FlexiLingo
The Secret to Speaking Task 3 & 4: Everyday Vocabulary Practice
- Language learning
Mastering vocabulary for CELPIP speaking task 3 or 4 can be tough especially because you have no way to know BEFORE your exam what you will need to talk about. So how do you prepare? You can prepare yourself by digging into your everyday situations! Just by paying attention to your surroundings, whether you're at a grocery store, a coffee shop, or even filling up your gas tank, you can practice describing what you see. This means actively thinking about the details around you and using precise vocabulary to describe what you see.<...
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A2 · Elementary
Everyday topics, clear speech
- 59% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 163 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
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challenges that I find test preppers to face is knowing what to say.
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A2 · Elementary
Everyday topics, clear speech
- 59% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 163 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 23 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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So, when you are working on speaking task three and speaking task four, one of the most common challenges that I find test preppers to face is knowing what to say. Like not necessarily knowing what to say, but knowing precise things to say, like precise vocabulary words that will help them in the specific situation that they're trying
to describe, to describe that situation accurately and in the most efficient way possible. And the challenge is that you never know what kind of a scene or situation you're going to be looking at on your exam day to describe. So how in the world can you be preparing and learning those specific vocabulary words
that will help you to describe what's going on in that scene in the most effective way possible. How can you prepare for that when you don't know what to prepare for? Like, what am I going to see? I don't know. You won't know until your actual test day, right? Well, I've been thinking about that a lot because one of the things I do is I help
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