⚜@IELTS Speaking 9⚜ IELTS Speaking How to improve your IEL
Chapter Seven: Determining and analyzing key words What are keywords, and how important are they in getting your desired band score in IELTS Speaking? The ability to identify keywords is always stressed, and its importance is valued
by many who have taken the IELTS examination and those who coach IELTS
takers. Keywords are verbs, adjectives, nouns, and other parts of speech that
carry the meaning of a sentence. Since the questions in IELTS Speaking are read
by the examiner, you have to listen carefully to the whole question and its
meaning, not to the individual words, and focus on the meaning, not on the
words.
Identifying keywords from the questions can help you frame and give a relevant
answer. In other words, keywords guide you to giving the exact answer. The
right answer is crucial in IELTS Speaking because this contains your ideas
expressed using ideas and various sentence structures. There is no point in using
less common words and complex sentence structures when your answer does not
actually give what a question asks for.
A wrong answer means not answering the question at all, thus affecting your
band score. Even if there is an attempt at expressing ideas, as these ideas are not
right, then you might be marked low in each of the four criteria still.
