Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking band 8.0 - Mocktest đề mới Current house, Neighborbood, Making lists,Describe a goal - Learn English Speaking with Video

So good afternoon.

Welcome to the speaking test at IELTS FIDER.

My name is Helen and I'll be your examiner today.

What's your full name?

My full name is Nguyen Minh Tinh Đăng.

Okay, yeah, Đăng.

And are you ready to take the test?

Yes, I'm ready.

Perfect.

Now let's start with speaking part one.

And your first topic is current tells.

Which part of your home do you like the most?

I would say I like my living room the most.

Even though my apartment doesn't really have any specific division for each part of the house it is,

my living room has most of the things that I need, most specifically my workbench where I do most of my studies and work.

How long have you lived there?

I think I've lived there since fifth grade, which is about 13 years now.

Now let's talk about your neighborhood.

What's your neighborhood like?

I'd say my neighborhood is quite a social place

because all the people there are very friendly and they would welcome me in every way.

Most of the times I would just smile at them whenever I see them going around.

I also tutor some of the kids there so they are very familiar with me.

Is your neighborhood a good place for young people to live?

I would say not quite because my happy neighborhood has been around for about like 20 years or so now.

It's not new so people may have some procedures against the things that youngsters would bring to the environment.

So I'd recommend young people to choose another place to live rather than this one.

Now let's talk about making lists.

Do you often make lists?

I make lists almost every day.

Whenever I wake up, I would make a daily checklist for the things I need to do.

Do you prefer making lists on paper or on your phone?

I always make lists on my phone, more specifically the noting app that every phone has.

Now let's talk about staying up late.

How often do you stay up late?

It really depends on my schedule.

Sometimes I stay up late for about three or four times a week, other times just I don't really stay up late at all.

What do you usually do when you stay up late?

Mostly to chase deadlines and do the studies that I need to do and work for my other jobs.

How do you feel the next morning after you stay up late?

I think it depends on how long I stay up late.

If I pull an all-nighter, yes, it will affect me a day or two later.

But people always call me a night owl, so I don't really have any problem against it.

I just feel sleepy whenever I go to university, that's all.

Perfect.

Now let's talk about shopping habits.

How often do you go shopping?

I don't really go shopping that much because all I need is here and whenever I need something I just go.

I don't really have a habit of going shopping anywhere.

Do you prefer shopping online or in stores?

I would say I like shopping online more because one, you can get a lot of coupons if you chose the right store to buy in and you chose the right,

which is like the whole period of time to buy your stuff.

Have your shopping habits changed in recent years?

I would say yes.

Now that I have a job, I would consider spending my money more carefully

because I have to manage my financial situation very thoroughly so that I wouldn't spend any money on new systems.

Yeah, and that is the end of your speaking part one.

Right.

So now let's move to speaking part two where you're given a cue card.

Here's your cue card.

Now you have one minute to prepare for this question and after that you have two more minutes to present your ideas.

Yeah and your time is over.

Now you have two minutes to present your ideas.

A goal that I've set for me to achieve in the future

that I really tried my best was to become a professional voice actor.

It was in ninth grade, if I remember correctly, that I set the goal to become a voice actor.

To do it, I had to make use of a lot of things.

because back then I was quite confident with my accent and how I pronounce things.

But now to become a voice actor, you need more than that.

Those skills are just the basic things that you need to speak.

So I had to do a lot of impressions of different characters on cartoons, movies, and games

and to practice my voice so that I don't stutter

or fall every time I read a script or speak to someone so that it can increase my coherence.

And after that, I think it was about three or four years

that I was confident enough to look for wise works or talent scours.

I look for a lot of online jobs, ask my friends out

and join a lot of projects to do all the voicing works for people as a private voice actor.

I also save money to build my own studio at home

so that I could either invite my friends over to do works for them

or do my own works as an amateur voice actor.

and now that I've become fully grown I could work professionally

and sign contracts with other companies

or voicing do voicing works for other projects more bigger than I used to do before

and now I've achieved that my dream job I felt a sense of relief and happiness because back then

I used to idolize a voice actor so much

that he was the main inspiration for me to continue this work from then on.

Now that I achieved it, it's really just such a big relief for me.

And your two minutes is over.

Now let's discuss further in speaking part three.

Do people set goals for different stages of their lives?

I think as you grow up, the goals should change.

Goals, I think, would be divided into many different types of goals, either long-term or short-term.

And as life goes on, people will have to change their goals, maybe they will achieve it and they will set another goal for themselves.

Because it's lifelong learning, so you have to do everything you must do and change every way you could.

What types of goals do people often set?

As I said, it really depends on the stages of life that they're in.

So young people would usually set just normal short goals.

Sometimes they would dream big and set their long-term goals for jobs

or the things that they want to do as a bucket list.

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But for older people, they usually don't have that much time.

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So they would set any goals that are the most reasonable for them.

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Why do some people fail to achieve their goals?

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I had someone who taught me in college that in order to set a goal,

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they need to follow five types of validation for the goals to be reasonable.

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And people fail to set goals because people fail to achieve goals,

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because they didn't really follow that five validation steps.

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Can you share those five validations?

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I'd say is, I don't really remember it, but I think there was time,

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let's see, I don't have any idea.

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Yeah, I remember they taught me about how to set goals, but it's really vague for me.

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And what factors should be considered when choosing career goals?

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I would say the most beneficial factor would be your passion for it.

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Because if you don't like the job, it will not very much be a difficult life for you ahead

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because it's not always that the jobs are paid well that will satisfy you, but it's how you feel about it,

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either you want to do a job or not.

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And that is the end of your speaking test.

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Congratulations.

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Well done.

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Thank you.

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So you've done the speaking test, you've done the speaking test.

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How do you feel?

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I think I'm doing it.

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I think I'm going to be better when I was going to study.

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So, I think it's a day that's not a good day, not a good day.

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Today, you see the presentation is a good day.

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So, to be able to evaluate the fluency and coherence, one key to the speaker, you can see how many points are you?

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I think 7,5.

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But the key to the speaker is only 8 or 7, so it's not 7,5.

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What is it?

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It's 7.

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So, you see that you are talking about the 8.

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And this is the 8 that has a lot of money to make it.

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Why?

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Because all my answers are not a form of a pattern

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but it is a way to answer the thoughts that are very clear and logical

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and it is also shown in the speaking part 2 I have to open, I have to open, I have to get and in speaking part 3, we are more aware of the answers in my answer

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and we have to answer the question

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whether that is a long term goal or short term goal and it depends on what stages they are in

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It's very logical in the answer and we can't share the types of the contents So with the number 8,

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I don't think it's too high with the presentation I don't have any repetition in the answer

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I don't have any repetition in my own words If you have any kind of dừng,

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I think it's just the kind of dừng where I find the contents It's not a hesitation of language

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I don't have to wait for my words to find words or to think about English That's very good

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Then we have one 8 to go to Dan Let's go to the Lexical Resource Do you think this is okay?

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I don't see it, I haven't used the words that I can use

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Many people think that in band 8 and 9

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we have to start with some words that are a bit ugly and a bit But with the word of Dan,

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I used to use collocations and topic based vocabulary Like the word accommodation,

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current house, I have the word division

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or about the people who have to sleep because I have to sleep and because I have to sleep night out

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So these words like that, these words like that, it helps to make the material for me more than that

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So for those who want to end the level of the level, we just need to open the level of the topic and those words that are so big,

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it's also to be It's not to be used to be used to it

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It's not to be used to be used to be used to be used to be used So with the lexical resource,

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I'm sure you can get one more time I also share with you a few, as you can see this video

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I think that the bài thi of you is also got 8 the lexical resource I think

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that it's the same thing for you to see the word of Dan It's not

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that it's not that it's a higher level.

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One part that I really like is the grammatical range and accuracy.

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When I say, I don't think about the language.

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Everybody hear this, I think it's a good thing.

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I think it's a high level of language, but I don't think anything about language.

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That's the most high level of language.

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When I say, I've used a range that's very wide.

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We have the past, the present, the present, the present, the present.

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That's four things that I usually use in English and use very well.

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And besides that, I have to remember the small subject-verb agreement.

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This is a very small thing that you have to learn English.

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It's a very small thing that you have to learn English.

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Or you have the first thing about the verb.

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It's very difficult for you to learn English.

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but it's always the intermediate level that you can start to find a good way

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and you can find a good job and the subject verb agreement and the relative clause

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and the relationship relationship we have used a very consistent we have the range and we have the accurate level

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so we have one 8 to be done and we have to go And then we will go to pronunciation.

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This is a challenge that Dan has been showing.

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We show the features in English that when we reach the fluency, we reach the tốc độ of the voice,

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pronunciation will show the link.

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It will have the noise and the noise.

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If you have the fluency, the pronunciation will not show the features of the noise.

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So in the video, Dan has shown a very good presentation of linking,

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intonation, and I show you the content that I want to share.

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All features in English, I think I have shown you a very good way.

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I have got one 8 in pronunciation.

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In total, I have got 4 8 8.

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Thank you so much.

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So with the four and eight, the speaking of eight, you have any feeling?

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I think it's a whole band that I've set up.

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Because before I only had seven, I think I only had seven.

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So I think I could have to do about 0.5.

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I can keep the balance in my mind, but I don't have training or practice.

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This is a very strange thing.

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So, if you have a new time, I hope you will keep the performance like this.

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Then, 8 is definitely in your hand.

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.

Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking band 8.0 - Mocktest đề mới Current house, Neighborbood, Making lists,Describe a goal - Learn English Speaking with Video

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