雅思口语part 3范文：如何回答过去与现在的比较题

Do you think people communicate differently now than in the past? 在雅思口语part 3范文里，这是个很合理也几乎无法回答的问题：你没有亲历过可供比较的过去。大多数考生只用一句话作答，然后等着，考官便继续往下问。

比较题是 Part 3 里最常见的题型，而且它们并不是在考历史。它们考的是你能否在脑中同时握住两种状态，并说出区别何在。可用的证据来源有三种，且都不要求你亲历过去。

比较题在评分什么

Part 3 持续四到五分钟，正是词汇范围和语法范围有空间展示的地方。只使用 now it is better 的比较回答，在这两项上得分都会很差。

评分描述项看重展开和恰当措辞，而不是历史陈述的准确性。考生如果说 I can only go by what my parents describe，其实做了一件很成熟的事：点明自己知识的边界，然后继续回答。

这句话也是几乎任何 Part 3 回答里都能复用的缓冲表达，所以它应当放进你的准备里，而不是靠现场即兴。

你可以使用的三种来源

亲眼所见的变化。你在自己有生之年看着它发生转变的事：家人如何订旅行、学校如何发消息、商店如何收款。

听来的变化。年长亲属、老师或同事描述的内容，并如实说明来源。

公开知识中的变化。任何你能作为公共知识指出的内容：大多数成年人现在随身带手机、信件要几天才到、现金使用已经减少。

I can only speak from what I've seen and what my parents describe, but the biggest change is that plans are made in a group chat now, where they used to be made by one person phoning round.

这样的回答点明了来源，提出一个判断，并给出一个具体差异。它只要十五秒，却属于 7 分回答。

四步回答法

第一步：用一个从句点明变化。

第二步：简要说明来源。

第三步：只点明代价或好处，不要两者都说。

第四步：点明例外，因为例外证明你在思考，而不是在背诵。

The change is speed. I know that from my own family: my grandmother still writes letters and my cousins have never sent one. The cost is that we expect an answer immediately, so silence feels like bad news. The exception is anything formal, where a letter still carries weight.

四句话，四个步骤，大约三十秒。如果考官想要更多，他们会追问，而你还有材料可用。

让比较保持诚实的语言

now, compared with twenty years ago it used to be that people of my parents' generation I wouldn't know from experience, but the difference I notice most is that has changed less than people think in practice, not much has changed the same thing happens, just faster

一段回答里用上其中两个就足够了。用得更多，就会变成一串连接词，而评分描述项并不奖励这个。

两个示范比较

人们如何保持联系。The obvious change is the number of channels. My mother had one phone line for a whole street; I have four ways to reach the same person. What hasn't changed is the awkward part, which is deciding who to contact first, and I think that's why group chats feel stressful.

孩子如何玩耍。When my parents were children, play happened outside and was organised by whoever was oldest. Now it's often indoors and organised by an adult, or by a game. I'd say the freedom changed more than the technology, and the exception is sport, which still works the old way.

两个回答都用了同样的四个步骤，也都没有声称拥有自己并不具备的知识。

八个题目，每个用一行来规划

Do people read more or less than before? Is it easier to make friends now? Has family life changed in your country? Do children today spend too much time indoors? Is travel different from how your parents travelled? Has the way people shop changed? Are people more polite now than in the past? Do young people work harder than their parents did?

对每个题目写一行：变化、来源、代价、例外。这样练十分钟，比读二十篇范文覆盖的内容更多。

常见问题

比较过去和现在需要事实吗？

不需要，但你需要说明自己的印象来自哪里。From what my parents describe 和 from what I've seen in my own city 都足够，而且比你一知半解记住的统计数据更诚实。如果你确实引用数字，就明说你不确定这个数字，因为错误数字的代价比没有数字更大。

Part 3 比较回答应该多长？

三到五句通常正好：变化、来源、代价和一个例外。Part 3 回答若拖到一分钟，往往开始重复，考官会打断，而这就让你失去把一个想法说完的机会。如果你还有更多要说，就留到追问里说，而不是放在第一个回答里。