1、1致学员：由于本人琐事缠身，延误了给大家口语补充笔记的时间，深感抱歉！对不起啦！SIMON即日高分口语补充笔记3. Describe an experience of being late. / Describe an occasion you were late for.Stage 3 Is punctuality important in Chinese traditional culture?答题技巧：E2 O+ R+ E1. belief2. social value3. personal image Do you think time management is important
2、at school?答题技巧：E2 O+ R+ E1. personal2. school3. professional Why people are late sometime?这道题看似简单，但是如果只是用第一部分问题的模版来回答的话，分数就很难得到提升。因为它其实是七分题。考官在这里已经指出了问题的存在，并想通过这个问题来与我们展开探讨。所以，大家答题时，一定要看其 key 在哪里。答题技巧：AP (已存在)+ C+ E+ S1. Cause One: busy transportationExamples: (1) the rush hours for going to work an
3、d going home（上下班高峰期）(2) traffic accidents(3) the tide of vehicles in holiday travelling（节假日的出行潮）2Cause traffic jam/ congestion unable to move even a single step（寸步难行）Watertight（水泄不通）Solutions: (1) improve monitor on transportation（交控）(2) put more weight/ effort on road constructions(3) reduce the tr
4、affic flow magnitude（车流量）2. Cause Two: our workExamples: (1) work overtime because of heavy work load(2) extension of meetings(3) late of the client in an appointmentCause a vicious circle（恶性循环）Solutions: (1) relieve working pressure（减压）(2) relieve heavy work load（减量）(3) raise working efficiency（提效）
5、3. Cause Three: peoples bad habitExamples: (1) It has been a kind of inertial thought（惯性思维） of people(2) It has been a kind of peoples bad habit People has been natural to be late and exculpate（开脱）themselves with various kinds of excuses.(3) It has been a fashion among people It makes people learn f
6、rom each other and forma gad habits（相互效仿）.Cause: be accustomed to it（习以为常）Solutions: (1) raise peoples awareness of realization of the bad influence of being late（提高觉悟）(2) raise peoples awareness of punctuation accordingly(3) improve peoples overall-makings（综合素质） What excuses will people use for the
7、ir late?答题技巧：E1 D+ E1. apology style（道歉型）2. exculpate style（开脱型）3. convention style（惯例型） Do westerners or easterners pay more attention to the concept of time?这道题的关键并不在于真正的西方人还是东方人还是东方人谁更重视时间观念，同学们不要轻意的跟着考官的思维走。如果我们硬要从东西方选一方出来的话，都会显得不合理，也很难说得好。应该客观分析，以你为主。答题技巧：E2 O+ R+ EOpinion: There are no differe
8、nces on attention to time between westerners and easterners.Reason One: Both westerns and easterners both have good traditions on being 3punctual（守时的）.Examples: (1) Germany is the symbolic country of punctuation among western countries.(2) East-Asian countries like Japan, Korea and China ahs a good
9、habit of keeping on time for thousands of years.Reason Two: Bad qualities of some people in eastern countries create a feint（假象）that westerns are ore punctual that easterners.Examples: (1) Cases of delays of good break the Zonta（诚信）between western and eastern businessmen.(2) Cases of keeping late in
10、 dates and meetings change or influence our stereotype（固有形象）of being punctual.Reason Three: Unscientific and undeveloped social system makes some easterners have to face this moral and ethical issue.Examples: (1) Low efficiency on work, caused by the bad work equipments, lead to late naturally.(2) B
11、ad situation of transportation creates thousands of kinds of possibilities of being late. Is peoples pace of life faster than before? Why?五分问题，不用关注过多。 Does technology make peoples life more comfortable or more stressful?答题技巧：Hard-to-Decide Pros+ Cons+ E+ Conclusion改为：Pros+ R+ E+ Cons+ R+ E+ Conclusi
12、on1. Pros: Technology makes peoples life more comfortable.Reason One: It has facilitated peoples life a lot and reduced many troubles in our daily life.Example: Washing machine greatly relieves housewifes burdens.Reason Two: Various kinds of entertainment tools have provided peoples possibilities to
13、 enjoy their life much more comfortable.Example: Internet has offered diverse options for people to enjoy their life instead of going to the library for knowledge, going to the cinema for entertainment, going out for travelling to broaden their horizons.Reason Three: The highly developed technology
14、has offered a great aid for people to know more the changeable nature to have more comfortable daily life.Example: The precise（精确的）weather report aids people a lot on some necessary arrangements of an outing.2. Cons: On the other hand, highly developed technology has greatly raised the development s
15、peed of the whole social system, which accordingly causes 4stress on people and makes peoples life more stressful than before.Reason One: The constantly（不断地）renewal（更新） of technologies has brought people great stress of keeping up with the trend.Example: The fast-changing（瞬息万变）computer science and t
16、echnique has created great pressure on employees to catch up with it, although it brings a great profits to some people.Reason Two: The highly developed technology has raised the pace of peoples life a lot, which causes endless tire of people and makes them feel stressful.Example: To work overtime t
17、o finish the excessive work load from the boss has been one to f the common things among employees. It makes people feel tired at work, in their life and feel stressful.Reason Three: The development of technology naturally leads to a war between human labour and mechanic labour. It has greatly incre
18、ased peoples stress in life.Example: By the process of industrialisation of the society, more and more blue-collar human labours are unemployed. It accordingly has increased the stress of laid-off（下岗）workers.4. Solutions: In one word, as the development of the scientific technology, the two-side eff
19、ects of technology have been discovered obviously. Although it would bring us quite a lot of troubles, they are contemporary. The development of the society needs it. And it does work well in the process of social development. What important occasions do you think dont allow to be late? What not so
20、important occasions do you think allow to be late?五分问题，不用关注过多。 Do you think people will change their attitude towards being late?答题技巧：E2 O+ R+ E改为：PT+ R+ E+ R1. social trend nowadays2. peoples awareness3. real effects of being late Do you think technology could make people nowadays have more time to
21、 relax?答题技巧：E2 O+ R+ E1. convenience2. efficiency3. variety5 What influence does it have on the family that people are becoming busier and busier?答题技巧：E1 D+ E+ S+ E1. Description One: family gathering less than beforeExamples: (1) We have fewer chances to have family events.(2) Even the family gathe
22、ring dinner.(3) The days of celebrating festivals together has been shortened.Solution: We have to create more makeup（补充）in order to earn more chances of gatherings.Examples: (1) Raise the working efficiency to have more free time.(2) Try to have a longer vocation to stay with families once or twice
23、 a year.(3) Seek for other new types of gatherings instead of traditional ones such as gathering dinner to have gatherings more flexible and feasible（可行的）.2. Description Two: Families communication less than beforeExamples: (1) It creates distance between family members.(2) It also can cause unfamil
24、iarity between people.(3) Estrangement（隔阂）comes.Solution: We can try to create other new kinds of ways to have more communications.Examples: (1) Have a call with parents before we go to sleep for a while.(2) Chat on the Internet in break time.(3) We can even write something on our own space or blog.
25、 And then let our parents read it and give their feedbacks. It would be a great way for family communication!3. Description Three: Traditional Continuity have been broken, cannot be continued（延续）.Examples: (1) We will have fewer occasions of family events together consequently.(2) We can feel fewer
26、and fewer festive occasions（热闹场合）occurring.(3) We can see fewer and fewer local customs in festivals.Solution: We should try to raise peoples awareness of the essentiality（重要性）of unity and national uniqueness（独特性）, and try to push the scheme of presentation of national traditions.Examples: (1) The p
27、eoples role Try to have traditional public holidays to pick up the family traditions.6(2) The companys role Should give actual support for employees, even the country for the resumption（恢复）of the national value.(3) The governments role Have political guidance and national promotion for the scheme. W
28、hy do Chinese not place much importance to punctuality?答题技巧：AP (已存在) + C+ E+ S1. the awareness2. the quality of the citizenship（公民素质）3. speculation of the government（政府推广） Do children have strong sense of punctuality in China?答题技巧：E2 O+ R+ E1. teacher/ schools education2. peer/ familys influence3. t
29、he social atmosphere Are people busier or less busy now compared to the past?答题技巧：E2 O+ R+ E1. life2. work3. entertainment4. Describe a good law in your countryStage 3 Is it difficult to be a policeman in China?答题技巧：E2 O+ R+ E1. high requirement(1) physical fitness(2) vocational capability(3) psycho
30、logical quality/moral character sense of responsibility 2. fierce competition national examination for admissions to the civil service（国家公务员考试）3. advanced inter-personal relationship7 Do you think policemen should carry guns?答题技巧：E2 O+ R+ E1. Self-protection2. Deterrent（制止物）to crime3. Professional i
31、mage Do you think lawyers are respectable people in your country?答题技巧：Hard-to-Decide Pros vs Cons+ EOpening: It depends. / It is hard to decide it.Pros: 1. Lawyers deserve respect from the public for the endeavour they have made to become qualified lawyers. Examples: (1) It is well-known that it is
32、really demanding to be a student major in law. We have to work very hard to get the qualified marks in the College Entrance Examination to make the goal achieved.(2) Even in the undergraduate studies, law majors have to work harder than other majors. They have to remember tons of documents and cases
33、 in courts. (3) After four years hard work in university, reciting and grasping the monotonous (boring) terms and jargons (dialect), law school students have to pass the national judicial examination（国家法律考试）, which is commonly considered as the most challenging test in China, in order to become a la
34、wyer. In other words, lawyers have done their best endeavour（尽力）to overcome many obstacles on their career path, and this is what makes them respectable.2. Lawyers do their work by providing professional aids for people in need. Examples: (1) Despite the fact that lawyers get paid to do their work,
35、they are the best one who help people when they are involved legal troubles. (2) And there are lawyers who work for the government as public prosecutors（检察官）to ensure justice in every case.(3) There are some other lawyers work as a concerned lawyer（公益律师）to aid the vulnerable group（弱势群体）.3. Lawyer is
36、 respectful for their symbolic values.Examples: (1) They stand for fairness（公平）.(2) They stand for justice（正义）.(3) They stand for healthy trends（正义）.Cons: 1. They are the symbols of professionalism（商业化）.Examples: (1) Lawyers work for their bosses, so they try their best to defend the interests of th
37、eir own sides, whether it is justice or not.(2) In most cases, there is always a barrister-at-law（辩护律师）for both sides, even for the suspect（嫌疑犯）.(3) There are some examples of cases that the barrister-at-law successfully helps their party（当事人）escaping from the due law sanctions（应有的法律制裁）.82. Lawyers
38、in China is not qualified enough.Examples: (1) The successful lawyers in China usually depend on their huge and effective social network, not for their own expertise.(2) China hasnt a scientific and well-grounded（全面的）law system, which makes the lawyers the vulnerable group.(3) Lawyers are in collusi
39、on with（与勾结）governors to make themselves prosperous. They dont work for the justice. On the other hand, they work for the justice of the governors.3. Lawyers can be cheaters in fact.（律师可以成为事实上的欺骗者。 ）Examples: (1) If a lawyer defends the faults just for the reasons of money, they are big cheaters for
40、 all.(2) Most of the governors or politicians are lawyers. When they speak only for their own sides, neglecting the truth, they are real cheaters for the whole world. We can see many from the American and western governors. Of course, including the Taiwan governors, Chen Shui-bian as well.(3) Lawyer
41、s only work for the people who pay for them. Thats the cheating for people, because they are the guard for justice. They should strike for all the people in need, whether they are rich or poor. When do we need the help of laws?答题技巧：E1 D+ EOpening: laws are needed in every aspect of our life.Descript
42、ion: 1. Laws are the tools with which can safeguard our rights.Example: It is laws that grant us the right to vote, to have the freedom of speech and to enjoy equality in status. Life would be chaotic and anarchic if laws were not well enforced in the society. 2. We need help from laws when we are i
43、n legal trouble. Example: An example in point is that if businessmen find out their business partners fail to carry out the contract, and no solution can be reached even after negotiations, the only thing they can turn to is legal aids so that the disagreement can be settled with fairness.3. We need
44、 help from laws for obligations.Example: the obligation of support our parents（赡养父母） What qualities should the police have?答题技巧：E1 D+ E1. Justice（正义感）2. be severe with oneself and lenient towards others（严于律己，宽于待人。 ）3. self-giving（舍己为人）9 What qualities should a lawyer have?答题技巧：E1 D+ E1. Opinion: goo
45、d moral character Example: 1). compassion and bravery can perform under stressful situations2). honesty and fairness3). Integrity and personal responsibility2. Opinion: Professional knowledge of the law and rules of evidenceExample: 1). Strategic perspective2). Negotiation and influencing3). Effecti
46、ve communication3. Opinion: a good level of fitnessExample: Problem solving and logical reasoning skills: (1) remains calm and confident(2) Responds logically and decisively in difficult situations Do people in your country always obey laws? How to encourage people to obey the law?答题技巧：E2 O+ R+ E+ S
47、+ EA P/S+ C+ E+ S+ EProblem: It depends. People more likely obey the laws for big issues, while pay slightly attention to the ones related to daily life.1. Cause One: peoples awarenessExamples: (1) People do it out of habit, without knowing what they are doing is wrong.(2) Some people even think it
48、would not be a big deal for breaking the rules simply by him.(3) Mistakenly seeking convenienceSolution: Take measurements to raise peoples awareness of being a qualified citizen.Examples: (1) Schools education: peer influences between students kids counteractive（反作用的） effects on families. knowing t
49、he significance of obeying the laws(2) governments guidance: notification（告示）in public places medias advocating social schemes for self-discipline102. Cause Two: The intensity of punishmentExamples: (1) laws act upon peoples lives only through the threat of sanctions（制裁）(2) Or by the criticism of peers(3) Most of these are so small that it isnt even worth it to prosecuteSolution: intensify the sentence（量刑）for violating laws or rules（违法违规）Examples: (1) strengthen the power of penalty(2) a
