Patrick is the man who Ann said will tell us all about the church, what is that? That’s
called grammatical range. But how? I’ll come to that. What did you do at work today?
I wrote a report and what is this? This is called grammatical accuracy. Don’t worry
if you're confused about how the first is the grammatical range and the second sentence
is grammatical accuracy, then all you need you to do is just stay tuned to this lesson
to learn about the third criteria of IELTS speaking test, which is grammatical range
and accuracy. Come join me.
So here we start. Just to let you know, that grammatical range and accuracy consists 25%
of your IELTS speaking test score, so please pay attention in this lesson. Now there's
a myth related to grammatical range and accuracy. We think it's all about being accurate; grammar
is all about being accurate while speaking. However, that's not true. Instead the IELTS
band descriptor for band 7, yes band 7 says that the candidate frequently produces error
free sentences. However, some grammatical mistakes persist. So this means it's okay
if you make some grammatical mistakes. Let’s start with the first one here.
Grammatical range, I suggest that all the candidates, whatever your level is, focus
carefully on this aspect, particularly the candidates who are above you know probably
the intermediate or the elementary level. This will be very helpful for you. And for
the beginners, I have a great tip for you towards the end of the lesson, please keep
watching. Okay so what does it mean? Grammatical range, it means to use grammar widely. You
see how happy the smiley is about using grammar widely. But how? So the aim is to use complex
structures naturally. Here we are talking about, complex grammar sentences. Structures
here means for sentences. So let's look at an example, prime minister is wonderful, is
he? Yes, no, okay now let me add some extra information to this. I’ll just write it
on the board for you. Children talking, sorry children in front of the palace, talking to
the Prime Minister. Children in front of the palace, talking to the Prime Minister is wonderful,
is this sentence correct? No if we are saying children, we should be using, are. This means
this sentence is still incomplete. Let’s find out, what else we can add to this sentence.
Um... what about if I say, the picture of the children in front of the palace, talking
to the prime Minister is wonderful. That’s right. The picture of the children in front
of the palace, talking to the prime minster is wonderful. So what have we done here? Prime
minister is wonderful is a single bit of information. But when you are trying to be grammatically
wide, you want to have a wide range of grammar, then you would want to use, complex grammar
structures and how does that happen? When you add multiple bits of information to the
same sentence. I hope this example has taught you how to increase your range in grammar.
Now we are going to look at grammatical accuracy.
Now let's look at the second important thing for grammatical range and that is, accuracy.
So what really is accuracy, what can you understand of the diagram? What does the diagram mean?
It means to be spot on. Yes just at the right thing, spot on, to do just the right thing.
So first we are going to look at task 1 and task 2. What is the meaning of accuracy? So
here I suggest that all the beginners and above of course pay some careful attention
because here, we are going to find out, that how can we use tenses to talk about tasks.
We are not doing too much hard work here; we are doing some more of smart work here.
Let’s see, the meaning is to know the tenses required, as I just told you. In task 1 and
2, you are usually asked questions which you would need to answer in past tense, yes. So
you have to be smart and use past tense for task 1 and 2, not always, wherever required.
Let’s see an example; it's very important that you ensure that you know the past tense
of some common verbs. For example, feel, what is the past tense
for feel? Felt, fight... fought, wait...waited; want... what should it be? Wanted. Now here’s
a quick tip for you, be very careful about the regular and irregular verbs, like you
can see somewhere, irregular verbs in this particular set of words. This is an example
that you can use for all the tasks. However, specifically in task 1, if the examiner asks
you a question, you would say, I mean, the examiner asks you, describe your first foreign
language that you learnt or your first foreign language learning experience. So if you listen
carefully, he says the first foreign language that you learnt, he is talking about the past.
So should you talk in the future tense or should you talk in the present tense? No you
should be talking in the past tense depending on the question. So you would say that the
first foreign language that I learnt is English and I learned it because I needed it for job
purposes. So this is the way you can use the past tense of words for task 1 and 2.
Now let's look at the second part that is task 3. Now let's look at task 3 for grammatical
accuracy. The aim is to talk about, future possibilities. But how really? so the kind
of topics that the examiner will give you for task 3, will generally require you to
use the future tense and this way, you know already that you have to be prepared to use
future tense in task 3 and you can definitely perform better.
Let’s look at how we should do it. There are different ways of talking about the future.
You can use will, you can use going to or maybe I hope so or I think so. So for that
I think, the best thing you can do is, here is the link, please refer to the link of my
video where I teach about how to talk about your future plans. There you will learn how
to use will or going to in difference situations. Let’s move on the next point, yeah an example
for this would be, so let's say the examiner, you're discussing about education and the
topic for task 3 is, do you think digital learning will one day replace classroom teaching?
I’ll repeat the question, listen to the question carefully and see which tense am
I talking in? Do you think one day digital learning will replace classroom teaching?
the examiner will use the word, will, which means you need to use the future tense and
you can answer it, yes I think one day digital learning is going to or one day digital learning
will replace classroom teaching and you must build on your point of view and express it
completely in detail giving reasons for it and also the effects.
I hope this lesson was quite helpful for you, please use all these sure-fire tips for grammatical
range and accuracy. You'll sure smoothly sail through the IELTS speaking test. I hope to
see you again, till then you please refer to my other videos on other criteria for speaking
test and also the FAQs for the speaking test to clear any confusions about its form, bye.