to share with you a technique that will help you respond quickly and automatically and

very smoothly and it's a technique that you can use at home without a tutor or without

a speaking partner this tutorial is divided up into three parts first we look at the foundation

for quick and automatic responses for the IELTS examiner then I'll tell you a quick

story about a student who used the technique and managed to boost his score and then finally,

I'll going into the basics, the step-by-step system or guide for you to use the Echo 10

Technique the foundation for being able to speak quickly and automatically is not really

based on your ability with the language now let me explain if I'm talking about a topic

that I'm not so certain about or that I rarely talk about, then it's going to be very difficult

for me to give quick and automatic and smooth answers whereas, if I'm talking about a topic

that I've had thousands of conversations about, that I've explained inside out, back to front,

left to right I've explained a million times and that I've explained or I've talked about

very recently, then I'm going to be able to explain it much better than if it was a topic

that I didn't know about and this is regardless of my language ability because I'm talking

about topics, explaining topics in my own language, in English it's almost exaggerated

when we're speaking a second language and I know this because I can speak Spanish and

I know that if I'm describing or explaining something in Spanish then it takes me a lot

longer even if I'm quite competent in the subject, it still takes me longer than if

it's with my native tongue, English so let me give you an example if I were to explain

to you about the spiciness of certain Indian curries, then I couldn't speak that long without

going into ums and ahs and stuff like that whereas, if I was to talk about academic writing

or IELTS, then I could speak for quite a long time, in quite a coherent manner, and with

very full answers because it's a topic that I'm pretty much speaking about every single

day and it's a topic that I know well now, the problem comes when we get to IELTS you

see with IELTS, we have to talk about topics that we're not so well versed in for example,

when was the last time you talked about crime, or when you talked about the environment?

you've probably had a conversation about crime in English before but I bet you it wasn't

in this month so this is why the technique we're going to learn in a minute is going

to make it a lot easier for you to respond quickly and automatically but first before

I share this technique, the Echo 10 Technique, I'd like to tell your story about how I

got this technique a teacher who told me about a student who on a Friday had a band 6 and

was quite struggling with his English ability I think he's a Turkish student actually and

then a week later, he came back and he'd almost jumped a band score, and the teacher was quite

surprised like how did you do that so fast? and he said that he'd been listening to BBC

World Service and not just listening but he was listening and then repeating and trying

to mimic what the announcer, what the broadcaster was saying, and she said that his vocabulary

improved, his fluency improved, his grammar and his rhythm improved basically, an overall,

across-the-board increase in his speaking ability and we are going to use a similar

technique for the IELTS Speaking it's called the Echo 10 Technique and what we do is we

listen to a mock speaking and I've put some links to mock speakings that I've prepared

specifically for this technique and we listen to them and we pause them and then we repeat

it now I recommend you doing this at least 10 times and if it gets a little bit too easy

for you then you can always up the ante, so to speak you can just increase the difficulty

if you hear me say, I think crime is a very sensitive topic nowadays, you can transform

that into the third person and then you say he thinks crime is a very sensitive topic

nowadays pause also you could listen to the phrase and then you can transform it into

the past this is even more demanding it's an even more technical skill so you would

say he thought that crime is a very sensitive topic in the past what you're doing there

is you're practicing the tenses, you're practicing your agility with the language but when you're

listening we should aim to be as close as possible so we not only aim for the correct

pronunciation, the exact vocabulary, the right rhythm, but we also pay attention to the mouth

movements and this is why I want you to use my videos for this technique because one,

they're already on IELTS topics, they're already model answers, but also I speak at a slightly

slower rate than a native English speaker this is just because through practice and

through lots and lots of teaching if I speak at a normal rate, it's quite difficult for

students to understand me but as a non-native English-speaker speaking at this speed it's

perfect it's fine secondly, I vocalize a lot this is why it makes it easier for you to

understand me because I'm vocalizing vocalizing is a good skill to develop and what it means

is you open your mouth fully you do not swallow the ends of the words you know, like it's

quite common especially in British English but you vocalize and you pronounce every sound

of the word and it makes your speaking much clearer and easier to understand now if you

like the video, please press like below and also tell me what material you're going to

use this technique with are you going to watch James Bond videos and copy James Bond ten

times? or are you going to use the mock speaking videos?

let me know I'd be very curious to find out and also if you're interested in improving

your speaking without an IELTS partner, without a speaking partner, then have a look at the

app link below and all the best with your IELTS preparation