IELTS Speaking Part 1: Concentration
The question
Is it easy for you to concentrate?
What distracts you most?
How to answer it
Answer with conditions, not character: where you concentrate well, what time of day, what breaks it. Naming the distraction concretely — notifications, a flatmate's TV, background chatter in a café — is worth more than saying you are easily distracted.
What moves the band
- Focus lexis: get in the zone, lose my train of thought, tune it out, in short bursts.
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Know the number. Now move it.
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