{"id":1658,"date":"2019-03-08T06:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T00:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2019-03-06T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:05:07","slug":"speaking-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/speaking-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"IELTS Speaking Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>When you don&#8217;t understand the question<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please, forgive my nervousness. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I didn&#8217;t quite follow that. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could you please repeat the question? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sorry. Could you repeat that please?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Do you mean we should&#8230;?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I didn&#8217;t catch what you said. Could you\u00a0<\/span>repeat it, please?<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t grasp what you meant. Could you say that again?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not clear about something. Could I ask a question?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Personal Preferences<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I prefer doing&#8230; than doing<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t really say which I prefer. It depends<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for which I prefer, well it depends on&#8230;. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would choose the&#8230; because&#8230; <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personally speaking and being actually a\u00a0<\/span>teenager, I would definitely choose\/prefer&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d rather do&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Introducing the topic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>More and more people (are doing)&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The trend nowadays is towards (doing)&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Over the past ten years or so the media have frequently carried reports of&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Recent research indicates that&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Although most people would generally agree that &#8230; few would deny that<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Stating your opinion<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>As I see it &#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>As far as I am concerned &#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>From my point of view &#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>It seems to me that&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I would also say that&#8230;..<\/li>\n<li>I am convinced that&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I am inclined to believe that&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>There is no doubt in my mind that&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>One of the drawbacks of&#8230;is&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>However, one of the benefits is that&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you don&#8217;t understand the question Please, forgive my nervousness. I didn&#8217;t quite follow that. Could you please repeat the question? Sorry. Could you repeat that please? Do you mean&#8230;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/speaking-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <i class=\"fas fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[139,2201],"yst_prominent_words":[2200,166,477,2199,76],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaking","tag-ielts-speaking-tips","tag-speaking-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}