Many students ask what is the best way to prepare for the IELTS speaking test – one way is to know what the examiner doesn’t want to hear. Find our what not to say in your IELTS speaking test.
Of course, one of the best ways is to familiarise yourself with the speaking test format and test techniques. For that, check out the advice on the Prepare Speaking pages. What many people forget however, is that no matter how hard you study for your test you will need to talk about non-academic interests. Therefore you need an awareness of what is currently happening in the world or be ready to talk about your interests. You may be asked a question about something you have read recently in the news, or a novel you would recommend, or a dish you can cook. What the examiner doesn’t want to hear is that you haven’t been reading the news lately, or reading a novel for pleasure or you can’t cook because you are always studying. This makes it very difficult for the examiner to keep the conversation going. Our advice is to read and listen to the news in English every day (say 10 minutes a day), have a novel you read for pleasure and keep up some hobbies you can talk about. And if you really don’t have time in your life for these things, make it up. The examiner will never know if the book you are describing was one you read ten years ago. Or the dish you can cook, is actually your mother’s cooking. It doesn’t matter – it is a test of your English, so you need to speak about something! Remember, the topics in the speaking test are non-academic. It would be a shame to score lower than you should because you have been focusing too much on academic work.
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