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Dont’s Of The Speaking Section

Sometimes it is better to know what not to do rather than knowing what to do. So, here are the Dont’s Of The Speaking Section-:

  • Don’t speak in a monotone. Speak with enthusiasm.
  • Don’t give yes or no answers.
  • Don’t repeat the question. For example-:Do you like sports. Yes I like sports. Prefer,Yes there are many sports I find fun and engaging.
  • Don’t go off the topic.Don’t expand too much that you forget the topic. For e.g. Don’t start with Toronto and lead to education and technology.
  • Don’t say I don’t know. You should know about yourself.
  • Don’t speak too quickly or too slowly.
  • Practice speaking in environments you get nervous.

Don’t worry about being perfect. Even if you are aiming for a band 9 you need not to be perfect! If you make mistakes and can correct easily, do that. If you can’t do that, don’t. It might be possible the examiner did not even noticed it.

BE CONFIDENT. BE OPTIMISTIC.
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Do’s Of The Speaking Round

Every interview, meeting or date that you are in has its own set of protocols. Going for an IELTS Speaking interview, well it has its own!! You may do your own experiments or try out the tested ones. Below are some of the tried and tested things that you can do –

  1. When you meet the examiner, present yourself with confidence. Go in the test knowing you will do great. Don’t be overconfident rather be optimistic.
  2. Be friendly.
  3. Body language is very important. So make eye contact and look at them but then don’t stare. Don’t talk in a monotone. Be a little excited about what you are speaking.
  4. Don’t use simple easy boring low-level words. For examples: I like Indian food because it is tasty. Good thing to do is look at the topics they will ask you. E.g. Food. Find vocabulary related to food. For example. Cuisine. So you may say, I love Indian cuisine because of the spices.
  5. Don’t overuse “I like”. Instead, use I enjoy. Or maybe I really love. I prefer sports etc. You may use others as well.
  6. Expand your answers. Maybe the examiner asks you some questions. Examples:Do you love playing sports? The answer you may say is no. Avoid doing this rather explain in detail. Don’t just say yes or no. Examples: Where are you from. I could just say I am from Almora. This won’t help. Expand the answer. I am from Almora and it is one of the most beautiful hill stations. Don’t be too large but then neither too short. One way to expand is by giving example. What is your favorite food? I love Indian cuisine. I like rajma. They make it using this and that.
  7. Practice. You know the types of questions they will ask. Practice a lot. Practice at places where you feel the pressure. With people that make you tensed.

Remember, practice and practice a lot. You are always just one step away from success. So, take the first step.

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What is Speaking Section #IELTS

Fluency,Grammar,Vocabulary,Pronunciation

Speaking section takes place in the first part of the IELTS. This section is common for both the general as well as the academic aspirants. Similar questions are asked to both of them and wrap up in at most five minutes. It starts with an introduction. First, the examiner introduces himself/herself and then asks for your introduction. Questions concerning you are asked in this section. They are usually about your growing days? Or may about your academics or your family? There may be some queries regarding your favorite sports or food? Questions about your work also pop up.
Now, what does the examiner looks for, while asking these questions

FLUENCY

What the examiner is trying to find out here is whether you can make some effective conversations or not. So, avoid using filler words like “umm” or “aaaa” while speaking. When the examiner checks for your fluency they also check whether you start from some topic and end in there or you wander.

VOCABULARY

You must have heard that a person vocabulary tells the mental growth of the person. So work on your vocabulary. Avoid using words with less rank. E.g., good, bad, okay. Rather use may be fantastic, disappointing, excited etc.

GRAMMAR

When the examiner checks for your grammar they don’t just see whether you used the tenses in a correct way. They also consider whether you make use of all the tenses or are you just stuck with one.

PRONUNCIATION

Make sure you always pronounce the word in the correct way. Why do they check this? To make sure that you are able to make meaningful conversations with people in their country. So make sure you pronounce correctly.

Remember, you are marked equally on all of them. So, focus on all of them. Go into the room with confidence. Be friendly and you surely will come out with success on your shoulders.

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How To Sound Like A Native Speaker

Nobody wants to sound like a textbook speaker, right? The formal expressions from the English books are completely different from how people actually speak in English! Now, although speaking in English might sound like a lofty goal, there certainly are several things that you can do achieve this feet!

  1. Be better understood by native speakers – The more you speak like a native speaker, the better it will be for you to connect with them. You have to worry so much less about misunderstandings!
  2. Confidence at work – It is much easier for people to feel more confident when you are speaking like a native speaker. So, imagine you working with a group of 10 people who all are native English speakers if you somehow gel-like them, it is going to be an added bonus!
  3. More job opportunities – People who can speak like native English speakers tend to have more job opportunities coming along their way when compared to others!

To work on that, there is this one thing you need to remember, it is not easy so you need to be patient with yourself.

THE MOTIVATION

You can know everything about it, but the first rule is motivation! Do you seriously want it? Are you sure you want to be like a native speaker? Do you have the passion? Well, if you have, then we are talking!

  1. REPEAT – Repeat, the words, phrases used by the native speakers and try to use them again and again in your daily conversation! If it is possible for you then go talk with the foreigners, break that jinx, get comfortable and very soon you will be there!
  2. VOCABULARY – The essential part of any language is Vocabulary. The better you are at the vocabulary of a language, the better it is going to be for you! So, buck up and learn the vocabulary. Now, when learning the vocabulary, make sure that you learn it through context. So, you need not to just learn the words, but the idea behind it!
  3. THE SMARTPHONE – Do not tell me or anyone that you do not have a smartphone or have no idea about internet. Because come on, you are living in the 21st century and you definitely do know it, right! So, use it! There are plethora of applications for Vocabulary in your smartphone and then there are so many of websites you can learn Vocabulary and build it faster.
THE NEXT STEP

Once you have the motivation part done, you are pumped up, into the mood, follow some more of these and sound like a native speaker!

  1. Connect Words- When a native speaker speaks, they tend to connect some words and speak them together. This is exactly, how you do as well, right? For instance, if one-word ends in a consonant and the next word begins in the consonant, one simply drops the first consonant. Example- black coffee, in this a native speaker would rather say “blacoffee”. This is helpful in the listening section.
  2. Squeeze Words – When speaking words, native speakers tend to bend in the different syllables and pronounce them together. For example, comfortable is rather pronounced as comf ta bl.e.
  3. Squeeze Letters- This happens for some letter such as country, hundred, did you. The dr in hundred is spoken as jr.
  4. Learn English Idioms – You know the sarcastic comments that you make when speaking your native language right? They make conversations interesting. So, go out and learn the English idioms and try using them.
  5. Listen – Well, there can not be anything more better than this, listen! To be a better writer, read more, and to be a better speaker, listen more! If you want to sound like a native speaker, try listening more to native speaker. Grasp the words they are speaking. You can check out bbc podcast for that as well.

So, go on listening to individual words, native speakers and go out do dictation. You can even listen to English songs or podcast by BBC, or other different audios in English to get a hang of it. Remember, the more you practice the better it will be.

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