Listen and Repeat

You hear a sentence and say it back. It belongs to Speaking and it is scored on what you say.
You are heard on pronunciation, stress and whether you reproduce the whole sentence.
You are not inventing anything. The whole skill is holding a sentence long enough to say it.

Say it at a normal speed

Slowing down to be careful breaks the rhythm, and rhythm is part of what is judged.
If you miss a word, keep going and finish. A complete sentence with one wrong word beats half a perfect one.
Do not stop and restart. A restart costs you more than the word did.

Practice

You miss one word halfway through the sentence. What should you do?

Practice

Saying it back slowly and carefully is the safest approach.

PHOtograph, phoTOgrapher, photoGRAPHic — the vowels change with the stress, and listeners track stress first.
Getting a single consonant slightly wrong rarely stops understanding. Getting the stress wrong often does.
Learn stress with the word, from the first time you meet it.

Practice

Which matters more to a listener trying to understand you?

Final consonants: cost, asked, fifths. Chinese syllables rarely end this way, so they get dropped.
/θ/ and /ð/: think, this. Practise them slowly, then at speed.
/l/ and /n/, and /r/. A few minutes a day for a month changes how easily you are understood.

Practice

Which sound is most often dropped by Chinese speakers of English?

Take any recording, play one sentence, say it back, lengthen the sentences as you improve.
Record yourself and listen back. It is uncomfortable and it is the fastest feedback available.
Format facts checked on the ETS website on 13 September 2026.