Hello and welcome! I'm so excited to get started on this Um you're here because you

want some more information about our Confident Cue Cards workshop -Brand new, coming up very

soon. So if you don't know me I'm Jo from Sisters Speaking English and I'm an English language teacher from

New Zealand. So let me tell you a little bit about why I wanted

to create this workshop, So you will probably know there's a lot of information out there on

the internet, about how to structure your IELTS writing- there's all these lovely things everywhere about how to

how to create...how to write your introduction, how to structure your body paragraphs, the different types

of essays and how you should structure the answers to those different essays- but there's not so much about

the IELTS speaking, particularly the cue card section. So the cue card section, as I'm sure most

of you know, ...in that section you are given a card a topic card with your topic and some

suggestions for some details you should include. You have one minute to prepare- only one minute, and then you

have to speak for two minutes -TWO minutes, we'll talk more about that later. So you have to speak for

two minutes on that given topic. A lot of my students really struggle with it. They run

out of things to say, they're not quite sure how to structure their ideas and link their ideas together well

and they feel quite lost and worried about that cue card section. So I thought it would

be really good to create a workshop where we can focus on that and really

help you to know how to structure your answers, get your ideas together and speak confidently for

those two minutes because those two minutes are gonna go pretty quickly! Okay so what we'll be covering in

the workshop- we're going to look at the different types of IELTS cue cards. There are different

question types-so for example you might have to describe the past experience, you might need to talk about

a person, you might need to talk about a place that you have been to

... or describe an object There are there are a range of different types of cue

cards and we'll be looking at each of those. I'm going to provide you with

a template so that you can- a template for each question type so that you can

structure your answers quickly. You can identify which type of Q card you you need to

um to speak about, identify the cue card type and then quickly plan a nicely structured answer. So you're

not gonna run out of things to say and you will know how to link

your ideas together well. So it's going to be really.. I'm so excited to get started. I think it's

gonna really help. I really do. And the class will be it'll be a two hour workshop we

will be there in zoom and we will have some parts of that class where I will get you

to go to break out rooms to work with a small group to help get your

ideas together. So it will be an interactive workshop. There will be some teaching from

me and some opportunities for you to practice um some of those activities together as well... I will include

some bonuses, including a question and answer session um and a few extra goodies as

well. So keep an eye out I'll let you know more about this And more

about that this week um as we lead up to the workshop so our first workshop is going

to be held on April the 30th um which is Saturday coming up LESS THAN one week one week away!!!

So I will run the workshop at two at least two different times during the

day so that hopefully there will be a time that is suitable for you Um I am very aware that

we are all in different countries and sometimes the time zones can be a little bit difficult to manage but

I will give some different options and if you are interested please do fill in I'll be sending

out of form um once you've added your email um to the sign up list I

will be sending out a form that will be asking some questions like for example

the best time of day the most suitable time that you will be available to attend the

workshop So really excited to have you here do um sign up in the link below There's a

link down there where you can add your email address Sign up for your emails that is specific

to the confident cue cards workshop that's coming up Um really excited to get started So um I

look forward to seeing you here. Do send me a message or an email If you have

any questions or comments on this I'm excited to get started We'll see you soon!