Learning English Speaking Day 1

Learning English Speaking Day 1

本题为日常类话题，答案贴合日常、讲出真实情况即可，不要一味求新求变。时态以现在时为主。祝你在准备这道题的同时，也能提高学习效率哦！

独家范例：（满分素材）

P1 学习与效率

P1 学习与效率

音频地址 https://faithio.cn/2018/07/26/Day-1-P1-study-and-efficency/visitor.mp3

每篇图文消息只能添加一个语音，所以用上述地址代替

Do you prefer to study in the morning or in the evening?

I prefer to study in the morning when most people at my age are still in their sweet dreams, right? I get to breathe in fresh and brisk air and enjoy mild temperature. besides, there are not so many distractions in the morning so that I can concentrate harder and be more productive.

Why do some people find it difficult to focus in the morning?

Modern people are so used to burning the midnight oil, working on their emails or assignments. I mean, young people hardly hit the sack before midnight, right? studying in the morning means less sleep, and trust me, that doesn’t feel good.

What do you do to improve your learning efficiency?

I mean, I could really use a cup of coffee sometimes, knowing that it isn’t the healthiest choice. But it works. A cup of latte keeps my torpor away.

P2 访客

Describe a visitor in your home (a time when someone visited your home)

Who this visitor was

When he/she visited your home

What you did

Why he/she came to visit

And explain whether you like him/her or not提示：

本题的A是a visitor，描述人；B是in your home，限制地点。实质上是人物+事件结合类题目。

提纲建议：a) 描述这位visitor的基本信息，外貌、性格特征，以及事件时间地点b) 详述拜访过程、原因，把故事讲清c) 对ta的评价，适当升华

时态建议：描述人物特征时用一般现在时，讲故事用过去时，最后的评价如果涉及到类别问题，可用一般现在时；述及对现在的影响可用现在完成时。

其他：若抽到括号内题目，则可略过人物特征，直接讲故事。

You know how hard it is to deal with a bragger right? I’m gonna describe an unexpected visitor to my home last February who turned out an annoying one. It was Mrs. Huang, a family friend. She is a tall and gaunt woman in her fifties now and she always wears this tacky yellowish gem in front of her chest.

So, the awful story began on the last day of spring festival, or the Lantern’s Day, when traditionally customary visits are supposed to end. Our heroine dropped by out of the bluewhen my whole family were cleaning the living room. She barged through the door the second it was opened, rushed in and began bragging about her new property insurance. She tried to talk my mom into buying one. I was like, come on, are you a newly employed insurance saleswoman or what. Not a professional one, apparently. I couldn’t help grinning about this idea which she noticed and then turned to me. Uh-oh, here we go. It was no surprise that she began boasting about how brilliant her son was. So her son was going to get his green card and get married both in the summer, blah blah blah. What did all that have anything to do with me? I thought, I had actually been very close to Jimmy, her son, and I knew that there’s another side of the story. Anyhow, I kept smiling with curt nods, thinking, what I was gonna eat for my lunch.

You see, braggers are a lot to handle, esp. an overproud mom who goes around crowing about her life. But when it comes to visiting other people, manners really matter.

Skills

give or take说数字的时候是不是老觉得想表达个“左右”这个意思？这种情况下，这个习语是最好用的了，它表示“或多或少，大概”这一意思，直接接在在一个不太确切的数字后面再加一个上下浮动的空间，或放在数字后面都可以。My hometown has a population of 3 million people, give or take a few thousand.Ning Zetao has been followed by 20 million fans on Weibo, give or take.

to add insult to injury 火上浇油 负面的

to add fuel to the fire/flames 火上浇油 负面的

to ice the cake 给蛋糕上糖霜，听起来就很可口，是正面的，“锦上添花”这个意思

icing on the cake 最后一个则是名词性的，指“锦上添的那个花”。注意它们的定冠词The meal was perfect, the wonderful view from the restaurant the icing on the cake.The meal was perfect. To ice the cake, we got to enjoy the wonderful view from the restaurant.I can’t live with unpunctual people. Like my friend Mike. So last Sunday we had a date. First of all he arrived an hour late and then, to add insult to injury, he proceeded to complain about my choice of restaurant.The traffic in Beijing is already miserable. To add fuel to the fire, it rains particularly heavily lately.

link https://v.qq.com/x/page/o07342pk08x.html

Do you like to send expensive gifts?Certainly not. I mean, sending expensive gifts means the recipient would better send back something even more expensive. And that would definitely add up. By the way, in China, receiving costly gifts without returning one is considered a major social faux pas.这个答案你第一时间应该想不到，但这个你一定能想到：I don’t like to send expensive gifts. I’m a student now. I don’t have enough money. Someone sends me an expensive gift. More expensive than I can take. I feel terrified. I don’t know how to think of a way to respond.那么我们下面就来做加法，把简单答案连起来吧。I don’t like to send expensive gifts because I’m a student now and I don’t have enough money. So if someone sent me an expensive gift which is more expensive than I can take, I would feel so terrified that I wouldn’tknow how to think of a way to respond.

今日任务：

结合本季P1~P3题目，用Skil造句，并拓展成段落。

回答以下问题，答案不要超过2个句号（那就表示，要尽量连接起来！）What was your favorite sport when you were young?Do you think it’s important to be punctual?