Home / Hometown 題組在 Part 1 是第二組必考題。表面簡單——講你家、你住哪——但台灣考生有一個普遍踩的坑：把答案講成地理課。"I live in Xinyi District, which is near the Taipei 101 area, and there are three MRT lines nearby — the red line, the blue line, and the green line..." 考官三秒內失焦。他不是觀光客。
高頻問題清單
Home（家）
- Do you live in a house or a flat?
- Can you describe your home?
- What's your favourite room?
- Would you like to move house in the future?
- What would you change about your home?
Hometown（故鄉）
- Where is your hometown?
- What's special about it?
- Has it changed much in recent years?
- Would you recommend it to a tourist?
- Would you like to live there forever?
台灣考生最常踩的坑：過度描述地理
坑 1 — MRT 路線名："It's near Zhongxiao-Fuxing station on the brown line, two stops from Taipei Main Station..." 考官不需要導航。
坑 2 — 行政區劃："I live in Zhonghe District, New Taipei City, which used to be Zhonghe Township before 2010 when it became part of..." 這是維基百科，不是對話。
坑 3 — 人口數字背誦："Taipei has 2.6 million people and 271 square kilometres..." 沒人問你這個。
為什麼扣分：Part 1 評的是自然對話能力，不是地理知識。塞滿地理細節讓你聽起來像在背維基頁面——評分員 Fluency & Coherence 反而低分，因為你沒在「溝通」。
該講什麼：「感覺面」優先
IELTS 考的是 communicate 能力，所以每題要答「你對這個地方的感受」，地理只是背景。
| ❌ 地理面（扣分） | ✅ 感覺面（加分） | |------|------| | 捷運站名、路線 | 住這裡的日常感受 | | 行政區劃 | 鄰里的氣氛、熟人 | | 人口、面積 | 為什麼你留下、想走 | | 歷史年代 | 最近發生的變化給你什麼感覺 |
弱答案 vs Band 7+
題目："What do you like about your hometown?"
Weak (Band 5 — 地理課): My hometown is Taichung. It has 2.8 million people. It's in central Taiwan. There is a famous night market called Fengjia.
Band 7+（感覺面）: What I love most is the pace, honestly. Taichung feels about one notch slower than Taipei — people actually stop to chat at the breakfast shop, the traffic isn't insane, and the weather is genuinely the best in Taiwan. I grew up there until I was 18, and whenever I go back now, the first thing I do is head to a proper beef noodle place I've been going to since primary school.
題目："Has your hometown changed in recent years?"
Band 7+: Oh, massively. The area I grew up in used to be mostly rice fields and low-rise shophouses, but over the past decade or so they've built this huge MRT line through the middle of it, and now there are high-rise apartments going up everywhere. It's a bit bittersweet — the convenience is obviously better, but the place has lost some of its sleepy, small-town feel. My grandma still complains about it every time I visit.
注意：Band 7+ 答案裡有 MRT，但它只是變化的一個證據，不是答案主體。主體是「bittersweet 的感受」。這就是差別。
必備詞彙（13 個，感覺面為主）
| 詞彙 | 中文 | 使用範例 | |------|------|---------| | cosy | 溫馨的 | My bedroom is small but cosy. | | spacious | 寬敞的 | The living room is surprisingly spacious. | | tight-knit community | 緊密的社區 | It's a tight-knit community. | | suburb | 郊區 | I live in a quiet suburb. | | bustling | 熱鬧的 | It's a bustling neighbourhood. | | laid-back | 輕鬆悠閒的 | Taichung has a laid-back vibe. | | up-and-coming | 新興發展中 | It's an up-and-coming area. | | charm | 魅力 | It has a certain old-town charm. | | nostalgic | 懷舊的 | I feel nostalgic about the old shophouses. | | settle down | 定居 | I'd like to settle down there eventually. | | bittersweet | 甜中帶苦 | The changes are bittersweet. | | landmark | 地標 | The main landmark is the old temple. | | off the beaten track | 不太有人知道 | There's a café off the beaten track I love. |
Would you recommend your hometown to tourists？
這題很常見。答題秘訣：不要推薦大家都知道的地方，推一個只有本地人才會去的。
Yes, but not for the obvious reasons. Most tourists head straight for the night markets, which are fine, but I'd actually recommend something smaller — there's this tiny morning market in my old neighbourhood where the aunties still make oil rice by hand at 5 a.m. It's nothing you'd find in a guidebook, but it's genuinely what my hometown smells like.
"nothing you'd find in a guidebook" 這類片語直接暗示 你有 insider 視角——Band 7+ 加分。
本題組 25 秒公式
Layer 1 短答：事實（house/flat, 城市名）
Layer 2 感受：你對這裡的情緒
Layer 3 具體小事：一個最近的場景或回憶不要超過 25 秒，Part 1 要保持節奏感。