Distance from the writer and the text Consider this example: My sister studied in the UK. It was her first time to be away from us, so she learned to cook and clean up after herself. This sentence is conversational in tone. Sometimes sharing your experience is...
The questions you’ll be asked in the discussion in Part 3 develop from the topics discussed in Part 2. For example, if Part 2 is about holidays, the questions in Part 3 might be about the environmental impact of tourism. In speaking part 2, the topic was about making...
In the last three steps you’ve seen what the focus of Part 3 questions is, and seen some appropriate language highlighted in the model answer. Part 3 questions test both your grammatical range and accuracy and your lexical resource. It’s impossible to...
Part 3 of the test is like a conversation between you and the examiner. And it’s designed to get you to talk about more abstract and challenging things. So it’s probably no surprise that some students find it difficult. We asked students about exactly what...
Study Guide Listen to a candidate. Is her pronunciation clear? Can you understand her? Listen to sentences the candidate is using. Is it grammatical correct? Are there different types of sentences? What vocabulary or phrases can you hear that you can also use in your...
