تدريب Shadowing: What Band 7.5 IELTS Speaking Sounds Like - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية عبر الفيديو

Let's start off by talking about your job.

Do you work or do you study?

So I work as a full -time marketer for a coffee chain company.

Very interesting, it keeps me alive, it gives me the grit between creativity and as well analysis which is also one of my favourite parts.

In fact a little bit of time consuming part.

So yeah, marketing, I sell coffee, I get people in, make their day, that's it.

And what is the favorite aspect of your job?

I think it's when you apply the creative ideas and then they bring in results.

Of course, creativity is fun and nice and nice and good.

But then end of the day, it has to show results on paper as well.

Let's say in form of transactions, in form of business and so on.

So that's the best part.

And what's the most challenging part of your job?

That is the most challenging part.

That you have a lot of ideas coming in, like 100 ideas a day, which will be easy to imply and then

which will be let's say practical to give you the results

which you expect so that is the most hard part uh there's a lot of ideas

which get get skilled in a day hundreds of them a

lot of ideas those who you really want to do

but then it's not practical to imply but there are one

or two ideas which are financially and creatively both good So did you study marketing at university?

Coincidentally, no. I chose the more easier aspect of studies, that is administration, admin, BBA and admin.

When I did take the course of marketing, I started getting influenced by it.

And I really wanted to understand that

which part of any job would involve creativity at the same time it could be analysis

and it could be numbers and business of course.

Then I realized that either it's super creativity that is designing, which probably I was not good at, or it's marketing, which could be both.

So that's how I got into market.

Now let's talk about your free time.

What do you like to do in your free time?

In my free time,

I am a bit of a geek i'm a lot into podcasts investment podcasts life hacks improving productivity

which i am not very great at

so that's what i'm more busy in i do play playstation

which was gifted to me very recently and yeah if

if i do which i don't give myself free time by the way i'm not great at that.

I've been criticized for not being able to do that.

But yeah, if I have actual free time, then I do play PlayStation.

And would you consider yourself an active person?

Actually, no, I wouldn't consider myself an active person.

I barely make it to the gym twice or twice a week.

I think I could do better.

Do you prefer to be alone during your free time?

Or do you prefer to be with other people?

I think I still have not got the trick in to be alone and enjoy myself.

I'm not able to do that.

I think I need someone around me at any time of a day.

What was your favorite pastime or hobby when you were a child?

That's a very easy one.

It was all about playing games.

I used to actually also do very crazy stuff.

I don't know, playing with flames and all when I was young, which I don't recommend anybody doing at home.

I used to do that.

But yeah, a lot of time playing video games, a lot of video games.

Now let's talk about food.

In your hometown or in the region where you grew up, is there any famous food?

Yeah, so I'm from Hyderabad originally in India where I've not been a lot

but the most famous thing worldwide is the Hyderabadi biryani itself.

So spicy, not healthy, very tasty and finger licking.

Is there just one type of biryani or there are many of many types?

Actually there are a lot in India there.

I think if I try to guess it right there could be around 100 types of biryanis at least.

So there is Lucknavi biryani, there is Kerala biryani, there is Hyderabad biryani which is quite famous

and then there is Bombay biryani and then there's so many biryanis but biryani which actually came from Persia, it's a Persian dish

which Indians kind of made it their own way with a lot of spice

and a lot of oil which they do with a lot of things

so yes that's that's the history of biryani and also very interesting is that talking about Persia,

Hyderabad as a city was basically made as an idea, as a blueprint based on a city in Iran,

which is called, which used to be called Isfahan.

So the blueprint of the city was copied from there and when they came to the first bridge of Hyderabad, they said I wish this city to be like a fish.

If someone was having a special occasion at the wedding in your hometown, are there any typical dishes that would be fair?

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This is excellent food.

It's a good society and it saves a lot of dessert.

So weddings in India especially in my hometown, Hedibat, it's a lot about food.

a lot of food.

So we do have healthy stuff as well which is called two salads

but comes with custard so it becomes custard food salad.

So it becomes unhealthy.

So like I said, if it's all about food, it has to be tasty.

There is no way probably in a wedding anybody is looking for kale or looking for any healthy options.

Now let's talk about museums.

Did you enjoy going to museums when you were picked?

I did.

My first museum was in Bahrain, where I was born and brought up, was the Dinosaur Museum.

I was very fascinated because I was probably in fifth grade

and I thought that at first glance I was very fascinated because I was out from the Dinosaur Museum.

and since then I've got accustomed to going to any country and then visiting the museum.

What's the most interesting museum you've ever been to?

Most interesting museum is I think when I was travelling to Bayreuth,

there was a museum and I'm not wrong,

I'm not very good with remembering facts But I think it was one of the oldest statues of Mother Mary,

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which is very, very beautiful and very fascinating.

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And the Beirut Museum had a lot of history, music history, which I enjoyed using.

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Are there any historical stories and cultural significance that you would like to visit in Egypt?

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I think after my visit to Jaipur, which is part of Rajasthan in India, I think India has a lot of cities which are not in India.

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Not only historically but as well as like there is a second highest rainfall city in India,

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in the world, which is called Meghalaya, which I would love to visit.

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and especially in the state, which is my dream.

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And historically, yes, more cities in Rajeshwar, apart from the state.

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It has a lot of fallacies, a lot of Mughal history, a lot of grassroots history.

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Beautiful.

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So there was a campaign, like I mentioned, I'm a marketer.

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There was a campaign called, Saddle for your Smoothies.

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So we had introduced something, a smoothies line in my kitchen company and when we did that,

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the first day it didn't do so well as a second.

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So now we are thinking about a crazy idea how to make the system work.

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So we came across an agency used to be spatula for your smoothie where there were mixers kept on a cycle,

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you would spatula for 30 to 40 seconds and then your smoothie is ready.

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So we thought instead of just doing a regular marketing cycle, why don't we do activation?

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So we chose 3 locations to do it where the football is heavy, some locations where it was about family crowds,

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some locations where it was about more interactive crowds.

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So we called in transfers, we did a lot of digital marketing on

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that one people came in to my surprise people were more interested in it than I expected

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so there were small shops of smoothies, you settle for your own smoothies, you burn a few calories, you get a small smoothies which is sugar -free so that actually worked very very hard,

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very well I need to say and we launched this in full one week,

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it was a very quick campaign from business marketing to influencer marketing and offline marketing and so on.

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I think it was a big hit.

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People loved doing this activity.

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It was in very prominent and heavy footfall areas of people, those who were passerby.

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So these were not only our customers, but also people who were basically people from outside the store, I would say.

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We were invited and they did that.

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This helps the sales a lot.

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And it also won us the brand campaign of the year twice.

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So I think here's the example which I was connecting to creativity and results both together.

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So we've talked about a piece of work you did, and we're going to continue to talk about job satisfaction and life satisfaction.

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What are some aspects of someone's life that they often feel dissatisfied with?

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People feel dissatisfied about a lot of things in life.

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But I think one thing which carries on, in my opinion, is that when you wanted to do something

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and you couldn't pursue it as a passion into your professional life, I think that stays with you for a very, very long time.

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I've seen that in my family.

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I've seen that in many people around me.

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Also, I think the dissatisfaction doesn't come from not able to just continue it

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because you want to succeed into it as well.

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That's where the issue comes in because you want to be a star in the thing you like.

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But if you really like it, you don't have to be a star in it you could still do it

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and at the same time not succeed as a star in it

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but you will enjoy doing it anyway

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so I think that's one thing one topic

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which people carry it inside them even

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if they don't mention it everybody has a story

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that someone wants to be a musician someone wants to be I don't know an actor a painter

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but they couldn't do it because they wanted to get a full -time job which we all need and do.

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I think that's one topic which I would like to mention here.

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What is the most important thing for having a satisfying life?

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I think it's a mindset.

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You're never going to get the answer until probably you are later in your stage of your life, I think.

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For a child, it could be a video game

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or a cycle he was looking for or she was looking for

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or for an adult it could be the favorite college

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which he or she thinks that after this I'm going to be satisfied

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but that doesn't happen then it's your favorite job

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and then it's your favorite car it never ends

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but then I think if you have the right mindset which we all easy said than done

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try and try to reach there where we say that I'm satisfied.

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But let's say I'm not reached there, so I wouldn't be able to answer that accurately.

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Is it more important to have a high salary or work with a great team?

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No doubt, work with a great team.

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But then again, the world is very commercial.

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It needs money.

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So keeping in mind that you don't stoop down so low in your career that you work for nothing.

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But at the same time, you do make some compromises to work with a great team.

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I think if you have a great team, earning will come.

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Anyways, so look for a great team.

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Look for a great boss.

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Look for a great environment as well.

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Okay, so let me give you some feedback.

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Sure.

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I'm going to take you through part one, part two, and part three.

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Give you some strategic advice on each of those parts and then we'll talk about your scores, what you would get if you did the real test.

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So part one, you did really well.

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You had no problem talking about any of those topics.

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I think any topic that was getting to know you questions would be absolutely fine for you.

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One, it's not so much a problem as just like a strategy that you chose, which is you talked about trying to remember facts.

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And it seems sometimes you were trying to remember the right fact or list the right fact.

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Sure.

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It's not a factual knowledge test.

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So you're making it more difficult for yourself by trying to think of the correct thing.

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The best thing to do is just pick the easiest thing.

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So for example, if I ask you about a museum, pick the museum that is easiest for you to talk about.

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Don't worry too much about factual accuracy, as long as it's not really like saying the sky is purple, you know, instead of the sky is blue.

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Like as long as it's not ridiculous and it doesn't make any sense.

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But you will never lose marks for something that is slightly inaccurate, as I say, because it's not a knowledge test or a facts based test.

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and you are making it more difficult for yourself by trying to think of the correct thing.

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Right.

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It's a speaking test, so just show how great your speaking is.

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Part two, I thought, was excellent.

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You had no problem talking about that.

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The thing I really liked was that you picked something real from your real life.

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It is much easier to talk about things that actually happened and that you're passionate about.

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So that was excellent.

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Sometimes you will get a part two question where you cannot do that, but it is quite rare.

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For example, you might get a question about,

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talk about a book that you recently read maybe talk about a marketing book because that's your job.

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Or a movie that you saw recently.

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You could talk about a movie that is based on marketing or something like that.

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I can't think, like the Steve Jobs movie or the Nike movie recently.

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If it's too difficult to do that, don't do it.

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But I'm just showing you how you can steer the answers towards what you're either passionate about

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or what your specialist subject is.

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I know you're a marketer, but you might have other passions that you find very easy to talk about.

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Think about what those are before you go into the test.

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And you can't use it for everything.

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You know, if they say, what food do you like?

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You're like, well, I like food that I marketed.

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You know, I like coffee because I like, you know, just if they asked you what food you liked and you said coffee and talked about how you marketed coffee,

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that would be not answering the question because coffee isn't food.

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But just be careful with that but it is a good strategy to use

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and you used it really really well

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and it allowed you to use a lot of very um

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topic specific vocabulary like vocabulary for example like the footfall is

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heavy why don't we do activations the brand campaign of the year you only really use

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that when talking about that topic or similar topics so

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if you get what the examiner will be thinking is well

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if he can use vocabulary at that level for

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that topic he can probably do it for multiple in multiple different topics therefore his overall vocabulary is very good

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so did a very good job there part three

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was not bad was it was actually good

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but i think there's certain areas where you can improve in

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part three you talked a lot about things on a very

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surface level you didn't go very deep on anything by giving real examples

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so you talked about you know not doing things that you want in life and And you said, you know, we talked about why that might be disappointing.

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And then you talked about different people.

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And then you talked generally about becoming an actor or a painter or something like that.

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Is there a real example from your real life?

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Some people feel very uncomfortable talking about their real life.

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So don't do that if you are that type of person.

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Maybe talk about, you know, did you want to be an actor?

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Or did you want to be a painter?

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Or did your father or your mother or your sister or your brother or a friend, And they really wanted to pursue some,

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or maybe in your society or where you're from, are they, do parents, you know,

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encourage people to become doctors and lawyers and accountants rather than painters and actors, you know, and talking about it in a more concrete, deeper way.

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Yes.

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Because you did it again for the second question in a slightly different way where you talked about mindset, but you didn't really define what you meant by mindset.

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Does that mean a growth mindset?

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Does that mean being honest with yourself and understanding yourself?

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What does that actually mean?

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What kind of mindset?

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So often people don't do that because they are afraid of sounding patronizing.

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Like you don't want to explain what mindset means because then, oh, you don't think I know what mindset means?

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Don't assume that the examiner knows what you mean.

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Always explain what you mean.

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Sure.

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If we went for lunch after this and we were talking about mindset, I would be able to say to you, what do you mean by mindset?

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Yeah what specific aspect of mindset, but because in the IELTS test the examiner isn't going to ask you those back and forth questions,

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in part three you kind of need to assume okay he's not

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or she's not going to ask me these follow -up questions

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so I need to lay it all out for them

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and you did a very good job of always answering the question

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but then not really explaining what you mean by that in depth.

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Yeah.

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So answer the question, explain what you mean, give concrete examples.

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If you can, you don't have to, it's not a rigid structure that you have to follow for everything.

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I'm just helping you.

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You seem to have quite a broad range of life experiences.

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Try to insert them a little bit into you.

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You did a really good job with that in part two, but overall good.

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That would be the only thing um part one don't treat

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it as a as a knowledge test part three go go

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deep you want you go very wide instead of four different things pick one

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or two and go deep specific all right sure but But don't think.. so specific that you think, hmm, let me think of an example.

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Let me think of a personal experience.

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Like if that is the case, just move on to an idea that you feel more comfortable talking about.

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There's no right or wrong answer here.

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Pick what is out of all my life experience?

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What is the one or two things that are that are easy for me to talk about?

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Yes.

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So let's talk about your scores, what you would get if you did the real test.

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OK.

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Let's talk about your strengths and then we'll talk about things that you need to work on.

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Sure.

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I think next time when you come back, you are capable of getting a much higher score.

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So fluency is probably your biggest strength.

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You have no problem speaking at length about any topic and you do very, very fluently.

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The only time where you have audible pauses

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or the flow of your language is a little bit unnatural is when you're trying to think of the next idea, which is totally fine.

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When you're speaking Hindi, you do exactly the same thing.

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I'm sure you know people, Elon Musk, for example, is a native English speaker.

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And he's always, that's not because his English is bad.

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It's because he's trying to think of the next idea.

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Because he's thinking very deeply about very technical things.

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You are sometimes making it more difficult for yourself by trying to think of the next fact.

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Just the easiest thing to talk about.

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That's really going to improve your fluency.

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But your fluency is not bad at all.

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I don't think you would get the very top mark.

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I think you're at about eight, which is very close to native English speaker level, which is very, very, very high.

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But I think fluency is your biggest strength.

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Sure, let's target nine.

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I think you're capable of getting a nine.

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The problem with the IELTS scoring is it's difficult to get nine in one thing

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if you're getting lower scores for the other three things.

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So it's not like I'm really good at fluency.

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Let's focus on getting a really high score for fluency.

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And then overall, I'll get you kind of need you need to bring everything up to the right level.

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So what we were doing is we're focusing on your weaknesses more than your strengths.

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Because your strengths are your strengths.

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We can't really improve those a huge amount.

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Where we see the biggest improvement with IELTS students is the

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analogy I always use is what your car is broken down what part of the car is broken.

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Is it a flat tire?

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Is it a spark plug?

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Is it a problem with the engine?

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You don't go and buy a new car, leave the car on the side of the road and go and buy a new one.

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You find the problem and fix the problem and then the car can go exactly the same with this.

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Your pronunciation, so a very common problem with Indian speakers.

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In the comments, don't go crazy.

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I'm not criticizing Indians.

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This is just a common thing that we see all the time.

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Sometimes they have something called accent interference.

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Accent interference is when somebody's accent is so strong that you cannot understand some of the words that they're saying.

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You do not have that problem.

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And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with having an Indian accent, by the way.

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I never suggest that someone should sound more British or sound more American.

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I think that's ridiculous.

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I think it's just a waste of time people can do it

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if they want you do you like you know what

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if you want to do that that's fine

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but i think for you that's a complete waste of time

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what we encourage people to do is use in their own

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accent be as clear as possible to get a seven eight

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or nine for pronunciation you need to get a hundred percent

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of the the examiner needs to understand a hundred percent of the words i understood 100 of the words

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so i think you are fine the vast majority of time you are extremely clear.

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The really impressive thing about your pronunciation is the way that you use something called higher level pronunciation features.

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This is something called intonation.

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And so you, when you're speaking, you're very enthusiastic, especially when you're talking about topics and you're very friendly and you show that through intonation,

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you show your passion and you show meaning and you show friendliness.

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So for example, if you came in and I said, please sit down.

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So So please up, sit down.

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Ah, right.

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Or if I said, please sit down.

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So same words, different meaning.

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Intonation is so important for meaning.

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And you do a very good job of that.

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You also use quite good word stress and sentence stress.

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So if I said something like, this is my coffee, that's your coffee.

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The words that we stress change the meaning of a sentence.

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You do that quite well as well.

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So that's really good.

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So I think that you would get a quite high mark for pronunciation.

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I think you would get a band -aid again.

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But if you spoke very quickly and the examiner couldn't understand what you were saying...

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at some point you would probably get about six

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so it's a huge drop off i don't think this is the case

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and i don't think that you should go in to the test and try to slow down your speech

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because some people become that that can cause other problems it can cause you're self -conscious

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but i think um maybe during your practice record yourself

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and sometimes when people listen back to themselves they're like oh i speak

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that quick yeah

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and it can help you modulate some people watching from India might be thinking oh I didn't realize and

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and I might be speaking a little bit too quickly right

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for those people I would say a little bit of practice speaking slower

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and clearer might go a long way sure

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because often people don't have a problem with their pronunciation but

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when you combine it with speaking quickly it just it it it's difficult for the listener to understand

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because we think about why do we speak we don't speak for the sake of speaking, you speak so someone can understand that.

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So if you're speaking in a way that somebody can't understand you, you've just wasted their time and your time, but everyone has little issues with that.

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So vocabulary is very accurate, it is appropriate.

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Which is the choice of words.

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So appropriate is are you choosing the right words.

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So for example, if you're talking about footfall and some people might say well

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and we chose that spot because a lot of people are walking past sure

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and whereas a more precise way would say there's heavy footfall yeah all right

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so a very precise very appropriate way of saying that you were using those types of topic specific words very correctly.

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I never like to tell people to use a wider range of vocabulary than they're capable of using.

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So if I tell you, you have to use higher level vocabulary, if you try and use that, if your test was tomorrow,

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you would probably get a much lower score than you did because you would make so many mistakes.

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So if somebody can normally lift 50 kilos

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and we say let's lift 150 that would be great yes to

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if we could do that but we're going to end up injuring our back

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and and going to the hospital same thing happens

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if i say to you your vocabulary isn't it isn't high

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enough you need to use a wider range of vocabulary you will go into the test

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and try and make lots of mistakes

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but for now for being a marketer like if you wanted to be a marketer in London or New York,

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the range of vocabulary that you have is perfect.

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It's fine because everyone can understand you no matter what topic you're talking about and you're using it accurately.

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So I think you're at a band seven, which is very, very good.

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It's not at a band eight or a band nine level.

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I think that you're probably capable of getting a band eight, but you would need to practice.

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I think your vocabulary is a little bit higher than what you showed there.

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I think you could improve it quite quickly,

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but you would need to do a lot of practice tests where you attempt using higher level vocabulary

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and see how successful you are.

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I think your biggest weakness is grammar.

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So sometimes a common error that I spotted was double comparatives, double superlatives.

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You're saying it was most hard instead of hardest.

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So that is the most hard part.

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I chose the more easier, which I am not very great at.

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You're either great or you're not.

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So the way that most people learn grammar is, so let's say the grammar book is that thick.

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There's hundreds of areas of grammar.

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Most people don't have a problem with the whole book.

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They have one area.

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So this is your area where comparatives, superlatives, you are struggling a little bit with

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that the reason why you were doing

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that is no one has ever pointed it out no one

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has ever corrected you in your day -to -day job people are probably not even noticing it

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so don't become self -conscious I need to stop it I

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think you the majority of your sentences have no grammar errors in them at all

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and every time you're using comparatives and superlatives you're not making this mistake.

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So if every time you used a comparative or superlative, you made this error, that would lead to maybe a band six for grammar,

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because it's called a systematic error.

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Every time you use that system, a comparative, a superlative, you mess it up.

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That would lead the examiner to think, okay, this person needs to work on that area.

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It's sometimes you make that mistake, but not all of the time.

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What I would encourage you to do is instead of using the word very and a short superlative like very great,

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can you think of a single word that is it means the same as very great?

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Great.

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Great or...

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um fluent it's very specific

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or amazing amazing all right instead of very great he's amazing

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all right instead of um it very hard we could use difficult exactly

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so that's improving your vocabulary and it's improving your grammar at the same time

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but as i said at the moment it is not a huge problem

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and overall you would get 7 .5

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which is enough to do any master's degree in any english

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speaking country you want to do okay it is enough to

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get any visa in any country you want to go to

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some countries like australia do a points -based system where

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if you really wanted to get a higher amount of points to get into a country like

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that we could work on your vocabulary

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and your grammar to get you up to a band eight

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but this was the first time you've ever done the test yes

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so you you got out of the dream score of the

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ما هي تقنية التظليل الصوتي؟

التظليل الصوتي (Shadowing) تقنية تعلم لغة مدعومة علمياً، طُورت أصلاً لتدريب المترجمين الفوريين المحترفين. الطريقة بسيطة لكنها قوية: تستمع لصوت إنجليزي أصلي وتكرره فوراً بصوت عالٍ — كظل يتبع المتحدث بتأخير 1-2 ثانية. تُظهر الأبحاث تحسناً كبيراً في دقة النطق والتنغيم والإيقاع وربط الأصوات والاستماع والطلاقة.

تدريب Shadowing: What Band 7.5 IELTS Speaking Sounds Like - تعلم التحدث بالإنجليزية عبر الفيديو

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ما هي تقنية التظليل الصوتي؟