Resources for English Teachers
In IELTS speaking exam, you have a conversation with an expert examiner. The exam atmosphere is as close to a real -life as a test can be. The test takes about 15 minutes with three distinct parts.
In Part 1, you’ll talk about yourself briefly.
In Part 2, you’ll talk about a topic given by the examiner for 2-3 minutes. You are allowed to prepare in 1 minute.
In part 3, you’ll be asked to give
Studies have shown that the average English native speaker knows about 20,000 words with university-educated people knowing around 40,000 words. When actually speaking and with everyday writing (emails, letters, notes etc.) this goes down to about 5,000 very common words that are used repeatedly. The Oxford English Dictionary contains 171,476 words in current use, whereas a vocabulary of just 3000 words provides coverage for around 95% of common texts (Hu and Nation, 2000) for a learner to get by in
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