Organizing your Speaking Responses: Question 3
If you organize your speaking responses your response will be clearer and easier to understand. Here are some suggested phrases and organization for question 3 on the speaking section of the TOEFL® test. Just finish each sentence with information from the task.
Q3: For this question type you read an announcement or notice about a change at a university. Then you listen to a conversation about the announcement. The conversation is between a student and someone else at the university. It could be another student, a professor, or someone else who works at the university. Usually, the student or the other person will have an opinion about the announcement. The task will ask you to summarize one person’s opinion and give reasons for that opinion.
Preparation Time: 30 seconds
Speaking Time: 60 seconds
Approximate Length: 7-10 sentences
Sentence 1 (Summarize the announcement or notice):
According to the announcement, …
The university is going to …
The notice says…
Sentence 2 (Summarize the person’s opinion or how he/she feels about the announcement):
The man/woman thinks the announcement is …
The man/woman disagrees/agrees with the change at the university …
The man/woman believes…
Sentence 3 (Give the first reason the man/woman mentions):
First, the man/woman says …
Her/his first reason is…
Sentence 4-5 (Give some details from the conversation supporting the first reason):
(This part of the response will vary according to the conversation.)
Sentence 6 (Give the second reason the man/woman mentions):
Next, he/she thinks …
He/she also says …
Sentence 7-8 (Give some details from the conversation supporting the second reason):
(This part of the response will vary according to the conversation.)
