I have copied some speaking templates from CD and other sites. Hope this helps. Here there are:
Template Task three I think the woman/man (supports, is in support of, is happy with, is against, is unhappy with, feels sorry for) + part of the question. She/He expresses two reasons for holding this opinion. Firstly,…….Second of all,……….
Task four
The ( topic in the reading passage) is …… (Topic in the reading passage) refers to ……The professor describes two examples to demonstrate…… Task five I think the man’s/ the woman’s problem is……The man/ woman/ professor in the conversation provides him/ her with two solutions, one is… and the other is……In my opinion/As far as I concerned/ Personally I think the first/the second solution is better. The reason is…… Task six Explain terminology/ concept (what is it?) (Move on to the two details/examples) First of all……….. Second of all…….
Question1. Personally, I would like to say that my favorite is … And there are a couple of reasons to name. The most important thing is that… What’s more… So that’s why Question2 Well, in my opinion, I would definitely agree with the point that… The first reason I wanna say is that… More importantly…
So, that’s why I choose… for the two reasons listed above Personally speaking, I prefer… for several reasons. I think … is more appropriate for… for several reasons. Firstly, …
Besides, in my experience But probably the most important reason for my preference is that… In a word, that’s the reason of my preference./ that’s why my preference is… I think it is important to … For one thing, …. By doing… Another thing is the advantage of… As for… I agree that, but unless…, …
Question 3 1. The school has implemented a new policy (new plan, announcement, …) that… due to… . And the woman/man holds a positive/negative view towards the announcement. The 1st reason she/he offers is ….. The 2nd reason is … |
2. In the reading material, there is a/an announcement/ message/ notice/ proposal about …. The university/college is going to… In the listening material, two students discuss about this announcement/ message/ notice/ proposal. The man/woman is against/supporting the… He or she feels unhappy/ less satisfied about… (He/she thinks the … is unfair/ inconvenient/ unaffordable/ wrong). He/she gives two reasons. Firstly, he/she thinks/says… Also, he/she points out that… |
Question 4 Module 1 (if you understand both the reading and the listening) Based upon the reading, (xxx) means that …(here add the summary you wrote down on the draft paper)… In the lecture, the professor continues to explain this concept of “XXX”. The professor tries to elaborate this term from the following examples. The 1st example is … The 2nd example is … |
Module 2 (if you did not understand the reading) In the lecture, the professor talks about two (examples). One is about …. The other is about. He tries to use these two examples to elaborate the concept of “XXX” which was already explained in the reading, with means …. and … The first example the professor mentioned was …. The second one is … |
Question 5 Step 1 (what is the problem) (10-15 seconds) According to the conversation, the man/ woman has a problem: (1-2 sentences’ description of the problem – don’t go into many details) |
Step 2 (what is the solution) (20-30 seconds)
The woman/man offers two suggestions/advice/solutions. First, she suggests that he do ….. (However, he’s concerned that ….. ) Her other recommendation is to…, (while in the man’s opinion …) |
Step 3 (which is better) (20 seconds)
In my opinion, the 1st / 2nd is better. (Try to use the reasons the man raised in the listening to support your opinion. If you could not remember what the man said, you can also make up some reasons by yourself.) If it were my choice, I would choose the former/latter one, because… |
Question 6. In the lecture, the professor provides two examples to illustrate the theory/phenomenon that… The first one is that… Another example is that… And that’s the two examples the professor presented to explain the theory/phenomenon. In the lecture, the professor discusses … in several points/aspects. Firstly, he points that…. For instance, … Secondly, he mentions that and he shows some data/research about Finally, he states that
According to the lecture, there are two major criteria for… First, she mentions, and I’m quoting here,… Point out, present, describe, state, mention, discuss, provide, demonstrate, introduce, give (example)…
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