This document provides an overview and agenda for a lesson on speaking skills for the IELTS exam. It discusses the structure of the speaking portion of the IELTS, including that it is 11-14 minutes, has 3 parts, and requires describing yourself and your location in part 1. Vocabulary is introduced around places, including collocations. Model responses are provided for answering questions in part 1. Students then practice responding to questions about themselves and where they live.
2. Objectives
• Vocabulary
• IELTS Speaking part 1
• Answering questions about
yourself
• Giving extra details
• Expressing likes and dislikes
Materials
• Students’ Book
• Unit 1: Great Places to Be
Vocabulary and Speaking (p.12-13)
3. • Overview of the IELTS Speaking Test
• Vocabulary: Collocations and prepositional phrases
• Speaking part 1
• Lead in
• Model answer analysis
• Practice
Agenda
4. Overview of the test
1. How long is the speaking module?
A. 5-10 minutes
B. 15-20 minutes
C. 11-14 minutes
2. How many parts are there in the
speaking module?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
5. Overview of the test
3. What topics do you have to answer
in Part 1?
A. Your family and yourself
B. Your studies and other familiar
topics
C. All of the above
4. What do you have to do in Part 2?
A. describe a picture in 1 minute
B. talk about a topic in 2 minutes
C. discuss some questions related to a
topic
6. Overview of the test
5. Do you have time to prepare for
Part 2?
A. Yes
B. No
6. You can look at the questions in Part 3.
A. True
B. False
7. Overview of the test
7. Part 3 is the easiest part of the test?
A. True
B. False
8. Vocabulary
• relaxing
• long
• journey
• holiday
Relaxing holiday; Long journey
How about Relaxing journey; Long holiday?
Adjective – noun collocations
• Think of 3~4 things you can say to describe where you live.
• In groups of 3-4, describe where you live to each other.
9. Collocations
• Exercise 1, p. 12
• Answers
2. main 3. pretty
4. tall 5. large
6. industrial 7. quiet
8. suburban 9. tiny
• Exercise 2, p.12
• Answers
• 1. by / near 2. in / near
• 3. in 4. by/in/near
• 5. in / near 6. on
• 7. by/near 8. in
10. Speaking
Listen and complete the table on page 11
Hanan student,
studying
medicine
Muttrah,
Oman
by the sea,
near the
mountains
large,
beautiful, very
old, hot, very
pleasant
Kwan student,
studying
economics
village in
Korea
near Chonju,
in mountains
small, friendly
people, good
place to live
11. Speaking part 1
Model answer
Q: Do you work, or are you a student?
A: Yes, I’m a student. I’m studying medicine because I want to become a doctor. At
the moment I’m studying English as well because I hope to do part of my degree
course in Australia.
S1: Answer the question.
S2: More detail + reason
S3: More detail + reason
12. Exam advice
1. Don’t answer questions with just 1 or 2 words.
2. Use longer sentences.
3. Give some extra information when you can:
More details
Examples
Reasons or causes
13. Practice
Work in pairs
1. Can you tell me what you do? Do you work, or are you a student?
2. Where do you come from?
3. Can you describe your town or city to me?
14. Likes and Dislikes
• Another good thing is…
• I enjoy...
• I really like
• I find (something/ a place) very
enjoyable.
I really dislike…
... is something I don’t like.
I’m not very keen on...
I find (something/ a place) very
unpleasant.
15. Recording Script: Exercise 4
Examiner What do you like about the area where you live?
Hanan Oh. I really like the sea and the part of the city just by the sea because it's very beautiful
and there are always lots of people there I live in the suburbs. but I enjoy going shopping in the
city centre. There are plenty of good shops, and I like buying clothes.
E What things in Muttrah do you not like?
H Mm, I'm not very keen on the hot weather. and the hot wind from the desert is something I
don't like.
E Mm… How is the area changing?
H They're building more houses and roads. It's getting busier.
E What do you like about the area where you live. Kwan?
Kwan I find walking in the mountains very enjoyable, and another good thing is the people,
because they're very friendly and generous I think people in my village are very happy and relaxed
E What things in your village do you not like?
K Well. I live by a busy main road and I find the traffic very unpleasant I really dislike the noise of
cars and lorries.
E How is the area changing?
K There's more traffic. so the village is becoming noisier. Also, young people are leaving the village,
so it isn't so lively.
16. Practice
1. What do you like about the area where you live?
2. What things in your town or city do you not like?
3. How is the area changing?
4. What do people in your area do in their free time?
5. What do you think visitors to your town or region should see? Why?
Quickly go through this part (max time: 5’) – You can skip this if you are short on time
(Time allotted: 5 mins)
1/ With books closed, ask students to work alone and think of three or four things they can say to describe the area where they live, e.g. I live in a busy street near the city centre.
When they are ready, ask them to work in small groups and describe the area where they live to each other.
2/With books open, draw their attention to the introduction on adjective-noun collocations.
- Ask students which adjective is usually found with each noun (long journey, relaxing holiday).
- Ask if it's possible to say long holiday and relaxing journey (yes).
Tell them that collocations are words that are often found together and which make your English sound more natural, but that they are not fixed expressions.
Time allotted: 5’
-Play the audio file once.
-Give students time to prepare their answers. Help them with any vocabulary they need.
-Click to reveal the answers.
-After students have listened to the candidates, ask if they think the candidates did well (they gave longish answers, used a range of vocabulary, spoke fluently, and answered the questions exactly).
-Alternative treatment: Since the goal of this activity is to provide a model answer to a part 1 question, instead of having the students do this comprehension task you can just make students read the script as they listen. Then you can ask students what makes this a good answer (they gave longish answers, used a range of vocabulary, spoke fluently, and answered the questions exactly). After that you can highlight the features of the model answer as shown in the next slide.
Explain this expected structure for part 1 speaking and show how the model answer illustrates it. Stress on the importance of elaboration
Get students in pairs and practice in 5 – 7 minutes
Remind them to apply the strategy
Ask some students to share their answers and give feedback/ correction if any. Focus on correcting their application of the part 1 answer
Ask students to answer the questions in Activity 3/ p.13 (Students’ book) then show them the phrases
Then get the students to answer questions in Activity 4 p. 13 based on the script on the next slide
The script could be found on page 159, Students’ Book
Answers:
Hanan: 2, 4, 5, 6
Kwan: 1, 3, 7, 8
Get students in pairs and practice in 10 minutes
Ask some students to share their answers and give feedback/ correction if any
