UNIT 1.

INTRODUCTION TO IELTS SPEAKING

HANDOUT 1: What do you know about the IELTS Speaking test?

1 b. 11-14 minutes
2 a. 3
3 a. personal topics
4 c. be given 1 topic to talk about
5 c. 60 seconds to prepare
6 b. 2 minutes
7 a. further discuss the topic from part 2
8 c. in case it needs to be re-marked

HANDOUT 2: Good and bad answers

1 a) about right length and amount of information

b) too short
c) probably too long and too much information. It doesn’t sound like a natural
response to the question
2 a) Just lists places. Again, not very natural-sounding.
b) too short
c) about the right length and amount of information
3 a) about right length and amount of information
b) probably too long and too much information. It doesn’t sound like a natural
response to the question.
c) too short

PRACTICE

Exercise 1. Match the examiner’s questions with the candidate’s response to make a
complete conversation. Then, work with your partners to practice this dialogue.
 1 B
2 D
3 E
4 C
5 A

Exercise 2. Find the mistakes in these following candidate’s answers.

Question 1: Câu trả lời quá ngắn, không đầy đủ, không có giải thích.
Question 2: Câu trả lời lạc đề, câu hỏi về where nhưng câu trả lời lại là về when / how often
Question 3: Câu trả lời sai ngữ pháp. Prefer Ving / To V
Question 4: Câu trả lời sai thì. Câu hỏi ở thì quá khứ, nhưng câu trả lời lại dùng thì hiện tại
Question 5: Câu trả lời cho thấy chưa có sự trôi chảy, do có sự tập trung vào sửa lỗi ngữ pháp

HOMEWORK
Exercise 1. Rearrange the words to make questions. The capital letters and punctuation
should help you.

1 How did your parents choose your name?

2 Does your name have any special meanings?
3 Is your name common or unusual in your country?
4 If you could change your name, would you?

Exercise 2. Match questions 1-4 to answers A-D below.

1 C
2 A
3 D
4 B