In the speaking test, you can use conversational (less formal) phrases that you wouldn't use in the writing test. Here are some examples from yesterday's lesson:
- leave something until the last minute
- work flat out (meaning: work hard without stopping)
- get something finished
- get something done
- one in particular that I really struggled with
- put something off (meaning: avoid doing it)
- in the end
- have mixed feelings about
- get started on something
- to go through it again (meaning: to do or experience something again)
I also used some good words and phrases that would be suitable for both speaking and writing (i.e. this vocabulary is not informal):
- procrastinating
- producing a final draft
- complete the final draft
- the pressure of such a close deadline
- manage the task in an efficient way
- I limited myself to just ten research sources
- summarise and synthesise
- I was relieved and quite impressed with myself
The vocabulary in the two lists above might not seem 'difficult', but it's the kind of natural "native-speaker" language that will impress the examiner. That's why I gave the answer a band 9.
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