In today's post I'm going to share some tips and secrets from a recently-retired IELTS examiner. After you watch her talking about her work as an IELTS examiner, you will understand the examiner's perspective much better, which will help you become less nervous before and during the test.
Talking about your work
In the IELTS Speaking test it is very likely that the examiner will ask you about work or studies. If you have a job, it helps to be ready to talk about your work by learning some useful words and expressions.
Expressing dislikes
In the IELTS Speaking test, it is possible that you will have to talk about your dislikes, for example what you dislike about your work, a type of music that you don’t like, the negative aspects about your hometown, a party or event that you didn’t enjoy, etc. Here are some tips for talking about what you dislike in natural English.
3 Tips for Building your Confidence before the IELTS Speaking Test
Many IELTS test candidates are worried about their confidence in speaking. This is normal. If you do not live in an English-speaking country, then you probably do not have many opportunities to practise your English. However, this does not mean that you cannot increase your confidence before the speaking test.
Here are 3 'passive' tips to help you build your confidence.
Expressing personal opinions with ‘find’
In the IELTS speaking test, the examiner will ask you about your opinion or feeling about a particular event, book, film, person, situation etc. Many advanced candidates use grammatically correct but unnatural structures in their responses.
So, in this post I'm going to present a simple and natural structure that native speakers commonly use.
The word ‘interesting’
If you want to get a high band in the IELTS Speaking test, you need to show the examiner that you have a wide vocabulary. This means that you should try not to repeat the same simple words all the time.
'Interesting' is an adjective that many learners use too much. In this post, I am going to show you how you can use more 'interesting' words than 'interesting'. :)
