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Is this response coherent?

Question 1: Listen to this candidate answering the question below from


Part 1 of the test:

https://youtu.be/y76k_11fb7E

Let’s talk about your hometown or village. What kind of place is it?

Is the answer coherent or not? Not Coherent

Candidate A’s answer is not coherent. The speaker says:

 his home town is beautiful


 how to get there
 why his home town is beautiful

The main idea of the sentence on how to get there does not flow from the
sentence before, nor does it link to the sentence after.

Question 2: Listen to this candidate answering the question below from


Part 1 of the test: https://youtu.be/3Zafp5aRwTc
Is the answer coherent or not? Coherent.

Candidate B is more coherent because each sentence is in a logical order. The


main idea of each sentence flows on from the previous sentence. The speaker
says:

 his home town is beautiful


 why his home town is beautiful
 how to get there.

Question 3
Listen to this candidate answering the question below from Part 3 of the
test: https://youtu.be/jfYno8vMkG0

Candidate C is not coherent. He has two ideas but he does not sequence them
logically. He talks about cars, then houses and then he talks about cars again.

Question 4: Listen to this candidate answering the question below from


Part 3 of the test:

Candidate D is coherent because each sentence is in a logical order. The main


idea of each sentence flows on from the previous sentence. The speaker divides
her response into two separate ideas. Her first idea is about cars:

 cars gives status


 if do not have an expensive car = low status
 some spend all their wages on a car

Her second idea is about houses: new idea that houses give status too.

Question 5: Listen to this candidate answering the question below


from Part 3 of the test: https://youtu.be/Zc8oOX7aW2I

Candidate E’s response is coherent because each sentence is in a logical order.


The main idea of each sentence is linked to the previous sentence. The speaker
says:

 parents had little education


 went to school 4 or 5 years then went to work
 in the past learned to read and write then left school
 nowadays need to stay at school to get good job

Question 6: Listen to this candidate answering the question below


from Part 3 of the test: https://youtu.be/LHMlKhlEDek

Candidate E’s second response is not coherent. The speaker talks about the
past (had, went), then the present (nowadays), then the past again (in the past).
This is not a logical sequence.
 parents had little education
 went to school 4 or 5 years then went to work
 nowadays need to stay at school to get good job
 in the past learned to read and write then left school

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