How to talk for 2 minutes Students often ask whether it's necessary to speak for the full 2 minutes in part
2 of the speaking test. The instruction is: speak for between 1 and 2 minutes,
so it's not strictly necessary to speak for the full 2 minutes. However, the best
advice is that you should try to keep speaking until the examiner stops you.
Here are some tips to help you keep talking:
1. Go through the bullet points on the task card in order.
2. Try to develop each point, even easy ones. For example, if the first bullet
point for the topic "describe a person" is "who is it?", don't just say "I'm
going to describe my father". Add more information, such as your
father's name, age, what he looks like, where he is now, how often you
speak to him...
3. Give examples and tell stories.
