PTE Speaking:
PTE Speaking section assesses candidates on how an individual speaks which can easily understand by native English speakers. PTE Speaking is the section where most of the student find it difficult as it is assessed by the computer. PTE speaking is all about oral fluency and pronunciation of words while you speak. How easily and a candidate can speak using intonations, rhythm and fluently. This blog will provide you details about speaking section and task involved in it. About score distribution and key points to consider to improve the score. PTE Speaking includes personal introduction plus five important task.
Personal Introduction:
This task is not to assess and does not add any score but only for candidates personal details which university department or visa department can use. The introduction is about 30 seconds time to introduce oneself. Here, is the sample template which can help an individual to get familiarized oneself.
Read Aloud:
Skills tested: Reading and speaking
Sub-skills tested: Identifying a writer’s style, tone, purpose, or attitude; understanding academic vocabulary; reading a text under timed conditions.
PTE Sprinters provide plenty of study material for practice, tips and tricks can be found in the respective section. Click on links for more details.
Repeat sentence:
Skills tested: Listening and speaking
Sub-skills tested: Understanding academic vocabulary; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending variations in tone, accent, and speed.
PTE Sprinters provide plenty of study material for repeat sentence practice, tips and tricks can be found in the respective section. Click on links for more details.
Describe image:
Skills tested: Speaking
Sub-skills tested: Speaking for a purpose (to repeat, inform, explain); supporting an opinion with details, examples, and explanations; organizing an oral presentation in a logical way; developing complex ideas within a spoken discourse; using words and phrases appropriate to the context; using correct grammar; speaking at a natural rate; producing fluent speech; using correct intonation; using correct pronunciation; using correct pronunciation; using correct stress; speaking under timed conditions.
If you are struggling to get desire PTE Score, you might need to work on your oral fluency and pronunciations. Best way to improve the enabling skill is to have to have some predefined format which can help you to instantly improve these two enabling skills. PTE Sprinters provide a template for describe image for each and every type of images asked in the actual exam. Listed below is one of the formats which can be used to describe PTE Bar graph.
Format for PTE Describe image
1. Bar graph
Horizontal Bar Graph
Vertical Bar Graph
This _________ (bar graph) describes ________ (the heading/ title of the graph)
The horizontal axis represents ___________ (repeat whatever is written as description for X- axis) and
the vertical axis represents ___________ (repeat whatever is written as description for Y- axis).
The highest value of __________ (find from Y-axis, use units if given) is at __________ (value of X-axis for the highest value of Y-axis, use units if given) and it is __________ (quote the highest value). The lowest value of _________.
( similarly find from Y-axis description) is at __________ (value of X-axis for the highest value of Y-axis, use units if given) and it is _____________ (quote that highest value).
In conclusion, from the facts and figures presented in the ___________ graph, it can be inferred that ______________ (talk about the trend in a few words).
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Re-tell lecture:
Skills tested: Listening and speaking
Sub-skills tested: Identifying the topic, theme or main ideas; identifying supporting points or examples; identifying a speaker’s purpose, style, tone or attitude; understanding academic vocabulary; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words; comprehending explicit and implicit information; comprehending concrete and abstract information; classifying and categorizing information; following an oral sequencing of information; comprehending variations in tone, speed, and accent.
Similar to the describe image, if you are struggling to score well in re-tell lecture. Try to follow some predefined format which can help you to get fluency and pronunciations. Here, is one sample format which can help you to practice. You can modify based on your requirements. This format can be used for PTE Listening section task, summarize spoken text as well.
Format for PTE Re-tell lecture
The speaker was discussing …… Firstly, he/she talked about ……. Secondly, he/she mentioned ……. In addition, he/she discussed …….. Also, he/she described…….. Lastly(or in conclusion), he/she suggested ……..
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Answer Short Questions:
Skills tested: Listening and speaking
Sub-skills tested: Identifying the topic, or main ideas; understanding academic vocabulary; inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words.