Question Type 1: Basic Description Questions

Overall Analysis

Each of the four points covered in this Part Two talk focuses on all 3 areas of the marking system (we can’t really work on pronunciation at this stage).

In summary, everything the candidate says is in some way increasing the speaking score.

Notice that the actual "content" that is presented doesn't really make any difference to the score.

This style of response is probably the easiest way to achieve a score of 7 or higher in Part Two.

Important Note

Notice that in the answers. the candidate doesn’t change the wording from the topic card. If you start changing the wording you will begin to make grammar errors and this will reduce your "Grammar" score.

You can make very slight changes if you are 100% sure the change is correct, e.g.:

Who the person is -> Who he is

Why you would like to meet this person -> Why I would like to meet this star

Changing one or two words is fine but change the actual structure of the clause on the topic card or your whole sentence could be grammatically wrong.