‫We're now going to look at some task cards for the common topic of Internet, so we take a look at two
‫different cue cards for this topic.
‫Internet is definitely very common across all four sections of the AIDS test.
‫So it's going to be really useful to take a look at some specific vocabulary we can use when speaking
‫about the Internet.
‫So here is our first cue card.
‫Describe a website that you often use.
‫You should say what the website is, how you use it, how you learnt about it, and explain why it is
‫important to you.
‫Of course, you'd have one minute to get some ideas down onto paper in the plan format that I showed
‫you previously, if you like, and then you've got to speak for up to two minutes.
‫So we're describing a website that we use a lot and we need to sort of discuss and explain what this
‫website is.
‫OK, let's take a look at the first model answer.
‫It's probably fair to say there are a lot of websites I use frequently, I suppose one of the most useful
‫websites I enjoy using is Google.
‫It might be a bit of an obvious choice, but for me, Google is a real Swiss Army knife that solves
‫a lot of my daily problems at its heart.
‫Google is actually just a search engine, but it has so many more options now.
‫Recently, I installed Google Suite, which is a collection of online apps, I use it often with friends
‫to collaborate on schoolwork.
‫Microsoft is so outdated now.
‫I can't really recall when I started using it.
‫It's such an important resource, I guess it was when I first started using the Internet.
‫When my family first got the Internet, I use search engines like Yahoo!
‫Or Ask Jeeves, I never visit those websites anymore.
‫A great example of how I use Google is with research.
‫Of course, not everything written on the Internet is true, but Google is great for researching and
‫finding articles that can help me write essays for college.
‫I really find Google Sheets a handy application, too.
‫It's basically like Microsoft Excel, but with more features and it's online.
‫All in all, I'd say Google is an awesome website.
‫And there we have a really well structured answer to a task to cue card.
‫There's lots of great vocabulary in here and as well, this answer actually is structured very logically.
‫So it answers all those different things on the cue card question, but it also gives lots of examples
‫to.
‫So it's a really great piece of a speaking a model answer.
‫Let's take a look at some of the focused language in this answer.
‫OK, so up first, we have this piece of vocabulary frequently, which gives an amount of time, if
‫you do something frequently, like I use the Internet frequently, it means I do it often.
‫So I do it a lot.
‫Here we have the collocation, an obvious choice.
‫So if something is an obvious choice, it's an easy decision and easy pick.
‫And here is a matter for save some idiomatic language.
‫If you call something, for example, Google a Swiss Army knife, it means that this thing has a lot
‫of uses.
‫So if you call something a Swiss Army knife, it means that this thing has a lot of different uses.
‫It's a very useful object or resource.
‫Just an opener here at its heart, so if we say we're not actually talking about anyone's heart, but
‫if we say at its heart, it means its true meaning.
‫So Google's true meaning is actually just a search engine.
‫Which leads me onto the next piece of vocabulary that the noun phrase search engine.
‫So a search engine is something like Google or another type of search engine which lets us find websites
‫online.
‫Here I'm talking about Google Suite, which is a collection of online apps now, apps is quite simply
‫applications, but shortened.
‫So it's a very native sounding piece of vocabulary apps.
‫Collaborate means to work together on something, whether that be a website or could even be a game.
‫And here we have this phrase outdated.
‫So not everyone would agree.
‫But if we say something is outdated, it means it's no longer the most useful of its kind.
‫It's old fashioned.
‫OK, so this is a simple synonym for remember and of course, do remember to use a range of vocabulary
‫in your speaking.
‫I can't really recall.
‫I can't really remember.
‫And here we have the verb visit for website, so we don't use different verbs for it, if we go on to
‫a website, we use visit websites, a great example.
‫So as I was saying, there's lots of examples in this and so to.
‫Articles, quite simply, this is some kind of writing on a website and finally a great opening expression
‫to end our speaking in conclusion, all in all.
‫So a really nice way to finish our speaking part.
‫OK, let's take a look at the next cue card.
‫Discuss the most important benefits of the Internet, you should say what the benefits are, why they
‫are useful, how people use the Internet and explain if you enjoy using the Internet.
‫So we're discussing some of the benefits of the Internet.
‫Now, that's the main idea.
‫If you were to mention some of the negatives, too, that would also be OK.
‫As long as we answer the main question and of course, our bullet points, you should say, if you wanted
‫to go on to talk about some of the the negatives of using the Internet, you could as well.
‫But do make sure you're answering the cue card in full.
‫So we're going to discuss the benefits of the Internet, what they are, how the Internet is used and
‫if we like using the Internet.
‫Let's take a look at the model and say.
‫Even though the Internet is considered a recent invention, it's definitely had a massive impact on
‫society today.
‫In fact, I'd go as far as saying it's revolutionized the way we live now.
‫I can remember when we didn't have the Internet, but I've got to say, I can't imagine life without
‫it.
‫Isn't that kind of sad?
‫Many people believe there are plenty of policies and negativity using the Internet, but I'll tell you
‫about a few of the positives it has for me.
‫Social media has had such a big impact on my life, it's so easy to stay in touch with everyone.
‫Now I can speak with friends who live across the world, which really is a massive breakthrough compared
‫to when I was a kid.
‫I can even video call my friends and family, too, and it's all free.
‫The Internet is a pretty amazing piece of technology, really.
‫Another benefit is just for entertainment.
‫It can be a bit of a waste of time, but there's so many interesting articles online that you can spend
‫hours browsing through all the website.
‫YouTube can be a real time Sokcho.
‫Again, a really nicely organized answer with a lot of real life examples about some of the benefits
‫of the Internet.
‫Let's take a look at some of the top focus language in this answer.
‫OK, the first phrase I'd like to look at is this collocation, but as well that this piece of vocabulary
‫here, a recent invention, you commonly see this together, but an invention, of course, is a new
‫product or object that can solve a problem.
‫And here we have massive impact.
‫So it sounds like something slamming into each other, but that's not actually the case.
‫If we say something had a massive impact, it means that it changed the way most people live.
‫For example, the Internet had a massive impact on how people live in modern society.
‫So a massive impact how we can talk about technology and Internet using this phrase.
‫And here we have revolutionized in a similar way to massive impact.
‫If we say as something revolutionized how we do something, it means it completely changed how we act,
‫how we live.
‫The Internet revolutionized how we read articles and books and newspapers, because really a lot of
‫people now read everything online, whether it's on their laptop or their phone.
‫Just a native sounding phrase here, policies and negatives, so if you say you're looking at the pluses
‫and negatives of something, you're looking at the advantages and disadvantages.
‫It's just another way that you can say this, but it's slightly more informal.
‫So usually keep this to speaking.
‫Here we have social media, which is websites and applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
‫all these kinds of things that connect us with friends and people we might not know as well.
‫That's social media.
‫I hear the collocation stay in touch kind of figurative language, so it's almost an idiomatic expression
‫because we aren't touching, but we are still communicating.
‫So if we can say I stay in touch, you can say I stay in touch through Skype calls or video calls,
‫which is what a lot of people do now.
‫Here we have a breakthrough, which is how we can describe a piece of technology that is a recent invention
‫that's really, really innovative, it's very it solves a lot of problems.
‫It may be a problem that we have had for a long time.
‫And this new product is a breakthrough.
‫It's finally solved a problem.
‫Here we have video call, which is quite simply a collocation, but it's self descriptive, I think.
‫And finally, we have a piece of technology.
‫So when we describe technology, one part of technology, we call it a piece of technology.
‫For example, a microphone is a piece of technology and a motor is a piece of technology.
‫OK, into the last part, so we have a waste of time, if you say something is a waste of time.
‫It means that you didn't get anything from the activity.
‫Browsing is what we use to describe Web sites.
‫So we browse websites.
‫And finally, this rather informal phrase.
‫But you could use it possibly in your speaking to you can say something is a time suck.
‫So if something is a time suck, it means that it wastes a lot of your time without you really noticing.
‫For example, a lot of Internet applications such as YouTube, Facebook, social media, they can be
‫real time and waste a lot of our time when we could be doing something more productive.
‫OK, so some lovely vocabulary here to discuss the Internet, and that's all for this model answer.
‫So see you in the next lesson.