如何在短期內提高雅思寫作?
想要知道提高雅思寫作成績的秘訣是什么,就需要先知道雅思寫作低分的規律是什么。
雅思寫作最容易出低分的兩種情況:
第一種: 嚴重跑題;邏輯混亂;詞匯匱乏;句型單一,以上四種問題共存的時候,分數不高應該不奇怪;
第二種: 背模板,套用模版寫作。
有的同學可能會問,為啥用高分模版得低分呢?原因很簡單,你認為很好的模版,在閱卷無數的考官眼里都是千篇一律。不客氣的說,愿意用模版的學生,是想走捷徑不肯真正付出的學生,用模版教學的老師是個不成熟的老師。
那么真正有效的在短期內提高雅思寫作成績的秘訣是什么呢?
首先就是中英思維方式的轉變。
一、漢英宏觀上思維方式的差異
1. 英語的思維模式是直線式的.直接的,其特征可歸納為三個步驟:
1)Say what you're going to say.
2)Say it.
3)Then say what you've said.
比如:
a. Many workers are seduced by rosy illusions of life as a telecommuter. A computer programmer from New York City moves to the tranquil Adirondack Mountains and stays in contact with her office via computer. A manager comes into his office three days a week and works at home the other two. An accountant stays home to care for her sick child; she hooks up her telephone modem connections and does office work between calls to the doctor.
解析:上段中,第一句為 “topic sentence”, “很多人都向往美好的遠程辦公生活”,即“Say what you're going to say.”后面列舉了3個例子來支撐第一句,即Say it.
2. 漢語的思維模式是曲線式的, 間接的,其特征可用成語“畫龍點睛”來概括,即大量的筆墨用在鋪墊,陳述上,最后才擺出自己的觀點。
比如:
Definition of College Education
College is an institution of higher learning that gives degrees. All of us needed culture and education in life, if no education to us, we should go living hell. One of the greatest causes that while other animals have remained as they first man along has made such rapid progress is has learned about civilization. The improvement of the highest civilization is in order to education up-to-date. So college education is a very important thing which we don't need mention about it. (文中錯誤是原文中存在的)
解析:這為典型的中式寫法。前文用大量的鋪墊來說理,最后得出結論“大學教育很重要,我們沒必要再提及”
二. 思維方式差異在議論文的具體體現:
1. 英語議論文:
1)先概括后舉例(Generalization-Example),例如:
There are certainly dangers in taking time off between finishing high schools and starting university education. Young adults may end up never returning to their studies or finding it difficult to readapt to an academic environment. They may think that it is better to continue in a particular job, or to do something completely different from a university course. (摘自劍橋5)
解析:先表明“有弊端”,后具體列舉弊端支撐
2)先表明立場,后說諸多細節(Preview-Detail)
例如:
It is evident that fulfilling some tasks over modern technologies,such as cellphones, the internet and other computer network is highly efficient. In the past, if people had the need to do shopping, they had to go to the shopping mall; but today, all can be done with the click of a mouse and the goods will be delivered home, even at a lower price. And we used to need to go to the bank and wait in a desperately long line if we wanted to make a transaction from one bank account to another; instead now we may comfortably make use of the self-banking service at home provided access to the internet. Actually, almost all banks and financial organizations are well-connected to the internet, which promotes the development of international trade and the world economy dramatically. Thus, obviously, the convenience and efficiency of life has been improved significantly due to the technological advances.
解析:首句先表明“…highly efficient”,再闡述具體的細節支撐。
2. 漢語中:中國學生闡述時不從主題入手, 而是用各方面的情況和問題加以暗示或明示;在文章中提供的往往是自己的主張而不是證據,
如下文:
For high school students, I think the economic things I learned before is hard for me to understand, which is not like subjects like math or physics, it is not concern about some real exist in our life. For physics, maybe we learn how to calculate the acceleration of one object, we can use it and understand it well because it exist in our daily life. For math, I think it is the most useful subject we learn in school, and we can clearly know what the thing we learn is. But for economy, we learn things like how government control the economy, how to reduce the inflation. What we learned in the economy class, I don’t think most of us can control this kind of thing in our future. So I think for high school students, economy is not worth to learn.(摘自學生練習,文中語法錯誤及論證方面問題都為原文中已存在)
解析:先通過舉例、對比進行大量鋪墊,闡述,直到“but”之后,才出現重點“for economy”-- 最后得出結論“…economy is not worth to learn.” 這篇作文表現的是典型的間接的, 曲線式思維模式。
三、邏輯關系的差異,即段落內句與句之間意思的關聯性:
1. That is not to say that lack of face-to-face communication brings no problems. One of the biggest concerns is safety. With the increasing virus threats and well-trained hackers, online deals are well exposed to all kinds of risks and losses, for example, the wide-spread problem of identity theft. (正確的寫作方向)
解析:通過分析可以看出,句與句之間關系對應嚴謹,對應關系依次為: “problems – safety - virus threats and well-trained hackers - risks and losses - identity theft”.句子之間“環環相扣”,形成一條“邏輯鏈”。
2. Why Is English Important to Scientists
1)We live in a world which science and technology is developing very quickly.
2)The developing of science needs scientists from all over the world exchange their work more and more frequently.
3)However, the scientists come from different countries usually speak different languages.
4)If there isn't a common language that can be understood by everybody, they won't understand each other.
5)On the other hand, we wish to know what others are doing and what experiences and knowledge and things we should learn to improve our work, so we must master the foreign language.
6)However, there are countless languages in the world, we cannot learn all of them.
7)Fortunately, there is one kind of language that is commonly used all over the world, English. Most of the scientists of the world can speak and read and write English, most of the important academic meetings use English, if we master English, we can go to any corner of the world to exchange with the people without knowing their mother language. We can say we are holding one of the very powerful weapons of study science.(不符合英語寫作習慣的段落)
解析:文中前四句說明了情況,提出了一個問題,在沒有解決問題的同時又立即用On the other hand提出了另一種情況和問題, 接著又However提出第3個問題,直到第7句又引入了到“英語"這個主題上。句間意思上關聯性不直接。
雅思寫作考察的重點:表達方式不僅要符合基本的英語表達習慣,更為重要的一個重點為語言組織能力與邏輯推理能力,即所說的邏輯關系:段落內句與句之間必須有緊密的聯系,達到“串聯”的效果。
結論:當然,中英思維方式的差異遠遠不止這些,但在備考雅思寫作時,如果能夠明確了解這些基本的差異,通過大量的實戰練習掌握英語的表達習慣及行文邏輯,從根本上把思維方式扭轉過來,基礎薄弱的同學可以在原有基礎上提升分數;有一定基礎的同學基本可以達到小分要求;基礎良好的烤鴨們,那就是寫作高分的預備軍了。