Welcome to another Eilts video Today we're looking at how to feel confidence when speaking.

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The question of how to feel more confident when speaking is something that I am asked regularly, both in my online classes and in my classroom.

And I wanted to create this little video to share a few of my thoughts with you and a few suggestions on how you can work towards being amore.

Confident speaker.

I have divided today's lesson into three parts.

The first is preparation, and here we're going to talk about a few tips that you can use by yourself to prepare for the challenge of speaking.

The second thing we're going to talk about is practice and how to properly practice with another person.

How to really improve your speaking when speaking with another person, and the final thing we're gonna talk about is delivery, which is how to conduct yourself and how to speak effectively when in a stressful situation like the aisles examination when preparing to speak, we actually do not needs to have a speaking partner there are a number of things that we can do by yourselves.

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Help prepare us for the challenge of speaking to another person.

Now I'd like to share a few quick tips with you that you can use to help sound more fluent.

And by sounding more fluent, you can gain a sense of confidence.

So the first thing I suggest that all students is to shorten your sentences when speaking, I'll students sometimes believe that their examiner is looking to see long, elaborate sentences when when the students described various activities or give their monologue on the examination.

But that's not actually the case which examiner is looking for is that you speak with grammatical accuracy that you fulfill, um, the requirements of your task and that you employees a fitting lexical resource.

So speaking, you know, in long elaborate sentences, and using complicated speech patterns is not really that necessary to score well.

So don't fool yourself by thinking that you have to speak this way.

Try shortening your sentences down to very basic ideas, and you'll find that in doing this, the the accuracy of what you're saying and your overall fluency will improve.

Now a second thing that I always suggest is that students commit cohesive freezes to memory.

So what this means is that you you make an effort to learn many, many different ways of linking ideas together.

So this could include phrases like as a child, as a student, as a graduate student, as a mother, as a you know this to distort your sentence.

So as a child, I remember being given a piano for my birthday.

Now, this little phrase at the beginning as a child is something that I've committed to my memory prior to prior to speaking and using these cohesive phrases to link my ideas together.

I am making my my overall speech patterns much easier to understand.

Because of this, I could use this phrase, you know, to continue an idea.

So, for example, if I was talking about my childhood as a child, I was given a piano for my birthday.

Because of this, I became increasingly interested in music.

Now what you can see is that you know there's two very basic sentences there.

I was given a piano for my birthday, and I became increasingly interested in music.

Thes two sentences, air or small they're they're short.

But all I'm doing is I'm adding some cohesive phrases to the beginning of them to make you know, the fluency of the of the two sentences much, much easier to understand.

So now you know when I speak, you can see the relationship between the two ideas.

So s O, you know, learning these cohesive phrases.

And when I say learning, I don't mean, you know, studying them on your page And, you know, just doing it like that.

I mean by yourself in your bedroom.

Repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating because of this because of this because of this because of this as this shows as this shows as this shows as a child, as as a man as a teacher, as a student, no practicing, practicing, practicing these cohesive raises keep practicing until they come naturally to you.

So that when you know the next time that you're that you're with your friends and you're you're practicing for your exam, you school, he cohesive phrases, they just come out naturally.

You start linking your ideas together naturally using them.

Uh, that's my tip for the preparation portion of your study Now, um, of course, it's very important to actually practice speaking with another person.

And I completely agree when people say that, um, you can't learn to speak from a textbook, So you need to find some speaking partners.

It's OK if they're not native speakers.

Of course, it's better if you can find people that are perhaps more skilled than you are, you know, But find people who are who are interested in the outs exam.

We're gonna take the outs exam and practice your speaking with them.

Now, when practicing your speaking, you should make an effort to practice productively.

So by this, I mean practice riel, isles.

Um, I'll type questions.

Sometimes when I hear students in the hallways at my school and, you know, they tell me they're practicing for their aisles exam, I see that they're, you know, they're chatting about about some topics that the they may know about, and you know, that's helpful.

But, um, but I think if you can really try, try to as much as possible practice riel miles type questions practice, you know, really cue cards that you can find on the Internet practice thes different topics and practice responding to them.

So so practicing what you will really face from the examination, I think, is is is a more effective way of studying now.

In addition to this, I think it's very important to always include new vocabulary in your study sessions.

So, for example, if today if we're going to be studying a boat, um, speaking about our families, maybe we can find 45 or six new vocabulary words, or perhaps some local phrases that on the Internet and we can include these in our practice.

And you know, this is a great way to to really learn to use different vocabulary words and also to too wide in our lexical resource.

Okay, so practice productively.

Tip number one Now, secondly, used technology to your advantage and what I mean here is that there are lots of resources that you can you can tap into.

I know lots of students, you know, they sit in their bedroom and they have a textbook, and, you know, you don't have to stop there, look on the Internet and find some some sample speaking responses.

The BBC has some.

The British Council has some.

You can find transcripts often for these responses, and when listening to the responses.

Try as best you can.

Try repeating.

Don't just listen once.

Listen, multiple times go back.

Repeat after the student what they're saying.

Repeat.

You know, the phrase is that they're using make notes of anything new that you come across when using technology.

Record yourself when you're speaking record the way that you speak about your family record the way that you talk about you talking in a monologue record the way that you talk in a dialogue with a friend, Make notes of your weakness.

Don't be shy to do these things, so practice use technology.

Now when it comes to the delivery portion to become more confident, the very first thing is to go to the exam prepared.

Go to the exam prepares.

I know many students are probably thinking, Of course.

I mean, why why would you even say this as a tip?

But what I mean by prepared is go into the exam, having memorized all of those cohesive phrases and having practiced them again and again and again.

So now that they're natural and having had many study sessions with friends and each of those study sessions included five or six or seven or even Maur new words and phrases.

So now you you know you have several 100 phrases.

Several 100 words that you perhaps didn't know before you started your study sessions.

Go to the exam, having finished at least 50 sample full speaking mock exams.

You know, this could be at school.

This could be with your friend.

This could be, um, with a teacher.

This could be even, you know, doing mock exams by yourself, maybe for the monologue portion of the exam.

Recording yourself when you get to the examination that there should be absolutely nothing that is new to you.

You should.

You should have practiced pretty much every conceivable topic that the Examiner could throw at you.

So go to the exam prepared.

Okay.

Now, when it comes to delivery, stay calm again.

I can see many people that they're thinking this is no not very helpful tip.

Of course, I'm trying to stay calm now to stay calm.

There's a number of things that you can do, but the thing that I find works the best and what students tell me works the best, and we'll make you look much more fluent is too.

Use pauses to increase your confidence.

So if you're in the exam and you feel nervous and you know for a moment you don't know what to say, just pause.

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Okay, Pauses, air.

Good.

Just collect your thoughts and then deliver what it is that you are wanting to express.

Now there are differences between good pauses and bad pauses.

Bad pauses are pauses between each word.

I mean, this makes you sound kind of robotic.

It makes you sound, you know, like you're not a very fluent speaker.

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Pauses are pauses that show the way you're speaking would be written.

How would it be punctuated?

So that means that, you know, if if this was a written phrase, if there was a comma, I should be taking a moment for a breath and then continuing my thought.

So anytime that you feel nervous, just take a moment and just pause and collect yourself.

This will help.

Okay, so, uh, that concludes the tips that I have regarding speaking, Um, if you would like to share a few of your own tips, please.

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Thank you for joining me today.

Have a nice evening.