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关于 TWE 作文的准备
http://www.sina.com.cn 2004/05/06 13:40  寄托天下

  我想把我自己的经验总结一下,前面发过几贴,一起并到这里。希望对大家有帮助。

  一。作文结构TWE作文主要是议论文,由开头段(OpeningParagraph),正文(Body)和结尾(Conclusion)三部分组成。开头段提出文章的要点,介绍你要议论的话题,提出自己的观点。正文是文章主题的展开。他可以由几个展开段组成。一个完整的展开段也应该包括主题句,支持句,和结尾句。

  前面分析过一篇范文,比较符合这个结构,当然如果你是一个老练的作者,完全可以不这样

  Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? When people succeed,

  it is because of hard work; luck has nothing to do with success. Use

  special reasons and examples to support your answer.

  I am afraid I cannot agree with the statement that success is only because

  of hard work and luck has nothing to do with it. To my mind, success is

  essentially based on two factors----hard work and luck. There would be no

  success without either one of the tow factors. A fine combination of both

  hard work and luck eventually leads to successes.首段提出观点

  An old saying goes,“no pains, no gains”. It is absolutely true that

  without exerting oneself, one could never expect to achieve success in what

  one is doing. So, hard work is the foundation of success. As is known to

  all, there is no royal road to the summit of success. One is likely to

  succeed only when one has worked with whole-hearted devotion and

  perseverance. Those who are lazy, sloppy and indifferent to their work,

  those who never concentrate on work will definitely end in failure. So,

  hard work is seen as an interior precondition of success.这段解释观点的一个

  方面

  On the other hand, successful people know how to seize and make the best

  use of opportunity available to them. To them, opportunity is an exterior

  precondition of potential success. By opportunity I mean luck, which is

  often seen as a catalytic agent to success. To quote from a proverb,“man

  proposes, god disposes”这里是不是用了一个成语谋事在人成事在天.一般不提倡这

  样,因为老外的文化背景和中国人不同.可能不明白,也很难翻译., hard work alone

  does not necessarily contribute to success. What one needs most is the work

  of both man and God put together. Man’s wisdom and the luck he has been

  granted are a sure guarantee of a successful career. Hard work is to luck

  what fish is to water. They are inseparable from each other, and put

  together, they make a great success.这段解释观点的另一个方面

  Here I would like to mention the great inventor Einstein as the best of

  examples. We all know that Einstein established the Theory of Relativity,

  but his fate could never have been any better than that of other Jews

  during the Second World War if Hitler had come to power earlier. It is not

  hard for us to imagine what Einstein would have become of under Hitler’s

  domination.这段举例子说明

  Hard work lays the corner-stone for building a house while luck serves to

  cement it, to make the building bricks adherent to one another. They are

  the twins that contribute to success together. While hard work is the

  decisive factor from within, luck is the decisive factor from without.

  结论红字标出的部分。好象是文章的骨架。。所谓的模板就是这个。。要有自己的模板。然后举例说理。

  搭个好架子,写的有血有肉。。我觉得这样的文章可以打5分或者更高了。

  还发过一个帖子从书上引了一些转承接的词。

  bbs。gter。net/bbs/showthread。php?threadid=174964

  可以用这些词来搭建自己的模板。到了考场上有那么一个模板,你用的很熟练,很放心。觉得很好。就可以了。

  TWE考试是TOEFL考试的第一部分。因此好坏影响到后面考试的情绪。不能写的时候老怀疑自己这么写是不是有问题。一来时间不够,二来影响听力考试。平时练习的时候就要有一些自己熟悉的套路,表达方法。

  二。如何练习TWE作文,(对不是很有英语短文写作经验的人)

  可以先自己写一篇。第一次写不用限时,但是不要查字典。想表达的用英语表达出来,不要走翻译路线。。写4段。第一段阐述你支持的观点,第二段阐述你的理由(1),第三段阐述你的理由(2),第四段结论。

  刚开始的目标是把每个英语句子写正确。在写下去的时候就要安排好这个句子的布局。主语,谓语,从句,非谓语形式都要想好。要想想TOEFL语法的考点。一篇文章下来没几个句子完全正确,分就很低了。写完之后象做语法改错一样,把自己的文章从头到尾检查两遍。

  然后看看范文。。看看里面有那些内容也是你在你的文章里想表达的。看看范文作者是如何表达的。学习一下。然后再写一次。写完了请人修改

  一星期这样写两篇。。相信会有提高。其实TOEFL作文要求不是很高。只要语法正确,内容充实和符合逻辑。就没问题。

  这里是已经考过的作文题目

  http://bbs。gter。net/bbs/showthread。。。。threadid=152091

  三。写作时间安排

  30分钟写300字命题作文,对不太有英文写作经验的人来说,难度比较大。把这30分钟分成三个时间段,比较有效率:

  第一时段:审题构思。把题目和要求看清楚,理清思路。想好要写的观点,理由例子,接下来才能下笔有神。一般3~5分钟

  第二时段:正文。一般20分钟。

  第三时段:检查,3~5分钟。这个我觉得对作文水平不是很高的人特别重要,要努力检查。把那些主谓一致,时态一致。单复数。句子结构,词的用法,拼写,标点,大小写,里的低级错误都找出来。往往可以让你的文章分数提高一个档次。

  四。凭分标准

  Score 6---Scoring Guidelines

  An essay at this level

  ----effectively addresses the writing task

  ----is well organized and well developed

  ----uses clearly appropriate details to support a thesis or illustrate ideas

  ----displays consistent facility in the use of language

  ----demonstrates syntactic variety and appropriate word choice

  Sample Essay

  Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

  Teachers should make learning enjoyable and fun for their students. Use

  reasons and specific examples to support your opinion.

  I do strongly support the idea that teachers should make learning enjoyable

  and fun for the students. This I support with the following reasons.

  First let us take the psychological component of a student. A child or

  student will be more receptive to anything including studies if the subject

  matter is presented in an interesting and enjoyable manner. If not, there

  is every likelihood that the student will be unwilling to accept or even

  reject the matter presented as he considers studying is a burden on him.

  My second point is that the present-day student faces tremendous amount of

  distractions such as interesting television programs, drugs, distractions

  from opposite sexes and many more. To get the students away from all these

  and to get him interested in studies there is obviously no other better way

  than to make learning interesting.

  The present-day students are also pressured with tremendous amount of

  competition among fellow students. With this mounting pressure on them

  coupled with the high expectation of the parents, it will lighten the

  burden on the young students with a more acceptable form of presentation

  that is in an enjoyable and fun manner.

  Retention is another factor that should be considered important. Any

  presentation given in an interesting or enjoyable manner can be retained

  well by the students. If the subject matter presented is uninteresting,

  then there is strong likelihood the student will forge the subject matter

  presented in days or even hours.

  When presenting a subject the teacher should create a desire among the

  students to crave for more knowledge on the subject and this can certainly

  be obtained if the subject is presented in a fun and enjoyable manner.

  It can also be said that the present-day communications system is so

  advanced and there are ample teaching aids and techniques to make teaching

  fun and enjoyable. So why not utilize the opportunities to the full so that

  the student at the receiving end can benefit to the full.

  At last but not at least, I wish to say that by making teaching fun and

  enjoyable the life expectancy of both the student and the teacher can be

  extended.

  Score 5 ----Scoring Guidelines

  An essay at this level

  ---may address some parts of the task more effectively than others

  ---is generally well organized and developed

  ---uses details to support a thesis or illustrate an idea

  ---displays facility in the use of language

  ---demonstrates some syntactic variety and range of vocabulary

  Score 4 ----Scoring Guidelines

  An essay at this level

  ---addresses the writing topic adequately but may slight parts of the task

  ---is adequately organized and developed

  ---uses some details to support a thesis or illustrate an idea

  ---demonstrates adequate but possibly inconsistent facility with syntax and

  usage

  ---may contain some errors that occasionally obscure meaning

  Score 3----Scoring Guidelines

  An essay at this level

  ---may reveal one or more of the following weaknesses

  ---inadequate organization or development

  ---inappropriate or insufficient details to support or illustrate

  generalizations

  ---a noticeably inappropriate choice of words or word forms

  ---an accumulation or errors in sentence structure and /or usage

  Score 2----Scoring Guidelines

  An essay at this level

  ---is seriously flawed by one or more of the following weakness

  ---serious disorganization or underdevelopment

  ---little or no details or irrelevant specifics

  ---serious and frequent errors in sentence structure and usage

  Score 1---Scoring Guidelines

  An essay at this Level

  ---may be incoherent and incomplete

  ---may be underdeveloped

  ---may contain severe and persistent writing errors

  从这个判分标准可以看到,只要字数写够,组织的好,写对每个句子,就可以至少有4分了。

  其他想想也没什么了。可能这么弄,TOEFL文章变成八股了。但是对于作文底子不是很好的同学。我觉得还是一种可取的复习方法。希望对大家有帮助。

  大家可以把自己写好的作文贴上来,互相修改。给别人修改,可以避免犯别人犯过的错误,也是一种很有益的提高。象GRE作文版学习。。呵呵,营造一种务实的备考气氛。


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