Speaking
IELTS – Speaking Part-1?
• Listen
to the questions carefully.
• Give
full answers to the questions if possible but don’t predict
related questions. For example, if you are asked where you
live a suitable answer would be ‘I live in the new territories –
in a village just outside Delhi, called Bank Town.’
NOT ‘I live in Delhi. It’s a really
nice town with quite a large population and lots of seafood restaurants. It’s a
lovely place to live as it’s in the countryside. I have lived there for ten
years.’
How to prepare for IELTS –
Speaking
like a prepared answer and the examiner’s next question might
be ‘What’s Delhi like?’.
• Don’t
give one or two word answers as the examiner can only rate you on what he or she hears.
• Make
sure you relate what you say to what the examiner asks. For example,
Examiner:
Do you like playing cricket?
You:
Yes, I do but
I don’t get much time to play these days.
How to prepare for Part 1
• Make
a list of possible
topics you could be interviewed on e.g.
- your home
- your country
- your job
- your interests
- your education
- your family
- food
- festivals
- clothes
- books
- films
- transport etc.
• Write
questions for each of your topics and get a friend
or family to ask you the questions or
put them on an audio cassette and test yourself responding
to them.
• Record
yourself answering the questions and listen to see
how you can progress your responses.
• Make
sure you know all the vocabulary necessary to
talk about these topics. Practice the pronunciation of any new
vocabulary.
• Think
about the language that
will be useful e.g.
- ways of expressing likes & dislikes
- linkers like ‘even though’ and ‘unless’
- tenses to talk about the past and present and your experiences
e.g. ‘I’ve never been to Africa.’ or ‘I
went to Switzerland for a holiday in 2000.’
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