How to Score band 7 in IELTS Speaking Test




How to Score IELTS Band 7 in the Speaking Test

In the video you’ll see an example of Part 3 of the IELTS speaking test. The candidate is from Colombia and is asked some questions about famous people.

She scored IELTS Band 7 in this test. Comments by the examiner and an analysis of her performance in line with the official IELTS grading criteria for the speaking test are below:

Fluency & Coherence

The candidate is quite fluent and responds appropriately as well as extending her responses when required. Her use of discourse markers and linking words such as first; I think so; actually; in a lot of ways; for example; and that’s why is good. Although she sometimes hesitates, this is mainly related to thinking about content and clarification of ideas before speaking rather than not knowing what to say and these short pauses do not affect her overall coherence.

Lexical Resource (vocabulary)

The candidate’s range of vocabulary is good and includes examples of less common vocabulary items, colloquial and idiomatic expressions:
  • we need a rest from the serious stuff;
  • it depends on the target;
  • getting dumped;
  • selling their soul to the devil;
  • lose your privacy.
But her speech also includes some mistakes and inappropriate choice of words:
  • free dresses;
  • end of the relax evening;
  • a small news.

Grammatical Range & Accuracy

The candidate uses a good mixture of simple and more complex grammar structures successfully and some of her speech is completely free of errors. But she does make some mistakes when using prepositions, articles, verb tenses and subject-verb agreement:
  • it won’t be happen like this;
  • you will like them fail;
  • if people follows;
  • if someone recognise you.

Pronunciation

In spite of her accent, she speaks clearly and is generally easy to understand. She makes good use of intonation and stress to convey meaning in her speech, for example:
  • They will give free dresses and free stays in the hotels;
  • You don’t have to pay for a lot of stuff.

Her use of syllable-timing makes it difficult for her to maintain natural rhythm when producing longer sentences and there are infrequent pronunciation problems with certain sounds, for example, jung instead of young, however, this does not detract from being able to understand her speech.

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