IELTS Speaking Part 3: longer answers

Here are 3 techniques to help you give longer, more detailed answers:

1. Keep asking yourself "why?"
2. Explain the alternatives
3. Give an example

Question:
Do you think that school children should be encouraged to have their own ideas, or is it more important for them to learn what their teachers give them?

Answer:
I think that we should definitely allow children to be creative and have their own ideas. (why?) Children need to develop the ability to think for themselves and solve problems (why?) because as adults they will not always have somebody to guide them or tell them what to do. (alternatives?) If we don't allow children to have their own ideas, they will be less successful in the adult world; they will be too reliant on others. (example?) A doctor, for example, might encounter a situation that he or she hasn't been trained for, but will still be expected to make a decision that could save someone's life.

Comments

[Bach]

Useful tip, I need to practice this technique often.

[hum]

Great! especially for writing where you have time to think and for speaking part-2.
Also useful in part-3 when you stuck and have little bit idea then you can have alternative sentence to keep going.

[Candice]

i like the alternatives! i have never noticed them before. But talking too much may be interrupted by the examiner?

[SL]

Hi Simon,

That's a very smart solution.

[SL]

I think in such a world where a fierce competition is high and people tend to come up with new ideas to ahead other people, it is crucial to raise children with creativity approaches. If children always wait to someone puts an idea in front of them, they are very likely can’t find solutions to their problems later in their lives. One of the best example for creativity I think in soccer fields, when two players had same training, same coach, but one learned to use their own ways to reach to the goals, the second one learned to use those already thoughts. Not surprisingly, the first one scoresmore goals, as he probably uses more ways to goal that makes it difficult to predict.

[:]

Good afternoon Guys.

In my personal experience with speaking practice, I need to tell all of you that you can talk for more than 2 minutes if you are well prepared with lots and lots of practice. I remember when I started to practice speaking for 2 minutes; it was like a burden just to start speaking about a topic. I followed Simon’s tips and started to WRITE about the topic, and ask myself the 5 W’s (when-who-how-why-what) to talk in more details about any topic. I found it very interesting and useful technique .with my speaking mates, we tried different speaking topic from this website and we managed to achieve the 7 in speaking twice. In my last attempt ,I got a new question which I did not prepare for, but the ideas were flowing from my mind due to my previous practice for several exam topics ,I was able to extend my answers and give personal expiernce which was related to the topic and I got 7.

Just an advice ,follow Simon’s tips and do lots of practice and you will get it in the end

[samet]

I think one of the most important thing is that
people should have their own ideas because these ideas
what make people different from others. Therefore, this ability start to be acquired during educational period. Beside, if we allow our children to make decision on their own, they will be more self confident. Naturally, self confidence will bring to more jop opportunities. In todays highly competitive world, everything is much harder than it used to be, finding a good jop is difficult for many people who couldn't have the opportunity to receive education. This is another indicator of importance of encouracing children to have their own ideas.

[nick]

Hi everyone,

I would like to pratice the speaking skill. Anyone who want to achieve band 7 are interested in practicing together?? I am currently living in sydney central, Australia. You can me via my email: tidus1410@yahoo.com.so we can arrange a day to practice together. May be we can help out each other.:).

[Uğur]

You are a super teacher. Thank you

[Jimmy]

Guys, I didn't quite understand the

term"alternative".

Dose "alternative" here mean presumption?

TY.

[sun]

As per my opinion, children should be allowed to have their own ideas because this will enhance their ability to think creatively. We might come across with lots of obstacles in near future and in every paths of life neither our parents nor our teachers can guide us. Some decisions need to be taken base on our thinking and ideology. Self made decisions can take you to your path.