相信大部分考生并没有给自己孩子讲故事的经历, 而自己被讲故事恐怕至少也是十几年前的事情. 不知道大家的记忆深处, 是如何来定义这件事情的. 恰巧前几天, 雅思写作考题就和大家一起来追忆一下自己被讲故事的当年。

原题如下:
Some people think parents should read or tell stories to children. Others think parents need not do that as children can read books, watch TV or movies by themselves. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. 20170715

到底是家长给孩子讲故事, 还是孩子们应该自己去阅读。

At the beginning of children’s growth, all parents certainly play the role as a story-teller in order to inculcate some common sense in their children or lull them to sleep. Along with these kids growing up, some of parents begin to worry about that they are no longer story-tellers for their children since they begin to read books and watch TV by themselves.    

首段只是简单地介绍了背景了和点明了题目. 在此基础上并没有阐述笔者的立场。

For one thing, there is no gainsaying that children ought to be encouraged to grasp knowledge they are really interested in via reading or watching what they are fond of. To start with, compared with stories that their parents can tell them, what those children can access from books or TV channels is far more informative. There are millions of stories for children to choose, and by contrast their parents sometimes have to tell some stories over and over again since they do not know any other story to tell. On top of this, stories from publications or mass media are with much more authorities as those stories are all edited by professional children’s writers and child-education specialists, unlike stories told by parents that are even from their grandparents and are obviously old-fashioned for children in this day and age.

全文使用的是不平均分段的方式, 主段一为一个大的论段. 这个段落从两个角度来证明其实孩子们自己去阅读去使用媒体要比家长们给孩子讲故事要好. 在从这两个角度进行论证的时候, 笔者将讲故事和自己读故事分别进行了对比。

For another, parents who still like to be story-tellers for their children argue that telling stories to their children can help to tighten their family bond due to the inaction and communication they might have. What they assert sounds as if the story time were the only time they could spend together with their kids. To strengthen their family tie, they may have thousands of methods. Focusing on the way telling stories to children who are already able to read is definitely unnecessary and harebrained.
全文的第二个主段, 先是强调了很多家长的担忧. 再反驳这些家长的看法, 进而证明家长给孩子们讲故事其实没什么实质意义。

To sum up, main responsibilities of parents are changing continuously with their children growing up day by day, and consequently they are doomed to lose some roles like story-tellers. Nevertheless, this does not mean their parenting is no longer useful, and this only implies they have to change the way to get along with their kids. 

从上文的论证不难得出, 孩子们应该被鼓励去使用媒体获取信息, 而家长们大可不必为此而感到失落。