You might, for example, begin with two or three students giving one-minute timed, impromptu talks. These can be "integrated" tasks based on summaries of newspaper articles or news stories from television or radio, or they can be "independent" tasks based on students' own experience. | The Independent Speaking Tasks About the Independent Speaking Tasks The Speaking Section begins with two Independent Speaking Tasks. Both of these tasks are based on your personal knowledge and experience. In other words the questions ask you to talk about topics that you are familiar with. There are no right or wrong answers. Skills that are required to do well on the Independent Speaking Tasks include the abilities to understand the prompts questions and what they ask you to do brainstorm ideas and take notes on the ideas that you come up with organize your ideas into a simple outline clearly state and explain your opinion or preference support your ideas with examples reasons and details deliver a clear well-reasoned response based on the prompt in forty-five seconds You will first see a photograph of a person wearing headphones and you will be instructed to put on your headphenes and listen carefully. You will then see the directions screen for Speaking. After you have clicked on the Dismiss Directions button you will see and hear the prompt for the first Independent Speaking Task. After this you have fifteen seconds to prepare your response. After fifteen seconds have passed you will hear a beep and you will then have forty-five seconds to deliver your first response. An on-screen clock keeps track of time. A second beep tells you that you should stop speaking. After that you will see the prompt for the second task and you will again have fifteen seconds to prepare and forty-five seconds to deliver your second response. You will not be penalized if you have not finished your response when the time is up as long as you have completed most of the task as given in the prompt. 404 About the Independent Speaking Tasks 405 Describe the most important day in your life and explain why it was important to you. Include details and examples to support your explanation. 1 Preparation Time 15 Seconds I Response Time 45 Seconds PREPARATION TIME 00 00 00 The Two Types of .
