OET Speaking for Nurses

Role-plays scored on the real clinical-communication criteria

Turn clinical knowledge into patient-friendly English and hit Grade B in OET Speaking.

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8k learnersIntermediate 8 lessons · 80 min English + हिंदी support
Annie Thomas · The Clinical Mentor
+2 more tutors

What you’ll learn

  • Plan a role-play from the candidate card in three minutes with an opening, a structure and a closing
  • Open with a greeting, introduction and purpose, and build rapport in the first thirty seconds
  • Elicit a patient's concerns with open questions and show listening by reflecting back what they said
  • Explain a procedure or condition in plain language with signposting and no unexplained jargon
  • Check understanding, respond to refusal with respect, and manage an angry or anxious person calmly
  • Complete two full OET role-plays meeting the clinical-communication criteria at Grade B standard

This course is for

Indian nurses sitting OET for the UK, Australia, Ireland or NZ. OET Speaking is two five-minute role-plays with a patient or carer, scored on four linguistic and five clinical-communication criteria. Indian nurses know the clinical content and lose marks on communication. This course drills the real sub-test step by step:reading the card in three minutes, opening and rapport, eliciting concerns, explaining procedures in plain language, checking understanding and handling refusal, and difficult conversations with angry relatives and anxious patients. It ends with two full role-plays scored criterion by criterion. No drug doses are discussed.

Intermediate

level

You can hold a basic conversation but hesitate, translate in your head, or freeze under pressure. We fix that.

Course 6 of 9 in the English Exams track.

Inside every lesson

Ten minutes, five phases, one live tutor. Here is how lesson 1 — “Three Minutes With the Card: Plan Before You Speak” — runs.

  1. 1 min

    Warm-up & goal

    Tutor greets you and states today’s goal.

  2. 2 min

    Learn the patterns

    Learn 2–3 sentence patterns and repeat them aloud.

  3. 5 min

    Live roleplay

    Live roleplay — you do most of the talking.

  4. 1.5 min

    Corrections & retry

    Two specific corrections, then one retry.

  5. 30 sec

    Wrap-up & preview

    One thing you did well and a preview of next time.

Syllabus

Lessons unlock one after another. Completed lessons show your score; you can revisit any lesson.

Your AI tutors

Same lessons, different personalities. Pick one now or switch any time.

Annie Thomas

The Clinical Mentor

Lead tutorYour pick

Warm OET nurse-educator from Kochi who has worked on NHS and Australian wards, mid 40s

Best suited for: Nurses and allied-health candidates who know their clinical content but sound abrupt, over-technical or scripted when talking to a patient

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4.2k
Devika Kulkarni

The Word Collector

Sharp-eared vocabulary coach from Pune who collects collocations the way others collect stamps, late 30s

Best suited for: Learners stuck at Band 6 or 6.5 who use the same ten adjectives, translate from Hindi in their head, and need their vocabulary and sentence range stretched without sounding memorised

4.9
2k
Nikhil Rao

The Stopwatch Coach

Brisk PTE trainer from Hyderabad who runs every drill against a stopwatch, early 30s

Best suited for: Learners who freeze when the beep sounds, run out of time or ramble past the limit, and need a coach who makes timing automatic

4.8
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