READ ALOUD
You have 30-40 seconds to look at the text before the microphone opens, so use this time to break the text up into meaningful chunks, using the punctuation as a guide. This will show you the places where you can make a tiny pause and alter your intonation – going up when you begin reading a chunk and falling a little when you end a chunk.
Using appropriate pausing helps you to read more fluently and give the full meaning of the text. This will improve your score. Stress the words that carry important information
When you read the text, stress the words that help to convey meaning, by reading them in a slightly louder voice and adding emphasis to key syllables, e.g., development. Also use rising and falling intonation patterns to show how the ideas are linked or are coming to an end. Look at the patterns in this text; the stressed words are underlined, and the rising and falling intonation is marked by up ?and down ?arrows:
SPEAKING: Repeat sentence
You will be scored on the correct word sequences that you produce for this item type, so the more phrases you understand, the better your reproduction of the sentence will be. For example, there are three phrases in this sentence, separated by /, and each one carries a separate message that has its own meaning:
Next week’s tutorial / on Tuesday / has been cancelled.
Copy the stress and intonation patterns of the sentence you hear
Make a mental note of the way the speaker uses stress and intonation on the recording. These patterns help to convey the meaning. Speak calmly and clearly, copying this stress and intonation. For example, look at the pattern in the example: the stressed words or syllables are underlined, and the falling intonation is marked by down ?arrows:
SPEAKING: Describe image
SPEAKING: Describe image
When you look at the image ask yourself ‘‘What is the main idea being shown by the image?’’ and ‘‘What are the details relating to the main ideas?’’. Use your erasable noteboard booklet to note down key ideas and phrases that relate to the main information and the explanatory details. These can be put into sentences when you start to speak:
Organize your description of the image
If you organize what you say, you will get a better score. This is because a well-organized answer is more likely to cover the main information as well as the additional details, and also talk about implications or conclusions based on the information. Look
at how this sample description is organized:
‘‘The graph er describes the main countries to which New Zealand exports goods.
Um, Australia is the largest single country. New Zealand exports 21% of its goods there and this is followed by the USA, which er receives 14% of New Zealand’s goods.
The next largest markets in order are Japan (11%), China (6%) and the UK (5%); 43% of New Zealand’s exports go to countries other than these big markets.
New Zealand is very dependent on the Australian market as a destination for exports; perhaps it needs to diversify and seek other markets, such as building up exports to 5
SPEAKING: Re-tell lecture
Make good use of the image to predict the topic of the lecture
You have 3 seconds before you listen to the recording to quickly look at the image on the screen. Use this time to think about the vocabulary you might hear. This will give you an idea of the topic of the lecture and help you predict what you will hear when
the recording begins:
SPEAKING: Answer short question
You hear a short question and then the recording status box will change to recording.
Start your answer as soon as this happens. If you wait for more than 3 seconds,
recording will stop and the item status will change to ‘completed’, which means that
you have lost your chance to give your answer.
When you have started talking, don’t stop for more than a second or two until you
have finished. If you stop for 3 seconds whilst speaking, the recording status will
change to ‘completed’ even if you haven’t finished, and you won’t be able to
continue answering.
If the status changes to ‘completed’, you have to click ‘Next’ to move on to the next
item. This also applies to speaking item types Read aloud, Repeat sentence,
Describe image and Re-tell lecture.
SPEAKING: Answer short question
Do not try to give a long answer
The instructions for this item type tell you how to answer the question:
There is no point in saying more than you need to say. Marks are awarded for a short, accurate answer. There are no extra marks for additional words.
For example, for this question: ‘What type of periodical is published on a daily basis?’, both these answers would score the same marks:
WRITING: Summarize written text
Make sure your response is in the correct form
When you have written your response, check to make sure that it is only one sentence, with a capital letter at the beginning and only one full stop at the end.
Your response must be between 5 and 75 words so check the word count using the ‘Total Word Count’ counter below the response box. If you write fewer than five words or more than 75 words, your response will not be scored:
Conjunction ‘and’ joins two simple sentences together to produce a compound
Practice using compound and complex sentences
Your response must be expressed within one sentence, so you will need to use a complex or compound sentence to be able to summarize the main point of the passage and also briefly mention the supporting detail. For example, look at the clause structures used in these summaries to link supporting ideas to the main point: 11
WRITING: Write essay
Start by analyzing the task
Before you write anything, note key words in the prompt. Find out the topic, what key points you should focus on to answer the question and any points of view to present and discuss:
Analyzing these four areas will help you to approach the task, structure your essay and decide on your main ideas.
The content of your answer is very important. If you do not write about the topic in the prompt, you will receive no score points at all for this item type.
Key words in prompt
Time limit, genre, word limit
Key points to cover health costs
health care costs
READING: Multiple choice, choose single answer
Note the key words in the prompt before you read the text
The prompt for this item type may be a question or a sentence that you have to complete. Whatever type of prompt you get, read it carefully because it will tell you what information you need to find in the text. If you focus on the key words in the prompt, you will find the answer more quickly and spend less time reading the text
READING: Re-order paragraphs
Read all the text boxes quickly before you start re-ordering them
Read the text boxes in order to understand the main idea of each one. You can do this by noting the key words.
Next, use the key words to form an overall idea of what the original text is about. This will help you find the logical order for the
Find the topic sentence first
Every well-written paragraph has a topic sentence. It is usually a clear statement about the topic, and all the other sentences are related in some way to this sentence.
The topic sentence can stand alone; it does not begin with a linker or a pronoun that refers back to something or someone (e.g., ‘he’ or ‘this’), nor does it does refer back to information or actions previously mentioned through the use of things like passive verb tenses (‘No link was found’):
READING: Fill in the blanks
Think about words that you often see or hear together
Remember that some words often go together to form a familiar phrase. This is called ‘collocation’. Using collocation can help you recognize the correct word for each blank. For example, the phrase ‘the general public’ is a common collocation, so you can quickly see that ‘public’ might be a good choice for the first blank in the sentence below
Use your knowledge of grammar to help you select the correct word
Read around the blank in the text and decide what part of speech the missing word is. In the example below, ‘beginning to’ tells you that an infinitive verb form is missing ‘to + verb’. Next look at the answer options provided and rule out any words that are not the right part of speech, e.g., ‘world’ is a noun and ‘formal’ is an adjective. Also rule out any verbs that are not in the infinitive form.
Finally, choose from the words that are left, the one that has the correct meaning: ‘view’ and ‘look’ mean ‘see’, but we ‘quote’ or ‘cite’ references, so only ‘cite’ fits the blank:
Use your knowledge of grammar to help you select the correct word
Read around the blank in the text and decide what part of speech the missing word is. In the example below, ‘beginning to’ tells you that an infinitive verb form is missing ‘to + verb’. Next look at the answer options provided and rule out any words that are not the right part of speech, e.g., ‘world’ is a noun and ‘formal’ is an adjective. Also rule out any verbs that are not in the infinitive form.
Finally, choose from the words that are left, the one that has the correct meaning: ‘view’ and ‘look’ mean ‘see’, but we ‘quote’ or ‘cite’ references, so only ‘cite’ fits the blank:
Remember to check grammar, spelling and punctuation
In your 50-70 word summary, you will be scored on the enabling skills of grammar, spelling and vocabulary. So leave yourself 1-2 minutes after you have written your summary to check your sentences for things like subject/verb agreement, tenses and
word order.
Use grammatical structures that you can use confidently, and words that you are sure you have spelled correctly. Finally, check
your punctuation: check full stops and commas, and make sure you have begun each sentence with a capital letter:
LISTENING: Fill in the blanks
Skim the text before the recording begins
In the 7 seconds before the recording begins, you only have time to skim the text. As you do this, ignore the gaps and try to get an overall idea of what the text is about. This will help you recognize the words that fit the gaps, as you hear them.
Some of the things you can look for:
Type as many correct words as you can remember into the response box in the
You will score points for every correct word that you write in the response box. If you can remember a word but you are not sure where it goes in the sentence, use your knowledge of English grammar to help you decide.
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