Pratica di Shadowing: IELTS Speaking Test with Feedback – Band 8.5 - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Let's start off by talking about what do you like about your job?
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I like the fact that I don't have to wake up early like everybody else, which I know a lot of people don't like that.
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And I just enjoy the flexibility of working from home,
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choosing my own hours, talking about the things that I like to talk about, the things that interest me.
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That's pretty much it.
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Is there anything you don't like about your job?
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Yeah, I mean sometimes it can be unstable not knowing whether
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or not this month you're going to be able to make the amount of money that you know you're going to spend.
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Yes, the volatility of it basically.
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You know, social media is not something that has been there for many years, so we don't know how the future is going to look like.
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Do you think you will be doing this job in five to ten years?
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I hope so, but now with AI, I'm not so sure.
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It's come for all of us.
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What has come for all of us?
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AI has come to replace a lot of jobs and weirdly enough it started with creative work.
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We assumed like it's going to get rid of you know tedious tasks like repetitive things
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but no it's come for like writing, photography, generating video.
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It's all the things that we kind of enjoy doing. So that's scary.
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Now let's talk about your free time.
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What do you like to do in your free time?
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Honestly, I've structured my life for it to revolve around my passion, which is YouTube.
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So I don't necessarily have free time.
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And when I have free time, I do something, but I justify doing it by connecting it to YouTube.
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So for example, if I were to watch a TV show, I would try to say, okay, I'm doing this because this is going to teach me how to make better videos.
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So you might call me a boring person, you know?
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so but yeah other than that I really prioritize my health
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so I like to kind of obsess over things
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when it comes to diet or optimizing my supplementation
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or even going to the gym
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and exercising do you prefer to be alone during your free time
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or with other people it depends but I I think I would like to spend more time with friends when I'm free.
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I tend to get a lot of energy through conversation and laughter.
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Whereas I would choose to stay alone when I'm working.
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What do you do to keep fit?
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I work out around four times a week.
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I used to work out a lot more regularly but now with my schedule with shoots,
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especially overnight ones and YouTube videos, it's become a bit more difficult but i mostly want
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or try to go to the gym
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because i want to stay healthy as opposed to building what people would say an attractive body
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so i prioritize uh being healthy
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and as as healthy as possible did you have different hobbies when you were a child Yeah, for sure.
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I play the guitar, piano.
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I used to make short films as a child.
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And yeah, those are the main ones.
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I forgot to say that I like learning languages on my free time now.
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So now I'm learning Russian, for example.
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Let's talk about travel.
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Where was the last place you traveled to?
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I traveled to Syria about two months ago and I spent a couple of weeks there to spend time with my family.
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Where is your favorite place to go on holiday?
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Oh, it's hard to answer.
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It's like asking someone who your favorite children are.
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My favorite place to go recently has been Paris, France.
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I've just fallen in love with the city.
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What was it about Paris that you enjoyed?
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Just the atmosphere, the cozy atmosphere, the romantic vibes, the beautiful architecture,
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and surprisingly the friendly people.
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They always say French people are not as welcoming possibly to people who don't necessarily speak their language,
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but they were very helpful, very nice.
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Now let's talk about personal qualities.
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What do you think is your best quality?
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oh let me read off the list you know uh i'm
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not sure you know i think i am i'm very self-aware so even
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that remark about oh let me bring up the list it made me feel a little bit egotistical
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so being self-aware is very important to me um always knowing
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or keeping an eye of how people perceive you
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and also knowing your faults you know knowing your weaknesses
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and trying to work on them
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or at least acknowledging them did you inherit any traits from your parents i would like to think
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so i think i've inherited uh the work ethic my parents are both very high achievers who devoted their life
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to help others and I would like to say that I've inherited that from them.
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What personal qualities do you look for in a new friend?
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Honesty is very important to me.
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I think if someone is honest with themselves and others
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you can pretty much tackle all other issues because
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if you were to find an issue with a person and
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if you were to confront them about it and
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if they were honest about it they would they would be able to acknowledge it
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and possibly work on it recently there was the nf i'm not sure
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if it's nfl or it's what is it called what it is called exactly
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but it's american football
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and there was the half half time event apparently it's very important in the u.s and there was some controversy
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controversy around the performer who's called Bad Bunny.
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From what I assume, he's a Puerto Rican or a Latin singer who's apparently not even a citizen.
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So my friend sent an Instagram reel and he was saying how, you know, people are on the right or on the left,
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they're like being annoyed
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that this opportunity came to this guy who might have some controversial opinions about the U.S and how it uses its resources.
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And I personally thought it was a non-issue.
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As someone who's not American, I don't necessarily relate.
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So I might be a little bit biased.
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But I also understood why people would be angry.
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I mean, in the end, the song is in Spanish, from what I can understand.
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Or Portuguese, I'm not sure.
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I think Spanish.
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And I saw a lot of videos of the event itself and everybody seemed to not be enthusiastic at all.
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First of all, they didn't understand the words.
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I think personally that his voice is not up to par with someone who should be in such an important event.
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Not saying that every singer has to have an amazing voice, but yeah.
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And also, I understand people who found it to be super motivational and nice,
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because apparently the song itself or the performance had a lot of messages about being yourself and like staying strong,
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keep going until you succeed.
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So we've been talking about a news story.
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We're going to continue to talk about the news and also about different media like TV and radio.
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So let's talk about the news.
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In your country, how do people access the news?
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Mostly through social media, more particularly Facebook.
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And are people more interested in the local news or do most people look at more international news?
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I would say they're more interested in local news.
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I would say being interested in the news outside of Syria
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is more of a luxury to the people who are more educated have, usually.
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It's not something that you would find commonly.
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Do you think that it is important for people to have access to international news?
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Yes, I do, simply because I think outside events affect you,
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whether directly or indirectly, and you have the right to have access to it, whether you choose to engage in it or not.
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Do you think that it's possible to consume too much news?
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Definitely, yes.
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And I tend to see that.
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You know, I am a strong believer of Stoicism and Stoic ethics, and they often talk about how,
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you know, you shouldn't be as taken back and forth by outside events.
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So you should, you know, you should not to go on a tangent, but you should focus on what you can control because a lot of the news you can't really control.
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So you shouldn't necessarily expose yourself to.
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Now, let's talk about radio.
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Why are talk radio programs where members of the public can discuss things together?
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Why are they so popular?
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Interesting question.
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You know, I think it's because public discourse has always been such a popular thing,
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whether it's in Roman times where people used to gather in the public square and talk about things.
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And I think radio is just a more technologically advanced version of that.
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Freedom of speech is important.
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And, you know, it's always good to be exposed to different ideas.
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What type of person do you think is most interested in getting on a radio talk show and talking about current events?
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Getting on it?
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I think it's mostly someone who has something to sell.
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In the end, radio is a form of advertisement.
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and the person who would benefit the most is someone who might want to influence people
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into either having a mentality that would benefit them financially.
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Yeah, that's what I would assume.
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Not everyone, but yes.
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And do you think that radio talk shows influence people in a good or a bad way?
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Yes, they influence people in both good and bad ways.
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There are a lot of talk shows or radio shows like,
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for example, Howard Stern, where he tends to abuse or make the most out of someone regardless of their emotional state.
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regardless of how much he makes them over share.
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It's kind of preying on somebody's issues.
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I personally have a problem with that style.
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But if you were to critique it financially or in terms of entertainment value, that would be a different conversation.
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So what I'm going to do is give you some advice on part one, part two, and part three.
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Okay.
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More strategic advice and then I'm going to give you your scores for grammar, vocabulary, fluency and pronunciation.
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Part one you did very well, very good development of your answers.
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So you answered every question and then you developed it, you were giving examples, extra details, you're telling little personal stories, all very very good.
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It felt like having a coffee or a drink with a friend, which is exactly what you should be doing in part one.
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One issue that I noticed that you had, you, so fluency is about not speaking quickly,
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it is about the flow of what you're saying and you often will,
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I think you're capable of getting a band but there's just a few too many of those in there.
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There are two reasons why people do that.
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So when someone is speaking a different language, often they will, mmm, they'll be trying to think of the correct grammar or the correct vocabulary.
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That is very common at lower levels because people are trying to grasp the right word.
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They're just trying to access all the different files and they go, what is the word I'm thinking about?
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You do not have that problem.
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That is an excellent thing because if you did have that problem, we would have a lot of work.
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You have the problem of it's even common when people are speaking their own language.
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So do you know someone who speaks in Syria and when they speak everything's, Um, uh, there's no problem with their, is it Arabic?
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Yes.
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There's no problem with their Arabic.
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Yeah.
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The problem is, is that they are thinking very deeply about, now, Elon Musk speaks like this.
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Yes.
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If you listen to Elon Musk, he, uh, that is because that guy just has so much information in his head that he's sorting through it all.
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You are making your life a little bit more difficult than
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it needs to be by you are listing lots of different things
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and you're accessing all these different files in your head where
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you could make part one even better by just picking the easiest thing to talk about and
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Developing
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that in a very simple easy way for you similar with
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part two your development was good You could have talked about that for a long time
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You could have talked about
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that for far more than two minutes one thing I noticed you did
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which does affect I find affects people's fluency is you were looking down
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and reading So remember when you were a kid in school when the teacher asks you to read from the book?
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Yes.
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And you're like, did the kids sound fluent?
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No. Compared to a conversation?
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Of course, yeah.
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So you were like looking down, reading the bullet point, and then you were talking about it and then reading it.
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So you were more focused on getting through the points and answering the question than you were about having a conversation.
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So imagine you and I went out for coffee and I was saying like, did you see that Bad Bunny concert?
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Would you look down?
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No. and make some points and then you would have no problem talking about it
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so use the points to help you if you get stuck
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but try and lift your head look at the person
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and have a normal conversation about that topic would you say
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that looking at someone would actually affect for some people okay
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yeah for some people who are uncomfortable with eye contact some people are very uncomfortable staring at somebody
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and having a normal conversation with them for those people looking
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down actually can help them for you i know you're a very confident person who likes to speak
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and you speak for a living use
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that skill instead of looking down thinking about now the the most important thing is
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that you talk about that topic yeah so how you get around
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that is you start off i want to talk about this
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new story i want to talk about the bad bunny thing
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and then you go on and on and talk about
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that yeah normally i think you'll be far more fluent
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if you do that and then
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if you get stuck you're like i've run into things to say then look down have a glance
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and then put your head up again
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and talk about it part three you gave quite short answers
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so you probably think i answered the question what the examiner
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might think is they don't have enough english to talk about
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that topic they're trying to avoid that topic and if you keep giving the first few answers
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were quite short and not developed maybe it was you were uncomfortable talking about
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that or maybe you didn't want i think it's more uh something
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that i've developed with time where i'm talking to real like
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in real scenarios where sometimes i tend to take over the conversation or over share
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and i've practiced to not you know answer bigger than the question basically right
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so i would i assume that's the same here but i guess
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that worked kind of against so
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that would be in a social situation yes this is this is a speaking test yeah
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so you want to speak all right switch off yes yeah
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dominate the the conversation i won't let you ask questions one thing that
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I really liked was you took your answer
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and you directed it towards your area of expertise or things that you find very comfortable talking about, for example, stoicism.
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As soon as you started talking about stoicism, your fluency went through the roof.
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You just find it so easy to talk about that.
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A lot of, for example, we work with a lot of medical professionals and we'll ask them to talk, for example, talk about a news story.
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They'll talk about a medical news
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because they can throw in all the medical lingo now you can't do
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that for every single question but
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if you can steer it toward like you talked about in roman times
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and then you were very fluent i don't know
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if you're a history buff or uh you could steer it towards youtube for example
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but just make sure that you don't fluency is both for for speaking it's are you fluent
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and did you answer the question and develop your answer enough.
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If you try and steer it towards stoicism every time you might not answer the question.
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So be careful not to fix one problem and create another problem at the same time.
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For part three, how you can develop your answers a little bit more is always do what you did, which is directly answer the question.
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Then you can you can do a few different things.
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The easiest one is just explain why you think that and then give an example.
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So you did give some good examples like you're talking about
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Howard Stern show for example other times you might not be able to think of examples
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but you can use your own personal life
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so I ask about radio shows like what radio shows do you listen to
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or do you not sometimes you can't think of any that's
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where you would go to a hard stern show like an
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example you don't have to every time give an explanation an example don't work don't think
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that you have to do that just giving you little tools
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that you could use another way
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that you could think about part three is normally you can divide this into two two things
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so do you think it's important for people to get um
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international news some people think yes other people think no
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so you could say well some people think this here's why they think this other people yeah they don't think
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that you should be concerned about that at all
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or maybe you can consume too much news
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and here's what they think would you say it's better to
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have a sorry to interrupt less of uh there you go again with your interruptions.
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Would you say it's better to have less of an extreme take on these or no?
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Well, if you're talking about what other people, then you're not being extreme.
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So you could say there are extremists out there that think that you should never hear any news.
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And there are people on the other side that think that you should be able, they're free speech absolutists, that think that you should be able to hear everything.
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I, on the other hand, think that that there should be a bit of a balance.
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I think that people should have access to the news, but you shouldn't be allowed to say anything.
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Feel free to explore.
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You did one time say, that's an interesting question, you thought about it a little bit, and then you gave your answer.
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You don't have to immediately give an answer.
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Don't do what Elon Musk does, and he often you'll ask him a question and he'll be like, wait 45 seconds to answer it.
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I've been very critical of Elon in this.
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No, yeah.
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He needs to learn from us.
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It's good for the algorithm to mention all the comments.
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Why are you talking about him?
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If you follow that advice, I think that you can really improve.
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Let's talk about the four marking criteria.
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Grammar, vocabulary, fluency and coherence and pronunciation.
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If we start off with pronunciation, I think this is probably your strongest area.
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The examiner will be thinking about two things.
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Number one, clarity.
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Can they understand you?
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this is probably your greatest strength.
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Oh, nice to hear.
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Every single word I can understand.
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That's awesome.
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There's never once where I'm like, what was that?
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The other great thing I love about your pronunciation is you don't sound British or an American or something like that, which is often the case.
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You, it's very clear where you're from, but I understand every single word.
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Okay, nice.
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I always think that's the best pronunciation.
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Nice.
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Because you didn't grow up speaking English, but you are extremely clear speaking English.
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So that's excellent.
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The other thing the examiner will be thinking about is higher level pronunciation features.
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So it's not just can I understand him, it's things like intonation.
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So does your voice go up and down to convey meaning?
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And sentence stress and word stress, are you stressing certain words to convey meaning?
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You also do that very, very well nice and so there's never a time
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when i'm i'm thinking like oh that this this person has just started learning english
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or maybe they learned from a textbook and they're not used to actually
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speaking english regularly it's obvious that you do speak english regularly
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and you speak at a very very high level
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so i don't know your background in learning english
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but your pronunciation is very very good nice i'm happy
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because i was a bit self-conscious about that like i was worried people
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don't necessarily understand what I'm saying in my YouTube videos without captions.
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Yeah, no, that is not.
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Nice.
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Not a worry.
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Nice, nice.
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Not a worry at all.
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The other big strength that you have is vocabulary.
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Amazing vocabulary.
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You don't just have one word for something.
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You have multiple high-level phrases and words for different things.
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So, for example, you're saying, I might be egotistical or I'm self-aware.
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I know my faults.
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So you're describing the same thing in multiple different high-level ways, but not in a show-offy way.
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Not like I'm going to say words like egotistical and self-aware.
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You're not just throwing those in.
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You're using them naturally and very precisely.
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So that's what, if an examiner is thinking, should I award them a band nine?
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They're thinking of, can this person in multiple different contexts use high-level vocabulary appropriately and accurately and precisely?
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And you're doing that over and over again.
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I noticed things like it was a non-issue, he's a little biased, things like that.
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You say he's preying upon someone.
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You know, all of these things, very, very high level words.
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But that doesn't mean that you need to use these in every sentence.
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You only need to use them to convey meaning when you have to.
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And you do that very, very well.
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The two areas that I think that you can work on, one, you don't need to work on it that much
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and the other is the thing that you need to work on the most.
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Grammar, you do have little slips every now and again, but these are minor and infrequent.
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So there's a difference between major grammar problems and minor grammar problems.
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A major grammar problem would be something that affects my ability to understand what you're actually saying.
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That never happened, the whole test.
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You are making little slips, little minor ones, but when we talk about frequency, these hardly ever happen.
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And if you listen to a native English speaker speaking for 30 minutes, they will make one or two little grammatical errors.
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They're called slips.
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I'm not worried about your grammar based on what I heard.
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I would have to listen to you a little bit more to figure out is there some common areas
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that we need to work on.
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We worked on your writing before.
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Your grammar when speaking is much better yeah then you're done
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but because punctuation is your biggest issue
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and there's no punctuation in speaking I would assume like a
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lot of people have the same thing yeah yeah most people struggle with writing a lot more than speaking because
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if you think about the number of hours you've spoken English
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versus the number of hours you write essays yeah yeah
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so imagine you played basketball for 10 000 hours
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and then you played cricket for one hour yeah
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which one would you yeah you know
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so the biggest area of weakness is your fluency
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and the good news is you can fix that very quickly
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because it's not a language issue it's a thinking of too
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many things there's too many things going on in your head
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you know the cameras are rolling uh it's a test situation yeah
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So you're a little bit too consumed with the content rather than just speaking clearly and at a natural pace.
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So I speak quite slowly because I want people to understand me, but I don't have poor fluency because the words are flowing.
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If I was speaking slowly, the words are not flowing, that would be a problem.
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But if you have one pause, one audible pause, Don't panic and think, oh, I failed my...
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Everybody does it.
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I do it when I'm speaking to you.
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So before the cameras were rolling, if you had recorded us speaking...
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I barely hear you do it, but yeah.
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Yeah, but it's just a natural way of speaking.
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But the problem is the word is unnatural.
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So natural pausing, everybody does it in their native language.
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Unnatural pausing is caused by trying to find the right language or trying to find the right idea.
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I think this experience will have really improved you.
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I think next time you'll get about nine.
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Nice.
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This time.
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Is that a promise?
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8.5.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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This time 8.5 because of your fluency.
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All right.
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All right.
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So everything else is at a very high level.
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You wouldn't get the highest one just because of two things.
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One, you were pausing, audible pausing a little bit too much
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and then in part three very short answers sometimes so
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if you develop part three a little bit more
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and then relax about the content next time you will do
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very very well nice nice to know thank you very much you're welcome thank you so much

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Lo scenario: una conversazione reale per l'IELTS Speaking

Il video mostra un test di speaking IELTS con un punteggio di 8.5, una conversazione naturale tra un candidato e un esaminatore. Tra i temi: il lavoro, il tempo libero, gli hobby e le preoccupazioni per il futuro. Questo scenario è perfetto per chi vuole pratica di conversazione in inglese e capire come comunicare in modo fluido e coerente, come richiede l'esame IELTS. Le risposte del candidato sono un esempio di come usare il vocabolario appropriato e le strutture grammaticali in contesti reali, ideale per imparare l'inglese con i video.

Frasi utili e collocazioni da memorizzare

  • "Volatility of it": la volatilità di qualcosa (usata per descrivere l'instabilità del lavoro). Un modo sofisticato per dire "instabilità".
  • "Justify doing it by connecting it to": giustificare un'azione collegandola a qualcosa (es. "giustifico guardare la TV perché la connetto al mio lavoro su YouTube").
  • "Prioritize my health": dare priorità alla salute. Una collocazione comune per esprimere l'importanza di un aspetto della vita.
  • "Obsess over things": essere ossessionato da qualcosa (es. "ossessionarmi della dieta"). Un modo colloquiale ma efficace per descrivere un interesse intenso.
  • "Come for all of us": arrivare per tutti noi (usato per dire che qualcosa, come l'AI, influenza tutti). Una frase idiomatica per esprimere una minaccia o un cambiamento universale.

La tua sfida: shadowspeak per migliorare la pronuncia

Ora è il momento di mettere in pratica! Per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la fluidità, prova il shadow speak: riproduci un frammento del video (ad esempio, la parte sul tempo libero), ascolta attentamente la pronuncia e l'intonazione del candidato, poi ripeti immediatamente dopo di lui, cercando di imitare il tono e il ritmo. Ripeti questo esercizio per 5-10 minuti al giorno: così imparerai a parlare in modo più naturale e a gestire le pause e le enfasi come un madrelingua. Non ti preoccupare se alla fine non riesci a seguire tutto: la pratica è la chiave! Con il shadowspeak, noterai presto un miglioramento nella tua confidenza e nella chiarezza della tua voce.

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Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
“Used to” used to + verbo — un’abitudine o uno stato passato che non è più veroused to work · used to make · used to gather
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessohas been · has come · I've structured
Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosapassion, which is · someone who your · people who don
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fais called · being annoyed · be exposed

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.

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