How To Practice IELTS Speaking without Partner - IELTS Speaking

Yes, you can practice IELTS speaking without a Partner. I'm going to show you how to improve and develop your out speaking at home. So many students tell me that they cannot improve their English because they don't have a partner to practice with. 

It is possible to improve your speaking at home on your own

1. Your first task is to get a list of topics the common topics for speaking part one speaking part two and speaking part three. You can find these on the internet. 

I don't want you to write down your answers I want you only to develop the ideas. For example, if the topic is about whether you can develop ideas about the kind of weather. Like what you do when the weather is like that also how the weather makes you feel different kinds of weather or maybe the transportation problems that come because of that weather so just develop ideas that you can use for that topic

2. Number two is a list of vocabulary. If you have the topic of whether you need to have a range of vocabulary for that topic. For example, "Hot Weather" hot is a very common word with a low band score. But you could use synonyms like boiling scorching, sweltering, etc. So you need to get that list of vocabulary and learn it.

3. The number three advice is to develop your speaking with chosen the topic. Write down related six questions about the weather topic. Record your voice while answering the questions.

It's very important that you do the recording rather than writing the answer. When you write answers usually you think more about the grammar, you think more about the vocabulary and often you make fewer mistakes. When you speak, it's direct. It helps you to find out your weaknesses while listening to your voice. Finding your weaknesses is very important.

After recording your answers to those questions on your phone. Then I want you to listen to your answers. Listen and check now.

How to Improve IELTS Speaking 

There are 7 things that I want you to check. Let's have a look at what you need to check for each one

Lenth: The first thing that you need to check is the length of your answer. Did you give a very short answer or could you develop it a little bit more? When you develop your answer a little bit more that is a higher balance score you're offering more language. Here, you're showing the ability to speak fluently so develop your answer higher band score.

Fluency: Another thing that you can check for your fluency is how many times you say Hmmm,  Ahmmm, OOO, or Pause. You need to check the hesitations in your answer. How many times these kinds of pauses. If you have this problem. I'm afraid and you need to find a way to practice more so that you get rid of the UNH's. So we've got the length of the answer and the UM. You can check how many times you are silent. Often when students start speaking they can't remember what they want to say and suddenly they stop. It is not good to stop and be silent in the middle of your answer. You need to fill it. So, those are things that you can check in your answer to your fluency. 

Vocabulary: Now the next thing is vocabulary. What do we need to check in the vocabulary for your answer?  Well, obviously the first thing is the range. I'll give you an example. Are you repeating the same words again?  So again we use the example of the "HOT word" You could say boiling, scorching, sweltering, etc. These are a few different words that we can use for Word of  Hot. You need to show a good range of vocabulary that's from your word list. Now one way that you can check your mistakes is by when you listen to your answer. Listen and write down the words that you say. If you're making any mistakes with words you are using or the wrong word, the wrong noun, verb. Check that in your answer.

Grammar: Another thing to look at grammar. With grammar, you need to check again the range. So, for example, the range of tenses. Are you giving only present simple? Now I know maybe the six questions that you have are present simple questions but that doesn't mean that you can't give another tense. For example

• what kind of weather do you like? 
• I just love hot weather scorching weather. Last week it was perfect. 
• This question was of the present simple but using past simple tense here is OK! in this type of answer. So you can practice doing that. 

Sentence Structure:  another thing you can look at is sentence structure. That means how complex are your sentences are you using a lot of short sentences. Do not forget to listen to your answer to write down the words that you're using. Then check how complex the sentences are you can perhaps start using some linkers and start extending the sentences. The more mistakes you make the lower your band score will be. So please check what mistakes you're making and correct them, practice them.

Pronunciation: is mandatory as well. The examiner looking for pronunciation as well. The first one, of course, is word pronunciation. Are you pronouncing those words correctly? If you're not sure that you can go online. There are free dictionaries online. Listen to the word pronunciation. Check that and make sure your words are correct.

 
Individual Sounds: Another thing is individual sounds. For example, sound - Shh,  are you pronouncing these sounds correctly. One another thing for pronunciation is intonation. If your voice is going up and down or if you are speaking like this if you're speaking very flat this is not good for your bank score you need to learn to use intonation in your voice. using Intonation means making something more interesting or showing when something is important to you.

Practice At Home

Practice that at home and try to improve it now. Now, you have a topic and ideas. You've got your vocabulary for the topic as well. 

Now, you have your questions and you record them you listen and you check your answer. Don't forget you can write down the answer to check what you say. Write down the words you're using to check your fluency vocabulary grammar and pronunciation.

1. After that practice, practice, and practice. 
2. Find your weakness get rid of your weakness to improve your strength in your practice. 
3. Record answering the questions

I know it can feel uncomfortable to sit in a room alone and record but really It's a good practice you need to do it right well. I really hope that you practice this at home. Honestly the more you practice the better your IELTS will be particularly. If you check your answers correctly well keep practicing good luck and I'll see you in another IELTS lesson.