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雅思口语(ielts)考试高频话题：有关Garden

来自：查字典高考网 2014-12-25

这个话题考官主要与考生围绕Garden(花园)讨论，这里的花园指的是自己家的小花园而不是多数人印象中的City Garden(城市花园)。

素材中涉及到的核心词汇用粗体字标出，在最后统一解释。

1. Do many people in China have their own garden? (中国，有些人有自己的花园。有些住楼房的人却没有。无论如何我们都可以回答这个问题。用Direct Answer + Details就可以)

Yes. Many home owners landscapetheir yards even grow their own vegetables herbs as well as fruits.

Almost everyone grows something. If they dont have a home with land, they may have window boxes on their flat windows or a terrace or rooftopin which they use containers to garden.

They may have a collection of foliageor flowering houseplants strewn around their home. There are those who use stands to garden.

2. If someone has a private garden in China, do they usually prefer to grow flowers or vegetables? (Direct Anser + Reason)

Doesnt it depend on the person? I grow flowers in the front and tomatoes in the back of the house. Most of us grow our vegetables in the back yard because its more attractiveto plant the decorative flowers in the front.

3. Do Chinese people like growing flowers? (Direct Answer + Reason)

It looks beautiful and smells nice.

It can beautify our life.

It can brighten up a room.

It puts me in a good mood.

4. Do you like growing flowers. (Direct Answer + examples or Direct Answer + Reason)

Yes + example:

Yes. I like growing flowers. Especiallylily, it stands for purity.

Yes, Im crazy about growing flowers. Im fond of peony, it represents prosperity fortune. (wealth)

No + Reason:

Im a little strange. Flowers remind me of funerals. I hate them.

Nope. Im allergic to flowers.

Well, not really. Actually, I like flowers in their natrual environment.

5. Have you ever grown anything, in a garden, or possibly in a flower pot? (Direct Answer + examples)

I have a mix of annuals, perennialsand flowering shrubs.

Yes, I used to plant...Fruits, veggies, Foliage, Houseplants, bulbs6. What benefits do people get from gardens or from gardening? (这样的问题就是在讨论Advantage，给出一些好处就可以了，类似于之前说到的What benefit do children gain by learning music? 依旧是Direct Answer + examples)

you get to eat fresh organic veggies which are really good for you.

and you get to spend time outside taking care of the plants and watch them grow and harvest their vegetable?

Learning to be patient?

Its therapeutic, like stress reducer, its relaxing - rewarding - you create something all on your own and it becomes a passion.

Lexical Resource 词汇：

Better not 2 use extremely plain words on ths topic if u r needing 6.5 or above!

6.5分以上考生不建议用过于平淡的词汇在这个话题的讨论上。

landscape: 美化的景观

herbs: 药草

strewn: 播种

prosperity fortune: 富贵

window boxes: 窗台上的花盆箱，窗欄花盆。(如上图所示)