Shadowing Practice: Band 9 IELTS Speaking SAMPLE ANSWERS | HOME - Learn English Speaking with Video
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let's talk about where you live do you live in a house
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or a flat right at the very start of this weekend
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test there is a good chance you'll be asked some questions
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about your home let's look at some common questions sample answers
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and advanced vocabulary to help push up your band score It's us here.
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Let's get started.
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I've divided possible questions and sample answers into three categories.
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The first has a beautiful name, descriptions.
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Here are some typical questions.
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Do you live in a house or a flat or apartment?
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Describe your favourite room in your home where would you spend most time in your home let's take
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that first question here is a sample answer i live in
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a house in fact i've lived there all my life it's
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located on the outskirts of the city in a quiet residential neighborhood full of detached
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and semi -detached houses ours has two floors downstairs there is the living area a study
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and of course the kitchen upstairs we have the bedrooms
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and bathrooms oh and we have a large garden in the back of the house this question
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and answer together take me about 30 seconds
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which is all you've got in part one that's not much time to make a good first impression
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so let's have a look at some more advanced vocabulary
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i've lived there all my life a good grammatical start will show the examiner how you use verb tenses
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and there is a great chance to use the present perfect another example could be i haven't been there for long.
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We only moved in a year or so ago.
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Here, the present perfect is followed by a more specific time reference using the simple past.
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Believe me, examiners are listening carefully to your use of grammatical structures.
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On the outskirts of or in the suburbs,
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vocabulary should be precise and varied this useful expression means the opposite of in the center or downtown
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you live in an area in the suburbs where the city soon becomes the countryside
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a residential neighborhood is an area where people live rather than work
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or go out detached houses are not joined to another house with space on each side.
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Two houses are semi -detached if they're joined together with space on either side.
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Compare that to terraced houses.
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A row of houses all joined together with no spaces between.
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I live in a terraced house.
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By the way, if you'd rather not write anything down you can get all the sample answers
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and vocabulary for this and 40 other ielts speaking topics from real exams in our pdf book the ielts speaking library
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if you'd like to buy it the link is in the description
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or you can get the topics
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and questions only for free on our telegram channel now back to our question here is another description
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i'm currently renting a flat near the city center i share
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it with a friend from work it's a bit cramped i'd say it has two bedrooms a bathroom
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and a living room
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and kitchen all together in one space like open plan the building has only four stories
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and good parking space in the basement so it's fine for the time being.
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I'm giving you these sample answers as inspiration.
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The one thing you must never do is try and memorize what you're gonna say.
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The examiner will just cut you off and move on to another question.
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But let's return to our vocabulary.
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I'm renting a flat for the time being.
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You can mention if you own or rent.
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In this example, we can see
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that the continuous form currently renting together with the expression at the end for the time being shows
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that the situation is temporary not permanent i share it with flat sharing or house sharing
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is common especially with students
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and young professionals remember in british english the person you share it with is your flatmate
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but in american english they say roommate a bit cramped is a little small in a negative way like too small.
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If you want to say it's small but you really like it, say it's not so big but it's very cozy.
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Cozy means small, comfortable and friendly.
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At the other extreme, we can talk about a large or spacious room, flat or house.
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Next, stories are the number of levels a building has the building has four stories it's a four story building
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but we usually say i live on the second floor not story by the way stories
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and stories sound the same buildings can be very tall what they call tower blocks
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or high -rise buildings a low -rise building only has a
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few stories with the general description type question there is no time really to go into much detail
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that changes a bit with our next category closely connected to
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our descriptions are those questions about how you feel about your home
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so let's call this category feelings some simple questions are what
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is your favorite room what do you like best about your
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home what makes your home a pleasant place to live we
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can add a bit more detail here look at this example about my favorite room
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well it would be my room it's right at the top
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of the house in a loft my parents had built to make extra space.
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I have all my stuff there you know laptop,
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bookcase, music and this really old reclining leather armchair where I spend a lot of time.
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Oh and through the skylight in the roof I get so much natural light.
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Some nice examples of less common vocabulary.
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The loft, a space under the roof that can be used for accommodation
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or storage the detailed armchair made of leather that can be lowered
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so you can recline windows are common but a skylight a window installed
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in the roof or ceiling is more interesting
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or this one the kitchen ours is really huge with an oval table in the middle.
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It's what they call a built -in or fitted kitchen with all the cupboards,
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shelves, sink and appliances fixed perfectly and hooks on the walls where we hang the utensils we use most.
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What I like most about it is the workspace where we prepare everything.
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I love cooking, and for me, the kitchen is the heart of our house.
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Built -in or fitted kitchens are designed so that everything fits perfectly with no space in between.
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The alternative is a freestanding kitchen where you can move some of the main appliances, the fridge for example.
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cooking or kitchen utensils are all the tools you use in the kitchen your pans cooking pots
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and so on so it's a really useful word to know the area where you prepare
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and maybe serve food is the workspace as we saw before
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examiners want to find out how you handle ways of talking about past and present experiences,
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as well as future plans and even speculating about future possibilities.
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I've put these into a category simply called time.
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Do you plan to live there for a long time?
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What changes would you make to your home?
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What kind of home would you like to have in the future?
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here are a couple of examples well i've lived there since i was a kid
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and i always think of it as home
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but i'm going abroad to study soon and after that who knows what i'll be doing
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i know the door will always be open for me but we'll have to wait and see in this first one
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Notice two very useful expressions.
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If we think of home as a place we have great memories of, a place where we feel welcome and happy,
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we can think of it as home.
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It doesn't even have to be your real home, but maybe a place you've moved to where you feel part of something.
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And when we leave home, well, we know we'll always be welcomed back so the door will always be open.
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Here is another answer, talking about change.
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Well, for a start, I'd do the whole house up if I had the chance and the money.
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It needs modernizing.
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The living room, for example, is carpeted wall to wall.
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I take a tub and have the wooden floor vanished.
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And replace those heavy curtains we have with blinds.
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And paint the walls white it would make the place look fresh.
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Some interesting phrasal verbs here.
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You can really impress the examiner when you correctly use a few phrasal verbs.
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I do the whole house up.
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To do something up simply means to redecorate and even make some structural changes to the property.
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I take the carpeting up.
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Here it means removing it completely.
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The carpet is down on the floor, so you take it up.
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Note the passive voice too.
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We can see the common passive structures.
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The living room is carpeted.
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This means the carpet covers the room
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but look at this one to have the wooden floors vanished
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this to have something done means to pay someone to do
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a job for you look we had an extra bathroom installed we are planning to have the whole house redecorated
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and modernizing is a much more precise way to say improving in this context
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and an example of our future home i've often dreamt of
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living in a large apartment with a view in one of those smart buildings i'm all for houses
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or buildings that have a minimal impact on the environment
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which use ai to monitor everything from temperature to security systems
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seriously they are the homes of the future I'm all for
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is a very natural way to mean I'm very much in favor the examiner always has an ear for collocations
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or combinations of words often used together like to have an
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impact recently questions about your home started to pop up in IELTS speaking part 2.
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Here are two examples.
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Describe your favourite place in your house where you can relax.
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Or describe a house or apartment you often visit.
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When we try to describe our home, it's too tempting to list rooms, items of furniture, or just give a general description of the layout.
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With these part 2 examples, try to see the essence of the question.
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let's think about a house you often visit we can imagine
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it's a house of some old relatives maybe grandparents here's an
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extract they have this really amazing room downstairs full of paintings
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and photos on the walls what must be an antique sideboard along one wall covered with knickknacks
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and souvenirs they've collected over the years
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and then there is the sofa it's a bit shabby
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but once you sit on it you won't want to stand
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up again there is a personal touch here the room is
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really amazing the sofa is obviously very comfortable the vocabulary is
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precise with the antique sideboard this piece of furniture with drawers
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we see in living rooms knickknacks are small objects usually quite
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cheap used for decoration in a house the sofa is shabby
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or in poor condition because it's been used for many years together they give life to the description
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moving on to part three the examiner wants to take the
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topic further maybe exploring the relationship between living in a flat versus in a house in your country
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or maybe whether people prefer to buy or rent.
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Here is how it could develop.
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The examiner.
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Do most people in your country prefer to rent or buy their homes?
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I think until recently, most prefer to rent, at least the younger generation.
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It's so hard to get on the property ladder with property prices being so high.
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and it's hard to save enough to put down a deposit for a mortgage you said until recently has
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that situation changed well it's changing especially in big cities
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demand is outstripping supply
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so landlords are charging exorbitant rents It's reached a kind of tipping point where it may be cheaper to buy or, in the worst -case scenario,
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stay living with your parents.
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To get on the property ladder is to buy a house or flat for the first time.
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To get a mortgage is to get a loan from a bank to pay for the property,
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which you pay back over 20 or 25 years.
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To put down a deposit.
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When you are getting a mortgage, you need to have 10 or 20 % of the total cost in cash as an initial payment,
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so you need to save money first.
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Demand is outstripping supply.
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This means that the number of people who want to buy is growing faster than the number of properties on the market.
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Landlords are charging exorbitant rates.
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property owners the landlords are asking for rents
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that are way too high exorbitant a tipping point is a moment
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when an important change occurs now the next step is learning the new words
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and practicing your answers you can get sample answers
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and vocabulary for over 40 topics in paid ielts speaking library
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or download questions only on telegram for free both are linked in the description
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but you know what i've noticed recently that at the beginning of part one
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questions about your hometown have been asked more often than your home
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and you can find a lesson to impress the examiner over here thank you
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so much for watching me today and good luck with your preparation and your exam.
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Bye.
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¿Para quién es este video?
Este video es ideal para estudiantes de inglés que buscan prepararse para el examen IELTS Speaking, especialmente aquellos que quieren alcanzar un Band 9. También es perfecto para quienes practican el shadowing (imitar la pronunciación y el ritmo) y buscan ejemplos reales de vocabulario avanzado y estructuras gramaticales. Si tu meta es mejorar tu fluidez, ampliar tu léxico y aprender a expresar sentimientos y planes de forma natural, este contenido es para ti. Además, es una excelente herramienta para sitios de shadowing, ya que los diálogos son claros y adaptados a situaciones cotidianas.
Palabras y frases que debes robar
El video está lleno de expresiones que harán que tu habla suene más nativa. Aquí algunas destacadas:
- On the outskirts: Significa "en las afueras" de una ciudad, una alternativa más precisa que "en los suburbios".
- Cramped: Describe un espacio "pequeño y apretado" de forma negativa. Si quieres decirlo con cariño, usa cozy ("acogedor").
- Do up: Un phrasal verb que significa "reformar" o "redecorar" una casa. Por ejemplo: "I need to do up my bedroom".
- Skylight: Una "ventana en el techo", ideal para describir detalles de tu hogar.
- The door will always be open: Una frase idiomática que expresa que "siempre serás bienvenido", perfecta para hablar de sentimientos hacia tu hogar.
Estas palabras no solo aumentarán tu vocabulario, sino que también demuestran a los examinadores tu dominio del inglés avanzado, lo que es clave para subir de banda en el IELTS.
Cómo mejorar la pronunciación con este video
Para practicar el shadowing con este video, presta atención a dos cosas: el ritmo y la entonación. La hablante usa frases cortas y pausas naturales, lo que te ayudará a mejorar tu fluidez. Por ejemplo, en la respuesta "I live in a house in fact I've lived there all my life", la pausa después de "house" es crucial para que suene natural. Además, presta atención a la pronunciación de palabras como detached (con la "t" suave) y reclining (con énfasis en la segunda sílaba). Repite cada frase varias veces, imitando el tono y la velocidad, y usa herramientas de shadow speak para grabarte y compararte. Esto te ayudará a internalizar el acento y a sonar más confiado en tus conversaciones.
Aprender inglés con videos como este no solo te prepara para exámenes, sino que también te da las herramientas para comunicarte en situaciones reales. ¡No dejes de practicar y usa estos tips para mejorar tu speaking!
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | I've divided · i've lived · haven't been |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | be asked · is followed · are not joined |
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.