Shadowing Practice: B1 PET Speaking test – HARRY | SPEAKING TEST 1 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Good evening and welcome to the Cambridge Speaking Test.
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Yes.
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Hello.
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My name is Harry.
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What's your name?
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Harry, I am Teacher Billy.
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Yes.
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And nice to meet you.
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Good to see you.
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Can I ask you two more questions before we start?
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Yes.
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How old are you?
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I am 12 years old.
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12 years old.
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Okay.
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And where do you live?
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I live in the industry.
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Okay.
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I live near this.
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Near here?
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Yeah.
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Excellent.
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Excellent.
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Who do you live with?
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Well, I live with my mother.
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Only your mother.
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Okay.
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So we're going to do different parts.
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And the first part is about your favorite subjects at school.
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Okay?
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So let me ask you first.
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What is your favorite subject at school?
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Well, my favorite subject is English because English helps me to talk with other people.
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because also the English is like the second language of each person in every country.
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Correct, correct.
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At school, how do you get there?
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Well, I guess I go to school, sometimes my mother rides me to school by motorbike.
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Okay.
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But sometimes I take my bicycle to practice myself and I ride to my school.
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Excellent, excellent.
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You like English and you take the bike sometimes.
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And at school, I want to ask you about one of your friends, maybe your best friend.
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Tell me a little bit about your best friend.
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Well my best friend he wears his glasses but he's very friendly but sometimes he's like he is pretty shy.
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He's not very happy
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because like his family is not very It's not always that you have to feel so sad,
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but I'm his friend, so I try to cheer him up as I can.
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That's what friends are for, right?
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Yeah.
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Excellent.
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Now I want to talk a little bit about your hobbies and interests.
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For example, do you watch a lot of television?
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Yes, but I watch a lot of television programs the most.
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Okay.
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It's on Saturday because Saturday is where I get my free time the most.
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Yes, yes.
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On Saturdays, what part of the day is most fun for you?
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Are you a morning person or do you like the time later in the day?
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I like to have my free time in the morning.
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Because in the morning I can do everything I want.
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But when I stay up late, my mother like yell at me, I don't know, why are you staying so late?
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Go to sleep now.
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Got it, got it, got it.
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And one last question about hobbies is do you like to go to the cinema?
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Yes, I absolutely like to go to the cinema.
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Excellent.
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I haven't been to the cinema in a long time, so I miss it.
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Me too.
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Okay, let's move to part two, and that is about these photographs.
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I'm going to show you some pictures, and I want you to tell me what you think is going on.
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Yes.
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In this top picture, we'll start with this one.
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This one?
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Yes.
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So, I'm going to show you some pictures, and I want you to tell me what you think is going on.
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In this top picture we'll start with this one.
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This one?
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Yes.
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So as I see, I see that there is a group of friends that is hanging out in a library.
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Okay.
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Well some of them are looking for books, some of them are reading books and some of them are thinking about something in the book.
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Okay.
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Like the books they are reading might be something like math, literature, Yes or maybe science.
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Like they have to think, maybe they are studying.
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Yes.
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They have free time and they want to hang out together and studying together.
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Yeah, it certainly does look like they're working together.
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Yeah.
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Very good.
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Any last details in this photo before I go to the next one?
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Oh, I see an iPad here.
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Oh, okay.
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An iPad, and also that I see that one of five these people are wearing here.
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Okay.
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And I feel like that the middle girl is writing something.
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Yeah, it looks like she's the one that's doing the writing.
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Okay, good.
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That completes that one.
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And now I'm going to do the same thing, but with this picture.
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Can you tell me what you see and what you think might be going on?
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Yeah.
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So as I think, I see that there are two boys, maybe they are friends, they are brothers.
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Okay.
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So they are hanging out together.
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They ride their basketball.
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They ride all along the park,
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all the forest and they found a table on the field they have a picnic there yes
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so two of them are eating
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each person are is eating a sandwich yes it looks delicious
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correct correct how did they get to this picnic spot well
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they get to this picnic spot by running their bikes yes i can see the bikes here too
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and I think the weather looks quite nice
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that day yeah yeah exactly what the weather is not
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so cloudy yeah it's very good it's not even windy is kind of sunny
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but some of these obvious is very good I think
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so I think so too yeah they they both look quite happy all right
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that completes the two parts about the pictures okay and now
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when I go here we are going back to three here oh and
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And this is a group of pictures about a boy who's
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trying to decide what kind of hobbies he might do in his new town.
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This is a guy who's thinking about these hobbies.
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And I want to first ask you to identify what you're seeing in these seven pictures.
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But does he have any spare time?
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He has some spare time, but not a lot.
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Oh.
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So, I need to turn this page a little bit more.
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So let's start with this one here.
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Well, I see that laying chest needs a lot of time.
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Yes.
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So, like, we have to think and sometimes
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that the appointments we are playing with will like think a lot when we put the chess in a right way.
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Correct.
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Chess is not a game that moves very quickly.
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Yeah.
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Okay, how about the next hobby?
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The next hobby I think is quite good for him because drawing,
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painting outside can help him to get more energy.
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Okay.
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Also help him to be more creative because he draws something he likes, he loves to.
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And if he's at the forest,
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he has the mountain, he looks all around the forest, that's really good.
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Excellent, I agree, I agree.
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There's another hobby above, picture above that one and what do we have here?
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Well we have here is a band, he can He can play in the band.
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He can play any instrument he likes, like the guitars or even the drums.
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He can be singing too.
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So it doesn't take too much time.
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He just has to sing or he just has to play the instrument.
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Do you play any musical instrument?
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Well, for two years ago, I played once, I played on piano.
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But now, a long time I didn't play it, so I think I don't remember.
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Okay, let's continue with a couple of more hobbies over here.
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Let's start with this one.
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I actually accept this one.
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It's a healthy activity.
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He's just running, when he's running with his friends, he can also have a chat, have a talk with his friends while they are running.
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Sure.
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He must be also healthy, but he can also talk with his friends, help him with his friends.
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Yep.
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and like he can run anywhere he know
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and he will you know more more more the way the
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neighborhood you can learn the neighborhood yeah there's a hobby drawn in in the street here
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but tell me about this one here i think they are fishing
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so they are fishing but i think fishing is not possible when he doesn't have any much spare time.
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Correct.
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It does take a lot of time.
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Yeah.
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Okay, let's skip down to this one.
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Yeah.
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Climbing rocks?
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Yes.
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So, climbing rocks is a fun activity.
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Okay.
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And it's not takes too much time because we just have to climb rocks,
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but we can also that we can like experience, we have experience
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and when we climb rocks we can have a talk with friends,
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we feel like hey this activity is very fun maybe we can play it again.
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Finally the last activity looks like to be football I think.
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Football I think is not also quite possible.
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A football game is about 90 minutes.
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Yes.
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Yes, an hour and also half of an hour.
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Yes.
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So it takes very long if we have enough spare time to play a football game, it would be really good for him,
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healthy for him, and also increase the friendship.
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It is running a lot and it definitely is healthy, but you're right, it does take a lot of time.
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Minimum 2 hours every time you play.
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Thank you for this.
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I'm going to then go back to this page here.
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And the last part is about hobbies.
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Okay, because we talked about this guy.
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But now I want to ask about your hobbies.
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Okay, what is your favorite hobby?
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Well, my favorite hobby is football.
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Football is popular.
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And I like to play football too.
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Excellent.
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Just because it makes me feel healthy.
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It's the first and then it makes me have more friends and I don't have to like play only myself.
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I don't play alone.
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I play with my friends.
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I can also play with my relatives like my brother, my sister can also play with it.
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My cousin, or even my father and my grandfather.
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They are very strong.
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Excellent, excellent.
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I love football.
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And it sounds to me like you enjoy outside activities more than inside hobbies.
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Yes, I enjoy more.
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Do you ever get competitive and is it very important for you to win these football matches?
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It's not very important for me to win these football matches because I don't have to win.
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I just need to be fun, I just need to be more healthy.
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I don't need to win or something.
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If we win, I just feel happy.
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But if we lose, well, it's okay.
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We don't need to be winners.
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That's all.
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Excellent.
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I have one last question and that is,
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do you think it's healthy to have a few different hobbies instead of just putting all your attention on one thing?
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I think that we should choose a lot of hobbies.
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We choose only one hobby.
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When we play only one hobby, we have our determination of this hobby.
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When we enjoy, we can't play this hobby anymore.
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We can't play another hobby.
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Well, if we play another hobby, we can like, if we can't play this hobby, we can also play another hobby.
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On a rainy day, it's hard to play football.
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Yeah.
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But you can go inside and do some chess or you can do some reading or computer games, yeah?
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Exactly.
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Excellent.
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Well, that completes this part of the test and I want to thank you very much for giving me such great answers.
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Yes, I also want to have my thanks for you because you asked me a lot of very good questions.
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Yes.
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I appreciate that.
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I'm appreciating that you're giving me some good detailed answers too.
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So thank you very much.
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I also thank you very much.
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Exploring a B1 PET Speaking Test: A Real-Life Dialogue
The video captures a natural B1 PET Speaking Test conversation between a 12-year-old learner, Harry, and his examiner. Their chat covers everyday topics like family, school, and friends, making it a perfect resource for practicing real-world English. The dialogue reflects common speech patterns—hesitations, simple explanations, and relatable stories—mirroring what learners might encounter in their own lives. This authenticity makes it ideal for shadow speech practice, helping you get comfortable with natural conversational flow.
Top 5 Phrases for Daily Communication
- "I guess I go to school..." – A casual way to share habits, useful for softening statements.
- "He's pretty shy" – "Pretty" adds emphasis, making descriptions more vivid in daily talks.
- "I try to cheer him up as I can" – A heartfelt phrase for talking about supporting friends.
- "Sometimes my mother rides me to school" – Natural phrasing for describing transportation with others.
- "That's what friends are for, right?" – A conversational tag to connect ideas, great for building rapport.
Step-by-Step Shadowing Guide for This Video
Shadowing—repeating speech immediately after the speaker—is a powerful way to improve English pronunciation and fluency. Here's how to use this video: 1. Listen first: Watch the video once to grasp the context. Notice Harry's pace and the examiner's questions. 2. Break it down: Pause after 2-3 sentences. Repeat Harry's words, focusing on matching his tone and stress (e.g., "English helps me to talk with other people"). 3. Focus on weak forms: Notice how "I am" becomes "I'm" and "he is" becomes "he's"—these are key for natural speech. 4. Practice daily: Spend 5-10 minutes daily. Over time, you'll build muscle memory for conversational rhythm. This method works for all levels, from B1 PET prep to IELTS speaking practice. For extra support, use a shadowing site to slow down the audio or record yourself for comparison. Whether you're prepping for a test or just want to speak more confidently, this dialogue is a goldmine. Dive in, shadow, and watch your skills grow!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Possibility with “might / may” might/may + verb — something that is possible but not certain | might be · might do |
| Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now | is going · is hanging · are looking |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | have to feel · have to think · need to turn |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | we're going to do · I'm going to show · I'm going to do |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.