Shadowing Practice: CELPIP Speaking Task 1 - TIPS! - Learn English Speaking with Video

Ooh, this woman is going to take the CELPIP exam.

And she's studying for task one.

of the speaking test.

which is giving advice and she's using my book to practice wow i'm

so excited about that i want to say thank you

so much to everyone who's bought my book

and using my book to help them practice

and prepare for the cell pip test it's a real honor

that i can help you in this way you know i know can be to pass the CELPIP test.

It's not an easy exam.

It's hard and a lot of people have told me, you know, I failed like three or four times.

I'm trying so hard to pass this test.

I know.

I just want to acknowledge how hard it is.

and how frustrating it can be.

But hey, keep going, keep going, you can do it.

So I just, I wrote this book to really help you

and I just want to say thank you for buying my book and helping me, supporting my work, you know, subscribing to my YouTube channel,

liking my videos, commenting, encouraging me.

I just, I really appreciate that.

So thank you so much for helping me.

Hey, if you .cool and then you can download a PDF format of my book.

It's just in PDF format.

Now the reason I did that and made it in PDF format was just

so that you could have it on your computer

or you could have it on your phone like here I have it on my phone.

Anywhere you go you can just be looking at this and learning English.

For example, if you're using the bathroom, you can just be Reading my book.

Oh, hmm.

That's a good tip for task 3 on the test.

Okay, so it's really easy to get this book.

And sometimes people, they email me and they say, "Mark, I've booked my CELPIP test for next weekend." How should I study for it?

"Pfff, okay, you're only giving yourself one week to study for the Cellphip exam?

That's not enough time, you need more time." But I get a lot of questions like this,

so because of that I thought it's better if it's in PDF format because then people can download it instantly.

Okay, if it's like a hard copy that I would sell on Amazon or something like that, you know, the shipping time will take like four or five days.

So a lot of people, they don't have four or five days to wait.

They need something instantly.

Okay, so if you want this book right now, you can go to my website and get it.

But hey, in this lesson today, we're going to look at task one, giving advice.

And so in this question, you have 30 seconds to prepare and 90 seconds to speak.

What's your strategy going to be when you answer this question?

Well, let's take a look at one of the questions from my book.

Okay.

his driver's license and wants to buy his first car.

Give him some advice on how to buy a car.

What would you say in your answer.

for this question.

What would you talk about?

Well, I made a lesson a few months ago on how to answer task 1 on the CELPIT

and we looked at this example.

in that video.

Okay, your friend is looking for a summer job.

Advise him about different ways he can find work for the summer.

Okay now After I made that video, a bunch of people commented on the video and then they said,

"Wait, Wait, wait, wait, you didn't answer it right.

You made a mistake.

You didn't answer it properly.

You're not answering what the question is asking.

- Thank you.

And so, I mean, okay, let's take a look.

What did I say?

So I answer this question by saying, you know, by talking about an outdoor job, maybe my friend could get an outdoor job or a pizza delivery job,

or maybe, you know, a nighttime job.

Okay, so I gave these, you know, I gave these answers in my advice.

to my friend.

And people say, "Well that's not answering the question." Well, okay, let's take a look at what the question says.

It says, "Advise him about different ways he can find work for the summer." Different ways.

Hmm.

So the question is asking ways about ways to find a job, right?

And my answer talked about the different kinds of jobs that my friend could get.

So you're right.

There is a bit of a difference there, right?

This way...

this is talking about the ways, and here I'm talking about the jobs.

So, yes, you are right, but let's look at...

I mean, how would you answer this?

Ways to find a job.

What are the different ways a person could find a job?

Well, we could say you could look online and Um.. you could visit a job fair.

you could apply in person.

A job fair is something that usually universities or colleges hold to help their students get a job.

Basically, they bring employers and students together in a job fair.

That could be a good option.

Looking online could be a good option.

These are all different ways a person could find a job. So,

this is actually great okay this is a really good way to answer the question the problem is

that you only have 30 seconds to prepare for this answer.

What are you going to say?

It's going to take you at least 10 or 15 seconds to read the question.

So you won't even have like any time to take notes.

Okay, so your answer will not be perfect.

That's the first thing I want to say.

Your answer won't be perfect.

Don't try to get perfect answers.

And after you finish answering a question, just forget about it.

Don't worry about, you know, maybe that you didn't understand the question or you answered it wrong.

It's probably okay.

So just forget about it and move on to the next one.

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Okay, here's the other thing.

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Don't overthink the question.

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A lot of people, they overthink the question.

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Blake my example about finding the job, I think that's overthinking the question.

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Look, if you asked me in real life, could you advise me on different ways to find work this summer?

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I would think, sure, I mean, summertime, the weather's really nice, you might want to work outside.

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Have you considered looking for a construction job or maybe a painting job or a landscaping job or something?

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Oh, what about maybe a A pizza delivery job.

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You know, here in Canada in the summertime, the evenings are really long.

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and very often they're nice and warm.

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So it's really nice to be driving at night here, or in the evening here in the summertime, delivering pizza, you can make some great tips.

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What about working a nighttime job?

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Sometimes it's fun to work it.

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Okay, look, so you can see how I'm answering that question naturally.

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If you ask me on the different ways to find work, that's how I would naturally answer the question.

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So, look, it's important to be natural.

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Just try to use natural English.

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That's more important than being really technical with your answers.

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So with a lot of these questions, there's flexibility.

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You can answer them however you want.

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Okay, so look at this.

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Question your brother recently got his driver's license

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and wants to buy his first car give him some advice on how to buy a car?

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Is there one right answer for this question?

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No, I mean you could talk about Anything.

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There could be so many possible answers for this question.

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Okay, let's take a look at my tips for this.

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Okay, so remember, When you give advice to your brother, you're not telling him what he should do.

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You're just giving him suggestions.

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After listening to your advice, he will make his own decision.

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That's really important.

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You're not telling him you should do this, you should do that.

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You're just giving him some friendly advice and he's going to make his own decision.

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Okay?

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In this question, how to buy a car, is referring to the general process of getting a car.

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You know, what should your brother do first?

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Just tell them what you should do.

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For some people, take these kinds of questions too literally.

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They might focus on the word "how" and think, "Hmm, Pay money.

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Sign papers.

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You don't get the license plate might think about but how do I buy a car?

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Well, okay?

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I Like, look, you could answer that this way, okay?

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Like I said, if you give an answer like that, it's probably okay.

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But really, this question is not that technical.

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Don't overthink it.

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Just give him some practical advice on where he should start looking for a car.

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And then maybe tell him some other aspects of the process if you have time.

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So, there's just a lot of ways you could answer this, okay?

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So let's take a look at some some words that I will use in my answer.

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Okay, the first one is "budget".

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A budget is the amount of money you want to spend on something.

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That's a great word to use in this situation.

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For example, if you ask me, "Mark, what kind of computer should I buy?" My first question would be What's your budget?

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What's your budget?

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How much money do you want to spend?

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$100 $5 ,000?

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What's your budget?

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That's the most important thing, right?

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Second hand.

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That means not new.

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So if you're buying a car A used car, the car is second hand.

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Kijiji is a popular Canadian website for buying second -hand things.

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I've bought a lot of things on Kijiji.

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Craigslist is another website that's very similar to Kijiji.

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Dealership.

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A dealership is a place that sells cars.

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It's a building, it's a business that sells cars.

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Okay, lemon.

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A lemon is a car with serious problems.

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So you don't want to buy a lemon.

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If you buy a lemon, that means something major is going to happen with the car.

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You know, the engine is not.. going to work properly, just other.. you don't want to have all

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that headache after you buy a car, right?

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So don't buy a lemon.

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It's just going to give you a lot of problems.

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Private sale.

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That means you buy from a person, not a business.

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Okay?

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Haggle.

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Haggle, that means bargain.

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For example, if you're selling a car and I ask you, How much are you selling it for you say five thousand dollars?

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I can say hmm.

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I'll give you four thousand and You say, "Mm." $4 ,500.

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That's called haggling, we're bargaining for the price.

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Okay?

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Lowball offer a lowball offer means an offer that is much less than the seller is asking for.

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Okay, so if you say you're selling your car for $5 ,000 and I offer you $2 ,000.

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That's a really lowball offer, right?

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Some people make lowball offers when they buy things through private sales.

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Okay, now a counter is the reply to your offer.

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Okay, so if I offer you, let's say 4 ,000 for the car, and you say, "Mmm, no,

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4 ,500." That's the counter.

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You're countering with your countering my offer.

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So my offer, you counter, then maybe I counter, then you counter, then that's called countering.

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Okay.

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Insurance.

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Registration.

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Auction.

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These are all words that I would use in my answer here.

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So an auction is a place where people bid and the highest bidder gets the car.

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Have you ever been to an auction?

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An auction doesn't just need to be for car-- it could be for anything.

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Okay, it's a really interesting place that the auctioneer The person who talks to the crowd is called the auctioneer.

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He talks really fast like: "1 ,000, who wants 1 ,000, 1 ,500, 2 ,000, 2 ,000, 2 ,33,

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3 ,344, who wants 4 ,000?" He's talking really, really fast.

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It would be interesting for you to go to an auction sometime.

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It's sort of a fun.. experience.

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Okay, so here's my answer.

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to this question about giving my brother advice about buying a car.

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"Hey Mike, I'm really excited for you that you got your driver's license and you're looking for your first car.

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I've bought and sold several cars in my life so I think I can give you some good advice.

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Since you just graduated from high school, you probably don't have a huge budget.

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for a vehicle.

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The good news is that there are always lots of great second hand vehicles for sale.

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I just bought a 2008 Toyota Corolla on Kijiji for 2800.

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Have you browsed Kijiji yet?

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That's a great online community for second -hand things.

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Another website is Craigslist.

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I would start by taking a look on those sites and figure out what kind of car you want to buy.

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Some people prefer buying vehicles from a dealership because there's less risk of buying a lemon.

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Or there's less risk of the car being a lemon.

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Personally I prefer a private sale because you can haggle more over the price.

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Anyway, after you've found one you like, you send a message to the seller and ask if you can look at the vehicle.

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and go for a test drive.

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If you like the vehicle, Then you make an offer on it.

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Personally, I always start with a lowball offer.

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For example, if the vehicle is 3000, I would offer 2100.

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They might counter with 2700.

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and then you could meet somewhere around 2500.

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Okay, after you buy the car, you have to get insurance and registration for it.

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It's a pretty easy process.

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Anyway, I hope you find a great vehicle.

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Just let me know if you need any more advice.

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There's a vehicle auction once a month that I usually go to.

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If you want to come along sometime, you'd be more than welcome.

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Okay, so that's basically how I would answer the question.

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just talking about sort of the process of buying a car, you know, where should he buy it, private sale, car dealership, you know,

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you could talk about these things or you could talk about other things, you know, too.

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Like there's more than one way to answer the question.

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That I think is very important for you to understand.

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You could answer it immediately in a lot of different ways.

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Okay, so some people will have a very structured answer,

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and some people's answer will probably be more free -flowing. Which is better?

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Well, I think they're both great.

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You could get a perfect score using a structured answer Or a more natural.. you know, some people, they're very structured.

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You know, first you should do this.

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The second thing you should do is this.

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Then you should do this.

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Okay, that's a great answer.

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But if it's more free -flowing, you know, hey Mike, boy, that's a really great question about, you know, advice.

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Let's see, do I have any advice?

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Ooh, yeah, one thing, don't buy a Ford.

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You should buy a Toyota.

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You could just have a more natural, free -flowing answer like that.

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Both of them are really great.

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Look, On the CellPip exam, they're testing you for your English.

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They're not testing you on your IQ.

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It's not an IQ test, it's an English test.

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Okay, now, I mean, you have 90 seconds that you have to speak.

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Some people have a problem you know, coming up with enough things to say.

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And that's why I would recommend, you know, telling some stories or using some examples if you sort of are struggling.

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So I'll give you an example, okay?

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You could say, "My friend is a mechanic.

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He told me never to buy a Ford."

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He told me never to buy a Ford because Ford stands for "Found on Road Dead".

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"Ford.

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Found on road, dead." Okay,

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so this is sort of an English joke that people often use when they're talking about car brands.

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Toyota, Ford...

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Oh, don't buy a Ford.

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Ford stands for "Found on road, dead." Okay, so if you said something like this,

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talked about, you know, your mechanic friend and the advice your mechanic gave you not to buy a Ford, would that be Would that be good?

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I mean, is that answering this question?

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Yeah, I think so.

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It's related to the question, right?

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It's relevant.

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The question is, "Give him some advice on how to buy a car." Yeah, you're giving advice, you know, on how to buy a car.

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You know, maybe your advice is, "Buy a Toyota." Because in Canadian winters, you don't want your car to break down.

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You know, you could talk about what kind of car.

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you you you're recommending you could talk about you know I'm

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went to buy a car the better to buy car in the winter

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or the summer I you could answer this in so Many different ways.

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Okay, so I mean just relax and

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and just just talk now if you talk the whole time about Toyota versus Ford and That would be bad.

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The question is not asking what kind of car That's not really what the question is asking.

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It's not asking you to compare different makes of vehicles.

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So if you spend your whole time praising Toyota and bashing Ford, that's not good.

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You need to actually answer the question.

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Give him some advice on how to buy a car.

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Okay, so that might be one aspect of what the brand is, but that shouldn't be the whole answer.

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So does that make sense?

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You have a lot of flexibility with this question.

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but your answer needs to be relevant and you can't just talk about something way far out there.

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But I hope you can see in this example

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and in the example about the giving advice for the summer job that there's just

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There's a very natural way to answer the question and you don't have to overthink it.

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So try to practice that, not overthinking it.

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Hey, I want to know, do you think there's a difference in how you give advice in English versus your own language?

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What language do you speak?

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What's your mother tongue?

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Do you think there's a difference in how people give advice in your mother tongue versus English?

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You know, I think...

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there could be a difference.

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There could be a difference.

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You know, for example, people from Russia, they might be more direct.

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They might say, "You should buy this car, you should buy a car there, you should do this, you should do that." They might be a little bit more direct.

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Whereas in Canada, our culture is a little bit more indirect.

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We use words like, hmm, you might want to consider buying a Toyota.

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You might want to consider buying a car from a dealership.

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That way you can be sure it's not going to be a lemon.

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So, I mean, there's just sort of different cultural ways to to give advice.

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So let me know what your answer is to this question down there in the comments, and I'll see you over in the next episode of Mad English TV.

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Take care.

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you you you Bye.

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