G12 IELTS T1W2 Speaking - Business

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Band 6.5

This candidate is able to speak at length without loss of coherence. Although some hesitations and reformulations occur, there is not much repetition across his long turn. He sequences the information appropriately and links ideas using a range of discourse markers. He also uses a range of vocabulary, including less common items (legend; background; inspired; creativity; style), with some flexibility and awareness of collocation (a pop icon; fight for their rights). Although there are inappropriate word choices, these do not impede comprehension and the range lifts the rating to a higher band. He also uses a range of complex structures and embedded clauses, with some flexibility. Although his tenses are not always accurate in this part, error-free structures are still frequent. He has a strong accent and regularly produces 'f' for 'th'. In this part of the test, however, he only mispronounces individual words (leegend; founds for funds), and although his stress patterns are sometimes distorted by intrusive fillers (ehm), his speech is generally clear.

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Band 5.5

This test taker is willing to speak at length but he loses coherence at times owing to repetition and self-correction, e.g. when comparing famous people in the present and in the past. He uses a range of markers, linking words and phrases (hopefully; like; actually; if we can talk about; as well; that’s why), but not always appropriately. Coherence is also affected by problems with word order. Although he has a wide enough vocabulary to discuss topics at length, he often confuses word classes (give you famous instead of ‘give you fame’; doing social workers instead of ‘doing social work’). Despite this, his meaning usually comes through. The grammatical aspect of his performance is affected by poor control of word order, which sometimes causes comprehension problems. He uses both simple and complex sentence forms but structures frequently contain error (it’s depend; there will always be welcome of you; this is one reason can be). He can produce some acceptable features of pronunciation but overall rhythm is affected by his rapid speech rate. Intonation is generally too flat, apart from rising pitch at the end of sentences, which is not always helpful. This, combined with phonemic problems (vork for ‘work’; vell for ‘well’; evryting for ‘everything’), makes some patches of speech hard to follow.

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Describe a small business that you would like to own/open

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▸ what this business would be

▸ how you would start/open this business

▸ how you would run this business and explain why you would like to run this kind of business

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How do you feel about your vocabulary and speaking today? Are you able to talk about business related topics?

• Yes, I feel more confident.

• Yes, but I feel I need more practice to be more consistent with my responses.

• I am still struggling coming up with ideas on this topic. It's really hard to talk about business fluently.

• I can barely make a sentence on this topic.

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What do you struggle with the most?

• Coming up with ideas to talk about this topic

• My vocabulary range is not enough to talk fluently about this

• My broken grammar makes it impossible for the examiner to fully understand what I mean

• I feel my pronunciation is poor and limits the examiner's comprehension.