There are 3 sections in it.
1.General questions - (5-8 ques)
-Need to answer relevantly with atleast 3 sentences.
-You are expected to give information that you already know.
2.Topic Round
-A general speaking topic would be given and you are expected to speak uninterrupted for atleast 2 mins.
3.Logical questions-(5-8)
-You are expected to give logic and reason based answers, as the question will ask for your opinion and views.
The total time of this exam would be approx 15 mins.
Now, the questions and topics in all these sections are based on General topics.
They can be broadly divided into:
1.People Based
2.Place or location Based
3.Things or material Based
4.Idea or concept based.
There can be some miscellaneous topics too.We will see them separately.
Lets now work on developing some vocabulary related to describing people, before we start working on all the sections on this topic.
Knowledge of adjectives to describe people is very important.Else we will limit our description of a person to just'good' and 'bad'. My suggestion is NEVER use these words in IELTS and be more specific of people's qualities.
Try to collect as many adjectives related to describing people.
Few of them are given below.
Can you divide the above qualities into Positive and Negative.
Match Phrases 1-8 with their definitions a-h
Now, that we know the MINI topics , we need to execute or perform.
To do this, take one mini topic and try to speak on it for 3-4 sentences and keep on doing till the last MINI TOPIC.
So, if one takes minimum of 5 seconds to say a sentence, then 7(mini topics)*3(Sentences)*5(seconds each)=105 seconds + your intoduction sentences.
So by the end you will observe that you would have spoken for more than 2 minutes easily.
Calculations are easy but executing is tough if we do not practice.
So lets see how to expand each MiniTopic:
1.Background: Sandeep comes from a small town near Nagpur and he spent his early childhood there.
He completed his graduation in commerce last year and now preparing for competitive exams.He lives in a nuclear family.
His father and mother run their business and his elder sister is doing Engineering from a reputed college.
Observe how I just focused on his background .If you try you can speak much more on it.
Note:Never speak just one or 2 sentences on the MINI TOPIC or else you will end the speech sooner than the examiner wants you to.This would cut your marks.
2.Childhood: I know him since my childhood as we grew up in the same neighbourhood.Later we attended the same school.That meant that we took the same rickshaw to the school.
I hope you are able to follow what is being taught to you here.Please ask where ever you find any difficulty.
Now, as I mentioned earlier this is the format which can be ore or less used for almost all the topics related to PEOPLE.
So everytime you describe some person, you need to describe their physical appearance.
Lets do a small task to learn words related to physical appearance.
After you read the example.Write on atleast 2 people that you know and explain their physical appearance with atleast 50 words.DO try to explore as many words as possible.Do record it and send ,along with the introduction homework that I gave earlier.
1.General questions - (5-8 ques)
-Need to answer relevantly with atleast 3 sentences.
-You are expected to give information that you already know.
2.Topic Round
-A general speaking topic would be given and you are expected to speak uninterrupted for atleast 2 mins.
3.Logical questions-(5-8)
-You are expected to give logic and reason based answers, as the question will ask for your opinion and views.
The total time of this exam would be approx 15 mins.
Now, the questions and topics in all these sections are based on General topics.
They can be broadly divided into:
1.People Based
2.Place or location Based
3.Things or material Based
4.Idea or concept based.
There can be some miscellaneous topics too.We will see them separately.
Lets now work on developing some vocabulary related to describing people, before we start working on all the sections on this topic.
Knowledge of adjectives to describe people is very important.Else we will limit our description of a person to just'good' and 'bad'. My suggestion is NEVER use these words in IELTS and be more specific of people's qualities.
Try to collect as many adjectives related to describing people.
Few of them are given below.
Can you divide the above qualities into Positive and Negative.
Match Phrases 1-8 with their definitions a-h
1.b 2.g 3.d 4.a 5.c 6.h 7.f 8.e
Write atleast 1 sentence using each Phrase.
Eg:I take after my dad as we are both quite hardworking.Initially we did not talk much but eventually I got on with him.
Now,We can use adverbs like REALLY and SO before a positive adjective.
Eg:She is really outgoing.
He was so creative.
Secondly,We can use the same adverbs before a negative adjective, but we normally do this only if we do not like the person or are angry with them.
Eg:She is so nosy(interfering or Dakhal dena in Hindi)
Finally,If we say something negative about someone ,eg:She is impatient or He is unreliable, it can sound rude or too direct.We often 'soften' negative comments for this reason.Here are tway of doing this:
-With CAN BE A BIT
Eg:She can be a bit impatient.
-With NOT VERY+a positive adjective
Eg:He is not very reliable.
Read the above 3 structures and write few more examples on your own on each one of them.Remember, if you dont practice these sentence structures, you will never be able to use them in the exam.Our task is to impress the examiner with difficult sentence structures in order to get better bands.
If you use a character adjective to describe someone in the exam, then you should expand on it or explain it.
Eg:She is really outgoing and sociable .She is always going out with friends and colleagues.
He is not very reliable, s, for example, if I email him, he wont respond.
She is terribly blunt, which means she quite often upsets us with the things she says.
Try and describe 5 members of your family.Use some adjective to describe them and then expand or explain each characteristics.use negative points too.
Speaking Task 2- Topic round.
The examiner would give you a topic and also allow you to plan and organise your thoughts for 1 minute and then signal to start your speech.
Then you would have to speak for at least 2 minutes or till the examiner asks you to stop.
The example of a topic is given below:
Remember that the points after "You should say:" is to help you to thnk about the topic.
Never make your speech an answering session of only these questions.Because there will be only 3-4 questions and you will not be able to last for 2 minutes if you just answer these questions.
In the exam, look carefully at the tenses used in the past 2 questions and listen carefully to the examiner to which tenses they use in their ques.Does the question relate to the PAST,PRESENT,FUTURE or something imagines?
This will help you use the correct tenses when you speak.
Lets focus on the above topic.
As I menioned there will be 4 main categories of topics:
People
Place
Things
Ideas or concepts
The above topic deals with People.
The easiest method to speak on a topic for 2 mins is to divide the topic in few MINI TOPICS so that we can go on speaking on each MINI topic for 15-20 secs and thus completing the speech.
So, as soon as you get the topic, it is important for you to think and make a note on how to divide the topic into atleast 7-8 mini topics.The 1 minute you get for preparation has to be used for this purpose only.
Note:please do not be over-confident that you can speak without preparing these notes, even if you find the topic easy or you have practised earlier.
There will be 2 parts of your speech:
1.Introduction
2.Body
Introduction:
Say not more than 3 sentences here in the introduction:
1.Talk about the topic in a general sense.
Eg(from the given topic): Friends are those people with whom we share our secrets and apart from our family, they are the closest in our life.
2.Talk about the kinds and types of the person mentioned in the topic.
Eg:We make friends in different satges of our lives,like we have childhood friends,school and college friends,colleagues, business freinds,etc.
3.Now mention the one you are going to discuss about in the speech.
Eg:Today I would like to talk about Sandeep ,who is my best friend from childhood.
DO not speak more than 3 sentences in the introduction as the examiner may feel that you have misunderstood the topic.
Also did you notice that we did not say anything specific about the topic in the 1st two sentences and only 3rd sentence did we mention about the one we are going to speak in detail in the BODY of the speech.
Prepare an introduction of 3 sentences for the following topic.
Describe a teacher who inspired you the most when you were in school.
Now the BODY of the speech:
This is the part that you need to prepare in the 1 minute that you get before you start speaking.
Think about the WH questions:
When,where,what,why,which,who and How
You will be able to divide the topic into 7-8 mini topics.
Example:
Who- who is your friend?
Where-Where does he belong to?
Who-Who else is there in his family?
What-What is his qualification?
Where-Where does he live?
How-How does he look like?
Why-Why is he your close friend?
How-How long have you known each other?
When-when do you meet each other?
There are many questions that can be thought of to prepare your speech.
To make it easier I would give you a format.This would be applicable (fit) for all the topics related to People.
1.Background of the person
-The city he originally belongs to .
-Family details
-Qualifications
2.Since when do you know your friend?
3.How does your friend look like?
You can include some external features.
Eg:Height,hair,complexion,weight etc.
4.What are the qualities(internal) that you like in your friend?
Include atleast 2 qualities and describe them separately.Eg:Honestly,hard working,ambitious,organised etc.
If you remember,we did some of these on Friday.
5.What are some of your friend's achievements.They may include:
Academic,extra curricular or a skill.
6.What is one quality that you dont like in your firend or like it to be improved.
Eg:Carelessness,laziness,unpunctuality,or some habit.
I am sure you must be wondering how can I do all this in 1 minutes.
Let me tell you that this is quite possible with practice and also all you need to do is to write just 1 or 2 words for each point.
So my notes may look like the following:
To do this, take one mini topic and try to speak on it for 3-4 sentences and keep on doing till the last MINI TOPIC.
So, if one takes minimum of 5 seconds to say a sentence, then 7(mini topics)*3(Sentences)*5(seconds each)=105 seconds + your intoduction sentences.
So by the end you will observe that you would have spoken for more than 2 minutes easily.
Calculations are easy but executing is tough if we do not practice.
So lets see how to expand each MiniTopic:
1.Background: Sandeep comes from a small town near Nagpur and he spent his early childhood there.
He completed his graduation in commerce last year and now preparing for competitive exams.He lives in a nuclear family.
His father and mother run their business and his elder sister is doing Engineering from a reputed college.
Observe how I just focused on his background .If you try you can speak much more on it.
Note:Never speak just one or 2 sentences on the MINI TOPIC or else you will end the speech sooner than the examiner wants you to.This would cut your marks.
2.Childhood: I know him since my childhood as we grew up in the same neighbourhood.Later we attended the same school.That meant that we took the same rickshaw to the school.
I hope you are able to follow what is being taught to you here.Please ask where ever you find any difficulty.
Now, as I mentioned earlier this is the format which can be ore or less used for almost all the topics related to PEOPLE.
So everytime you describe some person, you need to describe their physical appearance.
Lets do a small task to learn words related to physical appearance.
After you read the example.Write on atleast 2 people that you know and explain their physical appearance with atleast 50 words.DO try to explore as many words as possible.Do record it and send ,along with the introduction homework that I gave earlier.
