Band 5.5Building

Speaking Part 2: A holiday place (Band 5.5 version)

Speaking Part 2 134 words 1 min read

Question

Describe a place you visited on holiday. You should say: where it was, who you went with, what you did there, and explain why you remember it.

What a band 5.5 answer sounds like

I want to talk about a place I visited on holiday. It is Da Nang in Vietnam. I went there last summer with my family, my mother, my father and my little brother.

Da Nang is a city near the sea. It have a very beautiful beach. We stay in a hotel near the beach for four days. Every day we go to the beach and swim. Also we eat seafood, it was very delicious. One day we go to the Golden Bridge. It is a bridge with big hands. Is very famous and many people take photo there.

I remember this place because I was very happy. The weather was good and the food was good. My family also happy. It is a good holiday. I want to go again in the future.

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Why this scores 5.5

One note for each marking criterion.

Fluency and coherence: Covers all four prompts, but sentences are short and joined with 'and' and 'also'. Ideas are not extended, so the answer would be shorter than two minutes.
Lexical resource: Basic vocabulary ('very beautiful', 'very delicious', 'good' three times). Few descriptive words.
Grammatical range and accuracy: Tense is inconsistent (go/went, stay/stayed), with missing words ('Is very famous', 'My family also happy'). Complex sentences are rare.
Pronunciation: Not assessable from text.
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