Shadowing-Übung: IELTS Speaking Part 1 - Accommodation 🏘️ | Model answers - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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Hello everyone, I'm Maria.

And hi, my name's Joe.

And we are the hosts of IELTS Speaking for Success podcast,

a podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way.

We are doing this podcast to give you a look at

how a native English speaker would answer some of the IELTS speaking questions.

We have Joe with us today.

Rory is on holiday with Robert, thinking about his age.

So Joe will be answering some of the most common IELTS speaking questions.

The examiners have two topics to start off with.

their accommodation or work or studies.

So in the exam you will have one of these topics: accommodation or work or studies.

The secret is that these are the only topics you can actually prepare for.

Joe, are you ready to talk about accommodation?

Yes I am.

So the first question is: Joe, do you live in a house or an apartment?

I live in an apartment.

I've been living there for about three months now.

And it's fantastic, I really enjoy it.

What do you like about living there?

I think the most important thing is the location.

I'm only about a five minute walk from the metro.

And for someone like me, who has a very busy schedule, the convenience of living so close to the metro is probably the most important thing.

Which is your favorite room in your home?

I don't have a very big home, so unfortunately I don't have much of a choice.

But I'd say my favorite room is my bathroom,

because after walking through Moscow in a bitterly cold day.

I love to get home and take a hot shower at night before I go to bed.

So, um, so although I don't have much of a choice, I would probably say that my bathroom is is my favorite room.

Would you change anything about your home?

Why, why not?

You know, that's a really good question.

I...

unfortunately, when I moved into my home, There was a lot of junk and rubbish in my home already, especially on the balcony.

Things that belong to the owner and he just never took out.

So unfortunately my balcony is...

is very crowded now.

It would be great if he would take those things away and I could have the balcony to myself.

Would you like to move to a different home in the future?

You know, I'm not the type of person that really thinks about the future.

I mostly live in the present. But

No, I suppose in the near future I would like to stay in my home

because as I said the location is perfect.

In the distant future, I suppose that would depend on a lot of factors.

As I mentioned previously, it's a quite small apartment.

So if I happen to have a family in the future, I would have to move, of course.

But for the time being, No, my apartment is perfectly fine.

What sort of accommodation would you most like to live in?

Well, you know, to be honest, this changes every day.

It really depends on my mood or how I'm feeling.

For example, sometimes in the middle of our Moscow winters,

I really picture myself living in a tropical bungalow in some sort of warmer climate.

But on the other hand, on most days, I'm perfectly fine living where I am now.

So like I said, it really depends on my mood.

Now, Joe has just used gorgeous vocabulary.

Let's have a look at it now.

So Joe, you said that your home is a five minute walk from the metro, right?

Yes.

Could you give me another example with this phrase?

Sure.

So this means that it only takes me five minutes to walk somewhere.

So I live about a two minute walk from a supermarket.

I live about a 20 minute drive.

from my work.

So we would have A, plus a unit of time,

plus either a walk or a drive or a flight, then from and the location.

Exactly, yeah, that's a lovely phrase.

Also, you've mentioned that you have a busy schedule.

What else can you say?

I've got a busy schedule, like timetable.

Yes. Or...

We could say my day is packed, or I have a heavy load.

Yes, yeah.

Like my day is packed, like I have a lot of work to do.

Absolutely.

You also said, mentioned the word convenience.

Yeah, I think I mentioned that the location is very convenient.

And then I paraphrased it, I turned that word into a noun.

And I said that the convenience...

of my location is really important to me.

Exactly.

Yeah, like convenient, like we say comfortable, but we say comfortable clothes, right? But convenient...

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Yeah, I think this is difficult for some Russian speakers, because I believe you only have one word for this.

Exactly.

Convenience talks about how easy something is, whereas comfort or comfortable talks about feeling.

It might feel physically comfortable or emotionally comfortable.

Convenience means if something is easy to do.

Yes, exactly.

And about the location, we say the location is convenient.

Exactly.

Whereas a chair, for example, would be...

Comfortable.

Yay!

Joe, you've used a lot of phrasal verbs.

One of them was walk through.

What did you say about walk through?

I believe I mentioned walking through Moscow.

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We could also walk through a park.

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Walk through a building.

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- Yes.

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Also you've said that when I moved into my apartment.

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Oh yeah, this means I changed locations.

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I changed my accommodation.

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I moved from my old house to a new apartment.

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Yeah, so we say, "Oh yesterday I moved into my new home." - Something, yeah.

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And when we leave a place, we move Out of.

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Yes, I moved out of my old flat.

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My old home and I moved into my new one.

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Exactly.

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About the junk, you said you have some junk on your balcony, like some rubbish.

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So the previous person didn't take it out.

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Yes.

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So take out.

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Junk is an informal word and we have a lot of other ways to say it.

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We can say, as you said, rubbish.

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Maybe trash, garbage, and just generally this means useless things, things I don't need.

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Yeah, and we say like take out the rubbish.

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Exactly.

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A lot of these phrasal verbs are very informal and there's usually a formal equivalent.

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So instead of if I wanted, if I was writing for example a formal letter, instead of take out I could write remove.

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Exactly.

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But especially in the speaking part of the test, take out is perfectly fine.

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Yeah, speaking is informal, so phrasal verbs, yeah, are perfectly fine.

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When you talked about Moscow's weather, you said that on a bitterly cold day, bitterly cold, what does it mean?

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Well, what do you think in Moscow in winter, are the winters very cold or a little cold?

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- Very cold.

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- Yeah, and bitterly means very, very cold.

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- Super cold.

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- Super duper cold.

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- Bitterly cold.

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All right.

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Now, Joel, let's talk about the grammar that you've used.

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So, for example, you said "I've been living there for..." for how long?

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About three months now.

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Yes, "I've been living there for three months." Present perfect continuous, a nice structure to use.

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That means that Joel started living there, is living there now, and will continue.

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to live there in the future.

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So I've been living there for five years.

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I'm talking about both the past and right now.

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Exactly.

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Right.

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You also, you've used some second conditional sentences.

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Wow, yes.

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Like, it would be great if I could, for example.

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Could you give me an example?

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Yeah, I mentioned that it would be great if the, if the owner of the apartment would come and take all the junk off, the junk out of my balcony.

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Exactly.

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So, of course, unfortunately this is not a very realistic scenario.

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I don't think he's going to do this.

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No. But hypothetically, yes, so like if, and to use this structure, you can say that.

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Yeah, So if something's not very realistic, or I don't think it's gonna, there's a good chance it will happen, I can use this structure.

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You also, you've used it about your future home.

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So like, if I had a family, I'd move to a new home, for example, right?

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So if I had a family, do you have a family now?

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No, I don't.

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Not yet, not yet.

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So we are imagining, so if I had a family, I'd move, I would move, right?

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Or for example, if I had more money, I'd buy a house in the center of Moscow.

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Would you buy a house in Moscow?

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If you had a lot of cash?

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trees.

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And I know my neighbors.

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If you had lots of money, where would you buy it?

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Oh, actually if I had a lot of money, I definitely would live right in the center of Moscow.

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Maybe right on the Moscow River.

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Kroponskenskaya district.

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I'd say maybe.

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Next to the Kremlin?

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I'd say right next to the Kremlin, so I could keep an eye out on what's happening over there.

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Perfect.

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Joe, you've also used a nice structure.

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I picture myself living in a bungalow.

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A very complex construction with a precise word bungalow.

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So not a building, not a house, but a bungalow.

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A bungalow has one floor or like a...

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A bungalow only has one floor and it's common in very tropical countries.

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Exactly.

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So it's a very precise word and I picture myself living.

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Yeah, we could also say I view myself or I imagine myself living in this place in the future.

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Joe, thank you very much for your answers.

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Absolutely my pleasure.

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Yeah, we give you a high score for your speaking band 9.

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Yes.

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Excellent to hear.

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Dear listeners, now you can listen to Joe's answers again and notice all the beautiful words and grammar structures he's used.

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Joe, do you live in a house or an apartment?

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I live in an apartment.

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I've been living there for about three months now.

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And it's fantastic.

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I really enjoy it.

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What do you like about living there?

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I think the most important thing is the location.

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I'm only about a five minute walk from the metro and for someone like me who has a very busy schedule,

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the convenience of living so close to the metro is probably the most important thing.

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Which is your favourite room in your home?

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I don't have a very big home, so unfortunately I don't have much of a choice.

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But I'd say my favorite room is my bathroom because after walking through Moscow in a bitterly cold day.

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I love to get home and take a hot shower at night before I go to bed.

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So although I don't have much of a choice, I would probably say that my bathroom is my favorite room.

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Would you change anything about your home?

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Why, why not?

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You know, that's a really good question.

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I, unfortunately, when I moved into my home, there was a lot of junk and rubbish in my, in my home already, especially on the balcony,

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things that belong to the owner and he just never took out.

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So unfortunately, my balcony is, is very crowded now.

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It would be great if he would take that those things away and I could have the balcony to myself.

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Would you like to move to a different home in the future?

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You know, I'm not the type of person that really thinks about the future.

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I mostly live in the present.

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No, I suppose in the near future, I would like to stay in my home because as I said, the location is perfect.

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In the distant future, I suppose that would depend on a lot of factors.

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As I mentioned previously, it's a quite small apartment.

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So if I happen to have a family in the future, I would have to move, of course.

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But, but for the time being, no, my apartment is perfectly fine.

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What sort of accommodation would you most like to live in?

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- Well, you know, to be honest, this changes every day.

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It really depends on my mood or how I'm feeling.

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For example, sometimes in the middle of our Moscow winters,

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I really picture myself living in a tropical bungalow in some sort of warmer climate.

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But on the other hand, on most days, I'm perfectly fine living where I am now.

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So like I said, it really depends on my mood.

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Thank you very much for listening.

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And see you soon.

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Bye.

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Bye bye.

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In dieser Lektion konzentrieren wir uns auf das Thema "Wohnung" aus der IELTS Speaking Prüfung. Wir werden durch beispielhafte Antworten eines Muttersprachlers lernen, wie man flüssig und sicher über das eigene Zuhause spricht. Du wirst Übungsmöglichkeiten für das Englisch sprechen üben erhalten und wichtige Vokabeln sowie Redewendungen kennenlernen, die dir helfen können, deine Antworten zu formen. Diese Lektion ist ideal für alle, die ihre Englische Aussprache verbessern möchten und einen klaren Eindruck davon bekommen wollen, wie man auf Englisch über persönliche Themen spricht.

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Apartment - die Wohnung
Location - der Standort
Convenience - der Komfort
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Balcony - der Balkon
Crowded - überfüllt
Future - die Zukunft
Accommodation - die Unterkunft

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Um das shadow speak zu optimieren, empfehle ich dir, die Audioaufnahmen aus dem Transcript mehrmals anzuhören und dabei die Sätze laut nachzusprechen. Achte besonders auf die Geschwindigkeit und den Tonfall von Joe und Maria. Nutze die Methode des shadowspeak, indem du nach jeder Aussage eine kurze Pause machst, um deine eigene Antwort laut zu formulieren. Dies hilft dir nicht nur, deine Fließfähigkeit zu verbessern, sondern auch, dein Selbstvertrauen im mündlichen Ausdruck zu stärken.

Um deine Übung noch effektiver zu gestalten, versuche, die neuen Vokabeln in eigenen Sätzen zu verwenden. Erstelle Fragen zu deinem eigenen Wohnsituation und beantworte sie, als würdest du dich auf die Prüfung vorbereiten. Denke daran, bei jedem Schritt auch auf die Englische Aussprache verbessern - achte auf die Betonung und Intonation, um nicht nur inhaltlich, sondern auch akustisch ansprechend zu sein.

Schließlich, arbeite daran, deine Antworten von ganzem Herzen zu geben. Besonders bei persönlichen Themen wie deinem Zuhause sollte deine Begeisterung und dein echtes Interesse durchscheinen. Das wird nicht nur deine Sprachfähigkeiten verbessern, sondern auch deine Verbindung zur Sprache stärken.

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Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:

Struktur	Im Video
Bedingungssätze if + Satz, will/would + Verb – eine Bedingung und ihre Folge	if I had a family, I'd move · if I had more money, I'd buy
Present Perfect Continuous have/has been + -ing – eine Handlung, die früher begann und noch andauert	I've been living
Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut	is brought · is packed
Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist	you've mentioned · you've said

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