Hello everyone welcome to IELTS energy TV. I am your IELTS teacher Jessica Beck and today
I'm going to answer the question, Should you Learn Sample Answers for the IELTS Speaking Test
All right guys I want to remind you quickly to take our free IELTS quiz and get some resources
I made for you go to allersenglish.com/ieltsquiz! Okay so today's video is inspired by a question
from a subscriber Assad Aurapov. Thank you for commenting on another video. You asked if you
should use sample answers on the speaking test that you get from books and apps and websites
so I know you're asking about a very specific IELTS app that is uh becoming more popular,
So okay, how should you use these? Are these good to use? First just a long story short no do not
use that whole sample answer on your test. It's not yours! Do not memorize sample answers okay,
do not copy them word for word on your own IELTS test. Now, I was an examiner for 14 years okay
I can tell immediately if this answer you're giving me is yours or not okay.
Now I've talked recently about how important it is to be native and natural on your speaking test
if you're going to get a seven or higher. So those answers are native sure they're native
but they're not natural to you okay they're not about you they're they don't reflect your life,
your country, your culture, your experience, and as an examiner I can tell. Now why is that bad?
How does that affect your score? It affects your fluency and coherence score directly. Okay,
band 8 fluency and coherence means that you can talk about topics appropriately okay,
that you can speak naturally about these topics. If you're giving an answer that's not yours,
it's not appropriate to you okay, and we can tell it does affect your fluency and coherence score
um now it affects your vocabulary score because again this is not your experience, this is not
your vocab, so it becomes difficult to paraphrase. You can't talk about these things in your own
words because you're just memorizing someone else's words and this also means that you are not
flexible with your vocabulary okay. This also affects your pronunciation. If you're just
memorizing something and rattling it off again, it's not natural it's obvious that it's uh weird
and it does affect your pronunciation not natural not native okay. So how should you use sample
answers? I think model answers are fantastic for you to see what is possible. For you to see
how you can bring in your own life examples, you can learn great vocab if it applies to you
learn it practice using it you can copy the pronunciation and practice having natural
intonation and varying your pronunciation okay but you're not gonna copy that answer word for word
on your own test okay. So certainly use it, use sample answers they're great practice. Learn
from them but don't learn them word for word okay. You still need to show your ability
to be natural and spontaneous on the speaking test if you're going to get a seven or higher
okay. I hope this explanation helped. I hope that answer helps you Assad Aurapov. Thank you for
commenting. Guys if you have any IELTS questions make sure to ask me in the comments below and
remember take our short IELTS quiz it's free get a free estimated band score and resources I made
just for you go to allersenglish.com/ieltsquiz. All right guys I'll see you in the next video!