How to write TOEFL writing comparative questions?

TOEFL writing is one of the four relatively difficult items in the TOEFL test, especially the independent writing part, which needs us to solve the problem and give arguments and examples. Moreover, TOEFL independent writing involves many topics and exam types, which makes students very troubled during the preparation period. Recently, TOEFL writing often examines comparative topics, all of which are easily skimmed. So how should the topic of TOEFL writing comparison be written?

First, let's take a look at the recent exam questions:

Which of the following values is the most important and should be shared with young children (5 to 10)? Why?

be ready to help others

honest

Organized

Support your answer with concrete examples and evidence. (20 17. 5. 27 ml)

Some people like to often buy and eat their meals in restaurants, while others like to do so at home. Which one do you like? Why? (20 17. 6. 10 ml)

It is better to work for someone else's business than for your own business (20 17.6.25ML).

Three different ways to protect the environment?

1. Go to school or workplace by bike or on foot.

2. Recycling or reusing garbage

3. Eat organic food without pesticides (20 17. 7. 1 ml).

A city wants to help the teachers of its senior high school students (age 14- 18) improve their teaching level. It is considering two plans:

1. Choose a small group of excellent teachers; These teachers will attend a class led by experts and receive additional training on how to teach effectively, and then they will return to their own schools to provide training for other teachers in the school.

2. Use the online materials that each teacher will study separately to provide additional training for senior high school teachers in effective teaching. (2017.7.2ml)

Some people think that we should stay away from others to improve our relationship, because staying away from others will remind us how important they are. Others think that we should always stay with others to maintain good relations, because we can communicate with them more often. what do you think? (20 17. 7. 8 ml)

Do you prefer a well-paid job with long working hours or an ordinary job with normal working hours? (20 17. 7. 9 ml)

These are the topics of the recent exam. It can be seen that they are basically similar, some are two choices and some are three choices. Summing up the questions of these exams, we can conclude that the writing part of TOEFL now tends to this kind of comparative questions. How should candidates deal with TOEFL writing comparison questions?

First, comparison can be divided into advantages and disadvantages comparison and phenomenon comparison.

This conclusion can be seen from the above example. For example, the exam on 6. 10 is a comparison question. This question asks whether we order in a restaurant. Or eat at home? The idea of solving the problem is actually very simple, just look for advantages and disadvantages by comparison. For example, eating in a restaurant is better. We can expand the three paragraphs of the main paragraph like this:

1. Eating in restaurants has more choices than eating at home.

Eating in a restaurant is fresher than eating at home.

Although eating at home also has advantages, such as saving time and not wasting time on the road, actually eating at home, sometimes when ordering food, the delivery staff will delay the delivery time for various reasons, such as weather, traffic, illness, etc., and the delivery time will last for a long time, which not only saves time, but also brings unnecessary trouble to the orderer. So it's better to eat in a restaurant by yourself.

In the main part, we chose the idea of A+ A+ B+ but gave in and turned back.

Through the above analysis, if you start the topic unilaterally, you can write A from the beginning, but if you write A in all three paragraphs, it is not good enough, and you need intra-paragraph comparison, that is, A>B A>B A>, which we call intra-paragraph ratio.

If you write two paragraphs about the benefits of A, then you can say the benefits of B in the third paragraph, but at this time you need to pay attention to the fact that you need to make a turning point in the paragraph. The idea is to compare a paragraph, which we can call intra-paragraph ratio.

Both of the above comparison methods are possible. If the examinee knows what the topic of comparison is, then you won't forget that there is such a thing as comparison. If there is comparison, there must be comparison. Otherwise, how to embody the advantages of choice view? If you encounter such a problem in the exam, don't panic, just make a comparison.

Second, most comparisons occur in the case of two choices, so now there are more and more three choices. How to deal with such a problem?

The following is an analysis of the exam questions in July 1:

1. Go to work or school by bike or on foot.

2. Recycling and reusing waste and garbage.

Eat organic food without pesticides.

How to choose these three options? What principles should be followed? The editor of Station Education summed up a principle for everyone here, which is called "two advantages are the most important and two disadvantages are the least important". Ask which is the best first, and then you can choose the most advantageous one.

Then obviously, the second benefit of this problem is the greatest.

We chose the second one, and our ideas on paragraph expansion are as follows.

3.A & gtB A & gtC

4.B- C- A+

5.A+ A+ BC+ turning point

In the first idea, we will compare the selected project with the other two projects respectively.

The second idea is to talk about the disadvantages of the other two options first, and then write why we chose the option in the last paragraph.

The third way of thinking, when you find it too tangled, you can first say two benefits of the selected project and write them in the third paragraph, but the other two are not bad, and the paragraph has a turning point.

So, as far as this topic is concerned, we can expand it like this.

The first paragraph of the main paragraph: cycling or walking to school can not effectively protect the environment, because a large amount of exhaust gas emitted by factories is the main source of air pollution. Reducing the use of cars can indeed reduce environmental pollution, but the effect is too small to be obvious.

Eating organic food without pesticides can not protect the environment, but can only promote health, which seems to have little to do with protecting the environment.

The third paragraph of the main paragraph: recycling waste materials can reuse resources, save energy, reduce the decomposition of waste energy, make a lot of land not used for landfill, and effectively protect the environment to some extent!

I believe that students already have some ideas, so when practicing writing, we should also pay attention to a topic that can be expounded from multiple angles, which can promote our logical thinking and encourage us to accumulate more examples.