‫Welcome back, everybody.
‫In this lesson, we're going to concentrate on common questions and answers for part one of the ELDs
‫speaking test.
‫By the end of the lesson, you'll learn and understand some common question and topic types for part
‫one of the Aled speaking test.
‫And you're also going to see me constructing and creating model answers whilst talking about the language
‫choice I am using to help me get those higher scores.
‫So let's have a quick overview of what exactly part one is.
‫We can consider part one of the aout speaking test to be our greetings and introductory questions from
‫the ALS Examiner.
‫The questions will be slightly shorter.
‫Your test begins as soon as you open the door.
‫I really like to remind students of this because you want to make a good impression.
‫I know you're going to be nervous, but when you open the door, try and smile and look friendly and
‫confident in total, you will answer 12 questions from familiar.
‫Pretty easy to think about topics.
‫And it's going to be between four to five minutes.
‫Now you can see I've highlighted in red.
‫Don't give short answers.
‫You need to extend your language and use interesting vocabulary and storytelling to really explain in
‫detail.
‫Now, you shouldn't try and answer questions in part one using an answer of, say, 30 seconds, but
‫you don't want to give really short three or four word answers.
‫That will definitely mean you you're losing marks.
‫So here are four of the most common topics in part one of the old speaking test, we have studies,
‫home, work and family, and I guarantee at some point during the ill speaking test, you will have
‫to speak about all four of these topics.
‫But in part one, there's a very, very high chance that you will be asked questions about these topics,
‫too.
‫So in this lesson, I'm going to go through some common questions for these four topics, plus some
‫extra topics as well.
‫And I'm going to be creating some answers for you to see how I'm up leveling and upgrading my language.
‫OK, let's move on to our next stage, which is looking at common questions and answers for the topic
‫of studies.
‫OK, let's take a look at our first question for the topic of studies, are you currently studying?
‫So how would I go about answering this?
‫I might say, yes, I am currently studying now.
‫That's actually a pretty awful answer.
‫And I can tell you why you don't want to copy exactly what the examiner is saying.
‫You need to paraphrase and change their language using synonyms so you could say yes right now instead
‫of currently.
‫I am learning computer sciences, computer sciences.
‫OK, but that's a little bit too short.
‫I think.
‫So I want to add some more storytelling and detail.
‫Right now.
‫I'm learning computer sciences, which I very much enjoy instead of like we can use that synonym enjoy
‫to make the language just a bit more interesting.
‫So once again, instead of currently we've used right now and instead of studying, we use the learning
‫and sort of used enjoy instead of like to make our language a bit more interesting.
‫We also added this part here, which I very much enjoy.
‫Just to add some extra detail.
‫OK, let's move on to our second question.
‫What would you like to study in the future?
‫OK, so in this question, the examiner is asking us about something in the future.
‫Therefore, we should use the future tense, let's say, instead of in the future.
‫How could I make this more interesting when I complete my studies in the future?
‫In other words, I hope to study my masters in, let's say, civil engineering engineer.
‫Apologies for my spelling whilst I'm talking.
‫There may be some mistakes, but I'll check and change as we go through.
‫OK, what subjects do you find the most difficult?
‫OK, let's move on to that.
‫I say subjects that you have found difficult.
‫I want to add an interesting opener for this answer.
‫I feel like it's time to use one so I could say, to be honest, I struggled.
‫I found it difficult.
‫So we're using these synonyms again, struggle difficult.
‫I struggle to learn languages when I was younger, hopefully.
‫So we're adding some detail now.
‫I have improved my language learning skills.
‫OK, so that's a little bit of light hearted detail, as you know, in a child's test.
‫Hopefully now I have improved my language learning skills.
‫OK, so let's move on to question four, which is what are you currently studying?
‫OK, so again, we don't want to repeat the language.
‫I'm currently studying math, so let's try and make this more interesting.
‫So if we are going to say we weren't studying right now, I am not studying as I am working part time.
‫Previously I was studying for, let's say, my degree, OK?
‫Excellent.
‫So just added a bit more detail, a bit more storytelling, is it a popular subject in your country
‫now?
‫This is a follow up question.
‫So the examiner may say, do you enjoy studying English?
‫And you'll give an answer and then the examiner will use this follow up question of is it a popular
‫subject in your country?
‫OK, yes.
‫Let's see.
‫Subject is any topic of study.
‫So it could be English, it could be engineering, art, maths, any of these kinds of things, I'm
‫going to say yes.
‫So, yes, it is a very popular.
‫So I'm repeating the examiners.
‫Do I need to think of something better than popular?
‫Yes, it is a very well, very highly studied.
‫So if that are popular, I'm using highly studied.
‫It is a very highly studied topic instead of subject that many students from my home country love to
‫study.
‫OK, there we go.
‫So that's my final answer.
‫And you can see that as I'm writing these, I'm considering ways to change my language and improve my
‫answer, giving details and making my vocabulary more interesting.
‫Let's move on to the topic of home.
‫OK, here is our common question list.
‫Let's begin with number one, where do you come from?
‫Where are you from?
‫Where is your home?
‫It would be very easy to answer this quickly by just saying I am from England or I come from Europe
‫or wherever you're from.
‫But you still want to add that detail to make it possible of scoring those extra marks.
‫So let's say I'll give you my answer.
‫I come from a small village in northern England.
‫Is that enough?
‫Could I add just an extra piece of detail to make it more interesting?
‫I come from a small village in northern England, OK, but currently I live elsewhere.
‫I live somewhere else.
‫OK, so a bit of detail added and more interesting language used.
‫So what is your home town like?
‫Let's say we need a synonym for hometown.
‫Let's try my birth place or the place of my the place of my birth is let's think of some interesting
‫vocabulary, a very tranquil, which means quiet and beautiful place to live.
‫But more detail.
‫Again, it isn't it is not it isn't very busy, in fact, now.
‫So we've got an opener there.
‫An interesting even in fact, now that I am older, I actually find it boring.
‫OK, so the place of my birth is a very tranquil, calm, peaceful and beautiful place to live, but
‫it isn't very busy.
‫In fact, now that I'm older, I actually find it boring.
‫OK, question number three, who do you live with at the moment so we can use the opener?
‫Currently I am living with my two close friends.
‫What could we say about these friends?
‫Do we like them?
‫Where did we meet them?
‫We met using the past tense, of course, because we met them before we met whilst studying at university
‫two years ago.
‫And again, a bit more detail.
‫Do you live in a house or an apartment?
‫So an apartment is a British word in American English.
‫They may say flat, so let's say right now.
‫So we've got a bit of an opening to signal the start of our language.
‫I am currently sharing an apartment with those two close friends with my two close friends.
‫OK, and the final question for home.
‫What kind of facilities are in your hometown?
‫Our facilities are places of interest or places of use that are available to you.
‫For example, shops, gyms, swimming pools, these kinds of things, restaurants, bars, these are
‫all facilities.
‫So what kind of facilities are in your hometown?
‫I'm going to say that we're from a busy, busy city.
‫As I live in the city centre, there are many facilities available to use around the clock, a very
‫native phrase around the clock.
‫It means at any time I consider myself quite lucky in that respect.
‫Again, a very colloquial native phrase.
‫This in that respect, I consider myself very lucky.
‫I consider myself very lucky, so very lucky in that respect, in the respect of having all these facilities
‫close by.
‫OK, so they are there.
‫We've seen five common questions for the topic of home.
‫Let's move on to work.
‫OK, question number one, have you ever had a part time job, I remember you can have a full time job
‫where you will work.
‫Long hours are a part time job where your hours will be less often fit.
‫They're fitted between your studies.
‫So have you ever had a part time job?
‫Yes, I have worked many part time jobs whilst studying for four ELTs.
‫I find I found of course, we're talking about the jobs that we had before I found them to be a great
‫way to earn money.
‫OK, just added some more detail.
‫What jobs do you think are the best?
‫What kind of open could we use here?
‫Well, we could say in my opinion.
‫So we've got that interesting opener.
‫I believe the I don't want to say jobs and repeat the examiners too often.
‫I believe the best types of jobs to work.
‫Sorry, I believe the best types of work are ones that help other people, such as doctors or nurses.
‫OK, and question number three, what kinds of responsibilities do you have at work to the examiner
‫is following up a question here.
‫You may have said I work part time and the examiner is asking you what kind of responsibilities, what
‫tasks do you have at work?
‫Let's say as a part time waiter, I need to process orders and make sure customers are happy.
‫They are my main responsibilities out.
‫But again, we'd be repeating the examiner.
‫So what could I use tasks?
‫They are my main tasks.
‫Where do you want to work in the future?
‫I would love to work in a foreign country, maybe the U.K., so we're running out of space.
‫Just bear with me for a moment, OK?
‫Is it difficult?
‫Is it a difficult job to get?
‫So let's say that you were talking about being a doctor the examiner may follow up with.
‫They're asking you, is that a difficult job to get from my experience, another opponent to signal
‫the beginning of our language, you must work and study extremely instead of very, extremely hard to
‫become a doctor.
‫I will try my best, so again, just adding the extra bit of detail at the end just to show the examiner
‫that I'm confident in my language.
‫So there are our five answers to five common questions around the topic of work.
‫We're now going to move on to family.
‫OK, here we go, five common questions for the topic of family for aout speaking part one.
‫Number one, we have what is your family like?
‫OK, so what kinds of things could we say about our family?
‫My family really very important to me.
‫I cherish the time I spend with them.
‫I cherish means I love to like something very much.
‫OK, let's move on to question number two.
‫Do you get to see them often?
‫How often do you see your family?
‫Let's say I'd like an opener these days.
‫These days, I don't see my, let's say, immediate relatives, so that's another phrase, immediate
‫relatives that you can use to replace family, immediate relatives.
‫It means your parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters.
‫I don't see my immediate relatives as much as I would like to.
‫Currently, I am currently.
‫Studying full time, you see.
‫OK, and question number three, who do you have the closest relationship with your family?
‫Open a hair.
‫That's a very difficult question to answer.
‫I would have to say that I have strong relationships.
‫With all family members, so if you want to talk about specific people, you can say family members,
‫okay, question number four, family and childhood.
‫What was your childhood like?
‫So this is obviously going to be in the past tense.
‫I have very fond memories, a very common collocation phrase, fond memories, very good memories of
‫my childhood.
‫I think I played at some detail.
‫I played almost every day, sounds very nice and would just extend this slightly.
‫And we have our last question, which is, is family important where you come from?
‫So, again, asking you specifically about your experience from your home country.
‫Yes, I do believe a great way to start your language in agreement.
‫I do believe family is highly important in my home country.
‫And you would, of course, maybe add some extra detail to that.
‫OK, so that is all for the topic of family.
‫We're now going to take a look at a few extra questions from some of the other topics that are less
‫common.
‫But the that you may see in part one of the eyüp speaking test.
‫So let's move on to that right now.
‫Here are five extra questions from five separate topics that are common, but you will not definitely
‫be seeing them in part one.
‫Just to give you an idea of the familiar topics, in part one, an eye out speaking.
‫So let's take a look.
‫Do you like using computers?
‫You can see in the question I've highlighted in bold the topic.
‫So do you like using computers and technology and computers is a very common topic in ALT'S, the whole
‫test, not just speaking, but in other sections of the test.
‫So they're asking for our opinion, whether we agree.
‫Actually, I don't really like using, let's say technology are not going to repeat the examiners and
‫say computers.
‫I'm going to say using technology.
‫I find it can give me a real headache.
‫OK, so that's adding more detail.
‫We could just stop there and say, actually, I don't really like using technology, but that's a little
‫bit short and it gives us less chance to show off our language skills.
‫Question number two, what do you like to do in your free time, your free time?
‫So hobbies and free time.
‫Let's answer this question.
‫So I'm not going to repeat the topic phrase of free time.
‫I'm going to say hobbies these days.
‫I have many.
‫One moment, I'll just change this.
‫These days I have many hobbies, including sports and languages.
‫OK, there we go.
‫Sports is my favorite.
‫And question number three, let's move on to that.
‫What kind of transport do you use the most?
‫Let's answer this question now.
‫What kind of transport do you use the most so we could talk about cars, trains, buses, bikes?
‫I think that's the frequency that we will go for.
‫The most used will be buses and the traffic in my city.
‫So an interesting way to begin your dialogue.
‫You're talking about the traffic.
‫Then you give the answer to which transport you use the most.
‫The traffic in my city is very chaotic and therefore I tend to avoid let's say we don't really use most
‫kinds of transport except for walking.
‫OK, so we're saying that we don't take the buses of the cars because the traffic's too bad.
‫So transport another common topic.
‫And onto the next question.
‫Another common topic is this food.
‫So you may be asked some questions about your eating habits in part one of the ALT'S speaking test.
‫So do you enjoy eating healthy foods?
‫So we've used this these days.
‫Let's think of an apron.
‫I'm almost sad to say.
‫So you're going to say something you're actually a little bit ashamed of?
‫I'm almost sad to say that really I don't eat many healthy foods.
‫It's something I would like to change, though.
‫OK, so that's really interesting opener.
‫I'm almost sad to say.
‫I'm almost sad to say that really I don't eat many healthy foods.
‫OK, so that is a question on foods.
‫Another fairly common topic could be flowers, but it's less likely you'll see this.
‫But it gives you an idea that the topics really in part one and aout speaking are things that you will
‫have some understanding about.
‫You shouldn't be surprised by the topic that you need to talk about.
‫So do you like flowers?
‫I'm going to quite simply say, in all honesty.
‫In all honesty, I don't really care much for flowers, I suppose they are quite nice, though.
‫So again, an extra piece of information to make my language more interesting.
‫So that really is just some examples of extra kinds of topics and questions that you might get in the
‫12 questions in part one of aout speaking.
‫Important things to remember, to try and add information, detail and interesting language to your
‫speaking.
‫OK, so that brings us to the end of this lesson, if you would like any more lessons like this where
‫I'm modeling language in this live recording situation, then please do let me know and I will try and
‫add more lessons like this.
‫Just a quick point.
‫If you haven't given any feedback on the court yet, I would highly appreciate it.
‫It really helps me to update this course and of course, for students to find out.
‫Seven plus to see you in the next lesson.