hi there it's asiya for this video i asked you to select the most difficult ielts speaking
part 2 topic reported in recent exams and prepared a simple answer that would be awarded by
we'll have a look at this answer how your answers are assessed and what vocabulary and grammar
you could use to achieve a higher score if you'd like to get more topics from recent exams
you can download our pdf guide on telegram linked in the video description okay let's get started
here is a topic describe a company where you live that employs a lot of people you should say
what it does how many people it employs what its employees do at work and explain
how you feel about this company i fully agree that it's not an easy one to talk about for two minutes
to give you some ideas i've selected a business that most people have around a supermarket and
i'll show you a trick that can help you talk for longer here is my answer basically i live in a
suburban area of london which is quite residential this means that we don't really have any big
offices or manufacturing in the vicinity i guess the largest employer in the area is a hyper market
tesco it's called a hyper market rather than a supermarket because it's open 24 7 and it's really
huge it sells all kinds of things from food to clothing domestic goods and even some electronics
whatever one may dream of finding in a supermarket tesco will have frankly speaking i don't know
how many people work there but i suppose several hundred there are employees who work in the
warehouse are those who put goods on shelves cashiers security and those who manage the store
after all it takes a lot of people to serve all of their customers once i came back from
holiday on a sunday evening in the uk most stores closed at 5pm on sunday to ensure that
the employees have time with their families therefore all local stores were already closed
i had to drive to this hyper market when i arrived i was amazed at how busy it was there
were tons of cars in the car park and at least 20 checkout tales all at the same time no doubt
this supermarket is a big machine that requires a large staff and continuously recruits new people
i personally find that shopping there is not my cup of tea i prefer buying my groceries in a
small family-run store across the road or ordering the home delivery for heavy items
but some of our neighbors go there regularly that was my answer although i covered all the
bullet points if i only followed them and added no extra information my answer would be just over
one minute this is not a good thing for your score because it doesn't show your fluency
and it gives you less time to demonstrate your vocabulary and grammar
what i did to extend my answer is i added a story of how i went to this supermarket when you're
telling a story it's much easier to talk at length actually finding what to talk about is one of the
main difficulties in part two what if you live in an area where there is no company with a lot of
employees or what if you get asked about attending a sporting event and you've never been to one
then you have two choices the first one is to invent a story think about your friends stories or
movies for inspiration an alternative is to give a two-minute answer explaining why there
are no companies with a lot of employees where you live or why you've never been to a sporting event
explain why not now let's have a look at some useful phrases and grammatical structures
for your answers you should use less common vocabulary and complex grammar for a higher score
here is what i used in this answer a suburban area when you leave on the outskirts of a town not
in the center which this is a great word because it allows you to add extra information to your
sentence and get extra points for your grammar my dog which is 13 years old still jumps like a puppy
the beauty of witch is that you can use it in any sentence of course don't forget to use
who when talking about people or dogs who you love just as much
yes for pets you can use either which or who it's entirely up to you in the vicinity means nearby
rather than you can use it to say instead of something a hyper market rather than a supermarket
i prefer a cup of coffee rather than tea open 24 7 this means that it's always open just say 24 7.
one this is a way to say one person one may find this video useful frankly speaking
this is a linker or discourse marker that shows the listener what i'm talking about
you need to use them to make your answers easy to follow examiners specifically check for that
once again this is a linker that shows that i'm about to tell a story another advantage of telling
a story is that i could use the past tense there while the rest of my answer was in the present
therefore this is how you can introduce your result when i arrived i was amazed this is a
complex sentence try to use when because where in your answers all these conjunctions are used in
complex sentences working at the same time this is a participle phrase again this is complex grammar
no doubt that's another linker continuously it means all the time without interruption not my
cup of tea this is an idiom used to say that i don't like something an evening at the opera isn't
everyone's cup of tea in ielts speaking it's great to use idioms just make sure they sound natural
family run store if something is family run it's usually small and owned by a family not by a big
company and finally across the road very close the complexity of vocabulary and grammar in the sensor
is sufficient for band 9 score you don't have to use some fancy words or extremely complex grammar
and there are no mistakes here apart from your vocabulary and grammar which determines
50 of your score examiners assess your fluency and cohesion and pronunciation to get a high
score for your fluency you should speak naturally without visible effort it doesn't mean that you
have to speak fast you can make pauses as long as you're pausing to think about what you want to say
cohesion is how you link ideas to make your answers easy to understand a part of a high
score for your cohesion is using linking words or discourse markers
and finally pronunciation this is not your accent this is if you pronounce sounds and
words correctly your rhythm and intonation i have a video where you can repeat answers
after my native speaking friend alex and improve your pronunciation and don't forget
to download our guide with recent ielts writing and speaking topics on telegram linked
below thank you so much for watching me today good luck with your preparation and your exam bye