話題合并與分析方法
Describe a family (not your own) that you like 描述一個你喜歡的家庭（非本人的家庭）
這題大家可以從人物介紹的角度著手，跟準備的人物類話題一定程度得合并。
基本框架
第一部分，簡要介紹：簡單介紹一下這個家庭（誰的家庭，成員都有哪些，住哪兒etc）
第二部分，為什么：你喜歡這個家庭的原因（這里最好舉出具體事例、經(jīng)歷）
第三部分，總結&升華：這個根據(jù)每個人講的內容而異，但基本一兩句話概括。
范文
Well, speaking of a family that I like other than my own, it really brings my memory back to when I was in high school (高中的童鞋們就不要說high school了，可以自行換成junior high或者primary school). In my class we had a guy, Jason, from the states, whose parents were both working in Nanjing at that time. I soon became friends with Jason, and it so happens that his family lived not too far from mine. So I would often go hang out with him at his place or the other way around.
The reason why I liked his family is two-fold. Well first, I very much enjoyed hanging out with Jason cuz we shared a lot of common interests and had so much to talk about: languages (both Chinese and English), basketball and NBA players (we were both crazy Knicks fans at the time), and of course, food (此處應有笑聲). But not only that, but also that I could talk with his parents without feeling too much of a generation gap. Although they were in their 40s and I was a teenager, we still had a lot of topics that we were both interested in, for example, sports, movies, sometimes we would even talk about social issues in China and in America.
The second reason is that, I saw that the way they raised Jason was quite different from the Chinese way. You know, in China, typically parents are the “authorities” at home. Children usually have to “obey” their parents without too much of a chance of expressing their own opinions. But in Jason’s family, they discuss everything. I remember one time, when Jason and I were talking, he told me that his family were thinking about moving to Shanghai but he talked them out of it. So I asked him how he persuaded his parents. He told me that for one thing, he didn’t like Shanghai as much as Nanjing, cuz it seemed too big for him; for another, he had already made friends here; moving to Shanghai meant that he had to start all over at school. And since he was an equal member in his family, his parents respected his thoughts and stayed in Nanjing.
The second reason is what I liked his family the most. I think all families should be like that, and if they were, there would be a lot less domestic problems between children and their parents.
相關詞匯
Bring one’s memory back to … 讓我回想起…
It (so) happens that… 碰巧…
Hang out with someone與某人玩耍、消磨時間（小孩子玩耍才用play with）
Two-fold 雙層
Generation gap代溝
Authority權威
Talk someone out of something勸某人不去做某事
Domestic problem 國內、家內問題（domestic表示內外的內，是一個相對的含義，具體意思看語境）
【人物類詞匯】
cute; adorable可愛的
naive天真的
dilligent勤奮的
curious好奇的
dependent依賴的
versatile多才多藝的
obedient聽話的
candid 正直的
dutiful盡職的
hospitable 好客的
humble謙遜的
open-minded 開明的
persevering 不屈不撓的
punctual 嚴守時刻的
optimistic樂觀的
ambitious 有雄心壯志的
enthusiastic 充滿熱情的
trustworthy值得信賴的
audacious 有冒險精神的
adaptable適應性強的
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