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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