This section tests your ability to speak clearly

This section tests your ability to speak clearly and intelligibly. The entire section takes about twenty minutes to complete.

SPEAKING SECTION TASKS: Based on: Timing per task: 2 Independent: Your own knowledge and experience. c. e s Preparation: 15. Response: 45 sec 4 Integrated: 2 Listening + Reading + Speaking. 2 Listening + Speaking. . c e 45 s. Reading: c e Reading s 0 8 0 Lecture: 6 passage and c. e s related lecture Preparation: 30. c e or conversation. Response: 60 s. c e s Lecture: 60 -90. c e Lecture or Preparation: 20 s conversation. c. e s Response: 60

TESTED SKILLS INDEPENDENT VS. INTEGRATED TASKS PREPARING & PRACTISING your RESPONSE DELIVERING your RESPONSE

Tested Skills § Produce fluent, clear and intelligible speech; § Organize and deliver a spoken presentation of up to one minute in length; § Connect parts of speech (transition words); § Pronounce words properly; § Use stress and intonation correctly; § Use vocabulary accurately; § Use idioms appropriately; § Understand written and spoken information and prompts.

INDEPENDENT TASKS • You are asked to speak on a specific given topic using your personal knowledge and experience. VS. INTEGRATED TASKS • For two tasks, you read short passages on the screen and listen to lectures or conversations about the passages through your headphones; • For the other two tasks you hear lectures and conversations; • You can take notes / you should NOT express your own opinion or bring in any extra information.

PREPARING YOUR RESPONSE • You have a short period of preparation time; • Analyse and make sure you understand what the question is asking you to do; • Write a simple (not complete) outline to follow; • DON’T read from your notes (you lose points). PRACTISING YOUR RESPONSE • It’s important that you practise by speaking into a computer microphone and recording yourself.

DELIVERING YOUR RESPONSE • Speak clearly and directly into the microphone; • Don’t speak too quickly or too slowly; • Avoid long pauses & saying “um” too many times; • Try to pronounce words carefully; • Pay attention to the on-screen clock and use it to adjust your timing; • You and other test takers will be recording at the same time: the headphones will block most of the sounds but you may hear them anyway. Focus on your own task and ignore the sounds around you. End

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