How do older people adapt to new technology?
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
How do older people adapt to new technology?
no preparation, about 1 minute to speak
A band 7 to 8 answer
About 129 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.Better than they are given credit for, when there is a reason. My grandmother learned video calling in about a week because her sister lives abroad, having refused a computer for a decade. The motivation was the whole difference. Where older people genuinely struggle is with interfaces that assume conventions they never learned, and those conventions are invisible to anybody under forty. Knowing that three lines mean a menu is not intuitive, it is learned, and nobody teaches it. What I would say makes it worse is the pace of change. A device that works is updated and the buttons move, and every update spends some of the confidence it took months to build. The problem is mostly design, and it is treated as a problem with the person.
The words that earn marks
Each one links to how it is pronounced.
- credit
used in the idiom given credit for
- motivation
four syllables with the stress on the third
- interfaces
four syllables with the stress on the first
- conventions
three syllables with the stress on the second
- intuitive
four syllables with the stress on the second
- updated
three syllables with the stress on the second
- confidence
three syllables with the stress on the first
How a strong answer is built
- 1Defend the group and give an example.
- 2Identify what the real difficulty is.
- 3Explain why it is invisible to younger people.
- 4Name the aggravating factor and relocate the blame.
Sounds to watch
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Straight answers
How long should my answer to “How do older people adapt to new technology?” 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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