Should countries have more public holidays?
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
Should countries have more public holidays?
no preparation, about 1 minute to speak
A band 7 to 8 answer
About 117 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.I would say yes, with one important qualification. The value of a public holiday is that it is simultaneous. Everybody stops, so nobody is checking messages from somebody who did not, and that is a completely different quality of rest from an individual day off. Adding more of those seems clearly good for most people. The qualification is that a public holiday is not a holiday for everybody. Transport, hospitals, and increasingly retail all work harder on those days, and adding more without addressing that simply transfers leisure from one group to another. So I would support it, provided the people who keep everything running are genuinely compensated rather than told it is part of the job.
The words that earn marks
Each one links to how it is pronounced.
- qualification
five syllables with the stress on the fourth
- simultaneous
five syllables with the stress on the third
- leisure
the precise noun, with a voiced medial consonant
- transfers
the verb, stressed on the second syllable
- compensated
four syllables with the stress on the first
- retail
the sector noun, stressed on the first syllable
- addressing
three syllables with the stress on the second
How a strong answer is built
- 1Answer with a flagged qualification.
- 2Explain what makes a public holiday different.
- 3State the qualification and who it concerns.
- 4Close by making your support conditional.
Sounds to watch
The ones this answer leans on most.
Straight answers
How long should my answer to “Should countries have more public holidays?” 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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