Do not memorise answers
不要背誦答案

IELTS interview skills
雅思面試技巧

Do not memorise answers
不要背誦答案

Memorising a text is not a good way to prepare.
在考試準(zhǔn)備過程中,背誦答案是不可取的。

Examiner: Would you like to tell me about your hometown?
考官: 你能談一談你的家鄉(xiāng)嗎?

Candidate: Yes!? Woo!? Thanks Internet.?
考生:好的!感謝因特網(wǎng)!

Porto, the country’s second largest city, is in itself full of interest,but the district it heads, though largely industrialized, offers the visitor plenty to see.
波爾圖是這個(gè)國家第二大城市,是一個(gè)非常迷人的城市,它的街區(qū)工業(yè)化程度很高,不過依然有許多值得游覽的地方。

Along the coast, holiday resorts like the cosmopolitan beach of Espinho...
在海邊,有度假勝地,比如著名的埃斯平霍海灘……

Splendid seafood or traditional fishing towns...
美味的海產(chǎn)品或是古老的漁村……

Quaint charm of Amarante, with 17th century mansions...
有阿馬蘭特的古雅魅力,17世紀(jì)的建筑……

Famous for a kind of sweet egg pastries called “Bellies of Angels”.
還有一種知名小吃,有“天使之腹”美稱的甜味蛋餅。

Examiner: Thank you.? What is the most interesting building in your hometown?
考官:謝謝。在你的家鄉(xiāng),最有趣的建筑是什么?

Candidate: The church. The old church.
考生:教堂。一座古老的教堂。

It’s big and some kings have been there and are there engraves…
教堂很大,有些國王還去過那。教堂里刻著。。。

A memorised answer will sound unnatural and won’t impress the examiner.
背誦的答案聽起來很不自然,無法給考官留下好印象。