English 9th grades

INTRODUCTION TO IBT SPEAKING

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In order to do well on the speaking section, you must be able to:

• Understand and respond to questions.
• Express your opinion about the subject.
• Report the ideas and/ or opinions of other people.
• Summarize the main idea of a listening passage.
• Combine information from two sources.
• Answer the question within the given time

The speaking section includes six distinct questions. The first two questions are independent questions, and the remaining four are integrated exercises . The entire section takes approximately 20 minutes to complete.

Question Type

Preparation

1. Personal Experience

Response

15 seconds

2. Paired Choice

15 seconds

45 seconds

3. Campus matters

4. Academic Reading and Lecture

30 seconds

45 seconds

30 seconds

60 seconds

5. Campus Conversation

60 seconds

20 seconds

6. Academic Summary

20 seconds

60 seconds

60 seconds

SCORING CATEGORY

Scoring Category

What raters will be looking for

Delivery

• You don’t speak too fast or too slowly.
• You make use of all of the allowed time when you give your response.
• Your language is easy to understand.

Language Use

• You use proper grammar in your response.
• You use varied vocabulary.
• You are able to produce complex sentence structures in English.

Topic Development

• You stay on topic for the duration of your response.
• Your response is well organized and easy to understand.
• You provide sufficient support for your response.
• You clearly show the relationships between your ideas.