[Music]
the speaking section measures your
ability to speak in English about a
variety of topics there are six
questions in this section questions 1 &
2 are independent tasks in which you
will speak about familiar topics your
responses will be scored on your ability
to speak clearly and coherently about
the topics questions 3 & 4 are
integrated speaking tasks you will read
a passage listen to a conversation or
lecture and then speak in response to a
question about what you have read and
heard you will need to combine relevant
information from the two sources to
answer the question completely your
responses will be scored on your ability
to speak clearly and coherently and on
your ability to accurately convey
information about what you read and
heard questions 5 & 6 are integrated
speaking tasks you will listen to part
of a conversation or lecture and then
speak in response to a question about
what you have heard your responses will
be scored on your ability to speak
clearly and coherently and on your
ability to accurately convey information
about what you heard you will hear each
conversation and lecture only one time
you may take notes while you listen you
may use your notes to help you answer
the questions
number one in this question you will be
asked to talk about a familiar topic
after you hear the question you will
have 15 seconds to prepare your response
and 45 seconds to speak talk about an
important experience that you recently
had describe what happened and explain
why it was important to you begin to
prepare your response after the beep
you
begin speaking after the beep
you
number two in this question you will be
asked to give your opinion about a
familiar topic after you hear the
question you will have 15 seconds to
prepare your response and 45 seconds to
speak some people think that family
members are the most important influence
on young adults others believe that
friends are the most important influence
which do you agree with explain why
begin to prepare your response after the
beep
you
begin speaking after the beep
you
number three in this question you will
read a short passage about a campus
situation and then listen to a talk on
the same topic you will then answer a
question using information from both the
reading passage and the talk after the
question you will have 30 seconds to
prepare your response and 60 seconds to
speak the Business Studies department at
State University is creating a new
requirement you have 45 seconds to read
the announcement begin reading now
you
now listen to two students discussing
the announcement read this announcement
yeah and I disagree I don't think it
will actually help students really why
not well they talked about leadership
and organizational skills but that's not
really the kind of work you do like my
older brothers had the kind of jobs
they're talking about and typically
you're just there to do basic tasks like
typing or filing stuff nothing very
meaningful
oh so you wouldn't actually learn
anything new exactly I guess I see what
you mean but what about the other point
they make about this helping us after we
graduate I don't agree how come well the
problem is that there are lots of other
universities in our area that have the
same requirement so there are lots of
other students at these positions yeah I
guess I hadn't thought of that
so even if you take a position like this
in a company while you're still a
student once you graduate the
competition for permanent jobs will be
impossible I mean there just won't be
enough jobs available for all the
business graduates in the city who will
be looking for full-time work hmm I see
what you're saying
the woman expresses her opinion of the
university's new policy state her
opinion and explained the reasons she
gives for holding that opinion begin to
prepare your response after the beep
you
begin speaking after the beep
you
number four in this question you will
read a short passage on an academic
subject and then listen to a talk on the
same topic you will then answer a
question using information from both the
reading passage and the talk after the
question you will have 30 seconds to
prepare your response and 60 seconds to
speak read the passage from a film
studies textbook you will have 50
seconds to read the passage begin
reading now
you
now listen to part of a lecture on this
topic in the film class the other day I
went to this great new movie and one of
the scenes in particular I thought was
really set up nicely at the start of the
scene that before the action and talking
and things started you saw on the movie
screen an image of a city you could tell
it was a big city there were lots of
buildings tall ones skyscrapers and the
cars and signs on the city streets
looked old-fashioned like they were from
the past like the 1940s the other thing
I noticed right away from this first
image just when the scene started was
that the city seen that gloomy you
couldn't see much because it was well
there was mostly darkness rather than
sunlight and there was only just a
little bit of light from the street
lamps on top of that it was raining and
kind of foggy all of these details work
together to create a dark gloomy
mysterious feeling so then when the
action started and it showed detectives
talking to each other in an office I
already knew that the office was located
in a tall building in a big city
sometime in the 1940s and I had a good
idea that the events that it'd be taking
place would be pretty dark and
mysterious because of the shot the image
I saw at the beginning of the scene
using the professor's example explain
what an establishing shot is and how it
is used begin to prepare your response
after the beep
you
begin speaking after the beep
you
number five in this question you will
listen to a conversation you will then
be asked to talk about the information
in the conversation and to give your
opinion about the ideas presented after
you hear the question you will have 20
seconds to prepare your response and 60
seconds to speak listen to a
conversation between two students hey
Beth how are things not great why what's
wrong I just found out I have to move
out of my apartment like right away
you're kidding why well my apartment
it's in a house a kind of old house and
now something's wrong with the water
pipes I think some of the pipes burst or
wore out or something anyway
we don't have any water in the house and
apparently it's gonna take about two
weeks to fix the problem
so you need to find a place to live for
what two weeks or so yeah bad timing huh
with midterm exams coming up in
everything so have you figured out what
you're going to do well some friends
said I could stay at their place they
don't have an extra bedroom but they
said it'd be okay for me to sleep on
their living room couch you could
probably handle that for a couple of
weeks right I guess so I mean it's
really nice of them to offer and it's
free the only problem is they already
have four people living there so it
could be a little crowded and not ideal
for studying for midterms yeah too many
distractions hmm any other options well
I did find this place it's a small hotel
over on Third Street right near campus
oh right a lot of kids parents data when
they come for a visit right so I could
get a room there they have a weekly rate
and it's pretty reasonable but I don't
know at least at the hotel you'd have a
space of your own you know you so you
could get more done that's definitely a
plus but I have to think about it even
though it's pretty cheap it'll still end
up costing me some money and my budgets
pretty tight right now briefly summarize
the problem the speakers are discussing
then state which salut
you would recommend explain the reasons
for your recommendation begin to prepare
your response after the beep
you
begin speaking after the beep
you
number six in this question you will
listen to a short lecture you will then
be asked to summarize important
information from the lecture after you
hear the question you will have 20
seconds to prepare your response and 60
seconds to speak listen to part of a
lecture in a biology class
we all know that insects like to eat
plants but some plants have been able to
to develop ways to protect themselves
from insects today I'm going to talk
about some ways plants defend themselves
now some plants have physical features
that prevent insects from landing on
them like the passion plant for example
its leaves have little spiky hairs all
over them they're like spikes sticking
out of the plant that are so numerous
and dense that they prevent insects from
landing on the leads basically there's
just no room for the insect to land and
since insects can't land on leaves they
can't eat them so the little hairs serve
as a physical feature that helps protect
the passion plant from insects alright
but other plants protect themselves
using chemical defenses like the potato
plant the potato plants able to release
a chemical throughout its leaf system
whenever an insect attacks it starts
eating leaf so say an insect starts
eating a potato plants leaf that will
cause the plant to react by releasing a
chemical throughout its leaf system the
insect swallows this chemical as it eats
and this chemical discourages the insect
from wanting to eat any more of the
plant how well the substance makes the
insect feel full like it's already had
enough to eat the insect no longer feels
hungry so it stops eating the plant so
by a
this chemical the potato plant protects
itself from insects using points from
the lecture explain how the passion
plant and the potato plant defend
themselves from insects begin to prepare
your response after the beep
you
begin speaking after the beep
you
[Music]