Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 9.0 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video

Okay, let's begin.

Yes.

Okay, so could you tell me your full name, please?

My full name is Kang Hong.

Would you like me to spell it?

No, it's fine.

No, it's fine, okay.

And are you working or are you a student?

I'm currently, well, I'm going to become a student next year.

I'm working on the process of becoming, or attending university, application process.

And what major did you choose?

I think I'm going to go into pharmacy school, so like the pharmaceutical area.

Yeah, okay.

And why did you choose this major?

I chose this major because I'm interested in the areas of biology

and chemistry and pharmacy school is a way I can study that in depth.

And also I want to be able to help other people through this process.

So I thought that was a good major to study for that.

Great.

And what do you like doing when you have some free time?

One of the things I really enjoy doing in my free time is reading books.

I read all different kinds of books and I just really enjoy it

because I get to live another person's life I can see through other people's perspective, which I think is really valuable to me as well.

Okay, now we're going to talk about your home.

So what kind of housing do you live in?

I currently live in an apartment.

I think it's slightly different from other apartments in that it's only like six floors or something.

But I think it's similar to other apartments as well, yeah.

And what is your favorite room in your home?

My favourite room is my bedroom, just because there's a bed in it and I sleep in the bed.

Also, it's just my place to relax whenever I watch movies or read.

I do it on the bed so it has nice memories attached to it as well.

Do you think you will live there for a long time?

Really, it's not up to me.

I'm guessing it's going to be my parents

and the contract of the housing but

if it were up to me I think I would like to live there because I don't like moving.

Okay and what's the difference between where you are living now and where you have lived in the past?

Yeah so I have lived in different countries as I was growing up.

One country that I've lived in is India and India is very different from Korea as well.

So just in the setting and the people, the culture, that's very different as well.

Okay.

Now we're going to talk about meeting places.

So where is your favorite place to meet your friends?

One of my favorite places to meet my friends, though I haven't met many,

is a place called I think I really enjoy that place because there's a lot of people, a lot of restaurants that we can hang out in, but also

There are a lot of theaters there and I really enjoy watching musicals and plays as well

so by hanging out there we can we have we have access to different kinds of

theater plays Restaurants whatever that we can do making it a great spot to hang out in

And do you think some places are more suitable for meeting than others?

Definitely, because I meet my friends because I want to do something with them.

I want to pursue an activity with them.

But if I go to places where there aren't a lot of choices or things that I can do with my friends, then it becomes less fun,

I guess, to hang out with my friends.

And so it's better to meet in certain places where there are different kinds of things can do

and different activities that we can access.

And are there any differences between your favorite favorite meeting places now and when you were a child?

Yeah, I guess the difference the main difference would be what I was doing in those meeting places.

These days I would again watch movies or eat and hang out just generally with my friends.

But I would imagine that when I was younger I would go to playgrounds perhaps

with my friends to hang out and that in itself the activity is different

and therefore the meeting place will also have to change as well from playground to i guess popular street

or a popular meeting place yeah perfect all right

that will do for part one we'll go on to part two now

okay so here is your question let's give you a pencil there as well

so i'll give you one minute to take some notes, okay?

Okay.

You can begin.

Okay, that's one minute.

Okay, so your question.

Could you describe an important thing that you learned not in school or college?

Yes, throughout my life an important thing that I've learned

and stuck close to is to always be grateful with what I have

and go based upon it and I learned this

when I was moving and living abroad and

so I've lived in various countries and

so I've always had to move around in different places and

because of that I've always had a little bit of a disconnect with my friends

because I had to move around whenever I got close I would have to change my country

and so I would always um I through

that process I learned to be grateful to be positive in the current situation

and I learned it by I guess trying to just evaluate the situation in a more positive mindset

and look at things that I can gain from it instead of the things

that I've lost and it's really important

because it gave me a more positive outlook on life

and also it allowed me to stay motivated to study

or hang out with my friends or meet new people instead of dwelling on the things I've lost or the past.

So yeah, the saying to always be grateful is what I've learned.

Very nice.

And who taught you this skill?

Yeah, I think it's, I'm gonna have to say my parents because

I've talked to them a lot of times when I was struggling with my current situation.

For example, I remember on my first day back, I think second grade of my new school,

I really struggled because I was constantly reminded of my past school and my past friends.

I wasn't able to really focus on the current situation and the present.

And by talking and conversing with my parents, I was able to learn I can kind of get out out of this dark spot, or this

I guess, to by being grateful with what I have

and focusing on the positive parts of the current situation rather than the negative parts.

And, yeah, so my parents would be the answer.

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Great.

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Really nice.

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Okay, so now we'll go on to part three of the test.

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Okay.

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Okay, so yeah, the first question, what can children learn from parents?

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Like I said, I think students, well children can learn from their parents their attitude in life, how they go about living their daily life, their mindset as well.

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And I guess that's one of the many things that they can learn from their parents.

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And it's really important to learn that from their parents because the parents have lived many more years than the child, child and so they have gone through that process of finding

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that right mindset or finding the positive outlook

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and they can kind of pass it on to the child rather than the child having to go through trial

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and error to figure that out on their own

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which is really important for a child in their life

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and going on this mmm and what other influences do children have when they're learning in their childhood?

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Other than their parents I think an important influence would be their friends not just

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because like for example a lot of students go to school

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or academia and in that process they meet a lot of friends

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and they hang out and spend a lot of time with them

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and therefore it's inevitable

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that they start to I guess adopt a lot of their mindsets their way of speech

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or things like that and therefore it's important to have good friends I believe

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because that can change your course of life or

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that can change your attitude which can really alter your future as well

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so your friends can also have a big influence on you mm-hmm yes

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and do you think some children are well behaved

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because they are influenced by their parents I guess is a fundamental question in the discussion of like nature

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and nurture I believe part of it I do believe

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because I do studied science and biology and things like

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that part of it does come from genetics

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and their natural I guess body

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but also a lot of it does come from their parents

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and their surroundings and so that part is nurture aspect and

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so it's important that they have a positive influence from their parents

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so that they can grow to be more I guess well behaved

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or fitting in society yeah

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and how should parents handle excuse me how should parents handle

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a situation where their children are misbehaving in public right

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so I think that's a question that a lot of parents would struggle with

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and I'm not sure I would have the answer because I'm not a parent

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but if I put myself in the parents' shoes, I think one important step is to first tell this child

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that it is not right to do this in a public setting

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and I guess give them a friendly reminder first instead of just going straight into scolding

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or being mad at them because I can start to have a negative impact on them

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and they can have a negative outlook on the whole situation and rather Other than that, we can give them something positive to focus on and say,

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while this that you did was good I think you should do this

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or kind of guide them in a certain way instead of scolding or even hitting or abusing

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Your child which is really important on the child's development as well.

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All right And is it necessary for adults to learn new things?

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Definitely It's very important for adults to learn new things.

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I think as human beings we're constantly evolving we're constantly adopting to new situations

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or new things and just because we're adults

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or past a certain age doesn't mean that we stop learning

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or stop gaining new things from life especially attitudes like I mentioned

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but also skills

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or manners of behaving in certain situations like for example I

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have always been in high school for four years I've been in high school

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but now I'm becoming a college student that requires new skills, new things I need to learn,

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new attitudes and therefore I'm I guess I am an adult technically

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but I'm still growing and evolving and learning new things which is important for any adult as well.

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And what kind of new things do you think elderly people should learn?

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Elderly people, so like I think one important thing for elderly people to learn, though I don't want to sound condescending in any way,

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would be to I guess accept or I guess go with the flow of the modern society.

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I think a lot of people kind of get stuck in the past

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and thinking this is how it used to be

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and now we have to put that on our children and make sure they live a certain way as well.

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I think it's important for them to learn

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and evaluate the current situation see the course of history I guess

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and how things are how things are changing and kind of adopting to that

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and not restricting their student I mean restricting their children in

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any way of saying you have to sit in this tiny little box

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but also allow them to try different things as well and so that's a new skill I guess for them to learn.

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Okay perfect that will do us thank you very much.

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That's it.

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All right, so now let's start with the feedback.

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Okay, so I thought it was an excellent test.

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I think that's definitely enough for 9.0, your fluency, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary,

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all excellent, all very high level.

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One thing I would say in part two, right, spoke for like just over a minute, maybe a minute and 10, minute and 15.

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So in the real exam, I would always say to students try to keep speaking for the full two minutes

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and you don't really need to have a conclusion in this one

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but you know it's it's in the exam it says between one to two minutes

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but i would usually say just try and keep speaking but

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that was great um yeah

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and just just want to point out some like very positive

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things like good expressions i asked you one difficult question about how should parents handle a misbehaving student

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and obviously you don't have that experience but you said

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if I put myself in their shoes in their situation so

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that was really nice expression you use some nice nice phrasal verbs nice idioms nice expressions all the way throughout

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so it was really clear really good test so thank you for your answers thank you all right thank you

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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