Can I use the same sentence pattern in every describe-a-picture answer?

Yes, with one condition. The frame is a reusable skeleton, and reusing it removes the decision that makes candidates freeze. What you cannot reuse is the wording, since grammar, vocabulary and cohesion are all scored. Keep the shape, change the connecters, subjects and verbs.

Rotate two variables and the skeleton stops sounding memorised. Change the connecting phrase first, then the verb frame: present continuous for the action, there is or there are for the setting, and a seem or appear hedge for one uncertain detail. Record three answers to the same picture and compare the first six words of each; if all three match, force a different opening on the next run. The same bank then serves the Writing questions in the paired test, where a sentence built on a picture is scored on grammar and on relevance to the picture.

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