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SPEAKING (Independent tasks) ORGANIZING SPEECH
This task of speaking requires you to present your own information about your opinion or position about an issue/topic, or your own information about an incident or story you have experienced. This is different from the task of integrated speaking which requires you to use the information you pick out from the reading passage and the listening passage.
To perform this task of speaking, you are required to acquire these necessary skills:
• Describing a personal experience or expressing a personal preference
• Organizing ideas
• Expressing a clear topic statement and the supporting points
• Speaking clearly and accurately with knowledge of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation
To have a successful performance of your speaking task you are required to follow the process and the strategies:
Process Strategies
1. Read the question and understand the task Be sure that you understand the question and what the question requires you to do, i.e. whether you are required to give your opinion about a topic/issue or to describe/talk about your past experience, whether your are asked to provide reasons and examples or to give specific details and examples.
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2. Decide on the topic statement Decide on the main idea or choose one of the positions. Use the relevant parts of the prompt in making up your topic statement, i.e. you are required to agree or disagree with an opinion, to talk about advantages or disadvantages. Make clear your choice or position.
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3. Brainstorm and select the supporting ideas Quickly think of the supporting ideas from your experience. Choose those ideas that most clearly support your topic statement. The common tip is to jot down brief answers to the questions: what/when/where/how/why?
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4. Organize the ideas Arrange your ideas, putting them in order from most to least important. Be sure to put them in a plan or diagram so that you can keep track of them easily when you speak.
Now practice the skills for the following speaking task.
a. Describe the person who influenced you the most and explain how he or she influenced you. Use details and examples to support your explanation.
You are required to follow the process and strategies as mentioned above.
Skill A. ANALYZING THE TASK BY ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS:
• Does this task ask you to explain your opinion or your past experience?
Opinion experience
In the question, the words describe, the simple past form of the verb influence can help you to identify the task as describing your past experience. For this type of speaking task, you are required to use simple past tense to talk about the past.
• How would you response to the question?
You are required to
- describe the person who influenced you the most
- explain how he influenced you
In fulfilling these two requirements you have to
- use details and
- examples
to support your explanation.
Skill B. DECIDING ON THE TOPIC STATEMENT
To achieve this, you have to state who influenced you the most and briefly why, e.g. The person who influenced me the most is my father because he taught me several valuable life lessons.
This topic statement guides your response in two things for the development: My father and several life lessons he taught me.
Skill C. BRAINSTORMING AND SELECTING THE SUPPORTING IDEAS
As stated in the topic statement, the two controlling idea “several life lessons he taught me” should be developed or supported with the supporting ideas as follows.
Controlling idea: My father taught me several valuable life lessons
Supporting ideas:
- his personality: (hard-working, perseverance, persistence …)
- what he did: (persist what he did in science, never give up his goal)
- what I learned from him: the persistence in work, hard-working
Skill D. ORGANIZING THE IDEAS:
You are required to make a plan arranging the ideas from most to less important
(This may vary depending on your own choice). Be sure to put each of the supporting ideas on a separate line as follows.
- his personality:
- what he did:
- what I learned from him:
Now practice the skills for the following speaking task.
Describe your ideal job and explain why you like it. Use details and examples to support your explanation.
You are required to follow the process and strategies as mentioned above.
Skill A. ANALYZING THE TASK BY ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS:
• Does this task ask you to explain your opinion or your past experience?
Opinion experience
In the question, the words describe, the simple present form of the verb like can help you to identify the task as giving your opinion in describing your ideal job. For this type of speaking task, you are required to use simple present tense to present your opinion.
• How would you response to the question?
You are required to
- describe your ideal job
- explain why you like it
In fulfilling these two requirements you have to
- use details and
- examples
to support your explanation.
Skill B. DECIDING ON THE TOPIC STATEMENT
To achieve this, you have to state what your ideal job is and briefly why, e.g. The ideal job I like is teaching because I feel happy to work with children.
This topic statement guides your response in two things for the development: Teaching and happy to work with children.
Skill C. BRAINSTORMING AND SELECTING THE SUPPORTING IDEAS
As stated in the topic statement, the two controlling ideas should be developed or supported with the supporting ideas as follows.
Controlling ideas: The ideal job I like is teaching because I feel happy to work with children
Supporting ideas:
- children’s interesting characteristics:
- their quick learning:
- how I feel being around them:
Skill D. ORGANIZING THE IDEAS:
You are required to make a plan arranging the ideas from most to less important
(This may vary depending on your own choice). Be sure to put each of the supporting ideas on a separate line as follows.
- children’s interesting characteristics:
- their quick learning:
- how I feel being around them:
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