Speaking Task 2
Talking About a Personal Experience
In Speaking Task 2 you are asked to talk about something that happened to you. You get 30 seconds to prepare and 60 seconds to speak.
The marker is listening for one specific memory, not a general description. Pick a single occasion you can actually picture, say when and where it happened, and include one moment you remember clearly. The two examples below are different kinds of memory, and both are built the same way.
Which experience?
Pick the one closest to your own question.
The hard part is naming the thing in your first sentence instead of circling it.
A question like this
This is the format you will see on test day.
Talk about a time when you created something you were proud of, maybe a meal, a piece of art, or a project. What did you make, why did you make it, and what was it like to create it?
The template
Everything in black is written for you. Tap each blue blank and type one detail from your own question.
This is the Something you made version. Need a different one?
Set the scene
So, I want to tell you about the time I .
How to use this template
A band-10 answer, one line at a time, and the reason each line scores.
Lines you can borrow
Natural phrasing for this kind of email, grouped by what it is doing.
Check before you finish
Six things to read your own answer against before you submit it.
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- All five lines of the template, with blanks you fill in
- A band-10 answer, line by line, and why each one scores
- Ready-made phrases for this kind of email
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