【说地道口语】戴老师教你如何答好虚拟时态题

2015年11月02日 悉尼环雅




题目内容
Describe a foreign language you would like to learn (besides English).
You should say:
what language
how you would learn it
what difficulties you think you might (or would) have when learning this language.
and explain why you would like to learn this language.


我给出的答案


I’m not really planning on investing the time into learning another language, but if I did learn another language, I guess I’d probably learn Spanish.

I think this best way to start learning another language is to take a class – maybe one or two nights a week. That way, you’d meet other students who are also interested in learning the language so it’d be much more interesting that starting by yourself.

As for difficulties, I think probably one of the toughest things would be getting mixed up between English and Spanish. I know that quite a lot of the words have somewhat similar pronunciation, so I reckon it’d be easy to mix them up.

The main reason I’d choose Spanish is because it’s more widely spoken than other languages which means that there would be a lot of resources to help me study it and there are many places around the world that I could use it if I travelled. Also, there are a number of languages that are very similar to Spanish like Italian, so if I understood Spanish, I might be able to partially understand some of the other languages also.



答题要点


注意:这题是虚拟的,这类题一定要注意到用虚拟语气.(中文里没有类似的语法体现,所以要格外注意) 虚拟语气要用would 而不是will 或going to。 在口语里面,我们一般用缩略的形式,可见模板答案中would的缩略:

  • I’d = I would

  • It’d = it would

  • You’d = you would

你还可以看到很多其他的缩略的例子。 用缩略的形式会让你口语更流畅和地道。

虚拟语气另一个要注意的点就是在if的从句里,动词要用过去时态虚拟语气现在时, 如:

  • If I did learn (not “if I do learn”)

  • If I travelled (not “if I travel”)

  • If I understood (not “if I understand”)

其他:

  • I reckon = 我认为(很口语, 非正式)

  • Get mixed up between A and B / get A and B mixed up = 把A和B混淆


举一反三

大家掌握了这类题目的要义了么?我们再来试试类似的题目。
试试看
Describe a place where you would like to have (or, build) a home.
You should say:
How you know about the place
When you first went to this place
What work you would do if you lived there
and explain why you would like to live there.

够勤奋的学生,请把答案写给我,发送到我的邮箱。
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戴老师自我介绍

你好, 我英文名叫Damien, 中文名叫戴明。在本市出生长大。我也生活过在美国4多年以及中国5多年。我在中国时候主要住在郑州,但是也去中国很多地方,如:北京,上海,福建,广州,西安,武汉,深圳,还有好多小城市。我特别喜欢中国文化和美食。 我最想念的菜是什么呢? 大盘鸡和东坡肉 。。哎! 一说就流口水啦!我从事教育这行很多年。我不光把自己看待教师,也把自己算学生。我学了10多年的中文,而还在学习!对我来说,学外语是一辈子的任务!希望能用我对中国人和中文的了解来帮助学习英文的中国人become masters of English!

我的中文还没有特别纯正,如果同学们发现我讲解里的中文比较别扭,可以邮件告诉我。[email protected]



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