IELTS SPEAKING

Week 19
Music

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OUTLINE TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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1. Warm-up 3
2. Vocabulary 4-9
3. IELTS Skills 10 - 15
4. Practice 16 - 18
5. Self-study 19

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Warm-up TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Describe a singer, musician or band that you like.

You should say:
• what kind of music they play
• what you know about their history
• who listens to them
and explain why you like them.

Take 1 minute to think about the topic

and then share your idea with the class 3
Vocabulary TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Look at these pictures and examples. Can you guess the words

Let me go
with you!

catchy
She is a famous for her c_tch_ pop She g_nr_s
genresof music are mainly pop
songs songs
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Vocabulary TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Look at these pictures and examples. Can you guess the words

She actually started out with country music and slowly made
transformation
tr_nsf_rm_t_ _n into more modern, pop sounding
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Vocabulary TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Look at these pictures and examples. Can you guess the words

she keep renewing herself with different type of music when she
comebacks
c_m_b_cks.
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Vocabulary TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Look at these pictures and examples. Can you guess the words

Style, which in my opinion is one of her best song that are very
underrated
_nd_rr_t_d.
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Vocabulary TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Look at these pictures and examples. Can you guess the words

=very very
She is a very talented woman i_d_indeed
_d.

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 Vocabulary TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Word
No Word Meaning
form

(of music or the words of an advertisement) pleasant and easily

1 catchy adj
remembered
a particular type or style of literature, art, film or music that you can
2 genre n
recognize because of its special features
3 transformation n a complete change in somebody/something
if a person in public life makes a comeback, they start doing
4 comeback n something again that they had stopped doing, or they become popular
again
to not recognize how good, important, etc. somebody/something
5 underrate v
really is
used after very and an adjective or adverb to emphasize a statement,
6 indeed adv
description, etc.
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 IELTS Skills TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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As mentioned in the previous lesson, Part 2 tests your ability to organise your ideas
and speak fluently, so you can be asked with a lot of topic but they are group in to 4
TOPICS, in which you can use each as an OUTLINE OF IDEAS for any questions
that belong to one of them.
Therefore, applying these ideas correctly in your answer to extend it and make sure
you are at the 2-minute mark as well as maximizing your score are a must.
In this case, the topic is MUSIC which belong to the OUTLINE below, so you can
use it to add more ideas to your answer.

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IELTS Skills PERSON
TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Appearance
+ Career Relationship Activities Personal opinions
Characteristic

What do you usually

What does that What are his or her How is he/she
do together? Where Feelings
person look like? jobs? related to you?
and when?

Do you have any

What are his/her What do you have in memories about that
Where he/she works? Pros
personalities? common? person? When and
where?

What
responsibilities Cons
does he/she have?

Is he/she successful?
Why/Why not?
 IELTS Skills TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Since you only have 1 minutes to do the BRAINSTORMING for PART 2 so below is
the tip for how to prepare, now look at the example part 2 question
Describe a singer, musician or band that you like. You should say:
• what kind of music they play
• what you know about their history
• who listens to them
and explain why you like them.

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 IELTS Skills TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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-> The bold words and phrases are the ones you should underline because they are the
ideas you have to prepare in 1 minute, then should write 4 bullet points in accordance to
the 4 questions asked.
After that, during 60 seconds, just write only WORDS or PHRASES and NOT
SENTENCES for each point, they will be your SIGNPOST OF IDEAS when
presenting the answer.

NOTE: any other ideas that are not the same as the ones in the OUTLINE OF IDEAS for
PERSON can be used to extend and further elaborate your answer.

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 IELTS Skills TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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To make sure in 2 minute you answer all the questions, here is an outline
for how you can organize them and cover all the points
Start with an opening with simple answers, they are the underlined ideas
above, then for each of them, elaborate them into reasons and give
examples.

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 IELTS Skills TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Note down your ideas in keywords or short phrases in this table

STARTING
When talking about…, I always think of…
STATEMENT
What music?

What history?
SIMPLE
ANSWER
Who listens?

Why you like?

Firstly,… What music?

Secondly,… What history

REASONS +
EXAMPLES
Thirdly,… Who listens?

Lastly,… Why you like? 15

 Practice TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Use the information gathered from the previous activities to help you with
ideas and practice answering the topic in pair.

Describe a singer, musician or band that you like. You should say:

• what kind of music they play

• what you know about their history

• who listens to them

and explain why you like them.

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Practice TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Sample answer:

If you ask me about my favorite singer, there is only one person I could think of, and
that is Taylor Swift. She is a famous for her catchy pop songs which attract huge
audiences, from teenager to young adult.

Firstly, she genres of music are mainly pop songs which she wrote base on her personal
life. Some of my favorite include songs like Blank Space, Shake it of, Style and her
older songs like Love Story, Mean,…

Speaking of which, she actually started out with country music and slowly made
transformation into more modern, pop sounding. Even now she keep renewing herself
with different type of music when she comebacks.
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Practice TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Sample answer:

As a result, Taylor is always welcomed by youngster, teenager while still maintaining a

lot of her loyal fans over the years. And even older people would also find enjoyment in
her older works.

Finally, I listened to her song, Style, which in my opinion is one of her best song that
are very underrated. That is also what I love about her, you can pick out any of her less
popular song and it still as amazing as those that blew up. She is a very talented woman
indeed.

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Self-study TALK ABOUT MUSIC
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Record a video answer part 2 with the topic below

Describe a singer, musician or band that you like. You should say:

• what kind of music they play

• what you know about their history

• who listens to them

and explain why you like them.

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FOR JOINING
Week 19
MUSIC

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