Pratica di Shadowing: IELTS Speaking- Perfect Pronunciation and Fluency - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Let's start off by talking about food.

What is your favorite food?

My favorite food will be Thai curry.

I think that'll always top my list.

But I also like all kinds of Asian cuisines.

I like Vietnamese food.

They've got a soup called pho.

And I also like Korean food.

I don't know how they've come up with kimchi.

I really feel like it just blows my mine

and it really ignites a lot of taste buds

so yeah all kinds of Asian cuisines

and I also like Indian cuisine as well do you like to eat out

or stay in and cook I think stay in and cook

because I like to consider myself a decent cook I think I can prepare a basic decent meals

and sometimes when I go out I end up comparing it with mine so I like to eat at home because Yeah,

I feel like sometimes maybe my food is tasting better than the outside food.

What was your favorite food when you were a child?

This is a very basic meal in India.

It's called khichri.

It is a porridge in India, which is made with rice and dal, which is lentils.

And it is very basic.

There's no fancy ingredient involved in it.

It's just rice and dal and a bit of ghee and just some basic spices.

It's my comfort food and to-go food for me, yes.

Are there any foods you would like to try in the future?

I don't know, but I haven't been to South America, so I don't know how a Peruvian meal would taste like.

I've tasted Mexican, I've tasted Italian, I've tasted all kinds of Chinese, Vietnamese and Asian food, but I've never tasted South American food,

so I think I would like to try the food from there.

Now let's talk about holidays.

What's your favorite holiday destination?

My favorite holiday destination would be Bali.

I think I've been to Bali a couple of times and I'm a very tropical person.

I enjoy the heat and I also enjoy the humid, if I can say that.

And Bali by far has impressed me the most.

So yeah, that's my favorite destination, I guess.

What is your dream holiday destination maybe in the future?

I would say Peru or Peru

because there was a time in my life I booked the tickets

and then COVID happened and unfortunately I couldn't go to the place

so I booked a ticket for Brazil

and then from there I head to Peru so yeah that's still on my bucket list.

Where would you recommend going on holiday in your home country? Where?

Ladakh it's called the heaven on earth even Kerala is called the heaven on earth.

I've been to both places but I feel for me Ladakh tops the list

and it is one of the most beautiful places on the planet.

You get to see a lot of different terrains.

You get to see the mountains, snow-capped mountains.

You also get to see the rocky mountains.

You also get to see the greenery.

It's very beautiful.

Do you prefer a city holiday or a holiday in nature?

For me personally, holiday in nature because I'm more inclined towards the nature because it grounds me,

also mentally stabilizes me and makes me feel really calm and relaxed.

So I would always prefer nature over the cities.

I feel cities really consume a lot of energy out of you when you're surrounded by so many people.

Now let's talk about drinks.

What do normally drink with breakfast?

So I don't think I'm heavy on drinks in the sense I drink basic water

and especially with breakfast I don't have milk

or oh I'm sorry I forgot I'm very heavy on tea my morning has to start with tea

and it's the basic masala chai from India so that's what I drink yes.

Do you think you drink enough water each day?

Yes I do I try and drink about two to three liters water every single day.

If people visit your home for dinner, what do you normally offer them to drink?

So usually in India we'd like to say would you want to have hot drink or cold drink.

So hot drink usually means tea and coffee, tea or coffee, and cold drinks mean any kind of soft drink which is Coca-Cola,

Fanta, Limca, these are the drinks which are normally offered in India.

So yes that I'd probably offer that or probably something fancy like a lemonade or something like that.

Now let's Let's talk about maps.

Do you ever use maps on your phone?

Oh yes, all the time.

I think maps have made our lives easier

and to travel from one place to the other I always need my map

and in fact even when I'm going on a walk

or a run I always have the map on my hand

so I can just generally wander around and get lost and not worry about it.

When you visit a new city do you prefer to use a map or find your own way around?

Both.

So I usually have for the larger picture of it, I usually have the map and I like to download the offline map.

But within that system, within that window, I also like to just explore and move around and get lost like I said.

Do you find it easy to follow a map when driving?

Oh yes.

Like I said, Google Maps have made it so much easier for us.

So it's usually normal for me.

In fact, I think I am the navigator amongst my friends.

I think I do have a knack for it.

Like I do have, I do understand the maps better than other friends of mine.

So it says, describe a city you would like to visit.

I've mentioned that I've already been to Bali, but I think that's one city I'd like to visit again.

In fact, there was a point in my life I wanted to settle down in Bali.

So Bali will be my top priority.

and I would like to go there

and I think the easiest mode to travel to Bali is flight

and the reason I like Bali is

because like I mentioned earlier I'm a tropical person

and the weather is very suitable for my kind of a person who comes from India

and also I think Bali is very beautiful it's surrounded by beaches,

nature, rice paddy fields which is what I love about Bali

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because you can just travel from one area to the other and every specific area is beautiful on its own.

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And what I also really enjoy and like about Bali is the food.

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It's very vegan friendly.

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I'm a vegan and I don't have to stress much when I'm trying to find vegan food over there.

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And it's also yummy.

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It's also tasty.

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So that's also one of the reasons I've fallen in love with Bali

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and it's also big on yoga I forgot to mention

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that I think the first time I went to Bali was on a retreat a yoga retreat

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which I was attending

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and then I think it's one of my dreams to go

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to Bali again to hold a retreat since I'm a yoga teacher

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and if given a chance to stay in Bali

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or probably probably move to Bali that'll be the best dream life to have a yoga studio teach over there

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and also probably have a small cafe which can offer vegan food

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and I think topping everything top of the list would be Bali is very cheap to live

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and also to travel like you know you don't have to

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burn your pocket to in fact enjoy the entire country or city so yeah Bali would always top my list to visit.

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So you were telling me about a city

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that you would like to visit and we'll continue to talk about visiting cities on holiday.

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Why do some people prefer to visit a city on holiday?

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Okay, so if you mean to say city as opposed to a town or probably a countryside,

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then I think a lot of people,

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they prefer a crowded city because there are many things to do probably.

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They can go for a movie, they can shop a lot.

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So a lot of people like personally, I know my husband prefers a city over

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Places which are full of nature and I'm the opposite

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and the reason for that is that for example He loves London

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so he can go and watch as many shows he likes He can watch a movie

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and then he can move around and shop a lot.

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So I think that's why probably people prefer cities Is it more expensive to go on holiday in a city?

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I think yes, because is, everything is commercialized.

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Even for example, in London, there is a three wheeler.

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It's called a tuk-tuk or a rickshaw in India.

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Similar to that, there's a three wheeler, fancy three wheeler in London city centre.

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And I think you have to pay like a hundred pounds

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just to like go from one place to the other with the music.

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So everything is commercialized to a level so much so

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that you really end up burning your pocket

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because every small thing you have to pay for it even for example water

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so yeah I think being in a city will cost you a lot.

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Is it better to visit a city alone or with other people?

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I think it depends it's both a lot of people they like to travel solo

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and a lot of people they need to have people around them for example

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if you're going to watch a show maybe if you are with somebody

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and you're watching a show you'll enjoy it more

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because you have a company with you for some people they would prefer to be alone

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and watch it because they can probably consume an intake and really soak in the experience.

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So it depends.

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It's up to, it's very subjective, I guess.

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Now let's talk about the growth of cities.

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Why are the biggest cities in the world getting bigger?

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I think like I mentioned, everything is commercialized and you've got to pay the prices like even the bigger showrooms and stores.

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If you buy a certain item from like a smaller city, not the bigger ones I'm talking about,

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you'll end up being lesser than what you'll pay probably in London or New York.

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So that was one of the reasons is that I guess

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and also I think moving around like most of the people from smaller cities they want to go into

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and start living in bigger cities.

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So that's also one of the reasons that the cost of living starts to rise.

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What are the downsides of living in a mega city?

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Downside of living in a mega city would be the cost of living because the more the people, the higher the prices because you'll have to pay more rent

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because there's so much of demand for these places and supply is lesser.

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So that's one thing, cost of living.

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The second is maybe you're a little bit out of touch from nature

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because it's like you're staying in a concrete jungle you're surrounded by buildings

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and also the more number of people the lesser social interaction so

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maybe you're you might just end up being a little lonely

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so i think some of the few downsides are like

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that how will large cities in the future be different to how they are today

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so as we can see that we're advancing more

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and more day by day and things are just improving in a grand scale.

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So I think we'll become more advanced in future and like I mentioned we lose touch with

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and I'm not sure I mean if I have to take a guess we lose touch with humanity.

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Everything is going to become very robotic and very computer and machine based.

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I think that's what I see around but I don't have a clear answer for that.

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Now let's talk about children in cities.

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Is it better to grow up in a city or the countryside?

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Again, I think I'm biased towards it

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because I feel I'm more inclined towards a countryside or living in a setup like that.

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So I feel that it'll be better to bring up or raise your children, raise your child in a countryside setup.

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A, because you are are not bringing in chaos to them.

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I feel that the city life has a lot of chaos with it.

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And be like, for example, I've always advocated that, kids should be taught meditation.

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I think there's no bigger meditation than being around nature, walking on grass.

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So you can teach them better things, which people start advocating later in life.

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So you can teach all of that with homeschooling.

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So I think that's a very good option to really venture into or take into consideration.

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What advantages do children brought up in the countryside have over children brought up in a city?

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Advantages, like I mentioned, would be that maybe they're calmer than the city children.

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I think the city children will be more technologically advanced, but might not have the same emotional bandwidth,

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maybe, and might not have the mental capacity to really take in stress because they'll always be consumed with stress around them.

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So I think the city, sorry, I'm missing now the two kind of children,

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I think the countryside children will be better at having

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that same mental capacity or a better mental capacity and emotional bandwidth to handle stress.

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So you're hoping to get a band 9

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and I have some good news and some not so good news

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So I'm going to give you feedback on part one, part two and part three.

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And then what I will do is I will give you feedback on the four marking criteria.

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So fluency and coherence, pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary.

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If you didn't get a band 9, we'll give you some areas for improvement.

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So part one is just normal everyday questions.

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Most of your answers were very, very good.

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One thing that I would be careful about is listing lots of different things.

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So for example, we asked you about your favorite food and you're like, I like Thai, I like Vietnamese, I like this this, da da da da.

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You don't do this, but what a lot of students do is when you ask them part one questions, they just list lots of different things.

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And the problem with that is it doesn't give the examiner enough to really judge your grammar.

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So it's just like, I like, I like, I like present simple, present simple, present simple.

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You didn't do that for every answer, but when you're under pressure on test day,

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it's kind of like a safety blanket where students are like, if you ask them many, what do you do in the weekend?

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I like to read, go to the cinema, go to the park, go to the mood.

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So they just list lots of different things.

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The rest of your answers were very natural, well developed, just be careful about that on test day.

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Not a bad thing, I'm highlighting the more negative things, but overall your part one performance was very, very good.

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It was like talking to a work colleague or a friend, it was excellent.

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Part two, the main worry

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that most students have with part two is having enough to talk about for the full two minutes.

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You have no problem.

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You could have talked about that for 10 minutes, I think, or half an hour.

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No problem at all.

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You chose something which is very smart, which is picking a real scenario related to something that you really like.

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One thing

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that I would be a little bit careful about is the

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question says describe a city you would like to visit

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and you said well it's one that I visited in the past but I want to visit it in the future.

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So because you said that, that's no problem, no problem because you explained I've been there in the past, I want to go there in the future.

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During the IELTS test one thing the examiner will be thinking

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about is are you using the appropriate tense to talk about this.

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So if you answered that question like I went to Bali, here's why I really like Bali.

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Some examiners might be like oh she's basically saying

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that she doesn't know how to use future structures or talk about the future and she's playing it very very safe.

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You didn't do that but it's a risk.

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So if you got a different topic on test day, a similar one, always think about what tenses do they really want me to discuss here.

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Describe a city you would like to visit is normally a city you haven't been to

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so that would be more talking about conditionals,

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hypotheticals, using conditional language or something in the future I would like to go somewhere I've never been.

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The other thing is it asks specifically about a city.

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Now different Some countries have different interpretations of the word city.

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In some places, a city is a big built-up area with at least millions of people in it, like London, Paris, New York.

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In other cultures, in other places, a city is basically not the countryside.

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Bali, I don't know specifically whether it is an island or categorize it as an island or categorize it as a city.

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examiners I don't I'm not an expert on Bali

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so I don't know now

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if I was the examiner I wouldn't care about whether Bali is a city

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or whether it is an island because it is a speaking test

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or judging your speaking you talk very fluently and coherently about Bali

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but these little mistakes can't add up

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so you listing lots of things in part one and then talking about a place you've already been to,

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that maybe is not a city technically, all these little things.

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So someone like you is a very high level speaker can get their result

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and be like oh why did I not get the score that I'm looking for?

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So just be be careful with with that,

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think about the question and think am I using correct grammatical structures and tenses and am I answering this exactly?

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So if it was like is Bali Australia City.

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Why not just pick New York or Doha or somewhere?

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I know you've been to Doha many times.

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Just be careful with that in part two.

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Part three, there were a couple of questions that, again, the IELTS test is not an ideas test.

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It is not a knowledge test, but there were a couple of questions where you were trying to think of the correct idea because you weren't 100% sure.

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During the part three of the test, what the examiner will do is they will ask you more and more difficult questions if they think you're good.

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So if they don't think that you're very good, they'll just ask you simple questions and end the test.

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These questions like how will large cities in the future be different to how they are today, these are difficult questions conceptually, the ideas are difficult,

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and it's difficult to talk about them in a foreign language as well

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because you're using all sorts of future structures and comparing comparatives and things like that.

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In that situation, what most students do is start off and go,

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I don't know, I have no idea or they'll be like, I don't know, because this is the end of the test and most people are tired.

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They just want it to be over.

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So they'll give very short, unsatisfactory answers.

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You actually, despite not knowing a lot about this topic, you gave a guess, you gave some kind of an answer, which is a plus point, which is a good thing.

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So don't worry too much about that.

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Let's move on to your scores for fluency and coherence.

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Coherence is answering the question.

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Because you did quite a bit of listing in part one, you struggled with a few of the questions in part three,

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And we're not sure whether Bali is a city or not.

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Some examiners wouldn't give you the top mark for that.

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The way that fluency and coherence works is, it's in one band, and whichever is lowest, that's your score.

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So if you're band nine for fluency, but band eight for coherence, you get a band eight.

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I think your fluency is at a band nine, but I think because those little problems would add up, you probably would get a band-aid for coherence.

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So overall, fluency and coherence, you probably get a band-aid, but it is very fixable.

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Don't list stuff in part one, develop your answers.

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Pick one thing, like I love the pho because it has a really deep flavor and it's quite rare to get it, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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So instead of listing stuff, pick one thing or two things and develop them.

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As I said before, be careful with your part twos, make sure you're answering the question.

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Some people would say, well, she didn't answer the question.

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I think it's debatable whether you answered the question as I've already said.

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So I wouldn't give you a really low score, but I just would be careful with that.

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And again, if you get a difficult question in part three, do what you did, which is at least attempted.

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Pronunciation, I think is your strongest point.

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The examiner will be thinking by two things.

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Number one, can they understand 100% of what you're saying?

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I can understand 100% of what you're saying, no problem at all.

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Second thing is they'll be thinking about higher level pronunciation features such as intonation, your voice going up, your voice going down.

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And your intonation is excellent.

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It helps you convey meaning.

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You sound friendly, you sound polite.

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And often we do that through intonation.

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So if I said, please sit down, sound very rude.

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Please sit down.

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Sounds very polite.

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So intonation can convey meaning and you do a very good job with that.

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Same with word stress and sentence stress.

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So word stress for example is, I love this iPhone.

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So I'm emphasizing the word love.

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What if I said, I love this iPhone.

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That means you don't love it, but I love it.

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So you use word stress, sentence stress very, very effectively.

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And you also use connected speech.

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So instead of saying, do you want to go to the cinema, you don't pronounce every word, do you want to go to the cinema?

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So you connect the words and the sounds together.

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You do a very good job.

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So you would get a bad noun for pronunciation.

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Some people would say, who aren't examiners, that don't know, oh, she's got an Indian accent.

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So you're not being judged on which accent you have.

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You don't get higher marks for sounding British or American or Australian or Irish.

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You get extra marks for the clarity of your words and your communication.

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So it doesn't matter what accent you have, you would get a band 9, no problem at all.

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Grammar.

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So this is the area that I think that you need to work on the most.

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So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to show some sentences

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and we're going to figure out what your grammar problems might be.

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So as you can see, sometimes you make little slips with articles.

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So articles are words like a and the and sometimes, especially when you're thinking a lot about the answer,

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So those questions that you weren't that sure of, the way I explain it to people is your brain is like a computer.

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And if you have too many programs open at the same time, they can slow down.

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So if you're really thinking about AI in the future and cities and that part of your brain is working very hard,

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the part of your brain dealing with grammar and articles can slip a little bit.

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Overall, your grammar is very good, but you are making those little mistakes.

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They're not huge errors that cause problems for the listener.

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So those are big catastrophic errors that the listener is like, what did she say?

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I have no idea.

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Little slips like you made here don't stop me understanding you,

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but you're making a few too many of them to get one of the higher bands.

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So you would get a band eight for grammar because the vast majority of your sentences are error-free,

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but sometimes you're making these little slips, and they're just a little bit too frequent to get one of the higher bounds.

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Your vocabulary, there's some excellent topic-specific vocabulary that you're using, and some idiomatic vocabulary, such as this.

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But sometimes you're using less precise phrases, idioms, such as this as this

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and as we can see here you're sometimes repeating that a little bit too much and so again

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we wouldn't be giving you one of the very very high

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bands the vast majority of your sentences very high level vocabulary as we've seen very precise

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but there are just a few too many of these little slips to get one of the higher bands

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so you again you get a band eight for vocabulary So you're nearly there,

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you're nearly there and what I would like to do is invite you back

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and we can do another one

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if you work on those little mistakes we can do another one and see if you improve to a bad line.

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Okay, thank you.

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