Speaking Section

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SPEAKING SECTION
• Reading (54-72 minutes)
• Listening (41-57 minutes)
• Break (10 minutes)
• *Speaking (17 minutes)
• Writing (50 minutes)
Speaking section
• Four tasks:
- Paired questions
- Campus matters questions
- Academic reading and lecture questions
- Academic summary questions
Paired choice questions
- First task in the speaking section
- Asks for your own personal opinion
- Speak in a structure
- Avoid repeating one over
- Practice speaking in a specific time frame
- Practice using sequence markers and transitions
Paired choice questions
• Four types of paired choice questions
- Agree or disagree (the most common)
- Preference (common)
- Good idea (less common)
- Multiple choice (less common)
Paired choice questions
• After the question is asked
- You will have 15 seconds to prepare yourself
- Then 45 seconds to speak
- In 15 seconds, you can a quick outline
- Outline is a short and brief note
- Use transitional words and phrase
- Topic sentence
- Two main points with details
Paired choice questions
• Transitions
- I personal think…
- In my opinion…
- Though some students disagree, but I believe…
- I realize that a lot of students think differently, but in my opinion…
- While some students prefer to…., but I think….
- First, next, in addition, second, also, additionally…
- Personally, I feel that…
- Speaking from my perspective…
- For example, for instance, take…as an example…
Paired choice questions
Speaking Task 1
Directions: You will now be asked a question about a familiar topic. After
you hear the question, you will have 15 seconds to plan you response and 45
seconds to speak.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Students should join debate clubs.

Preparation time: 15 seconds

Response time: 45 seconds
Paired choice questions
In 15 seconds: In 45 seconds:
Speaking from my perspective, It is a good idea to join debate
• Outline clubs. I feel this way for some reasons. To begin with, participating
- Agree speaking clubs helps students to increase their confidence. Since
there are going to many people attending that the club, it will
1. Imprv confdn provide them with an opportunity to speak among a great number
of people. This will make them get comfortable at their own skin
- Many ppl while talking to a group of people. Secondly, it is a favorable time
2. Make new frnds to make new friends. Take myself as an example. I didn’t have any
close friends for the first two semesters of college, and after taking
- Myself part in debate clubs, I could find some amazing friends.