Shadowing Practice: Full IELTS Speaking Test band score 7 l 2025 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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From here starts the speaking test.

This is the speaking mock test of the International English Language Testing System taking place in Ross Ives Academy.

The candidate is MG.

The candidate number is 01413278.

The examiner is Ross.

Examiner number 443533.

Good afternoon.

My name is Ross.

Would you please tell me your full name?

Hello, my name is MG.

You can call me M.

Perfect.

In part one, I asked you some personal questions.

Let's talk about work and study.

Do you work or are you a student?

Currently, I'm working as a data scientist.

And how did you choose this field of work?

I always been passionate about this field.

Long ago when I was a teenager, so I started studying computer science,

getting into university, graduating from the computer science and engineering and after that I got into this job.

Perfect and what do you like most about your job?

This job is full of challenges and you have to be always at the tip of the technology,

learn a lot of new things and keep up with the tools and new emerging technologies.

So that is what I like about it.

So you don't get into a daily routines that is nothing new and you constantly learning.

And would you like to keep working in this field?

Yeah, as long as I can.

I'm trying to learn more and just staying in this job is very challenging

but of course I want to stay in this job.

Now let's talk about hobbies and free time.

What do you usually do in your free time?

I'm very active in my free time.

Normally do physical activities, go to gym

or I do go running outside most of the time

when it's summer but in winter I go to gym or go swimming pool.

But in winter also I'm very interested in snowboarding.

How important is it for you to have hobbies?

I think having hobbies, in my case sport is very important in your healthy lifestyle.

So that's why I like it a lot

and I think it's very necessary

if you want to stay healthy in your life as well as in being active

and have a very long journey in your job and keep doing that.

Do you prefer indoor or outdoor activities?

I do prefer going outdoor and do outdoor activities.

Running outside is one of the main things I do in summer.

But because in Canada, winter is very cold, you cannot do that through the year.

so I normally stay inside in winter but sometimes I go snowboarding when the temperature is not that harsh.

And do you like spend your free time with your friends or alone?

I like both of it, depends.

In some cases you need to be around your friends, have fun, parties like that.

But I enjoy having time on my own,

just spending with myself, just reading books, maybe watching movies alone.

That actually is one of my...

Okay, now let's talk about shopping.

Do you like shopping?

I'm not a fan of shopping but when it's necessary I have to go.

Okay and how often do you go shopping?

I try to avoid it as long as is possible but normally I go just maybe every couple of months,

not very often.

Okay, so do you prefer shopping in stores or online?

Both are good.

It depends on the what you want to shop.

If it's clothing, you want to try it on.

You go to the store, you find it, you need to see the texture,

the how fit they are, and then you pick it.

So when you

try to do online shopping in these cases you cannot see exactly

if it fits or even the color could be very different when you go to the store.

What do you usually shop for?

Most of my shoppings are clothing and not other things.

Okay so this is the end of the first part Now we move on to the second part.

I'm going to give you a topic and I'd like you to talk about it for up to two minutes.

Before you talk, you'll have one minute to think about what you're going to say.

And you can make notes if you wish.

Do you understand?

Sure.

Okay.

So here is the pen and the paper.

And you have to describe an important event in your life that had a significant impact on you.

Okay, thank you.

No problem.

and your one minute of preparation starts now.

You So

your one minute of preparation is over you can start speaking now all right

I think the most important event in my life was my marriage.

It had a very major impact in my life and happened 12 years ago at the university where I met my wife.

And I think it entirely changed my life, the way I was living,

the way I was having my routine every day.

So it was very positive, I guess.

In my case, everything happened.

It changed myself too.

So I grew into my marriage

and learned a lot of stuff during these past 12 years

and so I think that was very impactful in my life

because also she was very supportive in my job helped me to get through difficult times

and learn a lot so I think that was very important

and the other thing is that what you learn through this time when for myself this marriage

you become a different person so you learn how to live in a

you know life with another person because you're always with yourself alone

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and you're a bachelor you're doing everything you want you don't have a limitations through the time

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when you're at home and responsibilities you have everything changes so

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that that has been all things I learned and I think all of it was very positive for myself.

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Okay so this is the end of the second part please hand me back the pen and paper thank you.

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So we've been talking about an important event in your life

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that had a significant impact on you

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and I'd now like to ask you some related questions how

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do major life events such as moving to a new city

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or changing jobs affect a person's routine um i can say it through my experience uh

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so i recently did that i moved from another city to here

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and it just changed everything you've been doing so you have a very

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fix routine every day

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when to wake up what to do you know the plan

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of the day what you want what you can do

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but uh these kind of changes uh make you make your

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life more chaotic you don't know what comes next in a short time in very temporary uh

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so that's what happened in my life until i we found our apartment our house

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so where to live and again finding the past where how to go to the work

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and all those things so it requires a lot of efforts to learn what to do

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and bring it back to where it was in the past routine you have okay

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so in your opinion is it easier to adopt to positive or negative life events?

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It's good to be, it's good to be for you easier to adopt to positive things

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but mostly negative things is easier to adjust with it and you stick with it because it's easier.

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So I think.

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In what way?

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So you don't have to plan, for example, for your day, for your next week.

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So that is negative things if you don't need to do it.

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If you had it previously, this good routine that it was positive in your life,

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that you were just getting better in your job and getting promotion, all those things, learning new things.

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But negative thing is that just abandon all of that.

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So I think it's easier to adopt the negative things, but it's better to do positive.

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And that's what I try to do.

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It's very difficult.

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It requires a lot of effort.

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Okay.

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So do you think that people learn more from their success or their failure?

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I think this is a very well-known quote that you learn more from your failures and defeats than your success.

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And the reason is success happens very rarely in your life,

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but failures happen a more if you don't stay on shore and just take the endeavors in front of you.

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So every challenges you have you learn one thing new.

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If you stay in your comfort zone you make no mistake

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so you don't learn anything but

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if you just get out of your comfort zone that's where you you come to the realm of unknowns

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so you make mistakes you learn things you become better

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and you gain a lot of experiences that you never known before

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and now you this part of your knowledge

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and your experience okay do you think people's attitudes toward significant life events change as they grow older?

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I think so, yeah.

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That is what is expected.

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So the older you become, the wiser you become.

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Because all of those experiences and events,

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everyone has significant events and major changes in their life and that impact their personal life,

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personality, and people learn from that.

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Everyone tries to not repeat the same mistake they've been doing before or they have done it before.

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But it's not very easy.

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Some people are very successful in that, but some not, but that's what everyone trying to do.

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Okay, so this is the end of the speaking test.

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Now you can just sit back and relax.

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Thank you.

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No problem.

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that was a lot of talking do you have any questions

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same thing no thank you very much i really appreciate

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that you give me this feedback because i know this will help me this is exactly what i need

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Although my job is hard, I enjoy doing this.

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You should be able to share with the professor and general.

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The last time I'm going to talk about the exam day, we should make sure...

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Okay, this is the last time I'm going to talk about...

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I also can't do it now for our generation.

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...it's turned out from a movie and talking about what's the name of the movie and film.

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So, we're talking about movie and cinema than or death.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Full IELTS Speaking Test band score 7 l 2025”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: learn, event, shopping, test. This video has 174 sentences and 1835 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:47. The speaker talks at a steady 124 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 91% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
hobby noun	/ˈhɑ.bi/	An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.
adopt verb	/əˈdɑpt/	To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
snowboard noun	/ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹd/	A board, somewhat like a broad ski, or a very long skateboard with no wheels, used in the sport of snowboarding.
examiner noun	/əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/	A person who investigates someone or something.
mock verb	/mɑk/	To mimic, to simulate.
depend verb	/dɪˈpɛnd/	To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
impactful adjective	/ˈɪmpæktfəl/	Having impact.
endeavor noun	/ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/	A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
chaotic adjective	/keɪˈɑtɪk/	Filled with chaos.
limitation noun	/lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/	The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
bind verb	/ˈbaɪ̯nd/	To tie; to confine by any ligature.
emerge verb	/ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/	To come into view.
texture noun	/ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/	The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
bachelor noun	/ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/	A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
abandon verb	/əˈbæn.dən/	To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
get through verb	/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/	To overcome; to endure.
keep up with verb		To manage to remain beside or just behind someone or something that is moving away from one.
sit back verb		To recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.
wake up verb	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	To stop sleeping; to awake.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Would you please tell me your full name?
Do you work or are you a student?
What do you usually do in your free time?
How important is it for you to have hobbies?
Do you prefer indoor or outdoor activities?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	we've been talking · you've been doing · they've been doing
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has been · have done

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 30 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like hobby, adopt, snowboard.

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.

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Key vocabulary in this video

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Sentences worth repeating

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