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08年口语话题卡解析(十二):A type of film

Film,电影。这是6、7月的口语考试中,经常考到的一个口语话题卡。手里正好有现成的样板答案,我稍微编辑了一下,拿出来跟大家分享。答案来自以前强化班的一个学生--- Cindy。Cindy口语不错,加上准备充分,去年的时候口语考了个7.5,现在正在我最喜欢的大学(没有之一)St Andrews(圣安德鲁斯)念书。在此向她表示感谢。

Describe the type of film you most enjoy watching.

You should say:

      what this type is

      what the characteristics of this type are

      when you last watched this type

and explain why you like this type.

 

Among all types of films, I like war films best. 

The first obvious feature of war films is that it involves at least one hero in the story, who is often brave, smart and unselfish. In addition, the battle scenes which involve large number of soldiers, planes and weapons vividly present a picture of what wars were actually like.

Recently, I watched a war film named Assembly directed by the famous Chinese director Feng Xiaogang. It was a drama about a soldier of a People's Liberation Army unit during the civil war in the 1940s. The soldier, once a company commander, devotes his life to redeeming the honor of fellow soldiers who are declared missing in action. The film has been called the Chinese version of “Saving Private Ryan”, and indeed, the film looks like seriously brutal stuff.

I like war films first because I can learn more about history through watching this kind of film. And I am especially interested in historic wars and battles, like the battle of Somme and so on. War films present