在托福口语的考试中，结构混乱的口语一定不能取得高分。所以，想要冲刺托福口语的高分，就一定要练就一口表述连贯、结构清晰的口语，下面我们就为大家带来托福流利口语练成的六大法则。
六招说出连贯托福口语之统一人称和时态
Your listener can get confused if you are not consistent. Look atthe following example:
My teacher brought five paper bags to school one day. He put us intogroups and gave each group a bag. You have to take the objects out of the bagsin turn and then a person has to tell a story involving the object from thebag.
The listener may get confused by the change from the past tense tothe present tense, and the change from us to you and then to a person. Thelistener might also be confused by the change from the plural form objects andbags to the singular forms object and bag.
The listener could follow this speaker's ideas better if the speakerwere consistent. Look at the way this example can be improved:
One day my teacher put us into five different groups. He gave eachgroup a bag and told us to take turns pulling out an object and telling theother members of the group a story involving that object.
六招说出连贯托福口语之对陌生概念进行解释
In order to help your listeners understand, you may need to define aterm that you use in your response. Read the following example:
My hobby is telemark skiing.
If the speaker does not define the term and listeners do not knowwhat telemark skiing is, they might not understand the rest of the passage.Sometimes listeners can guess the meaning through the context of the passage,but sometimes they cannot. Here is the definition this speaker gave of telemarkskiing:
That means skiing using telemark skis.
Even though the speaker defined telemark skiing, listeners still maynot understand what it means because the speaker defined the term with the sameword. To effectively define aword, use a three-part definition:
1. State the word or phrase to be defined.
2. Give the category that the word or phrase fits into.
3. Tell how the word is different from other words that fit the samecategory.
Read this example of an effective definition:
Telemark is a type of alpine skiing in which the boots are connectedto the skis only at the toes, so traditional skiing techniques have to bemodified.
六招说出连贯托福口语之运用总分总结构
Your listeners will understand your talk better if you organize whatyou say in a logical sequence or linear pattern. This means that you tell thelisteners what you are going to talk about and then go through the points youwant to make. The most common pattern of organization is outlined below:
Introductory statement
Point 1
Point 2
Point 3
Concluding statement
An example of this pattern is shown below:
Breeding butterflies has many advantages for the collector.
1. way of obtaining specimens
2. spares can be released into the wild
3. helps survival because butterflies have been protected fromnatural predators
The experience is a learning experience for the collector and abenefit to the species.
六招说出连贯托福口语之运用平行结构
Your listener can understand the flow of your ideas better if youuse parallel structures when you speak. Read the following incorrect example:
My teacher gave interesting assignments and motivating the students.
The listener may be confused because the speaker has mixed differentgrammatical structures. Does the speaker mean my teacher gave interesting andmotivating assignments to the students'? In this sentence, interesting andmotivating are parallel adjectives. Or does the speaker mean My teacher gaveinteresting assignments and motivated the students? In this sentence, gave andmotivated are parallel verbs.
六招说出连贯托福口语之运用连接词
Connecting ideas by using transition words and phrases tells yourlisteners the relationship of one idea to the next. You can signal to yourlistener that you are going to put events in sequence, add information, or makea comparison. You can signal that you want to emphasize or clarify a point.Using transition words and phrases helps your listener follow the flow of yourideas. Read the following example without transitional expressions:
In my physics class, we did lots of experiments that helped clarifyscientific principles. Understood those principles better by doing thoseexperiments.
These sentences would flow better if the speaker used transitionalexpressions as in the following example:
In my physics class, we did lots of experiments that helped clarifyscientific principles. As a result, I understood those principles better.
六招说出连贯托福口语之同义转换
When a speaker keeps repeating a word or phrase, listeners can getconfused. Read the following example:
My teacher wrote the assignment on the chalkboard. The assignmentwas on the chalkboard until the teacher erased the assignment after we had alldone the assignment.
This speaker's ideas would be clearer if the repeated words werereplaced with other expressions or with pronouns. Look at the way this examplecan be improved:
My teacher wrote the assignment on the chalkboard. She erased theboard after we had all completed the task.
The word assignment has been replaced with task; the word teacherwith she; and the word chalkboard with board.
