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Noemi was one of the members of EnglishProTips .com
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and we did a practice speaking test before she went to do her real IELTS test.
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Now, Noemi needed a band 7 in the speaking test to be eligible to become a nurse in the UK.
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However, when she went to do her IELTS speaking test, she actually got a band eight.
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So, as you can imagine, she was totally ecstatic.
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Now, there is a lot of great language in this practice test, which I have highlighted in the video.
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And stick around until the very end of the practice speaking test to see what advice I gave her,
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particularly for part two of the speaking test.
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Enjoy.
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So this is the speaking test conducted on the 16th of April over Zoom.
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The examiner is Eli Hardy -House and the candidate is Noemi.
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So good afternoon.
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My name is Eli.
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Can you please tell me your full name?
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I am Noemi Jan Ilopre Idubo.
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And what should I call you?
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You can just call me Noemi.
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Noemi because Noemi I'd like to ask you some questions about yourself let's talk about this town
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or city that you live in have you always lived in the same town
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or city no actually in the past three years we moved twice already
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so in the first town
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that we were at it was also a small town like here what in the recent place
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that we were in it's a cozy town it's like 25 kilometers away from the center the Copenhagen Central Station
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so it has like a country feeling to it so we like it.
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And would you like to always live in this city?
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No,
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as our situation is changing we plan to move to another country
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and so it means that we will move to another city
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but I think our standards of a place remains the same
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it it should have like a country feeling to it
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so yeah let's move on let's talk about weekends do you wake up early at the weekend no actually on the weekends
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we as a family wake up like maybe at eight o
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'clock unlike on the weekdays where I wake up at 5 30
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so that I can catch the train
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and get to work at seven o 'clock yeah do you like to have the same routine every weekend yes
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it's a nice routine that we have
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so on saturday we wake up we wake up at seven eight o 'clock
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and then we prepare ourselves for a virtual church gathering on zoom we do
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that every saturday and on sundays it's either we are invited for a dinner or a lunch by our friends and acquaintances.
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So we would like to continue that kind of regularity in our weekends.
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Were your weekends very different when you were younger?
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No, actually, it's not that much of a difference because when I was a child,
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we still go to the church on Saturdays but the main difference is
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that before it was a physical church that we go to
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and now it's kind of online and isolated
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so I think that's the main difference on Sunday I think
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it's much the same is there anything
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you would like to change about your weekends I think
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that's a hard question especially for me as a person I don't like a lot of changes
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when when there is like even a small deviation in in my routine I will panic a bit so
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for me i'm quite contented with um my weekends and how we we do things on the weekends
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let's move on let's talk about singers do you have a favorite singer
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yes i have definitely um and of course i i i'm sure
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that you don't know her she's not really um a worldwide famous singer.
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She's in the Philippines and she is called Sara Geronimo.
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I really like her voice and when she sings it feels like there's an angel
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that I am listening to an angel you know that her voice is very calming.
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Have you ever been to a live concert to see a singer?
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uh unfortunately no i have not been oh now i can recall the the location where we went to
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a theater yes um i think yeah i i had been to a theater
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and we enjoyed that concert it's a classical performance um but i forgot the name
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Are singers from other countries popular where you live?
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Sorry I did not hear it was a bit choppy
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Yes, are singers from other countries popular where you live?
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Yes, Filipinos love singers from America especially Mariah Carey, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift.
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I think my fellow Filipinos, they are so in love with these singers.
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And there are a lot of singers in the Philippines that try to imitate them and how they sing.
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Would you like to be a famous singer?
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no never in my dream because i i i love music
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but i think it doesn't love me um i i i i i listen to songs a lot
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and different kinds of genres also um but i'm contented with listening
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and i will give um the the limelight to those famous people
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now in this next part i'm going to give you a topic
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and i'd like you to talk about it for one to two minutes before
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you talk you'll have one minute to think about what you're going to say you can make some notes
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if you wish do you understand yes i do understand all right remember
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you have one to two minutes for this so don't worry
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if i stop you i'll tell you
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when the time is up can you start speaking
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now please okay um
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i am a fan of um green green spots especially in the cities.
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I'm not really a city girl, but in my situation right now,
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I don't have any choice but to also seek for those green spots in the cities.
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So we have these parks,
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it's either natural and man -made and i usually go there to relax
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and when i go there i bring a book with me
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if i don't have a book with me then i just sit there observe people that are passing by
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and observe what they do and also I'd like to to watch how the animals are
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are fed those those kind of things and I find it very therapeutic when I go to these places
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It's calming, it's good for my eyes,
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and it clears my mind of any clutter I have within the day,
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especially when I am stressed with work and with maybe maintaining a family.
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So I really love to go to these places, yeah.
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uh sorry um do i need to really finish at two minutes yes okay
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so how often do you go to this park would you say um i go there
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when um for example i have um a work a day off work and also Sundays.
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Yeah.
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Okay, so now this next part I'm going to ask you one or two more general questions related to your topic.
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Let's consider, first of all, relaxation.
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So you mentioned you're from the Philippines.
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What kind of activities do people from the Philippines find relaxing?
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um one thing that comes to my mind um is the
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is that people just come out of their houses
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and sit there outside and then call the neighbors
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because i live in a in a small village
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and that's what people do there we just go out talk to our neighbors and that's our way of relaxing.
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Is it different in where you live now in Copenhagen or near Copenhagen?
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Sorry?
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Is it different the way that people relax in the Philippines and where you live now?
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Yes it's very different.
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Here we don't usually see our neighbors unfortunately
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but of course I would like to talk to them
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and see them because I'm a person who really loves to talk to people.
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So here when they relax people just go out to the parks, have a beer, walk the dog, things like that.
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But in the Philippines it's quite different.
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Would you say that the way that people relax is different
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when you're older and younger of course it's different with the younger people if you
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if we talk about them they seek relaxation in other things like playing games video games
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or for them maybe going to the parties is a part of relaxation
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and winding but for older people putting their feet up
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and just relaxing in their homes I think those are the ways
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that they they get out of stress you know some people say
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that nowadays we're a lot busier than we used to be in the past what do you think
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it is true that statement I agree with that
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and one of the reason I think is the advancement and technology obviously
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some people say that this innovation would help us not to be busy but
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in fact what is happening is the opposite because we now know
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that we have these machines and so we put more work on these machines
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so that they could do it and to make the task accomplished.
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So do you think that people would be better off if technology didn't advance at such a rapid rate?
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No, I guess it's, I'm not saying that.
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I think it just depends on how we use technology and our relationship to it.
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I think in this modern days, we just need to prioritize things.
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We need to plan our day so that this technology will not get in our way of living.
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Of course, they are very beneficial to us
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but we make we also make boundaries we just use them
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if we need them and if not then yeah we do away with them.
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What advice would you give to somebody that feels
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that technology is taking over their life a little bit too much and not giving them the personal space that they need.
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Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm the right person to advise those people,
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but I would say to them that I empathize with them because,
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of course, I live in the same generation where these gadgets are ubiquitous and it easily gets on our way.
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But I would tell them that I empathize to them and
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that they will just do their best not to be overwhelmed and make boundaries when using this technology.
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Do you perceive much of a difference between relaxation and laziness?
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I honestly don't know I think okay with relaxation I think it implies
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that you worked hard before you do the relaxation
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but with laziness I reckon that you don't really do things at all like even beforehand
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so yeah that's what i thought
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so is one better than the yes yes of course relaxation
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is better than being lazy okay thank you very much noemi that is the end of the speaking text.
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How did you find it?
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I was really nervous all throughout and I keep on thinking of my vocabulary,
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my grammar to the point that i am disturbed by it
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and so i cannot think and i cannot express myself well right interesting
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because i thought you know your vocabulary and your grammar was at a very very high level
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and i was very impressed
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and what we'll do in a second is go through some of the amazing vocabulary
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that you used um
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and you know i don't think
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you have anything to worry about getting at least band seven in the speaking test
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because in my opinion
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and that's this is not reflective of the british council ideally in my opinion
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you are well beyond band seven um
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and what we'll do look at each part individually
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so you're assessed on four criteria the first one is fluency
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and coherence and that refers to your ability to speak often at length without hesitation or repetition
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and of the four this is maybe your lowest um school um
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and i think it's because you said you were consciously thinking about the vocabulary
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and grammar and and how not to make mistakes and
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so as a result your your fluency was a bit um hesitant
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but um you know i can see
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that you're very capable of doing very well on fluency coherence it almost you strike me as someone
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that might do slightly better if you've just had a conversation in english with your husband
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and you're in a coffee and then you go straight in
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and you you feel more relaxed and so i think just getting into
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that kind of mentality might help you
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when it comes to the speaking now um you're capable of band eight for fluency
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and coherence in this test it would be band seven
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and maybe some cruel examiners would give you band six
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and I'll tell you why
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because in part two you really need to speak for two minutes
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so one of the criteria of band seven plus is
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that the candidate so you can speak at length without noticeable effort
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and what happens is you stopped and you continue so that
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that shows that you can't speak at length without noticeable effort
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so so you might get an examiner that would give you six of
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that for that and that was only in part two
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because in every other part you were fine
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so what i'd recommend is just continue speaking
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and then the examiner will will tell you to stop
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and it's quite awkward because
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if you stop talking the examiner is just going to listen go like this yeah like i did
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and wait for you to continue i mean that's what they're instructed to do um
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and it just it will kind of throw you off your thought
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so just continue speaking
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and then they will tell you to stop at the end okay yeah can i speak yeah
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i'm just yeah it's just because i don't know really like how to divide like each point
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You um but i guess um i don't really have to
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because when for example
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when i finish everything the points to say something about the points each point
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then i don't want to go back again to the first point
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if i just have to you know sustain um yeah you know what i mean i know what you mean
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because you don't have to meet yourself and start all over again yeah
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so that's why I just okay maybe stop
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and then I will just practice more
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so what I'd recommend to you Naomi is if
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that happens start to talk about the future
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so what you do is you say now look I'm about to move to the UK
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and I'm really going to miss this park I really hope I can find somewhere similar
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because it's been so integral for me as a place to sit down and relax
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and as soon as you start talking about the future
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you've got a whole new set of things to talk about okay i will take note of
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that yeah that's that's a good idea yeah that's a piece of advice
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that i've always i think is one of the most one of the best pieces of advice
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you can have for part two
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because it just suddenly gives you a lot more opportunity to speak um the other thing
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that a lot of candidates do
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that helps them is to tell a story in in part two
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so for example if you're if you're talking about a park you tell the story of
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when you first went to the park um how you felt
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when you went there what you saw when you went there
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and then you start talking about how your relationship with the park changed maybe you met somebody
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while you were there and then you begin to elaborate
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on an anecdote a story about that part
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which gives you more opportunities to use different grammar different tenses and speak for longer yeah yeah tell a story okay
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and um in in the in
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so in english pro tips we've got these ielts speaking simulations um
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and what you can do is just um you can record yourself doing these just to make sure
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that you can speak for two minutes as just some practice unfortunately no one will assess
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that it's just for your own record but it's something
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that you can do to familiarize yourself with what two minutes feels like
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when you're speaking okay okay
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so the next thing you've got fluent in coherence next thing is lexical resource
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which is vocabulary and your lexical resource is astounding it's really good it started very good
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and it even just got better and better
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so in part one
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we had lovely collocations like cozy town a country feeling um
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physical church moving to online um content contented with my routine um
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it feels as though i'm listening to an angel calming voice genre limelight
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Then in part two, we've got a lot of nice vocabulary as well.
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I'm not really a city girl, but, and then elaborating, natural and man -made,
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the way animals are fed,
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so to feed in the past simple is a very nice verb and very unusual to hear, so very nice.
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Describing something as therapeutic, the park, very nice clear my mind of clutter as a very powerful collocation
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that can get you a very high score in for lexical resource
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and then in part three
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we had really really nice vocabulary unwinding putting your feet up sympathize ubiquitous same generation overwhelmed
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and then reckon as well as a synonym for think so really impressive with the lexical results well done.
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Thank you.
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Yeah and you know and I expected
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that from reading your essays as well I thought I'm looking forward to seeing the vocabulary that Noemi's got.
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I think I am better in writing than speaking because I have more time to think and yeah but with speaking.
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It strikes me that you might be a bit of a perfectionist.
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yes i guess so and maybe maybe
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because um filipinos are really like i mean my fellow filipinos i feel like they are very judgmental
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when you don't like speak good english they say it's like in um they equal it to intelligence something like
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that so yeah and of course i want to get rid of that but still yeah
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okay well i mean i think you know this it's a double -edged sword
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because on the one hand it means
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that your your vocabulary is a very high level
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and you take pride in that and then the on the other hand it means
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that sometimes if you're if you don't feel you're doing well you you
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but you start to stutter
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and you get a bit worried yes you know it has good points
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and it has bad points um
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and then you know one thing
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i really like about your answers is you had a lot
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of um a lot of natural linking words like oh i'm not sure
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if i'm the right person to ask but you know that
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that kind of stuff is really nice
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because you know you're being honest you're not so when when
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when ielts students learn linking words often they learn these set phrases
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that they want to use but they're not appropriate
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so they go oh that's a good question
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if you asked me i would say and it's not natural
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and examiners know when something is memorized and when something is natural yeah
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because that's what they're trained to do
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and you're using a lot of these linking words very naturally like little things like I'm not sure
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if I'm the right person because you genuinely felt well who am I to give advice
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and that that kind of brilliant because that's you conveying your idea
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and examiners will definitely appreciate that
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and then pronunciation is very good there was like some sometimes there were problems with your sentence stress
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and that was you know sometimes when you started to stumble a little bit
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but you know you're definitely at least bound seven for pronunciation
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because everything that you said was uh very easy to understand
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and um at a word level your your word stress is very good
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so it's all very clear to understand you
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and you know with a with the right amount of luck
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you would um you would be able to move into
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that uh band eight level for pronunciation as well
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so well done thank you I guess yeah I'll be contented as long as I get seven
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because yeah I'm I'm not I'm not applying to become a IELTS expert
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or a teacher so that I could get the eight
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and nine but as long as I can get seven I will be happy
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Well, I think that's very likely.
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I think you're setting yourself up well to get your band seven.
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Yeah, I also feel like I should not be complacent
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because maybe it's only like the type of the test that I will get.
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So I really hope that I can get a good set of questions also.
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Yeah.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “IELTS Speaking Test”. Questo video contiene 301 frasi e 3589 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 28:00. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 128 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 84% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| vocabulary sostantivo | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabolario |
| relaxation sostantivo | /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/ | rilassamento |
| examiner sostantivo | /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/ | esaminatore |
| routine sostantivo | /ɹuˈtin/ | routine, tran tran |
| grammar sostantivo | /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ | grammatica |
| angel sostantivo | /ˈeɪ̯n.d͡ʒəl/ | angelo |
| clock sostantivo | /klɑk/ | contachilometri, tachimetro |
| resource sostantivo | /ɹɪˈzɔːs/ | risorsa |
| distress sostantivo | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | angoscia, pena |
| pronunciation sostantivo | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | pronuncia, pronunzia |
| topic sostantivo | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | tema, categoria |
| theater sostantivo | /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ | teatro |
| genre sostantivo | /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/ | genere |
| boundary sostantivo | /ˈbaʊndɹi/ | confine, limite |
| assess verbo | /əˈsɛs/ | valutare, stimare |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verbo | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | svegliarsi |
| do away with verbo | fare fuori | |
| go back verbo | tornare | |
| go out verbo | uscire, andare fuori | |
| go through verbo | attraversare | |
| look forward to verbo | non vedere l'ora | |
| sit down verbo | sedersi, accomodarsi | |
| take over verbo | usurpare |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- Can you please tell me your full name?
- Were your weekends very different when you were younger?
- Are singers from other countries popular where you live?
- Would you like to be a famous singer?
- How did you find it?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Frasi condizionali if + frase, will/would + verbo — una condizione e il suo risultato | if i stop you i'll tell · if you asked me i would say |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | are invited · is called · are fed |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have highlighted · Have you ever been · have not been |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 79 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come I'm, you're, don't. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: theater /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: relaxation /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, unusual /ʌnˈjuːʒ(u)əl/, innovation /ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, elaborate /ɪˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, therapeutic /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: highlight /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt/, beforehand /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, coherence /koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/, hesitant /ˈhɛzɪtənt/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: bind /ˈbaɪ̯nd/, relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, clock /klɑk/, resource /ɹɪˈzɔːs/, distress /dɪˈstɹɛs/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, relaxation /rᵻˌlækˈseɪ.ʃən/, examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, grammar /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come vocabulary, relaxation, examiner.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.