很多考生在面对托福独立写作时不好着手,下面重庆新航道新航道学校托福教研老师给大家解析下答题思路,希望能帮到大家,详情如下:
1.话题考频
在2021的托福独立写作考题当中,单教育类话题就占到了30%,直接含有“teacher”这个词的教育类话题出现了6次,而在2022年1-11月的考试当中,教育类话题的出现频率达到了36%,单单涉及到教师和教学的题目则达到了10次之多。因此在备考过程当中,尽管有非常多样化的话题领域,教育类还是值得大家特意分配时间,去准备相应的话题素材和词汇。
2.上次我们讲到了教育类话题当中“父母-儿童”和“学校-学生”这两个方向的破题思路,这次我们来分析一下以“教师/教授”为中心的独立写作解题方向。
先来看一个比较典型的“师生向”考题:
2021.6.20 难度两颗星
High school teachers(teachers of students ages 14-18) spend most of class time lecturing (speaking) while the students listen and take notes. Other high school teachers spend most of class time on discussion and projects that students are highly involved in and exchange their ideas. Which of these two approaches do you thinkis more effective for studentlearning and why?
这是个二选一的题,要求大家选择一个方法去进行论证。能看到双方的关键词是“lecturing while listen and take notes”以及“discussion and projects, highly involved andexchange”,要求讨论课堂形式是教师的讲座式授课更好,还是教师主导的项目讨论型课程更好。围绕着师生这两个主体,从教师的角度来说,可以讨论教学方法和教学效果;从学生的角度来说,可以讨论学术/成绩和衍生能力的提升;如果要讨论lecture的好处,也可以说更系统化的教学,以及课堂上的于扰因素更少。下面以表格的形式给大家列出了比较好展开的此类话题相关论点和论据:
From the perspective of teachers
论点:
1)Change the traditional or boring pedagogy;
2)Improve teaching ability and efficiency;
论据:
1)Use multiple methods,eg. Videos, audios and PPT. more vivid facilitate understanding of students.
2)Know the interests of the young.more individualized education; follow the trends update teaching method and language. various class activities: closer relationship with students more understandable in class.
Fromthe perspective of students
论点:
1)Stronger interests to learn and higher efficiency of study;
2)Cultivate the ability of more aspects.
论据:
1)Not boring,discuss more contents related to popular topics among young people; more willing to participate in class activities vigorously learn in class: not reluctant to finish homework after class;
2)More chances to communicate with peers.socia skills, prepare for future study and career; wide range of interpersonal relationship; be leaders in group project,cooperative ability and leadership self-researching ability.
结合论点可用的句型和关键词,利用因果和对比连词,我们试一下展开教师这个方向的第二个点:
One evident merit that could be highlighted is that group discussion and projects in class enable teachers to keep improving their teaching efficiency of imparting knowledge to students. Compared with the traditional pedagogy like giving lectures, planning appropriate topics to discuss and arranging intriguing projects in class not onlyrequire the teacher to better understand interests of young students, but also need them to be equipped with the ability of designing class activities which are relevant to both textbooks and researching skills. Therefore during the process of organizing group projects, teachers have to consistently update their teaching methods so that students are able to enjoy the class vigorously when better understanding new knowledge.
有时跟教师有关的题也不一定就跟教学有关,比如:
2022.11.5 难度五颗星
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:
Teachers should be paid at least as much as doctors, lawyers or business leaders are paid
此时更重要的是讨论对社会或行业的影响,可用论据如下:
Agree
论点:
1)Attract more talented persons to be teachers;
2)Deserve more payment;
Disagree
论据:
1)Higher salary,greater attraction;strengthen their motivation to work better and longer.
2)Higher salary of teachers.paid by government and parents.financial burden: long-term effects on educational system in a country.
同样,大家可以尝试一下自己构建段落。另外有两个相关的真题放在下面给同学们做思路练习,会发现有很多素材是可以灵活套用的哦。
2022.4.9
Teachers of young children at a primary school are considering making one major change to better support the educational and social development of theil students (aged 6-10) , which one of the following changes do you think is the most importantforthe teachers to make and why?
1.Encouraging students to ask questions in class more frequently than they do now;
2.Having students work together in pairs or small groups more frequently than they do now;
3.Meeting with each student' s parents more frequently than they do now
2022.9.7
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement:
Online classes. in which you communicate with your professor and other students only by computer, offer more advantages and benefits to students than traditionalclasseson a college campus.
本文来自新航道重庆学校写作主讲张劭颖老师
学历背景:爱丁堡大学TESOL硕士学位,北京外国语大学翻译系学士学位,专业背景:英语专业八级证书,CATTI二级笔译证书,美国TESOL ADVANCED国际高级教师资格证,国内高中教师资格证;多年口笔译经验,资深医学笔译译员。留英期间参与苏格兰当地学校教研交流活动,熟悉国际教育的最新模式:托福单项28+,雅思听阅9分
从业经验:教学经验6年以上,所授学生出分率90%+(平均5次课雅思单科提分0.5-1分,托福单科3-8分);
教学特点:注重不同学生的个性,擅于根据学生的个人特点因材施教,带动学生参与课堂。