How to Sound More Confident in IELTS Speaking?
IELTS speaking is the exam where you are assessed on different parameters such as fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation. Confidence is not a factor here but you cannot imagine how drastically it can help you do well in all the above said parameters, ultimately leading you to receive high band score.When nervousness is an obvious emotional feeling inside, how you can sound more confident? Let us get deep into this fearful dilemma situation and know how to crack the IELTS speaking exam with better score.
Preparation is the Key Behind Confidence
You cannot be confident if you are not prepared well. Without practice, you are very likely to look unconfident during your IELTS speaking test. This happens because when you are not prepared, you start focusing on your mistakes on the day of your exam. On the other hand, when you practice a lot and have already worked on a number of your weak points, you would deliver speaking as if you speak without any error.
Record your Voice while Practicing
The best practical solution of improving speaking is to record your voice and analyse it for the areas of improvements. As you might have a smartphone, it would be easy for you to download and install sound recorder app. Just do it and start practicing it. You can place a full IELTS speaking test or only cue card part in front of you which you can focus at and start speaking. After you record, you can play it and start analysing it for fluency, grammar, tense, vocabulary, idiom etc. Notice how long you have spoken and whether you had a lot of hesitations or not. With this kind of practice, you will gain confidence within yourself and this would be reflected in your exam.
Try to Speak More and More
During your IELTS speaking test, do not be afraid of the examiner and do not get too much conscious about how he is going to judge you. You can just stay calm and try to speak more by elaborating your answer. If you are in hurry, you are going to make mistakes and if you are going too slow, you would not look confident. Secondly, do not doubt yourself thinking that you are making a lot of mistakes. Just keep going on and you would be surprised to see that you are done so quickly in hardly 15 minutes.
Concentrate on Yourself
To be confident, concentrate more on yourself rather than your examiner, his gestures, body language, reaction to your answers and things like that. In those 15 minutes, it is extremely important that you give your best and you can do so if you concentrate on your performance. But this does not mean that you should keep on putting stress on your errors when you speak. It just means that you need to focus on the questions and how you can give inputs to make your answer a better one.
Believe in Your Opinions
Do not be nervous on the way you are giving opinions. It’s not the opinion that matters but how you give your opinion really makes the difference in IELTS speaking. Thus, give a fully confident performance by completely believing on your views, opinions, likes and dislikes. Giving opinions by stating reasons as well would let the examiner know your speaking skills better.
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Dont worry these tests are tough than real ones
Study, study and study. Watch more interviews, "Tedx talks" and one of the most really important thing is do more Mock Ielts Test to gain more knowledge about your mistakes and weak aspects to improve. It makes no sense to just writing here or asking for any help to enhance your band score, plow without stopping, dude. Ahaha
The listening test is hard af, how could 5 answers come out from in non-stop consecutive sentences in about one minute or so, I didn't even realise the questions I was looking at was over! Frustrated af!
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You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Some people want governments to spend money looking for life on other planets.
Others, however, think this is a waste of public money when there are so many problems on earth.
Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from own knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 250 words.
A highly controversial issue today relates to prioritising the expenditure of public money. Majority of the people believe that government should allocate funds wisely. In this essay I am going to discuss both sides of the argument before reaching a final conclusion.
Primary reason we have to take into consideration is that authorities should spend the money with great care and should make a good balance between necessaties and luxuries. The main reason for believing this is that our planet is facing a lot of survival difficulties in context of weather changes, global warming, poverty and many more. It is widely accepted that saving our mother planet will definitely increase the life expectancy of its inhabitants. One good illustration of this is rapidly increasing global warming effects on atmosphere. Appropriate policy making along with financial aid allocation can reduce it leading to favorable environment for people to enjoy a healthy life.
On the other hand, it is believed that government should spend public taxes on advancement of other planets, making them a place to live. It is often argued that one must flourish in every field of life ignoring the fact that one must address the major issues first. A particular good example here is of Dubai, which made itself the most attractive place for tourists by investing a quite good amount for public security and its betterment rather than wasting the taxes and public money on space experiments.
In my opinion officials should spend money on solving the problems on earth first and then they should think of the other businesses.
To recapitulate, according to the arguments aforementioned above, one can reach to conclusion that public money should be spent according to necessaties rather than wasting on useless purposes.
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