These eight tasks go from planning to a full timed turn. Prepare keyword notes, speak aloud, then compare with the model answer.
The lessons are in individual long turn. Use the timed original practice session builder to set your own timer.
Tasks 1 to 4: building the parts
Task 1. Prompt: “Talk about your favourite place at home. You may say where it is, what you do there and why you like it.” Write keyword notes only.
Answer
Notes: open: balcony / where: behind the kitchen / do: read, plants / why: quiet, breeze / close: my calm corner.
Each prompt has one keyword, and there is one word each for the opening and the closing.
Task 2. Expand “I enjoy cooking” using reason, example and result.
Answer
“I enjoy cooking because I like making something for others. For example, last Sunday I made curry puffs for my neighbours. So they smiled and I felt proud.”
Task 3. A speaker says: “I like cycling. It is good. I do it a lot.” Rewrite the last two sentences with a specific detail.
Answer
“It keeps me fit, and every Saturday I ride with my brother to the lake and back, which is about six kilometres.”
Task 4. Give a closing line for a turn about a school trip.
Answer
“So the trip was tiring, but it taught me to work with my classmates, and I would gladly go again.”
Tasks 5 to 8: time, flow and review
Task 5. You have 45 seconds to speak. Plan a split for an opening, two points and a closing.
Answer
Opening 5 seconds, point one 17 seconds, point two 17 seconds, closing 6 seconds. The total is 45 seconds.
Task 6. You lose your place mid-answer. Name two things you can say or do.
Answer
Pause for two seconds and look at the next keyword. Say a bridge such as “Another thing I remember is” and continue with that keyword.
Task 7. Review this invented transcript with one observation and one change.
“I went to Melaka. It was fun. We ate satay. Then we went home.”
Answer
Observation: the answer lists events but gives no reason or example for why the trip was fun.
Change: add a detail, such as “It was fun because we rode a trishaw along the river and my sister laughed the whole way.”
Task 8. Full turn. Prompt: “Talk about a skill you would like to learn. You may say what it is, why you want to learn it and how you would practise.” Speak for about one minute, then compare with the model.
Answer
A model: “The skill I would like to learn is swimming. I want to learn it because my family often visits the beach, and I feel nervous when my cousins swim far out. For example, last holiday I stayed on the sand while they swam. I would practise twice a week at the public pool with my uncle, who is a good swimmer.
So learning to swim would make me safer and more confident.”
Check for these parts: opening, each prompt, an example and a closing.
If you got these wrong
Find the lesson for each task you missed and retry only those tasks.
- Tasks 1 and 4: organising a response from prompts.
- Tasks 2 and 3: adding detail and examples naturally.
- Tasks 5 and 6: managing preparation and speaking time.
- Tasks 7 and 8: self-reviewing a recording without claiming an official score.
Use the mistake log and paper-error review to record repeated patterns. If you would like a teacher to listen with you, see online one-to-one English tuition.