雅思写作素材新版| Lecture 9 生活
part 1 必备素材— 生活
life：
food+living place+transportation+travel+work
Food
Traditional foods
- Health and nutritious ：use fresh vegetable and meat
- More food options：various ingredients and cooking styles烹饪方法和风格
- An important part of culture and social life：regular family gathering家庭聚餐；traditional festivals 传统节目
Convenience foods/processed foods 快捷食物
- Time-saving and effort-saving (lead a fast-paced lifestyle)
- reasonably priced
But 坏处
- Pose a danger to one's health ：food preservative and additive ；high fat ；high sugar； high salt ； high calories
- Monotonous 无聊单调的
Living place
living in the city
- Have more job opportunities
- Have better educational resources
- Have more and better sports and healthcare facilities
- Have a variety of entertainment and shopping choices
- Have convenient public transport systems
But
- overcrowded
- A fast pace of life - heavy pressure
Transportation
Private cars
- convenient
- have one's own space
- A symbol of social status
But
- lead to heavy traffic - traffic jams / congestion
- Air pollution - car fumes
- Noise pollution - car horn 鸣笛
Travel
- escape from the stress of daily life
- Broaden one's horizons / enrich one's experience
- A family bonding activity
- Stimulate the local economic growth
- The driving force for service industry驱动力:hotel;restaurant;transport;retail
But
- expensive
- It takes time to readapt to work/study
- Destroy environment
- Over- commercialized - threaten the local customs and traditions
- Disrupt the life of local people
Work
people
- employer
- employee
- staff
- full-timer
- Part - timer
- Wage earner 按月领工资
- Salaried employee 领年薪的人
- Freelancer 自由职业者
- Contract worker
- Apprentice 学徒
- Intern 实习生
- breadwinner 养家糊口的人
- Hard work
- Slacker 偷懒的人
A good job
- match one's interests
- Provide sb with a clear career path 清晰的职业路径
- professional training
- income：regulate the minimum wage and overtime pay
- working environment ： have equal opportunities for promotion；feel valued ；
- have a sense of achievement / belonging
- A steady job : a steady source of income
- Employee benefits: health insurance;paid holiday;sick leave; maternity leave ;year-end bonus; allowance
A bad job
- have a heavy workload
- have long working hours
- the job is demanding
- work overtime
- live paycheck to paycheck - struggle to pay the bills
- be fired=be laid off= be made redundant
Part 2 同义替换
1、缺点
disadvantage
demerit
drawback
weakness（弱点）
eg ： the disadvantage/ demerit/ drawback of overseas study 留学的缺点
the weakness of the company 这个公司的弱点
2、能力
ability
capability
eg： have the ability to do something 有能力做某事
3、方式；方法
way
method
approach
eg： an effective approach 一种有效的方法
Part 3 必备句式
1、Even if 即使
eg： Even if their children's behavior does not suit their fancy,parents should wait until the kids realize for themselves.
注：does not suit their fancy 不和他们的意
2、The + 比较级 +主语+谓语，the+比较级+主语+谓语+（宾语）
eg：
The more you see ，the better you understand the world.
注：看得越多，对世界理解的越好。
The longer you stay at home，the harder you find a job.
注：越在家里待，越难找到工作。
