The main reason is ___.
Speaking Part 1: Follow-Ups
Extend an answer when a follow-up changes the focus, while avoiding memorised fillers and keeping the new information connected to the question.
Your goal
By the end of this lesson, you can extend an answer naturally without memorized filler.
Progress focus: PROFCMFP
Engduo Audio: Licensed voices prepared for this lesson. Audio never starts automatically. Use the transcript after the first listening attempt.
1. Look, listen, and notice
Use the visual and model audio to understand the situation, viewpoint, or communication problem before studying the language.
- follow-up focus
- new information
- connection
- natural response
Engduo Audio • Indian English
Transcript — open after listening
I started using the park last year. The main reason was that I needed a quiet place to walk after work.
Engduo Audio • British English
Transcript — open after listening
That has changed because the area is busier now. I still go there, but I choose an earlier time.
How to run Stage 1
Confirm the observable outcome and connect it to one realistic learner need.
2. Build useful language
Choose the phrases that help you complete the task; do not memorise a full script.
That has changed because ___.
A good example would be ___.
On the other hand, ___.
I haven’t considered that before, but ___.
If I had the choice, ___.
How to run Stage 2
Use the visual and first audio or text for meaning before explaining language.
3. Rehearse with support
Practise the decisions, evidence, listening, or language moves that make the final task successful.
- Identify the new focus in twelve follow-up questions.
- Replace empty fillers with a brief thinking phrase and a real idea.
- Build answer chains in which each response adds rather than repeats.
How to run Stage 3
Select only the useful-language items needed for this learner and this task.
4. Complete the communication task
Exchange information, solve a problem, create a text, or reach a decision with a real outcome.
Use three original question trees. One learner answers; the teacher selects a reason, change, comparison, or imagined-choice follow-up based on the previous response.
How to run Stage 4
Run the supported rehearsal without reading every instruction aloud.
5. Perform, receive feedback, and retry
Complete the task with keywords only, receive focused feedback, and repeat the weakest part.
Complete three four-question Part 1-style chains, adding new information in every response and using no repeated memorised opening.
Retry: Repeat once with clearer meaning, stronger evidence, more accurate listening, or less support.
How to run Stage 5
Run the main task: Use three original question trees. One learner answers; the teacher selects a reason, change, comparison, or imagined-choice follow-up based on the previous response.
Exit check
Complete this without reading a model: Respond to one unexpected follow-up with a connected reason and example.
Success looks like: The listener can hear how each follow-up changes the answer and no response simply repeats earlier content.
Evidence: speaking · Repeat the weakest part once after one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most.
PROF · Professional Communication
2: Presents relevant professional evidence with an appropriate tone.
1: Demonstrates the skill after one focused prompt, correction or self-repair.
0: Cannot yet demonstrate the skill clearly enough to complete the stated outcome.
CM · Communication Management
2: Organises ideas, turns, clarification and response coherently.
1: Demonstrates the skill after one focused prompt, correction or self-repair.
0: Cannot yet demonstrate the skill clearly enough to complete the stated outcome.
FP · Functional Performance
2: Completes the real communication outcome independently.
1: Demonstrates the skill after one focused prompt, correction or self-repair.
0: Cannot yet demonstrate the skill clearly enough to complete the stated outcome.
Use these scores after the independent attempt. Record one recurring need in the Engduo app when lesson-result fields become available.
How to run Stage 6
Record focused evidence, give one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most, repeat the weakest part, and complete the exit check.
คำอธิบายภาษาไทย — เปิดเมื่อจำเป็นเท่านั้น
คำถามต่อเนื่องต้องเพิ่มข้อมูลใหม่ ให้ฟังคำที่เปลี่ยนจุดสนใจ เช่น why, how has it changed, compared with, would แล้วตอบให้ตรง
Teacher guide
30-minute must-do route
- Confirm the observable outcome and connect it to one realistic learner need.
- Use the visual and first audio or text for meaning before explaining language.
- Select only the useful-language items needed for this learner and this task.
- Run the supported rehearsal without reading every instruction aloud.
- Run the main task: Use three original question trees. One learner answers; the teacher selects a reason, change, comparison, or imagined-choice follow-up based on the previous response.
- Record focused evidence, give one meaning-focused and one language-focused correction at most, repeat the weakest part, and complete the exit check.
60-minute extension
- Give two valid answers with different stances to the same follow-up.
- Change the role, information, listener, or constraint so the learner transfers the skill rather than repeating the same answer.
- Compare the first and second performance and record one specific improvement.
Make it easier
Highlight the follow-up word and choose one of four development moves.
Make it harder
Give two valid answers with different stances to the same follow-up.
Likely difficulty
The learner may repeat the first answer or rely on the same filler before every response.
Correction priority
Prioritise the changed question focus and one connected new idea.
Thai support rule
Keep the Thai panel closed unless examples, visuals, replay, reformulation, and simpler English do not allow progress. Explain only the key distinction, then return to English.
Progress record
Score PROF, CM, FP from 0–2 and record one recurring need from: question-focus, answer-extension, flexibility.
Retry
Give one meaning-focused correction and one language-focused correction at most, then ask for a second attempt with fewer visible prompts.
Continue your learning path
- Council of Europe — CEFR Companion Volume — Supports action-oriented language learning through age- and level-appropriate interaction, descriptions, goal-oriented co-operation, written interaction, and observable communication outcomes.
- IELTS — Academic Speaking test format — Supports the three-part Speaking sequence and the official assessment areas of fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation.
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