What should I do if I can't speak TOEFL at all

TOEFL speaking is what many candidates are most afraid of, and they don't even know how to say it at all. Now I'll tell you how to speak oral TOEFL.

TOEFL speaking problem: I can't open my mouth and have nothing to say

It is difficult to speak English quickly. Students who want to get a high score in spoken English in a short time can basically give up after reading the subtitle. I once heard that there were students who fought TOEFL for seven times, just to get 22 points in oral English test, but the highest score was only 21 points. After finding the score, they cried and left, which was very heroic.

Some people say that listening is difficult to speed up. In fact, it is more difficult to hone oral English than listening, because speaking is based on listening. The oral score reflects not only the ability of speaking, but also a part of comprehensive ability. Of course, this part of the score will tell you to some extent how many oral obstacles you will encounter when studying abroad in the future.

For students who are eager to get a high TOEFL score and apply immediately, oral English is more annoying than all other parts, because the oral English part is too poor. Candidates who get full marks in reading may have less than 2 points in oral English-the great advantages gained in other parts may be erased by the insignificant oral English scores in minutes. The gap is so big and oral English is so cruel. However, many schools have drawn a line in the individual scores, either not less than 2 points or not less than 22 points, which makes the candidates who are already big more angry.

Let's not discuss the "worldly experts" in the English field for the time being, but only say that there are many objective obstacles for us bad karma children who have only had a "low education" in senior high school English in the sixth year. For example, after six years of study, most people's understanding of spoken English only stays in junior high school and senior high school, and they read dialogues awkwardly according to textbooks at the same table-isn't it unreasonable to learn English in this way and speak fluent American accent?

Therefore, most students in China are in a state of poor oral English. Walking on the streets of Beijing, being asked for directions by a foreign uncle will make you blush for a long time, let alone give you 15 seconds to think, and then talk stupidly to the computer for 45 seconds.

analysis of oral English questions

before we begin to talk about oral English experience, let's summarize the oral English questions and characteristics.

oral English questions can be roughly divided into three categories.

1. Independent oral English (two courses)

Preparation time is 15 seconds

Answer time is 45 seconds

Features:

The first question is descriptive and open, describing the people who have the greatest influence on you, your favorite city and so on. The most notorious topic is the audition question before TOEFL: "Describe the city you live in". (Later, I came across this problem when I was tutoring the Canadian immigration exam. At that time, I was filled with emotion and emotion. Immigrants will take the English exam, which shows how simple it is.) Difficulty level: two stars.

The second question is speculative, and it is an either-or choice. For example, do you agree with a certain point of view, do you like to live in a big city or a country, and so on. Candidates need to give their own choices when answering, and then explain the reasons. Difficulty level: two and a half stars.

2. Reading, listening and speaking comprehensive oral questions (two)

Reading time: 45 seconds

Preparation time: 3 seconds

Answer time: 6 seconds

Features:

No need to repeat personal opinions.

the third question to read is a notice. After reading it, there will often be a dialogue to express opinions on the contents of the notice. The exam needs to be repeated. Difficulty level: Samsung.

the fourth question is to read an academic article and then listen to a professor's lecture. The lecturer will express his opinions on the article. The topic requires candidates to repeat. Difficulty level: three and a half stars.

3. Listening and speaking comprehensive oral questions (two)

Listening time: 1 to 2 minutes

Preparation time: 2 seconds

Answer time: 6 seconds

Features:

Listening time is long, so you need to take notes clearly.

the fifth question is problem-solving. Someone will encounter a problem in the listening passage, and then the second person will propose two solutions. Candidates need to make choices and give reasons when answering. This question is more like the second question in the enhanced version, but the requirement for "reasonable and well-founded" is higher. Difficulty level: four stars

The sixth question is a typical academic selection, much like a foreign university classroom. Candidates are required to repeat the professor's point of view or explain some theory or principle. Difficulty level: four-star

oral analysis

1. Logical questions

The difficulty of oral questions increases gradually. Independent oral topic is the simplest and easiest to prepare. The last two listening and speaking questions are difficult in the length of listening. But to sum up, it is nothing more than logic and order. You must be clear-headed when you open your mouth to answer questions.

logic is like bones, and what you want to say is flesh and blood. The most helpless situation is to understand all the reading, but also understand the views in the dialogue, but the opening is fragmentary details, and one element is finished, and it is taken back. Even if you translate what you say into Chinese sentence by sentence, the other party may not understand it. Therefore, the logic of answering questions should be clear, and when reading that short reading or listening part, you should also push it with logic.

In TOEFL speaking test, causality and total score are the most common. For example, the second question, after the choice, needs to give reasons. The sixth question asks to explain a certain point of view, which needs to be clarified first, then separately stated and expanded. If you master the rules and points, you won't be "one hammer in the east and one stick in the west" when you open your mouth.

2. English is hard to open

Dumb English is the helpless status quo of English education in China. Students who have reached TOEFL are unable to change the overall situation, so they can only force themselves to speak a little.

Some students like to recite it silently in their hearts when making oral contact, thinking that when they go to the examination room and face the computer with a microphone and headphones, they can speak what they have prepared smoothly. But this is a beautiful bubble for most people. After TOEFL is changed to computer test, most students who are used to paper-and-pencil test feel uncomfortable, especially in oral English-it is a funny process to talk to themselves in front of the computer, especially in an examination room where more than 4 people do it. If you don't have any oral foundation at ordinary times, and you can't speak to people, don't talk to the computer Kan Kan.

You can get used to speaking English gradually by using the recording function. I'm not used to speaking English because I don't speak enough, which leads to I'm not used to hearing English coming from my mouth. Nowadays, computers and mobile phones have recording functions, so it is a good adaptation process to force yourself to talk to the mobile phone. Although it is silly to talk to a mobile phone, it is an opening training, as long as it is easy to use.

3. The outline can't stop

The outline here is divided into two parts. Part of them are the topics accumulated before the exam, especially the first two independent oral questions. There are many independent oral question banks on the Internet, just like independent writing. You can take them and train them in turn, think out your ideas beforehand, write an outline, and then turn on the recording function to practice each question.

writing an outline is not doing nothing. After writing some topics, you will have a deeper understanding of the logic I said above. For example, in the face of the question "Do you prefer to live in the city or the countryside", people who are used to the outline will automatically choose an option with something to say. For example, they have already prepared three characteristics of the city: convenient transportation, perfect entertainment facilities and more people. This outline is also suitable for the topic "Describe the city where you live". After a long time, you will summarize many universal outlines, such as describing the person who has the greatest influence on you. The answer can be XXX. The reason is courage, optimism and persistence (supplemented by simple examples). This character can be changed at will, but this skeleton can be set to any oral topic that describes someone's positive side.

Another kind of outline is an outline drawn quickly with a pencil in the short preparation time before oral answer. The time for preparing the outline is only 15 to 3 seconds, so don't try to write down a whole paragraph and then read it. Write down the first few letters of the key words-this is enough to mention the three elements that you will say later, so that you can know what you are doing. The important function of this outline is to sort out the ideas, sort out the main contents of listening and reading, and list several aspects of independent oral questions to avoid confusion, putting the cart before the horse or missing the main points when answering.

4. Take notes

The purpose of taking notes is to record details. Note-taking is very important for questions 5 and 6-the listening part of these two questions is more than one minute, and the examinee should have struggled through 3 points of reading and 3 points of listening before. Unfortunately, the children will catch up with the double-entrance exam, and when they get to the oral listening and speaking questions, they are almost overdrawn. At this time, the two-minute listening jokes are not counted. After listening, many people will feel unable to concentrate, but if they are distracted, you will lose.

so don't stare, but remember it quickly. What did the two sides say? A's problem, B's plan. Professor's point of view, the expansion of the point of view, there should be no omissions in the keywords. By the way, the strength of this ability largely determines the detail of your class notes after going abroad.

Also, you should concentrate your notes on a topic. Don't write a few words in this part of the paper and a few words in the other corner, and you won't find them when you use them.

5. Outline+notes in series

If you have an outline and notes, you should use them well. The outline is the main point and structure, and there will be some details in the notes. When answering the questions, glance at the outline and know what this piece is going to say, then look at the details in the notes, use the outline as the framework, and supplement the structure with the details in the notes. When speaking oral English, some memories that have not been written down on paper (which may come from the details of listening or reading) can also be added to the period, but you should still ensure logic and don't disturb your own thoughts. If you have missed the time of speaking, don't add anything.

6. Stopwatch Timing

The first reaction of students who just started to see the answer time given by TOEFL is: How much is one minute? In fact, you will find that 6 seconds is too much when you pick up the stopwatch. I took the TOEFL test before. When a girl sitting next to me answered the second question of oral English, she expressed her opinion in ten seconds, and then there was a long silence. China candidates' TOEFL speaking problem is "nothing to say" except that they can't open their mouths.

When there is nothing to say, besides the golden partner of outline and notes, there is also a stopwatch. Usually I speak less English, so I don't know how long a short sentence will take. But timing with a stopwatch can cultivate a sense of time in oral answers. After some people have passed the stage of "nothing to say", the next problem is "too much to say". Before the main points are finished, the topic has jumped to the next one. Therefore, the stopwatch must be pinched, so that an appropriate amount of outline and content can be prepared, and there will be nothing to say and no overtime. Some people on the Internet have also designed a TOEFL speaking software that can be timed and timed, which is similar to a stopwatch.

7. True exercise: Hard of hearing

TPO and official guide are the best oral training materials. If all these questions are finished, you can look at the machine classics left by your predecessors. There are tens of millions of machine classics, so it is enough to read only two independent oral English. The last four questions have no reference value because they have no complete text and listening.

when contacting, it is recommended to train with real questions from beginning to end. It is almost impossible to speed up oral English. Training with real questions will bring real tension, but it will also be mixed with frustration. After training for a while, you will find that maybe those tens of seconds are still inexhaustible, but the situation of being difficult to speak has improved a lot. In other words, training with real questions can really see progress.

When using real questions, after recording, you can listen to the recording again. After listening, think about what points you missed and what you said wrong, then say it again without looking at the reference answers or examples, and then listen to the recording again to see if there is any improvement.

8. small heart method

some people will say: it's good that I can make my meaning clear, don't force my grammar. However, grammar is a scoring item of "language use" in TOEFL's oral scoring standard. Of course, making low-level grammar mistakes will also give the grader a hint: the student's English level is limited and he will not get high marks in the oral part.

oral English can't be accelerated, but you can be more careful in grammar. Here are some low-level grammars that everyone is most likely to make mistakes. In tHe oral test, the most confusing words are "he" and "She". To a great extent, the confusion between these two third-person pronouns is due to the different writing methods of "he" and "she" in Chinese, but the pronunciation is the same. THerefore, the most common problem for China students is to use an "he" in the end, even if they are talking about their little cousins or people like Lily and Mary.

another problem is the third person. There is no change in the number and person in Chinese, so the third person singular will be difficult for a large number of heroes even in the high school exam, let alone the oral exam.

there is also the tense problem. Not to mention the perfect tense, only the simple present tense and past tense are often ignored in spoken English. However, there is no such thing as "le", "zhe" and "guo" in English. Without obvious adverbial of time, using the wrong tense is very easy for the listener to get confused.

Grammatical problems in oral English can't be noticed overnight, but if you pay more attention to these mistakes when you speak, you will get better if you gradually form a habit.

TOEFL speaking: I dare not say what to do if I don't want to say

TOEFL speaking is the most difficult part in the whole exam. Apart from basic problems, there are of course reasons for lack of practice.

The fear of speaking TOEFL is as follows:

1. After all, English is not a mother tongue, and it is not as fluent and natural as we are. Therefore, I always feel awkward when I say it, for fear that others will hear jokes about myself. I am not skilled, and the idea of being afraid of jokes makes me nervous. The more you do this, the less you dare to say it.

2. There are too few sentences in my mind and too many words I have learned, but I just can't organize myself to express my thoughts at will, which brings difficulties to communication. Because in communication, what you hear is passive, and you don't know what the other person will say, so you will be nervous, for fear that you won't say it or that some words don't understand, which produces nervousness, which will bring fear to people.

3. Maybe you have to face foreigners, although the streets are full of foreigners now, and TV movies are everywhere. However, there is really a foreign living person standing in front of you, talking to you in English, and you are really ignorant, because after all, all your listening exercises are standard recordings, not spoken English. There will be great differences in intonation, voice and tone.

4. When I don't have any foreign friends, I really want to go over and talk to those people.