Practise saying “I don’t know” 練習說“I don’t know”

Another reason why some candidates go wrong in the exam is that they feel they have to give a complete answer to very question and they think of IELTS as some academic test. It isn’t. It’s simply a test of your language. In parts 1 and 3, you may well be asked questions that you have very little to say about. That’s not a problem, there’s always another question coming. The big mistake is to try and give a full answer when you have nothing to say. What happens is that your language becomes confused and so do you, with the result that things get and worse and worse.

很多考生誤以為雅思是學術測試。恰恰相反，這只是語言測試而已，第一和第三部分你可能被問到說不了什么的問題，有什么關系？之后還有問題。千萬別在你沒話可說的情況下試圖整出和完整答案，弄糊涂了考官會讓你萬劫不復。

All you need to do is say you don’t know and explain why and then wait for the next question. This may take a little practice. You want to build a set of phrases such as:

其實你也沒必要說你不知道然后解釋理由，你可以模仿下面的例子：

Q. What colour is your favourite room and why did you choose that colour?

A. I’m not sure what to say about that. It’s not a question I’ve ever thought about before. I suppose yellow is just my favourite colour and so I painted my room yellow?

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