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How new concept four can help you improveIELTS Writing?
The new concept of four is not for IELTS, GRE and other examinations specially written test materials, however, because the new four deliberately to improve the learners in all aspects of English proficiency, so the textbook can be used in many aspects of advanced English test. This article is mainly about the new four to improve the IELTS, GRE writing role.
The article in the new concept four is the editor Alexander carefully selected various fields of prose masterpiece, these articles elegant writing, reasoning thorough. The text is not to teach you the mode of mechanical writing, but to let students understand the high-level composition of the true meaning. Therefore, the profound grasp of the new four articles of the writing characteristics, can let everyone in the IELTS and GRE such a high-level English test to write different from the average person has a high standard of composition. Let's take a look at what the new four can provide reference for IELTS and GRE writing.
First,"essay"Tips
Many students in writing IELTS, GRE composition encountered the first problem is how to "essay", in the face of composition problems, thinking can not open, do not know where to start. The new four text provides a superb "essay" model. Taking the fifth Lesson Youth (Youth) as an example, when discussing the generation gap problem and defending young people, the author begins by pointing out the root of the problem: let's get down to fundamentals and agree. Man beings----people just like their elders.
The author goes on to point out that the only difference between the two is that young people have a bright future, and all the glory of the old is gone. In this way, the argument below has a solid foundation. When we are writing, we can refer to this method, at the beginning of the problem to understand the root, so that the following words can be said, and easy to convince. There are many similar "essay" Methods in the new four, such as the 24 Lesson "beauty" (Beauty): As an extremely abstract concept, "beauty" is what is originally difficult to write clearly, and the author in the first paragraph on the "Beauty" under the ingenious definition: the United States will make people think beyond our earthly world of another. In this framework, the discussion of "beauty" can be targeted.
second, the demonstration skill
The writing of IELTS and GRE is generally a discourse. It is not difficult to make an argument with its own point of view, and the key is how to prove the correctness of his viewpoint with proven techniques. Many students because there is no system to master the argumentation skills, written IELTS, GRE composition often argument empty, it is difficult to let the volume of convincing. Many of the articles in the new four provide a variety of argumentation skills, and we choose some of the techniques to discuss.
1. Digital argumentation This demonstration technique is more typical in the second lesson, "Do not hurt the spider" (Spare that spider). This text is to explain the great benefits that spiders bring to mankind, so as to advise people not to hurt spiders. In order to tell readers that spiders have a huge number of pests to kill, a series of numbers, such as 2,250,000 Spiders on an acre of ground, is equivalent to 6,000,000 spiders in a football field. Compared to the 1 and 2,250,000,1 and 6,000,000, the reader can see the number of spiders at a glance, you can imagine how many insects the spider will be removed each year.
2. We will use the second lesson as an example. In the first paragraph, the author compares spiders with birds and beasts, and points out: all of them (birds and beasts) put together kill only a fraction of the member destroyed by spiders. This highlights the importance of spiders in the removal of pests. The author then writes: Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never does the least harm to us or our belongings. See here, in the face of such a profit and no harm to the spider, the reader certainly do not have the heart to hurt, and the author's argument has reached the goal.
3. This technique of "to retreat" applies to refutation. The author first puts forward the argument against his own argument and then reverses it with facts, thus proving the correctness of his argument. We take the 19 lesson "The Nature of Dreams" (the Stuff of dreams) as an example: the authors first put forward the argument that it is customary to think that sleep is the function of resting the body, which is in line with the reader's intuition, and then the author uses solid evidence that physical rest does not depend on sleep. In this way, the reader in his intuition that the right argument is refuted, it is easy to accept the author's argument.
Another example is the 14 lesson "Butterfly Effect" (The Butterfly Effect), the author's argument is: No good weather forecast will not exceed seven days. The most persuasive and brilliant argument in the text is also the "to retreat" method: The author first assumed the most accurate and idealized weather forecast instrument in the second paragraph, allowing the reader to feel that the device had reached its Acme, which in theory could overturn the author's argument. But then, the authors use scientific evidence that the ideal instrument, which is impossible to use in this reality, still does not solve the problem. In this way, the reader has no reason not to accept the author's view.
We have just listed a few demonstration techniques, we will learn more argumentation skills through the new four study, such as the 31st lesson in the "first suppression of the Yang" method, the 28th lesson "example-the extreme example" law and so on.
Third, rhetoric
In the first two sections we are talking about the macro-writing skills, this part of the discussion is to write a specific sentence, that is, rhetoric. For the writing of IELTS and GRE, rhetoric is the best display of language skills. Rhetoric includes the use of words, the change of sentence patterns, and the usage of rhetorical lattices. We will discuss the relationship between the new four texts and the IELTS and GRE writing from the three sections below.
1. The new words on the new four glossary are basically high-level words, therefore, mastering the new four of the vocabulary will naturally allow you to express a high level of English writing skills, and the use of vocabulary is any of the important standard of English writing.
Of course, not mastering a large number of words can guarantee the improvement of writing standards, high-quality composition should be on the basis of a larger vocabulary to properly use the vocabulary. The new concept of four of the text of almost every article embodies the subtlety of the author's words, when we learn the text, if we can memorize the words at the same time, carefully understand the text of the choice of words, you can in their own writing as far as possible to choose the word precise.
We take the fifth lesson "Youth" (Youth) as an example, in the last sentence of the first paragraph of the text appeared two future, the author in these two words to use "brilliant" as the attributive, in order to avoid repetition, the author in the first future before the glorious to decorate, Use splendid before the second future. Another word: He can be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous, or fatuous, .... In this sentence, the author of a series of four adjectives is good, it is amazing.
2. Changes in sentence patterns Many students think that IELTS and GRE, as long as the long sentence can display their own language skills, in fact, this is a misunderstanding of English writing. English writing is changeable, avoids repetition, uses such words, and so is the choice of sentence patterns. On the one hand, the writing must be combined with short sentences, after a series of long sentences, should be consciously selected phrases, brief and powerful, in the argument can enhance the tone of the article.
On the other hand, the use of long sentences to avoid using only one sentence. Students in writing IELTS and GRE and other examinations in the composition, in order to use long sentences, often repeated use of attributive clauses, this will make the article appear too monotonous, muddy, read dull (this is also a teaching English writing for many years, the American professor personally said to the author's feelings). To make the composition full of anger, you must learn to use different long sentence patterns, the new four texts have a lot of good examples, we can learn carefully, and apply to their own writing. For example, we can learn the typical parallelism sentence usage in 24 lessons, in 31 lessons the author skillfully used the inverted sentence, 23 of the long sentences in the class, we can carefully understand how the author avoids the sentence repetition.
3. The use of rhetoric lattice can enhance the vividness and readability of the article. The study of IELTS and GRE writing shows that the proper use of figures of speech can greatly improve the level of composition in the examination. The 11th lesson, how to grow old, is a classic example of the use of figures of speech. The author compares life to Rivers (an individual human existence should is a river), and small at first refers to the childhood of man, rushing passionately refers to the human youth, Bo Ulders and waterfalls refer to the frustrations of life, while become merged in the sea means death. To some extent, it is this wonderful metaphor that makes this phrase a classic paragraph in English prose. Figures of speech, in addition to metaphor and personification, exaggeration and so on, these can be found in our text corresponding examples.
Studying the classics, learning writing skills is an effective way to improve the writing, the new four of the text in this respect is a rare good material. This article only from the general introduction of the new four is worth the IELTS, GRE writing reference to several aspects, we will be in the specific study of more harvest. Writing has a strong practical, on the one hand, students in the study of the new four o'clock to consciously figure out the writing techniques of the article, learn from writing skills, on the other hand, we must often write articles, will own the sentiment in practice, in the continuous lianbi improve the level of writing.
IELTS MUST SEE: New concept three book to help you get high score
1,IELTS Speaking:Achilles Heel(fatal weakness)
In the process of contact with students, I found that, in addition to a very small number of students who love English, Chinese students are mostly miserable oral scores, usually 20 points high score. It's not that Chinese students are not smart or they can't learn spoken English; on the contrary, the large gre,sat of Chinese students gives us enough confidence in the IQ of Chinese students. In the final analysis, the Chinese students ' oral English obstacle stems from the school education Mode and examination system malpractice. In the English class of primary and middle schools, the teacher gives the students the chance to speak English poorly; in Chinese examinations, whether it is the test, the college entrance examination, four, six, postgraduate, oral examination is always no exception to the "Cup" is ignored. This leads directly to the students to speak English when "dare not open mouth, Zhang is not opening" the consequences.
Many students always complain about the lack of language environment, the best and most effective way to practise spoken English is to retell. Most of the new concept three of the narrative articles, such as the 5th, 6, 13, 15, 16, 31, 33 and other classes, are very good retelling material. Retelling can be divided into two steps: The first step to listen to the text recording 1-2 times (can be adjusted according to their own listening level), and then use their own words to speak to themselves; the second step is to read the text again, to understand the part of the listening comprehension and then tell it again. This kind of preview way, training students listening, reading, speaking of the comprehensive ability, and this ability is precisely the IELTS test oral part2,3 the ability to examine.
New Concept three book this textbook not only provides us with good training materials, but also provides a lot of classic templates. For example, the 31-lesson character-descriptive template, 12-and 41-lesson contrast-proof templates, and 59-lesson hobby templates. The authentic structure and fluent English (the template framework requires a ripe back, the exam can be voluble) will make the IELTS examiner does not give you a high score will have a sense of guilt. As another example, the last paragraph of Lesson 59 lists the five benefits of the hobby of "collection", namely: recreation, growing knowledge, making friends, traveling around the world, building confidence. Through analysis, we found that any beneficial hobby is nothing more than these advantages, that is, in describing our hobbies and their merits, we can apply these points.
2,IELTS Listening: Get rid of the cup
The so-called "listening mouth does not split", listening is also the project of students headache. And, with the change of examination form, IELTS listening not only to the understanding of the process of demanding, while the examinee's short-term memory and notes also put forward higher requirements, therefore, the hearing of the single-digit scores of tragedies occur.
In my teaching, I found that the students ' listening problems were mainly focused on the details, because the subject matter even had a few words or even one or two sentences without understanding, often did not affect the whole text comprehension, but also can do the main topic. Therefore, in addition to the emphasis on the listening training before each class, so as to exercise the students ' ability to understand the general effect, but also in the 9th lesson focus on Training "digital" hearing, the 27th lesson comprehensive training "numbers, names, names" and other details of the listening ability, and take this as an example, the system to explain the listening "notes" This is in the IELTS listening section to listen to the article after the topic of the question to achieve high scores of critical ability.
3, IELTS writing: Leading to"Complete"the road
The common point of IELTS writing and IELTS Speaking is that it is the process of "output" of language. The main problems in students ' writing focus on three points: words, grammar, discourse.
First of all, in the new concept of the three book of learning, we can accumulate a large number of high-level vocabulary to replace low-level words. For example, the expression "big" this meaning, most students can only say big, large, huge. However, the 10th lesson of the Titanic, 17 lessons of immerse,enormous,19 class considerable, 21 lessons tremendous are more accurate and more beautiful statement. In addition, such as "charming", "always, often", "I think", "A is more important than B" and many other expressions can also allow us to replace the old way of expression, the numerous.
Secondly, for the new concept of the three books in the text of many high-level grammar of the explanation, from a functional point of view, to help students to effectively use in the test writing. For example, the correct use of these grammars is undoubtedly the highlight of the writing test, such as the clause of the 1th lesson, the independence of the 6th lesson and the subject clause of the 29th lesson.
Thirdly, from the textual point of view, for the IELTS writing 185 Question Bank 3/4 of the comparative logic of the article, we can combine the 12, 27, 29, 41 This lesson contrast template easy to deal with. In addition, the 3rd, 5, 6, 7, 17, 39 and other more than 10 texts provide us with a very beautiful and authentic bright spot sentence pattern, The imitation of the highlight sentence patterns and learning is the IELTS composition to "complete" the necessary weapon of the road.
4and read: IELTS High point opener
Reading has always been a strong point for Chinese students, because we have been reading in the early exams, so it may be the least of the four problems, but there are also many students who have wandered below 20. The main reason is that students do not master the scientific method of English reading. In the new concept three book, the 17th lesson is to explain and practice skimming (skimming) and scanning (read) classic articles. In the second half of the book, the 51st and 55 are typical articles of science and technology, as well as the most close to the IELTS test of the real topic. Taking these two articles as an example, we can analyze the logic of science and technology articles from the angle of difference between English and Chinese thinking and language, in order to hope that the majority of examinee understand, improve the reading speed is actually very simple, just want to accurately distinguish those need to read, skim, do not read the sentences and paragraphs can, and is not swallowed general rapid movement of
"I am going abroad to go to a good university," This is what I hear the parents and students most often say a word. But the distance between dreams and reality is always so far away.
Elite schools for the IELTS bottom line requirements are usually more than 7 points, and if you want to be more competitive will need 7.5 or more than 8 points (of course, different professional requirements are different). However, in the actual teaching, I witnessed too many real cases, many students reported a number of courses abroad, from basic classes, to intensive classes, to sprint classes, and then to the humorous class, some even the same class listen to 2-3 times, but ya think to test to go still only five or six points, As their teachers and friends I really feel worried and anxious.
Analysis of the reasons, we are not difficult to find that the exam class teacher analysis of the rules of the exam, explain the exam skills, to provide candidates with a magic weapon to win the exam. However, after all, the exam is based on strength, lack of strength test skills are also difficult to use. Even North American teachers are repeatedly emphasizing the importance of strength and the drawbacks of speculation. This truth is very simple, we have such cases around us: English level is very good classmate, even if the IELTS nude test can also get very beautiful scores. This is also why I once listened to two times the new concept three books of the TA after reviewing 9 days after the IELTS scored 7 points of good results when I do not feel very different. Because, I firmly believe that the exam is eight points of strength + two points of skill, only to improve strength and with reasonable test skills is the only way to get high scores in the exam.
hope that all students can learn the new concept of three books, solid lay a good foundation. So-called"Ax", learning new concepts, IELTS score soar is not a dream.

Self-motivation (collection of childhood education)