Has your phone changed the way you take photos?
A strong Part 1 answer puts the actual answer in the first clause, adds one reason or one example, and stops. Two or three sentences, roughly forty seconds.
The question, as the examiner gives it
Has your phone changed the way you take photos?
no preparation, about 45 seconds to speak
A band 7 to 8 answer
About 70 words at a natural pace — roughly what 45 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.Enormously, and mostly in quantity rather than quality. With film you had thirty-six chances and you thought before each one, whereas now I take eleven versions of the same thing and choose later, which sounds efficient and means I never really look through the lens. The one genuine gain is that the camera is always there, so I have photographs of ordinary days I would never have bothered to record.
The words that earn marks
Each one links to how it is pronounced.
How a strong answer is built
- 1Answer the degree and name the axis of change.
- 2Contrast the old way with the new.
- 3Concede what is lost in the new way.
- 4Name the real gain to close.
Sounds to watch
The ones this answer leans on most.
Straight answers
How long should my answer to “Has your phone changed the way you take photos?” be?
About 45 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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