hi there it's asiya and today i'll show you two things you should do to improve your ielts
speaking part two answers we'll have a look at some sample answers too okay let's get started
in part two you get a card with a topic and several bullet points you have one minute to
prepare and then two minutes to speak today's topic was reported in one of the recent exams
thank you so much guys for sharing your topics on our telegram channel here it is describe an
occasion when people were smiling you should say with whom you were when it happened why people
were smiling and explain how it made you feel now let me show you some of the common problems with
part two answers i'll try to answer the question and you'll be my examiners okay here it is
last weekend i went to the opera and all the people were really happy to be there
they talked to each other laughed and smiled it was a great event i went there with my husband
we used to be regulus at the royal opera house but it's been our first event in almost two years
we went there last saturday in the evening so we spent the afternoon wandering around
central london had a quick sushi dinner and went to the theater for the 7 30 performance
i think people were smiling because they were really happy to be there the theater had been
closed for over a year because of the covered outbreak and a number of lockdowns finally a
tree opened at the beginning of september and after such a long break it was a real occasion
and i was excited and slightly nervous about it as i guess most people were what do you think about
this answer it wasn't very convincing was it it was a bit boring and the language was quite basic
and the sentences were quite short and they were not really connected to each other i noticeably
struggle to develop ideas and eventually run out of things to say in just over a minute
this kind of answer is common if you start following the bullet points like i did the problem
with bullet points is that they ask such basic questions that the answers are short and basic too
and a lot of information i could talk about was left untouched for example i didn't even say which
opera it was there are two main ways to improve your task to answers the first is to practice use
topics from recent exams you can find them in our free guide on telegram i'll link it below take a
timer set it to two minutes and try to talk until your time is up you don't have to finish your talk
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and now let's talk about the second way to improve your part 2 answers an important point to know
here is that you don't have to follow the bullet points in ielts writing you have to describe each
bullet point but not in ielts speaking these prongs are simply there to give you some ideas
to speak about concentrate on addressing the main question find a story and tell it let me try again
i'd like to tell you about my recent visit to the royal opera house in london
last saturday my husband and i went there to see varidis opera called rigaletto it was such an
occasion the performance was sold out and the room was absolutely packed before the performance began
people were chatting laughing and smiling at each other
i think they were really happy to be there and to see other people and in the end the audience
just rose to their feet in a standing ovation of course rigaletto is an impressive opera which was
masterly performed and totally deserved innovation but i think another reason for this atmosphere
was the fact that the royal opera house had been closed for over a year because of the covet
outbreak and this series of lockdowns we went through and when i think about it it was my
first theater outing in almost two years although i used to be a regular i suppose
we used to take a lot of things for granted and now we've learned to appreciate them much more
and this is the reason why people were more smiley than usual at the performance despite a certain
anxiety that i'm sure many felt in such a crowded room for me personally it felt like a big occasion
i was excited and slightly nervous about i hope we'll all be able to freely attend events again
in the near future this answer was much closer to two minutes which is already a good thing
now let's have a look at the bullet points again without trying i actually covered
all of them with whom i went there when why people were smiling and how it made me feel
the answer itself was easier to follow wasn't it that's because when you tell a story you usually
link ideas naturally but adding a few linking words never hurts so here they are and because i
was telling a story it was easier to talk without effort which is needed for a high fluency score
my vocabulary was more complex too i used a number of collocations or words which are
commonly used together by native speakers such as to deserve an ovation to attend an event
or to take things for granted and i used many more grammatical structures and different verb tenses i
mainly talked in the past simple but i also used used to to talk about things i don't do anymore
there is also the past perfect and past continuous tenses
and i use the present simple and perfect to describe my thoughts and the future tends to
wrap up the story plus there was a number of complex sentences and the passive voice
the last criterion examiners use is your pronunciation just to confirm this is how
you pronounce words and sounds your rhythm and intonation an accent is not a problem
these are all the things that examiners assess all in all it was a much better answer to improve your
part two answers you should practice answering topics and you can use topics from recent exams
and concentrate on telling the story rather than following the bullet points from the task
speaking about accents and exams i actually have a video with the mock speaking exam where
the candidate's accent is quite noticeable but nevertheless a real ielts examiner awarded him
band 9 for his pronunciation you can watch this video right here and don't forget to
download the recent ielts writing and speaking topics for your practice on our telegram channel
and check out cambly to practice your english with native speaking teachers thank you so
much for watching me today good luck with your preparation and your exam