托福口语集训80题 114

114.Explain how birthdays are celebrated¹ in your country. Use specific examples and details in your explanation.

 

题干讲解：

In answering this question, you are supposed to how you will celebrate birthdays in your country. Please don’t forget to include reasons and details.

观点提示：

Cakes，celebrate with family members, 18th birthday, hang out with friends.

套路讲解：

Topic sentence, normally one sentence.

Supporting ideas, like examples, reasons, figures or personal experience, which should be easy to understand.

Transition: First, because, second, finally etc.

锦囊妙词：

kind of略微，有点; accompany her陪伴她; traditionally，传统意义上来讲

 

In my country, birthdays are celebrated every year but the most important birthday for a young girl is the quincea?era, the birthday when she’s fifteen. This is celebrated with a church service. The girl wears a white dress, kind of like a wedding dress, and several attendants accompany her to the altar where the priest talks with her about becoming an adult woman. After the service, the whole family celebrates with friends. And there’s music and dancing and food. Traditionally, only relatives and close friends are invited to the church service, but many more people attend the party afterward². Um, in the old days, the ceremony presented the girl to society for marriage proposals.. but now she’s considered the appropriate age to begin dating.

1 celebrated   

adj.有名的，声誉卓著的

参考例句：

• He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
• The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。

2 afterward   

adv.后来；以后

参考例句：

• Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏，然后吃饭。
• Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来，这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。