What speaking ability does a score of IELTS Band 5 represent?

Watch this Speaking test sample, where Tina from Vietnam talks about 'An interest or

hobby you enjoy'. Here's why this performance was given a Band 5:

This candidate is able to maintain the flow of speech for most of the time but there are

hesitations as well as some repetition and self-correction. This, together with the fact that

she describes several interests rather than one interest, makes her hard to follow at

times and leads to some loss of coherence (before when I live in Vietnam I often go

to … church and or some association … er … I can … er … I often ask my friend

to … er … to contribute … er … er … and give a hand to help the poor people … or

the old people because I think the old people are so … er … my … is look like my

grandparents so I want to take good care for them). She can use markers accurately

but within a narrow range (first; so; because; as well; in the future).

She rather limited range of vocabulary is just adequate for this part of the test. She

manages to talk at some length about these familiar topics and produces some good

items (widen my knowledge; to overcome or try to get over the problem; contribute;

take good care). She makes some errors in usage (do volunteers).

She uses a narrow range of sentence patterns, but there are a few instances of ‘if’ and

‘when’ clauses. She produces basic structures with reasonable accuracy but verb tense

errors and omissions are frequent (I can shopping; before when I live in Vietnam I

often go ...; in picnic; I enjoy with it).

She has quite a strong accent with a number of poorly formed sounds and systematic

omission of word endings (lee a han for ‘lend a hand’). Rhythm is often syllable-timed and utterances are sometimes delivered too rapidly, which causes some

difficulty for the listener.

雅思5分的成绩代表了怎样的口语能力？

请看这个口语测试样本，来自越南的Tina谈论 一种兴趣或你喜欢的爱好。

这就是为什么这场模拟测试被评为5分的原因。

这位考生在大部分时间内都能保持语流，但也有犹豫以及一些重复和自我修正。这一点，加上以下事实： 她描述的是几个兴趣而不是一个兴趣，这让她很难跟让人理解，并导致一些一致性的失误（以前我住在越南的时候，我经常去。教会和一些协会......呃......我可以......呃......我经常问我的朋友......呃......为......呃......贡献......呃......呃......施以援手，帮助贫困的人们......或者是 因为我觉得老人家很... ... 呃... ... 我...爷爷奶奶，所以我想好好照顾他们。)

她的词汇量相当有限，对于这部分的测试来说刚刚好。她谈到这些熟悉的话题，并产生了一些好的结果（拓宽我的知识面；克服或努力克服问题；贡献。照顾好）。她在使用上有一些错误（做志愿者）。她使用的句型范围很窄，但也有一些 如果 和 如果 的例子。'当'字句。她制作的基本结构合理准确，但动词时态错漏百出（我可以购物，以前我住在越南的时候我 经常去......；在野餐；我喜欢用它）。)

她的口音相当浓重，有很多不成形的发音。词尾发音省略错误（lee a han为'leave the hand'）。有时语速过快，造成收听人的一些理解障碍。