PTE Speaking Tasks: Read Aloud to Retell Lecture

Every speaking item type, drilled on the clock

Beat the beep. Master every PTE speaking task with a template and a stopwatch.

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1.2k learnersIntermediate 8 lessons · 80 min English + हिंदी support
Nikhil Rao · The Stopwatch Coach
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What you’ll learn

  • Read a 60-word passage aloud in meaning chunks with correct stress and no backtracking
  • Repeat sentences of up to twelve words with the original rhythm and all content words intact
  • Describe any chart, map or process image for 40 seconds using a fixed template after 25 seconds of preparation
  • Retell a 90-second lecture from key-word notes in 40 seconds of continuous speech
  • Answer short questions in one or two words within the response window
  • Complete a full timed set of all speaking item types without a false start or a trailing silence

This course is for

PTE Academic and PTE Core candidates targeting 65 to 79+. PTE speaking is scored by a machine that rewards continuous, well-paced speech with the right content words in the right order. This course drills each item type the way the test delivers it: Read Aloud with chunking and stress, Repeat Sentence with memory and rhythm, Describe Image with a 25-second template, Retell Lecture from key-word notes, Answer Short Question, plus the newer Respond to a Situation and Summarise Group Discussion items. Every attempt is timed and stopped at the limit, exactly like the real recording, and ends with a full timed set of every task type.

Intermediate

level

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

Course 7 of 9 in the English Exams track.

Inside every lesson

Ten minutes, five phases, one live tutor. Here is how lesson 1 — “Read Aloud: Chunk It, Stress It, Never Go Back” — 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.

Nikhil Rao

The Stopwatch Coach

Lead tutorYour pick

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
834
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
Annie Thomas

The Clinical Mentor

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

4.7
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