Speaking Part 1, 2 and 3 and How Your Response should be?

There are three parts to the speaking section with three different time periods.

Speaking Part 1 is 3-5 minutes

• It starts with you entering the room and greeting the examiner
• Examiner asks for your ID, and you reply with courtesy while giving your ID
• After giving back the ID, asks general questions about you and topics you find easy while talking
• Your favorite place, hobby, food, TV programs, home, family, likes/dislikes
• Always give Reason, provide details, speculate around things, and lastly give example if required
• Extend your answer to 2-3 sentences either by explaining it further, providing details or adding an example, you can discourse the previous said and move into another idea (I spend most of weekdays cooking vegetarian but if it’s the weekend I like to invest my time for a three-course non-veg meal.)
• Take it as a casual conversation that you do while talking to new people

Sample Question

Family

-Do you have a large family or a small family?

-Can you tell me something about them?

-How much time do you manage to spend with members of your family?

-What sorts of things do you like to do it together?

-Did/Do you get on well with your family?

Accommodation

-What kind of accommodation do you live in? What’s it like?

-Have you always lived there?

-What are the main advantages of this?

-What changes would you like to make to improve it?

-Would it be easy for you to move to another accommodation?

-Do many people in your country live in such accommodation?

Neighborhood

-Which part of town do you live in?

-What it’s like?

-What kind of shops are there in your neighborhood?

-Do you get along well with your neighbors?

-What’s difficult about living there?

Education

 -What do you study?

 -What is special about this subject?

 -Is there anything you find difficult about it?

 -Where do you study?

 -What’s your university/college like?

Job

-What’s your job?

-Is it a common job in your country?

-What are your working hours like?

-Do you get a lot of vacation and off time?

-Are you thinking of changing your job?

Cold weather

-Have you ever been in very cold weather? [When?]

-How often is the weather cold from where you come?

-Are some parts of your country colder than other? [Which part?]

-Would you prefer to live in a hot place or a cold place? [Why?]

Speaking Part 2(3 minutes)

• You get 1 minute for the preparation
• You get 2 minutes to answer the question
• Have proper eye contact throughout with little louder/commanding voice
• They provide you a topic on a cue card with maximum four questions
• You can answer questions in any order
• During preparation time, try to plan the answer in a timeline just like the story so that narration becomes easy
• For every question, add unforgettable event so that you wouldn’t be repeatedly seeing the cue cards which disrupts the eye contact and eventually the self confidence
• For each question try going three-step back and develop the story line
• Expand the story and control the idea through past, present or future
• It is your story, so you can stretch to any extent/way as you like
• Control the speed of speaking based on the information you have as sometimes you may lack the information if you keep on speaking fast
• Enjoy while speaking, think like examiner won’t disturb me for 2 minutes

Phrases required in Second section

Introductory Phrases – when you start your talk

-I’m going to talk about ……

-I’d like to talk about ……

-What I’m going to talk about is …….

Phrases when you want to expand your idea

-First of all ……..

-Secondly …….

-Additionally ……

-Another thing …………

-What’s more ……

Background phrases – when you want to add some detail

-It’s near ……

-It happened ……

-It took place ……..

-It’s been going on for/since ….

-At that time …..

Impression phrases – when you want to say anything that made an impression on you

-…… impressed me

-…….motivated me

-……..moved me

-……..disturbed me

-……..touched me deeply

-……..had an effect on me

-………Influenced me

Things you like phrases

-I like …… most of all

-I enjoy ……

-I love doing ….

-I’m keen …….

-I’m so much into ……..

-……. really appeals to me because………..

Part 3

• Third part lasts for 5-7 minutes
• The questions are overall linked to 2^nd part
• You need to at least speak 3-5 sentences for each question
• Examiner expects you to give an explanation and provide conclusion
• You need to be attentive towards the questions, 1 or 2 questions will be asked quickly in a pure British accent too.
• You can ask the examiner to repeat the question for once where you may need that extra second to prepare and provide the answer.
• When the examiner repeats the question while you answer, try to analyze quickly, and change to the suitable answer depending upon the situation

Sample Questions

Art

-What kind of art do you enjoy?

-What are the traditional art forms in your country?

-What makes a good painting?

-Do you think children should study art at a school?

-How can children benefit from learning art?

-How has art changed in the last few decades in your country?

Clothes

-Can clothing tell you much about a person?

-Why do some companies ask their staffs to wear uniforms?

-What are the advantages and disadvantages of having uniforms at a work?

-When do people wear traditional clothing in your county?

-How have clothes and fashions have change over the last few

 country?

-What is the difference between clothes that young people and old people like to wear?

Education

-What makes a good student?

-What role teacher should have in the classroom?

-Do you think the computers will one day replace teachers in the

 classroom?

-How has teaching changed in your country in the last few decades?

-What is the difference between how the children learn and adults learn?

Other question may relate from Family, Food, Health, Internet, Media & News, Nature, Society, Travel, Work, Technology, Science, Politics, Sports etc. So, there will be questions like this where you should give explanations and providereasonings.