In this post, we'll learn essential answering strategies for Part 5 of the Linguaskill General Speaking test. Before you start this post, make sure you've read · · Understanding what is being tested in Speaking and · · Practise speaking using these academic markers.
In Part 5 of the Linguaskill General Speaking test, you'll be asked five opinion-based questions about a topic. The topic may or may not be familiar to you. However, the topic will always be based on these themes, ordered roughly from most likely to least likely:
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You will need sufficient vocabulary in the themes listed above to do well in Part 5. To gauge how good is your vocabulary in these themes, head over to Skills Express and use the filter function to find vocabulary related to these themes at various CEFR levels.
In many ways, the strategy for Part 5 is similar to Part 3. However, unlike Part 3, there is one major difference in the way the questions are asked that increases the difficulty for Part 5.
But first, let's talk about their similarities. In Part 5, you'll first listen to a set of instructions, just like Part 3.
After that, the question and five prompts will be displayed on the screen. At this point, you will have 40 seconds to read the prompts and think about what you are going to say, just like Part 3.
This is where their similarities end.
The one major difference that increases the difficulty for Part 5 are the five prompts. ****** **** *, *** ******* ** **** * *** ********* ***** **** ****** ** ******* (******* *-* ***** ****), *** **** ** *** ******* *** ********** ** ** *** *** ****** ****** *** *********. purchase This leads to several problems for candidates, as we shall see later.
To illustrate this, here is a Part 5 question taken from Linguaskill General's Practice Speaking Test.
Example Question: Part 5
A researcher is writing a report about young people's leisure time. He wants to find out your opinion about the importance of leisure time for young people.
He will ask you questions about:
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One of the more important can-do statements for CEFR C1 & Above is the ability to speak about a new, unknown, and unexpected topic proficiently. Part 5 of the Linguaskill General Speaking test is designed to evaluate this ability.
After the "thinking" phase ends, a question based on prompt No. 1 will be read out to you. You will be given 20 seconds to speak and answer the question.
This pattern of questioning-answering will repeat for another 4 times. By the end of the last cycle, Part 5 will complete and the Linguaskill General Speaking test ends automatically.
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A great strategy for tackling this is to use the **** ******** purchase which we've covered previously in · · Answering Strategies for Part 3.
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For example. If we were to prepare our answers for the example questions we discussed earlier:
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Here is a perfect way to answer:
