‫In this lesson, we'll be learning how you are schooled in the speaking test, you'll understand how
‫the examiner uses the banned descriptors to give you your band score in aout speaking.
‫So how exactly are the band descriptors any different to what we have seen previously?
‫Well, there are still four sections that the examiner uses to give you your band score.
‫However, in place of task achievement, we have fluency and coherent lexical resource and grammatical
‫range and accuracy are still here.
‫But we also have the addition of pronunciation.
‫As before, these four sections are weighted equally to give you your final band score in this lesson,
‫we'll go through each section and discuss what you need to do to get at least a band seven.
‫So let's move on to our first section of the band descriptors, which is fluency and coherence.
‫The fluency incoherent section of the band descriptors is simply a measure of how well you communicate
‫your ideas and organize your thinking to get a band seven.
‫Here are my Top Tips.
‫You should be able to organize your ideas into easily understood speaking sections, you can use connectives
‫and opener's to structure your speaking and make it more logical when required.
‫You can self correct to improve your speaking and you can speak at length to describe in detail.
‫And this last point is very important in the speaking test, as you will be speaking for an extended
‫period of time.
‫Let's move on to our second section, which is lexical resource to get at least aband seven in lexical
‫resource.
‫These are my suggestions.
‫You're able to use a range of language and synonyms to vary your speaking.
‫You can use some less common vocabulary, although maybe sometimes with some inaccuracies, you're able
‫to paraphrase a question from the examiner or the question on a cue card.
‫And you can use idioms and collocations with some degree of native style.
‫Now, don't worry if you're not sure what idioms and collocations are, as I'll be covering this later
‫in the speaking section of this course, here is section number three, which is grammatical range and
‫accuracy.
‫For a band seven, you were able to vary your sentence structures and sentence types when speaking.
‫And again, I'll be showing you examples of these at a later point, you're able to use tense, mostly
‫accurately, although with some errors speaking is easily understood with some slight mistakes in your
‫structure.
‫And here is section number four, which is pronunciation.
‫Now, before I move on to tell you the requirements to getting a band seven in pronunciation, it's
‫important to note that there is not one accent style that is any better than the other.
‫For example, a British accent is no better than an American accent.
‫In pronunciation, you are only marked on how well you are able to pronounce your English.
‫That means how clearly you can speak.
‫So here are a few pointers for getting at least a band seven in pronunciation for Al speaking.
‫Your vocabulary is mostly well pronounced and easily understood.
‫You show some understanding of native speaking pronunciation features such as the Shabwah, which sounds
‫like a.
‫Now, there will be a lesson purely on pronunciation later on in this section of the course, and I'll
‫share with you some features of pronunciation that you can easily practice and use in the speaking test.
‫So there is your run-Through of the four sections of the ALP speaking banned descriptors, and here
‫you have a full overview.
‫You can read through this if you'd like to better understand how the examiner gives you your mark.
‫But as with the other lessons, I will provide this for you as a printout or worksheet after this lesson.
‫Once again, I believe that by understanding what the examiner is looking for, we can score higher
‫grades in any test.
‫So that brings us to the end of this lesson on how we are scored in Al speaking.
‫See you in the next lesson.