Speaking Feature 1

The natural rise and fall of speaker's voice, which changes to signal the end of a phrase or sentence

• Simple grammatical forms

• Complex grammatical forms

• Familiar topics

• Intonation

Spoken or written communication

• Initiate

• Digress

• Discourse

• Intonation

Common contexts which candidates should be able to talk about, e.g. hobbies, daily routines, school/work

• a range of cohesive device

• digress

• Familiar topics

• discourse

To begin something, in this context, discussion, usually by asking their partner a question

• Familiar topics

• Discourses

• Initiate

• Intonation

Words that join other words, phrases, and/or sentences together, e.g. and, but, or, so

• Cohesive device

• Filler

• Contraction

• Punctuation

When a candidate goes off topic

• Discourse

• Cohesive device

• overlap

• Digress

Structures such as the present perfect, past continuous, and future continuous

• Complex grammatical forms

• basic cohesive device

• simple grammatical forms

• discourses