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Irrelevant Content 
 
Although we have said that content is irrelevant to your score-you cannot produce 
two-minute content that is not related to the topic. 
 
A fairly common problem in Part Two is that candidates talk about a topic different 
to the one on their card. Example: 
 
Describe a sport that you like playing or watching. 
 
Sometimes a candidate will say: 
 
"I don’t like sport so I will describe my favourite hobby which is playing computer 
games." 
 
Clearly  this  is  off-topic  and  Part  Two  speeches  which  are  off-topic  are  marked 
down-basically you lose marks.  
 
If  you  are  given  the  topic  ―sports‖,  the  examiner  is  expecting  to  hear  language 
(especially vocabulary) related to that topic. If you avoid the topic, you will not produce 
language related to your topic and your score will be seriously affected. 
 
Later in this section we will look at how to select your content in Part Two.