So many test takers find the speaking questions on the Duolingo English Test to be the most
difficult. So in this video, I'm going to help you by showing you a strategy you can use to ace these
questions. This strategy will help you speak for longer, develop your answers better, and use lots
of grammatical structures, all of which will help you boost your speaking score. But very quickly
before I share this strategy with you, if you're new here, hi, I'm Teacher Luke from www.detready.com
And we're here to help you with your Duolingo English test. Let's just do a quick review of the
different speaking questions on the Duolingo test. We have read then speak, it looks like this on the
exam. Listen, then speak where you have to listen to the question. And the speaking sample, which is
recorded and sent to the universities you're applying to. And the strategy I'm about to show
you today will work for all three of the speaking question types. So what is this strategy? Well,
it's called the PPF methods. PPF stands for past, present, and future. And the idea behind this
strategy is that when you're given your speaking answers, you can talk about your experiences based
on the topic in the past, the present and your ideas for the future. But a quick pro tip, you
need to make sure that your answers are closely related to the topic you're given. So for example,
if the question prompt on the Duolingo test is this talk about a book you've read recently, you
can describe a book you've read in the past a book you're currently reading, and a book you want to
read in the future. So you're still talking about the main topic, but you are using the PPF
strategy. Of course, you don't need to use this strategy, it is not essential to use it, but it is
a useful strategy to consider. Now let's go over it by showing some examples. This will help you to
understand it better. So we will use this question, talk about a book you have recently
read? What kind of book is it? What is it about what sort of people would enjoy it? So this
question type says recently read. So it's talking about the past. So let's start with the past like
this. I recently read a very famous book called The Alchemist. It's a story about a young shepherd
who goes on a journey to find his purpose in life. The book has a mixture of adventure and
philosophy, but it's mostly about finding yourself I honestly found it very inspiring. And it has
helped me think a lot about my own life. Okay, past done. Now let's move on to talk about the
present. Right now I'm actually reading a similar book called The Power of Now, it's similar to the
alchemist because it's about finding yourself and becoming a better person. The main message of the
book is about how to be happy by living in the present moment, rather than worrying about the
past or the future, which is something I tend to do too often. So we've talked about the past and
the present, you can see already that I've used different grammatical structures, some past
tenses, some present tenses, and how the ideas have extended, which have made my answer longer,
which is good. Now let's talk about the future like this. I'm going to keep reading similar books
in the future, because they helped me learn more about myself. And I believe it's important to keep
learning and growing. And I believe reading these types of books can help me to do that. So that's
the PPF method. It's a great way of expanding your answers. And speaking for longer, and a good way
to generate more ideas. After this, you may want to look back at the question prompts, and decide
if you've answered all of the questions. Or maybe you need to answer one or two more. In my example,
I didn't answer the last one. What sort of people would enjoy it? So of course, I should answer this
last point. And I would say something like this. Moving on to the final question. Books like the
alchemist are good for people interested in self discovery and personal growth because they provide
valuable insights and perspectives. I'm sure books like this can be enjoyed by lots of different
types of people all over the world, and especially for people who have an interest in philosophy. So
to sum up, I would recommend this book to anyone who asked me so that's the PPF method. Now you
need to learn how to describe a photograph and this video here will help you this is another
speaking question on the Duolingo English test. So watch this and learn different strategies for
describing a photograph effectively. Okay, I'll see you here.