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Hello everybody and welcome.
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And today it's a really special video because today I have a collaboration with somebody very special in the world of IELTS.
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And if you saw the last video,
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you may know who it is.
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If not, stick around, because you're gonna learn a lot more about how to improve your IELTS preparation.
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Let's go.
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Hello, everybody.
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This is Keith from English Speaking Success.
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And as I mentioned today,
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it's a special video because we're collaborating.
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And today, I'm delighted to introduce Chris from IELTS Daily,
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who is here today to share some ideas about our IELTS speaking skills.
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Hello, Chris.
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Hello there, Keith.
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Thank you so much for having me on your channel.
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It's a privilege.
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Oh, it's a pleasure for you to be here.
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I'm really excited about collaborating with you.
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I think your channel is amazing,
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the things that you're doing.
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You've grown so quickly, and you,
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I mean, you not only help students with IELTS speaking,
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but the full range of IELTS skills.
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So that's great.
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Maybe we can kick off.
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Tell me a little bit about IELTS Daily, Chris.
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So IELTS Daily, by the way, you made me blush.
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Sorry.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much for the wonderful words.
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IELTS Daily is a fairly new channel, you're right.
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We've been going for about two years and we're based in Australia and quite far from where you live.
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I really am passionate about helping people pass the test for
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the first time with the kind of the most knowledge
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that they could possibly have and so that they're not wasting their time,
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their money and make sure that they feel confident
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when they go into the test because there's no need to be nervous going into the IELTS test.
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Would you agree?
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Oh, totally.
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It's all about mindset.
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It's all about being relaxed and comfortable.
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And I think that helps a lot.
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Yeah.
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And so feeling like you can talk naturally is a really important thing.
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And I think that's what we just want to teach the students today,
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that a conversation between two people, that's all it is.
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An IELTS examiner is just a person.
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So, thanks for letting me have this opportunity.
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Not at all.
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I mean, we're delighted.
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And I totally agree.
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I mean it is very much about being relaxed and I love the way that you create videos that help students relax.
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You give them lots of visual support.
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It's really nice.
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So we're going to go straight in.
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We're here today.
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We're going to be looking at a topic.
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This is a topic that very often comes up.
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It's quite a common topic and we're going to look at
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how some questions around this topic and how we might answer it and some ideas and vocabulary.
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right?
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So the topic is happiness.
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So it's IELTS speaking, we're looking at the topic of happiness.
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I'm going to begin by putting Chris on the hotspot and ask you the first question here, Chris.
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So are you generally a happy person?
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On the whole, I'm a pretty optimistic and happy person.
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I I'm a fairly happy-go-lucky person actually.
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So whenever I approach a task or if I meet somebody for the first time,
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I would like to think that my overall demeanour is a fairly positive one.
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Sometimes behind closed doors though,
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that I do have days when I feel kind of down
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or maybe I don't want to talk to too many people but on the whole,
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in general, by and large, I'm a happy person.
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That's nice.
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That's lovely.
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I love that answer because I like the way you've talked about the happy side and the sad side.
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You've kind of talked about optimistic and the feeling down or feeling sad as well.
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I think that's something that students could benefit from in the test.
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When they are approaching a topic,
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one thing that they should always remember is that there is no right
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or wrong answer in the speaking test and there's actually no marks really deducted if you go a little bit off topic.
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So if you talk about happiness and sadness, totally reasonable, right?
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Absolutely.
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I mean, they are the brother and sister.
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I mean, they're opposites, but they're so connected and it felt very natural.
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That's what you would say in a natural conversation.
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And the other thing I liked,
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which sometimes students forget, is in a question,
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especially in part one, you want to talk about you, right?
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So you weren't talking about the abstract notion of happiness,
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you were talking about you and your feelings and that's really, really important.
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Yeah.
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There were actually three constructions that I put in there on purpose
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and they were ways that people can talk about something generally.
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And I said, in general,
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by and large and on the whole.
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Those three terms you can use interchangeably and you can say,
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it just means generally and you can choose
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which one you want to use at any one time and I thought that they would be useful for you guys.
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Fantastic, love it.
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Next question.
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Chris, is it important to be happy?
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Ooh, that's a tricky question and I would say that it's quite important to be happy,
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but it's also not a problem if you're not happy.
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If, let me explain that a little bit more.
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So when you approach a task,
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it's generally seen or we would say that a task is kind of more fun to do if you are feeling positive,
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if you look on the bright side of life and if you're a glass half full person,
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if you're positive about something,
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the results are usually, they tend to be more positive,
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you know, as a result.
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If somebody approaches something with a negative mindset,
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if they kind of look on the gloomy side,
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you tend to expect that a project or a piece of work probably wouldn't have the same outcome.
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Would you agree?
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Oh, absolutely.
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Yes.
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I think the way that we think
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and the happiness you have influences things around you and how successful you do things, you know?
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I mean, if you're in a bad mood,
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if you're in a bad mood,
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it's like hitting your head against a brick wall.
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Sometimes things just don't work out.
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Totally agree.
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We have a funny phrase in English when we say,
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did you get out of the wrong side of the bed this morning?
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And that's something that my parents and my family would often say to me.
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If I got up in the morning and if I was feeling grumpy and not very happy as a teenager,
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my mum would usually say to me,
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did you get out of the wrong side of the bed this morning?
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What does that mean, Keith?
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It does.
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It just means that, well,
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if you've got out of the wrong side of bed,
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you've woken up in a bad mood for no reason.
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no specific reason and things then just start going wrong because you're in a bad mood.
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Yeah and just to elaborate and talk a little bit more about the importance of happiness
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and maybe that's something we can talk about more but working in a team like at work or at school,
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I think it's you know pretty important to generate this motivational kind of atmosphere because because otherwise it just brings people down.
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Would you agree?
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100% yeah it does.
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I think teamwork helps.
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You want to raise the energy,
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raise the dynamics in the office or in a team to make things more successful.
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I think it's a good point actually to talk about things that do make us happy.
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I mean there are so many things you can talk about.
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I think talking about work,
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talking about success and achieving your goals makes people happy.
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maybe it's a nice meal,
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maybe it's a nice drink.
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I don't know.
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What are the things that people could talk about for about happiness?
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Gosh, in the test, there's so many things that you could talk about.
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It might be a memory.
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It could be a date,
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like an anniversary or a time when you met somebody.
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It could be a type of food that you really like that makes you happy.
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So if I go for a nice meal,
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like you say, and I feel positive,
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I could be spending time with friends and family.
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And these relationships, I think that's another important part that makes people happy.
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But one question I have for you,
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Keith, if you don't mind.
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Does money make you happy?
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Money doesn't...
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Does money make me happy?
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Yes, it makes me happy,
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but it's not the source of all happiness.
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I think money makes me happy
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because it may enable me to do certain things like to go and have a nice meal or to go on holiday.
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But I don't see money as the goal.
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Yeah, it's not the be-all and end-all.
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That's a phrase, isn't it?
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Nice phrase, the be-all and end-all.
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What does that mean exactly?
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It's not the ultimate, the final thing.
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It's not the thing which defines you.
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It's quite a tricky one to explain.
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It is, but I think you're absolutely right it's not the final goal.
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So great, I'm going to move on to more questions.
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Just before I do, I was going to pick up on something I really liked about your answer,
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which I think is important for students,
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is that at the start,
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you started giving an answer and then you realised it wasn't very clear and you said,
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let me explain what I mean.
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And I think that's so good and so important for students
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because sometimes students get tongue tied and they realize they've made a mistake and they're not clear.
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It's absolutely fine to just stop and say,
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just a moment, let me explain what I mean.
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And then you say it in a different way.
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It's a great technique.
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So if you missed that,
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go back and listen again to what Chris said.
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Yeah, and I'll just explain that sometimes in the test,
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you might, you might have a question,
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which is really difficult and you might start talking about something and you're trying to buy yourself some time.
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This is a technique that native speakers will do if they're in an interview.
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And this is something that everybody experiences when they go for a job interview.
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The person might say, so do you have any experience in coding?
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And you say, well, a few,
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few, you know, weeks ago,
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I went on a coding course,
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but, and then, oh, let me explain what I mean.
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So it's, it's this kind of going down one track and then explaining your thoughts.
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It's a, a native speaker has to do it every day as well.
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And it's nice because it helps you go deeper and bring out richer vocabulary,
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which is always a bonus.
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Right.
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I've got another question for you,
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Chris, on this topic of happiness.
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Do you have a place that you go to that makes you happy?
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Gosh, I don't have one particular place.
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There are different places that make me happy in different ways.
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One of the places that I love is going for a stroll along a local river.
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I find that going to this place makes me feel kind of at ease.
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I feel at peace.
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I love to listen to the sounds of nature and it just helps me relax.
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But then, kind of on the same token,
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I also love going to these really vibrant places, festivals.
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I like going to kind of a loud restaurant or a bar and spending time with friends.
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So it really depends on my mood.
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And I don't know, what would you say in this question,
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Keith, if you were asked this?
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I would go down a similar path actually,
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because my answer would be that there's a place near where I live,
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right out on the coast,
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and it's a small little beach,
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not very well known, kind of off the beaten track.
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And I often go down there for a walk on the beach,
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and it's just breathtaking.
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The view is gorgeous if the weather's clear,
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and it really relaxes me,
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and it just gives me a feeling of happiness and almost ecstasy.
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Maybe ecstasy is a bit too strong,
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but it's a nice feeling.
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Contentment.
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Contentment, yes.
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All is well with the world, yes.
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Wonderful.
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It's a good point.
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I mean, thinking about synonyms for happy,
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what are the different words we could possibly use?
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And are there any nuances to that?
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There are.
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This is one thing in the test I will really warn students about.
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On Instagram, on social media,
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they will see words which say,
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don't use happy, use ecstatic or use thrilled.
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And they might give some examples.
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Now, the problem with this,
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and Keith will probably agree with me,
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I don't know, is that the word happy and the word ecstatic and the word thrilled don't actually mean the same thing.
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So if I say I am ecstatic,
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that means that I am happy,
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happy, happy, happy, happy, really happy.
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If I say I'm happy,
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it kind of just means that I'm in a good mood.
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One of the criterion is that you have to be able to flexibly use language.
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And if you're not using it appropriately and flexibly,
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then you're going to be restricted from getting to that,
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you know, really high band in the lexical resource.
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Do you see this as a problem within the IELTS preparation world, Keith?
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Oh, it's a huge problem.
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I think you've hit the nail on the head with the difference between social media friendly posts and quality learning materials.
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So as you say, like on Instagram,
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these nice infographics of 20 synonyms, looks lovely, looks great.
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Is it quality learning material?
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No, it's actually negative because it doesn't,
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although students may think it looks nice,
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if you don't know the nuance,
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if you can't use it confidently in the right context,
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it's gonna go against you rather than help you.
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So I think being aware of that difference, yeah, it's really important.
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And the only real way that students can actually learn that,
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And it's probably not through you and I.
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It's probably actually through listening to audio book stories.
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It's listening, watching, you know,
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a TV series which is made in English.
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And you will find that these very specific words will only appear in particular, at particular times.
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So that's my one warning from today that you can learn five or 10 idiomatic phrases.
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That means nothing to you in your test,
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unless you use it correctly.
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Yeah, that's great.
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That's a nice warning, Chris.
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And maybe just let me put a tip on top of that is,
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if you're learning vocabulary then, start from the context.
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Learn vocabulary from context, like podcasts and films.
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Don't learn it from lists because there is no context.
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It's the other way around.
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That's great.
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Really, really nice, Chris.
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And so, yes, we have to be careful with synonyms.
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I mean, we have mentioned you've talked about ecstatic and thrilled and happy and the differences.
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I wonder about idiomatic expressions because there's actually quite a few that pop into my head when we talk about happiness.
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Any that pop into your head?
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Yeah, perfect.
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And this is another point where we should just let the students know that learning idiomatic expressions is important.
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They have to be used appropriately.
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So, for example, and I don't know if you remember,
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when you passed your driving test, Keith.
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Yeah, that's a long time ago.
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Equally long time ago for me.
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And I remember when I passed it, I was really happy.
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Okay.
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And I was over the moon.
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I was completely, you know, I was thrilled.
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I was over the moon that I passed my driving test.
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When I got my exam results from school,
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I was over the moon.
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So, over the moon is a really common phrase that we use in English on a kind of weekly day-to-day basis.
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There are some, however, which we use but probably not as often.
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One of them is, I was on cloud nine.
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Okay, so let's imagine that somebody proposes to their girlfriend or or their boyfriend,
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I think this would be an example when somebody is on cloud nine, would you say?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I was on cloud nine in that situation.
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Again, it's one of those expressions that it's a bit like in seventh heaven, right?
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It's not as common.
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We don't use it as common as other expressions.
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I would probably say I was in heaven.
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You know, it's idiomatic.
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It's obviously not literal.
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That might be slightly more common.
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So there are, yeah, different expressions we can use.
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Thrilled to bits is a nice...
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I was just going to say,
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thrilled to bits, it's like you read my mind.
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Thrilled to bits is maybe more British, would you say?
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I think so, yeah.
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In British English, we have kind of like chuffed to bits and maybe thrilled to bits.
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I mean, when I, gosh,
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when I graduated from university with my master's degree,
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I was thrilled to bits because it was so much work and so much time.
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So that's a nice expression.
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Fantastic, Chris.
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So I think we're going to wind up.
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We've looked at lots of interesting words,
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possible answers and expressions that students can start learning and start practising as well.
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This has been, I think, really valuable, really interesting.
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Thank you so much for coming along today.
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And just to let students know,
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if they want to find out more about you and IELTS Daily,
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where should they go?
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IELTS daily just in YouTube they can come
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and find us on there we've got lots of videos thanks
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so much for having us it's been a pleasure
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and I love to read comments this is a really important thing for me
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so if you have any of your own vocabulary put it in the comments section
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and Keith and I will have a look at that it's it's
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so interesting for us to see how you guys are preparing for your tests
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so thanks Keith absolutely yeah I think we can all learn from each other thank you very much Chris
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and guys go and check out IELTS daily lots of stuff they're not only speaking
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but all of the skills that you need it's been great
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and I look forward to seeing you all very very soon in the next video take care my friends
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- Thank you so much for having me on your channel.（あなたのチャンネルに呼んでくれて本当にありがとうございます。）
- It's a privilege.（それは名誉です。）
- Would you agree?（同意しますか？）
- Feeling like you can talk naturally is really important.（自然に話せる感覚が本当に重要です。）
- There's no need to be nervous.（緊張する必要はありません。）
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シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。