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Preparation Summary
Remember you only have one minute to prepare so you really don’t have time to write sentences or phrases. The most important thing to write on your paper is probably a few vocabulary items and a grammar reminder.
Example: Describe an item of clothing you like Io wear.
Pair of jeans
Present Tense + Past Tense
designer brand trendy
comfortable
Describe a vehicle that you would like to own.
Helicopter
Conditional Tense... I would / could
luxury millionaire
If you prepare in this way you are focusing on language and this will have a direct influence on score.
Producing a Good Quality Part Two Talk
The Fluency-based Strategy
This strategy focuses on the fluency aspect of the marking system. Earlier in this book we concluded that linking words and linking phrases can increase your "Fluency" score – this strategy is based on producing good quality linking structures in your two-minute talk and combines these with complex sentence structures.
First look at the following topic card.
Describe a sport that you like playing or watching.
You should say:
What the sport is
How often you play / watch it
Why you like it
Whether it is popular in your country.
The first thing to notice is that all topic cards have one thing in common.
Look carefully at the 4 prompts on any topic card and you should notice that they all share the same grammar feature.
What the sport is
How often you play / watch it
Why you like it
Whether it is popular in your country.
Most people think that these are 4 questions. Look carefully – they are not questions: they are in fact a single clause or part of a sentence (statement). This fact is true for every Part Two topic card.
For this strategy, you can divide your talk into 4 Parts (the 4 prompts). Take the first one for example: "What the sport is".
You can use this to create your opening sentence.
I guess I could begin by saying something about what the sport is, and I think I would have to choose football. Most people know that football is...
This sentence has 3 strong features. It contains complex linking structures, redundant language and complex grammar (sentence structure).
Another advantage of using this type of structure is that you don’t really need much content because you will probably spend almost one minute producing the complex linking phrases.
If used correctly, this structure will have a positive affect on your "Fluency" and "Grammar" scores.
Now look at the second prompt: “How often you play / watch it” (you need to change "you" to "I")
Going on to my next point which is how often I play it. I really need to add that if I have enough time I usually play it about twice a week. In fact...
And then the third prompt: "Why you like it". The third sentence could be:
And now with reference to why I like it, the point I want to make here is that...
And the last prompt: "Whether it is popular in your country". The fourth sentence:
And so finally then, if I have time, in answer to the question of whether it is popular in my country, really I should mention that...
So the final structure (without content) might look like this:
I guess I could begin by saying something about what the sport is, and I think I would have to choose... Going on to my next point which is how often I play it, I really need to add that... And now with reference to why I like it, the point I want to make here is that...
And so finally then, if I have time, in answer to the question of whether it is popular in my country, really I should mention that...
Practice reading the structure above. Depending on the speed it should take you between 30 ~ 45 seconds. This means that you only need about one minute of content. As there are 4 points, you only to find about seconds of actual content for each point.
Now look at the next topic card with a complete structure with content.
Describe a famous person you would like to meet.
You should say
Who the person is
Why he / she is famous
Why you would like to meet this celebrity
What you would like to do if you met this person.
I guess I could begin by saying something about who this person is, and I think I would have to choose the superstar Jackie Chan from Hong Kong.
Going on to my next point which is why he is famous. I really need to add that he is a world-renowned martial arts film star as well as being a successful director. In fact he was probably the first Chinese actor to achieve blockbuster success in Hollywood.
And now with reference to why I would like to meet this celebrity, the point I want to make here is that I have always been a big fan of martial arts movies, so if I had the chance to meet one of my childhood idols, it would be a dream come true.
And so finally then, if I have time, in answer to the question of what I would like to do if I met him, really I should mention that I would probably ask him to teach me a few special Kung Fu tricks and I would possibly invite him out for dinner at a classy restaurant or something like that.
The structure is complete in the example above but it probably needs slightly more content (maybe one more sentence for each point). However, there are many very good features in the example so far.
Analysis
I guess I could begin by saying something about who this person is, and I think I would have to choose the superstar Jackie Chan from Hong Kong.
(The first point is quite simple, but for most Part Two topics the first point is usually just a simple factual introduction.)
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