雅思口语Events类话题(文化背景)--Bobby版

一、Events事件类常考的11个话题

Last birthday party

Party you would like to arrange for someone

Special meal

A festival

Public event Special event

Cultural event

Sport event

Family event

Wedding/Traditional wedding Interesting event

二、分为3类话题（引入文化差异）

1 Party

1.1 Cultural differences

Western countries

(1)celebrate every year

(2)birthday cake

(3)presents

(4)make a wish

(5)call friends and relatives

(6)party for kids include hiring a clown(小丑)/magician(魔术师)

(7)party decoration China

(1)not every year

(2)long-life noodles

(3)red-envelop(红包)

(4)new clothes

(5)not very popular to celebrate birthdays in China on big scale

1.2 Vocabulary

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 11th, 12th, 13th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd

wrap(包装)/unwrap(打开包装)，candles(blow/blew)，gifts/presents，wish(make/made) excited, surprise, invite，two tier cake(双层蛋糕)

cake fright: cream all over our faces, in the hair

special--10th, 18th birthday are very important in China and usually all the relatives and close friends are invited to attend the dinner/gathering(聚会)

1.3 Example

Well, I would like to describe my 18th birthday. You see, because of different culture background in China, not all the birthdays are celebrated. The birthdays which are celebrated big are “when the child is 30 days” in Chinese we call it Manyue (meaning full month), then it is the 100day celebration known as 100Tian, and then is the first birthday, 10th birthday, 15th birthday, 18th birthday and so on. Anyway, I remember on my 18th birthday, which was the birthday I celebrate 3 years ago, my parents arranged a banquet and invited most of the relatives and friends; it’s a big party and more than 100 guests arrived.

In the morning my parents gave me my presents, a laptop and a new mobile phone, later I got busy with them until it was time to cut the cake. At the restaurant, we had a wonderful banquet and I received lot of Hongbaos, you see, on big celebration in China people usually put some money inside of a red colour envelop and give it to the person celebrating his birthday or wedding, it’s considered to fortune in the future.

After the party we all went back and that’s how I celebrated my 18th birthday. (For summarising重要)

2 Special/traditional/public sport/interesting event

2.1 Background

Dragon Boat Festival (Race): international event—UK, Australia, Canada, USA, in 5th day of the 5th Chinese lunar month

2.2 Vocabulary

Quyuan (Poet/Scholar) Committed suicide(自杀) Followers/believers Row/rowed Dead body（尸体,not corpse）

Throw/threw rice dumplings(粽子)—sticky rice/ glutinous rice(糯米)

2.3 Example

Dragon boat: The boat is called dragon boat because it looks like a dragon when seen from distance. One end of the boat is shaped like dragon’s head and the other like dragon’s tail.

The legend has it that a famous poet and politician committed suicide to stop chaos and because he was unsatisfied that different states was battling with each other for power. He jumped into the Miluo River. His followers rushed to the river to save him. Unfortunately they could not save him, so they started to find his body but even his body was not where to be found, so they threw rice in the river to keep the fish away from devouring(吞食) his body.

Later it became a tradition to eat rice dumplings and hold dragon boat race to commemorate(纪念) this great leader and poet; this tradition found his way to 21st century. Now dragon boat race has become an international sport event, which is held in the UK, Australia, America and many other countries. People get together eat rice dumplings and watch dragon boat race on the tele(英式).

3 Wedding

3.1 Cultural differences

Western countries

(1)simple

(2)Honeymoon

(3)everybody dresses for the occasion

(4)usually at church

(5)banquet China

(1)complex

(2)so many rituals(仪式)

(3)casual clothing

(4)home or at restaurant

(5)banquet

3.2 Traditional aspects

Proposal (matchmaker媒婆)

Picking of the bride(新娘)

Arrival of the bride at her new home Wedding banquet (3 bows/baus/ and drinking with guests) Bridegroom/groom（新郎）Bride

Flower boy/girl