Fluency and coherence
Pause less, fix slips without stalling, link ideas like a speaker and organise longer answers clearly, with drills to practise out loud and a way to audit your own recordings.
60 min
Modulo 5 · Lezione 5 di 8
In questa lezione
- Understand what the examiner listens for under Fluency and Coherence, and why fluency is not the same as speed.
- Reduce long pauses by knowing why they happen and using rescue phrases to keep going.
- Use natural fillers and quick self-corrections, and avoid the repetition and restarts that break your flow.
- Link ideas with spoken discourse markers and organise longer answers so they are easy to follow.
- Practise with one-minute talks, linking drills and a self-review audit of your own recordings.
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Dentro questa lezione
- What the criterion actually means
- Fluency is not speed
- Why you pause, and how to pause less
- Fillers: what helps and what hurts
- Self-correction, yes; repetition and restarts, no
- Discourse markers that sound like speech
- Organising a longer answer: signal, step, land
- Drills that build fluency
- Listen back like an examiner: your fluency audit