Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 7.5 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video

All right, let's begin.

So could you tell me your full name please?

My name is Nina Weera Hadi Raksa.

Okay, I'm not gonna ask you to spell that, I'll just write it here.

All right.

So yeah, are you working or are you a student?

I'm currently a university student and I'm off book at the moment.

Okay, and could you tell me about your major?

It's a pharmacology major and actually I switched from nursing to pharmacology and I'm again in off book period.

Okay.

And what do you like to do in your free time?

I like to listen to music, especially R &B, soul.

Not a big fan of K -pop but I would say I listen to a lot of different genres.

Okay.

And now let's talk about plants.

So do you like to keep plants at home?

Not really as I am very bad at maintaining plant -like life.

I'm kind of not good with taking care of them

and I do like to watch them but it's just

that I'm not very affable with maintaining plant life in general so I don't really purchase them.

Okay and did you grow any plants when you were a child?

Not that I remember but I do remember that in my house there were many different types of plants

like really big ones for example like massive ones

that my mom used to keep but not really of my personal flavors or like my own.

Do people in your country send plants as gifts?

In Korea I think they do gift plants

when for example a new business opens up

and it's being staged for example for like an opening event

in new business industries people do send gifts like the plants as gifts for celebrating the new start of their career.

Okay great now let's talk about social media so do you use social media?

At the moment I am currently using Instagram but only with the purpose of contacting my friends on a direct message.

And do your friends use social media?

Yes, Instagram.

Not many of my friends use Facebook.

I think it's outdated these days.

I do know that they have a new name called Meta, but personally I'm not really a fan of Facebook or Twitter.

So I'm only using Instagram at the moment.

And what do people often do on social media?

I think they scroll down on what's called reels,

the short form of video that actually does lure people into scrolling down like for a massive time period.

It's interactive, sometimes intuitive.

The contents are drawing in people's attention easily.

And I also do think they post their personal lives on what's called a feed.

It's like their own kind of personal platform in the social media platform.

Yes.

And do you think you spend too much time on social media?

Not really in my view I spend more time on going out I'm not very extroverted, but

It's just

that I'm not really on social media all the time nor

I watch TV often Maybe YouTube maybe the time I spend more

Regarding media is YouTube and Instagram

but as I said before I only use this Instagram platform for contacting

and DMing with direct message with my friends

so not really a big fan of like scrolling down Reels

or spending too much time on Instagram okay perfect that'll for

part one I will go on to part two of the test here is your question

so now I'll give you one minute to do some note

-taking you can you can make notes on the paper all right so you can begin now That's one minute now.

So could you describe a city that you think is very interesting? To me,

Tuscana in Italy is the most interesting city

and the most known city for nurturing and for its scenic nature

and I personally enjoyed traveling to the city

because it did gave me this embracing feeling that I was being welcomed

and I went to this trip for a e -biking trip from school when I was in 10th grade

and the bike trip itself in Tuscany was relaxing enough

and also the view did lure people into having more sensible trip I guess in a way

that as I said it was a very welcoming vibe

and the ambience was focused on nature not so much of a youthful

or busy like bustling city kind of a sense but food wise

and the nature wise I think it was a very sensible

and relaxing trip to me that's 1 23 for now okay good

and do you think you would like to go back there again in the future?

Not as a biking trip but family trip wise,

yes I would say I would go back because Italy itself is very fairytale -like as in a sense that it's beautiful. So yes.

Yes okay perfect.

Okay now let's go on to part three of the test.

Let's keep going.

So do you think the large cities in your country will become even larger in the future?

In South Korea, Seoul is already grand.

For example, Sejong city, I do know that they were not of a big scale in terms of size in the past,

but they have worked through and endeavored into expanding the city itself with the infrastructures and the amount of people,

like the population -wise, they wanted to grow.

So in terms of that, Sejong City, for example, yes.

And I do think they have the potential that they will grow bigger

because they're investing in a lot with population and infrastructure.

And I am not really into learning about the new cities or I don't have much of the knowledge in it.

At least I know some bits, like for example, Sejong city.

Yes, yes.

And what are some issues that cities face when the population increases?

The most, I mean, the biggest problem that people would face is when it's too bustling.

Then, for example, on like in the morning when people commute to work,

I guess it could have people feel suffocated, for example, in the subways.

That's what I felt when I was traveling here today morning.

and I know it's a massive problem in Kimpo Airport line

that people do feel suffocated and some people faint on the way to work

so if the city gets too crowded I think that's one of the biggest problems.

Is there anything that governments can do to ease these issues?

It's easy to say that you know we can expand the subway lines

but it's not an easy piece of cake to just plan it

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and then have it work because you have to plan a lot to have one subway line to expand so

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i am not really sure about how the government would plan

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through making the betterment in the subway line being like crowded in the morning

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or even after work times when people go back but

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in terms of how the city would be like overcrowded I think that's what makes the city not in a good form.

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Yes, yes.

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And do you think most elderly people like living in a large city or in the countryside?

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I think it's solely on personal preference, because some elderly people, they do like to live in bustling cities.

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Like, for example, in my own feeling

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that I would really want to live in a bustling city in the future when I get older.

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But of course, people like my mom, for example, she likes to live in a calming, like more calm cities, like rural areas.

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But I think it only depends on the personal preference because people, some people like to live in urban, but also the other people like to live in rural areas.

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Yes, yes, indeed.

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And what advantages can tourism bring to a city?

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That it has a lot of things to do in a way

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that you can plan your trip more easily

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and you can go to more of the tourist attractions that is of a famous platform.

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Yes, yes.

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And are there any downsides to tourism in a city?

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Well, I think it's a matter of that city's limit of providing that tourism service to people.

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Like if they are not very busy or developed then I think

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that city is not much it doesn't have much of the tourist

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sort of attraction to people mm -hmm okay that'll do us

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for part three okay thank you all done good test all right then let's let's start with the feedback yeah

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so I would estimate your score to be seven to seven

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point five yeah I think is really good test um pronunciation

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and fluency are strong um some small grammar issues

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but nothing too major um a few things with word choice

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sometimes i think that's what what you could improve a little bit on you know um

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if we look at some grammar errors when we talked about

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you talked about plants and you said i'm not good with taking care of them

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so just the difference between good with and good at so

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when you use ing as an action taking care of them

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you should be saying good at i'm not good at taking care of them

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so yeah good at with like ing for example good at cooking good at singing

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or if it's a sport or anything like

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that we would say good at good with is more like

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the concept you know like i'm i'm not good with people i'm not good with technology in

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that sense yeah one other thing

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when we're talking about reels you're saying like scroll down reels

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I would probably say with reels I would use the verb watch

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so people tend to watch reels watch videos

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because it's more of a video content right

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and instead of saying scroll down I would probably say scroll through scroll through

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so yeah people scroll through social media scroll through Instagram and watch reels.

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A little bit about the tense, sometimes you were using the present continuous tense when I think present simple would have been more suitable.

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For example, the contents are drawing people, you know, the contents draw people, the contents attracts people, yeah.

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In terms of preposition, when you talk about a trip, you said you went to this trip to Tuscany

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so it should be went on the trip

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so I went on a trip yeah

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so I went on a bike trip to Italy in terms

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of countable uncountable I'd say like the amount of people should be the the number of people yeah

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so the word amount is only with uncountable nouns yep yeah yeah so like Really good.

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Just sometimes like the phrasing was like a little bit awkward.

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For example, when you talked about your trip, the view did lure people into having a more sensible trip.

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I think the word choices are a little bit awkward in that situation.

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Most of the time it's very clear, but I think that's something that could possibly be improved as well.

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But yeah, that was a really good test.

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So thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Yeah, cheers.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 7.5 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video

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