庭年收入2300元)及以下家庭的孩子免费接受教育等。

托福写作模板思路分享—政府开发公共用地

托福独立写作题目:镇政府要投资开发公共用地,有两个选择: 1. 为所有民众建造公共花园 2. 为还没有体育场的高中修建体育场

思路讲解:

如选择为全民建造公共花园,可以这样展开:

1.花园对环境保护以及全民健康大有裨益。如现在空气污染严重,雾霾频发,空气污浊,气味刺鼻(pungent),导致许多人患上呼吸系统疾病。建造公共花园可以极大地帮助缓解这些问题,因为花草普遍可以进行光合作用,可帮助净化空气。后面举例说明即可。

2. 虽然学生在运动场上运动也有好处,如放松减压等,但也有其他途径也可以帮助实现这个目标,如在健身房运动、与朋友聊天等。

如果选择为没有体育场的高中建造体育场,可以这样构思:

1. 有利于高中生放松减压。高中生普遍学业压力很大,不仅每天要上多门课,还要完成各种作业。如果能在运动场上做运动,就可以暂时摆脱学业的压力与烦恼,心情也会变好。运动完毕再回归学习时,也能感觉更神清气爽有效率。在花园赏花固然也能让人放松以及平静心绪,但是在运动的过程中,身体各部位得以锻炼,也会汗流浃背,这会让人感到更畅快。

2. 在运动场运动可以培养团队合作意识,增进友谊。可以拿足球篮球等团队运动举例。

托福写作模板思路分享之保持身体健康

托福独立写作题目:Agree or disagree: it is easier for people to maintain good health today than it was in the past.

是否同意:相比过去,人们更容易保持身体健康。

思路讲解:

一道老生常谈的今昔对比型考题。今昔对比题是每年必考题型,这道题更是在过往的几年于中国大陆和北美至少考过三次,重要性和经典程度不言而喻。

如果选择同意,即人们现在维持好的健康状况比过去更容易,可以这样展开构思:

1.医疗技术的进步可以预防及治愈在过去或许会致命的(fatal)疾病。可以拿手术、HPV疫苗等举例。

2. 现代人饮食更全面均衡,这对健康有利。过去人能够吃到的食物种类较少,甚至在灾害发生的年份,只能吃到草根树皮等;而现代人能够接触到各种食材,包括蔬菜、瓜果,鸡蛋和谷物等,营养摄入更充分。

如果选择不同意,也就是人们在过去比现在更易维持健康,可以考虑现代社会存在哪些不利健康的因素,如空气污染,繁重的生活工作压力等。

托福写作模板思路分享之培养大一学生的学习习惯

托福独立写作题目:许多大一学生有不好的学习习惯。有人认为大学应该给所有大一新生提供一门必修课,帮助他们培养好的学习习惯,其他人认为不必要。

思路讲解:

这道题选择同意更好写:

1.此类课程可以帮助学生提高学习效率。大一学生刚进入大学,对于大学学习不能完全适应,所以可能无法合理安排学习时间及学习任务,很多学生甚至总拖到截止期快要到来的时刻才开始拼命赶作业。如果大学在这方面给新生指导,他们就更能有条不紊地安排学习,提高效率,甚至还能匀出时间做其他有助于自我提升的事情,如参加研讨会等。

2. 大学这样做能够帮助大一新生增强学习自主性,从而取得良好成绩。大一学生的学习习惯往往源自高中,而高中的学习方式与大学大相径庭,如果大学新生把高中的方法用在学习大学课程上可能没有好的效果,甚至适得其反。例如拿自己国家的情况举例。很多高中生学习缺乏自主性,总是被动等待,老师教的就是学生学的,学生不会自己多学。老师也常在课上讲作业题。而在大学,老师讲课普遍粗放,如果自己不积极主动学习更多,那么很有可能是无法取得好成绩的。比如很多大学老师的一节课能覆盖一本厚书中至少一半的内容,或讲的内容与教材无关,课下为了完成作业,就必须花大量时间自学及研读各种文献等。作业中的问题也要主动询问老师,因为老师上课往往不讲作业,自己不问就得不到解决。正是因为有如此高的自主性要求,很多大一学生刚开始并不能适应,导致成绩达不到自我期待。

托福写作模板思路分享之“分享给孩子的价值

托福独立写作题目:Which one of the following values do you think is the most important to share with a young child (aged 5-10)? Being helpful; being honest; being well-organized

以下哪一项价值你认为分享给5-10岁的孩子最为重要:助人,城市,有条理

思路讲解:

这道独立考题认真做过准备的宝宝们会发现,在近几年的北美和中国大陆考试中已轮番出现数次。此题选择哪种value都可以,能给出合理的理由和例证即可。

比如选择最后一项,有组织有条理:

第一段:组织条理需要在孩子小时候各方面还未定型之际培养,以帮助孩子养成良好的习惯,有助于未来发展。举例说明即可,比如从小让孩子自己整理各种东西,安排每天需要做的事情等,孩子就会学会有条不紊地安排自己每日的学习和生活,即便将来长大面对繁重的课业和工作压力时,也能沉着应对,有助于提高效率,把事情做得更好。

第二段:乐于助人的品质固然很好,但是这项品质的养成不一定通过刻意分享,而更多的在于周边人的做法,如果孩子周围的人都乐于助人,那么孩子处在这样的环境里也自然会耳濡目染,受到影响,变得愿意帮助别人。

第三段:诚实同样代表此人可靠人品好,但是人不可能在何时何地都诚实,不论孩子还是成人,都会在某些特定情况下选择说非恶意的谎言。此处可以举例说明。

如果选择诚实,可以论述诚实的重要性,如诚实代表此人可靠人品好,这样的人会容易获得他人的信任,有助于自身发展。不选有组织有条理的原因是因为这样会一定程度上限制创造力,有研究佐证。

篇8:托福写作

一、阅读:寻找核心句和关键词,切忌word by word。

英美人写文章的总体逻辑可以概括为总分或总分总。而托福综合写作的阅读材料多为前者布局,且多为四段式(首段总起,三段分别展开)。

首段主要用来提供背景信息或者提出话题,(注意:阅读和听力是同一个话题,极少考到观点相互补,多为观点相对立。)而作者的立场或论点多位于首段的最后一句,聪明的考生会把注意力多集中于首段的尾句,确定作者的立论点,从而对于下一阶段的听力大致话题和论述做到心中有底。

随后的段落即展开给出作者之所以立论的三个分论点或论据,在单个的段落当中,又遵循了西方人惯有的总分模式,单个段落的首句多为topic sentence,考生可以只关注三个段落的首句以快速获取段落主要内容,从而避免全文通读速度不够而导致的来不及看完阅读。

二、听力:判断说话人立场,记录观点和支持性论据

听力环节的笔记很重要,是决定综合写作能否顺利完成的关键因素。没有经过训练或者疏于练习的同学会对于该记什么无从下手,结果就是笔记做了,自己看不懂,或者笔记太过凌乱,毫无可利用性。

要知道听力该记什么怎么记,此时应当牢记心里的仍然是西方人的逻辑性。“总分”表明了在听力的开始段是表明说话者立场和论点的,那么按照我们之前分析的,阅读和听力必然是同主题,所以听力开始时候大家不必忙着乱记一通,事实上,什么都不用写,镇定情绪,听清说话者的立场即可。

接着,和阅读中相似,说话者会从三个方面阐述支持自己的观点,很多情况下,这三点和阅读中的三点是刚好契合,一一对应的。但听力三方面的分论据往往是从阅读中无法推断的,所以分论点及论据是需要同学进行笔记的,应当记的是key words,切忌洋洋洒洒想记全一句话,最后自己也难以读懂。

三、想办法提高自己的记忆容量。

各位考生不妨观察一下自己抄写英文句子的情况。大多数未经训练的第二语言学习者很可能都是每写下一个词就要回去重新读一次才能继续抄下去——有的时候甚至可能需要每写一个字母就要返回文本重看一眼才能继续。这说明此人的记忆容量只能容纳一个词(或者甚至连一个词都容纳不了)。

记忆容量大的人理解文本更为容易,又因为能够理解所以记忆文本更加容易,进而又因为能够记得住而联系上下文更为轻松,而记忆容量过小的人基本上连看完一篇文章都非常吃力。

不过,只要稍加训练,记忆容量就会扩充至足够用的地步。迅速将自己的英文记忆容量提高到“够用”的地步,最好的方法就是通过“跟读”、“朗读”训练平日积累。因为朗读可以非常有效而又迅速地提高文字理解能力。这很关键,记不住的最重要原因并非“记忆力差”——无论记忆力多好,都很难记住无法理解、无法关联 的信息——听得懂才容易记得住。

四、是大家比较关心的模板问题。

综合写作中,要将阅读和听力观点整合起来时,如果在准备阶段备有一套好用的模板,那么就是如虎添翼了。建议考生应当备有自己独一无二的模板,通过对同义换词,句型多变,做到集多个好模板于一身,又毫无雷同的独家模板。

篇9:常用托福写作

Finally,the professor stated that ,on the contrary of reading,......In other words,.....This directly contradicts what the reading passage indicates,because.....

反驳的单词:differ from ,disagree with, cast doubt on, conflict with, challenge

篇10:常用托福写作

In the lecture, the professor made several points about...The lectureargues that.....The points made by the professor agree with .....In fact, the examples used by the professor support...

篇11:常用托福写作

Furthermore, the professor bolsters the reading by stating that....

The professor claims that.....This point agrees withthe reading ,which contends that.....

篇12:常用托福写作

反驳类

The lecture is mainly discussing ______, ________ and___________

by_________, challenging what are stated in the reading passagethat _________, _________ and _______.

First of all, the speaker thinks that___________. In contrast, the reading passage believes that_____________. So, the lecture totally disagree with the view made in the reading.

Second, the speaker discusses___________, Contradicting what is stated in the reading that_____________________.

Finally, the speakers raises the issue that___________. This point disagreesthat________________ demonstrated in the reading.

So, the contents in the reading passage are totally jeopardized by the speaker and the speaker has totally different ideas on the topics made in the reading.

(Refute)

The lecture apparently refutes the points illustrated in the reading material. According to the professor, ________________.On the contrary, the reading contends an opposite stand that_____.

The first point the professor uses to cast doubt on the reading isthat___________, which differs from the statement in the readingthat_____.

Another evidence the speaker adopts to contradict the passage is________. However, the reading statesthat_________.

In the conclusion, the point made in the lecture contrasts with what is presented in the reading. As the professor claims, ________whereas the reading material holds that________.

(Support)

The lecture apparently reinforces the points illustrated in the reading material. According to the professor, ________________.Meanwhile, the reading contends a similar stand that_____.

The first point the professor uses to enhance the reading is that___________, which is just the same as the statement in the reading that_____.

Another evidence the speaker adopts to bolster the passageis________. Likewise, the reading statesthat_________.

In the conclusion, the point made in the lecture gives a boost to what is presented in the reading. As the professor claims, ________which is in accordance with the reading material holds that________.

篇13:常用托福写作

Finally, the professorstates that,in support of the reading,.....Specifically,.....This perfectly reinforced what the reading passage indicats because

support的单词:enhance, uphold, corrobo,to back, justify, to substantiate, to advance

篇14:托福写作

Well begun is half done是大家耳熟能详的英语谚语。

也就是说,一个漂亮的开头,往往是文章写作成功的一半。

尤其在雅思和新托福写作考试中,好的开头往往能够在瞬间吸引考官眼球,留下良好的第一印象。

那么,我们怎样才能写漂亮的引言段呢?首先,我们要做到开门见山,明确写作话题和目的。

如何才能做到开门见山?

我们可以采用以下几种方式:

1. 采用统计数字引出话题,把问题呈现在读者面前;

2. 提出有争议性的问题,激发读者兴趣,使其积极参与讨论;

3. 以新颖的观点,吸引读者注意力;

4. 呈现该话题正反方的观点;

5. 引用名人名言、谚语等作为文章的开头;

6. 对将要讨论的话题进行定义。

其次,要善于运用复合句,从而使引言段简洁明了,开宗明义。

下面我们将探讨雅思与新托福各种题材和体裁文章引言段的写作方法。

引用数据呈现讨论的话题,说明问题的严重性或者重要性,引起读者的关注。下面我们结合几道雅思和新托福作文话题进行实战演练。

我们在写关于体罚的话题文章时,可以这样开头:It is reported that a boy in Zhuhai was beaten to death by his father on Father\" Day. Ample evidence also shows that children who are frequently abused by their parents or teachers tend to be introverted, pessimistic, indifferent and even world-weary. Recently, there has arisen a fierce argument on whether corporal punishment should be abolished. Teachers, parents and experts take diverse attitudes towards this issue.

(据报道,在父亲节那天,珠海有个小男孩被老爸揍死了。充分的证据也显示,经常遭父母或老师虐待的小孩往往比较内向、悲观、冷漠甚至厌世。近来,关于是否应该废除体罚出现了一场激烈的争论,老师、家长和专家各执一词。)

而我们在写关于该不该禁烟的话题时,可以这样开头:A recent study conducted by Zhongshan University has found that the number of smokers has been increasing sharply over the past five years. Research findings also reveal that the incidence of smoking-related conditions has soared. As a result, the ban on smoking has been in the spotlight.

(中山大学最近做的一个研究表明,在过去五年里,吸烟者人数急剧上升。研究结果同时显示,吸烟导致的疾病发病率也急剧增长。因此,禁烟成了个热点话题。)

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