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托福写作万能开头+词汇拼接

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俗话说,万事开头难,为了帮助大家写好托福作文的开头段,提高写作水平,下面小编给大家带来托福写作万能开头+词汇拼接,来学习一下吧!

托福写作万能开头+词汇拼接

托福写作万能开头+词汇拼接

作为一个一有epiphany(顿悟)或eureka moment(发现)就要到朋友圈写几百个字英语celebrate、英语产出质量较高的人,这次我决定谈一谈托福写作的语言。

经常对孩子们说,语言不重要,但这是个big, fat lie,其实在判断一个孩子最后能得多少分时,我们还是看他的语言水平。我说语言不重要,一是托福给分很lenient(宽松), 30分语言都不需要很好,而是短期提高语言质量是tall order(很难)。

为什么语言水平难以提高呢?因为孩子们写作时经常think out of the box(创新),而不是take a page from someone else’s book(模仿)。而且很多人仍然只记单个字词,而不是记固定表达和句式。

比如,环境污染会破坏经济发展。你会怎么说呢。

Environmental pollution threatens economic development,写到这样已经不错,

但其实你还能说,

Environmental pollution takes a heavy toll on the economy/takes a heavy economic toll.

或者说

Environmental pollution wreaks havoc on economic growth.

Environmental pollution puts economic growth in jeopardy.

Economic growth is at stake when the environment deteriorates.

这个最基本的例子,我的point是,很多情况下,用短语和习惯表达trumps(好于)一个单词。

当Flora还是Newcastle的学生时,下面七八十个人盯着我,等我翻译,我还是每句话都要用习惯表达,帅帅的英国老师都笑了,老师们开始说我中到英更好。但其实这种强迫症在口语中是一个ticking bomb, a disaster waiting to happen(灾难),但我更希望孩子们在写作中能更在乎自己的表达,使用已知的确认无误的句型,积累好词好句,写作时想办法用它们造句,也许你就会这几个句子,但对托福已经够了。看大家的作文,强调句、倒装句galore(泛滥)但这不一定是更好的英语,只让你的句子wordy(拖沓)。所以多准备习惯表达和句型更重要。

接下来,我想用托福写作的开头段讲一下语言的使用。写开头段,我们一般的模式是背景争议法。现在大家都在讨论一个话题,有人认为A对,有人认为B对,我认为...。是不是过于没有创意呢。但是语言能改善这个不足。Flora从以前写的作文中找了2段,用词都还比较基本,也没有写得多好,但托福不需要多好。我们看下面的例子吧。

1. Some prefer to buy a technological device as soon as it is available, others prefer to get it after it has been adopted by many people. Which do you prefer?

In the modern world, we are bedazzled by a plethora of choices when it comes to technological gadgets as high-tech companies roll out new phones, cameras and new everything every few months to prey on our predilection for novelty. While some have a penchant for the adrenaline rush of getting hands on the newest gizmos,

others have the patience to wait until the craze has abated. In my opinion, there is no point ingetting a high-tech product immediately after it hits the stores.

2. Do you agree or disagree that two people can be friends if one has more money than the other?

In the charged debate over whether two people in decidedly different financial situations can be friends, some argue that it’s not the income that matters so much as having things in common, while others maintain that friendships can never work for people at two ends of the financial spectrum. Weighing both sides of the argument, I find it hard to escape the conclusion that friendships don’t bode well for the rich/middling dichotomy.

托福作文模板分享:观点选择型

…A, B, C, D… Which do you choose?

(1) It appears, in so many aspects, very difficult to prefer one to another because all of them have their advantages and disadvantages to the extent that it is hard to distinguish.

Yet that does not mean they are of the same to me. To be frank, I would prefer A if personal quality is considered as a criterion to choose things.

Then why do I prefer A? I like it because it can _______________, thus makes me ______________.

There is another reason why I choose A, in terms of ________, __________. No wonder, it again brings me convenience that I cannot get if I choose any one of the others.

That last reason is that_____________________.

In conclusion, everybody wants to choose the one that fits him/her. So it is of great benefits for me to choose.

托福作文模板分享:问题分析型

…_X…What do you think about it?

(1) There are numerous approaches to solving _X/impacts on _X/characteristics of _X, and I would explore the most conspicuous ones here.

One of the primary method/One of the primary impacts/ One of the primary characteristics, to my mind, is that_________________.

A more subtle point which we must consider is that___________________.

In addition/Furthermore, __________________.

In conclusion/Taking into account of all these methods/effects/aspects, we may reach the conclusion that________________________.

(2) Among countless factors which contribute to _X, three conspicuous aspects are as follows. One of the primary causes is that______________________.

_X also results from_______________________. ____________________is responsible for _X, as well.

To put all into a nutshell, I draw the conclusion that A, B and C are three main contributors to _X.

托福作文模板分享:Which do you choose?

…A, B, C, D… Which do you choose?

How to do _X/Whether the traditional methods such as A, B and so on or the modern method for example C and D has its advantages and disadvantages. Which you would prefer depends on your own experience, life style and emotional concern. However, I would prefer C. There are three advantages of C as follow:

This can trace back to my childhood. Once with curiosity, I__________________.

Yet another reason is that_________. I can quote a common example. _______________.

Then why I do not like others? For example, why I do not like A? Because I have a bad experience with it. _______________. So, even when anyone mentioned it, I would catch a feeling of fear.

There are still many other reasons that can account for my fondness for it, but the obvious ones have been presented as above.