Describe a film that made you think

這張題卡的準備方式

這張題卡（cue card）的關鍵詞是「made you think」，考官用它把你從劇情摘要推向反思和意見，這正是能展現語言範圍的那類表達。常見的錯誤是整整2分鐘都在講劇情，沒有留時間說明思考的部分，而那正是「explain」那一行，也是這裡最吃重的一環。選一部你記得還算清楚的電影，最好是讓你留下一個具體疑問，或改變了你對某件事看法的電影，而不只是你單純喜歡的電影。

你不需要選冷門或藝術性強的電影，知名的電影一樣適合，只要你能指出事後仍留在你腦中的一個具體場面或想法。如果你是和別人一起看的（兄弟姊妹、伴侶、朋友），也能為「who you watched it with」這一項提供自然的內容，包括你們之後有沒有討論過，這正好能自然帶到「explain」那一行。

劇情摘要只用20～25秒，剛好交代背景就好，其餘的時間用來說明你是什麼時候、跟誰一起看的，尤其是它留給你的具體想法或問題，因為比較複雜、以意見為主的語言就屬於這個部分。

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1分鐘準備計畫

在1分鐘的準備時間裡，可以寫下：

• what: film about a difficult family decision, moral dilemma
• when: last winter, on a flight actually
• who: watched again later with my brother
• made me think: what I’d do in same position
• closing: still comes up in conversations now

範例回答

以下是這張題卡完整回答的一種寫法，用來示範結構和程度，不是要你照背。細節都要來自你自己的觀影經驗。

A film that genuinely made me think was one I first watched, oddly enough, on a long flight last winter, and then rewatched a few months later with my brother because I wanted his opinion on it. It centres on a family that has to make an extremely difficult decision involving one of the parents, and without giving too much away, there’s no version of the decision that doesn’t cost the family something. What struck me wasn’t really the plot mechanics but the moral dilemma at the centre of it — the film deliberately avoids telling you which choice is right, and I remember sitting there afterwards, still turning it over in my head as the plane landed.

Watching it again with my brother turned out to be even more interesting, because we ended up disagreeing quite strongly about what we’d have done in the family’s position, and that disagreement sparked a proper debate that went on well past the film itself. What made me think, specifically, was realising how confident I usually am about my own moral judgements, and how quickly that confidence disappeared once I actually tried to imagine living through that situation myself. It’s stayed with me in a way most films don’t — I still bring it up sometimes when a friend is wrestling with a genuinely difficult decision, because it reminds me that there isn’t always a clean answer.

這張題卡的常見錯誤

• 幾乎整個回答都在重述劇情，沒有留時間說明「why it made you think」的部分。
• 把「made you think」和「made you feel emotional」搞混，只描述難過或興奮。
• 只因為某部電影聽起來很厲害就選它，結果很難用英文描述。
• 給出「it was deep」這類模糊的理由，卻沒有說出它引發的實際想法或問題。