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Want to improve IELTS Speaking: Here are some strategies for the same.
The first and foremost is,
Speak some English every day. It is better to practice a little bit every day and improve your skills gradually than to speak your native language all week until you have an IELTS class.
Secondly, Give full answers.
‘Yes’ and ‘No’ are NOT satisfactory answers in your IELTS Speaking test; you need to show the examiner how good your English is.
If you give very short answers, there is no way the examiner can know how good you are. Therefore, you should try to extend your answers with explanations and examples. Furthermore, Don’t memorise answers, especially in Part 1. Memorised language doesn’t give the examiner an accurate measure of your English-language skills. The examiner will be able to tell if you have memorised your answers and this may influence your final band score also. Use a range of grammatical structures*
When IELTS examiners assess your speaking skills, they mark you against the following assessment criteria:
1. Fluency and coherence
2. Lexical resource
3. Grammatical range and accuracy
Pronunciation
Try and use a range of grammatical structures using complex and simple sentences to express what you want to say. Know your own errors and practice speaking to friends in English, or record yourself to see if you can spot errors. If you hear an error, make sure to correct yourself. You are assessed on your ability to use different grammatical structures accurately, so it’s important to practice speaking about the past, the present and the future using correct tenses last and very essential tip is to pause to think
There is no harm in taking a brief pause to think about what to say. We all do it to process questions. You can use phrases to give you time to think during the Speaking test – phrases such as:
-That’s an interesting question
-I have never thought about that, but…
-Let me see
-That’s a good point
-That’s a difficult question, but I’ll try and answer it
-Well, some people say that is the case; however, I think…
-Let me think about that for a minute
