1. IELTS Speaking
雅思口语
Presenter: Emel Ortac
SSS 语言考试培训
Saskatoon, SK
February 10, 2017

2. Contents
1. What is the examiner listening for?
Marking rubric
2. What can I do before the exam?
Preparation

3. What is the examiner listening for?
Fluency and Coherence, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Accuracy, Pronunciation

4. Fluency and Coherence
Fluency
 Does not mean you need to
speak fast or perfect.
 How many times you stop while
explaining something (hesitation,
pauses).
 How many times you repeat
yourself.
 If you are willing to speak.
Coherence
 Answering the questions.
 Making sense.
 Your opinion isn’t judged, but
how you express it is.
 If you use proper connecting
phrases.
Takes less
time to
develop!

5. Lexical Resource (Vocabulary)
 If you can speak about familiar and unfamiliar things.
 If you can say one thing in more than one way (paraphrasing).
 How precise you are with your word choice.
 Example: ‘My documents were scrutinized before being allowed to
immigrate to Canada’ (more precise than ‘looked at’ or ‘checked’)
 If you can use idioms or less common words.
 Examples: ‘It was raining cats and dogs!’ or ‘The shoes I purchased were
quite costly.’

6. Grammatical Range and Accuracy
Range
 How many different ways you can
say something.
Using a variety of tenses.
 Varying your structures (short
and complex sentences).
Accuracy
 If you can use tenses correctly.
 Message can be understood.
 If you can produce error-free
sentences, or if you make simple
mistakes often.
Prepositions (in, at, on, of...),
articles (a/an, the)

7. Pronunciation
Is not…
 your accent.
Everyone has an accent when they
speak, it is natural. You do not need
to sound ‘Canadian’ to speak
English well in Canada.
It is…
 how understandable you are.
 your rhythm (melody, intonation).
 how you say certain sounds
(vowels, consonants).
Law or low?
Quite or quiet?

8. What can I do before the exam?

9. Preparation
 Hire a tutor: you need feedback and guidance.
 Know what IELTS wants.
 Record yourself.
 Speak as much English as possible!
 Watch YouTube videos for examples.
 Memorize and try to use phrases.
 Practice sounds you may have an issue with.
Don’t study a lot,
study efficiently!