雅思口语考试中经常涉及到描述“开心的事”，具体可拓展成五道事件题:

请客吃饭a meal you invited others to your home /a restaurant

家庭庆祝a family celebration you attended

有趣或寻常事件an interesting or unusual thing you did recently（new topic）

享受的事an enjoyable event from the past you remember (new topic)

想要举办的聚会 a party you would like to hold

说起请客吃饭，学生最容易联想到的就是“生日聚会”，恰好这一话题又可以套至其它话题之中。若话题是“家庭聚会”，考生可将情境设置为“我去参加COCO的家庭生日餐”。 那么学生该如何描述“生日聚会”呢? 此时学生很有可能会联想到礼物，许愿，吹蜡烛，吃蛋糕等活动。英文基础较好的同学可能会说 a)“At first, my friends handed me lots of gifts. After that, I made a wish. Then, I blew out the candles, and finally, all my friends shared the delicious cake.”

顺序描述十分常见，但是大部分考生的连接词都十分匮乏。Coco提供如下顺序连接词：

“起初、首先”：Initially; In the very beginning; At the very first; At the outset; The moment when sb stepped into sp.; Entering/Stepping into ..., sb....; What happened first was ....

“然后、接着”：Later; Then; Next; Subsequently; Before Ving; After that; Following that; Coming next; After a while; In a while; Soon after that; This was followed by ; In a few moments/seconds/minutes; A few moments/seconds/minutes later; What came next was that ...; It later took sb ...to ....; Then sb spent ... in Ving ; It didn’t take long before...; No sooner ... than ...;it was not until...that..; Hours later; Not until... did ...

“最后”：Finally/Eventually/Ultimately/At last/ In the end/That was the end of N./What sb did in the end was ...

通过替换，a)则可以重新表达为b)：“The moment when my friends stepped into my house, they started to hand me lots of gifts. What came next was that I made a wish before blowing out all the candles. No sooner did I blew out the candles than everybody began to share the delicious cake, and that was the end of the party.”很明显，b)的内容虽然与a)相同，但是通过连接方法的改善，变得更加“有料”：时间状语从句；主语从句；倒装句；并列句都有所显现。这也符合评分标准中的语法多样性“grammatical range”。

需要注意的是，如果考生抽到“想要举办的聚会”，时态需要变成将来时。

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