Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 7.5 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Okay, hi.
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Welcome.
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Let's go ahead and get started.
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To begin, can you tell me your name?
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My name is Sen Park and my Korean name is Jung Ah Park.
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Can you spell your name, first and last name?
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My Korean name is J-E-O-N-G-N-A.
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Jung Ah.
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Yeah.
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And you have an English name also?
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Yeah, my English name is Sam Park.
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Sam, okay.
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Nice to meet you.
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Are you working or studying right now, Sam?
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I am.. none of them.
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Okay.
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I'm looking for a job.
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Okay.
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Because last year I graduated from Sunggyungan University.
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Okay.
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And I'm looking for a job recently,
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but the market in Korea is not that good right now,
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so I don't have any job right now.
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Understandable.
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What did you study in university?
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My major is psychology and I majored psychology
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because I wanted to be a profiler before
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because I'm a big fan of Sherlock Holmes but then it was different from what I thought.
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I regret it.
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Good
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and what is your hometown? my hometown my hometown is in
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Korea Changwon yeah I was born there can you tell me about Changwon?
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Changwon is a place next to Busan so people are more
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the Busan is more popular than Changwon however Changwon is popular with the cherry blossom.
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You know, there's a very long trail road full of cherry blossom during summer, during spring.
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Yeah.
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Okay, sounds like a nice place.
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And what do you like to do in your free time?
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Free time?
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I like to watch Netflix and listen to a lot of music.
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What kind of music do you like?
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I like hip-hop.
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Yeah, I like hip-hop.
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All right, now we're going to talk about clothes.
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Oh, yeah.
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What's your favorite color of clothes?
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My favorite color is green because it suits me a lot and I like the color of green because
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I like nature and green is a color of nature.
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So it's my favorite color.
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And what kind of clothes do you never wear?
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Never?
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Black and white clothes.
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Okay.
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Like mix of black and white because I like colors a lot so if there is no color in it,
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I don't like cat.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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And what kind of clothes do you usually wear?
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I usually, uh, brown or green.
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Yeah.
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As I said earlier, I like nature.
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So, and brown and green is a color of nature.
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So, I really like those colors.
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Okay.
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Maybe there's one more question.
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Do you wear the same style of clothes on a weekday and a weekend?
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It doesn't depend on weekdays or weekends because it depends on whom I meet.
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Like if I'm meeting a person who's much older than me then I will wear more polite clothes
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but if I'm meeting friends that are younger or about the same age with me,
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then I wear some kind of like a hip-hop clothes.
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All right, good.
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Very nice start.
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Now we can move on to part two.
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So in part two, you get a topic and you get one minute to prepare.
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This is your topic.
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You can take notes to prepare or any way that you would like.
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Here's a pencil.
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Just set a timer and in a minute we can start.
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Okay, and that is a minute.
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So, in this part you're going to describe an energetic person you know and you want to say who the person is,
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how you know this person,
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why you think they are energetic and explain how you feel about this person.
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Are you ready?
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Yeah.
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All right So the energetic person that I know is Tony Stark
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Though I know Tony Stark from the movie called Iron Man There are series of Iron Man one two three,
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but I'm a big fan of Tony Stark in the movie
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The reason why I think Tony Stark is energetic is first of all he is
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He I saw him dancing while he's working and I think it's really hard to dance and enjoy what he's
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enjoy his work when it comes to
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Like making money So I thought he's very energetic
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and second of all I consider him energetic when he's dealing with the villains
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like I never saw him being depressed or very very how to say sad about what when the villains were
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villains for
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Overtaking him so I thought he I'd consider him as energetic and
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What I feel about him is that he's very confident about himself and he's very cool and very independent person Yeah Cool
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Just a couple of follow-ups about Tony Stark.
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Do you know any other movies or shows that he has been in besides Iron Man?
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I've never seen him in any other movies other than Avengers or Iron Man.
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Avengers and Iron Man, okay.
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What kind of clothes does he usually wear?
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Suits.
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Suits?
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Like a business suit?
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Yeah, business suits.
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Is he a sharp dresser, a good dresser?
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He's a good.. oh no, he doesn't wear suits.
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He wears jeans and t-shirts.
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Okay, casual clothes.
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Yeah.
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Okay, good, good.
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All right, we can move on to part three.
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First question.
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What kinds of jobs need a lot of physical work?
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For me, I think jobs such as cameraman needs a lot of physical work
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because what I know about camera is that it's really heavy.
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I thought, I heard it's about five kilograms,
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but they're holding it on their shoulders for about 12 hours,
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at least 12 hours, I think that requires a lot of physical work.
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Sure.
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And what's the difference between the payment for physical work and that for brain work?
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I think brain work should be paid more than the physical work
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because brain work um requires a lot of time to be
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um how to say uh professional in the job field however
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physical work is doesn't really take a lot of time to be professional in that work field so
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why does it not take as much time um
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because for the physical work if they go to gym and work for for a month,
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workout for a month, they can be very strong and get a lot of muscles.
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But the brain work, they require a lot of,
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at least one year, one year to study in the field.
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For example, for me, I studied for,
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I would say, three years,
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three years, three years, about 12 years.
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I studied 12 years.
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So I think it is more valuable than the physical work.
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Yeah.
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And can physical workers receive higher salaries in the future?
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In the future?
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Maybe.
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Maybe about like maybe 70 percent.
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I'm 70 percent sure because recently there is a digital transformation going on very fast.
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So the AI can be more useful in the future than human's brain.
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So I think in the future maybe physical work can be more paid off.
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And do you think machines could replace human workers in the future?
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Not all of them, but maybe 50 percent.
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For example, like the work such as that requires creativity,
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that then robots cannot replace humans.
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However, if it's not the creativity per se,
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if it comes to such as like Excel or typing,
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just like simple works, then robots can replace humans.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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All right, really nicely done.
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We've come to the end.
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Oh, really?
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Come to the end.
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Okay.
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So I think you did a really nice job there.
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So now we can go into some of the things to work on.
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And remember the IELTS is scored on four categories.
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So there's fluency and coherence,
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there's pronunciation, then there's vocabulary and grammar.
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In terms of both fluency and pronunciation,
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you really have no problems.
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You speak with with only natural pauses occasionally as you're looking for a word
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and your pronunciation of single words is very good and your your sentences have a rhythm.
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So both of those categories are really good.
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In terms of vocabulary and grammar it's also really good I was writing down a lot
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but there's nothing to worry about but those would be the two areas to
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if you wanted to move up at all
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and we can take a look at a couple of a
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couple of things to think about there is there's not one single error
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because you did really well in the test it's a little small thing here
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and a small thing there one part in in part one
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when you were talking about your studying you switched a little bit back
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and forth between the present and the past tense it was mostly in the past tense
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and then a few verbs there was a few there was an is
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but it's important in those in those questions about the past
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to keep all of your verbs in the past tense
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so keep on that keep keeping in mind of
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that there were small things about subject verb agreement to I
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think at one point you said it it doesn't depends on
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but we want to remember that it depends it depends
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and really minor things around word order as you were talking about your hometown you mentioned
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that it was very popular with cherry blossoms we'd actually want to reverse those two we want to say
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that cherry blossoms are really popular yeah yeah
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so just minor sort of minor things and the similar things in part two and part three
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The other point might be developing your answers just a little bit more.
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As you get into those higher IELTS bands,
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you want to give slightly longer answers.
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Part 2 was a good answer,
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but I could tell that after we got past a minute,
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you started to run out of things to say.
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The only thing to do to hit the 2 minutes is to just practice over and over again.
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To give more details.
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To give just a little bit more detail.
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But it was a really well-structured answer.
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You started with describing who the person was and then got more detailed.
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So I could follow along,
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and again with good pronunciation and good fluency.
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It was good.
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Within that part two answer,
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there were a couple of times where I think you were looking for an adjective.
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Yeah, it was so hard.
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higher end of vocabulary the thing to work on is just just expanding the range of adjectives
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that you can that you can call to mind in a test situation
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but overall I thought it was a really good test part three was also it was like good answers
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that could have been slightly more developed but but overall really nice
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and these these grammar and vocabulary points are very small so Thank you.
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Well done and thank you for coming in today.
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Thank you.
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Nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you too.
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Grammar & Expressions in Context
- Complete Sentences: The speaker employs complete sentences like "My major is psychology" which reinforces the importance of clear and structured responses during speaking tests.
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