Hi, my name's Pete Jones,
and I've been helping students prepare for the IELTS test
for more than 10 years now.
You're about to see Kyuwon, from South Korea,
talk about an IELTS Speaking Part 2 topic
for two minutes.
A couple of weeks before we made this recording,
Kyuwon took an IELTS test
and got a 5.5 for his speaking.
After he talked about the Speaking Part 2 topic
that I gave him,
he asked me how he could improve his speaking
and get a band score 6.
At the end of this video,
I'm going to talk about Kyuwon's speaking
and share a tip about how to improve your speaking
from a 5.5 to a 6.
Okay, I'm gonna talk about the
useful equipment that is a smartphone.
There's a smartphone is a very meaningful for me.
The reason is a... that is a helped... helped my life...
...helped my life enjoyfully.
So...
I've learnt the smartphone...
I've learnt how to use that smartphone is naturally
because there are some friend...is...I....
...some friend is already used that so
I just looking how to use that so...
...is get...easily to get used to me.
And is the... the usually...
I spend almost 5 week... 3 or 4 years
because... that reason is...
I always following other people's trend.
The reason is first time reason to bought that
smartphone is...my...
...the one of application... there is KakaoTalk...
...if I want to send a message some other my friends.
From the start so I using some other...
...kind of the tool like...
I enjoy use the Bluetooth.
That is very useful when I listen to some music
so is my hand is free.
I like exercise my... exercise in the gym.
The when I doing the exercise
on to the running machine,
I need to listen to the music.
That reason is helpful to exercise more...
...more hardly... and is a...
Furthermore, that is a... with Bluetooth
there have possible to download some music video
for watch the music video and listen to music
so I forget to my... my some... some hard work.
So I usually using that and is a...
I used to listen to music during the study.
Do other people you know
also find this kind of equipment useful?
Yes, of course, without the smartphone,
people can't do like anything because
with the developing the smartphone some tools,
we can call to the international friend
without pay anything.
So, after watching Kyuwon
describe a piece of electronic equipment,
his smartphone,
do you have any idea
why he got a band score 5.5 for his speaking
and not a 6?
If, like me,
you found it difficult to follow Kyuwon at times,
it was probably because
he didn't say when he was moving
from one point to the next.
He didn't, for example, say when he was moving on
from introducing the piece of electronic equipment
to explaining how he learnt to use it.
To get a band score 6 or above for your speaking,
you need to tell the examiner
when you are moving from one point to the next.
And to do this, you need to use discourse markers.
Discourse markers are words or phrases
that separate spoken language into different parts.
Examples of discourse markers that you may know,
or that you may even use yourself,
are 'firstly',
which is used to introduce the first in a list of points,
and 'on the other hand',
which is used to introduce a contrasting idea or opinion.
An example of a discourse marker that Kyuwon used
was the phrase 'I'm gonna talk about...'
to introduce the Speaking Part 2 topic.
A quick and easy way for Kyuwon
to have used other discourse markers
would have been to have turned
each of the points on the Speaking Part 2 task card
into questions.
When moving from the first to the second point,
he could have said 'How did I learn to use it?'
before talking about
how he had learnt to use his smartphone.
When moving from the second to the third point,
he could have said 'How long have I had it?'
before answering this question.
If you want to use this type of discourse marker
in your IELTS Speaking test,
you could write down the questions on your notes
in the one minute preparation time
before you start talking.
Remember, to get a band score 6 for your speaking,
you need to use a range of discourse markers.
And in this video,
I've shown you two that you can use
in IELTS Speaking Part 2:
using a phrase like 'I'm gonna talk about...'
to introduce your topic,
and asking a question before answering it.
If you also use words or phrases like 'firstly'
or 'on the other hand',
then that's three different types of discourse marker.
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