hi welcome to in vidcom I'm Adam in
today's video I'm gonna talk about IELTS
speaking so as normal I'll speak a
little bit faster for those of you
taking the test you get a little bit of
listening practice as well even if
you're not taking the test this is also
very useful for you and if you want to
practice your speaking skills in English
okay so we're gonna talk about IELTS
speaking generally okay I'm not gonna
talk about any of the three parts in
specific I want to talk about fluency in
specific fluency is one of the
categories that you will be graded on
the interviewer is listening for your
fluency skills when deciding to give you
the band out of 9 okay now first of all
what does it mean what does fluency mean
okay
fluency has a few things to consider
within it first how quick you respond a
fast response so when the question is
asked to you when the interview asks you
a question in part one or part three
they're looking to find out they're
paying attention to how quickly you
answer back
if you receive the question and you need
to think about the question try to
translate the question in your mind then
you need to try to build up an answer
before you start speaking the more time
you take to do this
the less fluent you are in English okay
the graders want to make sure you
understood the question quickly you're
ready to start speaking quickly that's
part of fluency another thing connected
sentences they want to make sure that
your sentences flow from one to the next
you're not just throwing out ideas I
like it it's good I did it five times
like all of these sentence individually
are not part of fluency that means
you're just throwing out ideas but
fluency is also how the flow the flow of
your speech and again especially in
parts one and three when they're asking
a question but also in parts to where
you need to construct the answer
completely they're listening for your
thinking sounds so well
well if I uh all of these thinking
sounds means you're having trouble with
the language means your fluency is not
very high your score is going down okay
try to minimize or even completely
eliminate thinking sounds from your
speech they don't help you now if you
need some time to think about what to
say
you could say well when I think about
this situation what I usually think
about is and then get into your answer
you say well well usually it's like this
well that doesn't work that's not
fluency that means you're having
problems with the language okay
so cut out the thinking sounds mmm or
etc now extent this is probably the most
important part of fluency do not give
one-word answers to any question do you
like swimming yes okay why do you like
swimming it's wet that doesn't work
that's not an answer even right they
want full sentences they want a few
sentences and they want to have a few
ideas all strung together coherently and
with nice flow now with all of these
things in mind what do most students
have the most problems when it comes to
the actual speaking test of the IELTS
the most common problem is what to talk
about they just don't have ideas right
so here is my major tip my major piece
of advice to you when it comes to
preparing for the speaking section of
the IELTS test create an idea Bank okay
this is what I call this exercise in
essentially what this means is do your
thinking before the test don't be in the
test room don't be sitting in front of
the interviewer and trying to think
about all these ideas that they're
asking you about because sometimes
they're gonna ask you about things that
you have you just don't think about you
don't really care about if they ask you
about music and you're just not a music
fan you don't you don't listen to music
you don't have an iPod you listen to the
music when you're with your friends but
generally you don't really know much you
don't know who the famous bad
who the famous singers are you don't
care about music how are you going to
answer questions about music now keep in
mind you don't really have a choice in
terms of what they're going to ask you
about if they ask you about music you
have to speak about music okay so make
sure that you have some ideas about
music before test day here's what you
can do I want you to make a list grab a
note take a notebook and make a stop
making a list I want you to write
favorites favorite anything favorite
food favorite restaurant favorite book
movie band music okay make a whole a
bunch of these lists and then make
another list talking about people friend
relative famous person okay or a hero or
somebody or a bad person make a list of
people and anything hobby activity game
sport I can make a whole huge list here
I'm not gonna do that now you can use
your imagination think of all the
different topics they can ask you about
then once you find out once you have
your list start thinking about ideas
food what's your favorite food now you
have to think about favorite food to eat
favorite food to prepare and then
favorite food in terms of like ethnicity
oops yes miss city like do you like
Chinese food do you like Italian food do
you like Greek food etc think about all
the different types of food now when you
think about food when you come to the
test and they ask you any question about
food you're going to think and you're
going to talk about this particular dish
that you've already thought about at
home so let's take la Sonya your
favorite food to eat is lasagna great
guess what your favorite food to prepare
also lasagna your favorite ethnicity of
food Italian lasagna don't think about
all kinds of different foods one food
any question that comes up about food
you're going to talk about lasagna okay
because why starts confusing yourself by
thinking about different types of food
have one ready to go for
question about food now if the question
is about a restaurant what is your
favorite restaurant all my favorite
restaurant is Italian they make I love
the one near my house makes the best
lasagna the reason I like lasagna is
again food restaurant lasagna it doesn't
matter what the question is up bring it
back to lasagna because you already
thought about the ideas now once you
have your topic once you have your
specific example of the topic make sure
you make yourself a vocabulary list a
bit higher end words so you're not stuck
using simple words think culinary I'm a
culinary adventurous I like to try all
kinds of different foods my favorite of
course is lasagna because I love Italian
cuisine now I've had some gourmet
lasagnas but my lasagna I think is the
best the ingredients I use are dot dot
dot I like to prepare it dot dot dot
again I like to saute the onions just so
so I can put them on the top layer of my
lasagna and again it's all about lasagna
because your question is about food so
when you come to the test and your
interviewer asks you about what's your
favorite food to eat that you don't eat
very often oh I don't eat very often hmm
well I don't need curry very often or I
don't why lasagna you lasagna every day
you eat lasagna once a year it doesn't
matter talk about lasagna because you
already have the ideas so again remember
the whole point is not to think you want
to answer fast you want to have
connected sentences which means you have
to have information you don't want
thinking so but you don't need to think
you already thought about this at home
and you want to extend your answer you
want to speak more so and another thing
about the extension remember the more
you speak the less the interviewer
speaks if you speak if you give long
good answers they will have less time to
ask you more questions okay so speak at
length
don't go off-topic but make sure you
have full
full answers okay now same thing for
book and movie why would you think about
one book in one movie think about a book
let's be made into a movie any question
about book you're gonna talk about this
one book you thought about at home any
questions about movies you're gonna
think about this one movie that's also
the same as the book that you thought
about at home so for example Shawshank
Redemption I think everybody has heard
of this movie at least it's a great
movie it's also a book it was written by
Stephen King read the book at home make
sure you know the story be able to talk
about it but any question about books
Shawshank Redemption any question about
movies Shawshank Redemption you've
killed two birds with one stone
essentially band music all of these
things as much as you can who are and or
a relative who says that your best
friend can't be your cousin right why
not one person for two topics and do as
much as this as you can for all kinds of
different topics so you think less speak
more now very very important and I I
know this is very hard for a lot of
students and I've had experience with
this with a lot of students do not be
afraid to say I don't know it's okay not
to know this is not a test of your
knowledge of music this is a test of
your knowledge of English if somebody
asks you a question about a topic that
you just don't know anything about say
to be honest with you I don't really
like okay what's your favorite who's
your favorite musician well to tell the
truth I don't really listen to music
very much so I don't really have a
favorite musician but I like to listen
to you know whoever is popular on the
radio these days say you don't know but
make sure that the interviewer
understands that you that you understood
the question say show them you
understood the question you just don't
really know about this topic so you
don't have much to say it's not an
English problem
it's a topic problem some interviewers
will adjust their questions to make it
easier for you to actually speak some
won't in which case again they say well
you know I don't really think about this
stuff very much but if I had to imagine
I would say this that or the other the
key is speak don't panic don't overthink
it speak you have all your ideas ready
now another thing you can do once you
have all of these things ready you have
your eye you have your general topic you
have your specific examples and your
specific situations about this topic you
have your vocabulary practice part two
of the speaking create a one and a half
minute speech create one and a half
minute speeches for each topic just
practice saying it for a minute and a
half eh you'll work on your timing
because you like you supposed to speak
for one to two minutes if you speak for
one minute they will make you speak more
or they will ask you more questions
practice speaking for about one and a
half minutes maybe they'll ask you one
more question maybe they won't plus when
you come to the actual test it's just
like your practice you've already
practiced it and you have all these
ideas practice making like very
organized structured answers so again
you get your connected ideas and you get
your extensions and you eliminate your
thinking sounds and you get a high
fluency score okay that is the key to
the speaking section now there are also
other videos here on engvid by Emma and
I think Benjamin has a very good video
as well about the speaking section go
watch those but again speak don't think
get your fluency score oh don't forget
to work on the pronunciation of these
words before the test day that way
you're relaxed you don't panic you get a
good score you pass your test
you go on with your life and I think
about it again okay if you have any
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