G'day, how's it going mate? Today, I'm gonna be touching on the method of inventing a fictitious story for your speaking test. This is one of the most important skills to be successful in speaking exams. But someone finds it so difficult to make stuff up during a formal speaking test, which is understandable. Let's elaborate it further.
Yes, of course, it's not easy to fake it even if you haven't got any further story, which is normal for most of you guys. But, in order to grapple with a formal speaking exam, please make sure that you don't necessarily have to tell the truth all the time. You can fake it until make it. This is my motto when it comes to speaking exams. Ok, how do you do that? Well, it's dead simple. First of all, you need to get trained yourself in brainstorming whereby you use your brain to come up with any relevant idea as many as you possibly can within a minute. You don't need to jot down, but just pondering. For speaking tests, you've got to have instantaneousness, flexibility as well as adaptability.
As for instantaneousness, you've got to be really agile, which means that you start speaking in normally three seconds after your examiner asked a question. To do so, there's not enough time for you to think about the relevant idea and formulate a complete sentence, so you ought to digress somehow from what you think you supposed to say in the first place. In speaking tests, you're not required to say direct answers in response to the examiner's question. The examiner isn't checking your idea and correct answer. Instead of these, he or she is focusing purely on your instantaneousness, flexibility, adaptability as well as pronunciation. Definitely, he or she is checking the precision and appropriateness of word choice, collocation, a wide range of grammar, and logic. That's all. There's absolutely nothing to do with your idea in answering a question. So, you needn't worry about it at all.
Ok, so what you should be doing during the exam is to beat about the bush even if you're not directly answering the question, because this is not testing your maths, right? Just your spoken proficiency like oral fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary and logic. Even logic doesn't really matter unless you speak fluently. What matters is, however, how long you could continue to speak without making odd pauses and hesitations. This is apparently the enemy of your speaking exam whether or not you could nail the exam.
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