SPEAKING PART 2

Teacher Jlyn L.g.

Apr 19 • IELTS

SPEAKING PART 2

Describe a major decision you have taken in your life.

You should say:

– What the decision was

– What other choices were available to you

– Why you made the decision you did

And explain if you think the decision was a good one.

SAMPLE RESPONSE :

A really important decision I’ve made recently is to study abroad, which is the reason I’m here talking to you now. No-one from my family has ever had the chance to study abroad before. My parents were actually hoping I’d start working for our family textile business as soon as I graduate. I think it’s too soon to join the family business though. I really want to study marketing – especially fashion marketing – and English so I can sell our company products to buyers all over the world. If I study fashion marketing in the UK, I can learn how to do business in the fashion industry, which is of course very competitive and fast-moving. As for whether it was the right decision, I’m pretty confident it was and I can’t change my mind now anyway because I borrowed money from my parents to pay for my tuition. I’m going to do my best to finish my course and I will go back to my country with new ideas that will help expand our business. All I need now is to get a good score in IELTS. So, anyway, that’s an important decision in my life.

Like many questions in IELTS Speaking Part 2, this one deals with an event or action in the past. There is, however, a switch to the present when the candidate is required to reflect on the decision.

This IELTS candidate scores highly by:

Getting straight to the point and saying what the decision was in the very first sentence

Paraphrasing the topic: A really important decision

Using a range of tenses – past simple, present simple and present perfect – with great accuracy

Using a wide range of grammatical forms such as a conditional sentence (If I…) and a cleft sentence (All I need now is…)

Signalling parts of the question: As for whether it was the right decision…

Avoiding over-formality and using expressions such as actually and pretty that are appropriate to conversational style

Providing a summarising sentence to wrap up the response

NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. GOOD LUCK!

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SPEAKING PART 2