Oral Script (Set 2)
| Candidate | Dialogues | Skills |
| A | OK. Let¡¦s get started. | Starting |
| A | Today we are going
to discuss the positive as well as the negative effects of technology on communication and human relationships for the coming conference on Technology and Communication in the 21st Century. |
1.State the
present situation 2.Introduce the topic |
| C | I think we should
first define what is the meaning of technology. Technology means any hi-tech invention, e.g. the Internet, the telephone. |
Giving out the definition |
| B | Yes, I also think that the computer and videoconference are a kind of technological development. | 1.Agreeing 2.Raise a point |
| C | Ok. Let¡¦s go to another area then. We should first discuss the advantages of technology on communication. | Transition |
| C | I think the development of technology makes our communication between people easier and faster. | Raise a point |
| D | Yes. I think so too. We can now send e-mail or chat in the ICQ with our friends or relatives by accessing the Internet. | 1.Agreeing 2.Explaining |
| B | Yeah¡Kit is more convenient than before. Especially when we can¡¦t find our friends when we call them. | 1.Agreeing 2.Elaboration |
| A | Moreover, it
provides us with various types of communication channels, for example, mobile phone and
Internet. We can therefore have a wider choice of communication method and choose the most appropriate one. |
1.Raise a point 2.Elaboration ¡@ |
| C | I think so too. For example, we can now send e-mail instead of writing a letter to our friends. It is less time-consuming. | 1.Agreeing 2.Elaboration |
| D | Yeah. We can also adjust the time when we have meeting with our friends and want to change the time by using mobile phone. It is more convenient and fast. | 1.Agreeing 2.Elaboration |
| B | Yup. The technological development is beneficial to businessmen too. | Raise another point |
| C | Umm¡Ksorry, I don¡¦t understand what you mean. | Raise a question |
| B | Umm¡Kwhat do I mean is that businessmen can talk with their partners or hold a meeting with the board by using videoconference nowadays. | Clarifying |
| A | Yes, they can save both the time and cost on travelling to another companies to have conferences. | Elaboration |
| B | Sure. That¡¦s what I mean. Especially for multi national corporation
which has different branches in different locations. They can in turn communicate with the branch managers easier. |
1.Agreeing 2.Elaboration |
| D | And I also think that we can get the information of the world easily and funnily. | Raise a opinion |
| B | Ar¡Ksorry what do you mean by get the information of the world funnily? | Raise a question |
| D | Umm¡Keveryday we watch television and many messages are delivered by using satellites. We can hear the see the motion pictures from the television. It is more interesting and can draw our attention to the news. | Clarifying |
| B | Oh¡KI see your point. We can now get information by accessing to the Internet. Many people make their homepage beautiful and it will be more interesting for the viewers to read. | Elaboration |
| A | Yeah. The technology also leads us to have a ¡§colourful¡¨ television instead of a ¡§black and white¡¨ one. | 1.Agreeing 2.Raise a opinion |
| A | OK. How about the negative effects of technology on communication? I think the use of mobile phone sometimes will annoy other people. | 1.Transition 2.Raise a point |
| C | Yes, I think so too. Especially when we watch a film, all audiences highly concentrate on it. Suddenly the mobile phone rings, other people will be disturbed. | 1.Agreeing 2.Elaboration |
| B | Moreover, if there is a viruses on the computer. We cannot communicate with our friends by sending e-mail or ICQ. | Raise a point |
| D | Yup, like the Y2K viruses. | Agreeing |
| A | Also, if the company cannot afford, or it is not cost-justified to purchase the equipment of videoconference. The communication will totally blocked. | Raise a point. |
| C | If we do not have any other point on communication, let¡¦s move to the human relationship. | Transition |
| C | I think the positive effects of technology on human relationship is that we can now talk with people from all walks of life or even people coming from different countries. | Raise a point. |
| B | Yeah. We can sometimes talk with people from Japan, German etc. We can know more about their countries regarding their culture background, beliefs. And learn some common expressions of their languages. | 1.Agreeing 2.Elaboration |
| A | Yes, I think so too. The problem of racial discrimination can also be alleviated too. As we now have more chances to communicate with them, we will understand their culture background clearer and deeper. | 1.Agreeing 2.Raise a point 3.Elaboration |
| D | Apart from the foreign partners, our relationship between ¡§domestic¡¨ people will also be enhanced. | Raise a point |
| B | Umm¡KI don¡¦t think so. When we playing ICQ and chat with our net friends, most of them will not say their real names, ages or other things. They are cheating us. | 1.Agruing 2.Elaboration |
| C | Yes, in recent years, we can hear many criminal crimes about cheating by the net friends. Some of them are losing their money, while some are raping by the net friends. | 1.Agreeing 2.Elaboration |
| A | It¡¦s so dangerous and terrible! | 1.Agreeing |
| B | So, I don¡¦t think that our relationship between people can be enhanced. | Emphasis the point |
| D | I see your point. But anyway, I think there are some extreme cases. People may only want to meet more friends and share their ups and downs with them. | Arguing |
| B | Maybe there are some. At least we all four are those kinds of people. | Agreeing |
| A | Ok. Should we discuss the negative effects on human relationships? I think the technology worsens our relationship between families | 1.Transition 2.Raise a point |
| C | Yup, I think so too. Youngsters nowadays mainly communicate with their friends or net friends. They rarely talk with their parents as they always think that their parents don¡¦t understand them. | 1.Agreeing 2.Elaboration |
| D | They always think that their thinking is out-dated. So they prefer to talk with a stranger rather than their parents. | 1.Agreeing 2.Further elaboration |
| B | Umm¡Kbut some parents are trying to learn what how to manage the computer in order to communicate with their sons and daughters. They try hard to understand what their children are doing. | 1.Arguing 2.Raise a point |
| B | Their family relationship has been improved in such a case. | Further elaboration |
| A | But the majorities are not. They always think that playing computer are time wasting and lead to a poor academic performance of their children. | 1.Arguing 2.Raise a point |
| C | Yup. Some of the youth always sit in front of the PC for a whole day. They are playing games, chatting with net friends. They do nothing useful. |
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| D | They are isolated from the family. And it seems that they are lack of parental care too. | Agreeing |
| B | Ok. I see your point. The technology really worsens the family relationship. | Agreeing |
| A | It also sometimes worsens the friendship relationship. | Raise a point |
| D | Umm¡Kbut youngsters can now communicate with their friends easily. And they now have more topics about the technology. This in fact improves their relationship. |
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| B | Yup, I think so too. We can always talk with our friends as there are variety of communication channels. | Agreeing |
| A | I see. | Agreeing |
| C | Let¡¦s have a conclusion then. | End the discussion |
| D | But I think there are still some negative effects on human relationship. | Arguing |
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