Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 7.0 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video
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All right, let's begin.
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So, can you tell me your full name, please?
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My full name is Min Jung Kim.
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Okay, Min Jung.
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And are you working or are you a student?
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I'm a student currently.
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What are you studying?
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I'm studying tourism and event management in Gyeonggi University, which is located in Seoul, Korea.
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But I'm also studying graphic design besides.
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And do you like your course?
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I love my course actually.
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In my tourism and event management, we learn about marketing, tourism, and basically all the events,
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like even the international conference kind of thing.
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So I'm very into it.
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And could you describe your hometown for me?
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My hometown is Busan, which is also known as the second capital of Korea, which first is Seoul, obviously.
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Yeah, I love my capital, I mean, Busan.
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Is there anything you dislike about your hometown?
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Well, if I have to pick one, I would say the humidity.
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Because Busan is surrounded by ocean, there's like when it's summer,
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like I get sweaty and then the humidity makes me even like stickier.
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So that's the thing I don't like about.
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Absolutely.
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Alright, now let's talk about colors.
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So what is your favorite color? color?
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My favorite color was brown but then it changed to purple.
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Purple, I like purple because I like the lavender,
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the flower, and I mean it's the color of lavender is purple
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and also like purple makes me feel very.. it's like my color, like my favorite clothes color would be purple so yeah that's why I like.
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Okay, And are there any colors that you dislike?
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I don't like color yellow.
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It's not because...
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Like, there's not obvious reasons for that, but I...
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Like, when I wear something yellow, like the color yellow clothes,
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that makes me look very pale.
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So that's why I dislike it.
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Okay.
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And what colors do your friends like the most? most?
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My friends?
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I think they like black the most
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because black is like the most common color for everyone so it goes with everything and also white the same reason.
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Okay and in terms of your home decoration what color do you think suits home decoration?
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Definitely beige like brownish color or like even white.
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because I think all my desk or chair is in color brown.
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So if I choose too bright color, for example, as like mint or pink,
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I think it isn't suitable for my room.
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Okay.
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Now we're going to talk about new activities.
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So do you like to try new activities?
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I love trying new things.
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I am actually an adventure lover, so I love trying new things.
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Yes, definitely.
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And are there any activities you would like to try in the future?
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I would love to try snowboarding because during winter, as I said, I am very of an active person.
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I love winter sports, but I've only tried skiing.
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And snowboarding looks so cool but I've never tried it, so that's the one I want to really try.
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Okay.
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Do you like to try new activities alone or with friends?
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I would say for the first time I would need friends to be with me
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because if I fall down they could hold me.
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But the second or third time it doesn't matter if I'm with someone or not.
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Alright.
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And have you ever tried a new activity and not enjoyed it?
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That I never thought of.
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I think I'll say no, because if I try new stuff, I definitely learn something from it.
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So even though I don't like it,
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dislike it, I would eventually know that I dislike this and learn something from it.
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So I wouldn't say I dislike it, I just like it's not my thing.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, good attitude.
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Yeah.
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Alright, that'll do us for part one.
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Let's move on to part two now.
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Give you your question.
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So this is your question.
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There's a pen or pencil, whichever one you want.
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Okay, so I'll give you one minute to do some note-taking.
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Alright, so you can begin.
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Alright, Dimension, that's one minute.
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Alright, so.
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Could you describe someone you really like to spend time with?
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Okay, I love spending time with my best friend.
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I met her in my high school time.
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I was in international school in China back then,
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so that's where I met her and We actually do a lot of things
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because she also is a very active person But we love staying at home.
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So like we would paint nails and watch Netflixes.
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Like we love watching American TV shows because there's like we can learn new language from it.
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And I think there's a lot of advantage of that.
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So those are the things we do.
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We also write letters to each other, which might sound a bit weird because, you know, know writing letter in front of someone who I'll give
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that letter to might be like a bit strange
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but we love writing letters so like we just do it anyway we also love cooking
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and eating a lot of different food like we would make pizza
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or like spaghetti or even like Korean food such as and all kinds of stuff
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also like the reason why I spend time with her is
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because she makes me feel very confident about myself she always cheers me off whatever i do even i failed making
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she always say hey it's okay like it happens all the time so i think that's the reason why i love
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spending time with her also she is very funny um i like funny person like
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so yeah i think those are the reason why yeah i
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stay with her yes that's about 150 there now okay so that's enough for that
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all right
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so these days do you meet her often yes i actually
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meet her the day before yesterday oh yeah well you apart
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from staying at home are there any other activities you like to do We actually stay at home most of the time,
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but we sometimes go to this like cafe, those are like pretty and like there's a lot of decorations for refreshing us,
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but like we love staying at home.
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Nice.
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Okay, we'll move on to the third part of the test now.
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Okay, we'll go on to part three.
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All right.
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So, what kinds of people are easy to get along with?
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I would say people who are positive would get along well or like better.
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Because I am more of a positive person than negative person
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so it just it just goes well it just flows like our characteristics
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if our characteristic hit off I think that's the most important thing yeah I think like personality
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and are there any personality characteristics that people usually find it difficult to get along with other people?
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It depends on people,
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but I might say introvert people is a bit more hard to get along because since they love staying by themselves,
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I mean it depends on that person, But like if she or he loves staying by herself,
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then I think that would be a bit difficult for people to get along.
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OK.
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And do you think people spend more time by themselves these days?
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These people, yes.
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Due to Corona, the COVID-19 incident, I think that's kind of the thing.
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I think coronavirus made me an introvert.
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so I think yeah definitely these days.
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Do you think is that a negative development?
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I wouldn't say it's negative because I've learned
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so much about myself during this period
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so it actually helps you figure out like who you really are and get to know yourself better.
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Yes.
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And do you think it is important for managers or bosses to get along with their employees?
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Definitely, because I want to be a CEO one day.
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I definitely think being a friendly boss is the way to make their company succeed.
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Because when they don't talk a lot, I mean talking and conversation is like the main point of getting along or like forming a,
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like making the strengths to move forward.
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But then if they're not friendly, I don't know how they make that happen.
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I want to figure out actually, but yeah, that's what I think.
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And in your country, is it common for this situation to happen?
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Like friendly situations?
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I think it totally depends on the situations because some bosses, they're really friendly, but sometimes they're over-friendly,
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which makes the people very uncomfortable.
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So I think it's important to keep this distance from people but still keep the friend like friendship so yeah,
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all right and Do younger people like talking with older people?
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Like I'm younger.
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I'm young people person So I would say yes
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because they have a lot of experience ahead of us
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because they live longer
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so I think they would love to talk to older people for advices yeah what is a piece of advice
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that older people can give younger people what kind of advice I got from my dad
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that don't be afraid and just try it
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that really helped me move forward
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because we tend to get afraid of something very easily
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because we haven't tried it yet
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but my dad was like don't think about it like how
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scary it is everyone got fear you just gotta keep
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that fear in your mind and then move forward and
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that really helped me all right that'll do this we'll finish there thank you all right
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so yeah to start with the feedback I'd say your score would be estimated 7.0 that says a good score,
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very fluent with good pronunciation and strong grammar throughout.
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Obviously there are some like errors that we can go through and we can look at to improve.
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If we look at vocabulary first of all, you used a lot of good phrases when you're talking about colors you're saying you know black it goes with everything, white goes with everything.
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Yes some nice expressions in terms of like errors.
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So when you talked about your major what you're studying
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and you're studying graphic design besides you could say that
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but maybe like on the side would be better yeah I'm
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studying graphic design on the side means like it's not your main focus it's kind of like extra yeah
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so you could say
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that just be careful with plural here we said like my
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dad gave me advices make sure it's singular yeah always advice
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it's always advice you would say some advice some advice yeah
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adventure lover right I think a A better word there would be adventurous.
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Adventurous.
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Yeah, like I'm an adventurous person.
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Adventure lover is not really a common collocation.
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People say like thrill seeker, that would be a common one, or an adventurous person.
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One thing as well with introvert.
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Okay, so introvert is the noun and introverted is the adjective.
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So when you say you're talking about people, you'd say I'm an introverted person or I'm an introvert.
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Yeah, either one.
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Yeah, so that's cool there.
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That's good.
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A few phrasing, let's just go through like two or three of them.
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Okay.
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You talked about Busan, surrounded by ocean.
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You know, surrounded is kind of like the whole way around.
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But I would say like Busan is on the coast.
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On the coast.
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Yeah.
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I would say like it's on the coast also you could say it's a coastal city either on
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but like surrounded means with more like an island it's surrounded
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I think what like Jeju surrounded by the ocean yeah okay one word we use as well
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that suitable sorry suitable for my room instead of suitable I
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would say suit is a better word there suit yeah suitable is more for like the situation
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Like if you talk about like a horror movie, it's not suitable for kids.
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Or like if you want to go hiking, if you're wearing like very thin clothing, it's not suitable for hiking.
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But when you talk about like your style or like a room, like it suits the atmosphere, it suits the room.
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Same way with your clothing, like oh it suits you, like blue suits you.
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Oh, okay.
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A couple of times, maybe like even...
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I said one time, even though I dislike it.
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And I think it was in the last question.
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So it should be here, even if I dislike it.
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Oh.
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What's the difference?
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Even if?
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Even if.
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Even if it's more like it's a possibility.
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Even though...
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It's like statement?
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Yeah.
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So if you say, I tried skiing last winter.
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even though I disliked it, because it's more definite.
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Okay.
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But even if, it's more like possibility.
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Ah, I see.
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Yeah, so when you're making like a general statement, even if I dislike something.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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What else have we got?
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Just in part three, just be careful with not giving too much personal statements.
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You said like, I got advice from my dad, I want to be a CEO.
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so in part three it's more about like people in general
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so just try
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and keep your answers more generally speaking rather than about you you can give it as an example
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but um for example the last one do the young people
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like talking with uh older people you're like i'm a younger person
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or what advice would my dad gave me it's more yeah
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general in part okay yeah well it was really good test
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overall you spoke really comfortably yeah thanks for coming in thank you all right thank you
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “IELTS Speaking Band 7.0 Mock Test with Feedback”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: color, advice, dislike. This video has 232 sentences and 2283 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:28. The speaker talks at a steady 139 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| dislike verb | /dɪsˈlaɪk/ | To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like. |
| introverted adjective | /ˈɪn.tɹəˌvɜːɹ.təd/ | Thinking about internal or spiritual matters. |
| surround verb | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions. |
| adventurous adjective | /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/ | Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring. |
| decoration noun | /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/ | The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. |
| hometown noun | /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/ | An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence. |
| characteristic noun | /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/ | A distinguishing feature of a person or thing, a part of mental or physical behavior. |
| depend verb | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition |
| lavender noun | /ˈlæv.ən.dɚ/ | Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family. |
| snowboard noun | /ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹd/ | A board, somewhat like a broad ski, or a very long skateboard with no wheels, used in the sport of snowboarding. |
| litter noun | /ˈlɪt.ɚ/ | Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals. |
| humidity noun | /hjuːˈmɪd.ə.ti/ | Dampness, especially that of the air. |
| hike noun | /haɪk/ | A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise. |
| cloth noun | /klɒθ/ | A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes… |
| ski noun | /skiː/ | One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get along verb | To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble. | |
| move forward verb | To cause to make progress. | |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| fall down verb | /fɔl ˈdaʊn/ | To fall to the ground. To collapse. |
| hit off verb | To play the first shot off the fairway. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What are you studying?
- Is there anything you dislike about your hometown?
- Alright, now let's talk about colors.
- Do you think is that a negative development?
- What else have we got?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've only tried · I've never tried · have you ever tried |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is located · is also known · is surrounded |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | University, which is · Busan, which is · someone who I |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 50 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: cloth /klɒθ/, thrill /θɹɪl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, brownish /ˈbɹaʊnɪʃ/, collocation /ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, refresh /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: introverted /ˈɪn.tɹəˌvɜːɹ.təd/, adventurous /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/, humidity /hjuːˈmɪd.ə.ti/
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 dislike, introverted, surround.
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.