У Вас есть 60 секунд на обдумывание ответов. Вы можете делать пометки. Зам Вы должны ответить на первые три вопроса. Ответ должен длится от 1 до 2 минут.
Затем ответить на дополнительные три вопроса.
Part 1
The examiner will ask you some questions about yourself, such as:
Can you tell me your name?
And what do you do?
Why did you choose this job/this subject
Part 2
Describe a part of the world you would like to visit.
You should say:
where it is
what do you know about it? how did you know about it?
what you would like to do there
Explain why you would like to visit this part of the world
The examiner may ask you one or two questions to close the topic. You do NOT need to give extended answers to these. For example, he or she might ask you:
Do you think you will visit this part of the world some day?
Have you travelled abroad very much?
Part 3
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Topic Cards for Speaking, Part 2 + Part 3
SPEAKING PART
Describe a museum
-How often do you visit the museum?
-Which type of museum is popular in your country?
-Why do you want to visit the museum?
Follow-up:
-What do you think of the importance of museums in history?
-What do you think of the heratage of a country?
-Compare the museums nowadays and in the past
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SPEAKING PART
Describe a part of the world you would like to visit.
You should say:
where it is
how and what you know about it
what you would like to do there
Explain why you would like to visit this part of the world
Внимание:
С 1 июля 2001 введен новый the IELTS Speaking Test. Будьте внимательны - ваша книга по IELTS может содержать материалы старого теста.
Тест проводится за то же самое время (примерно 15 минут). Были изменены только некоторые части теста. В новом тесте вместо прежних 5 частей, сейчас всего 3 части:
1 часть:
Экзаменатор задаст вам несколько вопросов о повседневных вещах. Обычные вопросы, такие же, как и во второй части старого теста:
* your home and family
* your job and/or studies
* your hobbies and interests
* your reasons for taking IELTS
* What do you do?
* How will IELTS help you in the future?
* How about your free time? What are your hobbies?
* What is life like for you in your home town? What are the good and bad points about living there?
* Have you had any opportunities to travel?
* Where would you go if you were given the chance to visit any country in the world?
На эту часть отводится 4 - 5 минут.
2 часть – «презентация»:
Вам дается карточка с темой и примерно 1 минута на подготовку. В это время вы можете сделать для себя какие-то пометки, записи. Затем вы выступаете в течение 1 или 2-х минут. Экзаменатор слушает вас, не прерывая. На эту часть отводится 3 – 4 минуты включая время на подготовку.
3 часть – «дискуссия»:
Дискуссия с экзаменатором. Тема дискуссии основывается на теме предыдущей части 2. На эту часть отводится 4 – 5 минут.
Sample 1 of Speaking Module (10-15 minutes)
Part 1
Tip Strip
* The examiners want you to perform to the best of your ability and the test is designed to give you every opportunity to speak, but examiners can only rate what they hear from you. So make sure you speak up and use the time as effectively as possible.
* In Part 1, if the examiner asks you a question which can be answered by ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, try to give some extra information to extend your answer. Yes/No questions in English are often an invitation to say more.
* Make sure you answer the question you are asked. Do not come to the interview with a learned talk
The examiner will ask you questions about yourself, such as:
* What’s your name?
* Where do you live?
* What family members do you live with?
* What are you studying?
* What do you like about your studies?
* What do you like about learning English?
* How often do you use English?
Part 2
Tip strip
* In Part 2, try to make your talk as interesting as possible. You have a minute to prepare what you are going to say and you can make some notes. Write down some key words or ideas only. Do not write out everything you are going to say.
* Look carefully at the prompt card on this page. Think of a city which impressed you.
* Think of 2 or 3 thing you really remember about the city. Try to interest the examiner in what you say.
The topic for your talk will be written on a card which the examiner will hand you. Read it carefully and then make some brief notes.
A city you have visited
INSTRUCTIONS
Please read the topic below carefully. You will be asked to talk about it for 1 to 2 minutes. You have one minute to think about what you’re going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish.
Describe a city you have visited which has impressed you.
You should say:
* where it is situated why you visited it
* what you liked about it
At the end of your talk, the examiner will ask one or two brief questions to signal that it is time to stop talking.
For example, he or she might ask you:
Do you like cities generally?
Would you like to live in the city you spoke about?
Part 3
Tip Strip
* Look at the follow-up discussion ideas for Part 3. See how they are broadly linked to the topic of Part 2.
* Make a few notes in response to each of the prompts given here. The discussion could take any of these directions.
* Try to think of at least five other interesting ideas linked to this topic. Remember! You can take the discussion in a direction of your choice, if it is appropriately linked.
* Don’t be afraid to take the initiative in Part 3 of the speaking test. This is your chance to show your fluency, your ability to give and support an opinion and your range of grammatical forms and vocabulary.
Once your talk in Part 2 is over, your examiner will ask you further questions related to the topic in Part 2.
The examiner may ask you to speak about these points.
A city you have visited
- advantages of living in a big city - negative aspects of crowded cities
- architectural design
- paying for the services
- transport
Sample 2 of Speaking Module (10-15 minutes)
Part 1
The examiner will ask you questions about yourself, such as:
* What’s your name?
* What nationality are you?
* What part of your country do you come from?
* Can you describe your home town/village?
* What do you like doing in your free time?Why?
* Are there any new hobbies that you would like to take up? Why?
Part 2
The topic for your talk will be written on a card which the examiner will hand you. Read it carefully and then make some brief notes.
A Competition
INSTRUCTIONS
Please read the topic below carefully. You will be asked to talk about it for 1 to 2 minutes. You have one minute to think about what you’re going to say. You can make some notes to help you if you wish.
Describe a competition (or contest) that you have entered.
You should say: when the competition took place what you had to do how well you did it
Describe how you felt about the competition.
At the end of your talk, the examiner will ask one or two brief questions to signal that it is time to stop talking.
For example, he or she might ask you:
Do you enjoy entering competitions?
Have you entered any other competitions?
Part 3
Once your talk in Part 2 is over, your examiner will ask you further questions related to the topic in Part 2.
The examiner may ask you to speak about these points.
Competition
- competition at a young age
- competition at school
- value of international competitions
- the psychology of competing
- competitive spirit
Как оценивается Speaking Module
В книжках, конечно, пишут следующее:
Unfortunately, we are unable to give you the official descriptions of the Band Scores of Speaking Module because they are confidential:
Score Description
9 Like a native speaker
8 Very fluent; can use formal and informal language
7 Quiet fluent; wide vocabulary
6 Forms questions well
5 Some difficulty asking questions
4 Pronunciation difficulties; limited vocabulary
3 Hesitant; incomplete sentences
2 Extremely limited vocabulary; no sentence structure
1 Not really able to communicate in English at all
Assessment criteria (Speaking Module):
You will be assessed on the following criteria:
- ability to communicate effectively
- ability to use appropriate vocabulary and structures
- ability to take initiative in a conversation
- general fluency
- structural accuracy
- intelligibility
- speaker’s purpose (very clear, fairly clear, unclear)
- organization of main points (very clear, fairly clear, unclear)
- volume (too loud, just right, not loud enough)
- speed (too fast, just right, too slow)
- eye contact (maintains or avoid)
- feedback (сопровождающие жесты, кивки и пр.)
- body language (appears nervous or relaxed)
- content (totally relevant/ sometimes irrelevant/ totally irrelevant)
http://www.efl.ru/forum/threads/40084/Describe your favourite photograph.
- Where was the photo taken
- Who took the photo
- What can be seen from the photo
- Explain why it is the favourite photograph for you?
Можно ли начинать каждый ответ на карточку следующим шаблоном?
И что делать если ответ меньше минуты?
"Traveling is a subject spoken today by our mass media. In contrast to my friends who never have taken underwater pictures I do it as mucIh as possible bacause I love it. I am an another kettle of fish. It is argued that a favorite photograph is a picture of a fish, but it is. The species on a photo is a burrfish."
Describe your favourite photograph
- Where was the photo taken?
- Who took the photo?
- What can be seen from the photo?
- Explain why it is the favourite photograph for you.
Follow-up:
- How to take a good photo?
- When do people use cameras?
- How can the new technology put cinema's skill advanced?
The important historic place
- What is the place?
- Where is it located?
- Why do you think it is important?
Follow-up:
- What do you think of the historic place in the future?
- Will the government increase or decrease the safety guard?
- What are the changes to the local people and economy?
- What is the impact on the historic place by tourists?
Describe a party
- Why was the party held?
- Who attended the party?
- What did you do for that party?
Follow-up:
- What's the difference between serious party and friendly party?
- Why are some people late for parties intentionally?
- Why do some people like parties while others hate them?
- What would you do if the guests feel bored?
Как подготовиться к IELTS – Speaking ?
http://elf-english.ru/2009/04/kak-podgotovitsya-k-ielts-speaking/Многие переживают по поводу последней части экзамена IELTS ( Speaking ), не знают как подготовиться к interview. Сегодня для наших учеников курса подготовки к IELTS и читателей блога мы решили подытожить все известные нам советы и стратегии подготовки к модулю Speaking .
После того, как вы усвоили структуру модуля Speaking, то запомните несколько рекомендаций:
1. Вы должны звучать естественно, а не так как будто вы вызубрили ответы. Не переживайте из-за акцента! Самое главное говорить так, чтобы экзаменатор Вас понял. Если поняли, что сделали ошибку- исправьтесь. Говорите внятно, четко и громко. Не бубните себе под нос. Придерживайтесь золотой середины – говорите и не слишком быстро, но и не медленно.
2. Старайтесь показать свое знание вокабуляра. Обычно, люди используют в речи самые простые слова. Избегайте сленга! Лучше придерживаться Formal English. Отвечайте на вопрос не повторяя его – например: – What’s the most interesting place in your home town? Не нужно говорить: The most interesting place Рекомендуется начать сразу так: It’s…В ответе используйте синонимы тех слов, которые звучали в вопросе экзаменатора. Если не можете вспомнить, не останавливайтесь – говорите то, что можете. Излишние паузы вам ни к чему! Продолжайте говорить, пока вас не остановят, даже если вам кажется, что вы уже достаточно долго говорили.
3. Расширяйте свой ответ, указывая на причину: Many people find it fascinating because…, подкрепляя примерами из жизни: Once we went there with my friends and… Расширяйте его в меру: На вопрос Where are you from? Вы можете рассказать, где находится это место, как долго Вы там живете. Но не стоит увлекаться - говорить слишком долго – иначе экзаменатор подумает, что вы не поняли вопроса! Не меняйте тему!
4. Обычно вопросы в 1 части Speaking связаны с вами, вашей страной, работой, родственниками, увлечениями и т.д. Давайте примеры. Не вздумайте отвечать: I don’t know .Также не следует жаловаться на плохие познания в английском: My English is very bad. Не молчите! Если вы будете молчать, то экзаменатор перейдет к следующему вопросу. Не бойтесь фантазировать, а именно врать правдоподобно. Никто не будет проверять, говорите ли вы правду или нет. Поэтому, если не можете вспомнить реальных примеров, то придумайте. Ведь в Speaking оценивают fluency, vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and ideas.
5. Используйте разные грамматические конструкции. “Before going to … and seeing the hill tribes we visited … and went to the ancient city.” “Hardly had he come in when this happened…”, слова-связки although, besides, in addition, so that, for instance и вводные слова:
Personally,
frankly speaking,
I beileve,
What I want to say,
As far as I’m able to judge,
to cut a long story short,
there is no doubt about,
as for me,
from my point of view,
in my opinion,
I’d like to say that…
smth is by far the most commonly encountered smth
In term of ...
pertaining to
Если Вы не поняли вопроса, то можно:
* попросить повторить вопрос (I didn’t cath that. Would you mind repeating it? / Could you repeat the question, please?)
* проверить правильно ли Вы поняли (Do you mean the underground trains? You’re asking me about underground trains, aren’t you?)
Many people find it fascinating/boring … although I am another kettle of fish.
As far as I’m able to judge,
Personally,
Frankly speaking,
I’d like to say that…
From my point of view,
Once we went there with my friends and
I beileve,
What I want to say,
As for me,
There is no doubt about,
In my opinion,
I look up to the people who [read it]
To cut a long story short, If I had had any possibilities I would have a museum/school of ... in my own.
[To cut a long story short, if I had been reacher I would solve this problem]
Errors:
The answer is short/direct.
There are no any linking words or phrases.
There are no any redundant language.
There are no examples of uncommon vocabulary.
There are no idiomatic language.
The grammar is very basic (+ some errors).
There are no comlex sentence sructures.
The tense use is limited.
You mustn't use in conjunctions:
'and','but','because', 'i think', 'fistly, secondly
and=also, too
but=although, nonetheless, whereas, however, though
because=Ergo, therefore
You can use "besides" to start an introductory clause, as in "Besides getting an A in math, I also got an A in English."
In this case, "besides" means "in addition to."
Hints:
We use the Past Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past.
Mary had been working there for five years before she became a manager.
IT industry was designed as such from the ground up.
"industry" идет без "the"
as such - по существу
from the ground up - с нуля
at little to - по крайней мере
fall back upon/on - опереться в трудные времена
come through - успешно сделать. Сделать, что ожидалось
Has the train come through? — Поезд уже прибыл?
come through the gate of horn - осуществиться, сбыться [по древнегреческому поверью сны, которым суждено сбыться, проходили через ворота, сделанные из рога, а сны, которым не суждено сбыться, - через ворота из слоновой кости]
come through the gate of ivory - не осуществиться, не сбыться
to come through in the clutch — пройти через серьёзные испытания
to come through with flying colors — иметь успех
He had come through the hards himself. — Он сам преодолел все невзгоды.
Пример отличного английского языка:
Цитата:
You bear heavy responsibilities these days and an article I read some time ago reminded me of how particularly heavily the burdens of present day events bear upon your profession.
You may remember that in 1851 the New York Herald Tribune under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as its London correspondent an obscure journalist by the name of Karl Marx.
We are told that foreign correspondent Marx, stone broke, and with a family ill and undernourished, constantly appealed to Greeley and managing editor Charles Dana for an increase in his munificent salary of $5 per installment, a salary which he and Engels ungratefully labeled as the "lousiest petty bourgeois cheating."
But when all his financial appeals were refused, Marx looked around for other means of livelihood and fame, eventually terminating his relationship with the Tribune and devoting his talents full time to the cause that would bequeath the world the seeds of Leninism, Stalinism, revolution and the cold war.
If only this capitalistic New York newspaper had treated him more kindly; if only Marx had remained a foreign correspondent, history might have been different. And I hope all publishers will bear this lesson in mind the next time they receive a poverty-stricken appeal for a small increase in the expense account from an obscure newspaper man.
I have selected as the title of my remarks tonight "The President and the Press." Some may suggest that this would be more naturally worded "The President Versus the Press." But those are not my sentiments tonight.
It is true, however, that when a well-known diplomat from another country demanded recently that our State Department repudiate certain newspaper attacks on his colleague it was unnecessary for us to reply that this Administration was not responsible for the press, for the press had already made it clear that it was not responsible for this Administration.
Nevertheless, my purpose here tonight is not to deliver the usual assault on the so-called one party press. On the contrary, in recent months I have rarely heard any complaints about political bias in the press except from a few Republicans. Nor is it my purpose tonight to discuss or defend the televising of Presidential press conferences. I think it is highly beneficial to have some 20,000,000 Americans regularly sit in on these conferences to observe, if I may say so, the incisive, the intelligent and the courteous qualities displayed by your Washington correspondents.
Nor, finally, are these remarks intended to examine the proper degree of privacy which the press should allow to any President and his family.
If in the last few months your White House reporters and photographers have been attending church services with regularity, that has surely done them no harm.
On the other hand, I realize that your staff and wire service photographers may be complaining that they do not enjoy the same green privileges at the local golf courses that they once did.
It is true that my predecessor did not object as I do to pictures of one's golfing skill in action. But neither on the other hand did he ever bean a Seсret Service man.
My topic tonight is a more sober one of concern to publishers as well as editors.
I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed large on the horizon for many years. Whatever our hopes may be for the future--for reducing this threat or living with it--there is no escaping either the gravity or the totality of its challenge to our survival and to our security - a challenge that confronts us in unaccustomed ways in every sphere of human activity.
This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern both to the press and to the President--two requirements that may seem almost contradictory in tone, but which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril. I refer, first, to the need for a far greater public information; and, second, to the need for far greater official seсrecy.
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