hey everyone welcome back to my channel, this is Dori I'm a teacher
of English and today I'm going to show you how you can build
your short monologue in IELTS Speaking Part 2
Keep in mind that when you're speaking in a
short monologue about a certain topic as you're asked to
do in part 2, speaking
is the same way as writing
orally a little bit you know, for example you need it an
opening sentence in order to introduce your topic
your answer, your monologue which counts as a
as a short introduction as we would say in writing
also you need to cover all the points that you are asked
to cover in your task card and this counts
as the main body of your monologue and last but not least
if you get the chance and the examiner doesn't interrupt you
you have a conclusion, you wrap-up the main
points and your monologue is finished
so in between this short monologue
some useful phrases will be handy for you in order to help you begin talking
organize your thoughts and sound natural
so, let's see an example of how you can do that
ok here's a part 2 topic let's use the same example as in a previous video
let's read it
really quickly
so every time you introduce a new idea on the topic
it will be better if you start using a general statement
to get you started for example if the the main topic of part 2 is about a book
you've read recently as in this case you can begin
by saying
and you move on by saying more details so as you can see
I've started with saying something general
and then
you differentiate yourself and you start
talking about the specific and giving more details about it
this you can use in case you have read many books
or you can also say
this is this is something you can use when you're not
when you don't read a lot of books okay but you know something so
You start from the general and then you move on to the specific points you want to
make
describing the book alright another thing you can do
if you want to say the opposite if you don't have exactly a book
again this is a general statement
and you start by saying by talking about a book that you
didn't really like again it doesn't matter as long as you can communicate
and you can talk on topic about something as you would
in your mother language if they ask you something like that okay
so this is another thing you can do as you can see you can choose to say
anything according to your own situation but whatever you choose
introduce the topic by saying something general
and then move on to the specific point you want
to make also pay attention to the examples above
as I used a variety of words and not only
"I liked", "I didn't like" no
I used "impressed" okay
in this case in this example I used
"enjoyed" and in this example
you can also use "I wasn't thrilled" or "I was thrilled"
or whatever. Do that too.
use a variety of words and phrases while you speak
just like writing avoid using the same word or phrase
again and again throughout your short talk, use
synonyms okay so now these were examples for your opening sentence
now let's talk about the main points you can do exactly
the same thing for example
let's read these examples
so you talk about what you liked or disliked for example
again you begin with something general
but about the book so
it's kind of a main point
and then again you differentiate by saying something specific
from the other books that belong to classic literature as well
and you start by saying your
thoughts on the topic again another example
for another book, for something else
you start by saying something general
and then more details
so-and-so and so another example
it is this way and that way okay so this is a very useful phrase because
if you have a lot of things to say
you can start by saying one thing that I found really interesting was that and
then another thing and another thing
this can help you organize your thoughts a little bit
as a phrase and also
you start by saying something general
you don't really like these books but
and you say something that
is really good and it is the opposite of what you expected
okay so in this way you give yourself time to organize the main points
that are going to follow so these
these useful phrases opening sentences
from the general to the specific can really really
help you to build your monologue now
if it is time to conclude you can use the following phrases
does this and that and that and really you don't do anything here you just
summarize what you've already said about the book or
you can also say
if you're really really excited about that book and again
if you didn't like it at all
of course these are just examples but the good news is that you can use all these
phrases according to your own
situation you can change them to
any topic given and they can really help you
build your monologues in an organized way
and express your thoughts okay that's it now it's time to start practicing your
part 2 monologues
good luck with your exam