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1. Talking About Personal Habits
2. Expressing Likes and Dislikes
3. Expressing Reasons for Likes and
Dislikes
4. Expressing a
Preference
5. Comparing
6.
Talking About Recent Changes
7.
Contrasting
8. Suggesting
9. Expressing Opinions
10.
Giving Reasons for Opinions
11. Explaining
12.
Speculating ( = Guessing When You Don't Know)
13. Speculating ( = guessing) About the
Future
14. Expressing Plans, Intentions
and Hopes for the Future
15. Clarifying
16. Explaining a Word When you have
Forgotten (or don't know) the Word
17.
Speaking in General
1.
Talking About Personal Habits
Example question:
What do you usually do in
the evenings?
1.
I usually ...
2.
I often
...
3.
While I'm studying I usually
...
4.
Sometimes I ....
5.
As a rule, I
...
6.
Whenever I can I ...
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2.
Expressing Likes and Dislikes
Example question:
What kinds of music do you
like?
1.
My favourite ... is ...
2.
I like
...
3.
I enjoy ...
4.
I'm
(quite/rather) keen on ...
5.
I just
love
...
6.
I absolutely
adore
....
7.
I'm
crazy
about ...
8.
I'm
addicted
to ...
9.
I'm really
into ...
10.
I don't mind ...
11.
As far as
.... is concerned, I can take it or leave
it.
12.
I don't care too much for ... = I'm not
really into ...
13.
My least
favourite .... is ...
14.
I dislike
...
15.
I can't
stand
...
16.
I
hate
...
(extreme language)
17.
I find ...
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3. Expressing Reasons for Likes and
Dislikes
1.
... because
...
2.
... since ...
3.
The main
reason I like...... is that it's ......
4.
What I like
best about ..... is .....
5.
The thing I
like best about ..... is ......
6.
The best/worst
thing about ... is ...
7.
I don't like
that very much because it's too ......
8.
That's because
I find it ......
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4. Expressing a
Preference
Example
question:
Do you
(or, would you) prefer to travel alone or with
others? (e.g., a friend)
1.
I prefer ...
because
2.
My preference is ... because
...
3.
I prefer A to B because ...
4.
If I had the
choice, I'd + V ... because ...
(
假设的话
)
5.
If I had the
choice, I'd rather + V... because ...
(
假设的话
)
6.
If I have the
choice, I'll + V ....
(a real
possibility for the future)
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5. Comparing
Example
question:
What are the differences between modern
art in China and traditional Chinese
art?
1.
A is bigger than B.
2.
B is not as
big as A.
You can also use some of these:
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Use “much”
as
in, “A is much better /
worse than B”.
“A is not
nearly as good as B.”
“B is
nowhere near as big as A”
“A
is not quite as important as B.”
“A is almost as important as B, but not
quite.”
“In comparison to
B,
A is quite
big.”
Or, “A is quite big
in comparison to B”.
“Compared to B, A is
a lot
bigger.”
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6. Talking
About Recent Changes
= Comparing the recent
past and the present
Example question:
Has your hometown changed much in the
past few years? (e.g. 20 years)
Yes, it has. For example,
...
1.
Today there
are many more cars on the roads than there were
thirty years ago.
(
...
there are/is more_____ than there were/was
....
)
2.
The air
pollution is much worse/much better than it used
to be.
(
______ is more ____ than
it used to be.
)
3.
Compared to
thirty years ago, the population of the city has
increased by about two
million.
(
Compared to thirty years
ago, _______ has +
过去分词
)
4.
The population
of the city has increased by about two million
people in the last thirty
years.
(
______
has +
过去分词
in the
last thirty years
)
5.
More people
today own a car than was the case thirty years
ago.
(
More _________ today +
present tense than was the case thirty years
ago.
)
6.
Today, more
and more people are living in high-rise apartment
buildings whereas thirty
years ago, we
had very few high-rise apartments buildings in our
city.
(
Today ______ are +
现在分词
whereas
thirty years ago + past
tense
)
7.
More and more
large-scale supermarkets are being built nowadays
but there were very
few of them in my
hometown thirty years ago
(
More and more ________ are
being +
过去分词
nowadays but + past tense thirty years
ago.
)
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7.
Contrasting
The question is
usually 'a compare question'. When you answer one
of these questions, you can use a
contrasting statement. However, since
the grammar of the comparing answers (see above)
is more
difficult, you will impress the
examiner more by mostly using that, rather than by
using contrasting
statements.
Example:
(____ is _____ but _____ is
____)
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A contrasting statement has two parts
and the second part basically repeats the first
part in
grammatical form but the idea
expressed in the second part is the opposite idea
to the first part.
In the example
above, the two ideas expressed are the adjectives
'big' and 'small' but you can use
adverbs or phrases as well. (The yellow
words are given extra stress because they are
words in
contrast.) For example,
He works quite slowly whereas I work
quite fast
I was on my
way to work but he was on his way
home
.
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Of course, it's
much better to add words such as 'quite'. For
example,
A is quite big while B is
rather
small.
Instead of 'but' you
can use, 'while' or 'whereas'. It's possible but
not necessary to include the
expression,
A is quite big
but, on the other hand, B is
rather
small.
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The verb form
doesn't have to be present tense
–
any suitable verb form is
possible.
When you speak a sentence
with a contrasting statement,
it is
important
to stress the words that
are in contrast. (The examiners are
looking for these stressed words. Examiners use
contrast
statements as part of their
assessment of your pronunciation score, not so
much your grammar
score.) For example:
A
is quite
big
while
B
is rather
small.
The words 'big' and
'small' have
the greatest sentence
stress but 'A' and 'B' are also stressed.
8.
Suggesting
Example
questions:
What would you
suggest a visitor to your country see and
do?
What do you think the
government could/should
do?
1.
2.
3.
4.
I'd ....
(suggest, recommend, say, tell him/her/them)
....
Maybe/perhaps/possibly
... + could / should ...
It
might/may help if ....+ past tense form of
verb
It would probably + (be
a good idea, be useful, help) if
+
past tense form
of verb
5.
I ....
(suggest, recommend, say) ....
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9.
Expressing Opinions
Example question:
Do you think that children should
always be offered an incentive (a reward of some
kind) when parents ask their children
to do something?
1.
I think
...
2.
I believe ...
3.
I feel
...
4.
Personally, I (think, believe, feel)
...
5.
I tend to + (think, feel, believe) that
...
6.
In my opinion, ...
7.
In my view,
...
8.
I've always + (thought/believed/felt)
that ...
9.
I maintain that ...
10.
I've always
maintained that ...
11.
It seems to
me that ...
12.
I'm convinced that ...
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