5 Tips for Maximizing Your English Speaking Test Score

hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia

the weekly series where you ask me
questions and I answer them

maybe first question comes from meu ki
I’m Yuki Yuki says I want to know about

test taking tips okay I will give you
five tips tip number one is to know your

test on your test do you need to write
do you need to read listen speak what do

you need to do first make sure you know
the test and know the requirements of

the test number two check and see if the
sections are timed check to see how much

time you have for each section of your
test number three is to ask yourself

have you taken the test before what was
good for you what was not good for you

so what do you need to improve review
your past tests to see what you need to

work on for the next test number four if
you can if it’s available take a

practice test practice tests can help
you find your weak points and your

strong points and help you if you have
timed sections in your test as well

number five if your test includes
speaking you need to practice speaking

if you don’t practice you won’t be able
to do it at the time that you need it so

if you don’t have a language partner you
can look for one online or you can

practice with media like repeating
shadowing media so those are five quick

test tips I know they’re very general
but I hope that they can apply to lots

of different tests so I hope that this
helps you thanks for the question ok

let’s go on to your next question next
question comes from nerd on Emma net hi

again nerd on nerd on says hi Alicia
what’s the difference between blame

accuse and charge alright blame accuse
in charge these are three verbs that

have very similar meanings let’s begin
with blame to blame means to assign

someone responsibility for something
this has a negative nuance to it some

examples
my parents blamed me for the broken vase

the police blamed the accident on a
broken traffic light to accuse someone

means to suggest that someone did
something bad so it’s a little bit

different from blame blame is like
assigning responsibility to someone for

like a negative effect to accuse someone
of something is like someone did

something wrong maybe on purpose and you
want to suggest that it was that person

some examples
the landlord accused him of not paying

rent she accused the company of fraud
let’s move along then to the last one -

charge - charge is a legal term this is
a legal word which means you formally

accuse someone of wrongdoing so we do
not use charge in everyday conversation

when we’re saying like you did this bad
thing or I think it was you charge is

used in courts to charge someone with a
crime means to officially and legally

accuse them of a crime examples the
suspect has been charged with murder

she’s been charged with breaking and
entering so that’s a quick introduction

to the differences between these three
verbs I hope that that helped you thanks

for an interesting question okay let’s
move on to your next question next

question comes from Isaac Alexander
Hagen Isaac Isaac says hi Alicia what’s

the difference between soccer and
football yeah soccer is just the word

that people from the u.s. used to talk
about what the rest of the world calls

football so to my knowledge most if not
all other countries use the word

football to talk about the game with the
black and white ball the players kick

around a field we do have a football of
our own we have what many people call

American football which is a totally
different game which involves passing

and a little bit of kicking if you’re
speaking with an American English

speaker soccer refers to the black and
white ball sport football refers to that

kind of egg-shaped brown leather ball
sport if you’re talking to maybe a

British English speaker football
probably means what American English

speakers call soccer I hope that that
helps you thanks for the question all

right let’s move on to your next
question next question comes from Ahmed

McGee hi Ahmed Ahmed says hi Lee show
what does whiplash mean

with flash this is an injury whiplash is
an injury that happens when the body is

like jerked in a strong way like in a
car accident or maybe another like

transportation related accident whiplash
is an injury around like the head and

neck and shoulders where the body and
the head moves like separately if this

is the body and this is the head they
move separately like in a very quick

like jumping like whip like motion if
you know a whip it’s like this Indiana

Jones has one it’s like so - like
whiplash is the name of the injury we

get from our bodies being moved in this
way so I hope that that helps you thanks

very much for the question okay let’s
move on to your next question next

question comes from Karima heigen Karima
karema says hi Alicia I want to ask you

what does the preposition up mean or
refer to in the following sentence what

exactly are you up to
I’ll write this up doesn’t have any

meaning so what are you up to or what’s
up this is just a set phrase up doesn’t

have any like directional meaning
there’s no movement or positioning just

consider this a set phrase like what’s
up means how are you or what are you

doing same thing with what exactly are
you up to it means what exactly are you

doing up doesn’t really have a function
here it’s just a set phrase so don’t

worry too much about what exactly up
means here it’s sort of just it’s just

an expression that we use so that’s
everything that I have for this week

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