IELTS Speaking Score 4 Why Test-takers Lose Points!?

You want to get the highest IELTS

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possible and I'm here to help you. A British Council certified agent with almost 20 years of experience teaching IELTS. Let's watch a Low Band 4 IELTS interview with Anton. I will explain his

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according to the official. IELTS Speaking Scoring Criteria and I'll give you tips on what to avoid and how to get those high scores. Let's start welcome to the

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section of the IELTS exam. My name is Adrian. I will be your examiner for this part of the exam. I'm recording this. For grading purposes, the exam has three parts.

I will give you instructions for each one. For the first part. I will ask you some questions to get to New better and some questions on a general topic. Can I see your ID? Yes please, here is my passport. Can you just? open it to the page with your credentials I used to register for this

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a few weeks ago what is your full name my name is Anthony Philip Novak my middle name is Philip but you can just call me Anthony okay Anthony can you put that in Where do you live? I live in the suburbs of Warsaw.

We live in a detached house with a small backyard. The house has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, two levels. There are two floors in this house. What is your Hobbie? My pleasant activity is being a model. building actually is uh um I usually build airplanes, this is the hobby I've been doing since you know I was young, let's talk about gardening, do you have a garden where you live? Yes, as I mentioned, we had a small backyard around our house and yes, I love gardening. Do you like Garden Wire why not? Yes, like I said. I love gardening because I relax when I am working in the garden.

How often do you garden? I usually garden only on the weekends, of course, during the summer only on the weekends because during the week I don't have much time for it, who do you garden with? Normally, I garden alone, the rest of my family is not very involved in this, but my wife sometimes. She helped me plant some flowers or some vegetables, have you ever planted a flower or a tree? Yes, every year I planted dozens of tulips and not too many trees because our backyard is not big enough to plant the trees if you could grow them. any type of plant, what would it be?

Good question, so I think I would like to plant the watermelon, but since I like the taste of watermelon, I don't have much time to plant it. I know you need to be very careful with this plant and that's the end of part one. Now we will continue with the second part. For this part, first impressions are very important in the interview when talking in the hallway to get high. band scores you must introduce yourself fluently by showing your identification giving your name and explaining where you live according to the IELTS a band for candidate is a person who speaks slowly makes awkward pauses corrects himself often and repeats what he says you should avoid all this when, unfortunately, he introduces himself Anthony, no, he speaks slowly, awkwardly and pauses, practices different ways of introducing himself like, with pleasure, here is my passport that I used to register a couple of weeks ago, please take a look, please allow me a moment to take out my passport. from my pocket and go to the page with the credentials.

Ah, here it is. Take a look again. Practice this frequently before your IELTS

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so that it comes to you automatically even when you are nervous when answering the first part questions on topics such as. Hobbies or in this case gardening, it is absolutely essential that you finish your answers without stopping halfway and confusing. Listener Anthony fails at this attempt when asked what kind of plants he would like to grow, responds by stating that he would like to grow watermelons, and then ends awkwardly by saying that you know, avoid this phrase, you know, it signals to the examiner that you can't finish your ideas. and that you expect the examiner to finish the sentence for you, instead use an explanation and an example because watermelons are difficult to grow.

Last summer I tried to grow some in my garden, but I just didn't have enough time to keep the bugs away and keep them watered. It's this type of clear, finished response that will give you those higher band scores where you can practice this. our premium IELTS course when you join on our website now let's continue with the second part second part of this part I will show you some questions you will have a minute to look at these questions think about your answers you can take notes in this minute you have your pencil and paper there and then you will have a minute or two to talk.

I'll tell you when to start and when to stop. Please do not touch the questionnaire. Talk about a place. Just twist the end. Yes. Talk about a place. like going grocery shopping, don't touch this. Sorry, your one-minute preparation time starts now. Your one minute preparation time is up, please start talking about the store, what we are using to buy groceries is a Tesco, it is a supermarket, I think it is. it is the biggest supermarket in the city, it is in the south of Warsaw, the store is convenient, good price, we can buy food from all over the world, yes it is located in the south of the city, usually, but usually we buy your uh groceries uh what do we have to do to uh prepare our weekly meals like breakfasts and dinners, okay, your time is up, I'll stop you there, please turn the paper over and put it aside, as well as the pencil .

Withdraw the questions and we will continue with the third part. Therefore, it is exceptionally important that you do a good job on the long answer cue card in part 2, as this prepares for part three and the questions in part three relate to the second part of this In the case from Anthony, does a pretty poor job answering the cue card about the question of a place where he buys food from the beginning, gets stuck when explaining that at this grocery store you can buy food from all over the world, then comes back and starts to repeat itself about the grocery store location and finally gets stuck again when a candidate gets stuck and finally repeats itself in the second part.

The examiner has no choice but to interrupt and move on to the third part, you should avoid this at all costs. The best way is to understand what kind of information you need to include when talking about a place, describe what the place looks like, describe the people who go to that place, the activities that happen there and of course your experience, making sure to use the questions on the cue card now all this information should be linked with good linking words, especially subordinating conjunctions according to the official IELTS scoring criteria. A band 4 candidate is someone who rarely uses subordinating conjunctions, in this case Anthony doesn't really use subordinating conjunctions effectively or at least.

For most of the interview, make sure to practice your conjunctions before taking your next exam. Alex. Now practice this band 9 answer to this question with me before moving on to part three. Once you're ready, you can also record your own original. Please respond to this cue card and send it to us at this email address or a free estimate of your current IELTS

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level. The supermarket I enjoy shopping at is Tesco, which is located on the southern edge of Warsaw, not far from my house. A five-minute drive and a short walk from the Kabahi metro station, this is one of the largest supermarkets in the city, with many IELTS stocked not only with food but also with many other household needs, as well as cleaning supplies and toiletries.

The tent is spacious and has a large roof. and good air conditioning. I probably go there once or twice a month, either alone or with my wife and children, to pick up the food we need for our daily meals. The reason I like to shop there is because it's convenient and well priced. I can find all the fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy products and bread that my family needs for breakfast, lunch and dinner, although the product is not always of the best quality, their prices are usually half those in other local markets . The other day I bought a bunch of bananas for just five lucky people but it would have cost me eight anywhere else in this regard.

If I had the opportunity to change any part of the shopping experience I would include a local organic produce section in the store where shoppers have the option to purchase delicious seasonal fruits and vegetables grown by farmers from Poland (clearly this would cost a little more, but then I could buy all the food I need in one place. Now time is up and we will continue with the third part. This would be an example of band 9. answer to this cue card question, notice that it is a mini story with the ideas well linked with different types of words linked together, can you identify all those words?

Now let's continue with the third part. I will ask you some questions related to the topic of the second part in a question in relation to your answer when was the last time you went shopping at Tesco the last time when we shopped it was a week ago let's talk about food shopping what are some of the most common types of foods that people buy around the world I think globally the most common foods are starches. I think people mainly buy rice, the fruits they produce, they give us nutrients for what we need. Why do you think these types of foods are easily available?

I think Do you think those foods will be more expensive or cheaper in the next five years? I would like to say they will be cheaper, but most signs say food will be expensive in the coming years, why? Do you think this will happen because there are more people, but fewer resources, more and more people, but fewer horses, that grocery stores changed in the last 20 years, last year, stores changed a lot what I see now, many years before us? We couldn't buy any food from the other side of the world. This is what you know, today's stores are.

In stores you can buy food from all over the world. Do you think they will continue to change in the future? Yes. I'm pretty sure they will change uh this is what I'm what I see now uh many stories offer uh like online shopping online, you can buy the groceries without even leaving your house, you can order on the website of the stores and bring it to the door. Many people are concerned about the increasing amount of genetically modified foods in stores. Why might I repeat the question? Please. Yes. Many people are concerned about the increasing amount of genetically modified foods in stores.

Because? This is true, I am 100 people with whom I agree with this because, as I said before, there are many more people in the world and companies begin to produce food as fast as they can for less money. I think you know that some people feel that grocery stores should be responsible for offering healthy foods to the public. Do you agree with this? If so, how can grocery stores do that? Yes, grocery stores should be responsible for this, but I think the government should be involved. uh, with some regulation, what the processes will be, uh, they will be on the store shelves, so they should be regulated, as you know, by law.

That is the end of the third part which concludes the oral section of the exam, you will have your mark online in two days after finishing the other sections and your official certificate will be in the mail in about 10 days bye, thank you, don't forget your passport , thanks, the third part is where all the scores in the upper band seven eight nine actually are. It is decided by the examiner depending on whether or not the candidate can link his ideas with his answer in the second part and give a lot of detail with complex compound grammar and excellent vocabulary when the examiner asks Anthony when he last went shopping there.

Anthony has a hard time explaining that he went shopping there about a week ago. This sentence is too simple for band 5 or higher. I should have immediately connected with an explanation because my family was running out of food and we needed to restock the refrigerator so we could cook at home and save money that way this type of complex compound sentence would be the way to get those high scores. Giving a simple answer like Anthony did would be a band 4. Bad grammar and unfinished sentences are said to continue to degrade Anthony's overall score in the conversation section.

To avoid this, a couple of tricks you can follow are to mirror the grammar of the questions. When asked how grocery stores have changed in the last few decades, you should answer using the question and using grammar that indicates that they have changed a lot. Over the past 10 to 20 years, most grocery stores today offer a wide variety of foods from around the world. By using the question to begin your answer, you cangain momentum and fluency, but of course this takes practice, pay attention to developing your vocabulary. using connective words as often as possible and paying attention to a good strategy answering explaining and giving examples follow these tips and you will surely accept those levels Ben 7 8 and even nine in your next IELTS exam.

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