are there any words or sounds that thay have difficulty uderstanding

record yourself and listen back

Choose a recording from a listening and play it at low volume

Read alound and a script and try to keeo the same time and intonation patterns as the speaker on the recording

Decide which areas you need to improve upon

Stress in English can fall out on almost any syllable of a word

Word stress greatly affects comprehensibility

Words which are usually unstressed in the middle of a sentence of a phrase are FUNCTION words

English speech is "connected"

English is a continupus stream of sounds, without clear-cut stoppages between work

English is stress-timed, so in order to have rhythm we "swallow" non-essential works

Conjunctions, pronuous, prepositions, auxiliaries and articles are often lost

Example

Should use simple and natural phrases to help the examiner follow your ideas

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About how we say things, rather than what we say

Without intonation, it's impossible to understand the expresions and thoughts that go with words

Helps us say the same thing with different meanig

Groups of words that often go together

Uses a range of pronuciation features with mixed control

Shows some effective use of features, but it's not sustained

Can generally understood throughout

Though mispronunciation of individual words

Sounds reduces clarity at times

Shows all the positive features of Band 6

some features of Band 8 but not all

Uses a wide range of pronunciation features

Sustais flexible use of features with only occasional lapses

easy to understand throughout

L1 accent has minimal effect on intelligibility

Uses a full range of pronunciation features with precision and subtlety

Sustain flexible use of features throughout

easy to understand