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 Speaking
assessment criteria

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Speaking assessment criteria

 Fluency & Coherence

 Pronunciation
 Lexical resource
 Grammatical range & accuracy
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Fluency & Coherence
 Speak at length
 Organise your ideas
 Signpost what you say

 Discuss & justify opinions and issues

 Without long pauses or continuous hesitation
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Lexical resource
 Range & accuracy of vocabulary
 Less common vocabulary
 Idiomatic expressions
 Collocation
 Word choice

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Lesson common vocabulary

 Today is a very sunny day

 sweltering
 scorching
 boiling
 sizzling
 blistering

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Lesson common vocabulary

 She is a great teacher

 guide
 instructor
 tutor
 coach
 mentor
 guru

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Lesson common vocabulary - movies
People Places/Objects Terminology

- Actors – lead Cinema - Plot

& supporting Picture house - Genre
- Producer Box office - Trailer
- Director Independent - Dubbed
- Editor Posters - Subtitles
- Critics Billboards - Re-make
- Sceenwriter Reviews - Sequel / pre-quel
- Extras Special effects/CGI - Blockbuster
Popcorn - Casting
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Vocabulary brainstorming
 What’s the purpose of this activity?

 How can you facilitate this in your classroom?

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Vocabulary brainstorming
 Stimulate/Activate vocabulary by topic
 Facilitates both memory & contextual usage
 Students expand vocab, learn from eachother

 Brainstorm regularly, at beginning class

 Use mind maps or categories to organise
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Vocab exercise:

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 “Hot seat”
1. editor
2. popcorn
3. composer
4. dubbed
5. sequel
6. extra
7. oscars
8. soundtrack
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 “Hot seat”
1. hollywood
2. script-writer
3. critic
4. subtitles
5. prequel
6. blockbuster
7. producer
8. trailer
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 “Hot seat”

 purpose(s) of this activity?

 how can you facilitate this in your

classroom?
(key steps)

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 “Hot seat”

 Natural paraphrase practice

 Revise/recycle vocabulary
 Fun activity

 Decide target vocabulary in themes

 Use couple lessons after vocab used

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Idiomatic expressions
 That doesn’t ring a bell
 It’s something to keep an eye out for
 It’s difficult to keep my head above water

Listen to authentic sources, eg movies, radio –

learn meaning from context

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www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language
/theenglishwespeak/

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Keep up with current affairs
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Integrated teaching

 Vocabulary key factor in all IELTS papers

– so make links between papers
 Word families, synonyms, etc
 Same for grammar too

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Grammatical range & accuracy

 Range of structures
 Match tenses to context
 Impact of errors

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 Range of structures – context
Describe an important event in history
Past tenses
 Past simple – India was split up in 1947
 Past continuous – The British were losing control slowly
 Past perfect – They had tried to separate this before

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 Range of structures – context
Describe your favourite film
Present tenses
 Present simple – This movie is the biggest ever in India
 Present continuous – It’s still running in cinemas now
 Present perfect – I’ve seen this film maybe 50 times

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Grammatical range & accuracy
Complex sentences
 incl multiple clauses
 Just beside the station was a stadium, which
was built in the 19th century, and where games
are now held every weekend

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Grammatical range & accuracy
Complex sentences
 Nowadays everyone has a mobile phone
 Who? What? Why?
 Nowadays people of all ages have a mobile
phone, especially smartphones, as you can do
so many things with them
Balance of simple & complex structures
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Pronunciation

 Accuracy & variety of pronunciation features

 words stress
 sentence stress
 intonation

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Pronunciation

Word stress
 mistake democracy photographic
 misTAKE deMOcracy photoGRAphic

 PHOtograph, phoTOgraphy, photoGRAphic.

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Academic word list

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Pronunciation

Sentence stress
 I said she might consider a NEW car
 I said she might consider a new CAR

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Pronunciation
Sentence stress
 I said she might consider a new car. It was my idea.
 I SAID she might consider a new car. Don't you
understand me?
 I said SHE might consider a new car. Not another
person.
 I said she MIGHT consider a new car. It's a possibility.
 I said she might CONSIDER a new car. She should
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Sounds right!
Itunes app

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 What are the biggest
challenges for your
students re IELTS speaking
assessment criteria?

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Speaking priorities

 Fluency: speaking at length

 LRA, GRA & Pron: range & variety
 Flexibility

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IELTS examiners

 Recruitment
 Standardised
 Monitored

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 Writing
assessment criteria

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Writing assessment criteria
 Task achievement / Task response
 Cohesion & Coherence
 Lexical resource
 Grammatical range & accuracy

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Task Achievement / Task response
 Degree to which task completely answered
 Sufficient length responses
 Task 1 Academic:
 All important details included, sufficient detail
 Accuracy in data & details
 Clear overview of diagram

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Task Achievement / Task response

 Task 2 Academic:
 Respond fully to all aspects of question
 Develop & support your ideas
 Clear & consistent opinion
 Specialist knowledge isn't expected

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Coherence & Cohesion
Coherence = flow of your writing.
Ideas should be logically sequenced, easy to
follow and understand
Cohesion = linking words that help connect ideas
& show relationship between paragraphs,
sentences or parts of sentences
Key = organisation & linking
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Coherence & Cohesion
 Plan answer to ensure coherence
 Use theme for each paragraph
 Wide range of linking devices or approaches eg
referencing or substitution
 Myfriends went to Chile last year. They went to Machu
Picchu. That was the highlight of their tour.
 Famous people deserve a private life. But celebrities
also sell newspapers.
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Grammatical range & accuracy

 Range of structures
 Match tenses to context
 Impact of errors
 Check your writing

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Grammatical range & accuracy
Range of structures might include:
 Passive tenses (for Task 1 processes)
 Conditionals (if, unless, provided that etc)
 Comparisons
 Modal verbs
 Different ways of talking about the future

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Grammatical range & accuracy

Complex sentences

A. Thank you for your letter which arrived today.

B. Thank you for your letter, which arrived today.

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 What are the biggest
challenges for your
students re IELTS writing
assessment criteria?

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Writing priorities
 Fully answer all parts/aspects of question
 Task 1: Overview
 C&C: more variety in way link
 LRA: range of vocabulary
 GRA: range of structures, esp complex
sentences

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Resources

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LearnEnglish website

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TeachingEnglish website

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 Assessment
criteria videos
on youku
(links on
ChinaIELTS)

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IELTS Official Microblog
雅思官方微博

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 on Renren
雅思人人网公共主页
（http://page.renren.com/ielts）

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IELTS E-magazine
雅思官方“视野”杂志

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Teaching essentials

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What are your different
roles as a teacher?

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Different roles of teacher
 give feedback on errors/areas to improve
 support students when they lack confidence
 observe all students, especially quiet ones
 make interesting lessons
 inspire students to learn and improve

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Average band score (Academic)
2011
Country L R W S Overall
China 5.8 5.9 5.2 5.3 5.6
India 6.4 5.6 5.8 6.2 6.1
Thailand 5.9 5.9 5.3 5.7 5.8
South Korea 6.2 6.1 5.4 5.7 5.9
Hong Kong 6.7 6.4 5.9 6.2 6.4
Philippines 7 6.6 6.2 6.8 6.7
Vietnam 5.9 6.1 5.6 5.7 5.9
Malaysia 7.2 7 6.2 6.6 6.9
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 What are the key
characteristics of good
language learners?

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Characteristics of good
language learners
 good listeners
 willing too experiment & take risks
 think about how to learn
 seek/accept feedback on how to improve
 learn from mistakes

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Teaching speaking

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What is fluency?
 Ability to communicate
 Express self freely and effectively

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What most effective way to
enhance fluency?
 Need tools – ie language
 Speaking practice
 Develop confidence

Key principle: speak English in class

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Activities that promote
fluency
 free discussions
 role-plays
 pair-work
 group-work
 task-based learning
Key principle: speak English in class
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What makes successful
fluency practice?
 As many students as possible say as much as
possible
 Students are motivated, attentive
 Language is used in a variety of ways eg
signposting, expanding point, etc
Key principle: speak English in class

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What makes successful
fluency practice?
 Organize discussion groups into 2-8 participants
 If sitting in rows, turn around and join those behind
 Teachers roam, monitor, encourage, assessing,
noting

Key principle: speak English in class

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Teaching speaking:
3 replies

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Teaching speaking:
Range of tenses

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Teaching speaking:
Different approaches

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Teaching speaking:
Extending answers

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Teaching speaking:
Spot the mistake

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Teaching speaking:
Qualities

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Teaching writing

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Teaching writing:
POWER writing

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Essay writing process?
Plan
Organise
Write
Evaluate
Revise
POWER writing

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Why plan an essay?
 Analyse the question & ensure answer fully
 Separate tasks of idea generation & writing
 Save time when writing, be more efficient

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What’s needed in planning?
 Analyse question – identify key requirements
 Brainstorm ideas for body / synonyms to use
 Decide position
 Select/Organise ideas – idea-explain-example
 Consider linking and topic sentences

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Different question types
Explain the positives & Is this a positive or
negatives of this negative development?
development
Discuss both views and To what extent do you
give your opinion. agree or disagree?
Must explain both sides Can either give both or
of argument support one side only

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Analysing a Task 2 question
The first car appeared on British roads in 1888. By the year
2015 there may be as many as 35 million vehicles on British
roads.

Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and

international laws introduced to control car ownership and
use.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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 promoted
vehicle
pushed
automobile
supported
The first car appeared on British roads in 1888. By the year
2015 there may be as many as 35 million vehicles on British
roads.

Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and

international laws introduced to control car ownership and
use.
regulate
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
manage
legislation
other transportation restrict
rules
different types of transportation limit
regulations
substitute
optional
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Brainstorm ideas ….
The first car appeared on British roads in 1888. By the year
2015 there may be as many as 35 million vehicles on British
roads.

Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and

international laws introduced to control car ownership and
use.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Should alternative forms of transport be encouraged?

Should international laws control car ownership?

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 Agree Disagree
Alternative transport Control
↑ cars = ↑ pollution / restrict personal freedom
traffic congestion + choice
-unhealthy + inefficient International laws
cities car + oil industry will
public transport – more strongly object – v.
efficient + powerful industries so
environmentally friendly – little chance of this
eg subway/metro and
public bus high use
Conclusion
In principle agree -alternative transport possible
-control and international laws difficult
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 Organise writing – structure
Alternative forms of transport should be encouraged and
international laws introduced to control car ownership and use.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Introduction Discuss encouragement
of alternative transport
forms
Body: paragraphs 1

Body: paragraphs 2
Discuss value of
Conclusion international rules

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What’s needed in an intro?
 Introduce topic (paraphrase question)
 Respond to question, make position clear
 Summarise approach to essay
Nowadays regulating transportation, particularly with
the effects on our environment, is a widely debated
topic. My feeling is that transport options should be
supported but I will examine both sides of the debate.
I also sense that legislation restricting rights would
be difficult.
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How to structure paragraphs?
 Topic sentences
 Supporting statement(s)
 Examples & evidence

In this sequence, makes coherence

Add linking, also makes cohesion

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What are topic sentences?
 Short simple sentence introducing the theme of the
paragraph, usually at beginning of paragraph
Examples:
 In my opinion, global warming is the main cause of
the increase in natural disasters.
 There are several causes of cultural
misunderstanding.
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Why evaluate an essay?
Review that answered all parts of question

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Why edit & revise an essay?
 Look for errors & correct them

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Learning to edit & revise
 Inappropriate tense T
 Wrong word Ww
 Grammar Gr
 Punctuation P
 Spelling Sp

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Learning to edit & revise
Grammar checklist
 Articles
 Apostrophes
 Uncountable nouns
 Present simple third person
 Right tense for context

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Teaching writing:
lexis extension

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 Teaching writing:
checking prepositions

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 Teaching writing:
analyse model answers

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Essay writing process?
Plan & Organise – 5 mins
Write intro – 5 mins
Write body paras – 20 mins
Write conclusion – 5 mins
Edit & Revise – 5 mins

POWER writing
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