2016年1—4月雅思口语话题精解：describe an interesting animal

摘要：2016年1—4月雅思口语话题精解： a time of seeing an interesting animal。这是一个门槛并不高的part2问题，关键在于要从自己的生活中去提炼故事，从一个动物出发，讲它的有趣，而不要去从有趣出发，去讲一个动物。有点拗口？那么请看正文吧。

An interesting animal

Describe a time of seeing an interesting animal

you should say:

what the animal was

when and where you saw it

what it was doing when you saw it

and explain how you felt about it

头脑风暴：

描述你看到一只有趣的动物经历，这是一个2015年9月份入库的老话题了。对自然界花花草草鸟鸟虫虫的关爱素来是雅思口语到写作的一个母题。说到底呢，体现了雅思官方乃至整个欧美人所追求和倡导的人文主义与自然主义的价值观，当然呢，也符合咱们自己的“和谐”大主题。

好，回到这个题目，相信很多人看到这个问题的第一反应，就是网络上出现过的各种神兽了，因为搞笑嘛。最著名的当属羊驼了(它的学名我就省略了)，可是羊驼不会讲哇，其实也不知道该讲什么(谁叫我对这个神兽很不感冒呢)。这时候又想到了doge同学，可是除了知道它是一个表情很魔性的网络表情始祖之外，我好像也讲不出个所以然。不行思维跑选了，还是说点真正生活中的吧，对了，哈士奇(husky)怎么样。那可以秒杀一切的眼神确实是给第一次看到它的我留下了极深的印象。但是怎奈我不是一个养狗之人，非常担心我选择了这个话题之后无法善终啊。

说到这儿，大家应该知道我的一个思路了。题目定的是一个有趣的动物，而不是非常搞怪，让人彻底无语的非主流动物。大家千万不要往那个“有趣”的方向上无限的整，搞得你不讲一个对方完全没见识过的eye-opening动物，不肯罢休似的。但是你有没有想过，以我们这比较捉急的英语口语的描述能力，你能把一个别人不了解的动物的可爱之处讲得栩栩如生，如睹真容么?好，你可以做一个实验，试着用英文描述一下你今天穿的一身衣服，然后写下来，看看凭着文字能否跟你的整个穿着比较好的匹配。个人的经历，口语part2最可怕的就是遇到describe a beautiful building/describe a piece of art这种题目，因为你需要具体地去描述一个事物，它的大小，构造，特征。这个时候，你就会知道为什么我们以前的比较开明的英语老师，在讲记单词的时候，建议我们要记它的英文解释。为什么呢，因为这就是在单词的层面上锻炼你对事物的英文描述能力。可惜的是，我们大都略过了。

所以，我今天要讲的的动物是猫。因为本人新近猫奴一枚(自从收养了一直流浪猫，就过上了幸福的新生活了)。跟其他动物相比，我对猫是最了解的，也是最有发言能力的。而我需要做的就是把很ordinary的一只猫讲得有趣就行了。这个嘛，对于一个猫奴来讲，难度有，但是相比较其他的各种珍禽异兽来说，还是要低得多，因为a familiar topic is the best topic。

所以，在遇到类似这种“修饰词+名词”的口语话题时，首先你要抓住关键字是这个“名词”

而不是“修饰词”。所以在你的生活经验里，找一个你最熟悉，最有话讲的。之后，再来温馨的回忆ta满足“修饰词”故事的地方。这是处理此类话题时的最合理思维方式：找最熟悉的事物，然后再找它满足“修饰语”的故事。

千万不要写草泥马呀……

实例答案

I am ever a cat slave since the watchful little kitty spot me lost in the street and was kind enough to take me home and allow me to live with him. From that fateful day on, (oh by the way, it was around 3 months ago) my life has gone through a great change and is coming to find a new meaning: loyalty.

He calls himself “jianjian” because in Chinese “jian” means “pick”, which obviously is to commemorate his good Samaritan act towards me. So I will share stories about some daily routines in our love-hate relationship.

He is a ginger cat, good looking. It took him several days to examine my capability of being a good servant by hiding from me under the far corner of the bed, the wardrobe or anything that I can’t reach. I called, I pleaded and I beg, but it didn’t work at all. All I got was his icy and sullen voice: get lost. Not until I knelt down before him like a devoted believer and prayed for his acceptance of me did him show up and give me an internship as his man.

Our living-together life is for most part great and I can’t complain much. But there truly something I want to vent out: Jianjian really gets a vulgar taste about which water to drink. I scatter several plates of boiled water or spring water in the house in the hope that he will choose. But the top three water choices are water from toilet bowl, from footbath and from sink. Every time he drinks that water with his cute tongue like a horse ignorant of my plea.

After many sleepless nights with him during our failed trials of sleeping together, I was forced to let him sleep in the dining room. But the thing is, every night when it is time for me to place him in the bed in the dinning room, he seems to feel it and refuse it. So he will play hide and seek like crazy with me in the living room. Sometimes I win and it cost me one to two hours sleep time, sometimes I lose and he will sleep on my chest like a rock and wake me in the early morning.

You know today I waked up from a sweet dream by almost unbearable scratch sound on my room door, and I peacefully drowned out my inner voice: go kill the bugger, put on my smiling face while feed him, and then set out. And I know what Jianjian will do to his territory for sure: upset every bottle of flowers, empty every trash bin and spoil all foods he can reach, finally, and turn the house into a great adventure land.

思路回顾：

1.讲了我们是怎么相遇的，用了猫奴常用的戏谑口吻，它很好心的收留了我。

2.讲怎样通过考核，让我胜利的成为了它的仆人。

3.它的恶趣味。

4.睡眠争夺战

5.它的地盘它做主。

总结一下吧，所有的口语话题，在选择具体的描述对象时，一定要从熟悉的事物或人入手，再来从中去寻找吻合的特征。这样是最为保险，最容易打动考官的方式。有人可能会问，你的这篇答案好像有点跑题，没有非常吻合话题里的几个问题。这个你放心啦。那几个问题，起的作用是帮你提示答题的思路，让你更快地组织自己的答案，并不是为了去限制你的语言表现。打动了考官，你还需要担心分数么？