Speaking Part One
• 4-5 minutes
• general questions about everyday situation
• 3 topics
| Accommodation | Birds | Birthdays | Children |
| Colors | Dancing | Driving | Emails & Letters |
| Films | Family & Friends | Hometown | Handicrafts |
| Happiness | Internet | Languages | Leisure Time |
| Meals | Mobile Phones | Noise | Names |
| Numbers | Photograph | Studies | Schools |
| Swimming | Sport | Television | Weather |
| Weekends | Work | Fashion |
Accommodation
\1. Do you live in a house or a flat?
• Flat/ apartment / studio/condo/loft
• In school Dorm/ on campus (off campus 在校外)
I live in a condo with my parents. (回答一下)
It is the top floor, so we got great view（scenery）! （扩充一下）
I have an idea/ got an idea.
\2. Can you describe the place where you live?
*Locations:*
• City center/ Heart of the city/ downtown --> uptown(住宅区)
• Suburb/ outskirts/ residential area/
subway/subtitle
• country
• Upper east side/ upper west side
*Home style*
• Bedroom / bathroom
• living room/dining room/Kitchen
• study/ office
• Balcony/ terrace
• Two bedroom flat/ Three bedroom flat （注意连读）
• Six- story building
• We got an amazing garden view
I gotta go. got--在口语中表示 I have
I got an idea.
*Develop the topic*
• recently built / new
I live in a recently built neighborhood.
• decorated in an old-fashioned(复古，可修饰穿着) style (fashion-fashionable) you look/are so fashionable.
style-stylish a. 流行的 You are so stylish. / I like your skirt , it looks so stylish.
• comfortable/cozy it feel cozy.
• spacious our apartment is spacious.
• charming this place is very charming. he is very charming.
prince-charming--白马王子
I live in a recently built apartment/condo with my parents, but it is decorated in an old-fashioned style. Our rooms are not spacious, but we find it very cozy to live in.
*Develop the topic*
• Low-rise building low-rise jeans--低腰裤 I like ~~
• Beachfront/riverfront/lakefront (理想的家,婚礼)
• Carpeted /our rooms are carpeted.
• Furnished(带有家具的，可以直接入住的) /unfurnished furniture the whole place is furnished well.
• Well-appointed
I live in a beachfront low-rise condo outside the city. And the decor is well-appointed. Also, we carpeted the whole house, and it is so comfortable for me.
\3. What kind of decorations does it have?
• Traditional style/ modern style
• Elegant European style
elegant -- graceful，elegant lady
• Lavish Chinese-style living room
lavish--奢华的
• Cozy country style 田园风格
• Tasteful(有品位的) Retro style retro -- old-fashioned
tasty -- delicious this is delicious/tasty.
• Simple IKEA(宜家) style has simple IKEA style
*Home Decoration*
• Hot pink wall paper
• dark wooden floors / wooden furniture
• Huge bay windows
• oil paintings
• Chinese calligraphy
place -- 安放 on my hot pink wall paper, I place a oil painting and also a Chinese calligraphy, which looks quite nice.
Well, we have lavish Chinese-style decor at home cos my parents love it! In our large living room, we have lots of traditional furniture, which matches with the dark wooden floors.
,+which 非限定性定语从句 --不限定（不指代）前面的某一个单词，而是指代前面的整句话or整个的意思，很好的方式可以避免语法出错而且符合6分对语法的要求。
I just don’t really care about decoration stuff（--thing or things） at home as long as I got a bed, a television and a computer, so I can chill and relax /relax and hang out/ loosen up( nu nΛ 连读 )/ aftear a long day at school.
FENG SHUI your house.(n./v.)
My house has a great FENG SHUI !
My parents are so into（=like）FENG SHUI.
Like painting our rooms green is good for our health.
英文--来自--中文
Tai-chi 太极
Shanghai 上海--骗人上贼船 v. I can't believe, you have me shanghaied---我真不敢相信你把我骗了
Kung Fu 功夫
Chop-chop = quickly -- 像切菜一样
Oolong 乌龙茶
Mahjong 麻将 we love play Mahjong
\4. Which part of your home do you like the most?
*Bedroom*
• King size bed / queen size bed / single bed(单人床)
• Bunk bed （双层床）
• Large wardrobe
• Dresser
• Nightstand
• Bookshelf
go on net 上网
spare/leisure time
I really love my bedroom! Cos I got a large wardrobe and in my free time I like to try on my clothes and look in the mirror. Sometimes I even take photos of myself and post them online.
wardrobe -- Floordrobe Messy ⬇
\5. Do you like your neighborhood?
*Neighborhood: community* 可替代
• Loud and over-crowded
• Affordable and convenient
• Great traffic
• Not a neighborhood but a town 可替换为 school 说明大：It is not a campus, it's a town.
• Walkable
our community is loud and over-crowded,
I love my neighborhood, because it's affordable and convenient, though it's a little loud and over-crowded. the traffic is great and is very walkable, because we have a lot of restaurants, we have shops and you know, the big malls in my neighborhood.
• Quiet and peaceful neighborhood
• Mostly are elders--old people
• They walk their dogs or play tai-chi in the morning
walk the cat/bird
• it is pretty laid-back.
Chengdu is a laid-back place. --> pace of life is slow.
I live in a quiet and peaceful neighborhood because mostly are old people/elders. They just walk their dog or play tai-chi in the morning. So it feels pretty laid-back to live here.