英语口语考试大纲话题详解

英语口语考试大纲话题详解

1．节假日Holidays and festivals

1.1学生可选择的陈述为：

The Mid-Autumn day

The Mid-Autumn Festival, on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, we can observe the biggest and brightest full moon of the year, the harvest moon.

One legend about the Moon Festival concerns expert architect Hou Yih, who built a palace of jade for the Goddess of the western heaven. In reward, she gave Hou Yih a pill with the elixir of immortality, warning him not to take it until he had fulfilled certain conditions. Hou Yih's ever-curious wife, Chang O, found the pill and promptly swallowed it. As punishment, she was banished to the moon where, according to tradition, her beauty is at its most radiant on the day of the Moon Festival.

The Festival is a public holiday marked by family reunions, moon gazing, and the eating of moon cakes-round pastries stuffed with red bean paste and an egg yolk, or fruit and preserves.

Dragon Boat Festival

Boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival commemorate the attempt to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Y uan, who drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Unable to save him, the people threw bamboo stuffed with cooked rice into the water so that the fish would eat the rice rather than the body of their hero. This evolved into the present custom of eating zongzi, rice dumplings filled with ham or bean paste and wrapped in bamboo leaves.

Since antiquity the Chinese have believed that the fifth lunar month is a pestilential, danger-fraught period. Sanitation is emphasized, medicines are added to food, aromatic branches are hung above doors, and beautifully embroidered protective amulets or sachets containing spices or medicines are fastened to the clothing of children.

Large crowds attend the festive boat races in Taipei, Taiwan, and Kaohsiung(高雄). Teams from all over the world compete in the races as excited observers cheer form the riverbanks.

Spring festival

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .It’s to celebrate the lunar calendar ‘s new year .In the evening before the Spring Festival ,families get together and have a big meal .In many places people like to set off firecrackers .Dumplings are the most traditional food .Children like the festival very much ,because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes .They can also

get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck . People put New Year scrolls on the wall for good fortune.

The Spring Festival lasts about 15 days long .People visit relatives and friends with the words “Have all your wishes”. People enjoy the Spring Festival, during this time they can have a good rest.

National Day Holiday

National Day is coming, and we can have a seven-day. My families are going to Hainan. It's a good seaside city. We are staying there for a week. We are going to the beach and going swimming in the sea. We’re visiting Tanya Haijiao, Wanquan River and many other beautiful places. I think we'll have a good time there.

I went to my cousin's house on the first day of the holidays and got a piece of good news that his wife was pregnant; She said she's worrying about getting fat, but on her face there was a unconceivable pleasure of conceiving a baby. My cousin told me that he'll educate his child in a severe way, with a future father's maturity(成熟). I’m happy for them.

Yesterday, our research school's soccer team had a match with the graduate students from the department of international business. It was almost a close game in the first half,but we seemed lacking of vigor in the second half, so, we lost the game.

Half of the National Day holidays have passed by...life still goes with good and bad times.

考官可能问到的问题为：

What’s your favorite Chinese festival? Why?

What do you do on that day? Who often spend this festival with you?

Which festival do you think is most important one in china? Why?

Tell me the stories of Spring Festival.

Do you know anything about Halloween? When is it?

What do you often do on summer vacation or winter holidays？

Do you like XXX holiday/vacation? Where are you going to go next XXX?

Where do you usually go on summer/winter holidays？Who did you go with？

How did you think of the trip?

What's the difference on shopping between two places？

2. 购物shopping

2.1 学生可能做的陈述为：

A Shopping Center in the Neighborhood

Large shopping centers are very convenient because we can find almost everything we need there.