how can you get a high score on the. speaking part of the IELTS exam
this is Susan Brodar from SPEAK Languages & TRAVEL the World here to
help you improve your English with. minimum effort maximum benefits now the
IELTS exam as many has to be faced with. strategies because if you don't follow
strategies you will not give the. examiners all the things they want to
know therefore it's very important to. follow strategies to get a high score
now in my opinion the best authority on. IELTS is IELTS advantage the website
that Chris Bell founded and he's really. made a wonderful website with a lot of
free materials which will teach you step. by step how you can get a high score so
I recommend you check out his website. and down in the comments box below you
can find the link to his website so I. got inspiration from his speaking
strategies and would like to share with. you yes the speaking strategies so let
me show you a document which you can. also download I'll put a download link
in the description below and therefore. you can have all the strategy points in
front of you if you want to practice. this part of the exam is the speaking
part - and there's a specific strategy. for that it's divided into five parts
and the first part is the introduction. so when you get this card which will
have written on what you have to say. what you have to talk about and some
suggestions of what you should cover you. use this card as a guideline it's not
necessary to answer all the individual. parts but it is necessary to address the
subject that is at the top of the cards. the introduced topic by saying something
like I'd like to talk about. then you should transition into the past
with a linking word for example anyhow. and then demonstrate your capability of
using various past forms such as used to. plus the infinitive if you want to talk
about past habits or states that are now. finished or using would plus infinitive
if you want to describe past habits. using the simple past to talk about
things you did in the past that you no. longer do now or if you use the past
continuous you can talk about the. context of a story or how you felt at a
particular time and then there's the. path perfect to say something that
happens before something else in the. past so that way you've demonstrated a
series of past tenses before going into. a more lengthy description by saying so
let me tell you about whatever the topic. is in a little more detail and here you
have to use specific vocabulary on. common topics expanding on the
vocabulary with examples and then you. need to give your opinion so you could
say something like in my opinion or. according to me and you could also say
something such as I strongly believe. that if you have strong opinions to
finish the last part is the future you. can demonstrate the future by saying
well regarding the future and you carry. on with the subject so that you can
demonstrate various future forms such as. the present continuous with talking
about fixed arrangements or be going to. plus infinitive if you're going to talk
about future plans will or won't. infinitive before predictions
then the future perfect I think there's. a bit trickier that's used to say
something that will have happened before. something else but that's you have to be
good at using so I would be careful on. that last one now I'd like to give you
an example of a card with a topic so. that we can put this into a more
meaningful meaningful context for you so. let's imagine that the card says
describe a teacher that you know and. then they suggest you should say what
the teacher looks like what sort of. person is teacher is what the teacher
helps you to learn and explain why. explain why this teacher is popular I've
taken this card as an example because I. decided to use a personal experience of
mine which I recommend doing it makes it. easier if you go back on to your
personal experiences but the last part. explain why the teacher is popular is
not pertinent because this teacher of. mine was not popular so as I said those
are only guidelines you don't have to. actually follow them so the introductory
part I would say I'd like to talk about. a teacher I had at Middle School who
taught us maths he was middle-aged with. short gray hair anyhow this teacher was
extremely strict and used to shout at us. if we didn't pay attention he would give
us clear explanations so he was an. excellent maths teacher but he was
always scaring us before we had even. done something so let me tell you about
my maths teacher in a little more detail. one day when I was only 11 years old he
told us to put our pencils down in order. to follow his explanation on the board I
was really bad at maths so I copied some. parts from the blackboard suddenly he
saw me writing and he marched to the. front of my desk put his face one
centimeter from mine and. outed really loudly I told you to put
your pencils down I could see his ginger. eyebrows trembling in front of my eyes
as he shouted and my knees started. shaking under my desk from that day on I
was terrified of him in my opinion. despite his exaggeratedly strict
attitude he was one of the best teachers. I ever had I'm strongly against teachers
who use their authority to terrify and. humiliate students however I must admit
I think his methodical approach to. teaching was the most effective for
teaching maths regarding the future I. think I'll always remember one of the
most important inspirations he gave us. never be afraid to aim too high I'm
going to teach young people to aim high. okay so this would be the strategy to
follow it's only a guideline but this is. what I intend if you follow the
guideline through from the introduction. to the past the description with more
detail your opinion and a future. you've given a wide range of expressions
grammatical tenses yes you've generally. explained yourself covering a wide range
of structures and therefore you've given. the examiner what he wants to know so I
recommend you follow this strategy don't. forget to check out IELTS advantage from
the link in the description and I'd be. welcoming any feedback from you in the
comments below look forward to hearing. from you soon good luck with your exams
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