托福听力一直以来是考生“头疼”的一门,不是听不懂,就是听不全,记不住,总是选错。对于听力考试试题来说,内容和主题是千变万化的,也并不是拿高分的学生每个都可以听懂,他们是有技巧的,考点也是有规律的。那么想要听不懂也能做对,掌握“信号词”这个诀窍吧。
“信号词”是联接上下语篇的单词或者短语,起到了连贯作用。接下来和新航道西安托福培训机构一起来看看吧:
信号词一:主旨
一般会出现在讲座的开头,例如:
Last time, we talked about ...
Today, we will be discussing ...
We’ve been talking about ...
Today, let’s discuss ...
Continuing ...
Today, we will ...
有些时候在点明主题之前会提到别的信息,只要记住“today”后的才是重点就行了,千万不要被误导了!
信号词二:举例子:
在托福听力中,也会举例进行说明。在说明事物或事理时,举出一些准确恰当,有代表性的例子,就能化抽象为具体,化繁为简,把事理浅显化,通俗易懂。需要记下来,但是例子只是用来论证观点,使观点更充分的,因此观点才是考点,态度转变常考!
for instance
such as
Namely
as an example
take example for
Say
Consider
Take
Let us look at
Think of ...
It is just like ...
例:Roman pottery for example, it was typically glazed so it’s very shiny, easy to see against the soil. But, pottery of the early middle ages was brown or grey and it wasn’t glazed, so you’d have trouble spotting it at an excavation. It’s kind of camouflaged against the soil. So it’s easy to draw the wrong conclusions about population size based on the available evidence.
例子中提到了pottery的例子,对比了罗马时期和中世纪早期的pottery的区别,例证的提示词用到的是“for example”
信号词三:解释
下定义也是讲座中常见的内容,被定义的概念是讲座的关键内容,需要做笔记!
hat I mean is
All that means is
which is / that is
in other words
...is referred to as
...is named/known/called
信号词四:对比
对于对比信号词,考生除了注意比较级和最高级之外,还要多注意对比和类比。对比听不同的地方,类比听相同的地方。
We should not confuse A and B
A is different from B
compare to
Contrast
Unlike
similar to
in contrast to
Differently
信号词五:转折
转折是对前文的否定,转折后面出现的信息往往更需要关注,即教授想要强调的点,也是考点出现的地方。
通过先陈述一部分事实或者抛出一个问题,再来一个转折信号词,从而提出真正的观点。
But
However
Nevertheless
While
Yet
Unless
except for
Actually
in fact
to tell you the truth
以上就是给大家列举的几组“信号词”,在大家听不懂托福听力的时候,可以尽可能的捕捉这些词,希望今天的分享会对大家有帮助。更多托福备考知识,请在线联系我们,