4月11日,ETS在北京召开了全球发布会,宣布了托福考试全新升级的消息,托福考试迎来全面改革!
自2023年7月26日起, 托福iBT考试的时长将由3小时缩短至2小时以内,取消考试中的10分钟休息时间。其中改革比较多就是托福写作,可以用2个关键字抓住改革的精髓:“短”和“学术”。
►关键字1:“短”:
改革之前要求在30分钟内完成至少300字的独立写作,而现在只要求100字,当然时间也缩短到10分钟。
表面上看,输出速度没有变化,都是10字/分钟。但是,构思慢的学生要小心了。之前完全可以用10分钟构思,再用20分钟写作。现在必须“短平快”:2分钟内读完教授的邮件和学生留言,然后形成自己的思路,马上动笔,绝 对不能拖泥带水。
►关键字2:“学术”:
旧版托福写作有一些接地气的题目,比如《你愿意在家吃饭,还是去饭店?》。问的是个人偏好(Personal Preference)。考生不需要有什么知识储备,只要有生活常识和基本英文能力就能交出一份答案。即便是低龄考生和脱离学校很久的社会人士也可以得到不错的分数。
改革后的题目会“高冷”很多。比如一道样题问你:在过去的两个世纪,推动人类社会进步的最重要的发明是什么?题目还规定你不许讲电脑和手机。ETS示范的满分答卷讨论了“疫苗和抗生素”。但是仔细想想,这要求考生(1)了解科技进步史;(2)有话题词汇储备,比如vaccine, antibiotic, lifespan, pathogen。显然,学术讨论不是仅靠常识就能hold住的。
为了更好的帮助大家考好理想的托福写作分数,今天小编整理了2023年托福写作新题范文集,本篇文章的主题是Your professor is teaching a class on education. Write a post responding to the professor's question一起来学习一下吧。
Your professor is teaching a class on education. Write a post responding to the professor's question.
In your response, you should:
• express and support your personal opinion
• make a contribution to the discussion
An effective response will contain at least 100 words. You will have 10 minutes to write it.
Professor
In class today, we are going to talk about grading students. Before you come to class, I want you to think about whether grades are beneficial. On one hand, they provide a way to measure students' progress. On the other hand, some argue that grades are too focused on performance and don't provide an accurate picture of a student's overall academic abilities.
If you had to choose, would you say that students should be given grades or not? Why?
Lila
I think that students should not be given grades. Grades create a needlessly competitive environment and can make students feel like they are only valued for their academic performance. This can be harmful to their mental health and can discourage them. Instead of giving specific grades, teachers should provide personal feedback that helps students understand what they need to improve and how they can do so.
Jake
I disagree. I believe that grades are the only way for students to understand how well they are doing and the only way to motivate them to work harder. Without grades, there would be no way to measure their progress or to identify areas where they need to improve.
Moreover, grades prepare students for the real world where they will be judged based on their performance.
In my opinion, students should not be given grades. I strongly agree with Lila’s idea that grades can create an overly competitive environment and may not accurately reflect a student’s progress. I’d add that grades can lead to a focus on test-taking strategies rather than actual learning, and as a result students may not fully engage with the material. Jake raised the relevant point that grades are the only way to identify the specific areas where students are weak, but he didn’t mention that teachers can study samples of their students’ work to find their weaknesses without actually grading the work. For example, they could look at a student’s essay, see that he is weak when it comes to grammar and tell him that in person. Overall, then, I would say that students don’t actually need to be graded.
AI 打分及评语
Based on the rubric, I would rate the following sample answer with a score of 4 out of 5.
There are a few minor grammatical errors, such as the use of "he" instead of "they" in the sentence "they could look at a student’s essay, see that he is weak when it comes to grammar and tell him that in person."