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SEARCH: FOR TEST TAKERS The TOEFL iBT® Test: Improving Your Speaking Skills Advice for Speaking Skill: Speaking about Familiar Topics Performance Level: Fair Score Range: 18–25 Look for opportunities to speak to native speakers of English. Interaction with others will help improve your speaking ability. Find a speaking partner. Set aside time each week to practice speaking to each other in English. If you can't find a native English speaker, find a friend who wants to practice speaking English and promise to speak only English for a certain period of time. 1. Practice speaking for a limited time on different topics without a lot of preparation. Time your responses to questions. Make a list of some general speaking topics people persons you admire places you enjoy visiting things you enjoy doing Think of a specific example for each topic (a parent, the market, reading books) and talk about each for one minute. Select one of the topics above and write down three verbs and three adjectives relevant to the topic. Try to use the words as you speak. 2. Concentrate on speaking clearly with good pronunciation and intonation. Speak with confidence and open your mouth more widely than you normally do. It is difficult to understand you if you speak word by word. Try to speak in "thought groups." Take a reading passage and mark the thought groups first. Then read it aloud paying close attention to these groups of words and ideas. Get a book on tape or get a transcript from a news report, interview or play. Listen to the performance and mark the pauses, stress and intonation on the transcript. Then read the transcript and try to imitate the pauses, stress and intonation patterns. 3. Use books that come with audio recordings to study pronunciation, stress and intonation in English. 4. Ready to take the TOEFL iBT® test? Register Now > Not sure if the TOEFL iBT® test is offered in your location? Related Links Free Sample Questions Registration Bulletin Test Dates and Locations Test Fees Who Accepts TOEFL Scores TOEFL iBT About the Test Register for the Test Prepare for the Test On Test Day Scores Getting Your Scores Sending Your Scores Understanding Your Scores Scoring Services Improve Your Skills Scoring Policies Frequently Asked Questions BOOKMARK GET ADOBE READER (FOR PDFs) About ETS Newsroom Careers Disabilities Legal Privacy & Security ETS Trademarks Copyright © 2012 by Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ETS Home > TOEFL > TOEFL iBT > Scores > Improve Your Skills ETS.ORG Go SHARE ETS HOME TOEFL HOME FOR TEST TAKERS FOR INSTITUTIONS FOR ENGLISH PROGRAMS MY TOEFL iBT ACCOUNT STORE FAQs CONTACT US TOEFL iBT: Improve Your Speaking Skills: Familiar Topics (Fair) http://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/scores/improve/speaking_familiar_fair 1 di 2 12/16/2012 1:03 PM
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The TOEFL iBT® Test: Improving Your Speaking Skills
Advice for SpeakingSkill: Speaking about Familiar TopicsPerformance Level: FairScore Range: 18–25
Look for opportunities to speak to native speakers of English. Interaction with others will helpimprove your speaking ability.
Find a speaking partner. Set aside time each week to practice speaking to each other inEnglish.
If you can't find a native English speaker, find a friend who wants to practice speakingEnglish and promise to speak only English for a certain period of time.
1.
Practice speaking for a limited time on different topics without a lot of preparation. Time yourresponses to questions.
Make a list of some general speaking topics
people persons you admire
places you enjoy visiting
things you enjoy doing
Think of a specific example for each topic (a parent, the market, reading books) and talkabout each for one minute.
Select one of the topics above and write down three verbs and three adjectives relevantto the topic. Try to use the words as you speak.
2.
Concentrate on speaking clearly with good pronunciation and intonation. Speak withconfidence and open your mouth more widely than you normally do.
It is difficult to understand you if you speak word by word. Try to speak in "thoughtgroups."
Take a reading passage and mark the thought groups first. Then read it aloud payingclose attention to these groups of words and ideas.
Get a book on tape or get a transcript from a news report, interview or play.
Listen to the performance and mark the pauses, stress and intonation on thetranscript.
Then read the transcript and try to imitate the pauses, stress and intonationpatterns.
3.
Use books that come with audio recordings to study pronunciation, stress and intonation inEnglish.
4.
Ready to take theTOEFL iBT® test?Register Now >
Not sure if the TOEFLiBT® test is offered in yourlocation?
Related LinksFree SampleQuestions
Registration Bulletin
Test Dates andLocations
Test Fees
Who Accepts TOEFLScores
TOEFL iBT
About the Test
Register for the Test
Prepare for the Test
On Test Day
Scores
Getting Your Scores
Sending Your Scores
Understanding Your Scores
Scoring Services
Improve Your Skills
Scoring Policies
Frequently Asked Questions
BOOKMARK GET ADOBE READER (FOR PDFs)
About ETS Newsroom Careers Disabilities Legal Privacy & Security ETS Trademarks
Copyright © 2012 by Educational Testing Service. All rights reserved.All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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