Ielts speaking Success: Skills Strategies and Model Answers
Start with a memorized set phrase
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- Focus on language and not ideas
- Speak at length
Start with a memorized set phrase
Use some memorized set phrases to buy time to think about what you are going to say: 1. Off the top of my head I would say… 2. Well, it's difficult to say, but ... 3. That's an interesting question and I think I would have to say that… 4. Mmm ... I'm not really sure, but… 5. Actually, that's not something I've really thought about, but… 6. I don't really know much about that, but... [Lots of set phrases for different types of questions are explained in the next section.] Ask for the question to be rephrased Another way to buy time is to pretend you didn't understand the question and ask the examiner to rephrase it. While the examiner is doing this you can think about what you want to say. This won't lower your grade, unless you do it repeatedly in which case it's going to start to lower your score for vocabulary. You could say something like: "I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that, could you please rephrase it" 121 Focus on language and not ideas In this section it is very important that you don’t waste time trying to think of your real opinion, that doesn’t matter; what is important is that you give an opinion and then support it. In addition, it is a language test so it's more important that you use higher-level language than have clever ideas. Speak at length This part of the test is designed for you to give responses that are twice as long as Part One. If you are looking for a higher score you should try to show the examiner you have the ability to talk at length. Also, this part of the test is limited to 4 to 5 minutes and the questions are designed to increase in difficulty. Therefore, if you give longer answers you are going to get fewer questions and then there is less chance of you getting a question that you are unable to respond to or lack the language to give a strong reply. Ideally you want answers that are about 4 to 6 sentences, and if you really feel comfortable with a question you could even speak longer! You should use the strategies outlined in Chapter 2 to enable yourself to produce longer answers. To summarize these are: 1. Divide your response into two or three parts 2. Describe from general to specific (maybe give an example) 3. Depends: describe different situations 4. Concession: make a main argument and then give a concession for it 5. Avoidance: do not directly answer the question at first, and then answer it. |
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