The Speaking module in your IELTS examination can simply appear to be the most challenging part, but trust us, it is certainly going to be the most enjoyable experience amongst all the modules if you take it easy.
In this particular part, you will have to establish interaction with a trained examiner, which is divided into three parts:
General interaction including introduction
Cue Card
Discussion about cue card
If you wish to perform well in Speaking, just remember everything about yourself. Recall your best childhood memories, remember the best parties you have ever attended, recollect the time when you worked the hardest, think of someone who truly inspires you, and revise your views and opinions about the world. Doing so will make the speaking module similar to a piece of cake!
Let us talk about the first part of speaking: Introduction and General Interaction.
You should sound natural and free while answering the general introduction round. The first part can invite questions from any of the following everyday topics:
Hometown
Study
Work
Friends
Family
Childhood
Leisure time
Vehicles
Technology
Music
Food
Mornings
Evenings
Pets
Weather
Transport
Daily routine
Clothes
Birthdays
Transport
Art
And so on.
Imagine the friendliest conversations around this topic that you can have with someone, and that’s all how it will happen in the exam. Some examples of questions you will be asked are as follows”
Where do you work?
Which jobs are popular in your country?
Which subjects do you study?
What do you like about your hometown?
What kind of public transport is available in your hometown?
Have you ever visited an art gallery?
At what age did you learn riding a bicycle?
What did you do on your last birthday?
How did you enjoy in your childhood?
What kind of clothes do you prefer to wear?
Do you prefer using laptops or computers?
What is the importance of having a daily routine?
Do you remember any dream you had?
Do people in your country drink tea or coffee?
How do you spend your evenings?
Do you still have friends from your childhood?
Which is your favourite type of flower?
Which is your favourite food?
Do you follow a healthy diet?
What makes you the happiest?
What are your hobbies?
What are the most common habits in your country?
How many languages can you speak?
Do you sing?
Do you have close bonds with your neighbours in your country?
Which is your favourite pet?
Do you enjoy shopping?
Which sport did you play in your childhood?
What is the weather like today?
These are supposed to be one- or two-line answers that best convey your answer.
Cue Card- “The Talk”
The Cue Card will demand you to answer some questions around a given topic. The examiner will give you a topic card with a few descriptive questions attached, which will help you enrich your answers with more interesting information. Then, you have one minute to prepare your answer and write some points to help yourself on the given sheet of paper.
The examiner will ask you to begin speaking. Go through these useful tips to prepare for the Cue Card speaking test:
When attempting the speaking module, be confident, carry a smart body language and just be yourself
Open up your mind to your experiences, memories, thoughts and opinions
Do not worry about the personal perceptions of your examiner, as he/she will not judge you on that basis
Fill your answer with interesting details and read the question tags to craft a fulfilled answer
An example of cue card is presented below:
Describe a vehicle that you would like to buy. You should say: • what type of vehicle it would be • why you like it • for what purposes you will use this vehicle and explain why you want to buy this vehicle.
Follow -up
The third part of the Speaking module is about follow-up questions about the cue card topic. It will be a further extension of the cue card and you will have to further expand your answers. In this case, your examiner will control the time.
Suppose your cue card was based on a topic around Nature,
Your questions will be like:
What are the greatest environmental concerns in your country?
Should people be concerned about environmental issues?
How can the people of a country protect the environment?
What measures should the government take to improve the environment?
Marking Criteria For Speaking
In the Speaking module, you will be assessed on the basis of the following four criteria:
Fluency and Coherence: How comprehensible and structured is your speaking Here, an examiner expects a student to have a smooth transition sentence to sentence and have an interactive way of explaining the experience, person or place.
Lexical Resource: To score high in the criteria ,a student needs to use range of vocabulary and not necessarily high vocabulary .whatever words you are using must match your topic and your style of speaking .A student just needs to keep in my mind that he or she has to avoid any repetition of word .If you want to score more then 7.5 then high vocabulary words can be used with more complex sentence structure.
Pronunciation: Student must work on his pronunciation if he is having a strong MTI so,strong that it affects the understanding of the listener about the word.Also,examiner keeps in my mind that how natural the speech sounds to him.A student must not use adopted accent and he rather need to sound natural
Grammatical Accuracy and Range: Examiner here focuses on how accurate is the use of grammar while speaking and whether the student is using variety of grammatical structures.
Use the following tips and techniques to score well across all these parameters:
Use linking words and connectors while forming your sentences
Add relevant details in your answer and structure it logically
Make correct use of pauses in your speech
Use diverse vocabulary, avoid stuffing extra-complicated words
Make use of common sayings and idioms to integrate the use of lexical resource
Pronounce words correctly
Speak as if you are narrating a story and establishing a conversation with someone
Avoid making grammatical mistakes in your speech
Try using a mixture of grammatical structures, such as active and passive voice, direct and indirect speech, question tags and different tenses
The Speaking module in your IELTS examination can simply appear to be the most challenging part, but trust us, it is certainly going to be the most enjoyable experience amongst all the modules if you take it easy.
In this particular part, you will have to establish interaction with a trained examiner, which is divided into three parts:
If you wish to perform well in Speaking, just remember everything about yourself. Recall your best childhood memories, remember the best parties you have ever attended, recollect the time when you worked the hardest, think of someone who truly inspires you, and revise your views and opinions about the world. Doing so will make the speaking module similar to a piece of cake!
Let us talk about the first part of speaking: Introduction and General Interaction.
You should sound natural and free while answering the general introduction round. The first part can invite questions from any of the following everyday topics:
And so on.
Imagine the friendliest conversations around this topic that you can have with someone, and that’s all how it will happen in the exam. Some examples of questions you will be asked are as follows”
These are supposed to be one- or two-line answers that best convey your answer.
Cue Card- “The Talk”
The Cue Card will demand you to answer some questions around a given topic. The examiner will give you a topic card with a few descriptive questions attached, which will help you enrich your answers with more interesting information. Then, you have one minute to prepare your answer and write some points to help yourself on the given sheet of paper.
The examiner will ask you to begin speaking. Go through these useful tips to prepare for the Cue Card speaking test:
An example of cue card is presented below:
Describe a vehicle that you would like to buy.
You should say:
• what type of vehicle it would be
• why you like it
• for what purposes you will use this vehicle
and explain why you want to buy this vehicle.
Follow -up
The third part of the Speaking module is about follow-up questions about the cue card topic. It will be a further extension of the cue card and you will have to further expand your answers. In this case, your examiner will control the time.
Suppose your cue card was based on a topic around Nature,
Your questions will be like:
Marking Criteria For Speaking
In the Speaking module, you will be assessed on the basis of the following four criteria:
Here, an examiner expects a student to have a smooth transition sentence to sentence and have an interactive way of explaining the experience, person or place.
Use the following tips and techniques to score well across all these parameters: