1 00:00:01,410 --> 00:00:08,760 ‫In this lesson, we'll be learning how you are schooled in the speaking test, you'll understand how 2 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:14,700 ‫the examiner uses the banned descriptors to give you your band score in aout speaking. 3 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:21,330 ‫So how exactly are the band descriptors any different to what we have seen previously? 4 00:00:22,140 --> 00:00:28,370 ‫Well, there are still four sections that the examiner uses to give you your band score. 5 00:00:28,890 --> 00:00:37,230 ‫However, in place of task achievement, we have fluency and coherent lexical resource and grammatical 6 00:00:37,230 --> 00:00:39,390 ‫range and accuracy are still here. 7 00:00:39,750 --> 00:00:43,380 ‫But we also have the addition of pronunciation. 8 00:00:44,580 --> 00:00:52,320 ‫As before, these four sections are weighted equally to give you your final band score in this lesson, 9 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:58,850 ‫we'll go through each section and discuss what you need to do to get at least a band seven. 10 00:00:59,430 --> 00:01:06,210 ‫So let's move on to our first section of the band descriptors, which is fluency and coherence. 11 00:01:07,570 --> 00:01:15,130 ‫The fluency incoherent section of the band descriptors is simply a measure of how well you communicate 12 00:01:15,130 --> 00:01:20,920 ‫your ideas and organize your thinking to get a band seven. 13 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:23,170 ‫Here are my Top Tips. 14 00:01:24,330 --> 00:01:33,810 ‫You should be able to organize your ideas into easily understood speaking sections, you can use connectives 15 00:01:33,810 --> 00:01:40,560 ‫and opener's to structure your speaking and make it more logical when required. 16 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:48,280 ‫You can self correct to improve your speaking and you can speak at length to describe in detail. 17 00:01:48,780 --> 00:01:56,340 ‫And this last point is very important in the speaking test, as you will be speaking for an extended 18 00:01:56,340 --> 00:01:57,490 ‫period of time. 19 00:01:58,140 --> 00:02:06,510 ‫Let's move on to our second section, which is lexical resource to get at least aband seven in lexical 20 00:02:06,510 --> 00:02:07,200 ‫resource. 21 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,180 ‫These are my suggestions. 22 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:15,380 ‫You're able to use a range of language and synonyms to vary your speaking. 23 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:24,210 ‫You can use some less common vocabulary, although maybe sometimes with some inaccuracies, you're able 24 00:02:24,210 --> 00:02:29,130 ‫to paraphrase a question from the examiner or the question on a cue card. 25 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:34,440 ‫And you can use idioms and collocations with some degree of native style. 26 00:02:35,780 --> 00:02:42,590 ‫Now, don't worry if you're not sure what idioms and collocations are, as I'll be covering this later 27 00:02:42,590 --> 00:02:50,390 ‫in the speaking section of this course, here is section number three, which is grammatical range and 28 00:02:50,390 --> 00:02:51,260 ‫accuracy. 29 00:02:52,490 --> 00:02:59,140 ‫For a band seven, you were able to vary your sentence structures and sentence types when speaking. 30 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:06,260 ‫And again, I'll be showing you examples of these at a later point, you're able to use tense, mostly 31 00:03:06,260 --> 00:03:14,390 ‫accurately, although with some errors speaking is easily understood with some slight mistakes in your 32 00:03:14,390 --> 00:03:15,080 ‫structure. 33 00:03:15,950 --> 00:03:20,160 ‫And here is section number four, which is pronunciation. 34 00:03:20,690 --> 00:03:27,680 ‫Now, before I move on to tell you the requirements to getting a band seven in pronunciation, it's 35 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:33,520 ‫important to note that there is not one accent style that is any better than the other. 36 00:03:33,950 --> 00:03:38,660 ‫For example, a British accent is no better than an American accent. 37 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:46,210 ‫In pronunciation, you are only marked on how well you are able to pronounce your English. 38 00:03:47,540 --> 00:03:50,750 ‫That means how clearly you can speak. 39 00:03:51,380 --> 00:03:57,870 ‫So here are a few pointers for getting at least a band seven in pronunciation for Al speaking. 40 00:03:58,850 --> 00:04:03,970 ‫Your vocabulary is mostly well pronounced and easily understood. 41 00:04:04,610 --> 00:04:12,740 ‫You show some understanding of native speaking pronunciation features such as the Shabwah, which sounds 42 00:04:12,740 --> 00:04:13,520 ‫like a. 43 00:04:14,610 --> 00:04:20,940 ‫Now, there will be a lesson purely on pronunciation later on in this section of the course, and I'll 44 00:04:20,940 --> 00:04:28,710 ‫share with you some features of pronunciation that you can easily practice and use in the speaking test. 45 00:04:30,310 --> 00:04:37,810 ‫So there is your run-Through of the four sections of the ALP speaking banned descriptors, and here 46 00:04:37,810 --> 00:04:39,890 ‫you have a full overview. 47 00:04:40,390 --> 00:04:46,080 ‫You can read through this if you'd like to better understand how the examiner gives you your mark. 48 00:04:46,390 --> 00:04:53,860 ‫But as with the other lessons, I will provide this for you as a printout or worksheet after this lesson. 49 00:04:54,940 --> 00:05:01,840 ‫Once again, I believe that by understanding what the examiner is looking for, we can score higher 50 00:05:01,840 --> 00:05:03,700 ‫grades in any test. 51 00:05:04,690 --> 00:05:10,570 ‫So that brings us to the end of this lesson on how we are scored in Al speaking. 52 00:05:11,290 --> 00:05:12,580 ‫See you in the next lesson.