2020年9-12月雅思口语part2&3答案解析：家庭成员向你求助
Describe a time when a family member asked you for help.
You should say:
When it was
Who asked you for help
How you helped him or her
And explain how you felt about this experience
I recall a time when my younger cousin wanted my help with a maths test he had during the summer holidays. We were staying at my auntie’s house in the countryside, and he had been given lots of homework to tackle during the vacation. He was quite overloaded with homework actually – like a lot of kids in China today. Anyway, so he was having real trouble with this maths test, and when I looked at it I was shocked! It was genuinely really difficult. I’m actually pretty good at mathematics and almost always got high scores in it, so I was able to help him quite well, although I had to really think hard about it. I think that children today are pushed too hard in their studies… in fact I don’t remember tackling such difficult maths problems when I was his age. Anyway, I enjoyed helping him, and I tried not to just do it all for him, I tried to guide him through the workings of each problem so that he could learn to do it himself next time he was presented with a test or exam in school. I really enjoy helping people, because it also raises one’s own self-esteem. Helping people is very rewarding, in fact. So I felt really good about this, and because I also want to be a teacher when I’m older, I tried to think of the best ways to teach him at the same time as helping him. Also, I get quite bored at my auntie’s during the holidays, so it was a good way to spend a few days!
Part 3
1. What can children help parents with?
Children can help parents with all number of domestic tasks actually – from washing up to cleaning, to sorting out messy areas of the house. My younger sister is often asked by my mother to help tidy her bedroom, arrange her books and toys neatly on the shelves and in boxes, and things like this. I think it’s healthy and useful that children learn to help out in the home at a young age, and it teaches them a sense of organization and discipline.
2. Should parents reward children when they help others?
Yes, parents should at least recognize the good deed and praise it. I’m not an advocate of children being spoilt or rewarded with lots of gifts or sweets, but I am a strong believer in children being positively encouraged, and what we call “positive reinforcement” when they do something well. Praising children for doing something correctly, or doing a good deed, is an important part of the education process.
3. Do parents help children because they need their children when they are old?
Yes, to some extent. Whether this is conscious or unconscious I am not sure, but it most definitely is a motivation in a lot of cases. Especially in more traditional families. Parents need to rely on their children when they get older, and so I think in the back of many parent’s minds, they think that if they take good care of their children, their children will do the same for them when they are older.