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We're looking at the speaking exam, and we're going to go over all sections of the exam and talk about phrases that you can use in each section to deliver your responses to the examiners questions.

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The first thing you should do is familiarize yourself with what is expected of you in the different parts of the exam.

So as you know, there are three official parts Port one, which is made up of scripted questions poor to which is the cue card part that you will respond to as a monologue.

And Port three, which involves unscripted questions that are asked to you by your Examiner.

It's more of a discussion back and forth.

Unofficially, there's 1/4 part, which is the initial greeting when you meet your examiner so the exempt truly begins.

Then this portion is recorded, just something you should know and your examiner will be actively listening for any challenges you have when conducting this preliminary part.

So for this section, keep your responses to the Examiner's question very short and very to the point, you are not expected to elaborate on any of these responses.

So, um, examiners all over the world ask the same four questions when the when the outs candidate comes into the room.

The first question is for your full name.

And here you should just state the your your native name from you know, when you're in your native language.

So So here we have eggs and draws Nia.

Now, the second question, the Examiner will ask you what you would like to be cold.

So edit has an English name.

His name is Edward, and he says, Please call me Edward.

Then the third question the example ask you where you're from and the proper response this would be.

I am from Slupsk, Poland, and there's no need to elaborate on that at all.

On then.

The fourth is the examiner will ask you for your identification.

Okay?

And this was simple.

Here you go.

Or here it is would work fine.

Okay.

So deliveries with confidence, and then you're already to get into part one.

So as I was mentioning her one is scripted.

All of the questions that you will be asked are written ahead of time.

Um, your response to each of the questions in Part one is, on average, 25 seconds.

But that's a very loose average because you will have some responses.

That could be a short as five seconds if you're simply stating a fact in response to a question that only needs a single fact.

But some response some responses might be as long as 45 seconds.

So typically, the shorter responses are responding to questions that are asking for fax, and the longer responses are responses to questions asking for opinions.

So if you're asked them an open ended broad question like, could you describe your hometown, which would be a mixture of fact?

An opinion?

Or what sort of work do you do or tell me about your family?

You should do what you can to summarize your response.

You don't want your response to go much further than 40 or 45 seconds because you should remember that the Examiner is going to be asking you 12 different questions in this just part one So and they have five minutes to do this roughly five minutes.

I mean, it's it's it's flexible, but but the entire exam is 15 minutes long.

So So this section, the examiner is trying to to get everything out of the way within about five minutes or so.

Okay, so that's all I wanted to mention about that.

So now let's look at, uh, at the section here.

Now, the first section of part one is going to be either about your home or your work.

It's never about any other topic, so you can plan ahead and look at some of these sample responses that I'm offering here.

So if the Examiner would ask you, where did you grow up?

Now you want to give a full answer.

You don't want to be long winded.

You do not want to be too brief.

So I grew up in Schlepps, which is a city in the northwest of Poland, towards the birth the Baltic Sea, the street I grew up on ran through a quiet farming suburb of slips and therefore my childhood, the home of much health.

It was quick, peaceful.

Okay, that would be a full response to that first question.

Now, I'm gonna share some full responses.

And then as we move along, I'll share just little phrases that you can apply to your own responses.

Where do you look now?

I live in an apartment building on the west side of Shanghai.

In the shoe Jack.

Wait District.

Now, if you were just answer.

I live in an apartment building that would, you know that doesn't answer the question.

Really?

The examiners asking specifically I mean, where what section of the city What city are you in?

Where do you live?

So this would be considered a full response.

Okay, Uh, the question was something like, What sort of city is schlepps Now?

This is asking you for opinion and perhaps in fact, so there there may be a bit of guessing in your response.

And when I say guessing, I mean, if you were trying to come up with, say, the population.

So, for example, if someone asked me What's the population of auto other city I come from?

Well, I don't actually know the exact figure I would guess.

It's say, perhaps around 1.5 million people on guy would use language like that to show that I'm I'm not completely certain.

So down here in the second example I use Well, I believe, and they were talking about population the population of slips must be reaching, uh, 80,000 or something like that.

Now we just start.

The response is something like this Schlepps is known for.

And then you know what?

Whatever that thing is, I mean, if you could fit is a fishing community.

I'm not I'm not entirely sure, but is known for its fishing industry, and thus it has a very large harbor and that the harbor is is quite large.

One compares to the overall size of the city and then you kind of develop, You know, the response on a little bit more from that, sharing examples can help as well in these sorts of sorts of when you're sharing an opinion sort of questions because you can help to add a tangible elements to your response.

For example, if I were to flip it back to my home city of Ottawa, I might share the example that there is a very large tech area and thus the city of Ottawa has has a significant proportion of the technology sector industry within Canada.

Okay, Some other phrases we could use our Now if you need to buy yourself some time, just kind of collect your thoughts.

Try something like Well, let me see.

I guess she slips is and then you could proceed from that.

Or in my opinion, in my opinion slips.

It is a very charming city.

It's a it's a historical place on Ben.

You could perhaps a mention a thing or two about that on how that has shaped.

You know, the culture of Schlepps today.

So that this sort of question I mean, you'd be looking at responding in probably over 30 seconds because you would have more to say about this.

And the Examiner knows you have You have more to say about this.

So they're expecting you to elaborate a little bit now if the questions we're asking you about work.

So, for example, the obvious one, where do you work?

This is a very simple, straightforward.

It's a question that's looking for facts.

There is no need to, you know, use a phrase, for example, like, well, let me see.

That doesn't make sense because you don't know where you work.

You should be able to answer this within a second.

So straightforward.

I work at the P.

T.

W Insurance.

Uh, just changes.

I work at PW Insurance Brokers on Jasper Street in the financial district of London.

Okay, and this is a very straightforward is burnt to the point it doesn't actually ask you.

Really, What do you do?

So you don't want to elaborate in that direction?

You're just giving the Examiner the particular information they're looking for.

No.

A typical follow question is, what does your job entail now?

Sometimes students get into this embarrassing situation where they start elaborating too much in the first question and that the Examiner has to ask them a question that they've kind of already started to answer.

So you want to be sure that you're providing the Examiner exactly the information they're looking for?

So here we have.

What does your job entail?

Or perhaps what do you do in P.

T.

W and a response to something like stating your your title?

So I am a senior financial consultant and then elaborating from that in explaining, you know, particularly what you do as as a senior financial consultant.

Thus my job involves providing and then going on from there.

So, for example, potential investors with advice regarding where to invest their money okay or way could continue by going on.

So I spend most of my days.

Was most of my day visiting clients talking with the potential investors on the phone may be recruiting, you know, you could develop it.

I mean, you're an expert on your own career, so there should be launched for you to say nice academic phrases to use or things like I'm responsible for.

And then you act.

You'd follow that with a noun or a Jared.

So I'm responsible for looking after the and then, you know, whatever part of your department or I'm responsible for the paperwork that allows our company to do X, y and Z, Another nice academic phrase would be my main duty is, And again, you would follow this with verb.

So my main duty is consulting with potential investors.

My main duty is following up with, with our sales team developing, and then you develop your idea this week.

Okay, Now we get to something that's a bit more opinion based.

Do you like your job?

And now we want to sound academic here.

So we should try to use words, for example, like rewarding fulfilling these air.

Good, positive ways to talk about something in life.

Yes, my job is very rewarding or rich fulfilling.

I would say there were two main reasons I enjoy my work.

Now another little tip that I'll share is that often you look like a very logical individual and a person capable of of planning a response on the fly when you number your your reasons for the response before actually delivering those reasons.

So if you say yes, my job is is very fulfilling.

I would say there are two main reasons I enjoy my work.

Okay?

And sometimes you can actually even, you know, say there are two main reasons.

As you're saying that you developed the two reasons in your head and this is a way to impress your examiner.

It it looks like you're a logical person and that you're capable of of these sorts of logical progressions, and you're speaking Firstly, it gives me the opportunity to meet with lots of interesting people.

Interesting.

You could substitute that for dynamic.

You know, you could substitute that for creative.

You get some do that for many words and secondly, allows me to travel on occasion, which is something I find breaks up the office routine nicely.

And then you might elaborate on from that.

Or do you like your job?

I do.

I work with some impressive people in my department.

They keep our workplace stimulating, inspiring, you know, whatever.

And I find this has a positive effect on my work.

OK, so using this sort of sort of academic language developing your ideas, keeping the ideas linked together, and so this sort of response again, this is thistles.

An opinion.

So your examiner would expect you to elaborate a little bit.

So maybe 5676 sentences about why you like your job organized to the point, but a very full answer.

Okay, so now, after that first section of part one, you will come to this section.

So the Examiner will ask you for scripted questions about another topic.

And this section is roughly 1.5 minutes long.

Maybe a little bit longer.

Maybe as long as 22 minutes.

So this could really be about anything.

So I'm just sharing a few things that you can use.

Sometimes it's nice to qualify your verbs with an adverb.

So here we have I particularly enjoy or, you know, examiners asking you about maybe what you do in your free time or or something like that.

You just you seem more academic when when you qualify your response using these descriptive words or, for example, I would have to say, Now, this is a great phrase because you can apply to so many different things.

You know, even when we were talking about Do you like your job?

I would have to say that, Yeah, there are several things I enjoy about it.

It's a nice sort of lead into, uh, to whatever you're gonna be talking about it.

It makes you sound very fluent.

When you use it.

I would have to say Thean fra structure is something I would alter.

So, for example, again, if your examiner asked you about Schlepps, if we were this individual from Poland and they said what would be some?

What's what's something you would like to improve in your hometown?

in your home city.

This would be the kind of structure you want to do.

I would have to say the education system is something I would be interested in developing, you see?

And then perhaps, you know, an example.

We should be sticking.

Here s you see, many Children are being held back or many Children are experiencing or something like that.

I wrote your brain drain just to remind me that, too, I'm sure.