在平时的课堂练习中经常发现好多学员的口语答案听起来支离破碎，究其原因，往往是因为对问题没有足够的想法而无话可讲；有的甚至为了追求词汇语法100%准确，而在回答过程中频繁重复，长时间停顿；要么就是思路天马行空，想到哪说到哪…总之完全失去了流利度和连贯性——这其实是一种本末倒置，得不偿失的做法，因为流利度与连贯性（fluency & coherence）是雅思口语最为重要的一项评分标准，也就是说考官最看重考生的一项能力就是——是否可以在回答各部分问题时，基本保持流畅并且逻辑清晰。在本文中老师将详细探讨一下如何巧妙利用剑桥听力中的原文，来提高我们口语的流利度与连贯性。

其实，在口语表达中体现出连贯性并不复杂，往往就是通过合理地使用连接成分（discourse markers），使得我们的答案听起来更加有逻辑性。但是因为中英文语言表达上的差异，很多烤鸭们在下意识地做“中翻英”时，就忽略了连接成分的使用，结果，虽然语法没有问题，但回答听起来就像是用生硬的中文拼凑起来的。那么，接下来我们就向地道的剑桥听力原文来取取经，看看如何表达才能更加连贯。

Part 1 中的连贯性：

【听力真题】

【7-1-1】

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Oh, good morning. Um, I’m flying to Toronto Airport next week, and I need to get to a town called um, Milton.  Could you tell me how I can get there.

Milton, did you say? Let me see, I think that’s about 150 miles southwest of there. In fact it’s 147 miles to be exact, so it’ll take you at least –say, thee to four hours by road.

Right. Well, I don’t really want to drive myself, so I’d like more information about public transport.

Ok. In that case the quickest and most comfortable is a cab and of course

there are always plenty available.  But it’ll cost you. You can also take a

Greyhound bus or there’s an Airport Shuttle Service to Milton. Oh, that doesn’t sound too bad, especially if it’ll take me to the hotel.

But you need to reserve a seat.

…..yes, just me, please.

Right. And you said your expected time of arrival was 11.30?  so if I book your

Shuttle for after 12.00—let’s say, 12.30: that should give you plenty of time to, you know, collect your baggage, maybe grab a coffee？