Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles hey everyone welcome back to my channel, this is Dori I'm a teacher of English and today I'm going to show you how you can build your short monologue in IELTS Speaking Part 2 Keep in mind that when you're speaking in a short monologue about a certain topic as you're asked to do in part 2, speaking is the same way as writing orally a little bit you know, for example you need it an opening sentence in order to introduce your topic your answer, your monologue which counts as a as a short introduction as we would say in writing also you need to cover all the points that you are asked to cover in your task card and this counts as the main body of your monologue and last but not least if you get the chance and the examiner doesn't interrupt you you have a conclusion, you wrap-up the main points and your monologue is finished so in between this short monologue some useful phrases will be handy for you in order to help you begin talking organize your thoughts and sound natural so, let's see an example of how you can do that ok here's a part 2 topic let's use the same example as in a previous video let's read it really quickly so every time you introduce a new idea on the topic it will be better if you start using a general statement to get you started for example if the the main topic of part 2 is about a book you've read recently as in this case you can begin by saying and you move on by saying more details so as you can see I've started with saying something general and then you differentiate yourself and you start talking about the specific and giving more details about it this you can use in case you have read many books or you can also say this is this is something you can use when you're not when you don't read a lot of books okay but you know something so You start from the general and then you move on to the specific points you want to make describing the book alright another thing you can do if you want to say the opposite if you don't have exactly a book again this is a general statement and you start by saying by talking about a book that you didn't really like again it doesn't matter as long as you can communicate and you can talk on topic about something as you would in your mother language if they ask you something like that okay so this is another thing you can do as you can see you can choose to say anything according to your own situation but whatever you choose introduce the topic by saying something general and then move on to the specific point you want to make also pay attention to the examples above as I used a variety of words and not only "I liked", "I didn't like" no I used "impressed" okay in this case in this example I used "enjoyed" and in this example you can also use "I wasn't thrilled" or "I was thrilled" or whatever. Do that too. use a variety of words and phrases while you speak just like writing avoid using the same word or phrase again and again throughout your short talk, use synonyms okay so now these were examples for your opening sentence now let's talk about the main points you can do exactly the same thing for example let's read these examples so you talk about what you liked or disliked for example again you begin with something general but about the book so it's kind of a main point and then again you differentiate by saying something specific from the other books that belong to classic literature as well and you start by saying your thoughts on the topic again another example for another book, for something else you start by saying something general and then more details so-and-so and so another example it is this way and that way okay so this is a very useful phrase because if you have a lot of things to say you can start by saying one thing that I found really interesting was that and then another thing and another thing this can help you organize your thoughts a little bit as a phrase and also you start by saying something general you don't really like these books but and you say something that is really good and it is the opposite of what you expected okay so in this way you give yourself time to organize the main points that are going to follow so these these useful phrases opening sentences from the general to the specific can really really help you to build your monologue now if it is time to conclude you can use the following phrases does this and that and that and really you don't do anything here you just summarize what you've already said about the book or you can also say if you're really really excited about that book and again if you didn't like it at all of course these are just examples but the good news is that you can use all these phrases according to your own situation you can change them to any topic given and they can really help you build your monologues in an organized way and express your thoughts okay that's it now it's time to start practicing your part 2 monologues good luck with your exam
A2 US monologue topic general main specific read IELTS Speaking PART 2: TIPS on WHAT to say in your monologue! 608 56 Joni Chao posted on 2015/06/14 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary