Unit 8, IELTS Speaking test model, part 2: Recording script
(CD 1, Track 22)
The Examiner will introduce part 2 by saying:
Examiner: Now, I’m going to give you a topic and I’d like you to talk
about it for one to two minutes. Before you talk, you’ll have one
minute to think about what you’re going to say. You can make some
notes if you wish. Do you understand?
Candidate: Yes, I do.
Then the Examiner will give you some paper and a pencil for making
notes, and read the topic to you.
Examiner: I’d like you to describe a minor accident that you had in
the past.
After your one minute preparation time, you will give your talk.
Candidate: When I was about seven, I was very ill after school and I
was sent home from school and I was lying on the sofa feeling sorry
for myself, watching TV, and I got bored and decided to go and ask my
mum if she could go and find a game for me or a book or something
else to do, and when I went into the kitchen, my mother was cooking.
And so, as I sort of went behind her, I had no shoes on and she didn’t
hear me coming, and she was making boiled potatoes, and as I got
behind her she turned around with the boiled potatoes in the
saucepan to take them to the sink and I was right behind her, so she
hit me round the head with the saucepan of boiling water and it all
spilled down onto my shoulder and splattered my face and went all
over my shoulder and burnt me. But because she didn’t let go of the
saucepan, she still had it in her hand, she didn’t realise that I was
crying because I was burnt, she thought I was crying because she’d
hit me and bumped my head, so she didn’t respond quickly enough,
which made the whole thing worse. At the time, my dad was a
plumber and of course that was before mobile phones were invented,
so dad was out at work and mum didn’t drive, so I had to wait about
seven hours on the sofa with a dressing on my shoulder for my dad to
come home from work so that he could take me to hospital. My poor
mum, bless her heart, must have been very worried and not known
what to do, with not being able to drive, but I guess there wasn’t
anything else she could do, she did as much as she could, bathed it in
cold water, put a dry dressing on…
Examiner: Thank you. Now, we’ve been talking about…
(CD 1, Track 22)
The Examiner will introduce part 2 by saying:
Examiner: Now, I’m going to give you a topic and I’d like you to talk
about it for one to two minutes. Before you talk, you’ll have one
minute to think about what you’re going to say. You can make some
notes if you wish. Do you understand?
Candidate: Yes, I do.
Then the Examiner will give you some paper and a pencil for making
notes, and read the topic to you.
Examiner: I’d like you to describe a minor accident that you had in
the past.
After your one minute preparation time, you will give your talk.
Candidate: When I was about seven, I was very ill after school and I
was sent home from school and I was lying on the sofa feeling sorry
for myself, watching TV, and I got bored and decided to go and ask my
mum if she could go and find a game for me or a book or something
else to do, and when I went into the kitchen, my mother was cooking.
And so, as I sort of went behind her, I had no shoes on and she didn’t
hear me coming, and she was making boiled potatoes, and as I got
behind her she turned around with the boiled potatoes in the
saucepan to take them to the sink and I was right behind her, so she
hit me round the head with the saucepan of boiling water and it all
spilled down onto my shoulder and splattered my face and went all
over my shoulder and burnt me. But because she didn’t let go of the
saucepan, she still had it in her hand, she didn’t realise that I was
crying because I was burnt, she thought I was crying because she’d
hit me and bumped my head, so she didn’t respond quickly enough,
which made the whole thing worse. At the time, my dad was a
plumber and of course that was before mobile phones were invented,
so dad was out at work and mum didn’t drive, so I had to wait about
seven hours on the sofa with a dressing on my shoulder for my dad to
come home from work so that he could take me to hospital. My poor
mum, bless her heart, must have been very worried and not known
what to do, with not being able to drive, but I guess there wasn’t
anything else she could do, she did as much as she could, bathed it in
cold water, put a dry dressing on…
Examiner: Thank you. Now, we’ve been talking about…
