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Speaking Part 1 /P/ Pronunciation: linking (1)
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Speaking Part 1
• Practise by working in small groups, asking and
answering questions about your personal life and
interests. Make sure you choose topics that involve
using a range of phrases.
• Don’t go to the exam with memorised answers, as you
will lose marks for not responding naturally. However,
you can prepare by thinking about the vocabulary to
describe your life, your studies or work,the
neighbourhood where you live, etc. §J
• Look at the examiner while you’re speaking (
and try to sound confident.
Read these Speaking Part 1questions and note down a
few ideas you could use to answer each of them. (Do not
write complete sentences.)
1 What things do you enjoy spending money on?
2 What do teenagers in your country typically spend
their money on?
3 Do you have a favourite shop? (Tell us about it.)
4 Is there anything you’d like to buy but can’t afford?
(Why would you like to buy it?)
Read the descriptions of how some exam candidates
answer Part 1questions. Then listen to Peter and Irene
answering the questions in Exercise 1and match the
candidates with these descriptions of the strategies
they use. Write P (Peter), I (Irene) or B (both).
1 This person is not sure how to answer a
question at first,but then gives quite a long,
complete answer.
2 This person gives lots of other information
about themselves while they give reasons
for their answer.
3 This person gives other information about
themselves as background before they
answer a question.
4 In answerto a question, this person gives
two alternative answers as well as a
combined answer.
Choose three questions from Exercise 1and think how
you will answer them. Use the strategies in Exercise 2.
• When you are ready, work with a partner and take
turns to ask and answer the questions you have
chosen.
• While you are listening to your partner, for each
answer, decide which strategy they are using and how
successfully they are able to use it.
To speak fluently,speakers often
• do not pronounce the last consonant of a word.
This often happens if the word ends in two
consonants, e.g.next Monday or if it is a short
word ending in ‘ t’.
do not pronounce the final ‘ t’ of negatives such
•
as didn’t,couldn’t, etc. when the main verb
begins with a consonant.
• linkthe last consonant of the word to the word
which follows when it begins with a vowel.
Listen to these example sentences.
I saw them last week.
I couldn’t find my trainers.
I like eating and talking.
I don’t often buy clothes and shoes.
Look at and listen to Irene’s answer to question 2
in Speaking Exercise 1and notice how she:
_
• does not pronounce the crossed out letters
• joins the words indicated with .
I thinkjt really depends on eachjndividual and
what they’re into.I know people used to say girls
spend more moneyjDn clothes,while boys spend
morej )n technology,butthisjsn’t the casejn reality.
I actually think both boysjand girlsjrften spend
moneyjDn going out to places_and havinga good PDF from sachtienganhhanoi.com
time with friends.
Work in pairs. Take turns to read the answer in
Exercise 2 aloud, sentence by sentence, in the
same way.
Look at Peter’s answer to question 3 in Speaking
Exercise 1and:
• cross out the final consonants you think he won’t
pronounce _
• mark with a the words you think he willlink.
Then listen to check your answers.
Hmm, I’d haveto think, because I’m not too keen
on shoppingactually. Urn,there is one shop I really
enjoy going to.It’s one of a chain of sports shops
and what I really like about it is just to wander round
and see all the clothes and equipment they sell.I
see things for sports l don’t do but I’d like to try, and
that gives me the idea that one day I could try the
sport, when I can afford the clothes and equipment,
I mean.
Spend , spend , spend