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IELTS Speaking Tips: Focus On What's Important When You Prepare

The document provides 10 tips for the IELTS speaking test: 1) Focus on vocabulary and fluency rather than pronunciation lessons. 2) Avoid nerves as being nervous can lead to a lower score. 3) Extend answers with more than one-word responses to give the examiner enough language to assess. 4) Stay on topic and do not discuss things unrelated to the question.

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IELTS Speaking Tips: Focus On What's Important When You Prepare

The document provides 10 tips for the IELTS speaking test: 1) Focus on vocabulary and fluency rather than pronunciation lessons. 2) Avoid nerves as being nervous can lead to a lower score. 3) Extend answers with more than one-word responses to give the examiner enough language to assess. 4) Stay on topic and do not discuss things unrelated to the question.

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IELTS Speaking Tips

1. Focus On What's Important When You Prepare


Unless you have particularly bad pronunciation, don’t spend a lot of time and
money on pronunciation lessons.
You are better to spend this time increasing your range of vocabulary and sentence
structures, and practising speaking as much as you can to increase your fluency.
2. Avoid Nerves
This can be difficult because you are taking a test, but try not to be nervous! If you
can’t speak much because you are nervous then you may get a lower score as the
examiner needs to hear you speak as much as possible in order to assess your
skills.
If you speak freely and confidently then you may get a score you did not expect!
3. Extend Your Answers
Of all the IELTS speaking tips, this is probably one of the most important! The
examiners job is to assess your speaking, so if you say very little, he/she will not be
able to do this. 
Don’t give one word answers such as ‘yes’ and ‘no’ and leave it at that.  Your job is
to give the examiner as much language as possible to assess, so speak as much
as you can. 
4. Stay on Topic
It's important to extend your answers as mentioned above, but make sure you stay
on topic – don’t talk about anything that comes into your head if it is not answering
the question!
5. Don't Rely on the Examiner
The examiner usually won’t prompt you to say more if you don’t say enough, so it’s
up to you to give a full answer to each question.
If you don’t, then the interview will be over very quickly and you may not be happy
with your score!
6. Understand the Questions
If you do not understand a question, then ask the examiner to repeat it.  Don’t try to
answer it the first time if you have not understood or heard it properly. 
You won’t lose marks for asking for a question to be repeated, however if you are
unable to understand a lot of the questions you are probably not ready to take the
test!
7. Don't Show Off
You want to do your best to impress the examiner, but try to keep within your
capabilities.  If you try to use lots of grammar structures and vocabulary that you
are not confident about, you may simply bring down your score.
8. Keep Eye Contact
Try to have eye contact with the examiner.  This does not mean you need to look at
him/her all the time, but it is normal when you have a conversation with someone to
spend quite a lot of time looking at them as that keeps their attention. 
If you are speaking with someone and they never look at you this feels quite
strange!
9. Listen Carefully
Listen very carefully to the questions so you are answering them correctly.  For
example, if you are asked about an event in the past, make sure you answer using
the past tense.
10. Be on Time
These IELTS speaking tips will not be much use to you if you are not on time!  You
are going to get off to a bad start if you have upset the examiner because you have
kept them waiting so arrive in plenty of time!

You should have learnt from these IELTS speaking questions and answers to:

Stay on topic

Listen carefully to the question and make sure you are answering it. Don't talk about
something completely different just so you can talk for longer.
Extend your answers

Give reasons for your answer. This can be a useful way to extend your responses.
Always explain WHY you have given the answer that you have.
Don't speak excessively

Extend your answers but don't go on too much. This will only mean the examiner will
have to keep interrupting you to move onto the next questions.
Be honest but positive

Try to remain upbeat and positive even if you are saying you don't do things or don't
enjoy things you are being asked about. You can always put a positive slant on your
answers.

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