Steps to improve your speaking at home
Step 1: Practice with the 20-day speaking challenge everyday
Ajith Academy’s 20-day Part 2 speaking challenge will help you to practice and improve one day at a time. A daily routine of practicing speaking by yourself will significantly improve your fluency and confidence.
The objective of this challenge is to:
- enable you to speak for 2 minutes without any breaks.
- develop your fluency and confidence
- give you plenty of ideas and know-how to tackle any topic that may come in Part 2
- improve your grammar and lexical resource (vocabulary)
Take a print out of the PDF file of all the cue card questions from the 20-Day Challenge here.
Step 2: Increase your vocabulary everyday
Keep a vocabulary book and learn uncommon words from IELTS reading passages and other reading materials.
More information on how to improve your vocabulary for IELTS – Link
Step 3: Record your audio
You can record your audio using a phone or use a voice recorder. It’s imperative to record rather than write the answers.
Step 4: Do a self- introspection for-
- Fluency– Was there any repetition or hesitation? Use fillers like ‘well’, ‘anyway’, ‘so’ to fill gaps in your speaking
- Vocabulary- Are you able to use variety of uncommon words, synonyms, adjectives?
e.g. ‘freezing’ rather than ‘cold’
- Grammar- Tenses (Are you using variety of tenses correctly?), Range of sentences used (Are you using complex sentences?), 3rd person ‘s’, plural ‘s’
- Intonations and contractions- Use intonations in your voice, vary your tone according to the subject. Use contractions e.g. ‘I’m’ rather than ‘I am’
- Linking words- Are you using just ‘but’ and ‘so’ instead of words like ‘even though’, ‘although’, ‘despite’, ‘in spite of’?
- Pronunciation- Is your accent getting in the way of speaking words correctly? Are you pronouncing ‘d’ instead of ‘t’ e.g. contact?
Get more advice on how to do IELTS Writing Task:
