could you describe your mother she's beautiful nice and kind lacking topic specific vocabulary
what trees are common in your country well we have a lot of oaks and
um pine trees and what are they called hesitating too much could you describe
your favourite river well it's wide and there is a lot of water did I mention it's beautiful
struggling to extend answers
[Music] what difficulties do you experience in IELTS speaking and how to solve them
speaking country it's understandable that you don't have much practice speaking English even
though you know words and grammar putting them into an answer quickly enough may be a challenge
unless you use your vocabulary regularly you may know the words but still struggle
to retrieve them from your memory quickly as a result there may be a lot of pauses when
you're speaking or you may make mistakes when you accidentally use a word you know is wrong
basically you need to move the words from your larger passive vocabulary words you
understand but don't use to expand your active vocabulary words you use when you write and speak
the way to do this is to speak more if you take a difficult IELTS question and try to answer it for
the first time your reply may not be convincing but if you try the same question the next day
it will be better the next day even better and if in your IELTS speak exam you get
a topic you practiced at home or something similar you feel more confident answering it
let's be frank some IELTS topics are easier than others let's have a look at how part one of the
IELTS speaking zombies build you'll be asked questions on three topics first you get several
questions about one of these topics your family home Hometown work or studies this is guaranteed
then the examiner will ask you about two more topics some of which are more common than others
you may be asked about reading books or playing outside but you may also get one of the more
challenging topics such as trees shoes hair voice to name a few we've been tracking IELTS topics for
several years and these in my opinion are some of the more challenging topics used in real ielt
speaking exams over the six year period there's this channel exists uh speaking questions videos
have been among the most popular and I've been getting a lot of feedback from you guys on how
helpful it is to have the real topics and Sample answers for reference when you're preparing to
take your speaking exam uh we try to think how we can make these materials easy for you to use
so we've compiled over 40 topics into a single book The IELTS speaking library now there is no
need to hop from one video to another or take notes manually you can just download the PDF
print it out if you prefer choose the topics that look more challenging to you and prepare them one
by one at your own pace so let's take one for example people you can find sample questions
sample answers and useful vocabulary these are part two examples you also get some full part
two answers and a lot of part one examples for example Rivers again sample answers and
vocabulary to improve your ability to speak on a certain topic you should practice answering these
questions you spot which words or phrases you're lacking and can learn them but don't learn words
alone instead learn phrases and collocations which are ready to use and actually easier to memorize