話題合并與分析方法
Describe a time when the weather changed your plan 描述一次你需要因為天氣原因改變你的計劃的經(jīng)歷
you should say
when it happened
what you planed to do
what did you do after you changed your plan
and explain how you felt about it when the weather stopped your plan
分析：天氣相關話題，其實跟烤鴨們準備的事件類雅思口語話題很好合并。只需要講一個自己準備過的事件，再加上天氣如何干擾了這次事件以及之后你和小伙伴干嘛了，就可以了。
基本框架
1.事件本身：要準備一個能被天氣干擾的活動，比如野餐之類的室外活動
2.準備工作、過程：這里可以突出準備的艱辛，比如為了野餐你們買了很多東西、跑了很遠的路，等等
3.感受&如何應對：感受一般就是很沮喪很失望之類的，如何應對方面，可以用準備的另一個事件去說，幾句話帶過。
范文
這里我給大家分享一個我的真實經(jīng)歷。
I recall one time when I was particularly frustrated to have to change my plan due to bad weather. The plan was for me to pick up my friend coming from the states at Shanghai Pudong Airport. He was carrying a lot of luggage with him, so it would have been quite painful for him to take the subway (if you have taken the subway from Pudong to Hongqiao, then you know what I’m talking about) and train back to Nanjing, so we had planned that I would drive to Shanghai and pick him up. Plus the cost for driving there and back would have been pretty much the same as if he took the train, and it would have been much more comfortable.
So the day came, and I was already on the road. I didn’t check the weather beforehand, cuz it wasn’t during the rain season, and it hadn’t rained in a week, so I wasn’t even expecting it to rain. But it did. Halfway to Shanghai, after I pulled over in one of the service areas to take a break, the rain started. And it wasn’t like a shower – that would have been fine, it was pouring rain, like there was no tomorrow. No cars in the area dared to leave, and more and more cars were coming in from the highway. Soon the highway police started broadcasting an emergency warning on the radio to advise people not to return to road. There was no way for anybody to drive in that condition, so everyone just waited.
It was particularly frustrating for me cuz I thought my friend had arrived by then and been waiting for me. He didn’t know any Chinese other than ‘Ni Hao’ and ‘Xie Xie’, and he didn’t have a working SIM card, so it would have been difficult for him to contact me. And I couldn’t do anything about it because of this rain.
To kill some time, I started checking his flight status cuz I was wondering if this heavy rain was also affecting the airport. And it was! It turned out that no plane was being allowed to land because of this rain and extremely low visibility. So that was a silver lining.
Fortunately, the rain stopped after about an hour. And I eventually got to the airport about an hour later than planned, and picked him up. Everything turned out fine.
I guess the takeaway from this experience is to prepare for the worst and hope for the best, cuz when this kind of thing happens, there’s nothing you can do.
詞匯
the states 美國（口語和非正式書寫中可用）
pretty much 差不多
pull over 停車
service area（高速）服務區(qū)
shower 小雨、細雨
pouring rain 傾盆大雨
like there is no tomorrow 習語，表示某個東西很強烈，很激進（文中表示雨下得很大）
emergency warning 緊急通告
kill time 打發(fā)時間
flight status 航班狀態(tài)
land （航班的）降落
low visibility 低能見度
takeaway （口語）經(jīng)驗、教訓
prepare for the worst 做最壞的準備
hope for the best 抱有樂觀態(tài)度
南京新通外語學校雅思培訓高分學員
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