Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 7.5+ Mock Test | IELTS with Charles - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I want to start today by talking about sports and exercise.

Tell me, do you like doing sports or any physical activities?

I do enjoy a multitude of physical activities, the two of which are biking and swimming,

which I enjoy the most because I grew up in a background where I had to travel a lot on my own.

I enjoyed biking a lot and also swimming.

I felt in the past that I wasn't athletic enough as my friends

and couldn't do the same activities as my peers could easily do.

But now, after trying sports,

I feel like I have a better ability to accomplish physical tasks.

Thank you, well then.

What kind of exercise do you usually do?

I usually do biking and swimming, which are my two favorite exercises.

I usually bike from my house to school every day for the past five years.

And I also enjoy swimming on the weekends.

Thank you, well then.

Do you prefer to exercise alone or with others?

From the two sports I have mentioned,

you can probably guess that I enjoy doing sports alone because when you are by yourself,

you can have time to think about your plans for the day

and also revise everything about your life from your work to your relationships

and just contemplate on like how great you are to have received a life like this.

Is exercise a popular activity in your country?

Oh absolutely yes.

The Vietnamese people love football and

if you go to any park in Ho Chi Minh City you will find people kicking around shuttle cocks

and also playing badminton because we as Vietnamese people we value our health a lot.

Thank you.

Well done.

Moving on now, let's talk about food and cooking.

Khoa, what kind of food do you enjoy eating?

I enjoy eating many types of meat but my favorite of which is chicken.

I usually enjoy fried chicken because of the crispy texture and also how flavorful it is.

I can vividly remember the first time my family took me to KFC when I was six years old.

Fried chicken was something really strange to me and I didn't quite like it at first, but over time I developed a sense of...

a sense of love for the meat and it has been my favorite food ever since.

Thank you, well done.

Tell me, do you often eat out or cook at home?

It depends on the occasion of the week.

My family will usually gather around and have a great family meal from Monday to Friday.

However, on Saturday to Sunday, we celebrate our weekend by usually going out to restaurants.

We went to a stunning restaurant in District 1 and ate steak.

Nice, lucky you.

Great.

Moving on, who usually does the cooking in your family?

Historically, it has been always my mom who cares about the food for the family.

However, However, in these times, the task is now being spread,

being distributed evenly between all members of the family.

So I am proud to say that every member of the family, from my dad to my sister and me and myself, can also cook as well.

Wow, brilliant.

And finally, for part one, tell me, is traditional food an important part of your culture?

Definitely, I believe so because traditional food embodies what our ancestors have ate for the past few centuries.

And it teaches us a lesson on how they live, what did they do to forage to survive.

and I can vividly remember the first time eating pho and learning the story behind that dish.

It is a dish that is made from the scraps of the cow bone

and it teaches me on how skillful we are at utilizing resources.

Thank you very much.

I'm a particular fan of Vietnamese food as well.

Thank you, Khoa.

Now please we will move on to part two.

Now in part two I will give you a question and you have one minute to prepare, okay?

All right.

Thank you.

So quiet, please have a look at the question here.

The question is, can you please describe a time when you gave someone advice?

So if I can give you one minute now, please.

So quiet, that brings us to the end of the one minute.

So when you're ready, please start start?

There are many occasions where I have to give a piece of advice to someone in need.

And the most memorable to me is

when I gave a studying advice to a charismatic yet demotivated friend of mine from my high school.

The story was I met them in a hallway in school crying

because their workload was so large and they couldn't handle all of it.

So I remember being very emotional and I put my arms on him and said everything will be okay.

I then gave him three advices.

First of which is that he needs to be consistent on all of his work

and not to just focus on the last minute, but he has to show up every day to be able to make a progress.

Second of all is that he needs to be well informed

and have lots of research in order to not be misguided on his journey.

And last of all is that he should also account for making friends

and just have fun because we are We are still students and he shouldn't put such a burden on himself.

I gave him those advices because I felt that he is currently being

so misguided and under so much pressure

that I felt the need to give him the advices that I took from my own experiences.

And I felt really, really,

I felt over the moon and a sense of relief after giving him the advice

because I know that I have helped a fellow student escape from anxiety.

Okay, quite.

So we'll now move on to part three.

And I want to continue talking about the topic of advice.

Tell me, is it always easy to give advice?

Well, I think most definitely not.

But it also depends on the situation that you need to give any advice on.

For example, if someone asks you on advice on how to fix your bike,

it would be really easy for you to give them.

However, for situations such as giving advice to people in a heartbreak or in depression,

it would be much, much harder because these people are experiencing extreme emotional distress.

And as fellow human beings, we must think, we must brainstorm a lot on how to care for our friends,

our family who are in these situations.

Thank you.

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Well done.

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Do young people today listen to advice from the older generation?

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Well, I think it also depends on which kind of advice that the older generations give to the younger ones.

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For example, we young people always listen to advice on stranger danger.

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We always listen to our parents about advice on not going out all alone or in the dark at night.

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However, I believe that over time the living conditions from each generation differ to each other.

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and some advices don't hold true anymore.

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For example, there are many cultural practices that are now not as acceptable as it was.

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For example, eating dogs.

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Okay, thank you.

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Interesting.

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In what situations do people usually ask for advice?

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Well, I believe in most cases, people ask for advice because they are in need of help help.

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For example, you would ask a doctor how to take care of your health,

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how to treat this disease and you would ask your teacher on how to study this material for example.

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And there are cases where you would ask your friend or your family how to deal with this trauma you have.

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Thank you.

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Good, well done.

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And finally, is professional advice more valuable than personal advice?

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Well, some people believe that personal advice trumps over professional advice because of how we are so intimately related to each other.

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Well, I believe that professional advice still has much more value than personal advice

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because the advice you are given is from people who have studied a lot on this matter,

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people who have dealt with it, have more experience with the matter that you're dealing with.

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So I believe that at the end of the day,

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their advice holds more information than people who might not have that much experience,

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even though they're closely related to you.

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Thank you, well done.

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And Kwa, that brings us to the end of the test.

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Thank you very much for coming in today and I wish you all the best!

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Good job!

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Thank you.

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Amazing.

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Now if you're happy, could we just have a little bit of a moment to speak about that?

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How did you find the test experience?

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I find it quite anxious.

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Yeah.

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Mentally taxing.

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Yeah, it's definitely an exhausting experience, isn't it?

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That's why I always tell students they should book the speaking on a separate day to reading, writing and listening because for speaking you need to look smart,

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feel confident and for reading, writing and listening you can be a bit more casual and laid-back.

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I would like to compliment you on your pronunciation and your grammar.

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I mean absolutely stunning the whole way through I was really listening quite intently

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and even with the difficult topics in part three.

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I mean advice is quite a difficult topic but I love that you used a variety of techniques, some people, other people, it depends on age or it depends on culture.

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I really liked how you did that.

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One more thing as well, when you were in the part two, I loved how you kind of showed emotion about when you talked about your friend,

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you put your arm around them when they were overcome with emotion and you helped them to be more fruitful.

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So that was really impressive.

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If I was to give you a little bit of advice moving forward,

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I would say that the two main things to focus on is fluency in terms of intonation.

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So I liked a little bit more of your personality like

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you have in class you know just to kind of show

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that personality come through example

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when we talked about what kind of food do you enjoy eating you can smile

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and light up and say well i absolutely love pho

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because it's a traditional cuisine of vietnam nothing makes people happier

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in this great country than eating a bowl of pho with the people you love most you know

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so can you see the intonation in my voice that rise

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and fall and you have that in class but

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and you have it in the test as well

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but just sometimes yeah

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when you're scared i feel like the anxiety has shut shut off the my intonation yeah

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but i have to compliment you you've got the difficult things

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right the pronunciation the grammar the techniques for answering beautiful really good

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so now it's just about kind of just relaxing a little bit more also

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because i really wanted to push for those higher marks i

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would say the second thing would be vocabulary just a little

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bit more advanced vocabulary although there were moments where it came through especially in the part two

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when you talked about your charismatic yet demotivated best friend i mean fantastic vocab

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also when you talked about the sense of relief

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and pride to help a fellow student overcome the emotions i mean it's beautiful

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so there were glimpses of it i just want you to try

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and bring it into the parts one

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and three as well okay uh just one further thing there was a bit of repetition of for example

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because for instance to demonstrate our but I did love

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when you said I can vividly remember

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and talked about your story from the past overall fantastic one

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I wish you all the very best yeah you're going to be a phenomenal student

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and thank you for everything yeah thank you guys thank you mr. Charles thank you very much

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “IELTS Speaking Band 7.5+ Mock Test”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: advice, enjoy, usually, example. This video has 178 sentences and 2052 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:01. The speaker talks at a steady 146 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 87% 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
depend verb	/dɪˈpɛnd/	To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
intonation noun	/ɪntəˈneɪʃən/	The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
vividly adverb	/ˈvɪvɪdli/	In a vivid manner.
emotion noun	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
charismatic adjective	/ˌkɛɹəzˈmætək/	Of, related to, or having charisma: having a form of compelling charm which inspires devotion in others due to their strength of character and being full of…
demotivate verb	/ˌdiːˈmoʊtɪveɪt/	To decrease the motivation of a person or a group.
misguided adjective	/ˌmɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/	Of a person: lacking proper guidance; misled or mistaken in one's actions or thinking.
stun verb	/stʌn/	To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness.
pronunciation noun	/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/	The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
vocabulary noun	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
fry verb	/fɹaɪ/	To cook (something) in hot fat.
compliment noun	/ˈkɑmpləmənt/	An expression of praise, congratulation, or respect.
grammar noun	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
ancestor noun	/ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/	One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather; a forebear.
badminton noun	/ˈbæd.mɪn.tən/	A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
come through verb	To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.
go out verb	To leave, especially a building.
kick around verb	To abuse or mistreat; to bully; to be rough with.
light up verb	To illuminate, to bring light to something, to brighten.
move forward verb	To cause to make progress.
show up verb	To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
shut off verb	To stop or turn off by closing something, such as a valve.

Sentences worth repeating

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

What kind of exercise do you usually do?
Do you prefer to exercise alone or with others?
Is exercise a popular activity in your country?
Khoa, what kind of food do you enjoy eating?
Tell me, is it always easy to give advice?

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	have mentioned · has been · have helped
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being spread · being distributed · is made
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	swimming, which are · people who have · people who might

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 16 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, couldn't, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, shuttle /ˈʃʌtəl/
Long words — get the stress right: intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, charismatic /ˌkɛɹəzˈmætək/, demotivate /ˌdiːˈmoʊtɪveɪt/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

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 depend, intonation, vividly.

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

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?