英语话题作文

英语话题作文

话题1 ：家庭、朋友和周围的人

Part 1: Some Tips

概述：人物介绍属于记叙文（narration）的写作范畴，写作时要围绕人物组织材料。所写短文中应包括人物(who)、时间(when)、地点(where)、主要事件(what)等内容。写作时，要做到主题鲜明，内容清楚，并注意结构的完整性。技巧点拨：

1. 仔细审题，确定主题。审题四确定：

1) 确定类型：人物介绍

2) 确定体裁: 记叙文

3) 确定主体时态: 一般现在时

4) 确定主体人称: 第三人称

2．合理安排短文的结构层次，组织好所提示内容表达的先后顺序。

3．句子时态要在上下文中有相关性、连续性，要与表达内容一致。

4．审题后要先列出简明扼要的提纲，其次写出草稿，经过修改之后，再正式成文。

一、人物介绍的写作步骤：

1. Age, sex, appearance, character, birthday and birth place

2. Family background

3. Education background

4. Big events in his or her life (in order of time)

5. Evaluation

二、人物介绍写作常用的词组及句子：

1. Age, sex, appearance, character, birthday and birth place

1）Age:

I was nine when my mother went back to Wales to visit her parents.

Mr Gregory Gale is one of the few people in England who are 100 years old.

He entered politics at the age of 25.

At age 16, with a year and a half of schooling and $3 in his pocket, he moved to New York City. Ben Franklin died in 1790 at 84.

Like many kids of 16, I wanted my parents’ time and attention, but it never occurred to me that they might have needs and problems of their own.

She was aged six when she first went to school.

Ben, aged 21, fond of swimming and driving, has just graduated from a college.

Jeff, 30, teaches in both Qinghua High School and Qinghua Junior School.

Consider Chlore, a 23-year-old college student.

When I was in my early teens, once I stayed with my family in the mountains for summer holiday. He was in his late 30s when he moved to England.

2）Birthday and birth place:

…was/ were born in …on…

eg. She was born in Poland on Nov.7,1867.

Born in 1985, he is now an 24-year-old student.

3）Sex & Marriage

eg. He is a man of forty and have a 9-year-old daughter.

He is 35, male and unmarried.

4）Appearance

eg: She is a lovely girl, with a round face, big eyes, white teeth and long black hair.

He is thin, tall and wearing a pair of thick glasses.

5）Height:

eg. He is 1.76 meters tall.

He is 176 centimeters tall.

He is really a tall man, about 1.98 meters in height.

6）Health:

eg. Well looked after, the children look healthy.

He is not so strong, but (he’s) in good health.

2. Family background

…was/ were born in/into a poor/ rich family

his/her family was so poor that…

his/ her father was very strict with him…

the son of a poor family

when he was a small boy/ young

as a child/ as a boy of 15

during his/ her childhood

spend his childhood in…

live a happy/ hard life

eg. Abraham Lincoln, the son of a poor family, was born in Kentucky on February 12,1809.

Born into a poor clerk’s family, Charles Dickens had little schooling.

3. Education background

be admitted to …college

graduate from…department of …university

when at college, he majored in…

receive a doctor’s degree

go abroad for further studies

eg. He started school in 1984 and left school 12 years later.

He went to study in Beijing University in 1984 and 4 years later he graduated (from that university).

We learned many courses, such as English,maths and so on.

He got his bachelor’s (master’s, doctor’s) degree in mathematics in April 1998...

4. Big events in one’s life

be interested in… /be fond of…

work hard at…

serve as…

devote his lifetime/himself to…

concentrate himself to…

do research about/ into…

make up one’s mind to do sth.

do sth with great determination and perseverance