Gear up to enhance your english speaking skills

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.’
William Butler Yeats

You may have remembered unlimited arrangements of vocabulary, you may know all the language structures expected to hold any discussion and still end up making mistakes while communicating.

There are different purposes of communication – some of them are clearer than the others.

In this article, Touchstone Educationals gives you some tips to help defeat the challenges you may experience while communicating and to enhance your English speaking abilities.

1.Speak at a normal pace

You may be an expressive speaker of your first language, expecting similar expertise from yourself when talking in another language may not be reasonable specially, when you are in the initial phase of learning a language.

Students are frequently enlightened not to mix their first language with the new language to establish a good connection with the audience.

To overcome this, you may take a stab at lowering your talking speed.

No one will hold it against you if you talk slowly and clearly. Incredible speakers do likewise to communicate as per the need. Choosing your words deliberately may be viewed as an indication of regard towards your audience. It demonstrates that you want to give them an ideal articulation.

2.Give Yourself Time to Think

Sometimes in nervousness we tend to speak fast to finish the conversation.

Listeners prefer a thoroughly considered response to a hurried one.

So just be calm.

Develop some phrases or sentences to seek time before expressing your thoughts because staying quiet is neither an option nor is expressing yourself in an unplanned manner. Here’s a case:

Here the speaker increases the extensive measure of time to reflect just by understanding the inquiry and including a couple of sentences. If you do likewise, you will sound more familiar and won’t feel the weight of saying something before you are prepared.

Fixed expressions are phrases whose words are normally fixed in a specific order. They can be verb designs, figures of speech, and collocations – fundamentally anything we say in one specific way. For instance,

3.Learn Sentences, Not Only Words

This will take the burden off as well. When you learn a new word, try making sentences with it.

Sadly, many individuals learn words by heart with no clue how to utilize them in a sentence.

One need not worry about whether the sentence is right syntactically or not. We should take a look at an illustration:

to acknowledge = to perceive the benefit of something/some individual

4.Figure out how to listen

When talking in a foreign language, you might be so centered on what you are stating and whether it’s right or not, that you neglect listening to what others are saying.

This is a major misstep as you may unnecessarily utilize the correct words or syntax. So focus on what is being said around you, it is your most critical asset for addressing somebody.

5.Practice Your Problems

You likewise need to remember that communication is a two-way process. Not only does it influence you to appear uninterested – even impolite – if you don’t make inquiries, you may wind up being the person who needs to do all the talking. Along these lines, when you are short on thoughts regarding what to say next, ask others for their opinion.

Questions like these will keep the discussion going and will demonstrate your enthusiasm for other’s thoughts. They will likewise give you an opportunity to unwind a little and begin living it up.

Problems can be very doubtful, so ensure you put enough energy taking in the right methods of asking questions.

6.Build, Build and Build

You may know a lot about the language, but there are times when you are unable to express yourself clearly. Your point is to have the capacity to speak accurate English; rehearsing is unquestionably an ideal approach to learn and make strides.

Composing is one method of building a language; it might enable you to get used to and consider the ways English works, which may end up being helpful when talking.

Talking, then again, is a significantly more unconstrained process and nothing sets you up for it superior to really doing it. Discover individuals you can practice with – either on Skype or at Touchstone with professional trainers.

Learning English or just to hold a good command over it is not an impossible task. What you need is practice. In case of any assistance, you can hop into Touchstone to get your query resolved.

 

Share:

Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
LinkedIn

Write To Us​

Most Popular

Related Posts

Shopping Cart

Listening

The IELTS Listening test consists of four recordings (four parts) from native English speakers with ten (10) questions in each recording (part).

Recording 1: an everyday social conversation between two people

Recording 2: a monologue set in an everyday social context

Recording 3: an educational conversation with upto four people

Recording 4: a monologue on an academic subject

Listening test scores will be based on your ability to understand the main ideas,
factual information, opinions, attitude and purpose of the speaker and your ability
to follow the development of ideas.

No. of questions: 40 Marks:

each question is worth one (1) mark

Total time: 30 minutes (+ 2 minutes review time )

Speaking

The IELTS Speaking test assesses your pronunciation, grammar, accuracy, fluency and lexical resources while speaking English. There are three (3) parts to this test, with each part fulfilling a specific function in terms of task input, interaction pattern and the test taker’s output.

Part 1: Introduction & Interview This part includes general questions about the test taker like residence, work,family, interests, etc.

Part 2: Long Run Cue cards are shared on a particular topic and one (1) minute will be given to prepare to speak for upto two (2) minutes on the topic.

Part 3: Discussion This part gives you the opportunity to discuss the topic from the cue card in further detail, in a more general and abstract way

Total time: 11-14 minutes

Reading

The IELTS Reading test is designed to test a wide range of reading skills including reading for skimming, details, gist, understanding arguments and writer’s opinions,attitude and purpose

IELTS Academic Reading – It includes three (3) reading passages (with a variety of questions) ranging from descriptive and factual to discursive and analytical. These passages are of general interest dealing with interesting and recognizably appropriate issues, with at least one passage containing a detailed logical argument

Note: The reading texts may contain non-verbal materials as well like graphs, diagrams or illustrations.

IELTS General Reading – It includes three (3) daily passages (with 2-3 short texts in the first passage, 2 texts in the second passage and 1 long text in the third passage), based on an English-speaking environment, from notices, newspapers, magazines or advertisements.

Reading passage 1: texts based on social survival, like advertisements, notices and timetables

Reading passage 2: texts based on workplace survival, like contracts, job descriptions, staff development & training material

Reading passage 3: texts based on general reading, involving more extended prose and a complex structure.

No. of questions: 40

Marks: each question is worth one (1) mark

Total time: 60 minutes (no additional transfer time)

Note: Please note that the question types in the Listening & Reading sections can include multiple choice answers, true or false answers, matching information/headings or sentence, table & flow-chart completion.

Listening

The IELTS Listening test consists of four recordings (four parts) from native English speakers with ten (10) questions in each recording (part).

Recording 1: an everyday social conversation between two people

Recording 2: a monologue set in an everyday social context

Recording 3: an educational conversation with upto four people

Recording 4: a monologue on an academic subject

Listening test scores will be based on your ability to understand the main ideas,
factual information, opinions, attitude and purpose of the speaker and your ability
to follow the development of ideas.

No. of questions: 40 Marks:

each question is worth one (1) mark

Total time: 30 minutes (+10 minutes transfer time)