hi everybody and welcome back to love English I'm Sabra today we're going to
be focusing on looking at the IELTS speaking exam now as lots of you know
I'm a British English University teacher and I do examine on a very similar exam
to the Isles I do that at the University where I work and I have in the past
taught IELTS I've never been an IELTS examiner that I taught IELTS for many
years so I feel I do know a lot about the IELTS speaking exam and how it works
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you email me so today we're going to be focusing on the IELTS speaking exam and
how to get a higher grade in your speaking exam so my top tips on the
things you need to do to increase your score we're also going to look at how
you're actually marked in the IELTS speaking exam and this will really help
you to understand what you need to do to increase your score so let's quickly
look at how the IELTS speaking exam works in part one an examiner is going
to ask you some questions about a familiar topic this could be your home
town your country what kind of food you like it could be about your work about
your birthday how you like to celebrate birthdays so those questions will focus
on easier topics concrete topics which you should be familiar with that section
lasts for four to five minutes now in part two you are given a topic card now
this is not related to part one this could be about a holiday you've recently
been on how you like to receive the news a gift you've recently received your
favorite school subject and what kind of sports you like so in part two you'll
give one minute to prepare and then you need to speak for one to two minutes
about that topic so in part three part three they will ask you more complex and
abstract questions related to part two so for example if you were asked about
the news in part two or about holidays in part two in part three you will have
the same subject only they will approach it differently let's have a quick look
an IELTS speaking card
they will always give you as you can see on that card some things that you need
to talk about usually this is just a guideline to remind you of what to do in
part three they're going to continue on that theme but they're going to ask you
things which are bit more complicated like for example do you think in the
future people will not read newspapers anymore
another question might be do you think we can trust the news that we read on
social media how important is it to keep up-to-date with the news in your opinion
so these questions are going to be broader so I've got five tips today all
about how you can improve your IELTS speaking score okay number one so
something that I think is really important but I think that lots of
students do not do is they do not use good intonation they speak in a very
very flat voice so for example they might say in my country the news is
regularly on the television and people like to read it on their phones and
everything will be in a very monotone voice in 1930 the republican-controlled
House of Representatives in an effort to alleviate the effects of the anyone
anyone a Great Depression passed the anyone English is not that kind of
language English is a very up and down quite sing-songy language in some ways
and it just sounds a lot more interesting if you put emphasis on key
words if you can add a little bit more energy with your voice actually
grammatical mistakes don't notice quite so much if you're speaking in a voice
that sounds engaged and interested and is copying the kind of pattern or the
rhythm of English you'll just sound a lot more interested and you are also
scored on your pronunciation and included in that is intonation still
with intonation one thing you can think about is with key words or words that
have a lot of meaning in the sentence we will emphasize those more so for example
if I was to say there's so much diversity in my city if I want to put
emphasis on the key words that would be diversity so and city fofão there's so
much diversity in my city but one thing you can easily do is
to make sure you're speaking with good intonation just sound a bit more
interested number two you are marked on your grammar and you do need to use
complex sentences in order to get a higher grammar school we need to see
what you can do with your grammar and so we need to see you combining different
clauses different parts of sentences into making them a complex sentence now
sometimes you can do this by using a relative pronoun so using a relative
Clause like which where who something like that and then adding more
information that's quite an easy way to make a complex sentence for example if
you were asked about a holiday you recently had imagine you went to India
this would be a great complex sentence to use I recently went to India where I
had many interesting cultural experiences and that lots of new people
the lovely long complex sentences where I which introduces the relative clause
you need to use some of these in your IELTS speaking in order to improve your
score so relative clauses are one way you could also use a conditional
sentence or a first second or third conditional it's very impressive makes
it into a complex sentence or you can use linking phrases like despite
although to combine two parts of the sentence making it into a complex
sentence number three this is my favorite thing to talk about I'm
obsessed with telling my students about this because I think it's so important
and so easy to do in my opinion this is to use linking words linking words will
transform your speaking they show that you've got a wide vocabulary they
organize your speaking they turn things into complex sentences they just
generally are something that examiner's are listening for and looking for
so you really need to be using linking words we need to know lots of them and
use them whatever you can so for example the easy ones are things like moreover
furthermore things like that although however nevertheless these are
all fantastic linking words that really do help you to clarify meaning
and organize your tour you can get lists of these guys and it's a good idea to
learn them I will leave a list in the description box below so do have a look
at that okay point number four as you know you have one minute to prepare to
give you a one to two minute talk that minute goes in a second you need to make
sure you don't waste about a minute just looking at the question and it's
really important to make some notes you have to be so quick at doing this you
have to quickly underline key words in the talk make sure you know the things
they want you to talk about and then quickly write some notes I usually tell
my students to write down at least two points they want to mention any linking
words and any vocabulary and if they've got that in their mind even if they
don't manage to get two points down they've still got the recovery that they
want to say so it still prompts them helps them to think of something else to
say they've soaked up the linking word linking words are so helpful if you run
out of things to say you can just start to be like however this is a
controversial issue however this is a complex topic it's an interesting
question you're still talking it gives you time to think of the next thing that
you want to say I would say in this case with the notes practice practice makes
perfect time yourself practice those talks on your own at home listen to
yourself how well you did and things like that
but it would be a great opportunity for you to practice in that time getting
your key words understanding the question and getting some notes down
really fast before I talk about 0.5 I really quickly just want to show you how
you're marked in the IELTS exam so I think it's so useful to know what
examiner's are looking for and what they're listening for so you are marked
on your fluency and coherence so fluency is all about your ability to keep going
keep talking without too many long pauses and how you connect your ideas
coherence is all about if you can organize your thoughts for example when
you're giving the talk it's all about how organized your talk was did one
point build on to the other point did it develop the previous point was it linked
with a linking word all of that kind of thing so that fluency and coherence
then you're marked on pronunciation which of course includes intonation then
you're marked on your grammar and accuracy so your range of grammar and
how accurate you were with your grammar so your complex sentences and things
like that and the last thing is you're marked on your lexical resources so your
range of vocabulary how much vocabulary to gene use was it the right right
choice of word so those are the areas that you are
marked in in the IELTS speaking exam so the last point number five is that you
have to develop your answers I'm going to give you a strategy as to how you can
develop your answers because one of the biggest problems in the speaking exam is
that students don't say enough they say a little bit and then they stop either
because they don't know the words to say they don't know what else to say they're
worried about their grammar that pronunciation they're afraid they've
made a mistake so they just stop you have to develop your answers you have to
keep going it will show the examiner what you know that you can be fluent
that you can use lots of different grammar so it's really important to
develop your answers now I've got some ideas about how you can do this I think
particularly in part three this is going to be useful and in part two as well so
what you can do is to always think of the advantages and disadvantages of the
questions you're asked so if someone asks you how important do you think it
is to stay up to date with the news so how important do you think it is to stay
up to date with current affairs the news immediately think of the pros and the
cons yeah so yes it's great to be up-to-date with the news because you can
discuss things with other people it's important to know what's going on in the
world then you could think about the other side that the news can be
depressing so always think speak about both sides
develop your answer even further by talking about possible solutions by
saying you think it's really important to stay up-to-date with the news but I
think sometimes the focus of the news could be a bit more positive there are
so many great things happening in society but it's never reported in the
news so possible solutions so you can do it about any topic positives negatives
possible solutions and finally talk about your personal
experiences relate the question to your own life think what do I know about this
what have I seen what have I done I could talk about do you try those four
things and it's really going to help you to deliver more developed answers that
are longer and more complex it's always better to talk too much than too little
at least that's what I tell myself anyway okay everybody said they were my
eye tips and how to increase your IELTS speaking score I really hope they were
useful and please tell me if you do these things or if you're going to apply
them when you next take the speaking exam don't forget to email me if you're
interested in the course love English love learning at gmail.com and you can
leave me any questions you have below about the IELTS exam thank you very much
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