Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 8.5 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video

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All right, then let's begin.

So could you tell me your full name, please?

Yeah, my full name is Jae Joon Shim.

In English, I go by Jae.

Okay, perfect Jae.

And Jae, are you working or are you a student?

I'm currently an undergraduate student studying synthetic chemistry at UC Berkeley.

Yeah.

Nice.

And do you like your major?

Yeah, I like my major because chemistry is like solving a puzzle.

So you start with like theoretical knowledge and then you try to build a synthesis towards like a new product.

So and it's also like coming up with more efficiency and better yields.

So yeah, I like my major.

Great.

And could you tell me about your hometown?

My hometown is Mokdong.

It's in Yangcheon District.

It's where a lot of like government buildings are situated and I grew up there.

I lived there for about 10 years.

So yeah, I call it my hometown whenever people ask me.

Yes.

And could you tell me about your hobbies?

One of my hobbies I like to do is working out.

I recently got into it

and seeing the progress over the years really given me confidence confidence and I also like to play sports.

The two favorite sports that I mainly play is basketball

and soccer and I've been playing those for quite a long time so yeah.

Okay great.

Now we're going to talk about making a list.

So do you make a list when you shop?

When I shop?

I'm not really like an organized person

so usually I don't have anything in mind prior to shopping

but when I go and I look for the things around me

and if I see one that I like then I usually try to buy it

if it's if the price is reasonable yeah yeah

and do you make a list when you're studying

or working yeah it's different from shopping because when I'm studying

or working I usually like to be organized and have a standard plan of what I like to do.

So usually when I'm studying like if I have maybe two things

that I'm studying maybe math

and science then I would plan it accordingly like one hour of science and then two hours of math.

Yeah.

Okay great.

And why do some people not like making lists?

I guess it depends on their personality

but some people really like to be organize

and do things in like a set of time

but other people they tend to do things like whatever just happens in nature so yeah.

Yes and do you prefer to make a list on paper or on your phone?

I like to make a list on my phone

because phone is actually more accessible to me

so I carry it on me all the time

so whenever I need to check my list or check my schedule then

I can just pull out my phone and view my schedule whereas

if you write it on a notebook then you're not going to going to be carrying around all the time

so yeah I prefer to make a list on my phone Okay, perfect.

Now let's talk about cooking.

So how often do you cook?

I cook a lot.

I actually have been cooking for quite a long time and especially in the states that now that I live off campus,

I don't have access to the school cafeteria so I have to make myself breakfast, lunch, dinner.

So yeah, I guess I've been cooking for quite a long time now.

And do you enjoy cooking?

Yeah, I definitely enjoy cooking because there's a lot of variety of different foods

that I like maybe one day I'm craving like Italian food the other day I might be craving Korean food

so depending on what I'm feeling I like to cook different kinds of foods yeah

and what house chores do you like and dislike doing?

house chores I like cleaning in general but one thing that I would do more

is maybe cleaning my desk because I like to stay organized

and I can't really study off of like really messy desk

and one thing I would try to avoid

when cleaning is maybe clean the bathroom I guess what

because it's like tedious work and you have to brush off the dust and everything

yeah so okay and did you do some house chores when you were a child

uh yeah um i did like i started off with the basic house chores like cleaning my room and

uh you know doing vacuum and then

when i actually went to the military i had to do all different kinds of chores

so that's where i guess i experienced like the most chores and yeah

okay perfect that'll do for part one let's go on to part two now okay there's your question sir

so yeah i'll just give you a pencil there as well mate okay all right

so i'll give you one minute to do some note taking

okay you can begin all right mate that's one minute now okay all right

so for your power two question could you describe an advertisement you have seen

that introduced a well-known product yeah uh so a couple weeks ago

when i was in the states i was uh going to an airport

and I saw this big advertisement for soccer cleats and it was a newly introduced Nike

soccer cleats that was recently worn by like many famous soccer players

and I really wanted to purchase it

because it's been a long time since I had my cleats

and I if I'm in Korea then I knew I would be playing soccer

so I needed new cleats and so

when I landed in Korea I went to the Nike store and I saw the cleats and I purchased it.

From my experience

I really liked it because first of all it was really comfortable like the movement

when I was playing soccer like dribbling the shoe was really light

so i was able to move my feet relatively quick

and dribble past defenders and also the laces it was like really short

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but then i could really tie them tightly so

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that i wouldn't have to untie it during the middle of the game and

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yeah overall i guess it was really a good purchase um

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but one unfortunate thing was that i really wanted the black color because the advertisement showed cleats that was like

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it was a black color blended in with like a red color

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but then when i went to the store they only had the blue version

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so that was kind of unfortunate that i only had to buy the blue one

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but uh maybe

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if i could get my hands on the black cleats in the future then i would love to purchase it

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or maybe trade it through somebody who has them yeah okay

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perfect that's up on two minutes now all right nice

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so who's your favorite soccer player of all time of all time i would say uh ronaldinho ronaldinho why uh

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because he resembles how i play the game yeah on the

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left wing yeah likes to dribble in yeah very nice very

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nice i like his goal against england yeah me too the

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free free kick right as an irish person i really enjoyed that oh yeah Okay, let's go on to part three.

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Let's keep it going.

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All right.

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Okay, so where do we often see advertisements?

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Advertisement, the most common advertisement would be like on television or via social media, like Instagram.

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Or you could maybe on a YouTube video,

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like the YouTubers might get paid to promote like a certain product or to advertise.

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So yeah, those are where you would usually see the advertisements.

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And do you think is advertising effective?

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I guess it depends on how popular the person is because

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if it's like a really famous person then obviously

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that person would have a lot of followers and then his followers would

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see like more are more likely to be introduced by the product

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that the person is advertising but

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if it's a less famous person then I guess to a lesser extent

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that product is gonna get famous yes

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and what forms of advertising do you think are ineffective ineffective

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I guess like maybe on on the streets like you see

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random people maybe holding up signs of a certain product maybe from a local store

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and those might be slightly less effective because only the people

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that would visually see that person would get exposed to the product but not everybody else so yeah

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Do you think people generally like seeing advertisements?

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Yeah, I guess because advertisement is one of the key ways that people actually get to purchase or experience a certain product.

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So without advertisements, I guess maybe less products might be sold to customers.

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Yeah, definitely.

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And why do some people dislike advertisements?

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It might be like a slightly personal opinion

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but maybe some people have an opinion

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that they dislike famous people getting paid to advertise a certain product

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or maybe they might not like the product that the person is advertising.

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Those are probably the reasons why some people dislike the advertisements.

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And do you think funny advertisements are more likely to be successful?

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Yeah, because being funny has like a special part where more people

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might get interested in the product rather than like a generic advertisement.

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People might be more interested to view that ad because it's more funny.

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Yeah so I guess it could be more effective.

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Yes and do you think advertising is good or bad for children?

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I think it's really depends but I think overall it's a good thing because

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children as they grow older they're gonna get exposed to a lot of different

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products or forms of advertisements

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so I guess we could say it's like a period where the children get exposed to the product

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so that as they grow older they could expect the certain types of like ads or promotions that they exist.

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Do you think these days there are many advertisements targeted at children?

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I don't think so because I've been exposed to a lot of ads

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but they haven't been really intended for children like the purpose

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or like the intent of the advertisements

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so maybe like the products specifically made for children those ads might be targeted for children

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but I think generally the most most of the ads are not intended yeah yes yes okay all right

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that will do us for the test thank you very much okay

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so now yeah let's talk about the the feedback yeah all All right, Chase.

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So yeah, really good test.

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Thank you for your time.

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All the questions and sorry, all the answers were very well delivered.

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There's a few very tiny grammar errors that I could just maybe point out to you, right?

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Once or twice, there was like a double subject.

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You said other people, they like to.

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So you should just delete they there, obviously.

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So yeah, other people like to.

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Some people enjoy blah, blah, blah.

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Other people like to.

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in the part two question

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when you were talking about the cleats right just make sure you use the plural noun

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so a couple of times you said like a cleats

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that was worn by so cleats that were worn by yeah

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and i purchased it should be i purchased them yeah so

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when it's plural

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so like for example they were really expensive i bought them

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last week right yeah um one time as you said i

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wanted the black color maybe a more natural way would be

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i wanted them in black in black i wanted them in black

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but they only had them in blue oops

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so you had to get the blue yep um tiny thing

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as well with plurals you said less products for you know product is accountable now

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and so you should say fewer yeah

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so there's a common one even a lot of native speakers would say less people

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but it's actually fewer people fewer products um

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and yeah one as well you said most of the ads

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are not in the children it should be just most ads

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most ads uh most of the is more for a specific group yeah right

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so like most of the advertisements on the subway right that's a specific group of advertisements yeah

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but yeah anyway thank you for your time again thank you so much cheers yeah

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “IELTS Speaking Band 8.5 Mock Test with Feedback”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: advertisement, product, guess, cleats. This video has 195 sentences and 2122 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:35. The speaker talks at a steady 146 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 83% 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
advertisement noun	/ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/	A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.
cleat noun	/kliːt/	A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.
chore noun	/t͡ʃoɹ/	A task, especially a regularly needed task for the upkeep of a home or similar, such as cleaning or preparing meals.
dislike verb	/dɪsˈlaɪk/	To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.
organize verb	/ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/	To arrange in working order.
expose verb	/ɪkˈspoʊz/	To reveal; to uncover; to make visible; to bring to light.
depend verb	/dɪˈpɛnd/	To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
dribble verb	/ˈdɹɪ.bɫ̩/	In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.
plural noun	/ˈplʊəɹəl/	The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
hometown noun	/ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/	An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
follower noun	/ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/	One who follows, comes after another.
craving noun	/ˈkɹeɪ.vɪŋ/	A strong desire; yearning.
ineffective adjective	/ˌɪn.ɪˈfɛk.tɪv/	Not having the desired effect; ineffectual; otiose.
advertise verb	/ˈædvɚˌtaɪ̯z/	To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
hobby noun	/ˈhɑ.bi/	An activity that one enjoys doing in one's spare time.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
brush off verb		To disregard (something), to dismiss or ignore (someone), as unimportant.
come up with verb		To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
grow up verb		To mature and become an adult.
hold up verb		To wait or delay.
live off verb		To depend on financially.
pull out verb		To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat.
work out verb	/ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/	To calculate.

Sentences worth repeating

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

All right, then let's begin.
Do you think people generally like seeing advertisements?
Yes and do you think advertising is good or bad for children?
Do you think these days there are many advertisements targeted at children?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been playing · have been cooking · I've been cooking
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	are situated · be organized · be introduced
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have seen · it's been · I've been exposed

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 26 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, synthesis /ˈsɪnθəsɪs/, synthetic /sɪnˈθɛtɪk/, theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/
Long words — get the stress right: advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/, ineffective /ˌɪn.ɪˈfɛk.tɪv/, unfortunate /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, cafeteria /ˌkæ.fə.ˈtɪ(ə).ɹi.ə/

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 advertisement, cleat, chore.

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?