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This document discusses feelings about speaking English and preparation for the speaking portion of the IELTS exam. It introduces the marking criteria for speaking and plays audio clips of students discussing their confidence levels and challenges with fluency, grammar, vocabulary, and switching between languages. One student feels less confident speaking to native speakers while another who attended an American school for seven years feels very confident. The document encourages discussion of personal experiences with speaking English.

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This document discusses feelings about speaking English and preparation for the speaking portion of the IELTS exam. It introduces the marking criteria for speaking and plays audio clips of students discussing their confidence levels and challenges with fluency, grammar, vocabulary, and switching between languages. One student feels less confident speaking to native speakers while another who attended an American school for seven years feels very confident. The document encourages discussion of personal experiences with speaking English.

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Understanding IELTS

Techniques for English Language Tests

WEEK 2: Speaking

STEP 2.1 – How do you feel when you speak English?

ROB: Welcome to Week Two. This week, we’re going to take a closer look at the Speaking
part of the IELTS test. First though, we’re going to talk about speaking English in general
– how does it make you feel? We asked that question to some students and we’re going
to take a look at some of their answers now. Before we do, though, remember that at the
end of last Week we talked about the marking criteria for the IELTS speaking test. They
were: fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and
pronunciation. As you watch the speakers, think about which of these areas they have
problems with.

ANGELINE: I’m a bit confused when I speak English ‘cause I’m not sure about my
grammar and pronunciation and sometimes all my thoughts are really mixed up in my
head and I need to connect them with grammar rules and I do some just simple mistakes
sometimes and feel confused about this but I think with more practice I will improve my
English.

SERGEY: I think when I speak to native speakers I feel less confident. ..: I don’t know why.
Something … I think it’s something in my mind that something just ticks and you start
speaking slowly and losing yourself. I don’t know why.

EUN CHONG: I think I feel pretty confident, yeah. I’ve been studying English for seven
years. I’ve been going to American school for seven years, so, like, my environment was
just English so I think I’m pretty confident speaking.

ALEXANDRA: The most difficult for me to switch on from Russian to English quickly and
even if I have big gap and I’m speaking for a long time in Russian, it’s quite complicated
for me to start speaking English. I started to think what it’s word and translate in my mind.
I can’t do it fluently very quick. So if it takes some time then I started to speak quicker. So
I can’t just swap very quick from one language to another.

ELENA: I actually feel quite good when I’m speaking to people with the same level as I
have but with native speakers I kind of feel guilty for being not good enough and not
having good pronunciation.

MEDINA: Well, I feel kind of relaxed most of the time because, well, I listen to a lot of
English every day and considering that I am a musician and I have, like, this specific ear,
it’s kind of easy for me and it’s always been, so I’m okay with speaking.

ROB: You’ve heard the thoughts of some students there but what did you think? Discuss
your answers with other learners.

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