Basics of IELTS Speaking

Be confident enough to expand with accurate details and maintain flow while presenting an answer.

-It ranges from 12-15 minutes and contains three sections.

-You are marked over Fluency and Coherence, Lexical Resources, Grammatical Range and Accuracy, and Pronunciation.  

  • Fluency and coherence- able to provide answer smoothly with a clarity.
  • Lexical Resources – Focus on providing synonyms and don’t repeat the same words repetitively.
  • Grammatical Range and Accuracy – Try to express your ideas into different sentence structures with no grammatical mistakes.
  • Pronunciation – Your voice should be audible and easily understood by the examiner. Sometimes based on the situation make your voice go from low to high pitches. Don’t try to speak in accent rather focus on correct pronunciation.
Speaking Band Descriptors

Areas that must be considered during the expression 

  • Develop the narrating from the background, habit of adding information, providing details, and building story, comparing the changes that occurred in different timeline.
  • Don’t memorize the answer and use big and unfamiliar words but instead use familiar vocabulary by using simple and complex sentence structures.
  • Avoid using fillers such as ‘ahh’,’umm’, etc.
  • Try to be as natural as possible considering your English proficiency and express through your comfort zones.
  • Keep on smiling as you speak as this helps to ease the tension.
  • Don’t try to enforce something in your language that is not your daily cup of tea since it will ruin the flow of your ideas
  • Try to show emotions in that pronunciation by lowering and increasing the pitch/sharpness of your sound according to the situation you are describing about. It can be happy, sad, confused, inspiring, hard times, overwhelmingly happy, heartbroken, or any feelings that needs to be expressed in a certain way.
  • Keep on practicing giving unlimited answers to the common topic before exams linked to education, technology, tourism, transportation, travelling, environment, politics, leisure, entertainment, learning and education, the internet, crime and punishment, health and diet, social media, sport and competition, art and music, modern lifestyles and societal changes, traditions and customs, fashion and advertising, employment
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