Shadowing Practice: Band 9 IELTS Speaking Sample | Real Exam Answers! - Learn English Speaking with Video

We're going to start off by talking about art and photography.

Do you like art?

That's interesting.

Depends on what.

I like cinema, for instance,

movies, music, but I don't know too much about paintings or modern art.

I'm not too familiar with, so it depends on what kind of art.

Do you like to take photographs?

Yes.

I wouldn't say the photographs are good, but I do enjoy taking pictures.

Yeah.

Do you prefer to take photos of yourself or other things?

Of other things.

It's kind of hard to take pictures of yourself unless it's a selfie and that's limited.

So pictures of other things mostly.

Now let's talk about animals.

Do you like animals?

I love animals.

Land animals, friendly, so to speak, animals.

Not insects and not anything from the ocean.

What is your favorite animal?

Probably a dog.

Dogs, for obvious reasons, you can keep them as pets.

In terms of like non-domesticated animals, probably jaguars.

Do you have any animals in your home as pets?

Yes, I have two dogs.

They're both from the shelter, the animal shelter, the rescues.

Yeah, I've always had pets family really likes keeping animals around.

Now let's talk about bags.

What type of bags do you like?

I prefer purses that are a little bit on the larger side just because I like to put

every thing of my life in my purse.

So it ends up weighing maybe 20 kilos.

Yeah, larger bags, probably structured larger bags how often do you carry a bag

when you go out every day i think that's the case

for most women i think they carry a bag every even

if you go down to the grocery

or the supermarket you take your bag with you usually right what sort of bags do women like to buy It depends.

It depends on your outfit.

It depends on where you're going.

For the day, if you're going to the office, you probably want something bigger that can fit your laptop,

your phone, paperwork, everything that you might need during the day.

If it's nighttime, you'd want something smaller, like a clutch, something more sleek, elegant. So it depends.

If you're traveling, you'd want a much bigger bag that's able to fit.

Not just you, but all of your family's stuff as well. So everything.

Women like all kinds of bags.

That's why we have so many of them.

Now let's talk about birthdays.

What did you usually do on your birthday when you were a child?

So when I was a kid, when I was a child, in school, we had a uniform.

Everybody wore a uniform to school.

So when it was your birthday, it was the one day of the year that you were allowed to wear whatever you wanted.

So it was a big deal.

I mean, at least I would pick out my outfit like two months in advance.

It would be like a little dress, like a princessy frock, matching shoes, matching accessories for your hair.

And then you would take some kind of chocolate

or candy to school and then you could take like a period off

and go and give the candy out to other teachers

and other kids in the school

and we looked forward to it every year it was the

highlight to get to not have to wear the uniform to wear whatever you wanted

and to basically be able to skip class and go out

and hand out chocolates because it's your birthday how do you normally celebrate your birthday now?

Very differently.

Everyone's allowed to wear whatever they want now.

So it's kind of not the same charm.

It depends.

I like to do a little dinner with my friends, something low key.

I'm not a very big party person.

So dinner is usually good, followed by probably like a games night or movies movie night at home

or at the cinema something low-key do you think it's important

to give someone a card on their birthday like a handwritten like a birthday card um i think

so yes because i'm quite sentimental and emotional

so i prefer more emotional sentimental So I think if someone takes the time to write something by hand for you,

I think that, I mean, I hold on to stuff like that.

So I think it's a very nice, thoughtful present to give someone on their birthday.

The first time I met a new friend, so I'm going to go way back.

It was my first day of school, kindergarten.

and I met a girl named Amanpreetz Kor.

We were about, I think we just turned four years old.

We met obviously in kindergarten, first year of school.

What I liked about her when I first saw her, I mean, we were sitting together with the teacher, made us sit next to each other.

and she had this long hair and it was like sectioned into two parts

and it was just braided all the way down

and she had the cutest face I've ever seen she had

this little fluffy marshmallow like face I guess that's all it takes

when you're a kid to want to be friends with somebody

and then I tried to so there's like this little thing that kids do where they put their thumb out

to show other kids that I want to be your friend.

And then if you don't want to be friends with them, you do this.

It's like a silly little thing.

So I did this to her.

I put my thumb out to say, hey, do you want to be friends?

And she was like this.

And I was heartbroken.

I was like, how can she not want to be my friend?

And then I saw her again the next day and the day the next day after that and the day after that.

And then eventually we ended up becoming best friends.

She did it back to me, obviously, at some point.

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She was my first best friend that I ever had in life.

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She was from Punjab, which is a part of India.

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And her mom used to make the most amazing, it's called paratha.

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It's like this stuffed bread.

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It's like they put potato and spices into a flatbread.

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And my mom used to make something called Sira, which is sweet semolina situation.

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That's the end of the two minutes.

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We've been talking about a friend that you met.

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We're going to now talk about friends at school.

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How important is it for children to have lots of friends at school?

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It depends I would say.

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I would perhaps think that quality is more important than quantity

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so I wouldn't say that the objective should be to make as many friends as you can

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or to be popular as much as the objective should be to build meaningful friendships with people.

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That could be one person, that could be five people, that could be ten people, situational I would say.

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Yeah so it's not so much how many friends you have

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as it's not as important to have a lot of friends as it might be to have people that you can trust,

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that you can kind of take with you in life for a longer term.

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Do you think it is wrong for parents to choose which friends their children have?

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Again, that's a tricky one.

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Now, when I answer these questions, I'm thinking back to real-life situations.

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And in some cases, I have seen parents interfering

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and trying to make those decisions for their children where they were right to do

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so because the child was in bad company and they were too naive or too,

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I mean, I guess they were just too naive to see

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that that situation was not right for them but the parent obviously was able to identify that my child's in bad company.

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So in those cases, I would say that your parents are able to read a dangerous situation better.

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But there's also the flip side where everybody kind of does make bad decisions.

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Your parents made bad decisions, you made bad decisions.

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And the way that you learn from them is to have a negative experience and then find your way out of it.

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So I would say that I can see certain situations, whether it's bad relationships, bad friendships when you're younger,

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not relationships when you're younger, friendships when you're younger.

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Sometimes it's necessary to have that experience so that you know firsthand how to deal with that situation.

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And you may not be able to get that experience

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if your parents always shield you from every single thing that can go wrong.

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So I can kind of see, depends on the situation, I would say.

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Now let's talk about making new friends.

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Can you think of any disadvantages of making new friends online?

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Disadvantages of making new friends online?

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I think there's more disadvantages to making new friends.

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I mean, there was a show recently that came out on Netflix called Tinder Swindler.

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The thing is with most of what we see online isn't real, whether it's social media or even news for that matter.

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Everything is kind of edited and monitored to present a certain kind of image.

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So if you meet somebody online and you know nothing about them,

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they can really present any version of reality or a completely curated,

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sometimes dishonest form of their reality to you.

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So it's a very dangerous game to play.

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Friendships or relationships?

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Both.

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Friendships.

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Friendships.

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Friendships.

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Yeah.

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It's somebody you know nothing about is a very, everything can go wrong there, right?

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Would you say it is harder for people to make new friends as they get older?

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Yes.

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I think it becomes harder for people to make friends as they get older.

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I think adults are perhaps a little bit more structured.

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I mean, the older that you get, the more set you get in your ways, your routine, where you work, your family, your gym.

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For children, it's very easy for children to interact with other children.

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Like if you put two kids in a room and three seconds they're talking to each other without any restrictions, they're talking about all of their family secrets and everything, you know, they're comfortable.

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But with adults, obviously, people tend to be more filtered when they interact with other adults.

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Also, I think if you've been friends from the time that you were a child with somebody, you've lived through so many life events together,

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that that kind of bond is hard to build with someone that you meet in your mid 30s,

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because you've just lost so much time that you're learning something, you're learning about them from scratch, where they went to school,

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about their family, about their relationships, about their siblings.

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So yeah, I think it's a, it's not impossible.

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You can make a lot of incredible friendships later in life,

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but it's probably harder to come by than if you were a kid in play school.

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or even better and next time and then there are four marking criteria

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and fluency and coherence grammar pronunciation and vocabulary

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so part one it's just normal everyday questions

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and you answered those very very naturally again it was like talking to a friend

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or a colleague and the length of your answers was also quite good this is not a criticism

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And it's just kind of who you are as a person.

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You're a very friendly, chatty person who wants the other person to interact.

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So you're often like, girls like buying bags, right?

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That is fine in normal conversation.

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If you were to do the test for real, the examiner could be quite stone-faced because they're doing their job.

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They're not being unfriendly.

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They just have a job to do

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and they're trying to think about your grammar and your vocabulary

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and your pronunciation and your fluency and there's a lot going on there.

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And for them, they cannot start to interact with you.

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And on test day, you might not get a very friendly examiner like me.

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I don't know whether I was friendly or not.

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But they might be like, you know, don't do that.

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Or some of them could be having a bad day and they just like don't ask questions.

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Now I have experienced with, not myself, but other students have said when they did that,

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thought the examiner was criticizing them or being rude, they took that to heart and thought, oh my god, I've failed my test.

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And they went from doing very, very well to everything fell apart.

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Because if you feel nervous, you feel uncomfortable with someone, then it really affects your fluency.

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You can climb up.

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You don't want to really show your language

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and who you are you don't want to

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because one of the great advantages or great strengths

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that you have is you you're very open about who you are as a person

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and that's great because it allows you to speak in a very fluent way

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if you go

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and do the test for real probably don't interact with the

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examiner as much part two you did a great job

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because you just picked a real event a real person from your life and it's much easier to talk about that.

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Some students try to pick something high level or impressive to impress the examiner.

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There's no such thing.

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The best thing to do is pick something from your real life because that's easy to talk about.

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Part three, you did very, very well because you really extended your answers.

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Again, you use real situations from your own life.

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You don't have to do that but it really did help you develop your answers.

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In terms of the scores, pronunciation is pretty much perfect.

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The examiner will be thinking about, can I understand every word this person is saying?

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100%, I can understand every syllable.

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Then the examiner will be thinking about high level pronunciation features, such as your intonation, so our voices go up,

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our voices go down, you speak like a native English speaker in that respect respect.

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Sentence stress is when we emphasize certain words.

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This is my phone, not your phone.

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So you emphasize certain words at times.

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Again, you do that 100% naturally, and then you use connected speech.

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The way native English speakers talk, we wouldn't say, I want to talk about my friend.

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You'd say, I want to talk about my friend.

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The flow of the language.

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So absolutely perfect, no problems there.

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Coherence and fluency.

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Coherence is, did you answer the questions?

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Did you develop them enough?

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You did that 100% of the time.

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And then fluency is, did you speak without any unnatural pausing?

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You did pause at times, but the reason why you paused is important.

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So in the last, I think it was the second last question, you were talking about adults and you were saying their lives are more structured.

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So you weren't trying to think of the correct vocabulary because your English isn't good enough,

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you were trying to just formulate your thoughts and come up with the appropriate precise word, which you did.

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So that demonstrates to the examiner that you have a very high level of vocabulary because if you were, because you're trying to think of the correct word,

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what's the word, what, so when people don't really know the language, then they would stop.

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And also because you approach this not as a test, but more as a conversation,

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and you are very open and talk about your life in a very open way, that really helps with fluency.

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So again, top marks for fluency and coherence.

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Grammar, I didn't hear a single grammar mistake.

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The examiner will be thinking about the accuracy of your grammar, did you make any mistakes, and the range of your grammar.

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So if I talk to you about a birthday party in the past, did you use the appropriate past tenses?

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And then I asked you about what do you do today?

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Did you switch tenses?

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Did you use the appropriate grammatical structures and tenses to talk about each situation?

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And again, you did that perfectly.

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Vocabulary, very natural.

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You use a nice mixture of just normal everyday words, which everybody uses.

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And you also use idiomatic language very, very well.

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So as you can see, you're using very natural English.

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And overall, you would get a perfect band line which is very rare oh wow very very rare okay well done

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Band 9 IELTS Speaking Sample”. Este vídeo tiene 266 frases y 3115 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 19:35. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 159 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 88 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es fácil de seguir.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
examiner sustantivo	/əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/	examinador
depend verbo	/dɪˈpɛnd/	depender/pender (de), ser dependiente (de)
fluency sustantivo	/ˈfluːənsi/	fluidez, fluencia
grammar sustantivo	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	gramática
vocabulary sustantivo	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	vocabulario
interact verbo	/ɪn.təˈɹækt/	interactuar
coherence sustantivo	/koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/	coherencia
pronunciation sustantivo	/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/	pronunciación
disadvantage sustantivo	/ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/	desventaja
tense sustantivo	/tɛns/	tiempo
pause sustantivo	/pɔːz/	pausa
sentimental adjetivo	/ˌsɛntiˈmɛntl̩/	sentimental, sentimentaloide
emphasize verbo	/ˈɛm.fə.saɪz/	enfatizar, hacer hincapié
naive adjetivo	/naɪˈiv/	cándido, ingenuo
kindergarten sustantivo	/ˈkɪndəɹˌɡɑːɹt(ə)n/	kínder, preescolar

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
end up verbo	terminar, ir a parar
go out verbo	salir
come up with verbo	ingeniar, ingeniarse
fall apart verbo	despedazarse, desintegrarse
get back to verbo	responder / contestar (en un rato), volver / tornar a contactar
go up verbo	subir
look forward to verbo	no ver la hora de, quedar a la espera de
sign up verbo	inscribir, alistar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

Do you like to take photographs?
What is your favorite animal?
What type of bags do you like?
Coherence is, did you answer the questions?
Did you develop them enough?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Oraciones condicionales if + oración, will/would + verbo — una condición y su resultado	If it's nighttime, you'd want · If you're traveling, you'd want
“Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto	used to make
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	I've ever seen · has helped · have seen
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	Punjab, which is · Sira, which is · person who wants

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 56 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, don't, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “th”: thumb /ˈθʌm/, thoughtful /ˈθɔːtfəl/
Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, marshmallow /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/, situational /sɪtjuːˈeɪʃənəl/, restriction /ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, disadvantage /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, kindergarten /ˈkɪndəɹˌɡɑːɹt(ə)n/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spice /spaɪs/, scratch /skɹæt͡ʃ/
/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, disadvantage /ˌdɪsədˈvæntɪd͡ʒ/, naive /naɪˈiv/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, pause /pɔːz/, emphasize /ˈɛm.fə.saɪz/, criticize /ˈkɹɪtɪsaɪz/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como examiner, depend, fluency.

¿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.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Gramática en este vídeo

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?