我建议考试时按自然顺序先写Task 1,时间不超过建议的20mins,最好不要挤占Task 2,而打乱顺序先写Task 2,反而容易写错地方。
具体时间可以这样分配:
审题+构思 3 mins
写作 16 mins
检查 1 min(可结合Task 2在考试最后进行)
一、审题:准备题目中文字部分第二段有关图表内容关键词的同义替换,注意图表的文字部分,比如图名和图例,也会提供可替换的词语;还需关注图表中读取数字的单位和数位。
二、构思:图表的特征可以用符号简写在试题册上,考试时试题册就是草稿纸,虽然考试结束后要一并上交,but nobody will read it.
三、写作:关键是遵循写作规范。
1 不写标题:写标题不是画龙点睛,而是狗尾续貂。
2 分段:缩进和齐头两种方式皆可,但比较下面林肯的葛迪斯堡演讲,Gettysburg Address,齐头式更清晰,推荐。
缩进式(Indented form),段首缩进2-4个字母的距离:
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war… testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated… can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.