of English and today I'm going to show you how you can build

your short monologue in IELTS Speaking Part 2

Keep in mind that when you're speaking in a

short monologue about a certain topic as you're asked to

do in part 2, speaking

is the same way as writing

orally a little bit you know, for example you need it an

opening sentence in order to introduce your topic

your answer, your monologue which counts as a

as a short introduction as we would say in writing

also you need to cover all the points that you are asked

to cover in your task card and this counts

as the main body of your monologue and last but not least

if you get the chance and the examiner doesn't interrupt you

you have a conclusion, you wrap-up the main

points and your monologue is finished

so in between this short monologue

some useful phrases will be handy for you in order to help you begin talking

organize your thoughts and sound natural

so, let's see an example of how you can do that

ok here's a part 2 topic let's use the same example as in a previous video

let's read it

really quickly

so every time you introduce a new idea on the topic

it will be better if you start using a general statement

to get you started for example if the the main topic of part 2 is about a book

you've read recently as in this case you can begin

by saying

and you move on by saying more details so as you can see

I've started with saying something general

and then

you differentiate yourself and you start

talking about the specific and giving more details about it

this you can use in case you have read many books

or you can also say

this is this is something you can use when you're not

when you don't read a lot of books okay but you know something so

You start from the general and then you move on to the specific points you want to

make

describing the book alright another thing you can do

if you want to say the opposite if you don't have exactly a book

again this is a general statement

and you start by saying by talking about a book that you

didn't really like again it doesn't matter as long as you can communicate

and you can talk on topic about something as you would

in your mother language if they ask you something like that okay

so this is another thing you can do as you can see you can choose to say

anything according to your own situation but whatever you choose

introduce the topic by saying something general

and then move on to the specific point you want

to make also pay attention to the examples above

as I used a variety of words and not only

"I liked", "I didn't like" no

I used "impressed" okay

in this case in this example I used

"enjoyed" and in this example

you can also use "I wasn't thrilled" or "I was thrilled"

or whatever. Do that too.

use a variety of words and phrases while you speak

just like writing avoid using the same word or phrase

again and again throughout your short talk, use

synonyms okay so now these were examples for your opening sentence

now let's talk about the main points you can do exactly

the same thing for example

let's read these examples

so you talk about what you liked or disliked for example

again you begin with something general

but about the book so

it's kind of a main point

and then again you differentiate by saying something specific

from the other books that belong to classic literature as well

and you start by saying your

thoughts on the topic again another example

for another book, for something else

you start by saying something general

and then more details

so-and-so and so another example

it is this way and that way okay so this is a very useful phrase because

if you have a lot of things to say

you can start by saying one thing that I found really interesting was that and

then another thing and another thing

this can help you organize your thoughts a little bit

as a phrase and also

you start by saying something general

you don't really like these books but

and you say something that

is really good and it is the opposite of what you expected

okay so in this way you give yourself time to organize the main points

that are going to follow so these

these useful phrases opening sentences

from the general to the specific can really really

help you to build your monologue now

if it is time to conclude you can use the following phrases

does this and that and that and really you don't do anything here you just

summarize what you've already said about the book or

you can also say

if you're really really excited about that book and again

if you didn't like it at all

of course these are just examples but the good news is that you can use all these

phrases according to your own

situation you can change them to

any topic given and they can really help you

build your monologues in an organized way

and express your thoughts okay that's it now it's time to start practicing your

part 2 monologues

good luck with your exam