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A candidate gives fluent Band 6 answers in IELTS Speaking Part 1 about bicycles, snacks and crowded places.
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
| Structure | In the recording |
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| “Used to”Intermediateused to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true |
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| Present perfectIntermediatehave/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now |
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| “Would rather” / “had better”Intermediatewould rather + verb, had better + verb — preference and strong advice |
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| Relative clauses with whose / where / whenIntermediatewhose + noun, the place where…, the day when…, the reason why… — more ways to describe a noun |
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| ComparativesBeginner-er than / more … than — comparing two things |
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| “So … that” / “such … that”Intermediateso + adj + that, such a + noun + that — a cause and its result |
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| Spoken sentence framesIntermediateThe thing is…, What I mean is…, It's worth -ing — set phrases that frame a sentence |
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| Preposition + -ingIntermediateby / without / before / after + -ing — a verb after a preposition takes -ing |
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| Adjectives ending in -ed and -ingIntermediatebored vs boring, interested vs interesting — how you feel vs what causes it |
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| Adjective + prepositionIntermediategood at, interested in, afraid of, worried about — adjectives with a fixed preposition |
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| Future with “will”Beginnerwill + verb — a decision, promise or prediction |
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| Verb + to-infinitiveIntermediatedecide / manage / seem / try + to-verb — verbs followed by to |
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| Questions with do / does / didBeginnerdo/does/did + subject + verb — asking a question in the simple tenses |
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| Ability with “can / could”Beginnercan/could + verb — what someone is able to do, or could do in the past |
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| Imperatives: Let's / Don'tBeginnerLet's + verb, Don't + verb — suggesting or telling someone what to do |
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| QuantifiersBeginnera few / a little, much / many, a lot of, plenty of, none of — saying how much or how many |
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| There is / there areBeginnerthere is/are + noun — saying that something exists or is somewhere |
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| Past simple (irregular verbs)Beginnerwent, saw, took… — a finished action in the past, with an irregular verb |
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| Prepositions of time: at / on / inBeginnerat 7 o'clock, on Monday, in the morning / in 2020 — which word goes with which time |
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