Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 9.0 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So, hello.
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Can you tell me your name, please?
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My name is Jumyung, Jumyungnam, and my English name is Jude.
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Okay.
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So, as you know, the IELTS test has, the speaking test has three different sections.
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So, the first section is just some, like, questions about yourself.
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The second part, you will get a prompt, and you will get one minute to prepare your response.
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you can speak for up to two minutes, okay?
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If you go over two minutes, I will have to stop you.
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Okay.
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Okay, and then part three is kind of just some general questions, okay?
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Okay.
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Okay, so let's get started.
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When was the last time you had a few days off?
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Oh, I'm already taking many days off as I graduated my grad school a few weeks ago,
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and the last time actually I took a day off
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while I was working is was I think it was about two years ago
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and it was before I quit the job
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and I had to use all use up all my vacations okay
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so what do you usually do when you have days off?
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Oh, I try to make an appointment with many social groups as much as possible
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and I just generally enjoy going to events,
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conferences, parties or any events that involve social activities.
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And would you usually spend your days off with your parents or with your friends?
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I would prefer to spend my time with my friends more than my parents
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because I'm already living with my parents and I think spending time with my friends is more valuable as it's
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is less accessible to me.
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Okay and what would you like to do
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if you had a day off tomorrow which you said you're taking some days off?
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Oh basically asking me what I would do tomorrow is I have actually a conference tomorrow.
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I'm attending a networking event related to my major that I graduated a few weeks ago.
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What was your major?
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It's called FinTech.
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Financial technology is basically finance with the elements of IT technologies.
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Okay, very good.
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So you are going to a financial technology conference tomorrow?
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Yes.
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Okay so now we are on to part two.
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So you will need to prepare something about an important decision that you made.
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You will have one minute to prepare your response starting now.
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Okay your one minute of prep time is up.
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You will have two minutes to describe an important decision
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that you made so before I was I am here right now
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and I was in school in the United States I was I actually got accepted to a university in California
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and the reason I was there is
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because I I had to well obviously I had to apply for for universities
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and I could have gone to korean universities but i chose u .s university over korean university because
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at that time i wasn't sure if i wanted to go uh
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or wanted to take a you know a step out of korea and
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then suddenly it came to my mind
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that i i really want to experience something new other than what I've already experienced
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and it actually changed my personality because back then I was more of a
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more reserved and I wasn't ready to experience the world I mean I just hated the fact
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that I just when I see someone
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that I'm not used to it just made me feel uncomfortable
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and I'm just I was more of an indoor person
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and just thought oh maybe i should you know challenge myself and try to uh
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take a leap of faith
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and uh it was it's uh it was it was not
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a good i mean not not an easy decision it was many pros and cons
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and i i like to think is a decision to go
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abroad was probably the best decision in my life okay very
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good thank you very much you spoke for almost a full two minutes
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so good job there one minute and 40 seconds very very good okay
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so we're going to continue with some questions about decision making now
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so do you think that children sometimes need to make important decisions.
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Yes.
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And also, no, I think it depends on how serious the issue is.
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I think children definitely need to make, definitely have to develop a skill for decision -making.
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And I think it can be very important in the future for them.
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But it also follows some risk element that is that
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if the decision that they're making is about to be like risky in a way
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that it can affect their future and their life in general
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and then I think they should get some help with their decision making
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but then in the future they will also have to be responsible for themselves
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and that in order to get be responsible
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and have some kind of skill in decision making they should definitely try out
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and some part of their life okay
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and what important decisions do teenagers need to make after graduation
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oh after graduating high school yes high school then they will
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first well in Korea there's not much of a choice because they're going to university anyway
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but I also think there should be some options
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that there are other something else than going to university
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or they can start working right away or they can try traveling abroad
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and see the new things that they've never seen before.
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Okay and who can children turn to for help when making a decision?
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Well their parents or their guardians or possibly their teachers,
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maybe high school teachers or mentors in general who have better experience,
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far more experience than they are okay and do you think advertisements can influence our decisions when shopping oh definitely
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it affects advertising involves some part of sales and marketing
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which is designed to affect the buyer's mentality and the and
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which will make them want to do this or not want to do this And especially for children,
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it will affect bigger than the adults.
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And do you think the influence of advertising is good?
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I think it's harmless.
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Some people think, some people don't like the fact that they are being, they feel like they're being like hypnotized or brainwashed,
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but I don't think it is that serious of an issue
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and in general advertisements can be a good source of information
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and it is a basically giving them opportunity to advertise themselves I mean more promote themselves
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and I think it's a good thing that the the corporates
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or any organizations can have opportunity to advertise that what they are selling
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or um their uh the products okay very good
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and now our final question how do people usually make an important decision oh um in general
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and other people um i think it's uh there are two um ways people can make decision is
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that when it first one is using well thinking with intuition
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and you know it's more like more of a gut feeling
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that they feel like oh this is a this is what it must be done
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or this is what I should be doing
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or they can probably also use their experience past experiences
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and they could probably think like oh i've done this before
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and it worked and or it doesn't work therefore i should
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or should not be doing this i think that's a mainly
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two ways of making decisions for just in general okay
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so thank you very much the test is over now and now we are going to get into the feedback.
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So there's four different sections that the IELTS test is judged on.
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It's like fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.
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And you really did extremely well in all of those.
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Your fluency was great.
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Your pronunciation was excellent.
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And there was like a small few like grammatical things.
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before i am here so before i came back here it would be a little bit more like natural sounding
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the corporates instead of the corporations so just using the incorrect part of speech
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but there were very very few errors so you did a really good job
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and you used a lot of idiomatic expressions correctly so for example in your last answer you used got feeling perfectly
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so you did really really well um the first section the answers were a little bit short
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but they were maybe not like the perfect questions to get right now um okay yeah
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because you said um like you're taking a lot of days off right now
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so maybe it was a bit like um difficult to think about like oh um you know um
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so yeah that was like a little bit short
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but that's that's okay your extended response was very good
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and your part 3 answers were very well developed and very well structured.
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So I would give you a band 9 score in the IELTS test.
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Oh thank you.
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You're very welcome.
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So thank you for coming today and very well done.
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Thank you very much.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 136 sentences and 1529 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:36. The speaker talks at a steady 132 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
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| element noun | /ˈɛləmənt/ | One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. |
| skill noun | /skɪl/ | A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate. |
| abroad adverb | /əˈbɹɔːd/ | Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries. |
| involve verb | /ɪnˈvɑlv/ | To have (something) as a component or a related part; to comprise, to include. |
| advertisement noun | /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/ | A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar. |
| advertise verb | /ˈædvɚˌtaɪ̯z/ | To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly. |
| pronunciation noun | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken. |
| vacation noun | /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ | An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure. |
| extend verb | /ɛkˈstɛnd/ | To increase in extent. |
| feedback noun | /ˈfiːdˌbæk/ | Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results. |
| con verb | /kɑn/ | To trick, lie or defraud, usually for personal gain. |
| guardian noun | /ˈɡɑɹ.din/ | Someone who guards, watches over, or protects. |
| correctly adverb | /kəˈɹɛk(t).li/ | In a correct manner. |
| depend verb | /dɪˈpɛnd/ | To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition |
| uncomfortable adjective | /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/ | Not comfortable; causing discomfort. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| come back verb | To return to a place. |
| go over verb | To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. |
| try out verb | To test (something) to see how it works or whether it is suitable. |
| use up verb | To consume, deplete, expend, or exhaust. |
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 | I've already experienced · they've never seen · i've done |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is designed · must be done · is judged |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 20 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, they're, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/, intuition /ˌɪn.tjuːˈɪʃ.ən/, brainwash /ˈbɹeɪnwɒʃ/
- Long words — get the stress right: advertisement /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzmənt/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, uncomfortable /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, accessible /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/, graduation /ˌɡɹæd͡ʒuˈeɪʃən/
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 element, skill, abroad.
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.