IELTS Speaking Test Australia May 2013 Sample IELTS speaking test questions from an IELTS interview in Australia IELTS Speaking Test Australia | Part 1 What is your full name? Juan Carlos Rodriguez Can I see your ID? Yes‚ of course‚ here it is. Where are you from? I’m from Mexico Do you work or study? At the moment‚ I’m here in Australia studying English. In Mexico I used to work as a marketing analyst. Do you live in a house or an apartment? In a rented house‚ here in Sydney
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System‚ Vol. 17‚ No. 3‚ pp. 377-384‚1989 Printed in Great Britain 0346-251X/89 $3.00 + 0.00 0 1990 Pergamon Press plc IMPROVING SPEAKING FLUENCY PAUL NATION English Language Institute‚ Victoria University of Wellington‚ New Zealand This paper examines the improvement of learners of English during the performance of a speaking activity which involves repeating the same unrehearsed talk. Improvements in fluency‚ grammatical accuracy‚ and control of the content showed that during the short
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Should the world RELY on English as a lingua franca? Pierre Frath CIRLEP‚ Department of English‚ Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France) pierre.frath@univ-reims.fr ABSTRACT English has become a global lingua franca‚ a unique linguistic situation in world history. As there is no discernible coercion‚ it seems the world has freely chosen English and yet if for example we look at European linguistic policies‚ the
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ISSUES ON FRENCH BORROWINGS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Василенко Дарья Жезказганский университет им. О.А. Байконурова Every living language changes through time. It is natural that no records of linguistic changes have ever been kept‚ as most changes pass unnoticed by contemporaries. The history of the English language has been reconstructed on the basis of written records of different periods. The earliest extant written texts in English are dated in the 7th century; the
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Sports Figures and Celebrities: Who Is The Right Role Model? Krista Nicole Valley ENG 122: English Composition II Prof: Heather Nielson February 22‚ 2015 I. Introduction A: Thesis Statement While celebrities and sports figures are more likely to be role models to children‚ it is up to the child to decide whether to base their decision on likes and beliefs‚ or looks. II. Body paragraph #1- Topic Sentence #1 When it comes to choosing a sports role model‚ a lot of
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If I ruled the world: “If I ruled the world…”; am I the only one that’s ever wondered what it’d be like? I feel like it’s one of those passing thoughts that seem to cross your mind‚ like why don’t English singers have an accent when they sing‚ or how the quote “head over heels” originated; since we’re head over heels normally? But‚ what I mean‚ is whenever you listen to the news on TV or on the radio and hear about an epidemic striking the world like the H1N1 flu or another war‚ don’t you ever
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Public Speaking There are natural oral speech disorders such as sluttering‚ cluttering‚ articulation disorders‚ and aplaxia. Sluttering is a problem that interferes with fluent speech. When someone repeats the first part of a word or stays a long time on a single sound it is because they are slutter. A person who stutters has trouble getting out what they want to say‚ and a person who clutters says what they are thinking‚ but it becomes disorganized while actually speaking. Apraxia is thought
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SPEAKING QUESTIONS Where are you living? - Is it a house or an apartment? - Do you have a favorite room in the house? - What does make your house pleasant? - Is drawing important for an adult? - Do you find it difficult to draw? Cue Card Talk about a job that you would like to have. You should say - What is it? - What skills are needed for it? - Why did you choose it? Discussion - What can you say about those who change their profession? - What do you think are the disadvantages/advantages of changing
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The Civil Rights Movement and its Prominent Leaders When we think about the Civil Rights movement we normally don’t take into account actually how many civil rights members there actually were. The two prominent leaders in our mind we associate the civil rights movement is Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. The film Black Power Mix tape: 1967-1975 looks at the different accounts of very well known Civil Rights leaders who had a voice and changed the movement in a positive
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