One very good way to prepare for your IELTS speaking is to practise different ways to talk about the future. This is because the examiner listens for the way you vary you grammar, not just if you make mistakes. This is a skill you need mostly in part 1 and 3 parts of the speaking test.
Step one – recognise the future question
The first step is to listen the question and realise what language you need to use. See these examples:
“What are your plans for the future”
“How do you think treading habits will change”
If you hear a question like this, you want to think FUTURE. You also want to think of using different futures.
Step two – use some basic variations – don’t “will” “will” “will”
English
has many different ways to talk about the future. These are the most
basic ones you must be able to use “will” “going to” and the present
continuous form:
“I’ll go to university next” – perhaps you haven’t thought about it much
“I’m going to university next year” – this is fixed – you already have your place
“I’m going to go university next year” – this is what you plan to do
Step three – use more words
In fact, there are loads of more ways of talking about the future. It’s not all about verbs and tenses, see these examples:
plans
“My ambition is to go university next year”
“I intend to go to university next year/ My intention is to go university”
“My plan is to go university next year/I plan to go university next year”
“I‘d like to go to university next year”
predictions
Here
you may use “will” or “going to”. Typically, we use going to when we
have more evidence that something will happen. You can also at the same
time add in other future words:
“I expect more and more people will only read on the internet.”
“It’s quite likely/The likelihood is that old-fashioned books will disappear”
“The internet is bound to change reading habits.”
“My prediction is that fewer people will read books”
probability
This
is a connected idea. Here you should ask yourself the question whether
something will happen or whether it only may happen. I’d also suggest
that if you use “may”, “might” or “could” , you will find that you have
more to talk about – i.e. may not or might not.
People may only read on the internet
It’s possible/There’s a possibility that old-fashioned books will disappear
The internet will probably change reading habits/ It’s quite probable that ….
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