Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 7.0 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video

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All right, then let's begin.
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So could you tell me your full name, please?
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I'm Yuna Kim.
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Yuna Kim.
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Yes.
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Is it Y-U-N-A?
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Yes.
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Yuna Kim.
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Okay.
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And Yuna, are you working or are you a student?
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I was a student last year, but I'm currently looking for a job.
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Good.
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And could you tell me what you do when you have some free time?
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My free time, I read a lot.
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I like novels, short stories, especially by Hemingway.
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Or my most favorite book is Moby Dick by Herman Belleville.
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Or I listen to music.
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My favorite ones are Korean pop music.
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Yeah, or I go for a walk, something like that.
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Okay, perfect.
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Now let's talk about collecting things.
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So do you collect anything?
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I don't really buy things, but I guess I collect books.
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Yeah.
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Whenever I see books online that I really wanted to read instead of going to library,
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I like to have them.
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So I guess I buy books.
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I can say I collect them.
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Yes.
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And are there any things that you have kept from your childhood?
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From my childhood, a doll,
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a small tiny little doll.
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It looks like a bear.
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It can be teddy bear, but this tiny little one has a mole now.
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From like I guess being humid in the atmosphere Being too old,
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but I have kept it from my childhood since I was very little great and
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Where do you usually keep the things you need?
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That I need you mean like cell phones wallet yes Next to my bath,
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yeah, or in my bag, or somewhere I can see.
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Yeah, so that I don't forget them.
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Perfect.
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Okay, now let's talk about watches.
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So do you wear a watch?
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I only wear it whenever I go for something really important meeting
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or when I was a student graduate student when we had a conference or events
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that I really need to see my watch instead of looking
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at my phone constantly then I prefer to wear a watch
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but I don't really do it in my daily time daily yeah yes
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and have you ever received a watch as a gift yeah
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but when I was in middle school or high school not
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or yeah it was a gift for my college entering the college from my dad I remember
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that from the Jeju airport yeah when we travel but
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that was like the last gift for the watch
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that I got yes and why do some people wear expensive watches why that's a good Good question.
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There are some people who like luxurious things.
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Maybe it expresses their identity that it shows them they're important as watches that they paid,
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or maybe they just like them.
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And do you think it's important to wear a watch?
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Yes or no. It is important for those who think it is important.
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Or I don't think it's important because we always bring our phone with us.
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But I think it's good to not look at the phone when I'm in an important situation like a meeting or conference.
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Perfect.
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Okay that'll do us for part one.
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We'll go on to part two.
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Let's test now.
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Okay.
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Here is your question.
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You can use this pencil.
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You can do some note-taking taking there if you like so I'll give you one minute to prepare.
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Alright, you can begin.
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Okay, that is one minute.
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Okay.
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Alright.
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So, yeah, could you describe a rural area that you have been to?
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So, the rural area I went, I've been to is called 예산 in 충청도,
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which is my dad's hometown.
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I went there four or five years ago with my grandmother and with my uncle and his wife.
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He's my dad's older brother.
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We went there because I was just back from the U.S because I went there for studying as a graduate student.
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And it was a trip
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with all of them to please my grandmother
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because she was almost 90 years old and we haven't really traveled together
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so we took our dad's car to take everyone
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and we went to different places like like there's a big lake where we could take a walk
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or the famous restaurant that they serve like fish soup and then like the popular,
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not popular, but like a museum where they were the guy, like the famous scholar from the dynasty period,
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like in the history, historical area.
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And I felt really good
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and it was very precious time to spend with my grandmother since I didn't spend much time with her
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because she was always in the church.
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and I was always busy studying or working and we haven't spent time together.
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So I really liked going there.
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Perfect.
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That's two minutes right now.
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Okay.
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Nice one.
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Would you like to go back there in the future?
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Yeah, sure.
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Yeah, it's my dad's hometown,
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so we can go there and also my dad's sister's husband is there for farming.
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Oh.
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Yeah, so we can go there whenever we want to.
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Nice, nice.
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Sounds good.
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Okay, let's go on to part three of the test.
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Let's keep it going.
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Okay.
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All right.
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So what do you think are the main differences between cities and the countryside?
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The main differences can be the number of population
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that the city has millions of people
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but the rural area has very little young especially young people that everyone worries about the rural area getting old,
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that no one could work to make the city have like a young vibe
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and not many children who can take care of the area in the future.
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And the The city is of course very busy and vigorous,
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has 24 hours, 24-7 lights everywhere, never sleep, the city itself.
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But the rural area goes to off-light after the sun goes away.
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So it's kind of scary sometimes to walk around after like 7-8 p.m but not in the city.
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Yes.
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And so you mentioned there that many young people are leaving rural areas.
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Are there any measures that governments can take to encourage people to live in rural areas?
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Any measure?
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Anything they can do.
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Oh. If they offer money.
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Yes.
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But enough money to make a living in rural areas or some jobs that young people can take.
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or may create some fun things,
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not only jobs but also fun things like music festival or cinema,
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the theater, outdoor activities that young parents and children can enjoy that might bring young people to rural areas.
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Yes, yes.
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And what kind of people like to live in rural areas?
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People who prefer to live in a slower mode, not as fast-paced.
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those who like to live with people like neighbors who can say hi,
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who like to spend some time in nature instead of being in a crowded noisy
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yeah places in city
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and for older people do you think rural areas are more suitable for them
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or our cities more suitable depends on what they need
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if they are from city if they spend their whole life in the city, they might prefer to live with their children
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or in the daycare center for
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the elderly.
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But if they are from the rural areas,
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then they might not want to move to other places because just because they're familiar with it.
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Yes.
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And do people in your country like to go hiking?
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Yeah, yeah a lot.
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I also like for hiking and I see a lot of people walking
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with the sticks and hiking equipment as if they are going to Himalaya Mountain or something.
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Right.
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True.
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Okay.
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All right.
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That will do us for part three.
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So we've finished the test.
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All right.
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Yeah.
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So let's start with the feedback now.
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So I'd estimate your score to be around a seven.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Really good test you're very good pronunciation and fluency you speak very clearly you answered the questions well
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let's just talk about a few parts of the test that maybe we could improve on when you talked about
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let's talk about vocabulary first
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when you talked about the city i think you said the
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word like vigorous was it maybe vibrant would be a better word there cities are vibrant or lively yeah
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and when you've mentioned a slower mode and afterwards you mentioned pace right
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so I think it's better to say slower pace of life
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like rural areas have a slower pace of life compared to
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larger cities you mentioned daycare center for older people do you
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mean like a nursing home is it yeah maybe nursing home is better there
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so nursing home as in where they stay yeah community center you You could also use more for activities for older people,
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so community centers in rural areas.
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What about nursery?
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Nursery sounds more for very young children, yeah.
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So I'd probably say like nursing home or...
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Nursing home, community...
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Community center, yeah.
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Community center is more for organizing activities for older people and for everyone, basically.
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Yeah, as I said, pronunciation was really good.
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I would say just a little bit of confusion between leave and live.
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Right.
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A little bit there with the long and the short vowel, you know.
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So just make sure you try and get a little bit shorter, live in rural areas.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, in terms of grammar, grammar is pretty strong most of the way.
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Small things like you said, go to library.
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Usually we say the library.
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So, yeah, I used to go to the library.
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I often go to the library.
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Go for really important meeting.
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So you should be saying go to a.
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If I go to a really important meeting, I wear a watch to check the time.
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When we talked about part two, this is a common one in part two.
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You talked about your family trip and you said we haven't really traveled together
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so you use the present perfect tense but you should use the past perfect tense like
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before that trip we hadn't traveled together before that was our first trip together or yeah
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and same thing like you use past simple i think this
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was okay here you said i didn't spend much time with
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her in the past like you could also say like i hadn't spent i hadn't spent much time with before
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that trip if it changed.
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Small things about countable and uncountable, I think he said very little young people,
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so that's for the uncountable nouns, so it should be very few young people live in rural areas.
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When the sun goes away, should be when the sun goes down, when the sun goes down or or simply when the sun sets.
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When we talk about hiking, I think you said like go for hiking.
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You can, two options there, you can say go plus ing,
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so go hiking, or go for a hike, go for a hike.
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The same way with like running, go running, go for a run.
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So yeah, but really, really clear test, really nice, nicely answered questions.
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So yeah, thank you for coming in.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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All right.

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