15 Useful Phrases for IELTS Speaking PART 1

hey you are about to learn 15 useful phrases that can impress the examiner in your ielts speaking part one let's do it [Music] hello this is keith from english speaking success and also if you don't know i run the website keith speaking academy go and check it out helping you speak better english give better answers and getting a higher score on ielts speaking now ielts speaking part one is all about first impressions you want to make a good first impression especially with your english right to pave the way for the rest of the test so

you need to be calm in control and well prepared the great thing about the phrases we're looking at today is that you can use them in all sorts of topics different topics we're going to be looking at some very common question types to talk about things you like talk about things you're good at talk about how often you do things different adverbs connectors and the question would you would you like to be a scientist hmm maybe i would i'm not sure i haven't really thought about it those are the different kinds of questions we're going

to look at now a very important point right i don't want you to try and take my phrases i don't want you to try and squeeze them into your answers at all costs no doesn't work learn them practice them and try and use them naturally in your speaking that is so important how can you practice using them naturally well that's a very good question and i'm very glad you asked me here are some ideas first number one you could get a list of questions get a list of my phrases and have a look where could

you use these phrases in which answers and then practice answering number two you could do the same activity but with a speaking partner do it together two heads are better than one right number three is you could find a teacher and just practice answering questions with your teacher the great thing about that is that you get feedback quality feedback that will guide you and help you give better answers now one place i strongly recommend to find a teacher is cambly cambly is an online platform they've got native english speaking teachers you can find out about

cambly in the description below there are links there to sign up i'm going to tell you more about that later right now let's get into these useful phrases for ielts speaking part one okay so the first area we're going to look at is things you like right which is a common kind of question in ielts speaking part one so the examiner may ask you questions like the following do you like music do you like art do you like social media do you like coffee now of course you could say yes yes i like it yes

i love it but you can also say yes i can't get enough of it i can't get enough of it which means that you want more and more because you like it so much it's a great phrase i can't get enough of it repeat with me i can't get enough of it i can't get enough of it lovely great do you like music lovely now do notice we're talking about a thing in the singular if the question's in the plural right then it changes so if the question is do you like cakes or do you

like books um or do you like cars yes i can't get enough of them them right you must change it to the plural do you like books that's it let's move on okay now we're still talking about things you like and the next phrase is what i like most about it it's a lovely phrase again if the examiner is asking you you know do you like art do you like social media do you like coffee or and do you like um science now of course you could say yes i do it's great it's very interesting

not not great right but what about the following do you like science yes what i like most about it is it's so interesting for example last week i read an article about solar panels and how we can use them to protect the planet so it's a lovely phrase it's a complex chunk what i like most about it and it leads into a longer answer very naturally you're going to say what you like most so there's adjectives and then an example it's a beautiful natural progression right lovely do you like science nice let's move on okay

the next phrase still talking about things you like is i love that it allows me to right i love that it the thing we're talking about science or coffee allows me to do something pronunciation i love that it allows me that it allows me i love that it allows me to write so the examiner may ask you the following and do you like um science yes i love that it allows me to understand the world around us do you like social media yes i love that it allows me to connect with my family and friends

at the press of a button do you like coffee yes i love that it allows me to wake up quickly and be on the ball at work that's a nice expression be on the ball idiom idiomatic to be on the ball is to be alert clever sharp in any situation right to be on the ball at work let's move on to the next group of phrases okay the next group we've got two phrases and we're talking about things that you are good at or not good at the examiner may ask questions like the following do

you cook do you swim do you play sports or are you good at cooking are you good at swimming are you good at playing sports i've said are you good at playing sports so if the examiner asks you do you cook are you good at cooking you can say yes i do yes i'm good at it good at i'm good at it or yes i have a knack for it i have a knack for something means i'm good at i have a special talent for it yes i have a knack for it or yes i

have a knack for cooking yes i have a knack for swimming right means you're good at it i wonder what sport do you have a knack for if you like sport now that's a positive thing the next phrase is when it's less positive so if the answer is no you can say no i'm hopeless at it i'm hopeless at it instead of i'm bad at it i'm hopeless at it pronounce with me i'm hopeless at it exactly good are you good at cooking no i'm hopeless at it or no i'm hopeless at cooking great good

are you good at singing interesting great let's move on right so moving on in the next section we're looking at five phrases which are talking about how often you do things now there are very common questions that the examiner may ask i'll like this and do you play football and do you sing at all do you do you look at the sky and to give adverbs of frequency how often you do it it's perfectly fine to say yes sometimes or yes usually or no never that's fine but you can also be a bit more colorful

and creative if you like and if you're feeling confident so if the question is for example do you play football you could say instead of sometimes how about the following yes from time to time yes now and again yes every once in a while a nice one every once in a while meaning sometimes another way of saying usually is the following do you play football yes i play football on saturdays more often than not more often than not lovely more often than not yes i sing in the shower do you sing yes i sing in

the shower more often than not just means usually lovely finally if you want to say never another way around that could be for example do you sing no i'm not in the least bit interested in that i'm not in the least bit interested in that great do you cook no i'm not in the least bit interested in that lovely expression all of these ways to talk about how often you do things let's move on right next up how's it going listen if you're enjoying the video so far please do subscribe turn on the notifications i'd

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ones and they can be used quite flexibly and we're looking at situations where the examiner is asking your opinion of something there are two common question types that come up here one of them is do you prefer a or b for example do you prefer hot weather or cold weather do you prefer tv series or films another is what's your favorite for example what is your favorite kind of weather so the first expression or the first connector signpost if you like is without a doubt without a doubt doubt i know it's got a b but

you don't pronounce it without a doubt and this is where you're very sure about your answer so you may say do you prefer hot weather or cold weather without a doubt i prefer cold weather because in the hot weather if it's sunny my skin burns so easily the next phrase is in all seriousness which means you're you're taking a more serious tone it doesn't mean that you're deadly serious but you know it means you're a bit more serious but notice how we can use it in the same way again if i'm asked do you prefer

hot weather or cold weather in all seriousness i prefer cold weather because in the hot weather if it's sunny my skin burns so easily and the final phrase is to be totally upfront to be totally upfront to be up front means to be honest so this expression means you know to be honest to be completely honest to be totally upfront can you say that to be totally up front and again we could use it similarly if i'm asked do you prefer hot weather or cold weather to be totally upfront i prefer the cold weather because

if it's hot and sunny my skin burns so easily great you'll notice right that these um signposts or fillers are a little bit idiomatic they don't have to mean exactly what it says if you say well to be honest it doesn't mean everything else you said was a lie all my past answers i was lying but now to be honest no it doesn't mean that it's really just a filler it's just a way of starting your sentence in a nice way so as you've seen i've used all three for the same context so they're very

flexible can be used they're powerful signposts help your coherence and your fluency lovely let's move on right the next and final category is the wood question so sometimes in part one you may be asked would you would you do something or would you like to do something for example would you like to be famous would you give shoes as a present so i'm going to give you two phrases one is a yes answer and the other is a no answer so if you're asked for example would you like to be famous yes i wouldn't think

twice about it and then develop your answer but yes i wouldn't think twice about it meaning i wouldn't think a lot i would just do it of course yes yes absolutely without a doubt i wouldn't think twice about it great the opposite or the negative answer no so for example same question would you like to be famous no not for the love of money not for the love of money so even if somebody gave me lots of money you know i wouldn't do it so no not for the love of money there is a similar

expression no not for all the money in the world you can imagine but i like no not for the love of money great so what about you would you like to be famous tell me more actually don't tell me more we're moving on now remember what i said about using these phrases and not squeezing them in but to use them naturally how do you speak naturally well to be honest to be totally upfront it doesn't happen overnight in all seriousness you have to practice every day you really need to turn up every day step by

step you slowly get towards that goal speaking more and more naturally so put in the time put in the energy have fun but put in time to do it as i say to my students every day that you practice the door to opportunity opens a little bit more so practice do remember go and check out cambly where you can practice with a native english speaker teacher um you've got discounts in fact if you go on as a first-time user you can get a 10-minute lesson for free to see if it works for you if it's

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