Independent task

Personal experience

Preparation: 15 seconds

Response: 45 seconds

Speaking  about a person, place, object or event.

Types of questions

  1. Personal experience
  2. Giving advice
  3. Three choices
  4. Stating opinions.

Examples

1. Personal experience

  • What is your favourite recreational activity? Describe it and say why you enjoy doing it.
  • Name a place in your country you would recommend others to visit. Describe this place and explain why you would recommend it.
  • What is your favourite kind of food? Describe it and explain why it is your favourite.

2. Giving advice

  • Your friend wants a pet but has never owned one before and doesn’t know what to choose. What advice would you give and why?
  • Your friend is studying engineering and has room for one extra course in her schedule. What sort of course would you recommend she take and why?
  • Your friend’s brother has begun spending time with a group of people that your friend thinks may not be very good people. He wants to talk with his brother but does not know what to say. What advice would you give him?

3. Three choices

  • Which of these methods do you think is the best way to prepare for a test :1) studying alone 2) studying with friends 3) asking a teacher for help?
  • Among campus facilities, cost, and location, which do you think is the most important factor when choosing a university?
  • If you are going to choose a roommate, which of the following qualities is the most important to you: (1) Cleanness (2) Friendliness (3) Quietness.

4. Stating opinions

  • Your university has decided to reduce the amount of money it spends to support sports activities. What is your opinion and why?
  • School is planning to change the cafeteria’s menu with aims of offering healthier, low-calorie food. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of this idea.
  • Is the Internet a good or bad thing for the music industry?

Tips

– Linkers

– A range of vocabulary

 

 

 

 

 

 

3)

  1. Which of these methods do you think is the best way to prepare for a test :1) studying alone 2) studying with friends 3) asking a teacher for help?
  2. Among campus facilities, cost, and location, which do you think is the most important factor when choosing a university

4)

  1. Your university has decided to reduce the amount of money it spends to support sports activities. What is your opinion and why?
  2. School is planning to change the cafeteria’s menu with aims of offering healthier, low-calorie food. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of this idea.

 

Sample answer: https://www.examenglish.com/TOEFL/TOEFL_Speaking_part1.htm