Hi,
I have taken the IELTS exam twice and got 6/6.5 in speaking module each time. However, I need to get 7.0 in this section. What should I do?
How to get 7.0 in Speaking module?
Re: How to get 7.0 in Speaking module?
Dear Faruk
Practice listening to English to help with pronunciation and intonation; review all the common questions that come up on IELTS Speaking tests so you can prepare good answers with interesting vocabulary and good grammar; record your answers and play them back so you can see how you sound and make changes. Where do you think you fall down in Speaking - Part 1, 2 or 3? Have a look at some of the examples here. http://www.ieltsexchange.com/#!speaking/cl4b
Kind regards
Teacher Jill
Practice listening to English to help with pronunciation and intonation; review all the common questions that come up on IELTS Speaking tests so you can prepare good answers with interesting vocabulary and good grammar; record your answers and play them back so you can see how you sound and make changes. Where do you think you fall down in Speaking - Part 1, 2 or 3? Have a look at some of the examples here. http://www.ieltsexchange.com/#!speaking/cl4b
Kind regards
Teacher Jill
Re: How to get 7.0 in Speaking module?
I fall down in part 2. What should I do to increase my fluency? Can you suggest me what should I do if I am not familiar with any topic of cue card?
Re: How to get 7.0 in Speaking module?
Hi Faruk079,
You said that you have problem in individual long run that is part 2. To over come this, you can do one thing. Suppose you start today. Pic a topic and try to speak for 2-3 minutes. Tomorrow you take a topic and speak for 5 minutes on it. Next day go up to 7-10 minutes. Next day 15 minute then 20 minutes,then 30. If you make a habit of speaking for long time it will be very easy for you to speak for 2 minutes on the test day. This method of practice will add more and more confidence in your speaking each day. Don't forget to use proper vocabs and variety of grammatical structures as much as you can. But make sure you produce meaningful speech only rather than just listing out vocabulary in any way or loads of grammatical structures.
Best,
Neesh.
You said that you have problem in individual long run that is part 2. To over come this, you can do one thing. Suppose you start today. Pic a topic and try to speak for 2-3 minutes. Tomorrow you take a topic and speak for 5 minutes on it. Next day go up to 7-10 minutes. Next day 15 minute then 20 minutes,then 30. If you make a habit of speaking for long time it will be very easy for you to speak for 2 minutes on the test day. This method of practice will add more and more confidence in your speaking each day. Don't forget to use proper vocabs and variety of grammatical structures as much as you can. But make sure you produce meaningful speech only rather than just listing out vocabulary in any way or loads of grammatical structures.
Best,
Neesh.
Re: How to get 7.0 in Speaking module?
Dear Faruk
Neesh is right about practising as much as you can to increase fluency.
For Part 2, topics are frequently repeated, or one 'story' can be used for several questions. See http://www.ieltsexchange.com/#!part-2/cn1m
Successful Part 2 candidates are usually extremely fluent in English, or able to adapt stories they have practised before the exam. For example, last week, one of the Speaking cue cards was 'Describe an article about healthy living you have read recently.' What if you have never read an article about 'healthy living' in your life? You could probably still answer the question if you spend the one minute thinking time wisely. You probably know more about the topic than you think. Maybe you saw something in a newspaper about not smoking, or a magazine advertorial about a new diet, or you glanced at something on the Internet about walking being the best exercise. Maybe you have had to write an essay about people being overweight or not exercising enough (common IELTS topics), or maybe you even had a conversation with someone about taking a friend out somewhere to cheer him up because he was feeling a bit depressed - all could be adapted to the question. You could probably name a newspaper or a website and say the information came from there. Remember that examiners are not interested in whether what you say is true - only if it makes sense.
Try to plan what to say quickly with a question clock (who-what-when-where-why-how?)
The who could be a friend who pointed out the "article" to you, or a famous person who supported its ideas, or a doctor who endorsed it. The what is the subject of the "article" (not smoking, a healthy diet, walking, being overweight, depression and so on). The when is when you read the "article", so you need to say 'a few months back', a couple of weeks ago', 'the other day' because the question says recently, but you don't have to be specific. You could say 'I can't remember exactly when I read it, but it wasn't long ago and it interested me because ...' The where is the place you read the "article" which is where you could give the name of a local publication or a favourite website (or even Facebook - quoted by a friend, for example). The why could be why it interested you or why you remember it or why you think it is important, and you could say anything you wanted, such as 'I think it's important because everyone wants to live a healthy lifestyle so they can do everything they want to do, to achieve their ambitions and help their families ...' and so on. The how could be how to achieve the healthy lifestyle you are talking about, such as how to stop smoking or how to eat a healthy diet. Say the only thing you can think of is taking your friend out to cheer him up - you could say that depression is a big problem in your society/for young people/for sick people and that having a good group of friends is very important. You could say that the article encouraged people to check on their friends because people who socialise are less prone to depression (and so on). In short, when you get a cue card that you THINK you know nothing about, by staying calm and thinking around the topic, you probably can give a perfectly good answer!
Keep an eye out for speaking topics in recent exams, and think how you could adapt them to what you know. There is a list of repeating topics here http://ieltsexchange.freeforums.net/thr ... xam-topics
The chances are, that your next cue card will be one you can handle.
Kind regards
Teacher Jill
Neesh is right about practising as much as you can to increase fluency.
For Part 2, topics are frequently repeated, or one 'story' can be used for several questions. See http://www.ieltsexchange.com/#!part-2/cn1m
Successful Part 2 candidates are usually extremely fluent in English, or able to adapt stories they have practised before the exam. For example, last week, one of the Speaking cue cards was 'Describe an article about healthy living you have read recently.' What if you have never read an article about 'healthy living' in your life? You could probably still answer the question if you spend the one minute thinking time wisely. You probably know more about the topic than you think. Maybe you saw something in a newspaper about not smoking, or a magazine advertorial about a new diet, or you glanced at something on the Internet about walking being the best exercise. Maybe you have had to write an essay about people being overweight or not exercising enough (common IELTS topics), or maybe you even had a conversation with someone about taking a friend out somewhere to cheer him up because he was feeling a bit depressed - all could be adapted to the question. You could probably name a newspaper or a website and say the information came from there. Remember that examiners are not interested in whether what you say is true - only if it makes sense.
Try to plan what to say quickly with a question clock (who-what-when-where-why-how?)
The who could be a friend who pointed out the "article" to you, or a famous person who supported its ideas, or a doctor who endorsed it. The what is the subject of the "article" (not smoking, a healthy diet, walking, being overweight, depression and so on). The when is when you read the "article", so you need to say 'a few months back', a couple of weeks ago', 'the other day' because the question says recently, but you don't have to be specific. You could say 'I can't remember exactly when I read it, but it wasn't long ago and it interested me because ...' The where is the place you read the "article" which is where you could give the name of a local publication or a favourite website (or even Facebook - quoted by a friend, for example). The why could be why it interested you or why you remember it or why you think it is important, and you could say anything you wanted, such as 'I think it's important because everyone wants to live a healthy lifestyle so they can do everything they want to do, to achieve their ambitions and help their families ...' and so on. The how could be how to achieve the healthy lifestyle you are talking about, such as how to stop smoking or how to eat a healthy diet. Say the only thing you can think of is taking your friend out to cheer him up - you could say that depression is a big problem in your society/for young people/for sick people and that having a good group of friends is very important. You could say that the article encouraged people to check on their friends because people who socialise are less prone to depression (and so on). In short, when you get a cue card that you THINK you know nothing about, by staying calm and thinking around the topic, you probably can give a perfectly good answer!
Keep an eye out for speaking topics in recent exams, and think how you could adapt them to what you know. There is a list of repeating topics here http://ieltsexchange.freeforums.net/thr ... xam-topics
The chances are, that your next cue card will be one you can handle.
Kind regards
Teacher Jill