Part 1: answer short questions abt yourself (work, studies, home, family, hobbies, etc.

PREPARE

Revise relevant VOCABULARY for these TOPICS

Practise ways of EXTENDING your ANSWERS to SHOW your LANGUAGE RANGE

PRACTICE

With a partner, ask and ANSWER the QUESTIONS, giving AS MUCH DETAILS AS YOU CAN

GENERALS

_ Try to use various grammar structure:

Perfect tenses

Past perfect: something completed before a past event.

Present perfect: something happened in the past and may extend to present. Timing is
indefinite. perfected and indefinite sense.

Eg. Brett has worked with some of the best chefs of Europe [in the course of his
long and continuing career].

The CEO has lied to his employees.

Future perfect: something completed before a future event

Simple Past: something happened in the past and finished in the past. Timing is definite.
definite past solid sense.
 Eg. Brett worked with Chef Pierre LeGout [when he lived in Paris].

Washington encouraged his troop.

_ Be more descriptive by adding

Place and time

Adjectives, adverb and noun: excited, climax, completely, amazing, incredible, fantastic,
enomous, rapport,

_ COHERENCE: linking words/phrases

Reasons Let me (first) explain why; It was due to the fact that; I say this because

Sequence, listing and, so, as well as, as a matter of fact, what added to the was, in terms
of, the fact that

Example for example, as a further example

Compare & contrast w other cases unlike; w expectation I thought whereas in reality ;
I had expected , but the opposite was true and , on the other hand, although, despite this

Personal opinion Confirmation there is no doubt that ; ultimate dream; lived up to my

expectation, big impression, of course, its clear that

Conclusion on the whole, in short

_ EMPTY/STUPID CONTENT IS GOOD: its NOT a test of KNOWLEDGE. Its a LANGUAGE TEST. As long as
what you say is related, its GOOD to be EMPTY.

There is of course a lot of debate about but many of us can recognize

_ Use GAP FILLERS when you do NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY and is THINKING. Use them just LIKE when
youre MAKING SMALL TALKS TO FRIENDS.

Let me think. Hmm, thats a tough one. Thats a tricky question. Ive never really thought about
that.

I guess I suppose

Well, So, Umm, you know,

 To be honest, Unfortunately,

All in all

_ Tips to achieve the above and good rhythm, intonation, pronunciation: passionate and energetic
flowery conversation. Make the other party enjoy just by listening to you: song (pronunciation) +
literature (language features).