Sample speaking tests 1

Listen to the first interview. As you are listening, consider how the candidate’s responses meet the assessment criteria: fluency and coherence, vocabulary and sentence structure and pronunciation. After you have listened to the interview you may want to listen again while you read the transcript. Finally, read the teacher’s comments. Sample Speaking Test 1 Hardi

Sample Speaking Tests Listen to the first interview As you are listening, consider how the candidate’s responses meet the assessment criteria: fluency and coherence, vocabulary and sentence structure and pronunciation After you have listened

to the interview you may want to listen again while you read the transcript Finally, read the teacher’s comments

Sample Speaking Test 1 - Hardi

First, listen to Hardi being interviewed in a sample IELTS Speaking test

Next, listen to the interview again and read the transcript at the same time

Transcript Finally, read the comments made by a teacher about this interview

Teacher's assessment

Transcript 1

The transcript is divided into the three parts of the speaking interview

Part 1: Introduction and interview

Interviewer: Good morning How are you today?

Candidate: Fine, thank you

Interviewer: Okay my name’s Valerie What’s your name please?

Candidate: My name’s Hardi Suyento Interviewer: Sorry?

Candidate: Hardi Suyento Interviewer: Okay And where do you come from?

Candidate: I am come I come from Indonesia

Interviewer: From Indonesia And can I see your identification please?

Candidate: Here it is

Interviewer: Thank you very much That’s fine Okay so to start off, let’s talk

about your home town.

Candidate: Yes

Interviewer: Where is it?

Candidate: Mmm I came from Djakarta

Interviewer: Okay

Candidate: That’s the capital city of Indonesia

Interviewer: Okay and what kind of place is it? Big city?

Candidate: Uh It’s a very big and crowded city

Interviewer: Okay, mm-hm, and what is the most interesting part of Djakarta?

Candidate: Uh, for me, the most interesting part is, uuuh, the mall

Interviewer: Mm-hm Candidate: Yes, I like to go to the mall

Interviewer: Okay, alright And could you describe the climate in Djakarta?

Candidate: Uuuh It’s hot it’s like, uh, summer in Syd Sydney but maybe a little

bit warmer It’s around, uh, 25 to 32 degree

Interviewer: Okay, alright, and would you say Djakarta is a good place to live?

Candidate: Uh, certainly

Interviewer: And why is that?

Candidate: Uuuh Because uuuh I think we can find anything we like there and

the weather is good and the people is friendly and I think it is the best place for me

Interviewer: Okay

Candidate: Okay

Interviewer: Okay, so let’s move on now and talk about, uh, free time What do

you normally do on the days when you’re not working or studying?

Candidate: Mmm, I us I usually, uh, um, doing sport I like to play, uh, table tennis

and I also learn how to play tennis nowadays and okay

Interviewer: And do you have a hobby that you do regularly?

Candidate: Yes, uuh, I like martial art

Interviewer: Okay

Candidate: Yes, I learn Hapkido in Indonesia, that’s the Japanese martial art

Interviewer: Okay

Candidate: And I also, uuuh, reading I also do reading I like to read biography and

history

Interviewer: Okay, okay, alright And do you like to spend your free time alone or with

somebody else?

Candidate: Mmm, it depends, it depends on the mood

Interviewer: Okay

Candidate: Sometimes I prefer to stay, uh, to go alone and sometimes, uh, go with my

friends

Interviewer: Okay, alright And how important do you think it is to have free time?

Candidate: Mmm it’s very important, otherwise we’d all be stress and I think by

having free time we can reduce our level of stress Then when we go back

to work, uh, it will be more fresh

Interviewer: Okay That’s very true Okay so let’s now talk about food and

cooking Who does most of the cooking in your house?

Candidate: In Djakarta?

Interviewer: Uh If you like, yeah

Candidate: In Djakarta, my mother my mother do that My mother is an excellent

cook

Interviewer: What kind of food does she cook?

Candidate: Uuh she can cook Indonesian food and Chinese food

Interviewer: Okay and what is your favourite dish?

Candidate: Uuh my favourite dish is Indonesian food It’s called gado gado It’s a

mixture of vegetables and with, uuh peanut sauce That’s delicious

Interviewer: Gado gado Okay And what do you think is a healthy diet?

Candidate: Healthy diet uuh I think a healthy diet is good for everybody because,

uh, it will if you eat healthy diet you will be you can live longer than if you eat a lot of junk food I think, uh, that’s a problem for many people nowadays because they eat too many junk food

Part 2: Individual long turn

Interviewer: That’s true Okay Okay Now I’m going to give you a topic You

need to talk about it for one to two minutes You have one minute to think about what you are going to say, okay and you can take notes if you wish there’s Okay, I would like you to describe a popular form of exercise in your country

Candidate: Exercise means, uh, sport?

Interviewer: Mm-hm it can be sport

Interviewer: Actually you have one minute for this And don’t worry if I stop you I’ll tell

you when the time is up You can start speaking

Candidate: Mmm in my country, uuuh usually people like to do the , like to play

badminton .uuh because, uuh, I don’t know why but in Indonesia people love play badminton so that’s why in Indonesia there are a lot of good player and they become world champion in badminton And the other, uh, the other sport and exercise they usually do is, uuh, jogging and cycling – they usually

do that, uuh, during the weekend and, uuh, usually on Sunday because on Sunday usually, uh, in my home town in Djakarta usually the local

government block the main road so people can do the jogging and cycling in that main road so that’s, uuh, the other, mmm, the other exercise maybe,

uh, they like to play, um, tennis so that’s why there are also some good tennis player in Indonesia

Interviewer: Okay, and do you play badminton yourself?

Candidate: Yes, sometimes

Part 3: Two way discussion

Interviewer: Okay, alright So we’ve been talking about, uh, a popular sport in Indonesia

so I’d like to ask you some more questions in that general area So, could you suggest some of the health benefits of exercise?

Candidate: Health benefit mmm by doing the exercise, uuh, I think we can keep

our body healthy and, mm, if we have, uuh, healthy body I think we can work much better and we can have, uuh, clear mind on doing our work and in that, umm, the other the other benefit may be, uh, it can prolong our life

Interviewer: That’s true Okay And could you explain some problems that people may

have exercising, when they are exercising

Candidate: Problem they may have

Interviewer: Mm-hm

Candidate: Uuh, even, uh, why people don’t want to, uh, exercise, something like that?

Interviewer: Well, yes

Candidate: Maybe sometimes people don’t want to exercise because they are too lazy to

do that because, uh, they are too lazy to wake up early to, uuh, do the sport and then, uh, maybe in some cases for example in my country, uuh, maybe,

uh, the facility is not enough to do the sport That’s why people don’t do the sport

Interviewer: So you talked about facilities Could you describe some facilities that

governments or cities build for where people can exercise?

Candidate: Mmm usually the government in my in Djakarta, uuh, they usually build,

uh, some gyms and they usually build, uuh, badminton court, football court and

Interviewer: that sort of thing Okay, and could you outline the advantages and

disadvantages of exercising alone or as part of a team?

Candidate: Mmm the advantage uuh, maybe for the, uuh, exercise with the team

maybe it can develop your skill on teamwork Uuh, and I think that skill is very important especially, uuh, when you are working, and working as a team that’s, uuh, if you must help and, mmm disadvantage I think there’s no disadvantage on doing the team team sport

Interviewer: Okay How about then the could you assess the importance of large sporting

events such as the Olympic Games for example or the Rugby World Cup we have at the moment?

Candidate: Mmm the advantage for the country?

Interviewer: For example, yeah

Candidate: I think that’s good for the country because it can, uh, enhance your tourism

and it can be, uuh, it can become entertainment for local people and I think it can also, uuh, give a lot of income to the country

Interviewer: That’s true yeah, mm-hm Okay, you mentioned earlier why people may

not get enough exercise because they’re lazy Could you think of other reasons why people may not get enough exercise?

Candidate: Mmm May be because they are too busy, too busy working maybe, or

studying, so they don’t have time to do that

Interviewer: That’s very true, right And finally, could you identify the value of exercise or

sport as part of the school program, the school curriculum?

Candidate: Mmm I think, uuh, I think that’s good to put sport in the school curriculum,

uh, because, uh, it can, uh, help the students to, uh, develop their, uh, skill,

uh, for example I think it can develop their skill on teamwork and it also can help, uh, to build their body and keep their healthy I think that’s good

Interviewer: Okay, alright Thank you very much That’s the end of the interview

Candidate: Okay, thank you

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