IELTS Speaking Tips

2 min readSep 9, 2022

Here we go again after a long break! Some months ago I just did my IELTS test and got 7 for speaking part surprisingly. Basically, it was my third trial after getting failed for two times in achieving my targeted score. I want to let you know what I did to break the score.

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Don’t memorizing. You don’t have to be precisely correct (in terms of grammar). All you need to do is making your flow like you are in a conversation, don’t take it too much to think because it will lower your score as you look like memorizing. Actually, the examiner wants to know how you interact with people in visited country instead of how perfect you are in structuring the idea. Structuring idea is important but please make difference between verbal language and written language.
Use chunking method. Instead of learning or memorizing word by word, you can actually learn phrase by phrase because it makes you more natural. To speak naturally, you have to imitate the way native speakers say, and it can easily for you to remember and puzzle the phrase with another form. For example, “I am nice” phrase. Instead of memorizing formula “subject + auxiliary verb + adjective”. When you want to say something, you just need to remember the phrase and try to change in another form like “you are beautiful”, “my mom is happy”. Look! the structure is the same.
Use collocation. In English, many words have their own “partner” and when we pair it with another word, it just simply doesn’t match. For example, headquarter office [v] headquarter house [x], fast food [v] fast drink [v], sustainable energy, etc. All you have to do is feeding yourself with a lot of input, such as watching movies or podcast. The more you get collocation resources and use it in the test, the better your score because it’s a natural way to speak.