How does noise affect people's health?
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 does noise affect people's health?
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.More than people assume, and the effect that matters is not hearing damage, it is sleep. Traffic noise at night fragments sleep even when it does not wake you, and there is reasonably good evidence linking chronic exposure to blood pressure and heart problems. Because nobody remembers the waking, it is invisible to the person experiencing it. There is also a concentration cost during the day, which anybody who has worked near building work can confirm. What makes it a difficult policy problem is that noise is unevenly distributed and correlates with income. The cheapest housing is beside the main road, so the health effect lands on the people already least able to absorb it, and it almost never appears in the argument about housing.
The words that earn marks
Each one links to how it is pronounced.
- fragments
the verb use, meaning to break into pieces
- chronic
the precise medical adjective for long-term
- exposure
three syllables with the stress on the second
- concentration
four syllables with the stress on the third
- unevenly
four syllables with the stress on the second
- correlates
a precise verb for a statistical relationship
- absorb
used of bearing a cost, which lifts the register
How a strong answer is built
- 1Name the effect that actually matters.
- 2Explain the mechanism and why it is unnoticed.
- 3Add a second, daytime effect.
- 4Close with the distributional point.
Sounds to watch
The ones this answer leans on most.
Straight answers
How long should my answer to “How does noise affect people's health?” 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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