Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 6.0 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Could we start with your first name, please?
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My name is Hansel Kwon, but you can call me Hansel.
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Okay, Hansel.
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Nice to meet you.
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Let's start with a topic, feeling bored.
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Do you think childhood or adulthood is more boring?
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I personally think childhood is more boring.
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And as for my experience, I was very, I think my best experience was very bored in my childhood.
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Because at that time, I didn't have a lot of freedom, you know.
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But after I become a adulthood, I, you know, I can meet my friend and drink some alcohol and going to a party.
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Yeah, I can join those activities.
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So I guess, rather than childless, other truth is more exciting.
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Okay, I see.
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What do you do when you feel bored?
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Well, I am very outgoing person, so as for me, I like to go out and meeting my friends, and also I like talking with them.
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And yeah, most important thing, I really like to eat some delicious food with them.
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Okay.
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Another thing that we could ask you is when do you feel bored?
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Oh I think I usually feel bored when I
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stay in home alone because as I mentioned you before I am very outgoing person
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so I like to you know connected with some person so at that time I tried to
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contact with my friends or families via my cell phone, as soon as like that.
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Okay.
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Do you often feel bored?
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Well, actually no, because honestly I am very positive person.
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So when I feel bored, I try to change my mindset.
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So I also, you know, so I also listen to some kinds of K -pop music.
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So it changed my mood.
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Okay.
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That's very good to hear.
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Let's talk about friends.
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You mentioned them.
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Do you like inviting friends to your home?
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Absolutely!
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I really love it because I like to make some food to serve my friends.
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And I also happy to chat with them and share the cook what I made with them.
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So it was very happy for me.
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Okay.
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Do you prefer to spend time with one friend or with a group of friends?
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Well, I think it depends on the situation.
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Personally, at most times, I like to spend just with one friend because I can only concentrate on that person.
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So I can react about their conversation properly and also I can hear what they say told me more properly, I guess.
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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Do you have a friend that you've known for a long time, like a childhood friend or a school friend?
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Yeah, definitely.
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One of my friends named Seoyeon, she was my middle school friend.
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Then after we graduate from that school, we still contact with each other.
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And although we are working in another department,
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yeah, but we still contact each other and sometimes we meet and talk about our daily Daily lives.
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Yeah, okay, that sounds excellent Where do you prefer to meet your friends?
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I've put you tell me one more time.
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Sorry Where do you prefer to meet your friends like what kind of place?
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I? Do you like to go to?
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I think I prefer to meet her in cafes because she is really a coffee lover.
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Yeah, so she also finds some lists.
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She has some lists about some cafes which she wanted to go.
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So we try to select one of them.
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and go and will go in usually weekends I guess.
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And your other friends do they enjoy doing similar things or do your friends all like different types of things?
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Well it is I think varies from person to person so
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if I meet a friend who has really active personality then I try to meet him
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or her in front of Jim or like climbing.
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Yeah.
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So I think it depends on person.
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Okay, that's very nice.
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Do you often go out with your friends?
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Oh, yeah, a lot of time.
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I think at least one of At least once in a week, I try to meet my friends especially on weekends because I am a worker,
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so I don't have a lot of time on weekdays.
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It's very nice that you make time for everyone.
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Let's see.
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I think that's about it for part one.
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Let's call it there.
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Let's try part two.
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So I'm going to give you your topic here.
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You'll have one minute to make notes.
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And then after that, when you are ready, we can continue with that.
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Okay.
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Okay, so when you're ready you can start making the notes.
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Okay.
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Okay, um...
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When you're ready, we can...
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Let's start with that.
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Okay, let's start.
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I think there are a lot of inventions throughout life,
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but I'd like to talk about internet and smartphone because I thought they changed our life in impressive way.
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So I think the S4 benefits they brought is,
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you know, personally believe that they reduced our geographic distance.
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So especially when you are working in your home and you have, you are sick or something what happened to you,
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so you can go to attend to a real physical institute or worker place,
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but you can work or study in your home with your smartphone and internet.
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So I think they reduce some geographic distance distance and they allowed us to join some internet community or internal lectures.
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So I think that's the biggest problem, sorry, advantage.
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But I also think they brought us some convenience because they usually, as for smartphones especially, they are,
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we can grab them in our own hands so when you want
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when every time we want to search some information or contact with our friends,
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we can open our smartphone and use some fingers to scroll the screen and,
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you know, So scroll or swipe some screen to we can go to the information what we want to search.
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So I think those are the biggest benefits.
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And how it influences people of different age,
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I personally believe that it differs from younger age person and old age person.
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Because as for youngsters, smartphone and internet,
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could be a device that contact them to the world, you know, worldwide.
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And as for all the people, I think they think smartphones and internet could be very difficult to use.
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And I think it changes people's lives more convenient and became only one to the world worldwide.
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Okay, fantastic.
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You got a lot of information in a short time there, but it was well done.
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Thank you.
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Let's look at some of the follow -up questions.
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A big topic these days when we talk about technology is AI.
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Do you ever think that AI will replace human teachers?
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Personally, I don't think so.
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The reason is that AI is Although I don't have a lot of experience and knowledge about it,
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but I heard that AI is based on robotic and mechanic things.
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I guess teaching
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means that teachers need to watch and observe their students and find their strengths and weakness and try to build out them.
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So I think it couldn't be changed by AI or robotic mechanism or something.
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Okay.
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What kind of inventions can be used at school?
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Well, as I mentioned in part two, but I think smartphone and internet could be used in school because everyone now has their own smartphone.
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So if teachers told them to please open your smartphone and find some information on the internet, then they can use their smartphone on the class.
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And I think that would be more Also, it'll be more easy for teachers to...
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because nowadays, I guess youngsters and kids are more familiar to using some smartphones or smart devices.
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I see.
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What household appliances can make us lazy?
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It's a very funny question, but I personally think robotic vacuum cleaner,
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they make us more lazier than before.
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to use our own vacuum cleaner to clean our house.
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However, we use some remote controller to use our robotic machine,
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then they can go to the blower and clean our dust or something on the blower.
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So I think it makes us more lazier than before.
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Do you have one?
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No, unfortunately, I don't have one.
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In the future, maybe.
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Yeah, really.
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- What do you think is the most helpful invention at home?
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Personally, I think laundry machine is the most beneficial one because, you know, at the best,
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we at test, we have to go to the stream and we spread all laundry and do some mechanical,
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you know, punch or some punch to wash our laundry.
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However, after it invented, we put all under is laundry machine and use some washing function.
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And also it has some dry function.
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So I guess it is really convenient for a person, especially people who are living alone.
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So they can, when they want to put the new clothes, they just put all the
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all the stuff in the laundry machine and they go to wash
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and dry and after that they could put it once again.
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Okay.
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Another question that I...
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C is often asked in discussions about AI would be whether you use it at work or not.
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That's a hot topic.
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Okay.
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So do you use AI in your job?
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Well, actually I am now currently working as a nurse in a hospital. So...
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Hopefully you don't.
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Yes, unfortunately I don't use AI.
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But I heard that, you know, nursing association and the government tried to use some AI technology in our medical service system,
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especially electronic medical devices and some recording systems.
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So I guess they will install that Yeah, as soon as possible, I guess.
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Okay, so it's used more on the, not on the nursing side, but rather like the administration side?
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Yeah, I guess so.
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Okay.
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Do you think AI would help you a lot if they were to use that for those types of things?
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for example, they go to operation or they do some emergency situation.
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At that time, we don't have doctors,
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but we tried to deal with problematic and difficult patients with emergency situation or something else.
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At that time, I think AI could help us because it has some protocol.
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So I think it would allow nurses to give some protocol to deal with the difficult and emergency situation like that.
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I see.
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Okay, I think that's it for part three as well.
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Thank you very much.
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Okay.
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Let's have a look at our evaluation here.
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I think if I had to give you a score personally, I would go for a 6 .6 .0.
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do you want to hear the positive or the negative first well negative first okay in terms of negatives
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I think there's a bunch of small things
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that are holding you back from getting like a 6 .5 or a higher score.
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It's grammar.
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Ah, I know I have some problem with articles and some plural.. plurals?
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Yeah.
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Plurals, articles, and just sometimes like choice of words.
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Ah, yeah, I know I have those kinds of, you know, drawbacks.
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It's something like the difference between bored and boring.
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I think there was one case where you said you felt boring.
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In like normal communication, obviously I know what you mean.
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But in the taste, Context, I think that's something that they would mark you down on.
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You know, using the right form, "I feel bored" or "the situation is boring." Like being able to distinguish between those.
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I think another example of that you were talking about
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um just trying to think of the right way you said it you said when i was adulthood Oh, yeah.
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We would rather say when I'm an adult.
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Adulthood is like the condition or the time of your life.
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But you are an adult.
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Same for child and childhood.
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another little mistake was like saying connected instead of connect yeah or to show my cook
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to show my cooking would be the correct way.
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- Yeah, cooking, right, right.
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It's little things like those that you can improve on.
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And I think if you were to improve on that, and you spoke with the same confidence that you did today, I think you could get a 6 .5.
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That is something you could aim for.
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Right there, I bring you into the positives.
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You spoke with a lot of confidence.
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Is that an advantage?
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Yeah, of course.
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Confidence.
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What I really liked is
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not just your confidence but also the fact that you could keep speaking we also look for that
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you're not hesitating you're continuing to speak you you can carry a conversation Like those are all positive things.
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The only negative thing that I could say about that you speak a little bit too fast sometimes.
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Yeah, I know that.
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It's like you, especially in the part two, you got a lot of information in like two minutes.
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So I don't know if it's that your natural way of speaking.
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Yeah, because I speak a similar tone with Korean too.
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So I know that although some patients also complain me about that, but I'm sorry.
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But you can hear my pronunciation like this.
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Yeah, like I think speaking too quickly, if that's your normal way of speaking, it's harder to fix that habit.
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But I would say if you're in a test, try to think of it as a test, try to slow down a little bit.
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I'm thinking of it not just in terms of me understanding you, like I can understand you just fine.
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But if you speak very quickly, I'm always worried that a student who does that, you kind of trip over your own words.
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Like you speak too quickly, maybe you get confused.
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by speaking too quickly.
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So I'm just worried about that.
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Okay.
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So if you're speaking too quickly, just slow down.
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Give yourself some time to think about what you're saying.
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Otherwise, another interesting one was talking about mechanical work.
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When you did like the explained about the washing, we could say that is manual work.
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Or physical work.
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That would be a better term to use, but...
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So I guess maybe a little bit of Konglish there.
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I think so.
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But yeah, otherwise, I think those are the negatives and the positives.
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I think overall definitely a 6.
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Um.
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I think a big benefit for you is your confidence
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because once you step out of like the IELTS world and you go into normal life
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being able to communicate is also very important and the fact that you have that confidence and that willingness to speak
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It's very good for you.
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So, yeah, try to keep that in mind as you're going forward.
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Okay, thank you.
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Any questions from your side? Is that...
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Well, actually, I don't have any other I don't think about taking another AIA's exam, but I'm just curious about,
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is it separated, you know, normal conversation words and AIA's conversation words is different?
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You're not graded or judged in a normal conversation.
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Oh, I got it.
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Like in a test situation, there's always criteria, things that we look for in order to give you a grade.
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Okay, but in real life The most important thing is being understood.
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I think in any test.
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It's the same as when you studied for nursing and when you do the job itself.
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There's a lot of things that you do take from your course that you did study.
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but there's also other things that the studying doesn't cover.
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I think it's good to look at IELTS in that way.
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IELTS can give you a lot of skills.
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But just because you can do IELTS doesn't always mean
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You'll be perfect in real life like you have to approach it in
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that way think of it as giving you a lot of benefits But after you did IELTS the work isn't finished
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much as well.
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Thank you so much.
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Why practice speaking with this video?
This IELTS Speaking Band 6.0 mock test video provides an excellent opportunity for English learners to practice their speaking skills in a realistic context. By engaging with the content, you not only familiarize yourself with typical speaking test questions but also gain insights into effective response strategies. The speaker, Hansel, shares personal experiences and opinions, making it easier for learners to connect with the material. Practicing with this video allows you to develop fluency, confidence, and the ability to convey your thoughts clearly, which are essential for achieving a high band score in the IELTS exam.
Grammar & Expressions in Context
- Expressing Opinions: Hansel utilizes phrases like "I personally think" and "I guess" to share his views. This structure encourages the speaker to present their thoughts more convincingly, a crucial skill in conversational English. You can practice similar expressions while using a shadowing app to mirror his tone and inflection.
- Talking about Experiences: Phrases like "my best experience was" and "I really like" help clarify personal anecdotes. By using these structures, learners can enhance their storytelling abilities and engage listeners more effectively.
- Conditional Statements: The use of "if" in "if I stay home alone" illustrates conditional grammar, which is key for expressing hypotheticals. Practicing these on a shadowing site will improve your grammatical accuracy during conversations.
- Conversational Connectors: Words like "and," "so," and "but" are frequently used to connect ideas smoothly. Mastering these can make your speech sound more natural and less robotic.
Common Pronunciation Traps
In the video, certain words and phrases occasionally pose challenges for non-native speakers due to their pronunciation or intonation. For instance:
- Bored: The pronunciation may vary between British and American English. Pay attention to the vowel sounds and practice saying it out loud.
- Outgoing: This word can be tricky; ensure you emphasize the first syllable and practice its rhythm through shadow speaks.
- Delicious: The 'sh' sound can be tough; using a shadowing technique will help you refine this aspect.
By identifying and working on these pronunciation traps while shadowing, you can significantly enhance your speaking skills and prepare for real-life scenarios.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is based · be changed · is often asked |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | friend who has · people who are · student who does |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've known · I've put |
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.