Shadowing Practice: IELTS SPEAKING 9.0 | Mock Test with Full Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video

Good evening, my name is Adel Malik and I'm your today's speaking mock test examiner.

Can I know your full name please?

Good evening, my name is Mamora Yuldashova.

Alright, and how can I call you?

You can call me Mamora.

Alright, Mamora.

Let's get started.

Let's talk about where you live.

Could you please describe your hometown a little?

Yes, I was born and raised in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

It's the capital of this country and this is located in Central Asia, the heart of Asia.

Although I've spent most of my life in another country, I am so proud to call this place my home.

The people are so friendly, hospitable, and pretty much if you can make good money, you can find everything here.

So this is one thing I like about living here.

We have all the amenities nearby.

I live in the city center, and I am the kind of person that enjoys a fast-paced life.

So the place that I live is actually perfect for my personality.

Perfect.

All right.

Let's carry on to talk about art.

Do you like art generally?

I don't think I would exist if art didn't.

Yes, art is like half my life.

It's my passion.

I consider myself a creative person.

You know, there's a creative and a scientific.

I'm more of an artistic person.

Ever since I was young, I've been drawn to drawing any kind of painting.

I've admired paintings.

And although to this day I'm not as free in terms of time to do any art, I do appreciate art a lot.

Great.

Do you like modern art or traditional one?

I don't really have a clear preference.

I'm more into paintings, be it traditional or modern.

Although, you know, some people actually go into art galleries and stare at big wall posters with only like a dot.

Not that kind of art.

I'm more into like landscape art, so whether it's traditional or modern.

Besides that, I'm also into any kind of digital art.

I know that's the demand for today's modern world.

So I don't really have a preference.

It's just any kind of art is beautiful.

Great.

So let's talk about stages in life.

At what age do you think people are the happiest?

The happiest?

Yeah.

Well, that's a tough question.

I would say maybe early youth, maybe around the ages of 18, 19 through 25.

That's when people consider themselves young and they're just learning about themselves, they're discovering their interests, their passions,

what makes them happy, what doesn't make them happy.

That's usually the time when people finish school and they can kind of branch out into a specific career field.

So I think they're the happiest at that age.

OK.

What did you often do with your friends in your childhood?

Well, as I said, I grew up in Tashkent.

And Uzbek people are known for sending their kids off the street to play with the other neighborhood kids.

And that's pretty much my childhood summed up in a sentence.

I spent most of my time as a child playing with my friends on the street.

It was pretty much we were all neighbors, and especially summers.

I remember we had all kinds of games.

We didn't have any digital tools like phones or computers, so all of our free time was spent just playing,

like running around, playing hopscotch or jumping rope or playing ball.

All right.

Do you enjoy being the age you are now?

Yes, of course.

I think anyone would say that.

I don't consider myself really old.

I don't consider myself really young.

I consider myself good enough for this life

and my age has given me my experience and all of the years

that i've lived have shaped me into who i am today so yes i do enjoy i like my age great

now we're going to move on to part two where i

will give you a topic for you to talk about for around one to two minutes

and um don't worry

if i stop you in the end um you have one minute to take notes

and prepare what you want to say and here's your paper

and pen so i would like you to describe a creative musician or a creative person you admire okay

all right i think time's up

so remember we have one to two minutes to speak about

and don't worry if i stop you are you ready yes please start now okay

so i want to talk to you about my little sister

um my little sister lives in new hampshire it's one of

the states in north america it's one of the states in the united states it borders canada

so it has really beautiful natural landscapes and forests and rivers

and i consider her to be the most creative person in my life

because she's so drawn to nature and she gets inspiration from nature

when she does art

and she's been involved with art since she was young i remember her in her room sitting until the

night hours just painting drawing anything she can think of

but now that she's grown up and she's married

and she's on her own she actually buys all the tools that she needs like really uh

professional level art sets like brush sets and paints

and then she goes through woods and forests and actually puts her easel

and draws what she sees and I think that's amazing to be committed to art

that much and another reason why I think she's so creative is because every day she goes to work,

she walks and on her trip she takes pictures of flowers.

Once she took a picture of one tree during all four seasons

and then she made a compilation of all of those four pictures and then she painted them.

So you can kind of see the transition of seasons from the perspective of just one tree

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and it was just really creative and amazing and

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that also inspired me as well when I paint

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and she was actually the one to gift my kids their first art sets.

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Perfect, thank you.

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So we've been talking about a creative person so far

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and I'd like to carry on by giving you one or two more questions related to creativity and inspiration.

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Now what kind of jobs require creativity?

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Well, that's a tough one.

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I think creativity is not limited to just painting and art and photography.

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I think there is some degree of creativity in any job on this planet,

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ranging from bookkeepers all the way to scientists, explorers, inventors.

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To be creative in your job means to problem solve and to be resourceful.

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And unfortunately, a lot of people in their careers don't really get being creative as important,

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but I think it is really significant in terms of how you deal with your job, especially when you really don't like your job, when you're having a bad day at work.

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When you're creative, you can make that day turn to a good day because we're pretty much solving problems creatively, not like traditionally in a box.

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All right.

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How do artists acquire inspiration?

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Like painters or musicians?

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When I say artists, I mean mostly painters.

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Okay.

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I think some of them get their inspiration from nature, from what's around them, from their environment.

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Other people might get it from memories, and that's very common, yes?

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For example, artists draw portraits of people they knew in their life that made a huge impact on their life.

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artists to go out to the fields, to the wildlife, and draw what they see.

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That's a big source of inspiration for many artists that I know.

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Aside from that, people can get inspiration from music, from songs, when they're just moved emotionally, and they can think of some memories they've had during their childhood, maybe.

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So they can get their inspiration from many sources.

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But nature is the most common.

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All right.

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Do you think visual media like film, photography is important in how news is presented?

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Yes, definitely.

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The way news is presented, it goes to different people differently.

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I would say people who are into reading, who are more literary people,

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for example, critics or editorial people, they don't mind not having visuals.

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But general public, like us, we are more visual learners.

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So when we see, for example, news, we tend to look for some kind of imagery in our heads

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and if there's an image video or some kind of photo provided

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that kind of helps us to understand what's being discussed

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that has a bigger impact on us than

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if it were just presented as a text now what can

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schools do to nurture children's creativity i think um encouraging children to be creative can start as early as

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when they're a baby at their toddler level maybe

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and they can be encouraged through play through free play through pretend play and also

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when they go to kindergarten they can do all kinds of

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media all kinds of artwork a lot of schools already do

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that and they're actually specialized schools for art that can nurture children's creativity

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so it can start from anywhere from actually giving them a paper

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and a pen or a pencil and say just draw something blue

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or asking them to use a specific source of some kind of material, like from Play-Doh or clay.

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It could be from any source.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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That's the end of the speaking test.

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Thank you very much, Mamora.

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That's an impressive performance.

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Thank you.

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Thanks a lot.

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From what I have just listened to, the performance was at a very good level, I think.

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I can hail the first part as something that's the way you started was very calm but at the same time confident.

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This is why I believe that many speakers at highest level actually hold themselves on.

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So there's no a tiny bit of hesitant.

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You're not being hesitant and you're pretty confident about what you're saying.

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What I like is about the flexible grammar that you're utilizing because sometimes you're going very simple.

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Sometimes you're actually going deeper into explaining what you want to say with different patterns of grammar, with, say, complex and simple ones.

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Vocabulary is really impressive.

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There's a lot of uncommon vocabulary, but still related to the topics that you're talking about.

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Expressions are very natural and there's another feature that I can talk about

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that students can learn is

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that ascertaining what the question actually means what the question is actually saying

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because in part three when you

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when I said artists you said do you mean painters

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or musicians yeah clarifying exactly that's great

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so candidates can't ask questions that's totally normal that's totally normal as long as they don't overdo

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that yes I think that's perfectly okay

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and I'm I'm I'm more drawn to the way that you use natural expressions on the plays.

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I mean, that was great.

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I mean, moved emotionally and everything small, but very, very unnoticeable.

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Because that's what band nine criteria says in both lexical resource and fluency and coherence, that it should be at a level that it doesn't require, it doesn't get attention.

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It looks effortless.

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And that's what you have done great.

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So I believe that with this performance, it'll be a mistake if I did not score an overall band 9 with fluency and coherence 9,

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pronunciation band 9, lexical source 9, and grammar range and accuracy, also scored at the highest possible score.

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And one more piece of advice I actually forgot to mention.

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Another example from Ms. Mamura's speech is

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that it's a common feature of a band 9 to actually

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go a little deeper into the analysis of your responses

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because some questions in part three require you at a band nine level, require you to make sure that you have to go a little deeper into analysis

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and explain what you want to say with deeper explanation, as you did in your performances about most of the questions in part three

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because just a shallow explanation doesn't actually get you to a band nine.

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You have to be able to go up

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and down in terms of the level of analysis that you do in your part three responses.

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So this is another great example that Ms. Mamura actually showed us.

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So congratulations once again Ms. Mamura, you are still showing that you still keep that level highest level

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and that's impressive band 9 score and hopefully good luck on your future endeavors.

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Thank you so much.

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This is really helpful.

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I hope it's helpful for others as well. Of course.

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Thank you.

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