Speaking Part 1: Interview: Question 9
Syllabus S.part1
Let's talk about weather and seasons.
- What's your favourite season of the year?
- What's the weather usually like where you live?
- Do you change your daily routine depending on the weather?
- Is there a type of weather you really dislike?
Show worked solution Hide worked solution
Worked solution
Examiner notes
Fluency & Coherence
Every answer opens with a direct response and moves smoothly into a reason using natural spoken connectors (“mainly because”, “to be honest”, “even though”), avoiding the choppy, disconnected sentences that limit coherence at lower bands. Question 3 shows two concrete, contrasting examples (rain versus sun) rather than one vague general statement.
Lexical Resource
Weather vocabulary is varied and precise rather than repetitive: “mild”, “humid”, “heavily”, “strong wind”, replacing the generic “hot”/“cold” pairing that band 6 answers tend to rely on. The idiom “can’t stand” is used accurately and naturally for strong dislike.
Grammatical Range & Accuracy
A real conditional is handled accurately and naturally in spoken form (“if it’s raining heavily I’ll usually take the bus”), alongside a comparative structure (“not too hot, not too cold”) and a concessive clause (“even though it takes longer”). Verb forms stay accurate throughout despite the range of structures attempted.
Common pitfalls specific to this task
See commonMistakes above: the most frequent band 6 error on this topic is naming a season or weather type with no reason attached, and confusing “weather” with “climate” when describing general conditions.