Self-studying for IELTS: a tip for improving your speaking score

This is good to read with great tips for self learners:

The importance of structures is true not only of IELTS and other exams, but of speaking in general. Here’s an extract from Matt Abrahams, an expert in communication, giving a workshop on spontaneous speaking in Stanford Graduate School of Business. In this extract he argues that the key to successful spontaneous speaking is having a structure, because it’s a lot easier for the listener to process structured information than information without structure. He gives two examples of great structures ‘to have in your back pocket':

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I also came across with this article: http://ukielts.blogspot.com/2011/08/tips-and-strategies-for-ielts-test.html