Hi there i'm andrew and welcome to this my youtube channel where I am giving students advice about
the IELTS exam
This particular episode is about the spoken is exam
And we're going to look at fillers that you might want to use in part 2 of your speaking exam
In part 2 you will be asked to speak for quite a long time up to two minutes is
the amount of time that you will be asked to speak for
That's quite a long time and during the course of speaking you might possibly forget what you're going to say next
Or you might need a little bit of time to try and remember an impressive word that you have forgotten
In order to do that you can use certain fillers that are suitable for newsing
During your answer so after you have said several things and before you say your next thing here
We're going to look at how to do that if you find this useful. Please subscribe to this channel the
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So let's have a look at these fellas
First of all when should you news the fillers the answer and I really do want to make this clear is only
only if you get stuck and
Forget what you are going to say next
Or if you need a few seconds to remember a word that you really want to news Perhaps
Because it's an impressive word, but it's just slipped your mind for a moment in other words
You've just forgotten it for a moment
so
How should you use these fillers the answer is to try as hard as you can to use them naturally?
Try not to make them sound mechanical as though. There's some kind of machine as if you have remembered them
so
practice these fillers so that you are able to news them naturally if you need to do so in your exam, but
only news them if you really need to do so on the
Basis that newsing one of these fillers is a lot better than being silent
Because the guarantee is that if you hesitate if you're silent that will create a bad impression in your exam
Okay, so here is the first
English idiom that you can use which means that you have forgotten what you were going to say
I've lost my train of thought
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Second option
Sorry, I've completely lost my thread
this is Fred what you see on the screen things that you news or sewing or
I seem to have lost track of what I was going to say
So free options there idioms that you can use
To mean that you have temporarily or briefly forgotten what you were going to say next now
Also important is that in your speaking exam your speaking should flow nicely
So it's not a good idea to use one of these fillers
And then to immediately just start giving your answer again. You need some devices
So-called cohesive devices to link the filler and the rest of your answer
So how can you do this here are three options linking devices to news after a filler?
Number one, okay, I've remembered now what we wanted to say was that oh
ah, yes what I was intending to say next was that or number three ah
It's come back to me now. I meant to say that and in each case you then give the rest of your answer
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