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IELTS Speaking Band Descriptors
IELTS Speaking Band Descriptors
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5 usually maintains flow of manages to talk about familiar and produces basic sentence forms shows all the positive features of Band 4
speech but uses repetition, unfamiliar topics but uses vocabulary with reasonable accuracy and some, but not all, of the positive
self-correction and/or slow with limited flexibility uses a limited range of more features of Band 6
speech to keep going attempts to use paraphrase but with complex structures, but these
may over-use certain mixed success usually contain errors and may
connectives and discourse cause some comprehension
markers problems
produces simple speech
fluently, but more complex
communication causes
fluency problems
4 cannot respond without is able to talk about familiar topics but produces basic sentence forms uses a limited range of pronunciation
noticeable pauses and may can only convey basic meaning on and some correct simple features
speak slowly, with frequent unfamiliar topics and makes frequent sentences but subordinate attempts to control features but lapses are
repetition and self-correction errors in word choice structures are rare frequent
links basic sentences but with rarely attempts paraphrase errors are frequent and may mispronunciations are frequent and cause
repetitious use of simple lead to misunderstanding some difficulty for the listener
connectives and some
breakdowns in coherence
3 speaks with long pauses uses simple vocabulary to convey attempts basic sentence forms shows some of the features of Band 2 and
has limited ability to link personal information but with limited success, or some, but not all, of the positive features of
simple sentences has insufficient vocabulary for less relies on apparently memorised Band 4
gives only simple responses familiar topics utterances
and is frequently unable to makes numerous errors except
convey basic message in memorised expressions
2 pauses lengthily before most only produces isolated words or cannot produce basic sentence speech is often unintelligible
words memorised utterances forms
little communication possible
1 no communication possible
no rateable language
0 does not attend
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