2020年11月21日事件类

Prompt: 

Describe a time when you saw children behave badly in public. You should say:

Where it was

What the children were doing

How others reacted to it

And explain how you felt about it

Okay, so a time I saw children behaving badly in public was when I saw a boy throwing a temper tantrum at a toy store since his parents wouldn’t buy him a remote control car. So, this was at a toy store in a major shopping center, so there were obviously a lot of people.

The boy was probably six or seven, and the entire time, he was kicking and screaming that he wanted to buy the toy. His parents tried to console him by saying that they would take him to the playground afterwards, but their efforts were completely futile. The boy couldn’t stop crying and making a scene, and the parents seemed really flustered as well.

Um, as for how other people reacted to it, some of them glanced at what was happening in passing, but walked away afterwards. I also saw some other children whispering to their parents or even rolling their eyes. One of the store cashiers also approached the scene to see if there was anything wrong.

To wrap things up, I felt like the boy was rather spoiled and disrespectful, but temper tantrums are also quite common among children his age. I think he needs to learn to gradually accept that he won’t always get what he wants in life and that he needs to appreciate what he already has. And, well, I believe parents are responsible for teaching their children these values as well as social etiquette. 

throwing a temper tantrum 乱发脾气

console 安慰，慰藉

futile 无用的，无效的

making a scene 当众大吵大闹

flustered 慌张的，激动不安的

glanced at 看一下

rolling their eyes 翻白眼

spoiled 宠坏了

disrespectful 无礼的

social etiquette 社交礼仪

范文解析：

这是一篇话题为事件类的雅思口语范文。在这篇范文中，作者陈述的顺序主要是按照helping question的顺序来进行的。helping question就是题目中关于这个事件的四个问题。作者在开启一个新问题的时候会使用一些非常好用且地道的表达来引出这一个问题的回答，比如说第二个自然段中回答How others reacted to it的时候，作者使用了As for + helping question( how other people reacted to it) 的表达，这是一个引出问题的常见表达方式，我们一般称之为opening phrase，这个表达可以翻译为：至于人们对待这样的行为如何反应的。在启德2019雅思口语教科书中有一个非常好用的口语技巧与这种表达方式非常类似，叫做FBS 技巧，即 fluency based strategy. 这个口语技巧主要是通过学习一些opening phrase，帮助考生的回答更加的完整且地道，同时，在使用这个技巧的时候,学生自己需要思考的部分减少了,从而有效的减少了因为学生的思考所造成的停顿时间，增加学生口语回答的流利度。

在这篇范文中，作者使用了非常多的关于事件类的话题词汇，这些表达和词汇都是非常值得各位考生多多学习并积累起来的。在启德2019雅思口语教材中还有非常多实用的口语技巧，如果想要了解更多关于口语的知识，欢迎大家来启德上课。