Successful speaking tips and activity for IELTS candidates and English language learners

1. Achieve Better Speaking Skills
Ms. Maria Tariq
IELTS Instructor
English Language Teacher

2. 12 General interview/QA session tips
• Be formal
• Give a full answer
• Be polite/ cultured
• Maintain good posture
• Speak clearly
• Use descriptive language
• Speak up
• Keep steady pace
• Explain foreign words
• Stay on Topic
• Don’t use slang (kids/things/stuff)
• Don’t memorize answers

3. Step Zero-IELTS Speaking
• Greeting Examiner and Identification Check
1.What’s your full name?
• Good afternoon, my name’s …………. (contraction-
high level pronunciation)
• Speak your name slowly and clearly
• Smile
• Look in the eyes
• Relax
2.What can I call you? (Don’t give details of why
people call you that name)

4. 3.Where are you from?
• I come from….. (Qila Didar Singh which is in
the East of city Gujranwala (Don’t expand).
• Don’t ask examiner questions or give
recommendations to visit your place.
4.Can you show me your identification(ID)
please?
• Here you are…. Off course, here it is…. Sure.

5. Speaking Part One-Self
• Listen for Wh question word, form of verb or helping
verb to answer your question accurately.
Cooking
• How often due you cook? (frequency)
• Who usually does the cooking in your family? (person)
• Where did you learn to cook? (place)
• When did you learn to cook? (time)
• How long have you been cooking? (length)
• What kind of dishes do you cook? (variety)

6. Choose and explain
• Can you…..swim, dance, cook?
• Do you like….traveling, reading /dislike?
• What’s your favourite…..book, dish, newspaper?
• Do you prefer…..eating at home or outside?
• Do you usually….. Cook for yourself or others?
• What do you usually….. Do on weekends?
• Do you ever….. Order food delivery?
• Have you ever….. Eaten any food from foreign
country?

7. Past tense testing
• Did you ever cook when you were a child?
General Question in Part 1
• Why do some people dislike cooking?

8. Part Two
• Describe a book you recently read
• I’m going to tell you about…
• I’d like to talk about….
• Paraphrase the information to get higher
bands, e.g. a novel(book) which(recently) I
read three weeks back…
• An adjective… a fascinating novel which I read
not so long ago…

9. Part Three-More Difficult
• Do you think it is better to live in the countryside
or in a city?
• Countryside
A slower pace of life, less pollution, and less noise,
stronger communities, large houses
• City
More amenities/facilities, better prospects, better
public transport, better education
• Language of comparison with diverse grammar
improves your chances of bands

10. Improve your English on your own
• Get a list of common topics (develop ideas)
• Word list for the topic (Weather-hot Low Band
word; boiling, scorching, sweltering)
• Get the questions for that topic-answer questions
recording your answers (Find your weaknesses)
• Check fluency, pronunciation, grammar,
vocabulary)
• PRONOUNCE IT RIGHT (Google App)
• Practice, Practice, Practice

11. Group Activity-Make Wh Questions
• Indoor Games
• Hospitality/Visitors
• Bags
• Celebrities
• Future Plans
• Teachers
• Holidays
• Photography
• Colour
• Books
• Shoes
What, Who, When, Why, Where, How

12. Sequence
• Group A will ask questions from group B
(Pairs)
• Group C will ask from D
• Group E will ask from F
• Then…. Group B will ask from A
• Group D will ask from C
• Group F will ask from E

13. Remember!
YOU CAN DO IT…
STAY CALM & CONFIDENT…
KEEP ON PRACTISING…
BEST OF LUCK! 