在雅思口语考试中，考官受口试的模式和时间所限，不可能在口试中很有针对性地发问，其问题常常是很笼统、概括性很强的。因此，很多考生在回答问题时，喜欢说些空洞乏味的大话而没有提供具体而生动的细节信息。殊不知，这些笼统和宽泛的回答很难得到高分。这时，考生应采取的策略是“大事化小”，也就是考官的问题可以空洞，而考生的回答却必须具体。在遵循“形而下”总原则的前提下，考生必须提供具体的细节，做到言之有物。

从“比较对比”这一角度出发，节选雅思口语考试真题为例，探索合理的应对方法，以供考生参考。

Part 1典型案例：

【真题实例】:

Q: Are your weekday and weekend routines different?

【模拟考场】:

A1: Yes, they are … quite different…

A2: Yes, on weekdays I’m busy with writing office reports, arranging activities, but whenever weekends come I just forget everything about job and have a good time with my family. I believe this is a sensible way of life, and we ought to keep a balance between career and family.

【专家点评】

Answer 1是考生碰到不太有话说的问题时的回答。相对而言，之所以Answer 2要更具体，内容会更丰富，就是本着“形而下”的原则，对“routine”在工作日和周末的安排进行了比较对照（工作日忙于工作，周末与家人共享天伦之乐），既展开了细节，又充分回答了问题。

【温馨提醒】

千万别忘了使用表示比较逻辑联系语来突出异同。如果不是正常的五天工作制，那就应该补充说明。

以下为典型的“比较对照”表达句型，可供考生参考：

The upside of … is that… , but on the downside, …

The good thing about … is that …

The bad thing about … is that …

While it may be nice to … I think it is also quite …

The difference between … is that … is more … while … is more…

While … is perhaps more …, … is more…

The main difference between the ways… and the way… is in the …

The biggest difference between … about … years ago and today is that …

There are some key differences between … and …

One big way that … differ from … is …

Yes, there are quite a few differences between … and … A good example is …

The difference between … and … is that … tend to be more … while …

There is more …  in … than in …

… in the past were more …,but now they are …

… is not as … as … but in many ways it is more… For one thing, you can …

There were fewer… years ago, compared to …