Speaking

How to teach Speaking

For many EFL learners, their main desire is to speak English. How then do we set about helping them with this goal? This useful guide skilfully contributes to this process by giving numerous practical ideas about how to teach speaking, ideas which are always clearly grounded in theory. Chapters one to three lay the groundwork for the rest of the book by describing the nature of speech and speaking in an L2.

High impact IELTS academic module - Student and Teacher book with Audio file

High Impact IELTS' is a comprehensive book aimed at helping students pass the Academic Models of the IELTS exam. From an overall guide to the IELTS exam right up to suggestions for preparation the night before. High Impact IELTS Teacher's Guide is designed to be used in conjunction with the student text which offers 250 hours of tuition in 108 lessons, clearly divided between Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking, giving a clear focus to every lesson.

Ship or sheep

This is a revised and updated edition of the classic pronunciation title Ship or Sheep? This new edition of Ship or Sheep?, an accessible intermediate-level pronunciation course in full colour for students of English, provides systematic practice of English pronunciation, with an emphasis on minimal pairs, through a wide variety of interesting exercises and activities. The course is suitable for classroom use or for self-study. This pack contains the 3rd edition of Ship or Sheep? and a set of 4 audio CDs. For information on the book only.

Linking in English

When we say a sentence in English, we join or "link" words to each other. Because of this linking, the words in a sentence do not always sound the same as when we say them individually. Linking is very important in English. If you recognize and use linking, two things will happen:

  1. you will understand other people more easily
  2. other people will understand you more easily

There are basically two types of linking:

How to Pronounce "the" in English

Normally, we pronounce "the" with a short sound (like "thuh"). But when "the" comes before a vowel sound, we pronounce it as a long "thee".

When to Say "a" or "an"

The indefinite article is a or an. But how do we know when to say a and when to say an?

The rule is really very simple. It depends on the sound at the start of the following word. (It does not depend on the way we write the following word, it depends on the way we say it.)

A + consonant sound

If the following word starts with a consonant sound, then we say a.

How to Pronounce -ed in English

The past simple tense and past participle of all regular verbs end in -ed. For example:

Audio Sample

Module format
IELTS Speaking is a one-to-one interaction between the candidate and an examiner.
The three parts give the candidate the opportunity to use a range of different speaking skills.
IELTS Speaking is recorded.

Timing
11 – 14 minutes

Marks
Candidates are assessed on their performance throughout the test.

Presenting skill

How to present a seminar paper. (Wallace, 1980, pp. 209-210)

It can be very boring to listen to something read aloud. Therefore what you must do is follow the following points:

Sample Answer

1. special gift:
Describe the best present/gift you have received :
i. Who send it? What is the gift? What is it for?
ii. When did you receive it?
iii. Detail information about the present.

Last year , my wife celebrated my birthday at home. She bought a electronic
dictionary as birthday gift. I like the electronic dictionary very much. It's
blue and quite small. It fits into my pocket. I remember at that time, my wife said to me :"she decided to immigrate to Canada with me. In future, we must study

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