IELTS Speaking Part 2 - Best Tips to help you get a higher score!

hello I'm Keith and I'm Vicki and welcome to the third video in our series about the IELTS speaking test today we're looking at part two of the exam which is called the long term what that basically means is it's a talk your examiner will give you a topic and you'll talk about it for one to two minutes part two is your opportunity to give a long answer and produce a flow of English one of the things students find the hardest is thinking of things to say now I'm going to give you a topic and I'd like you to talk about it for one to two minutes you have one minute to plan what you're going to say and you can make notes if you wish do you understand yes okay here's your pencil and paper and here's your topic I'd like you to describe a water sport you would like to try in the future now I'm ready I would like to try deep-sea diving deep sea diving is great Jai made a mistake here it's hard to talk continuously for one to two minutes and he should have used the minute to think of ideas you'll need lots of ideas to talk for one to two minutes so take advantage of the one minute and make notes you have one minute to plan what you're going to say and you can make notes if you wish do you understand yes here's a pencil and paper and here's your topic so I'd like you to talk about a special meal you had with your friends or family some students worry that anything they write will be marked and graded but that doesn't happen this is the speaking test not the writing test so only the things you say matter nobody will look at your notes and the note paper will be destroyed at the end of the test the examiner will give you a cue card like this that has your instructions and bullet points with ideas for you to talk about the bullet points are designed to help you structure your talk you don't have to use the bullet points and you can make up your own ideas if you want but they're usually very helpful here's another example I sometimes prepare sample answers to these questions to show my students and I often find my answers follow the bullet points on the cue card they provide a natural structure you'll be able to keep the cue card with you to refer to throughout your talk okay remember you have one to two minutes for this so don't worry if I stop you I'll tell you when the time is up could you start speaking now please okay I went to a Greek restaurant for dinner with some school friends about a month ago to celebrate the end of our exams there were five of us and we're all studying animal sciences it's hard to know how much you can say in a minute or two so it's really important to prepare this part of the exam ahead of time you need to get a feel for how much to say so you can keep going for two minutes you can find example cue cards on different topics on my website use a stopwatch and record your answers so you can listen back to them your goal is to talk for at least one minute that's the minimum but if you can talk one and a half or two minutes it's much better you'll have more opportunity to show off your English and get a higher score some candidates prepare topics for part two that they have learned by heart this is a bad idea because you can't predict what topic you'll receive examiners are trained to spot memorized answers and they'll know if you've memorized an answer could you start speaking now please yes a water sport I'd like to try is scuba diving there was a famous movie called Thunder ball where James Bond went scuba diving the movie was made in 1965 and it starred Sean Connery in the movie James Bond had to recover two atomic bombs that were stolen by a secret organization called scepter it was very successful the movie earned more than a hundred and forty million dollars worldwide in the movie James Bond the topic on Jai's cue card is a water sport he'd like to try but he's talking about a movie the examiner will consider this off topic and will have to ignore the language he's used this will seriously affect Jai's score it's good to memorize words and phrases but memorizing whole sentences is probably not good and certainly not a whole talk I'm sure we'll be friends for many years to come because we have so much in common the time flew by and we suddenly realized it was midnight and my friends had to get up early can I have your question card and your paper and pencil please thank you don't worry if the examiner interrupts you there interrupt you after you have spoken for two minutes so that's a good thing one last tip sometimes when you're giving your talk you might be able to express a regret so you can say how you wish things were different now or had been different in the past if you can it's a great way to show off your grammatical range let's see some examples I wish I could swim if I knew how to swim I could enjoy watersports if we'd known the restaurant was noisy we'd have gone somewhere else do you see what they did there they used complex conditional sentences to express regret you can't always do this because it's not possible with all topics but sometimes you can and using complex structures can show off your grammatical range so now you know how part 2 of the speaking exam works make sure you subscribe to both our channels so you don't miss our videos on part 3 and if you found this lesson useful give it a thumbs up and share it with your friends bye for now [Music]

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Length: 7min 37sec (457 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 13 2019