Speaking: Take an Interview
Speaking: Take an Interview is part of the Speaking section of the TOEFL Essentials test. You get 4 questions. It is scored by the number of correct answers.
- Questions
- 4
- Prompts here
- 2 published
Build the vocabulary of a spoken interview — describing experience, giving reasons, comparing options and handling a follow-up question without losing fluency.
ETS assesses this task partly on varied vocabulary alongside accurate grammar and intelligible delivery. Having two ways to say the same thing is what keeps a long answer from repeating itself.
“Thanks for joining me. I'm doing some research on where students choose to study, and I'd like to ask you a few questions.”
1First, do you usually study at home, or somewhere else?
45 seconds to answer
2What is it about that place that helps you concentrate?
45 seconds to answer
3Some universities are replacing quiet libraries with open group-study areas. What do you think of that change?
45 seconds to answer
4If your university could build just one new space for students, what should it be, and how would you convince the administration to pay for it?
45 seconds to answer
Now do it yourself and find out where you land
A model answer shows you the target. It cannot tell you whether your own response hits it — that is a CLB level for each criterion, with the sentences that earned it.
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Create your free account →- What is scored in the interview task?
- ETS describes it as assessing varied vocabulary with accurate grammar and intelligible prosody in an academic and navigational context, on the 1 to 6 band scale.
- How long are the answers?
- Long enough that repetition shows. The synonyms and paraphrase phrases below are what let you extend an answer without circling the same words.
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