How to Communicate Effectively

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The examiners are looking for one person to make a point. And the other person to show that they've listened and heard that point and understood it. These are all things that you should be able to do, because ultimately we should be using English to work together to achieve things. But anyway, let's keep pressing forwards here with this episode. Ultimately, communication is a means to an end. It's a tool for a job, just like my hammer. Although hopefully your communication is a bit more sophisticated than a hammer. Because if you communicate in the same way that a hammer works and it's just bang, bang, bang,. I want some bread, you know, I want a

How do we know when someone's English is good? Is it just about having a "British accent", knowing lots of big words, or speaking with no errors? In fact, there is a lot more to it than that. IELTS can show us how someone's level of English is assessed by looking at a wide range of skills and sub-skills and there is a lot more to it than making no errors while speaking with a "British accent". This episode should help you consider your own level of English level, get some perspective on what language competence really means, and hopefully cause people to think twice when making snap judgements about other people's English.

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