2020年9-12月雅思口语part2&3答案解析：你不感兴趣的事情

　　2020年9-12月雅思口语part2&3答案解析：你不感兴趣的事情

　　Describe a time when someone told you something you are not interested in.

　　You should say:

　　When it happened

　　Where you heard it

　　What you talked about

　　And explain why you were not interested in it

　　Haha, there are loads of times when people told me things I was not interested in. To be perfectly honest this happened constantly in my history lessons. I’m not at all interested in history, at least not in the way that it was taught in school, and I found almost everything my history teacher told us about, really boring. Perhaps it was him and the way he taught us, but I honestly couldn’t concentrate on almost anything he said. He was always telling us about dates, and events in history and at the time I really felt that I couldn’t care less about these things that happened in the past, who did them and when they did them. There was one lesson when he was talking about some famous person in history, I can’t really even remember his name, and all of my classmates also felt utterly bored. I even fell asleep on the desk and the teacher didn’t notice at all, because he was so wrapped up in his own monologue. He never used pictures, or multi-media or anything to accompany his lessons. He just stood there in one place droning on in a boring tone about this and that. Honestly, it was not just one time that I remember, it was every single history lesson. So, from then onwards, I hated history and wouldn’t pay any attention to it. Sometimes teachers can make or break a subject for you! And in this particular case, history was ruined for me for life after having a year of his horrible history lessons!

　　Part3

　　1. How does Internet influence our daily communication?

　　The internet has a massive impact on how we communicate today. Everything today is done via the internet basically, from daily communications with friends and colleagues, to work communications, the sending of documents and even using apps to pay for things, play online games, read the news… literally everything, pretty much everything, is internet-based nowadays, which is both good and bad. It’s not so good for older people who are not so internet and tech-savvy – they can get confused by these online trends and apps that require you to sign in and out all of the time in order to do things, even to pay for electricity bills and daily things like this.

　　2. Do you think modern technology influence the jargon among youngsters?

　　Yes, I do, actually. I think that the kind of language people use in social media, abbreviations, and short phrases and sayings, have a big influence on how people speak in normal daily life. In this way language has evolved and changed quite a lot over the years and technology most certainly has had a strong influence on this in both good and bad ways. As one example, the online medium has made people read and write very short little “bites” of information, and this has led to people shortening a lot of phrases that otherwise would be longer, or at least were longer in the past. This kind of “shortening” of words and phrases has definitely come from the use of social media and internet messaging – because people are trying to write a lot of thoughts and ideas in a very small space, or condense their ideas into a small space. I can’t think of any other examples right now off the top of my head, but I think this is a significant one.

　　3. What would you do if someone didn’t listen to your opinion?

　　If someone doesn’t really listen to my opinion, I don’t really care in general. Then again, it depends how important the subject is to me. If it’s something that is very important that needs to be discussed and resolved, then I will become quite upset or angry, because I feel that their lack of listening will ultimately lead to misunderstandings or simply not getting something done properly. Some people are very good listeners and others are not. So, in short, it depends on the subject matter and how important it is, as to whether I will get annoyed and frustrated, or simply not care if the other person listens or not.