一个英语学习者会不会使用连接词，将直接决定其表达的地道程度和逻辑性，写作中如此，口语更是这样。不少“烤鸭”不习惯使用逻辑词，因为在汉语中有时我们并不需要使用太多的逻辑词来组成我们的句子。例如汉语的“你喝，我就喝”，但是到了英语，我们的句子就变成了“If you drink, I'll drink.”在这里我们需要用if来连接两个句子。这是因为中文注重意合，英文注重形合，举个例子：
Do you like your high school?
Yes, I love my high school. Most of my high school teachers are familiar with teaching skills. They know how to design drills and class activities. They also know how to make every lesson lively and stimulating to engage each student. I have spent most of my memorable years in my high school. I have made lots of friends at that time, and that is a lifelong fortune for me.
这个范文是由一个个正确的句子组成的，但它们之间却缺少一定的联系，这时候就需要逻辑词上场了，我们看加上相应的连接词之后的答案：
Yes, I love my high school, becausemost of my high school teachers are familiar with teaching skills. Besides,they know how to design drills and class activities. They also know how to make every lesson lively and stimulating to engage each student.Furthermore,I have spent most of my memorable years in my high school, whenI have made lots of friends, and that is a lifelong fortune for me.
以上句子，在添加了相应的连接词之后就变得很流利了，也是考官一听就很有逻辑性的口语答案。首先“烤鸭”不仅要使用逻辑性词语，还要能够恰当地使用，从描述顺序和步骤到解释因果，让不同的具体关系都能充分掌握。“烤鸭”要提高Part3口语的流利性就要从转变汉语中不常使用连接词这一语言习惯做起，熟记并且理解和熟练运用各种关系、连词以及插入语，让语言变得有序，且“活”一点。
让我们来看一下我们会经常用到哪些连接词：
一、句子内部的连接词
| 原因 | Because, since, as, now that, considering, the reason why… is…for the sake of, due to, thanks to, on account of |
| 时间 | When, while, whenever, as, before, after, the moment/ minute/ day, the first/second time, last/next time |
| 条件 | If, unless, whether |
| 地点 | Where, wherever |
| 方式 | How, as, as if |
| 结果 | So that, such that, lest, for fear that |
| 目的 | For the purpose that, in order to |
| 比较 | Than, as |
| 让步 | Although, though, while, whereas, as long as |
二、句子之间的连接词
| 逻辑顺序 | Firstly, secondly, next, last, finally, in addition, furthermore, apart from, also, at present |
| 开头 | At the beginning, first of all, the first thing I should mention is…, to begin with, to start with, for one thing…(for another…), the topic is… |
| 总结 | In conclusion, to sum up, to conclude, in summary, in brief, altogether, in short, overall, as has been mentioned, on the whole |
| 重要性顺序 | Most/more importantly, most significantly, above all, primarily |
| 类比和对比 | Similarly, likewise, also, on the other hand, on the contrary, in contrast |
| 原因和结果 | The cause of, the reason for, as a result, as a consequence, therefore, thus, consequently, hence |
| 引起，成为……原因 | Lead to, bring about, contribute to, result in, account for, that’s why, trigger off, responsible for |
| 强调 | Indeed, obviously, generally, in fact, in particular, especially, clearly, importantly, undoubtedly, on top of that |
| 递进 | And, in addition, additionally, furthermore, as well as, too |
| 举例 | For example/instance, that is, such as, including, namely, just like, take… for example |
| 换一种方式重述 | In other words, I…, and that means…, let me put it another way, what I’m suggesting is…,all I’m trying to say is…, perhaps I should make that clearer by saying…, perhaps it would be more accurate to say… |
| 转折 | However, in comparison, but, nevertheless, yet, in contrast, or else, on the other hand, after all, admittedly |
| 让步 | Even so, even if, in spite of, despite, regardless of |
连接词的使用是为了让口语表达更流畅，句子内部以及句子和句子之间的衔接更自然，接下来让我们来看几个例子：
1. Should parents set goals for children?
It depends.On the one hand,if the goals are reasonable for children, their parents should set it. This is becausereasonable targets are helpful when children are in the process of problem solution. However, if the goals are beyond kids’ reach, their parents had better avoid setting them. It will only lead to burdens to their kids with too many goals to realize.
Part 3中经常会出现分类讨论的情况，在不同的论点之间的过渡和衔接就需要适当地运用连接词，对于不同的逻辑关系（并列、转折、补充、因果等等），可以从上面的表格里选择适当的关系词。除了凸显口语表达的流利度，烤鸭们还要注意“凹造型”，即凸显个性，这就需要烤鸭们把常见的连接词用中国考生不常用但在英语里却很地道的表达方式表达出来。
2. Do parents in your countries spend a lot of time with their children?
Well, it’s hard to say. The first thing I should mention is thatfor those white-collar parents, they don't have too much time to stay with their children during the weekdays. They're very busy with their work and some of them may work until late at night, for the purpose ofwinning the promotion and to survive in the competitive society, so they can only have the happy family time with their children during the weekends and holidays. Whereas,for those parents who have their own business, they have more time to stay with their children. That is because these parents don’t have to get up early and arrived at the office on time every dayas they can arrange the daily schedule according to their daily schedule, so they can spend a lot of time with their children.
在英语中，名词、动词、形容词等有成千上万，但连接词就那么几十个，熟练掌握这些连接词的使用方法会为雅思口语增色不少，所以这未尝不是烤鸭们备考雅思口语考试的一条捷径。
