of your IELTS speaking test this is when you walk into

the IELTS speaking examination room and you greet the examiner for the first time

this is before part 1 begins you will need to greet the examiner and

do an identification check we often call this part 0

there are 4 questions to part 0 and I'm going to give you the questions

and give you some useful tips so that you can be confident in your answers

and give a good first impression to the examiner

so lets start with the first question in the first question

the examiner will introduce him or herself and the examiner will give their name

so the examiner is going to say good afternoon my name's elizabeth

what's your full name or maybe they might say

could you tell me your full name please and you need to answer good afternoon

elizabeth you can give the examiner's name or

not its your choice and then you say my name's bui minh trang

now it's a simple question and simple answer but I still have some tips for you

so the first tip if you're going to use the name of the

examiner and say good afternoon elizabeth

please don't give a title this is incorrect in English

we don't use titles with first names so if you're going

to use the name of the examiner only say good afternoon elizabeth

but if you don't feel comfortable using the name of the examiner

it's fine its not a problem

you can just say good afternoon now when you give your name

there are two tips I want you to remember

the first tip is when you say my name's bui minh trang

please don't say my name is bui minh trang

I want you to use the contraction

my name's now the reason this is important

is because this is part of pronunciation when you contract a word from is to my name's

then is higher level pronunciation so remember that for the rest of your exam

and try to use it as much as you can

and the other tip is when you give your name

please don't speak quickly don't say ..........................

I want you to say the name clearly because sometimes it's difficult

for the examiner to hear foreign names so you need to say my name's

bi min tang and of course the point is to smile

don't forget to smile this is your chance to greet the examiner

and be friendly and show confidence so smile look at the examiner in the eyes

and relax the second question is very easy the examiner

will ask you what can I call you

and there are 3 ways that you could reply

you could say you can call me minh

or you could say just call me minh

or please call me minh so those are 3 possible answers

that you can give now for some tips

my first tip is please don't explain why people call you this

this is really part of the test this is only the greeting

so you're going to give the examiner simple clear answers

you don't need to add more information and I know some of you have English

names and of course you can give the examiner you

English name you can say you can call me by

my English name Mary now this is fine but please remember

do not make a mistake with that sentence you still need to say you can call me

you need this preposition by you can call me by

my English name Mary and if you don't have an English name

please don't worry it doesn't matter so lets have a look at the third question

the third question the examiner will ask you where are you from

or the examiner might say could you tell me where you come from

now let me give you some possible answers

you cuold say I'm from Hanoi

I'm from you could say I come from Hong Kong

I come from you could also add more information

if you want not too much just a little bit more if you want

you could say I'm from Calcutta which is in the east of India

now it is good to add a little bit more information it's friendly

but also it's shows the examiner good grammar which is in the east

this is a clause which means it is high band score grammar

so you're already showing the exminer that you have good English

now lets have a look at some tips don't expand any further

you can give the location and stop don't say any more

again these are simple questions simple answers also don't ask the examiner

any questions so for example don't say I come from Hanoi have you been

there don't give the examiner recommendations

don't say I come from Hanoi I think you really should go there

so please don't do that just keep it simple

short and accurate and the last tip for you

this is with the pronunciation for the names of the cities where you come from

please try to use the English pronunciation so for example Hanoi please don't say

Ha Noi please say Hanoi or for example Calcutta please don't say Kolkatta

please Calcutta the reason that we do this is

because you're showing the examiner that the English pronunciation is natural

for you right so lets move on to the last question

question number 4 and the final question

question 4 the examiner will ask you could I see your

identification please or the examiner might say

can you show me your identification please now for your answer of course you need to

give the examiner your identification

and you can also say here you are

or sure here you are or of course

here it is so you can choose any

of those answers now for some tips

identifcation is often called ID so if the examiner asks you

for your ID it's the same it means identification keep your answer short

you can see here it's just a very short answer just a few words

don't make it any longer and the last tip it is possible

for you to actually say nothing and give the examiner

the identification but I think it's nice just to say something these are all

very polite and perfectly normal to say in that situation

so those are the 4 questions for part 0 for greeting the IELTS examiner

and doing the identification check please watch the video again

practice answering the questions correctly and remember smile

relax be confident and start your test in the right way

well that's all I'll see you in my next IELTS lesson