Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 8.0 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Okay, so now we're going to get started with part one of the test.
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So your first question is, do you like shoes?
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Yes, I do, I guess, yeah.
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Okay, and how often do you buy shoes?
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Actually, even though I like shoes, I don't buy it that often because once I buy shoes, I think I take it for like four to five years of time.
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So the first time, whenever I buy the shoes, I always get expensive one.
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So normally high quality ones, brand shoes, and then I just take them for like three to four years.
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If it goes longer than that, five years.
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Okay, and do you prefer comfortable or good looking shoes?
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Comfortable, definitely, because whenever I wear high heels, it's so uncomfortable.
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I cannot walk around that long.
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And I like to be active outside, so I normally wear comfortable shoes.
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So even right now I'm wearing sneakers.
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Okay, and have you ever bought shoes online?
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Yeah, I think so.
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When I didn't have time, but I prefer to buy that offline because I can try them on.
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And even though I buy something online, sometimes I need to get it back because it's so different from you know, real life experience.
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I don't buy that often online, but offline.
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Okay, great.
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Now let's move on to part two of the test. So, I will give you a question
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and then I will give you a piece of paper and a pencil to prepare your answer.
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This is the extended response question.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So your question is, describe a shirt or dress you wore for a special occasion.
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Okay.
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So describe a dress or shirt you wore for a special occasion.
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It's a black silk dress with pattern laces, long sleeve.
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It comes down until my ankle and it has thin fabric and has elegant features in there.
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So in Korea I bought it and before I go to Germany I bought it from a Korean mall called Zara.
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So it was a little bit expensive
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but I just wanted to prepare something special because I knew
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that Christmas time is going to be something fancy in Europe
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and it's my first time facing Christmas time so I just wanted to wear that.
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We made a Christmas party finally.
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While I was wearing it, I felt like I'm in a fancy place
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because a lot of people there at the site were all wearing some suits and Christmas dresses.
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So I thought, okay, I guess I'm lucky that I prepared enough because actually Christmas is not a big thing in Korea,
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but it seems like it's a huge event in Europe.
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So, yeah, I felt special.
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while I was wearing that dress.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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Great.
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Thank you.
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And now we're going to move on to the final part of the test.
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Okay.
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So what do you think the clothes we wear say about us? while I'm outside.
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My hobby is walking outside, socializing and going to events.
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And whenever I wear some fancy clothes it was not comfortable at all.
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So for me clothes is something that represents your character and yeah So it represents the special vibe of a person.
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Okay, and do you think that brand name is very important for closed sales?
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Sometimes.
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If you are a seller, I think it is important, but for a person who's buying I don't think that's that important.
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Yeah, because I always have a lot of clothes with me in my closet, but they are not brand things.
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I'm a student, so I cannot afford them.
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So, yeah, if it's cheap, but having a good quality, I don't think that's important.
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And why do you think some people like to go clothes shopping with friends?
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It's really fun, especially girls.
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When I'm going with my girlfriends, I can show them my style and then they can also show me their style.
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And yeah, we can just compare what kind of things that we like.
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And it's just really fun.
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It's like...
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food shopping.
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And how have clothes fashions changed in your country over the past few decades?
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It's hard to tell because the trend is actually always going around.
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So these days I can sometimes see the 80s or 90s fashion is arising again.
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These days it's retro style but also hip style is kind of mixed together.
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And what kind of things determine what is in fashion?
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Can you say one more time?
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Yep.
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What kind of things determine what is in fashion?
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Actually, I'm not really well known in fashion, so I don't know about that.
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Okay.
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And how do you think fashion will change in the future?
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I think it will just take a turn, like a circulation.
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So I have no idea how it's going to be changed.
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But whenever I see Vogue models or the fashion magazine or the runway show, always the fashion in there has been quite unique.
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And.. modern and sometimes kind of weird so people are actually aiming for individuality more and more.
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So sometimes I think it can go extreme.
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So in the future, the new generation will aim for something unique that is even on the level of Being weird,
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Yeah, and people will find it unique.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so those are all the questions.
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So, thank you very much.
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Thank you for your time.
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Alright, so now let's get into the feedback from your speaking test.
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So, you did really well.
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Let's go through it section by section.
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So, for part one, you answered all of the questions.
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There were a few small mistakes.
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So, for example, instead of return, you would say, "Get it back." Or you also said,
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"You take the shoes for four years." Yeah, but usually we would say, "I would use the shoes for four years or keep them." For the second part,
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the extended response, "Yeah, you did really well.
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There weren't many errors in that part at all.
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And you spoke very fluently and confidently, which is great." Thank you.
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Finally, for the third part, again, really fluid, very confident.
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You did really great.
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Just for the last question, you said there will be a circulation.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So, usually we use circulation for, like, air movement or something like that.
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usually when we describe trends we say they cycle.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
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That's okay, it's just a very very small nuance.
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Yeah.
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But overall you did great, so I would score you an eight on the IELTS fans.
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Ah okay, thank you.
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Yeah, I knew that there are some grammatical errors
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because I haven't specialized in grammar but more I was focused on more speaking, so that's why.
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But Thank you.

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