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雅思小作文1 + 外刊句式积累

Six question types

  1. Line graph
  2. Bar chart
  3. Pie chart
  4. Table
  5. Diagram-comparing
  6. Diagram-process

注意：1-4都是关于数字的（描述数字、比较不同、指出变化或者趋势走向）

不需要写很难的句式

得分点：没有语法错误；不跑题；描述关键的信息，不用写所有信息

高分点：尽量不要重复单词，除了题干核心词，变在动词或者形容词、副词；句式变换

文章结构建议：4段式

  1. Introduction: one sentence to paraphrase
  2. Overview: two sentences to describe the main points (general things)
  3. Details
  4. Details

注意：小作文不需要写结论，也不需要写自己的看法

Academic Writing Task 1 Strategy

  1. Paraphrase the question. It is best to paraphrase the question in the first paragraph. You can do this by using synonyms.
  2. Write the overview. To write your overview, pick 3 or 4 of the main features and write about them generally without referencing any data.
  3. Support the main features. In a new paragraph, support the key features with the data in the information given to you.
  4. Check your work. Check your report for spelling and grammar mistakes. Make sure that the data you mentioned is also accurate!

举例

  • Introduction 直接 paraphrase 题目中的主题句

    Across the country, the number of new projects has hit a level last seen in 2012.

    主语从句：What we have witnessed across the country is that the number of new projects has hit a level last seen in 2012.

    There be 句型：Across the country, there has been a new development about the number of new projects that has reached a level last seen in 2012.

    There be 句型：Across the country, there has been a level, which was last seen in 2012, that has been reached by the number of new projects.

外刊句式积累

  1. The city’s population had been shrinking for decades. And yet between 2000 and 2007, amid a nationwide, credit-fuelled property boom, house prices in Pittsfield jumped by 70%, or 8% per year.

  2. Warner’s hit is an example of how gaming is besting older media, both as a business and as a way for people to entertain themselves.

    best adj. 最好的；adv. 程度最深的 n. 最好的东西 v. 超越、打败

  3. Among the women in this group, those who averaged about 3.5 minutes a day of this kind of exertion had nearly half the risk of experiencing a cardiovascular event.

    • average n. 平均值 adj. 平均的 v. 达到平均值（后面跟具体数字）annual inflation averaged 2.5 percent.

  4. The hope, of course, is that Uber’s profits, having broken above ground, will now soar into the stratosphere.

    • stratosphere n. 平流层；最高水平、顶峰

    • troposphere n. 对流层

  5. Even adding in the latest profit, the company has clocked up $31bn of net losses since its first available results in 2014.

    clock up v. （某一数量）累计达到

    clock n. 钟表；袜子在脚裸处的图案 v. 达到（具体的时间、距离、或速度等）

  6. In its first six months as a public company Uber’s share price plunged by a quarter as doubts swirled over whether the perennial lossmaker would ever turn a profit.

    plunge v. 快速且有力量地跳下或潜水、骤降、暴跌；快速地推 n. 跳下或跳水的动作、骤降、暴跌

    plummet v. 高速垂直下落 n. 骤降、暴跌；铅垂线

  7. Thereafter it has seesawed, soaring amid the pandemic-era craze for tech stocks, then diving back down as rising interest rates spoiled investors’ appetite forr businesses reliant on cheap funding.

    seesaw n. 跷跷板 vi. 上下起伏

    jigsaw n. 拼图；曲线锯

    The change of Zinc price has seesawed in a range of negative 1 percent to three percent, increasing mildly during January, then dropping gradually between February and October and ending with a uptick in the last two months.

  8. Afew hours after eating a high-carb meal, the number of calories in the bloodstream plummets, so we get hungrier sooner after eating.

  9. Across the country, the number of new projects has hit a level last seen in 2012.

词汇积累

  1. 波动

    • oscillate vi. 摆动、摇摆、振动（以常规的速度）

      oscillation n. 摆动、波动、振荡（以常规的速度）

    • fluctuate v. （在数字或金额上）上下波动（无规律）

      fluctuation n. 波动

    • seesaw n. 跷跷板 vi. 上下起伏

  2. 增长

    • surge n. 涌动（突然的强大的向上向前的力量，通常指人群或潮水）；激增；强烈的情感或冲动（a surge of anger 怒上心头）；大规模部署军事力量；vi. 涌动（突然的强大的向上向前的力量，通常指人群或潮水）；激增；（情绪或感受强烈地）影响某人（indignation surged up within her 她心中涌起愤怒）

    • soar v. 飞得很高、飞涨

    • jump v. 跳起来、增长；快速移动；（非正式）突然袭击；（非正式）某个地方很热闹 n. 跳跃、增长；吓一跳

    • uptick n. 小幅增加、小幅上升

  3. 暴跌

    • plunge v. 快速且有力量地跳下或潜水、骤降、暴跌；快速地推 n. 跳下或跳水的动作、骤降、暴跌

    • plummet v. 高速垂直下落 n. 骤降、暴跌；铅垂线

    • dive v. 头向下扎水里；（飞机或鸟类）在空中向下俯冲 n. 跳水；俯冲；破旧肮脏的酒吧

  4. 达到顶点

    • peak n. 顶峰 v. 达到最高点 adj. 最好的、最大值的

    • soar into the stratosphere 飞得高到平流层 即 达到顶点

  5. 保持 remain/sustain/hold + constant/stable

    • remain v. 继续存在

    • sustain v. 支持；忍受；保持；确认公正或有效 n. （琴）延音踏板

    • hold v. 抓住；拘留、扣住；保持牢固或完整；包含；占有、拥有；保持、预留（a reservation can be held for 2 hours）；阻止继续发生（hold you fire）；安排、参加、举行； n. 抓握；控制；货仓

    • constant adj. 持续的；不变的物或事、常量

    • stable adj. 稳定的（稳固不易翻倒的） n. 马厩 v. 把马放在马厩里

    • steady adj. 稳固的；稳定的；v. 使稳固；使稳定；Excl. 警告 保持冷静、注意安全

写作

题目

The graph below shows the average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

Average monthly change in prices of copper, nickel and zinc (2014)

% change in price compared with previous month.

作文

第一段：对题目同义替换，实在想不出就使用被动

倒装：介词短语 谓语 主语

思路：先写正常语序（主语 谓语 介词短语），再倒装

The average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014 is in the illustration of the graph above.

In the illustration of the graph above is the average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014.

动名词作主语

Showing the average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014 is the main part of the graph above.

Gaining the data about the average monthly change in the prices of three metals during 2014 is what readers could achieve in reading the graph above.

第二段：总体趋势

Overall/In general, nickel started with the highest change, dropping significantly during the year, and ended with the lowest. In terms of Zinc, there is a mildly dramatic fluctuation during the year compared with the one for copper that is more stable.

第三段：详细

The change of nickel price has seesawed precipitously during the year,decreasing sharply from 6 percent to negative 3 percent in first half of 2014, recovering a liitle bit in the next four month to negative 1 percent, and finishing with the lowest figure among the three metals at 1 percent.

第四段：详细

Despite the general oscillation for zinc, what is clear is that the change of its price hit the highest level in Feburary to 3 percent and the lowest number of negative one percent during June. The change of copper price has remained the most steady among the three metals, with the highest change at 2 percent at the start of the year and the lowest of negative 0.5 percent during the year.