How To Pass IELTS Speaking
the formula for passing IELTS speaking
parts 1 2 & 3 welcome to speak English
with Tiffani I am teacher Tiffani let’s
jump right in
now there are 3 parts for the I else
speaking test part one is the
introduction part 2 is talking about a
topic and part 3 consists of further
questions about that topic let’s start
with part 1 now during the introduction
phase the examiner will introduce him or
herself and then ask you to introduce
yourself now remember when you’re
introducing yourself you should always
include four parts your family your home
your work and also your interests so you
need three pieces of information for
each of those sections so for family I
chose parents sisters and husband for
home I chose Maryland Four Seasons
popular for work I chose Samsung for
years and design and for interests I
chose drawing cycling and reading so
when I add this information to my
introduction it looks like this now as
you can see I have all of the
information my husband my parents two
sisters Maryland a popular state four
seasons intern Samsung design and
drawing cycling and reading however we
need to see how do we connect all of
this information so let’s look at some
patterns okay so our introduction looks
like this hello my name is Tiffany my
family consists of my husband my parents
and my two sisters now what you will
notice is when I spoke about my family
I used this expression consists of so
when you speak about your family you
want to use this expression as well
consists of we’re going to put it on the
left side and consist
of just means includes so let’s change
that really quickly
l UDS okay so when you speak about your
family during the IELTS speaking test
remember to say my family consists of
okay let’s keep going for the past two
years my husband and I have been living
not too far away from my parents home
now you’ll see that when I spoke about
where I live with my husband
I used the expression or the pattern not
too far away from so let’s write it on
the left side not too far away from now
this pattern literally just means close
yeah you actually can just say my house
is close to my parents house but
remember for the IELTS speaking
introduction part you want to use the
most natural form of English so instead
of just saying my house it’s close to my
parents house you can say my house is
not too far away from my parents house
you will sound more fluent and your
English will also be more impressive to
the person listening to you okay let’s
keep going our home is in Maryland which
is quite a popular state to live in
because it is near Washington DC now in
this sentence we see the pattern which
is quite now which is quite is just a
pattern or an expression that we use
when we want to give a little bit more
detail about what we previously
mentioned so we’re gonna put here
details let’s cross that a so you can
also use this pattern when you speak
about your home during your introduction
one more time with
is quite okay let’s keep going it has
all four seasons I currently work as an
intern for Samsung my job entails
working on web design projects now let’s
see what I said right here my job
entails now let’s add this to the left
side my job in tails
okay now what you’ll notice about this
expression or this pattern is entails
entails actually means the same thing as
our previous pattern consists of it
means in clues so when you talk about
your job during your introduction
you’re gonna mention your duties or what
you have to do at your job so for
example you can say I currently work as
a teacher my job entails teaching
English to adults and children you see I
gave you an example of my duties and the
expression or the pattern you want to
use is my job entails okay let’s keep
going as far as my interests I enjoy
drawing cycling and reading in my free
time now in this last sentence the last
part of our introduction I said as for
my interests now this is also a very
natural expression that native English
speakers use when they are talking about
certain things
so as for my interests now when you are
giving your introduction in the
beginning you talked about yourself then
you talked about your family then you
talked about where you live then you
talked about your job and now you’re
changing the subject to your interests
so we use this when we want to
transition so we want to switch from one
topic two the next topic so I was
talking about my job but now I want to
talk about my interests so I say ask for
my interests and then I continue to
explain or Express what I enjoy doing
remember these are very good patterns to
use when you’re giving your introduction
again consist of use it when you speak
about your family not too far away from
use it when you’re speaking about your
home or where you live
which is quite you use that pattern when
you’re speaking about details during
your introduction my job entails use
that when you want to give examples of
the duties you have at your job and as
for my interests is used when you want
to transition or switch from talking
about one topic and going to speaking
about your interests or your hobbies
okay let’s keep going now let’s go to
part 2 talking about the topic in this
part the examiner will give you a task
card which asks you to talk about a
particular topic including points to
include in your talk so as you’ll notice
we have the who what when where and why
this is key for this part of the test so
let’s say for example the topic is
describe a piece of art you like so what
I’ve done is I’ve chosen Lucas which is
the title of a piece of art that I like
and I’ve chosen who why and when as my
three WS so for who I put Chuck Close
he’s an American painter a photorealist
and a photographer for why I said I
liked the process the patterns the minut
details minut just means small and also
many colors and for when I chose 1967
which is the year this painting was
painted and I gave three more details
about that year related to the painting
and the artist
I said decided to make art for himself
decided to stop using paintbrushes and
also decided to throw away all of his
tools so when we see all of
information inside of our answer it
looks like this you see I have all of
the information check close American
painter photo realist photographer loved
the process patterns minut details many
colors 1967 decided to make art for
himself to stop using paint brushes and
finally decided to throw away all of his
tools but let’s see what patterns we
need to use to connect all of this
information ok
our response or answer to the topic
looks like this one of my favorite
pieces of art is titled Lukas it was
painted by an artist named Chuck Close
who is an American painter he is well
known for being an amazing photo realist
now in this sentence you’ll see that I
said well known for being okay so let’s
add this to the left side and I will
explain to you what this is used for so
what this pattern means well known for
being now this pattern actually just
means popular for or popular because for
example let’s think of a famous actor in
a movie in America so let’s say Brad
Pitt now many people in the world know
who Brad Pitt is he’s very popular so I
can say Brad Pitt is well-known for
being a great actor so what happened in
front of this pattern I say the person’s
name that I am talking about then I say
is well-known for being and after that I
give a fact or I give some piece of
information that proves their popularity
he’s a good actor or he also looks very
handsome so he is well known for being a
handsome actor okay let’s keep going
top of that he is also a photographer
okay now our real quick for
pronunciation in America we say this two
ways photograph er or photographer so
don’t worry it depends on what part of
America the person may live in and even
in some parts of England but
photographer or a photograph er both are
ok so let’s keep going
the pattern I want us to look at is on
top of that so on left side on top of
that now this pattern is used when you
want to say also or in addition so you
want to give an extra detail an extra
piece of information so for example you
can say my car is really nice it has a
very good navigation system on top of
that it was inexpensive so what happened
I told you one detail about my car well
it has a really good navigation system
then I gave you one more detail it
wasn’t that expensive ok let’s keep
going
I love the process he uses for his
paintings because of the patterns it
produces also the minut details and many
colors are amazing his style changed
around 1967 because he decided to make
art for himself and to stop using paint
brushes now in the middle of this
sentence we see his style changed around
1967 so the pattern here is actually
just a word uh round now when we speak
in English we use around to also mean
about when we want to give a guesstimate
or if we don’t know the exact
time or the exact date we can say around
so I can say ah I got to my class around
10 a.m. or I got to my class about 10
a.m. it means maybe it was 10:05 maybe
it was 955 it was around or about that
time so when you are speaking during
your test during the IELTS speaking
portion if you’re speaking about a topic
and you don’t know an exact detail you
can also use around I think the painting
was done around 1935 I think the
painting was produced around 15 years
ago okay let’s keep going
he also decided to throw away all of his
tools alright so now we finished talking
about this topic let’s move on now in
part 3 they are going to ask you further
questions the examiner will ask you
further questions which are connected to
the topic of part 2 so you will discuss
more abstract issues and ideas now
remember the topic that I chose was a
piece of art and I spoke about the who
the when and the why but I didn’t
mention the what are the where so this
is what happens for part 3 if they ask
you another question about who maybe
they ask me another question about Chuck
Close I put a plus one I’ve already
given three details about him so I’m
just gonna add one more detail about him
so if they ask you any question related
to one of the three double zoos you’ve
already spoken about you just need to
add one more detail however if they ask
a question about one of the W’s that you
have not spoken about you need to give
three details for that response so for
example what and where I didn’t speak
about where the piece was painted
nor did I speak about any specific
details about the painting so what I
have chosen to do is have them ask me a
question regarding what
so they can say tell me more about the
painting well we know that’s what so I
need to give three pieces of information
so I’ve chosen representative of his
colorful style image of fellow artist
Lucas Samaras and a painting based on a
grid over a photo so I’m giving more
details about the painting related to
what because I have not spoken about
that yet so my answer to this further
question would look like this
I have representative of the colorful
style painting of a fellow artist then I
have the artist named Lucas Samaras and
I also have a painting based on a grid
that was placed over a photo now again
let’s look at the patterns we need to
connect this information okay now let’s
see how our answer to this further
question looks in speaking about this
painting many art critics have said that
it is representative of the colorful
style Chuck Close has come to be known
for now in this one sentence we have
three different patterns that we need to
take a closer look at let’s start with
the first one in speaking about okay so
let’s write it on the left side here in
speaking
about now this expression or this
pattern is used when we want to put
focus on a topic and then lead to a
person’s opinion on that topic so here
I’ll write it like this first we want to
put focus on a topic and then that leads
to a person’s opinion on that topic so
for example in speaking about this car
my uncle said that it’s the best car for
people who are on a budget so what
happened what was the topic this car who
was the person my uncle and what was his
opinion it is the best car for people on
a budget ok let’s look at this one more
time again in speaking about you first
want to think about the topic so what’s
the topic let’s say fast food like
McDonald’s or Burger King in speaking
about fast food the doctor said it is
not good for people to eat it every day
so what happened what was the focus fast
food right so in speaking about fast
food the person was the doctor what was
his opinion his opinion was people
should not eat it every day so in
speaking about fast food the doctors
said people should not eat it every day
ok so when you’re giving your response
to a question that they’re asking you
about the topic you already spoke about
you want to now add more information so
when you use this pattern in speaking
about it shows that now you’re thinking
of not only your opinion but also the
opinion of other people it shows that
your
thinking very deeply so it’s an
excellent pattern to use when you get to
part 3 of the IELTS speaking test okay
let’s move on to the next one we see it
right here representative of okay so
let’s take it to the left side rep pre
sensitive of now this pattern just means
a good example of it’s the same meaning
a good example of but it puts more
emphasis on whatever you’re speaking
about being almost the best example so
for example if you’re thinking about we
mentioned fast food so let’s stay with
that topic so McDonald’s is
representative of fast food in America
what happened McDonald’s is a good
example of what fast food is like in
America okay let’s keep going to the
next one has come to be known for has
come to be known for so let’s write it
here come to be known for now this
pattern is actually very similar to a
pattern we mentioned a little earlier in
this video lesson
it just means well known for now the
only difference is instead of it just
meaning well known for it emphasizes
that there was a process that happened
over time that led this person or this
thing to become popular or well-known
for example let’s say Obama Oh
I came to be known for his kindness to
citizens so he was the president but
over time people watched how kind he was
to people so he came to be known for his
kindness to others okay let’s keep going
Chuck Close himself informed people that
it is actually a painting of a fellow
artist whose name is Lucas
Samaras now in this sentence the first
three words are very interesting Chuck
Close himself so let’s write it on the
left side we have a person’s name and
then either himself or it can also be
her self now we use this pattern when we
want to emphasize that they personally
did or said something so emphasis on an
action or a statement see if we can get
this all in here there we go
if it’s on an action or a statement so
the King himself said that citizens
should always work together so what
happened I could have just said the king
said citizens should always work
together but I wanted to put emphasis on
an action or a statement so I said the
king himself said that citizens should
always work together so remember when
you’re answering during the third part
of the IELTS speaking test you want to
use these patterns to show that you’re
giving more information and also that
you’re thinking not only about your
opinion but about someone else’s opinion
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