Improve your IELTS speaking skills – 10 tips 10個小貼士

The aim of this lesson is to give you different practice activities for the speaking test. While most of the activities are based on IELTS speaking questions, the idea is to improve your skills and not just practise answering questions. The reason for this is that practice tests are not enough by themselves; if you want to get better, you need to improve how you speak and that means thinking about speaking as a skill.

這課的目標(biāo)是給你的口語提供多樣的練習(xí)方法。大多數(shù)方法都是基于雅思口語練習(xí)，這些方法會提高你的口語技巧，而不僅僅是練習(xí)回答問題。原因是僅僅為考試練習(xí)是遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠的。要是你還想更高更強的話，你還得注意你怎么說，這意味著將說話當(dāng)做一門技巧。

1. Record yourself and then write down your answer 自己錄音再寫下答案

This is something everyone should try. It is almost certainly a bad idea to write your answer first and then speak it. This is because we speak and write in very different ways and it is a mistake to try and train yourself to speak in the way you write. But you can learn a lot from recording what you say and then writing that down word for word.

這個方法每個人都要試一下！先寫答案再說出來絕對不是個好方法！因為說話和寫作是不一樣的，用寫作的方式來訓(xùn)練口語是行不通滴~但是你可以通過錄下自己的答案，再一字一句地聽著寫下來，這樣會進(jìn)步很多~

Things you can learn are:

這樣你可以了解到：

Do you say enough? Do you give very short answers? In parts 1 and 3, you should say at least a couple of sentences in answer to every question.

你說的足夠多了嗎？答案會不會太短？在Part1和Part3，回答每個問題至少要說幾個句子。

Is what you say organised? Can you see a structure to your answer? Is it possible to put in sentences and paragraph breaks? Do you have some organisation language like “The first point is..”

你是如何組織的？答案中看得出結(jié)構(gòu)嗎？能把句子和段落放到這個結(jié)構(gòu)中嗎？有沒有結(jié)構(gòu)性的語言？

Do you speak too slowly or too quickly? Try counting the words in your part 2 answer. Most of my answers as a native speaker are about 240 words long. You should probably aim for around 200 or so. Less than that and you are speaking too slowly, but if you have more than that, it may be that you are speaking too quickly.

有沒有說得過快或過慢？試著數(shù)一下Part2 你的答案的字?jǐn)?shù)，一般native speaker能說到240字左右，烤鴨們一般要寫到200字左右。如果字?jǐn)?shù)少于這個值，那說明你講話太慢，如果超過了，說明你講話太快~~

How long are your pauses? You can pause, but your pauses should generally come between sentences/paragraphs and they shouldn’t be more than 2/3 of seconds

你停頓多久？一般應(yīng)該在句子和段落間停頓，而且不超過2-3秒。

Did you answer the question?

你回答清楚問題了嗎？

Is your pronunciation okay? If you can’t immediately understand what you say, the examiner won’t either!

你的語音可以嗎？如果你不能聽懂自己在說什么，那考官也不會聽懂。

Are there some words you repeat a lot? You probably shouldn’t worry too much about content words such as “television” – native speakers will repeat those a lot when speaking. Rather you should look at more functional words/phrases such as “I think”. It’s very easy to repeat these a lot and it is also quite simple to train yourself to use more variety.

有沒有重復(fù)很多詞？不要擔(dān)心重復(fù)實義詞，即使是native speaker也會一直重復(fù)，因為你講的就是這個東西~不過，你應(yīng)該重點檢查功能詞匯，比如“I think” ，烤鴨們很容易老重復(fù)這些詞，不過讓自己練習(xí)用不同的詞也不是難事。

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