Oral
If you don't understand what you are meant to do, ask the examiner to explain: Could you repeat the question, please? I'm sorry, could you explain the meaning of the word .... ? Could you please ask the question in another way? If you need time to think about something, try to keep speaking rather than remain silent.You could say things such as: Please give me a moment while I think about the answer Let me see ... what do these photographs show? Shall we start by describing what we see in the pictures? What is your opinion? That's all I can think of at the moment Giving your opinion In my opinion, ... For me, ... I think that ...
Common mistakes
Wrong	Right
I've been in Scotland for one and a half month / one month half	I've been in Scotland for one and a half months One and a half is more than one, so the noun ("month") must be plural ("months")
I like UK very much	I like the UK very much
Almost of the people in my class are Japanese	Almost all of the people in my class are Japanese / Nearly all of the people in my class are Japanese / Almost everybody in my class is Japanese / Most of the people in my class are Japanese
I'm scary If you say "I'm scary" it means that you make other people afraid of you (like a monster or a ghost).	I'm scared
I don't like my teacher Me too	I don't like my teacher Me neither / I don't like mine either If a person makes a negative statement - where the main verb is made negative using "not" - and you agree with what has been said, you should say "Me neither".
I dislike my teacher Me neither	I dislike my teacher Me too / I dislike mine too Even though the statement in this second example expresses the same idea as in the first example, the main verb has not been made negative using "not".
Don't you like your teacher? / You don't like your teacher, do you? Yes	Don't you like your teacher? / You don't like your teacher, do you? No / No, I don't If someone asks you a question in which the main verb has been made negative using "not", you should answer "no" if you agree with the statement form of the question
British food is very delicious	British food is delicious You cannot use "very" together with an adjective which already has the idea of being "very" something. Examples of these kinds of adjectives are: "delicious" means "very tasty", enormous means "very big", "lovely" means "very nice", "great" means "very good".
I'll see you next next week	I'll see you the week after next