Do weddings cost too much in your country?
A strong Part 3 answer takes a position in the first clause, supports it with one reason and one concrete case, and then names where it stops being true. Around a minute.
The question, as the examiner gives it
Do weddings cost too much in your country?
no preparation, about 1 minute to speak
A band 7 to 8 answer
About 125 words at a natural pace — roughly what 60 seconds holds.
Answer it yourself first
Record your own answer first. A model you have read three times comes out with a flattened rhythm, and examiners are trained to hear exactly that. Read it afterwards for the vocabulary and the shape, not to memorise the sentences.By almost any measure, yes. A great many families spend a sum equivalent to several years of income on a single event, and a proportion of that is borrowed, which means a marriage starts with a debt. What makes it difficult to solve is that nobody is choosing it freely. The scale is set by what other families have done, and reducing it looks like a public statement about your means, so people who would privately prefer something small go ahead anyway. I do not think this is vanity so much as social pressure, which is a more sympathetic explanation and a harder problem. The only way it shifts, realistically, is if enough visible families do something modest that it stops being readable as failure.
The words that earn marks
Each one links to how it is pronounced.
- equivalent
four syllables with the stress on the second
- borrowed
past participle with an audible ending
- proportion
three syllables with the stress on the second
- means
the financial sense of the noun
- vanity
the explanation the answer rejects
- sympathetic
four syllables with the stress on the third
- readable
used figuratively about a social signal
How a strong answer is built
- 1Answer decisively with a measure.
- 2Explain why individuals cannot simply opt out.
- 3Reframe the cause more generously.
- 4Say what would actually change it.
Sounds to watch
The ones this answer leans on most.
Straight answers
How long should my answer to “Do weddings cost too much in your country?” be?
About 60 seconds. Long enough for the answer plus a reason or an example, short enough that the examiner can get through the rest of the set.
Should I memorise the model answer?
No. Record your own version first, then read the model for the shape and the vocabulary. A memorised answer changes rhythm and pace noticeably, and examiners are trained to hear it — it usually costs more than the better wording gains.
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