My Speaking Test Last Saturday I had my speaking test at the University where I am studying English. Although I know my teacher wants us to use the most of the vocabulary we've seen through the course, I disagree with his method. Let me explain: In this level we had a review of the next topics: conditionals (all of them), passive voice, expressions with "be used/get used" and expressions of purpose (so that, in order to, so as to.... ) I remark that it was a review because we'd studied them before, so, in this level everything was about to put them into practice. So, he told us we need to write down a little speech about a specific topic (using what we had seen in class before) and then just repeat what we had written. I know my English is not great yet, and I'm doing my best to improve it since I want to take the IELTS soon; but I am referring specifically to this method: to write something down, memorize it and then repeat it up. I don't know if I could say it is effective, what do you think?