Tips to improve your spoken English

The most engaging and rewarding part of learning English is practicing speaking. Once you start speaking the language, there are numerous ways to enhance your skills in a satisfaction filled manner.

Here are some tips that can help you to improve your spoken English.

SPEAK ENGLISH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

Be confident and speak English as often as possible to as many people as you can. Yes!! You will make mistakes in the beginning. Just don’t be shy or reserved about committing mistakes. The more you practice, the more confident you will become in your vocabulary and pronunciation. Remember, the only way to speak fluent English is regular practice.

LISTEN

Listen to documentaries, commentaries, and news in English. This will help you to know the accurate pronunciation of words and will enable you to learn new words, try copying what you hear. This will improve your speaking skills.

TECHNOLOGY

A Smartphone can be used as a powerful tool to enhance language skills. You may use it to record yourself speaking and then listen how you sound while pronouncing the words. You may make a note of the new words you learn in your Smartphone.

INTERESTING ACTIVITIES IN ENGLISH

You can join a book club or any other interesting course in English. Make sure that whatever classes/course you join, it involves communication in English. Joining any activity course you like doing is a great way to improve your speaking skills. For example if you are taking yoga, music, dance or any other hobby classes, try joining a class where the instructors as well as the participants communicate in English.

HAVE A DEBATE WITH FAMILY/FRIENDS

Try getting involved in debates with your family/friends. Debate all the topics of your interest. During the process, speak as much as you can but listening and comprehending what others say is equally important. This helps in building confidence and improves your spoken English skills.

By following these simple tips, you will be able to improve your spoken English skills.

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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)