【跟着沪江走，高分在招手】·【雅思备考·口语篇】
雅思口语考试中会经常提问到由于情况变化而产生的问题，考官之所以这样问，是想通过这道题来考察你在语法和词汇方面，是不是有能力清楚地表达这样的问题。因为英语与汉语不同，只要有变化，前后的语法和词汇都会相应发生改变。
举个例子:同样情况，考官会让你分别拟定在当下，和过去两个时间段去阐述。那么今天我们就来总结一下在这方面表达需要注意的语法项吧！
先来看看之前出现的考题：
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• How are the eating habits now in your country different from eating habits in the past? • Are the types of leisure activities that are popular today the same as those that were popular when your parents were young? • How have shopping habits changed over recent years? • Have the types of transport people use changed much over the last few decades? |
问题其实都不难，对不对!如果可以用中文回答的话，我相信都可以涛涛不绝讲上一天，但是要用英文的话，很多人就不知道如何开始了，到底选哪个动词比较好，这个词够不够华丽，一紧张又会什么都想不起来~~其实就用最简单的词把意思表达清楚就可以了。千万不要想着惊艳考官，不然偷鸡不成失把米。
没关系啦~接下来的几个用法，你就只管记住，然后把自己的信息往里面套就可以了。
Used to
这个词在表达同样的事情在过去常做而现在不那么频繁的时候，是最常用的。在前后对比的程度上，并没有很强烈。很多人考生都觉得这个词初中就在用，考雅思的时候要用一些更加高级的词，其实，想用高级的词汇没有问题，但是小编的建议是，先用最简单的词把想表达的意思表达清楚之后在去充实，谨防本末倒置!
Example:
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“Vietnam used to be a colony of France, (but now it is independent)” “Jimmy Carter used to be the President of the United States, (but now he isn’t.)” This can, of course be used to give personal information. “I used to smoke, (but I gave up 2 years ago.)” “Mike used to be a detective in the CID, (but now he’s a teacher)” |
Comparatives
在回答由于情况变化而产生的问题时，除了表述清楚过去的情况，还可以将现在与过去进行对比，常用的有如下句型：
Example:
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"Thirty years ago, the streets were much quieter than now.” “I think that reading was much more popular in the past.” When talking about how things are different now, the present perfect is often used as well as the present simple. |
在提到现在有什么的不同时，一般现在时和一般完成时都是可以用的。
“The streets have become much noisier.” (Notice, a time is not needed)
“Reading is much less popular than it was in the past.”
Speculation
利用好would这个词，用好用又不会错。除此之外还可以对没有发生的事情做一些猜测，口试时，没有话说是很有可能发生的，这时候不妨做一些猜想，即使自己不了解的东西，也可是说两句。或者考官问的问题实在不知道怎么回答，就可以这样来解围。
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“It would have been harder for my grandfather to find out about international news, because there was no radio or T.V in his village.” “In the past, people would have traveled less often.” |
当然还可以加一些词连在一起使用(perhaps, possibly, might, may, etc.)
“I’m not sure but, perhaps, they might have studiedless science thirty years ago”
“Possibly, in my father’s day, people could have playedmore sport.”
上期文章：10天搞定雅思口语-Day 2 Improvising your responses
下期文章：10天搞定雅思口语-Day 4 Talking about the future
小编顶着巨大压力整理了这几个酷炫狂拽的省钱专题，看完根本不用再报班了好吗~~~还不赶快戳图！！！
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