Your attitude can improve your IELTS Speaking score!

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Your attitude can improve your IELTS Speaking
score!

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Your attitude can improve your IELTS Speaking
score!

• To improve your IELTS Speaking score you need
  more preparation that just knowing the topics for
  IELTS speaking course they may ask you about. It
  is not enough to use high-level vocabulary or
  grammar. Many websites give lots of tips for
  IELTS Speaking questions, but there is one
  important tip those website often forget to
  mention. When you are taking the IELTS Speaking
  test you need to have the right attitude.
• Having the right attitude about how you respond
  will help you in many ways. Having the wrong
  attitude will prevent you from doing your best on
  test day.
• What does this mean? You want to respond to
  questions while imagining yourself in different
  kinds of situations, in different kinds of places
  and with different kinds of people. This will
  give you the correct frame of mind to answer
  questions in ways that will help you demonstrate
  the kinds of skills and abilities the IELTS
  examiner is looking for.

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Your attitude can improve your IELTS Speaking
score!

• If the IELTS Speaking test was taking place in
  the real world, what kinds of situations would
  the IELTS Speaking test be similar to?
• A job interview? Nope. The IELTS Speaking Test is
  NOT like a job interview.
• A customs agent interview? Nope. The IELTS
  Speaking Test is NOT like an interrogation by a
  customs officer at the airport.
• While, of course, the IELTS Speaking test is an
  evaluation by an English teacher, DO NOT think of
  it that way!
• If you think of it as a test, your stress will
  increase. You will doubt every answer. You will
  get nervous. You will worry. All of that pressure
  will lower your ability to do your best. This
  kind of thinking will not help you improve your
  IELTS Speaking score.
• But there is a different way to think about the
  IELTS Speaking test.

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Your attitude can improve your IELTS Speaking
score!

• But there is a different way to think about the
  IELTS Speaking test.
• If you think of it as a test, you will not give
  the best performance of your English ability for
  the IELTS examiner.
• That, by the way, is what the IELTS Speaking test
  is a performance. Like an actor performing on
  stage, you job is to demonstrate the range and
  depth of your English ability. On a very basic
  level, your job is to keep the interest of the
  listener.
• And just like any good actor, one trick you can
  use to give a great performance is to imagine you
  are somewhere different and you are talking to
  someone else.
• As you know, the IELTS Speaking test is divided
  into 3 Parts.
• In each Part, you will want to have a slightly
  different attitude. You will want to imagine
  yourself in a slightly different situation in
  each part.

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Part 1 Having a Conversation in a Coffee Shop

• In IELTS Speaking Part 1, you will be asked to
  give information about yourself. Where are you
  from? What do you do? How often do you do
  something? What was your childhood like?
• Imagine you are talking with someone you dont
  know very well, an acquaintance or a friend of a
  friendsomeone who you think might one day be an
  actual friend of yours. This is a person who
  doesnt know you very well and who wants to get
  to know you a little bit better.
• If someone like that asked you a question, how
  would you respond?
• Of course, you want to give clear, direct
  answers, but you want to tell this potential
  friend more than just a short, simple answer. You
  will tell them extra little pieces of information
  to add complexity to your response. You do this
  because you think this extra information might be
  interesting to them.

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Part 1 Having a Conversation in a Coffee Shop

• Its okay to say I dont know
• And if they ask you a question that you are not
  sure how to answer, or if they ask you about
  something you dont really have an opinion about,
  or if they ask you about something youve never
  done, youll want to explain why you cant really
  answer that question clearly or directly.
• You may even change the topic to something
  related to what they asked about and tell them a
  little information about that related topic. Of
  course, youre doing this because you want to
  give some kind of interesting information to that
  person in the coffee shopyou dont just want to
  tell them, No or I dont know.
• You wouldnt respond to this person in the coffee
  shop as if they were hiring you for a job or
  about to stamp your passport.

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Part 2 Sharing a Story around a Campfire

• In IELTS Speaking Part 2, you will be asked to
  tell a long story about something you have done,
  someone you know, or something you have seen or
  read about. What the best vacation you ever took?
  Can you name a successful company from your home
  country? What is a law from your own country you
  think is good or bad?
• Imagine you are talking with a friend late at
  nightmaybe you are sitting around a campfire or
  after dinner just hanging around the house. You
  arent playing a game, youre just talking about
  stuff that youve experienced. You are sharing
  stories from your childhood or from before you
  knew this person.
• If a friend asked you about the best vacation you
  ever took, what story would you tell?

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Part 2 Sharing a Story around a Campfire

• Explain what the story means to you
• Of course, you are going to start to tell the
  story of the vacation when, where, maybe
  even why or with whom. You want to give your
  friend context, painting a picture with words so
  that they can begin to picture in their head your
  vacation. You might occasionally tell small side
  stories about one particularly memorable event
  during that vacationdoing this demonstrates you
  are comfortable moving around in time and using
  different verb tenses.
• And importantly, you want your friend to
  understand why you value that memory. Did the
  vacation teach you something about yourself or
  about the world? Did it make you rethink your
  career or other life plans?
• You dont just want to tell a story about a
  vacation to your friend. You would want to
  explain what means to you.

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Part 3 Exploring your Opinions with a Friend

• In IELTS Speaking Part 3, you will be asked
  questions focused on common IELTS Speaking Topics
  like healthcare, shopping, or parenting. Do you
  think kids spend too much time online? What
  problems does consumerism cause? How has
  increased trade changed the eating habits of
  people?

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Part 3 Exploring your Opinions with a Friend

• Imagine you are still at the campfire, but
  everyone is now gone except you and one good
  friend. You are not trying to entertain each
  other with stories about your lives. Instead you
  are just thinking about the state of the world.
  However, you dont really feel the need to Google
  every fact or piece of evidence about the
  topicits just you and your good friend, hanging
  out and thinking about an issue without the
  pressure of being correct.
• If a good friend asked about your opinion on
  consumerism, how would you respond?

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Debate the issue with yourself

• Of course, you want to give an honest answer, but
  you probably arent immediately sure how you feel
  about the issue. Thats okay, because your friend
  is not testing youthey are just asking what you
  think about some issue, so its okay to be a
  little unclear or unfocused at first.
• You might start your response by offering up
  various possible opinions different people might
  have about the issue, with some reasons why they
  might be correct. Only after youve laid out
  some of the possible answers to the question do
  you then decide which one you think you most
  agree with.
• Basically, you debate the issue with yourself,
  out loud in front of the IELTS examiner, and then
  eventually decide which side you think is
  probably correct. Doing this will help you
  improve your IELTS Speaking score in a natural
  way.
• But because its just you and your friend sitting
  around a campfire, its no big deal if you are
  wrong or right or if youve picked the best
  solution to some problem. Youre just thinking
  about the world.

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