Hello my name is Lex I come from Australia
I have been teaching on YY for over 2 years.
Hope I can help you to love English
the way I love Chinese.
Regards Lex
My Web http://learningenglishcoach.weebly.com/
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
• The speaking component:
• The IELTS speaking test takes between 11 and 14
minutes and is in the form of an oral interview
between the candidate and an examiner. During
the interview you will need to answer questions
asked by the interviewer, speak at length on a
topic selected by the interviewer and give and
justify your opinions on a range of issues related
to that topic. The interview has three main parts:
• some general questions about yourself, your life
and your interests
• a short talk on a particular topic
• a discussion of issues linked to the talk in part 2
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Relax and speak as confidently as you can.
Candidates who are not able to participate fully in
the conversation may not achieve their potential
band score. This may be because they haven't been
able to demonstrate the level of language they are
capable of producing.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Learn how the Speaking component is assessed:
The aim of the test is to assess your ability to communicate effectively.
The interviewer considers this ability in four different ways:
Fluency and Coherence: This measures your ability to speak without too many
pauses and hesitations. It is also to do with how easily and clearly your ideas can
be understood.
Lexical Resource: This refers to your use of words and the range and accuracy of
the vocabulary you choose to use. Not only how you select words but also how
well you use them will be considered.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy: The variety of grammar you use and how
correctly you use it are both judged by the interviewer. So, the range of tenses as
well as the appropriate use of them is important in all parts of the Speaking test.
Pronunciation: Here it is not only individual words but the whole sentences which
are considered. The interviewer will be considering how easily they can
understand what you are saying.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Be prepared to answer the questions in part 1 of
the interview.
It starts with an introduction in which the interviewer
asks you basic questions about yourself and asks to see
your identification. The interviewer will then go on to
ask you further questions about yourself, your
family/hometown, your job or studies and a range of
similar topics areas that are familiar to you. This section
of the test lasts 4-5 minutes and in it you may need to
give longer answers to questions to ensure you display
your best ability. What is being tested is your ability to:
– provide full answers to all questions
– give longer responses to some questions
– give information by describing and explaining
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Sample questions:
The interviewer will ask for general information about
topics such as the following:
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Your country of origin
Your hometown
How long you have lived there
What you do: work or study
Your interests and future plans
It is not possible to predict what topics may be discussed
at this point in the interview;
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Some of the topics that may be covered in part 2
• Family and family relationships
• Modern and traditional lifestyles
• Traditional or modern buildings
• Tourism and tourist sites
• Celebrations and cultural activities
• Schooling and the education system
• City and country living
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Know what to expect. The introductory section of the test will go
something like this:
The interviewer greets the candidate and introduces himself or herself.
The interviewer asks the candidate to state his or her name clearly for the
cassette and confirms the candidate’s country of origin.
The interviewer then asks to see the candidate’s identification. The
remainder of Part 1 of the test will follow this format:
– The interviewer will ask the candidate set questions about your
hometown or your occupation.
– The interviewer will then ask set questions about a familiar topic of
general interest.
– They could ask three to five questions which will extend or develop
this topic.
– The interviewer may ask the candidate about more than one topic.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Possible Questions
• What’s your name?
• What country do you come from?
• Describe your hometown to me.
• Where do you live?
• Tell me about your family members
• What are you studying?
• What do you dislike most about your studies?
• Do you like eating in restaurants? Why?
• What type of transport do you use most? Why?
• Where would you like to go on holiday? Why?
• Tell me who you would most like to go on vacation with.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
• Carefully consider what you know about each of the topics
above.
• Try to think of all the questions that someone who was trying to get
to know you might ask, and make sure that you have all the
vocabulary you need to discuss the topics in depth. Check and
practice the pronunciation of any new vocabulary. Practice
extending your answers to questions. You will perform better in the
IELTS interview if your speech is fluent. You are likely to be more
fluent if you have already thought about the topic and have some
ideas to express. Before the test, prepare the language you will
need in order to discuss topics like these. This doesn’t mean
memorizing or rehearsing a speech because you can never be sure
You should also be prepared to use the past, present and present
perfect tenses to describe your current situation. For example, ‘I
have been studying English for two years since I moved to the city’.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Be ready for Part 2 of the interview.
Part 2 is the long turn. The examiner will give you a card with
prompts relating to a particular topic. These prompts are to
help you prepare a short talk of 1 to 2 minutes. You will be
given a minute to organize your thoughts and you can make
some notes. The examiner will ask one or two follow up
questions to finish this part of the test. Part 2 will take three
to four minutes, including the one-minute preparation for
your talk. What is being tested is your ability to:
– talk at length on a topic
– develop your ideas into a talk
– use grammar correctly and speak clearly
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Sample question:
Describe a person from your youth who had a great
influence on you:
You should say:
– where you met them
– what relationship this person was to you
– what was special about them
– and explain how they influenced you so much.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Before the test, you need to practice talking about
topics for one or two minutes, making notes
appropriate to the topic beforehand, to help you.
• Record yourself and then play back the recording
listening to how clearly you are pronouncing and
how well you select vocabulary. You also need to
practice making your notes in point-form, with
abbreviations and symbols.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
There are many ways to do this.
For example:
If you are preparing the talk shown in the example above: ‘Describe
a person from your youth who had a great influence on you’ and
you are thinking about your grandmother who was a musician and
who looked after you when you were a child, taught you to play the
piano, talked to you often about music and musicians and
encouraged you to express your feelings through many forms of
music, then your notes may look like this:
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musician
taught me piano
intro. me -> many music forms
encouraged feelings through music
major influence
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
When you are giving your talk, take each point you have
written and expand it into full sentences, but also add
more new information.
• For example: g/mother (or grandmother)could
become: “The person who had most influence on me
was actually my father’s mother, my grandmother; she
grew up in the country and moved to the city in 1965
to get a better education. ”and * intro. me -> many
forms of music could become: “She opened up my life
to music in its many different forms. We would make
music by clapping our hands, using bottles, jars, pots
and pans, anything we could use, as well as the piano.
My life was full of music.”
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
• Use examples from your own life. These you
can speak about more easily than stories you
have made up or read somewhere else. Try to
relax and enjoy the experience of telling the
interviewer as much interesting information
about yourself as you can.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
• Prepare for the extended conversation in Part 3. After
asking one or two follow-up questions the interviewer
will lead you into in an extended conversation
discussing issues related to the Part 2 topic you spoke
on. The interviewer will enlarge on things which were
discussed in the second part of the test, possibly
starting by asking you to describe something, then
asking you to attempt something a little more difficult
like comparing, evaluating or speculating; the
questions will become a little more difficult as Part 3
proceeds. Finally, the interviewer will conclude the
Speaking test by simply saying something like:“Thank
you, that is the end of the Speaking test.”
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Know what is being tested...
your ability to:
• give in-depth answers to questions about the
topic
• use the language of description, comparison
and speculation
• explain and justify your opinions,
assumptions, predictions, reasons etc
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
• Practice with sample questions: It is not possible to predict what
questions will come up at this point in the test except that you can be sure
that the topic will be related to your long turn topic. Some questions will
arise naturally from the discussion and the information you are giving as
this section progresses. For example, consider the following sample topic:
Describe a piece of music that has had a big effect on you. Possible related
topics may be:
• Music in society
• Cultural aspects of music
• Commercialization of music
• Thus, the interviewer may start the discussion on the first related topic
(Music in society) by asking you to describe how music is important to
everyday life in your country. After you have talked about this, the
interviewer may ask you to compare the importance of music now with
how it was when your grandparents were young; and then may even go on
to ask what you think will be the effects of music on future societies.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Expose yourself to everyday topics as often
discussed in newspapers or on radio and TV
programs.
• Make it your habit to read newspaper and
magazine articles, particularly those that
discuss issues and contain arguments and
opinions. Also, listen to radio discussions like
talk-back and watch interviews on current
affairs programs on the television
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
• . Not only does this give you some excellent
listening practice, but it will build your
background knowledge for the issues that may
come up in both the Speaking and the Writing
tests. Choose an issue. Record all the
vocabulary you will need to discuss that issue
– note words raised in the news article or
program (TV, radio, newspapers). Try to do
one of these every day.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
• When you consider an issue, decide what
would be your position on the issue, especially
the steps you will need to take to reach your
desired position and how you would
overcome any possible problems in discussing
it.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
• Be prepared to use descriptive and
comparative language, for example, in respect
to the Music in society example given earlier:
“In my country, traditional music plays a more
important role in society than it seems to
here, in Australia. It is played at important
events like festivals and official ceremonies, as
well as at special occasions such as weddings
and funerals.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
• ”Practice using conditional sentences to discuss, for
instance, hypothetical issues from a broad or world view;
for example: “If the world economy becomes more global,
all nations will lose their cultural independence. ”or “If the
leaders of the world were to spend more money on the
poor, many of the problems of global conflict would be
resolved.”
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Be ready to use a good range of tenses and a variety of grammar, for
instance, to speculate on what may be possible in the future.
For example:
• Interviewer: What future role do you see for music in society?
• Candidate: Well, I’d (or I’ve) always hoped that all the peoples of
the world could benefit by sharing their common experience of
music. In the past, there have been many examples of musicians
joining forces to raise awareness of global issues that result from
famine or human rights abuses. or
• Candidate: If different cultures could see the common features of
music in other countries, they may be less fearful of each other and
understand one another’s cultures better.
How to Prepare for IELTS Speaking Test
Be prepared to speculate about the future:
• I hope that …
• It’s possible that…
• I can see that …
• If possible, I’d like to see …
• We should plan to …
• It might be that …
• We can assume that …
• Probably, …
• I expect that …
Come Up and Try
Have a go at talking for a minute.
We have a sample test.
The IELTS Speaking Exam, Part 2
• In this part you have to speak for 1-2 minutes about a
topic.
• Look at the topic on the below for one minute.
• You may make notes if you wish
• Talk about yourself having a healthy lifestyle.
• Please say:
• What stops you from having a healthy lifestyle?
• What are the disadvantages of not having a healthy
lifestyle?
• What can you do in order to have a healthier lifestyle?
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What is your country of origin?
Where is your hometown?
How long you have lived there?
What are you doing now work or study?
What are your interests and future plans?
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you name ? 你叫什么名字
where you are from? 你是哪里人？
how was your day?你今天过的怎么样？
what is your favourite English word?
你最喜欢的英语单词是什么？
how often do you use yy?你多久上一次yy？
• your questions for me? 你有什么问题要问我吗？
• what is your life long dream? 你一直的梦想是什么？
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Your Questions for me ?
Learning English
How to Speak like a Native Speaker
• We all dream of speaking fluent English. Students
always stop and ask me how they can learn the same
kind of English that native English speakers do.
• I've spent years working closely with students and
paying attention to what really works and what
doesn't. I think I can finally answer this
question. Some of these ideas you may have heard
before. Maybe some are new. I hope you think about
each tip carefully because they really work.
Make It Fun
• 1. You need to make English learning fun. Humans are
big dreamers and big quitters. Think about how many
plans and dreams you have had in your life that never
happened. I don't want you to feel bad. You are not
alone.
• We are all like this. I have had hundreds of plans and
goals that I never completed. If learning to speak
English is boring then you will quit. You might be able
to keep going for a couple of days or even weeks, but
sooner or later you will think of some excuse to quit.
how to make it fun?
• 2. The question now is how to make it fun? It's a lot easier
to say "make it fun" than to actually make it fun. I
understand that learning can be quite boring. It's a
challenge to make it interesting.
• Here is the secret. Don't study English. Use English to
study something else. I'm sure you like certain English TV
shows or movies. I have created a way to actually learn
from these. I explain slang meanings and funny stuff that
you would never learn in school. All of this stuff is
important and useful. That's the only reason I teach it. See
my Site:
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http://learningenglishcoach.weebly.com/
how to make it fun?
• Learning English is not about learning a lot of words, it's
about learning the "right" words. 8 year old kids speak
English fluently with a very small vocabulary. They know
how to use what they know. Watching movies and TV isn't
the same as studying.
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You need to have explanations or your level will stay
where it is. Your listening will get a bit better, but then it
will plateau. (I guess you might not even know the word
"plateau") Maybe you can guess it but do you use it? I will
make you use words like this. If your level "plateaus" it
means that it stops getting better. It just stays the
same. Most people have this problem. There is a "sticking
point" and most English learners never get past it.
Copy your favourite voice
• 3. Copy your favourite voice. If you have
pronunciation problems, which you probably do, then
choose some native speaker and copy them. You will
probably need to listen to about 25 hours of them
speaking and then you will be able to speak like them.
• It is not quite natural. It will help if you record yourself
speaking and listen to it. You might be shy to do this in
the beginning, but after you get used to it, I am sure it
will be no problem. You can compare your own
pronunciation with the pronunciation of the native
speaker.
Copy your favourite voice
• Most people don't do this part and their pronunciation
never improves. They learn some bad habit and it just
stays there. People can understand them but they
know the accent is strong.
• If you do this last step, I'm sure that people will think
you were born in an English speaking country. It's so
amazing and I've seen it with my students. It only
takes about 3 to 4 months to totally change your
accent and voice for all English words. It's really cool
actually.
University's in Australia
2013 THE Times Higher Education
World University Reputation
• Australia now has six universities in the Times
Higher Education (THE) World Reputation
Rankings 2013 top 100, up from four in 2012
• Monash University and UNSW joining the
University of Melbourne, Australian National
University, Sydney University, and the
University of Queensland.
2013 THE Times Higher Education
World University Reputation
• Only the US and the UK have more universities in
the top 100 of the World Reputation Rankings now
that Australia has moved ahead of Japan, Germany,
and the Netherlands with its two new entrants.
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2013 THE Times Higher Education
World University Reputation
• Key Features:
• Two new entrants in the top 100 (UNSW and
Monash) making a total of 6 University of
Melbourne moves from 43 to 39
• Australian National University moves from 44
to 42
THE Times Higher Education World
University Reputation
University
University of Melbourne
Australian National University
University of Sydney
University of Queensland
University of New South Wales
Monash University
2013 Ranking
39
42 (tied)
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81-90
91-100
2012 Ranking
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44 (tied)
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Come up improve your English
What is your Name?
Witch Provence do you come from?
What is the best thing about your home town?
Are you Studding or Working now?
Where have you travelled in china?
Have you been overseas or would you like to go & where?
What is you favourite hobby?
What would you like me to teach in my classes on 7740?
Learning to Reading
Please join the cue
read with a partner take it in turns
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I need a job
• A: I need a job.
B: I thought you had a job.
A: I did.
B: What happened?
A: I got laid off.
B: That’s terrible! When did it happen?
A: I got laid off last week.
B: Just you?
A: No, ten of my co workers got laid off, too.
B: What are you going to do?
A: I’m looking in the newspaper for a job.
B: Good luck!
Bad Service
• A: Have you seen our waiter?
B: Here he comes now.
A: We’ve been sitting here for almost 10 minutes.
B: Oops, I guess I was wrong. That isn’t our waiter.
A: We can give him five more minutes, and then leave.
B: I’ll go up front and talk to the manager.
A: That’s a good idea.
B: Maybe they’ll give us free drinks for waiting so long.
A: Maybe he’ll send us our waiter immediately.
B: Every time we eat out, it’s an adventure.
A: Last time, we got seats next to the kitchen.
B: We’ll never go there again.
A Good Table
• A: Is this table okay?
B: No, it’s too close to the kitchen door.
A: How about this table?
B: No, it’s too close to the front door.
A: This looks like a nice table.
B: No, it’s too close to the salad bar.
A: Okay, I give up.
B: Well, there is one good table.
A: Great. Which one?
B: That one. A group of eight just sat down at it.
Before you go to that interview
• A: Before you go to that interview, check yourself.
B: What’s to check?
A: Are your nails clean?
B: Yes, they are.
A: Did you double-check your nose and teeth?
B: They are clean, too.
A: Did you shine your shoes?
B: My shoes are shined.
A: Do your socks match?
B: Of course they match.
A: No, they don’t. One is black and one is dark blue.
B: Yikes! Thank you.
Life is hard
• A: Life is hard.
B: It sure is.
A: I thought school was hard.
B: Me, too. I couldn’t wait to graduate.
A: But now work is hard, too.
B: I agree. Work is just as hard as school.
A: Sometimes I wish I was back in school.
B: Me, too. School was fun.
A: And it was only 12 years.
B: It went by pretty fast.
A: But work goes on forever!
B: We have to work for 30 years!
I don’t like my job
• A: I don’t like my job.
B: What do you do?
A: I’m a babysitter.
B: Is that a lot of work?
A: Babies cry all the time.
B: You have to change their diapers.
A: I have to feed them.
B: Are you looking for another job?
A: No, I’m looking for another family.
B: Another family?
A: A family with only one baby.
B: That’s a good idea.
Talk about their jobs?
• A: Do your students ever talk about their jobs?
B: Yes, and they ask me what jobs are the best.
A: I tell my students to become a teacher.
B: Teaching is a great job.
A: It’s the best job I’ve ever had.
B: What makes it so good?
A: For me, it’s the students.
B: What do you mean?
A: I mean I have wonderful students.
B: That must be nice.
A: Teaching is the best part of my whole day.
B: You’re a lucky man to have a job you love
Something real stupid
• A: I think I did something real stupid.
B: What did you do?
A: I bought some stock.
B: Everybody buys stock.
A: I bought it on a hunch.
B: You didn't read about the company first?
A: I didn't have to. It's been in business for 60 years.
B: So what's the problem?
A: I used all my savings on this one company.
B: You put all your eggs into one basket.
A: If the company goes out of business, I'll have nothing.
B: Oh, you'll have something—you'll have a lesson you'll
never forget!
I was going to be a doctor
• A: I was going to be a doctor.
B: What happened to your plans?
A: I got a D in college chemistry.
B: Well, a D is better than an F.
A: A tutor helped me get the D!
B: So, you didn't become a doctor.
A: And now I'm glad that I didn't.
B: Why's that?
A: A hospital is the most dangerous place in the world.
B: Oh, yes, because of all the killer germs.
A: If you're a smart doctor, you stay away from hospitals.
B: Yes, the smart doctors are those TV news doctors—no
hospitals, no patients.
What did the doctor say
• A: What did the doctor say?
B: He thinks I have too much stress.
A: Stress causes your stomachaches?
B: Stress causes different problems with different
people.
A: So what did he tell you to do?
B: He said I need to think positive.
A: He didn’t give you any medication?
B: I hate medication. It makes me feel different.
A: So how do you think positive?
B: I think about nice things.
A: Like what?
B: Like a day at the beach, with my toes in the sand.
Do you smell that?
• A: Do you smell that?
B: Oh, yes.
A: I can’t stand cigarette smoke.
B: It smells so bad.
A: One cigarette stinks up the whole sidewalk.
B: Smokers think they are so cool.
A: They are so weak.
B: A little cigarette controls them.
A: They look so stupid taking a puff.
B: And then they blow smoke out of their mouth.
A: They think it’s cool.
B: Cigarettes stink.
My back is killing me
• A: My back is killing me.
B: What did you do?
A: I got out of my car.
B: That’s it?
A: I injured my back one time just by sneezing.
B: You should see a doctor.
A: My doctor said I need surgery.
B: So?
A: So, forget it.
B: You don’t have the money?
A: I have no insurance.
B: Maybe a back rub would help.
Dirty Nails
• A: Let’s leave.
B: But we just got here.
A: Did you see the waiter’s hands?
B: No.
A: He had dirty fingernails.
B: Really?
A: His nails were black!
B: That’s disgusting.
A: And he poured water into our glasses.
B: Yuck! No water for me.
A: I wonder if the cooks?nails are dirty, too.
B: Who cares? Let’s get out of here.
Remote is filthy
• A: Our TV remote is filthy.
B: Yes, it’s covered with crud.
A: I’m going to clean it.
B: Don’t use water on it!
A: I’ll use a damp cloth.
B: Don’t let water get into any of the cracks.
A: I’ll squeeze the cloth so it’s almost dry.
B: Don’t rub the numbers off the remote.
A: I will rub gently but firmly.
B: Do it quickly, please, so I can change channels during
commercials.
A: I’ll give it back to you in a couple of minutes.
B: Maybe we should put it in a plastic bag to keep it clean.
The new face
• A: Did you see the woman with the new face?
B: Did she get a nice job?
A: She got a job with “everything?
B: What do you mean?
A: A team of doctors gave her a whole new face.
B: Why did they do that?
A: A mad dog bit most of her face off.
B: Oh, that’s terrible. What does she look like now?
A: Her face is really fat, but they say the swelling will go
down.
B: And then will she look normal again?
A: I guess so.
B: God bless modern medicine.
A Good Lunch
• A: Lunch was delicious.
B: Thank you.
A: What kind of soup was that?
B: It was tomato soup.
A: That tasted so good.
B: I put lemon and butter in it.
A: The sandwich was good, too.
B: Everyone likes bacon and tomato sandwiches.
A: Especially on toast.
B: And the pickles were great, too.
A: Tomorrow we’ll have rice and fish for lunch.
B: I can’t wait.
A Slow Burger
• A: I can’t believe how long this line is.
B: This is a popular restaurant, isn’t it?
A: Yes, but it isn’t a fast-food restaurant, is it?
B: It’s the slowest hamburger in town.
A: That’s because they cook it while you wait.
B: Yes. That’s why it’s also the best hamburger in town.
A: A great burger and great service.
B: Yes, the workers are very polite.
A: And they’re clean.
B: I’ve been coming here for years.
A: Me too.
B: Excuse me. They just called my number.
Do I Hear $60,000?
A: I don't believe the art world.
B: What is it this time?
A: An Andy Warhol drawing.
B: He's a famous artist.
A: He drew two butterflies and a flower on a napkin in a
restaurant.
B: Did he sign it?
A: Yes.
B: Is it beautiful?
A: It's just black ink on a white napkin. And the napkin has
food stains!
B: So it's not worth much?
A: Only about $30,000.
B: Without the food stains, it would probably be worth more.
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Where you are from?
What is your favorite country and why?
What is your life long dream?
Your Questions for me ?
Thanks for coming to my class
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English web link have a look
http://cdict.net/?q=+curator
http://www.lyricstraining.com/index.php
http://www.eslfast.com/easydialogs/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglis
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• http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/chinese/learnenglish/features
• http://www.talkenglish.com/