Chapter 3 of 66 min
Fluency under time
Fluency is speaking smoothly without long searches for words. Timed speaking pushes you to use what you know rather than waiting for perfect sentences.
Key ideas
- Fluency and accuracy are trained separately, then combined.
- Repeating the same talk with less time builds automaticity.
- Paraphrasing around missing words keeps you speaking.
Step by step
- 1
Choose a familiar topic and speak about it for three minutes.
- 2
Repeat the same content in two minutes.
- 3
Repeat again in ninety seconds.
- 4
When a word is missing, describe it instead of stopping.
Example
A learner describes her job three times in shrinking time slots. By the third round she speaks without pauses and uses phrases that came slowly at first.
Your drill
Do the 3-2-1.5 minute exercise on a topic from your work and record the final round.
Common mistakes
- Stopping to correct every small error mid-sentence.
- Only practising topics you already speak about easily.
Check yourself
What should you do when you do not know a word while speaking?
Show the answer
Paraphrase or describe it and keep going rather than stopping.
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