Ielts speaking Tips 9 Steps To a High Score in Your Speaking Test

Introduce the subject matter.

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  Describe what you can see.
  

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  Talk about any activity that is going on in the photo. (present)
  

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  Guess what might have been going on before it was taken. (past)
  

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  Suggest what might happen next. (future)
  

If you vary the type of subject matter you choose for this activity, you will be practicing a wide variety of language. For example, choose a picture of a beautiful room or landscape one day and a topical news item the next.

Record and play back your talks to assess your fluency. It will very quickly begin to improve.

Tip 9: Work on Your Pronunciation

Pronunciation should perhaps have come top of our list of IELTS Speaking tips. Why? Because, if you have poor pronunciation and the examiner can’t understand what you’re saying, they have no way of assessing your English language skills.

You won’t be expected to sound like a native English speaker. Indeed, many nationalities speak English and each has their own accent and slightly different ways of using intonation.

What you will be assessed on is how easily the examiner can understand you and how well you pronounce the key sounds of the English language.

Pronunciation is generally the last skill that English learners master so the requirement for a high band score, say a Band 7, are actually quite low. Having said that, any small improvements you can make will increase your marks.

Use these 4 methods: