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Speaking Tips For IELTS

EXAM By: Behnam Forghani

IELTS Instructor

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IELTS speakingband scores

explained

How is your IELTS speaking band scorecalculated? This is an important question for

any IELTS candidate because many mistakes

can be avoided by knowing what the examiner

is looking for and how your speaking is

graded. This post gives you a brief outline of

the grading criteria, how band scores arecalculated and how examiners typically grade

the speaking.



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The 4 grading criteria There are 4 criteria:

Fluency and coherence:How fluently you speak

and how well you link your ideas together Pronunciation:How accurate your pronunciation

is

Lexical resource:How accurate and varied your

vocabulary is Grammatical range and accuracyHow accurate

and varied your grammar is



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What do these criteria mean? This is IELTS and IELTS examiners are trained to

interpret these criteria in a particular way. Intheory it should not matter where you take yourtest as all examiners grade consistently. I suggest

you should spend time understanding the detailhere as that way you can avoid many commonmistakes.

One main point is that in all the criteria a key idea

is being clear. The main idea is whether you canexpress yourself clearly so that someone else canunderstand you.



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Fluency

Fluency is a combination of:

speed of speech

length of answer

pausing correctly



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Coherence is the ability to

expand your answers

answer the questions directly add relevant detail to explain or illustrate your

answers

connect your sentences by using tenses andconnectors

Coherence



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Common mistakes

You should note that very fast or very longanswers are not necessarily good, as you may

be penalised for poor pronunciation or lack of

coherence. In the speaking the main point is

that you are able to express yourself clearly.

Another common mistake is to not answer the

question. This is where you will be penalised.



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Pronunciation

The main point here is that your pronunciation is easyto understand and whether your are able to make yourmeaning clear. Features of good pronunciation include:

Basic word pronunciation

linked speech sounds

Correct sentence stress

Correct use of intonation (rising and falling)

You should note that there is no need to have aBritish or American accent.



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Common Mistake

A common mistake here is to

use long words without really

knowing what they mean.



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Grammatical Range and

AccuracyThere are two key points to understand here: you need to avoid grammar mistakes

especially with your tenses

you need to use a rangeof grammatical

structures and you should not just use simple

sentences all the time



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When are they graded?

All 4 criteria are judged throughoutall 3 parts of the speaking testso it

is important to concentrate frombeginning to end. Although your test

will be recorded, you will almost

certainly be graded in real time inthe test by the examiner sitting in

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How are band

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All the criteria count equally

One mistake candidates make is to focus onone or other of the criteria or forget about

one altogether (normally cohesion and

coherence). Why is this wrong? They all count

equally.

What happens is that you get a score out of 9

for each of the criteria, they are addedtogether and then that score is divided by 4.



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For more information refer to this

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