SPEAKING PRACTICE

PTE
 Read aloud
A text appears on screen. Read the text aloud. reading
and speaking text up to 60 words
Repeat sentence
After listening to a recording of a sentence, repeat the
sentence

Describe image
An image appears on screen. Describe the image in
detail.
SPEAKING
Re-tell lecture
After listening to or watching a lecture, re-tell the
lecture in your own words.

Answer short question

After listening to a question, answer with a single word
or a few words.

READING ALOUD
Look at the text. In 40 seconds you must read this text
aloud as naturally and clearly possible.
Child language brokers are children or
young people who translate or interpret on
behalf of family members or others who do
not speak the local language. When
settling into a new country, children often
learn the local language more rapidly than
their parents and other adults. As a result
youngsters start taking on the role of
language broker in a number of different
contexts such as shops, banks, schools,
doctors, dentists, welfare offices, police
stations, housing offices among many
others.

READING ALOUD
Look at the text. In 40 seconds you must read this text
aloud as naturally and clearly possible.
The aim of our research was to explore
how moving home at a young age affected
the development of pre-school children.
There are many different reasons why
families choose to move home, some of
which are positive and some less so. Over
a period of ten years our research team
has investigated whether the conditions
surrounding moving home, or indeed the
fact of moving itself, contribute to childrens
development problems.

READING ALOUD
Look at the text. In 40 seconds you must read this text
aloud as naturally and clearly possible.
I am extremely grateful for the advice I got
which encouraged me to take my final year
project forward after university. I entered a
number of business start-up competitions
and was awarded the funding I needed to
set up my own business. It completely
changed my life. Although I had actually
had a graduate scheme lined up after
graduating, I decided to take the risk and
start my own company. Things took off
surprisingly quickly and I can honestly say
that I have never had any regrets about my
decision.

READING ALOUD
Look at the text. In 40 seconds you must read this text
aloud as naturally and clearly possible.
This year the National Environmental
Science Competition received excellent
undergraduate and postgraduate entries
from all across the country, with a wide
range of projects. We are delighted that our
awards are encouraging exciting and
valuable projects that go beyond research
and analysis to develop solutions for a
number of key problems. Information about
the shortlisted projects will be posted on
our website in the first week of June.

READING ALOUD
Look at the text. In 40 seconds you must read this text
aloud as naturally and clearly possible.
Our mission is to be a university that has a
global significance to be a leader in
higher education providing excellent
research and teaching, and contributing to
the most important issues and debates of
modern times. We are proud that this
university is increasingly having an impact
on practice and thinking worldwide.
REPEAT THE You will hear a sentence. Please repeat the sentence
exactly as you hear it. Click on the microphone and speak or
SENTENCE type the answer in the box. You should listen to the sentence
only once.

PRACTICE
DESCRIBE AN You do the PTE Academic speaking test at a
computer which records your answers. You are given
IMAGE an image or other information to look at and then
describe.
 MODEL ANSWER

The table shows a school timetable for

Monday in Semester I. Lectures start
at 9 a.m. and conclude at 4 p.m. The
first lecture is Introductory Statistics at
9 a.m. The next lecture is at 10 a.m.
Psychology I. Lunch is at 12 noon.
There is an English Literature tutorial
which lasts from 1 until 3 p.m. The last
lecture is Economics I, which starts at
3p.m.andconcludesat4p.m.
 MODEL ANSWER

This diagram shows how a selection of

100 second-year university students
traveled to university. 60 students said
that they traveled by train, 30 stated that
they traveled by car, while 10 students
stated that they traveled by both car and
train. One could conclude that most
respondents traveled to university by
train, a minority traveled only bycar, while
a small number of the respondents, 10%,
traveled bybothtrainandcar.
 MODEL ANSWER
The picture illustrates the stages in the life of the
salmon, from birth to maturity.Salmon begin their
livesinriverswheretheadultfishlayandincubate
their eggs. After emerging from eggs, the young
salmon spend the next stage of their lives being
reared in freshwater areas. Then, at some point in
their development, the fish swim downstream to
river estuaries where rearing continues.
Followingtheestuaryrearingperiod,thematuring
salmon migrate to the ocean, where they
eventually become fully grown adults. Finally, the
adultfishtravelbackupstreamtospawningareas
of rivers; here they reproduce and lay their eggs,
andthelifecyclebeginsanew.
 MODEL ANSWER
The line graph compares three companies in terms of their waste
output between the years 2000 and 2015. It is clear that there were
significant changes in the amounts of waste produced by all three
companies shown on the graph.

In 2000, company A produced 12 tonnes of waste, while

companies B and C produced around 8 tonnes and 4 tonnes of waste
material respectively. Over the following 5 years, the waste output of
companies B and C rose by around 2 tonnes, but the figure for
company A fell by approximately 1 tonne.

From 2005 to 2015, company A cut waste production by roughly 3

tonnes, and company B reduced its waste by around 7 tonnes. By
contrast, company C saw an increase in waste production of
approximately 4 tonnes over the same 10-year period. By 2015,
company Cs waste output had risen to 10 tonnes, while the
respective amounts of waste from companies A and B had dropped
to 8 tonnes and only 3 tonnes.
 MODEL ANSWER
The picture illustrates the process of coffee manufacture
and preparation for sale in the market. It is clear that there
are 11 stages in the production of coffee. The process
begins with the picking of coffee beans, and ends at the
packing stage. Looking at the coffee production process in
detail, coffee beans must first be picked in the fields. These
beansarethendried,roasted,andcooledbeforebeingput
in a grinding machine, which turns the beans into coffee
granules. At the sixth stage in the process, the ground
coffee is mixed with hot water, and the resulting mixture is
strained. Next, the mixture is frozen and then passed once
again through the grinder. After that, the ground, frozen
liquid is dried in a vacuum so that the water evaporates,
leaving the coffee granules. Finally, these granules are
packedintocoffeejarsfordeliverytoshops.
 RE-TELL You do the PTE Academic speaking test at a
computer which records your answers. You are given
A LECTURE an image or other information to look at and then
describe.

PRACTICE
 ANSWER You will hear a question. Please give a simple and
SHORT short answer. Often just one or a few words is enough.
Click on the microphone and speak or type the answer
QUESTIONS in the box. You should listen to the question only once.

PRACTICE 1
PRACTICE 2