【口语】用剑桥听力练口语之描述地点题（二）

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一、利用剑桥听力归纳并使用连接句型

在描述方位的时候，学生遇到的一大显著困难就是不知道如何去描述方位。而这个“不知道”其实也就指的是考生不知道如何使用相应的连接词。其实，雅思听力原文中已经有相关的描述，学生可以很方便的使用听力原文中归纳出来的连接词。以下为实例：

剑7 Test 4的Section 2为旅游场景，并对一个景点进行了描述。以下为相对应的听力原文（笔者根据需要重新分了段，并请注意划线部分）：

Well, here we are at the top of The Tower, and we are going to look at the view from each direction.

Out to the east, the large buildings about a kilometer away are on the Olympic site. There’s an indoor arena for gymnastics, a stadium for track and field a swimming pool for races and synchronized swimming and also diving. If you look carefully down there, your can see the train lines. The Olympic site has its own station to encourage the use of public transport. There’s also a car park, but it only holds a limited number of cars.

The formal park has some specially-created water features. If you look here to the south, you can see a circular ornamental pond.

And around to the west, you can relax and sit on a bench to smell the flowers in the rose garden.

And finally up to the north, if you look in front of you now, there’s a lake with a small island in the centre, you can hire rowing boats at the boat shed, which you can’t see from here. But if you look through the trees, you can see the café, which has lovely views across the water. OK, let’s climb down now. We will go now and have a look at the nature reserve section of the park, which has opened up natural wetland to the public.

在这一段原文中，很清楚的可以看出，描述地点的听力材料中，表示方向的关键句型往往都是非常简单明确的。上文中就只用了东、南、西、北四个方位词和and，finally等基本连接词。因此，考生只需在听力材料中归纳出相应的连接句型，就能用于口语表达中。由于这些句子全部来自雅思真题，其合理性和可靠性也是毋庸置疑的。灵活应用这些连接句型，考生就能克服无法合理使用连接词这个难关。 

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