Describe a subject you enjoyed at school

這張題卡的準備方式

這張題卡（cue card）考的是你描述一種日常習慣和一段關係的能力：「what you did in lessons」這一項要你說明一個過程，「who taught it to you」則要你描述一個人，所以兩項合起來，在同一個回答裡考了兩種不同的敘述能力。請選一門你能說出具體細節的科目，例如具體的活動、令人難忘的老師、某個單元或專題，而不是「we studied a lot」這種籠統的概括。

你不需要在這門科目上特別有天分。喜歡和擅長不是同一回事，考官也不是在檢查你的學業成績。因為好老師或有趣的課堂活動而喜歡上的科目，和你成績出色的科目一樣適合。

把2分鐘大致平均分配：20～25秒用來說出科目和老師，40～50秒說明課堂上實際做了什麼（這裡用一個具體的回憶很有幫助），剩下的時間說明你為什麼喜歡這門科目，這裡可以用上更多帶有反思、表達看法的語言。

讓回答更出色的詞彙

1分鐘準備計畫

在1分鐘的準備時間裡，可以寫下：

• subject: history, secondary school
• teacher: Ms. Rasulova, strict but fair
• lessons: debates, source analysis, one project on local history
• why enjoyed: felt like detective work, not memorising
• closing: still read history books because of her

範例回答

以下是這張題卡完整回答的一種寫法，用來示範結構和程度，不是要你照背。具體的細節一定要來自你自己的學校經驗。

A subject I genuinely enjoyed at school was history, which I studied for about four years at secondary school under a teacher called Ms. Rasulova. She had a reputation for being strict but fair, and while a lot of students found her a little intimidating at first, I actually think that reputation was slightly unfair, because she was also one of the most engaging teachers I had. Lessons weren’t just about memorising dates, which is what I’d expected before I started the subject properly — instead, we did a lot of source analysis, looking at old documents and photographs and trying to work out what they actually told us, almost like detective work. There was also a term-long project where we researched the history of our own town, which involved interviewing an elderly relative, and that ended up being one of the most memorable pieces of schoolwork I ever did.

What made me enjoy it, more than anything, was that it never felt like passive memorisation the way some other subjects did. Ms. Rasulova had a real knack for bringing the subject to life, often connecting events from centuries ago to something happening in the news at the time, which made it feel relevant rather than distant. It’s genuinely because of her, I think, that I still pick up history books occasionally now, years after leaving school, which is more than I can say for most of the subjects I studied.

這張題卡的常見錯誤

• 籠統地列出科目內容，例如「we learned about many things」，而不是說一個具體的回憶。
• 只提到老師的名字，卻沒有說明他的教學風格。
• 把「enjoyed」和「was good at」混為一談，會讓你的說理比較缺乏說服力。
• 到最後才匆匆帶過「and explain」那一行，沒有給它足夠的時間好好展開。