The document provides guidance on the IELTS speaking test. It notes that the test has 3 sections which takes 11-14 minutes, and is scored based on fluency, grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. It describes the structure of the test sections - an introduction, followed by 3 topics each with 3-4 questions. Examiners will ask basic identification questions and then move to topics like hobbies, home, and work. For the final section, test takers receive a cue card and must speak about the topic for 1-2 minutes. The document provides examples of cue card topics and vocabulary to use for a high score.

1. By sir Cliff Luanda

4.  Speaking test 3 SECTIONS which takes 11-14 minutes, the
test is 1;1 with an examiner.
 Scores and criteria in speaking test basing on;
 1.Fluency and coherence
 2.Grammatical range and accuracy
 3.Lexical resources or vocabularies
 4.Pronunciations
 Finally score is an average.

5.  Examiner will pick you up from the waiting room, take you to
the waiting room, and in there the voice recorder and the
timer will be started.
 You should read the introduction and then will be very quick
identify check.


6.  Then what happens?
The examiner will introduce themselves friendly like „hello my name is cliff‟
 Then they will ask these questions;
 „could you tell me your full name please?‟
 „what shall I call you?‟
 „can you tell me where you‟re from?‟
 „Can I please see your identification?‟
 This part is nit assessed at all, you just give just give short factual
answers
 Keep in mind „SHORT,FACTUAL ANSWERS‟

7.  In this part it goes for 4-5 minutes and you are going to
talk about three topics and within each topic you will
have
 4-5 minutes and a timer
 3-4 questions per topic
 3 topics
All the questions are simple, personal questions, the test
always begins with the;
-lets talk about….
-what you do…{work or study}
-where you live…

8.  The common topics here are;
 Sports, food, Television, family, mobile phones, fashion,
holidays, Animals Etc..
 Now you may extend your answers, here the examiner is trying
to rank you from zero to nine so if you give short answers the
examiner will fail or get hard times in ranking you between zero
and nine
 So you need to extend your answers, try to use some good
vocabularies, some different sentence structures
 For instance, you are asked;
 Where do you live?
 What can people do for fun there?
 Would you like to move to another place in future?
 You should aim for around 20 seconds per answer
 You will have the timer at the screen so you can watch that.

9.  In speaking IELTS test you will provided with
the cue card which will guide you on the
topics you are supposed to talk about
 -CUE CARD is a large
card that held out of the
audiences sight that has
words in large letters to
help the speaker or
an actor remember their
lines in television broadcasting.

10.  The IELTS cue cards change every 4 months with 50% of topics being
replaced every April, September, and December.
 There are 9 types of cue cards;
1.IELTS cue cards that ask you to describe the event in the past
2.IELTS cue cards that asks you to describe the person
3.IELTS cue cards that helps you to describe a habit
4.IELTS cue cards that ask you to describe an object
5.IELTS cue cards that ask you to describe a place
6.IELTS cue cards that ask you to describe hypothetical desire
7.IELTS cue cards that ask you to describe a favourite thing
8.IELTS cue cards that ask you to describe a cultural event/ item
9.IELTS cue cards that ask you to describe something crazy

11.  This is an example of a cue card;

12.  Let‟s talk about where you live…

13.  At this part the cue card will be provided and you have
to answer it accordingly. At this section most questions
are asked about the place where you do stay…
 Example; “do you live in small town or big city?”
 “what can people do for fun there?”
 “would you like to move to the another place in future”?
 So you should spend twenty seconds {20} per answer

14.  These are some good vocabularies which will
guide you to get good score during
answering the questions;

15.  Let‟s talk about clothes and fashion;
 At this part you will be asked about;
 -What kind of clothes do you like wearing?
 -How often do you go shopping for clothes?
 -Do you prefer to shop for clothes alone or
with someone else?
 -Has your style of clothing changed in
recent years?

16.  Here are some vocabularies which will guide you in this topic;

17.  Let‟s talk about staying healthy;
 From this part most questions will be asked
about our well being, our health status
 Such questions include;
 Is it important for you to be healthy?
 Are you healthier now than when you were a
child?
 What could you do to have a healthier life
style?

18.  You may have self evaluation by yourself by
the following guidelines and finally you may
ask yourself;