This is to give you practice using conjunctions - linking words - during the interview stage (Part 1) of the Speaking Test.

Linking your ideas

Read this candidate’s ideas and try to see how they are linked together to form a cohesive (clear and logical) answer to the examiner’s question. With your partner, practice reading out the answer so that it sounds natural.

Question:

Do you have any brothers or sisters?

Information to be included in answer:

  • I have one sister.
  • My sister is studying business management.
  • My sister is younger than me.
  • My sister is at college.

Answer:

I have a younger sister who is studying business management at college.

  • a younger sister is a noun phrase which packages up information about the sister
  • who introduces a relative clause which modifies the noun phrase: it refers back to the sister, and announces that more information about the sister is coming.
  • at college is a prepositional phrase which gives more information about the location of the sister’s studies.

Exercise

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