Part 1: Giving Advice
 
Preparation Time: 30(s)
 
Speaking Time: 1:30(m)
 
Your friend's company is offering promotions, so your friend would like to impress the boss to get promoted. Advise your friend on how they could impress their boss to get a promotion. 
CLB 5-6: Scoring Factors
 

In general, this level is based on:

  • ◆ Answering the question clearly and directly.
  • ◆ Organizing your answer with more connection and order.
  • ◆ Stronger ideas; use of higher vocabulary terms and structure. Expressions and slang.
  • ◆ Stronger sentence structure/grammar: present perfect, conditionals, passive, modalities. Few if any simple grammar errors.
  • ◆ Fluency: A higher rate of fluency will increase your score.
  • ◆ Clarity: The clearer your speech, the higher your score. Not many mispronounced words.

 

Listen to the sample response. Fill in the blank with the grammar used.

Hello Justin, I would like to advise you about what books good .

Firstly, I think you fantasy books. For example, you The Lord of the Rings. This good because if you fantasy books, it you in English.

Secondly, I think you the newspaper because you easier what .

Last but not least, I think you easy novels. For instance, you children's books because they easy vocabulary and ideas .

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