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So let's start off by talking about the weather.

Can you describe the weather today?

The weather today is so nice.

It's winter, yet it's still summer,

but the temperature is acceptable.

You can have like a light jacket.

During the day you can go to the beach.

So for me it's the perfect weather.

What's your favorite kind of weather?

Summer.

I like summer.

I like going to the beach,

spending time with the family outside, exploring.

Is there any type of weather you really don't like?

I like winter, but I don't like to be in a place where it's like minus 20 degrees.

I like to go outside,

not to be stuck at home.

Let's talk about photography.

Do you like taking photos?

So much.

I took a course at the university,

a photography course, and I had like 19 over 20.

It's my passion.

And I have my own camera, my own lenses.

I like it.

Do you like to shoot people or landscapes?

Babies, mainly.

You can play with the display.

You can play with everything.

Like it's, I don't know, I like it.

What do you think it takes to become a great photographer?

A good eye and to know how to capture the moment.

You have to have it.

Otherwise you will like wait for the, yeah, take a pose.

No, don't wait for this person to take a pose just follow the person and capture the moment.

Now let's talk about animals.

Do you like animals?

So much, especially dogs.

I had dogs in my life,

but my main issue was my mom.

So because she used to have allergy,

I used to take them back to my grandma.

At that time, I felt like I have a baby at home,

taking the dog for a haircut to the doctor.

I treat the dog like a baby.

Do you think that animals should be kept in zoos?

Definitely not.

It's not their place.

We created the zoo.

So no. It's their freedom.

You cannot put them in a cage where they have to sit there.

Or the birds.

It's not their place.

Their place is the sky,

is the forest, not the zoo.

Do you have any animals in your home as pets?

No, no. I used to have dogs,

but now no, because of the weather here.

I feel it's difficult to have a dog at home,

to take the dog outside for a walk in like 50 degrees.

So no, I would love to have, but no, not here.

Now let's talk about colors.

In your country, what are the most popular colors?

I can tell you about the color of the flag.

You know we don't have a specific color in the country.

The color of the flag is red, white and green.

My favorite color is black so I don't know.

We don't have a specific color in the country.

Do you prefer to wear dark colors or light colors?

Recently both.

Before I used to like dark colors more.

Maybe when I lost weight I switched to bright and light colors.

Do colors affect your mood?

Definitely.

If you live in a dark room,

you will feel like everything is dark.

That's why I like to have white walls, everything white.

You feel the house is bright and it reflects on you.

So I'll describe the house of my grandma.

So who lives there?

My grandma lives there.

And my grandpa used to live there.

Where the property is, it's in the mountain in Beirut, in Lebanon.

What it looks like?

It looks like a castle for me.

It's not a castle but for me it's like a castle.

We have a lot of memories there.

That's why I decided to talk about this house.

If you like it definitely I do.

I like this house as I mentioned because it reminds me of my childhood

and the best days we spent there and we're still spending when we go to see her.

We have a lot of memories we had good food she

used to cook a lot for us the house is simply like I feel like home I just love it

and especially

because it's an old house it's still the same till now

the second I enter the house I feel like I'm back to my childhood the memories comes back

so yeah as I told you it's a big and old house.

You know, the old houses you have the,

how we say it, the walls are like,

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you feel like you're in a castle, but it's a house.

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The smell of the nature, the garden, everything.

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I like everything in this house.

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So we've been talking about a house that you like,

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and we're gonna continue to talk about houses.

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Do you think it's better for people to live in an apartment or a house?

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For me it's better to live in a villa than in an apartment

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because when you have babies one he will wake up he will wake up the other one

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so it's easier to live in a villa and or in a duplex to separate.

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Do you think it's better for someone to buy a house or to rent?

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It depends.

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If the prices are high like now,

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it's better to wait because they will go down.

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So wait until you find the right time to buy.

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But definitely, yes, I'm with the buying.

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I'm not with the renting thing.

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I feel like I'm losing my money.

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Do you think that there is a certain age

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when someone should move out of their parents' home and move into their own home?

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For me it's like when I got married I moved.

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We don't have this in Beirut like at the age of 18 we have to move

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or we have to have our own apartment.

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No, at the contrary I enjoy spending time with them.

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Your grammar is good.

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Your vocabulary is good.

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Your pronunciation is good.

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We really focused on coherence and fluency in the last one.

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Overall, your fluency and coherence was quite good.

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At times you were searching for the correct word and that affected your line of thinking and you would maybe avoid that.

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I think, again, you should not be afraid to paraphrase and explain the thing and say,

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I don't know the word for this,

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but explain what it is.

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I think because you live in the Middle East,

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you can often use Arabic words maybe and say,

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well, in Arabic, it's this.

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Yeah.

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People will know, even English speakers would know what you're saying.

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And of course more people here speak both English and Arabic and then French and things like that.

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So maybe you're just not used to operating 100% in English.

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Yeah.

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And that could be an issue.

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But overall, you did well.

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One thing that you did in part two was you looked at the cue card and you just said,

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who lives there?

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Started talking about that, where it is, what it looks like.

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Explain why you like it.

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I'm answering the question.

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You are very capable of not looking at this at all.

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I didn't want to skip any questions.

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Yeah, but you can skip them.

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So this is just a guide to help you,

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but a better way of doing it would be,

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talk to me like I'm your friend or your colleague,

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and just use this when you get stuck.

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When people are looking down and looking at this and reading,

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they sound less fluent.

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What also happens is you are getting through each of these very quickly.

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So then at the end,

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when you had nothing else to talk about,

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then you have to think a lot and that affects your fluency.

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And then you repeat the same idea and everything.

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So if you were doing the test again,

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I would say just practice not using these too much.

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And then part three, overall quite good,

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but you generally just gave your own personal point of view.

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So you So you just said, I think this.

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A way of developing your answer a little bit more would be,

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okay, so I think that buying a house is better because I don't want to give money away to landlords.

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But I can see why some people would prefer to rent because there's a greater freedom with rent.

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So if you rent a place,

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you are not tied to that location and you can leave at any time.

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So there's a lot of benefits to that.

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But the drawback is you're wasting a lot of money.

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you were giving very straight good answers outside of this test.

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If you gave those answers, totally fine.

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But because this is a test that they wanted you to develop your ideas and talk about what is going on,

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that might hold you back a little bit.

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There's nothing wrong with your English.

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You gave a very interesting performance,

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and I think it's very useful for people to see this video because it shows that someone could have very good English,

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English, a very high level,

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but they're not used to the format of the test and

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that can lead to them getting a lower score than they believed that they were capable of.

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Because IELTS is not just having great English,

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it's learning the format of the test and giving the examiner what they want.

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And you just have to learn that a little bit more.

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It just comes down to practice.

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a day of practice and you would be ready to get the score.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel C1 se basa en el vídeo “IELTS Speaking Test with Feedback – Band 8.5”. Este vídeo tiene 212 frases y 1880 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 10:57. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 172 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 89 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

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

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
fluency sustantivo	/ˈfluːənsi/	fluidez, fluencia
coherence sustantivo	/koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/	coherencia
drawback sustantivo	/ˈdɹɔˌbæk/	desventaja, pega
duplex sustantivo	/ˈdu.plɛks/	dúplex
paraphrase verbo	/ˈpæɹəfɹeɪz/	parafrasear
simplify verbo	/ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/	simplificar
pronunciation sustantivo	/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/	pronunciación
fluent adjetivo	/ˈfluənt/	fluyente, fluente
examiner sustantivo	/əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/	examinador
allergy sustantivo	/ˈæl.əɹ.d͡ʒi/	alergia
haircut sustantivo	/ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/	corte (piloso / capilar), corte de pelo / cabello
grandpa sustantivo	/ˈɡɹæm.pɑː/	abuelo, abuelito
vocabulary sustantivo	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	vocabulario
colleague sustantivo	/ˈkɒliːɡ/	colega, compañero
minus	/ˈmaɪ.nəs/	menos

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
wake up verbo	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	despertarse, recordar
get back to verbo		responder / contestar (en un rato), volver / tornar a contactar
get through verbo	/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/	aguantar, salir adelante
sign up verbo		inscribir, alistar

Frases que vale la pena repetir

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

Can you describe the weather today?
What's your favorite kind of weather?
Is there any type of weather you really don't like?
Do you like taking photos?
Do you like to shoot people or landscapes?

Gramática en este vídeo

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

Estructura	En el vídeo
“Used to” used to + verbo — un hábito o estado pasado que ya no es cierto	used to have · used to take · used to like
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	be stuck · should be kept · are not tied
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	has helped · you've come

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 29 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, I'm, you're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Palabras largas — cuida el acento: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/z/ — sonora, no /s/: paraphrase /ˈpæɹəfɹeɪz/, examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/
/h/ — una aspiración suave, no la “j”: coherence /koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/, haircut /ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/

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 fluency, coherence, drawback.

¿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?