雅思口语P2｜尝试做但不太成功的经历

01、雅思口语Part2话题

Describe a time when you tried to do something but was not very successful

 You should say:

When it was

What you tried

Why it was not very successful

And how you felt about it

02、话题分析

这是一道事件类新话题，审题难度并不是很大。题目思路的核心是想尝试某一件事但是未能坚持下去，从而反省得出成功并非那么容易。

在学习路上，难免会经历许多难以成功的事，所以同学们选择一件相对有话可说的即可。此题同样可以用我们常说的迁移法！比如同学们可以对之前“喜欢的事情”进行简单改编用于这个话题。同学们可以说之前非常喜欢某一活动如弹钢琴，但是最终没有坚持下去。没有成功的经历还可以选择：考试失利、学习数学困难、学游泳失败、做菜失败等等。

第 一小问“When it was ”什么时候

表明发生的时间，同时补充当时周边的人是否支持（如父母、老师、朋友）；消耗的时长等。

第二小问“What you tried ”尝试做什么

说明尝试的事物并进行描述。学习技能如：游泳、剪视频、乐器、运动项目、烹饪等。

第三小问“Why it was not very successful "为什么没成功

这是这道题目的核心重点。主要分为两个方面：所尝试的活动有一定的难度；自身毅力不足或他人劝阻。

第四小问“And how you felt about it”你的感受如何

描述感受的时候同样可以从两方面切入，其一是描述对这件事情本身的感受如；然后可以表达对自身表现的评价。

下面是关于这个话题可以延伸出来的思维图：

03、答案示例

此篇是以跳伞尝试失败为例：

I’m always willing to try something new and I’m always curious about things that I’ve never tried before, but there is one experience that I’ll never forget because I really tried my best but failed at the end.

It was about five years ago that I watched a travel show on TV, which introduced the sport of skydiving in New Zealand. Wearing professional skydiving equipment to jump hundreds or even thousands of meters high, like an eagle soar into the sky, that kind of feeling is great, even to think about it.

Well, I did a lot of preliminary preparations. I contacted a professional skydiving coach in China, and he suggested that I should do some exercise first to reduce the excess body fat, so that it would be much easier for the practice in the future. So I started my painful diet, for example, drinking soy milk only, an apple and two slices of bread every morning, having chicken breast for lunch and salad for dinner, which required a lot of resistance when seeing people around me eating those mouth-watering dishes. After two months of dieting, I finally succeeded in losing 15 kilograms, believe it or not, I just did it. Apart from that, I attended some offline training courses, during which the teachers taught me some theoretical knowledge and safety matters about skydiving. Finally, the day came for real practice.

However, I just couldn’t breathe when I looked down. The coach encouraged me a lot, like taking a deep breath, but somehow I just couldn’t overcome my fear. I kept telling myself not to be afraid, but I couldn’t stop thinking about death. I stood up, but my whole legs were shaking, heart racing, gasping and sweat pouring, then my mind went blank and I passed out on the plane. Yeah obviously, I didn’t make it.

Now I still regret it, and I hope that I can do it again in the future.

亮点词汇：

be curious about 对…感兴趣

 failed   失败

preliminary preparations 提前准备工作

resistance 抵抗（自控力）

theoretical knowledge 理论知识