쉐도잉 연습: IELTS Speaking Part 2 | Describe a Problem You Had and How You Solved It | Band 7+ Sample Answer - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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Hey everyone!
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Welcome back to Marin English Lab.
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Here is something most IELTS candidates never realize about this topic.
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When the examiner says, describe a problem you had and how you solved it, they are not asking about the problem.
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They are asking about who you are under pressure.
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Because anyone can fix a problem.
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But only a band 7 candidate can tell the examiner what that problem revealed about them.
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Today I'll show you exactly how.
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Full model answer.
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Top vocabulary.
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Let's go.
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Here is the strategy most people miss entirely.
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They spend 90% of their answer describing the problem and the solution.
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But the examiner already knows you solved it.
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That is why they asked.
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What they want to hear is the moment your thinking shifted.
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The point where you stopped reacting and started reasoning.
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That cognitive turning point.
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When you move from panic to clarity.
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Is where band 7 language lives.
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Ready?
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The problem I want to describe happened during my final year of university, and in retrospect, it was one of the most instructive crises I have ever navigated.
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Three days before the submission deadline for my thesis, the external hard drive containing 18 months of research data simply stopped working.
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No warning.
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No error message.
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Just silence where there had once been everything.
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My initial response was entirely predictable, paralysis followed by panic.
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For approximately two hours, I sat in front of a black screen and did nothing useful whatsoever.
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I think part of me was hoping the situation would somehow resolve itself.
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But then something shifted.
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I made a deliberate decision to decompose the problem rather than react to it as a single overwhelming catastrophe.
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I asked myself, what do I actually still have?
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Printed drafts.
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Handwritten notes.
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Three months of emails with my supervisor containing key arguments and feedback.
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Fragments, but not nothing.
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I took the drive to a data recovery specialist that same afternoon.
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While they worked overnight, I systematically reconstructed what I could from memory and from those scattered sources.
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I did not sleep.
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But by morning, I had rebuilt approximately 60% of the lost content, and the recovery specialist retrieved the rest.
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I submitted the thesis on time.
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The grade, remarkably, was the highest I received that year.
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What that experience taught me was not about data backup, though I now back up obsessively.
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It taught me something far more transferable, that a crisis is most dangerous in the first two hours, when emotion overrides cognition.
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The moment you impose structure on chaos, even an imperfect structure, you recover your capacity to think.
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And thinking, it turns out, is always the solution.
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Why this answer works?
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For things made that answer exceptional.
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First, an unexpected opening, instructive crisis.
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Not a big problem.
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A crisis that taught something.
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The examiner's attention locks in immediately.
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Second, honest self-awareness.
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Admitting two hours of paralysis.
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That vulnerability makes the recovery feel earned, not formulaic.
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Third, academic register.
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Decompose the problem.
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Systematically reconstructed.
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Impose structure on chaos.
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These are not just vocabulary.
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They signal a mind that thinks precisely.
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And fourth, a closing idea that transcends the story.
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A crisis is most dangerous in the first two hours, when emotion overrides cognition.
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The examiner walks out still thinking about that.
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That is band seven.
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Three phrases that signal academic thinking to your examiner.
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1. Decompose the problem.
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When most people face a crisis, they see one enormous wall.
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They try to climb a hole and fail.
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To decompose a problem means to break it into its smallest components, to stop seeing the wall, and start seeing the individual bricks.
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It is the language of engineers, scientists, and strategic thinkers.
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And when you use it in an IELTS answer, the examiner hears someone who does not just solve problems, someone who thinks about how to think about problems.
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Say it like this.
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Rather than reacting to it as one catastrophe, I made a deliberate decision to decompose the problem into its manageable parts.
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2. Impose structure on chaos.
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This phrase does something most IELTS vocabulary cannot.
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It describes a mental action, not a physical one.
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Chaos is the state where everything feels beyond control.
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Imposing structure means deliberately creating order, not waiting for calm to arrive, but building it yourself.
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It also shows emotional intelligence, the recognition that structure is a tool for regulating anxiety, not just for organizing tasks.
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Use it to close a paragraph.
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The moment I imposed structure on the chaos, I recovered my capacity to think clearly.
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The examiner has never heard that sentence in an IELTS exam.
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They will remember it.
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3. Emotion overrides cognition.
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This is your band-aid closing phrase.
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It sounds academic because it is, but it describes something every human being has experienced.
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Cognition means rational thinking.
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When emotion overrides cognition, your feelings shut down your ability to reason.
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Every person in that exam room has felt this, but almost no one has the vocabulary to describe it so precisely.
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Close your answer with, A crisis is most dangerous in the first two hours, when emotion overrides cognition.
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The solution, always, is to start thinking.
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Two sentences.
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The examiner stops writing.
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Looks up.
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That is the moment you secure band 7.
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Five minutes.
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And now you have a problem-solving answer that sounds like a person who thinks, not just a person who coped.
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Here is your challenge.
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Comment below.
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What is one problem you solved this year?
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And what did it teach you about yourself?
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One sentence in English.
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I read every single comment, and I reply.
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See you in the next one.
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이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트
이 B2 수준 말하기 레슨은 영상 “IELTS Speaking Part 2”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: examiner, structure, answer, cognition, crisis. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 107개와 단어 948개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 6:17입니다. 화자는 분당 약 151단어로, 일상 대화에 가까운 자연스러운 속도로 말합니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 78%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.
이 영상의 핵심 어휘
영상에서 가장 어려운 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 단어 | 발음 | 뜻 |
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| cognition 명사 | /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/ | 인지 |
| emotion 명사 | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | 감정 |
| vocabulary 명사 | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | 어휘, 어휘력 |
| react 동사 | /ɹiːˈækt/ | 반응하다 |
| paralysis 명사 | /pəˈɹæləsəs/ | 마비 |
| catastrophe 명사 | /kəˈtæstɹəfi/ | 재난, 재앙 |
| thesis 명사 | /ˈθisɪs/ | 테제, 논제 |
| overwhelm 동사 | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | 압도하다 |
| scatter 동사 | /ˈskætɚ/ | 흩어지다, 흩다 |
| thinker 명사 | /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/ | 사상가 |
| fragment 명사 | /ˈfɹæɡmənt/ | 조각, 파편 |
| vulnerability 명사 | /ˌvʌln(ə)ɹəˈbɪlɪti/ | 취약성 |
| regulate 동사 | /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪt/ | 규정하다 |
| rebuild 동사 | /ɹiːˈbɪld/ | 재건하다 |
| supervisor 명사 | /ˈsupɚˌvaɪzɚ/ | 감독자 |
따라 말해 볼 만한 문장
영상에 나오는 짧고 완결된 문장으로, 일상 대화에서 그대로 쓸 수 있습니다:
- Today I'll show you exactly how.
- I asked myself, what do I actually still have?
- What is one problem you solved this year?
이 영상의 문법
화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 문형 | 영상 속 표현 |
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| 현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때 | have ever navigated · has never heard · has experienced |
| 관계절 who / which + 절 — 사람이나 사물에 대한 추가 정보 | someone who does · person who thinks |
주의할 발음
- “th” 소리: thesis /ˈθisɪs/, thinker /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
- “sh”와 “zh” 소리: cognition /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, submission /səbˈmɪʃən/
- 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, paralysis /pəˈɹæləsəs/, systematically /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪ.kli/, catastrophe /kəˈtæstɹəfi/
한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:
- /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: catastrophe /kəˈtæstɹəfi/, formulaic /ˌfɔɹmjəˈleɪ.ɪk/, imperfect /ɪmˈpɜː(ɹ)fɪkt/, transferable /trɑːnsˈfɜːrəbl̩/, fragment /ˈfɹæɡmənt/
- /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: override /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪd/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, instructive /ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/
- /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, decompose /ˌdiːkəmˈpəʊz/, supervisor /ˈsupɚˌvaɪzɚ/, organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/, resolve /ɹɪˈzɑlv/
이 영상으로 연습하는 방법
- 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
- 0.75배속으로 한 문장씩 섀도잉을 시작하고, 익숙해지면 보통 속도로 돌아갑니다.
- 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, cognition, emotion, vocabulary 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.
쉐도잉이란? 영어 실력을 빠르게 키우는 과학적 방법
쉐도잉(Shadowing)은 원래 전문 통역사 훈련을 위해 개발된 언어 학습 기법으로, 다언어 학자인 Dr. Alexander Arguelles에 의해 대중화된 방법입니다. 핵심 원리는 간단하지만 매우 강력합니다: 원어민의 영어를 들으면서 1~2초의 짧은 지연으로 즉시 소리 내어 따라 말하는 것——마치 '그림자(shadow)'처럼 화자를 따라가는 것입니다. 문법 공부나 수동적인 청취와 달리, 쉐도잉은 뇌와 입 근육이 동시에 실시간으로 영어를 처리하고 재현하도록 훈련합니다. 연구에 따르면 이 방법은 발음 정확도, 억양, 리듬, 연음, 청취력, 말하기 유창성을 크게 향상시킵니다. IELTS 스피킹 준비와 자연스러운 영어 소통을 원하는 분들에게 특히 효과적입니다.