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
SENTENCE microphone and speak or type the answer in the
box. You should listen to the sentence only once.

PRACTICE
DESCRIBE You do the PTE Academic speaking test at a
computer which records your answers. You are
AN IMAGE given an image or other information to look at
and then describe.
 MODEL
The table ANSWER
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 3 p.m. and concludes
at 4 p.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 by car, while a small
number of the respondents, 10%,
traveled by both train and car.
The picture illustrates the stages in the
life of MODEL
the salmon, from birth to
ANSWER
maturity.Salmon begin their lives in
rivers where the adult fish lay and
incubate 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.
Following the estuary rearing period,
the maturing salmon migrate to the
ocean, where they eventually become
fully grown adults. Finally, the adult fish
travel back upstream to spawning
areas of rivers; here they reproduce
and lay their eggs, and the life cycle
begins anew.
The line graph compares three companies in terms of
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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.
The picture illustrates the process of coffee
manufacture MODEL ANSWER
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 beans are then dried, roasted, and
cooled before being put 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 packed into
coffee jars for delivery to shops.
 RE-TELL You do the PTE Academic speaking test at a
computer which records your answers. You are
A LECTURE given an image or other information to look at
and then describe.

PRACTICE
 ANSWER You will hear a question. Please give a simple

SHORT and short answer. Often just one or a few

words is enough. Click on the microphone and
speak or type the answer in the box. You
QUESTIONS should listen to the question only once.

PRACTICE 1
PRACTICE 2