TOEFL Speaking Practice Task 1

hi guys welcome back to toefl with yuva today i answer a choice question for task one in terms of speaking i will answer the question exactly as i would do it in the toefl after that i will tell you guys how you can improve your truffle speaking score by the way if you want to get more tips for the truffle and download templates hit the subscribe button so that you don't miss the next video let's get started let's first have a look at the question the question says some people enjoy doing activities outside at the weekend others prefer staying at home which behavior do you think is better explain why this is a choice question the question asks you which behavior is better you have to decide whether doing activities outside at weekend is better or whether staying at home is better and you have to tell ets which behavior you think is better of course you have to provide reasons and examples to support your answer in the toefl you have 15 seconds to prepare your answer and 45 seconds to speak in the following i will answer this question exactly as i would do it in a tefl while i am speaking a speaking template will appear on this side so that you can see how you can apply a speaking template in task one after that i will tell you guys how you can improve your toefl speaking score i hope you're ready guys let's do this in my opinion doing activities outside at weekend is better i feel this way for two reasons first i think that doing activities outside is good for people's health for example until a few years ago i often caught a call during the winter months because i didn't go outside lord and thus my immune system wasn't used to harsh weather conditions however as soon as i started hiking my body got used to that and i didn't get a cold as often as before second i believe that being active outside helps people relax for instance last weekend i went riding my bike after very stressful week when i was looking at the beautiful scenery i immediately forgot what happened that week consequently when i returned home i felt very relaxed this is my answer to this question i would answer the question in the toefl in this way and here are my tips for getting a high toefl speaking score in task one tip number one answer the question as i said before this is a choice question you have to decide for one side this is really important you should not tell ets sometimes i think doing activities outside at the weekend is better and sometimes i think staying at home is better this is not what the question asks you to do the question asks you which behavior do you think is better so this means that you have to pick one side and you have to explain why this option is better this means you have to provide reasons and examples to support your opinion tip number two use a template guys when i did the toefl speaking task you saw that i was using a template i can highly recommend using a speaking template for all tasks in terms of speaking if you need templates for truffle speaking check out my video about that in this video i explain each task in total speaking and i also give you a template for each task in terms of speaking so if you need that check out this video you can find the link in the description below i think that a speaking template is amazing for three reasons the first reason is that a speaking template usually contains different words this means that if you memorize a speaking template before taking the toefl you will memorize a broad range of vocabulary and this is amazing because if you show ets that you have a broad range of vocabulary this will improve your toefl speaking score considerably the second reason is that a speaking template is structured in a specific way and if you want to get a high score in task 1 in terms of speaking you must use a specific structure and a speaking template helps you doing that because if you memorize a speaking template before taking the toefl and this speaking template has a specific structure you won't need to think about this structure when delivering your answer you know the structure it's in your head that's why i can highly recommend using a toefl speaking template the third reason is that speaking template saves you a lot of time in terms of speaking task 1 you only have 15 seconds to prepare your answer this is not much time and you shouldn't spend this time thinking about how to start your sentences this is valuable time that you need to focus on the task before you you must focus on the question you must think about how am i going to answer this question which reasons will i provide which examples will i use and this means that you don't have the time to think about how you want to start your sentences and that's why using a total speaking template is a great help tip number three structure you answer guys if you want a high score in task one in terms of speaking you must structure your answer in a specific way i started with an introduction i told ets which behavior i think is better i told ets in my opinion doing activities outside at the weekend is better after that i went on with a transition the transition leads from the introduction to your reasons and examples i told ets that i feel this way for two reasons and this way ets knows that i am going to talk about two reasons that strengthen my opinion so ets knows what i'm going to do next and that's exactly what i did in the following i provided two reasons and two examples for these reasons my first reason was that doing activities outside is good for people's health and then i provided a specific example that shows ets why doing activities outside is good for people's health i told ets look until a few years ago i often called a cold during the winter months but then i started going hiking on the weekends and i realized that i didn't catch a cold as often as before so going outside was definitely good for my health the second reason was that being active outside helps people relax i told ets that i went riding my bike last weekend after a very stressful week and when i returned home i was very relaxed if you use this structure you make sure that you deliver a very clear and well structured answer and this will result in a high total speaking score for task one that's why i can highly recommend structuring your answer in this way tip number four use transitions as you saw in my answer i used a lot of transitions for example i used words like first second for instance or for example using transitions boosts your toefl speaking score considerably why the first thing is that you show ets that you have a broad range of vocabulary and thought you know how to use these words correctly the second thing is that transitions help you structure your answer if i start my sentence with first ets knows that i am going to talk about my first reason then i went on with my second reason and i started my sentence with second this means that ets knew in that moment that i'm going to talk about my second reason and i used for example and for instance to talk about my examples another important point is that you should use a lot of different transitions so as you saw in my answer i used for example and for instance for example and for instance means the same thing it shows that i am going to talk about an example so this means i could have used for example twice however i didn't do that because i wanted to show ets that i know another expression for for example and this is for instance so this means by using a lot of different transitions you show ets that you have a broad range of vocabulary so make sure that you use different transitions and this brings us directly to tip number five use synonyms if you want a high score in toefl speaking you must absolutely use synonyms this is really important why because again this shows ets that you have a broad range of vocabulary so as you saw in my answer when i talked about my first reason i said i think i think that doing activities outside is good for people's health and then i talked about my second reason and i didn't say i think again i said i believe because i wanted to show ets that i know another word for to think which is to believe so i said i believe that being active outside helps people relax so when you deliver your answer for task one in tefl speaking make sure that you use a lot of synonyms tip number six choose the easier side guys when you are doing task one in tefl speaking it's reasonable to choose the easy result what does this mean first of all ets is absolutely not interested in your opinion they don't care whether you think that doing activities outside at the weekend is better or whether you think staying at home is better they are only interested in how you can speak in english this means that when you are reading the question in task 1 in terms of speaking don't think how does ets want me to answer this question it totally doesn't matter how you answer this question so you should choose the side where you can find more arguments and examples that's it this is how you answer a personal choice question in task 1 in terms of speaking if you have any questions or a video wish tell me about that in the comments below and if you want to get more tips for the toefl and download templates subscribe to this channel so that you don't miss the next video i love to see you here next time bye bye

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Length: 12min 18sec (738 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 11 2021