Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 9.0 (native speaker) - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hello everyone.
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Today we are here with Shirina from X Factor and we're gonna do a mock exam for the IELTS exam.
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So shall we start?
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Yes.
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Diyo Beyhat Monadov.
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Can you tell me your full name please?
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My Uzbek full name?
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Yes.
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My Uzbek full name is Shirin Han Halmatova.
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Thank you.
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And what shall I call you?
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Shirina.
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Shirina.
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Now in this first part I'd like to ask you some questions about yourself.
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Let's talk about what you do.
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Do you work or are you a student?
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I work.
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What kind of work do you do?
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I'm a full -time artist and musician.
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Do you work better in the morning or in the afternoon?
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I'm definitely a night owl.
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Why?
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Because I'm a creative.
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What do you enjoy most about your work?
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I enjoy the freedom that it brings.
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I enjoy the uniqueness, the creative aspect of it.
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Has your work changed since you started your job?
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My work is always changing.
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Why?
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I wear a million different hats in my job.
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I'm a social media manager, I'm a content creator, I am an accountant, I'm a performer, I'm a songwriter, I'm an artist.
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I can go on for hours.
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Let's talk about running now.
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Did you do any running in sports lessons at school running
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I never run why not I hate running
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I would rather die than run have you ever run
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a long distance no why not in a zombie apocalypse I will be the first to die because I do not run.
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Would you choose to watch an important running race on TV?
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Never.
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Why not?
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There are better things to watch.
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Let's talk about spending time by yourself.
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Do you often spend time by yourself?
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Yes.
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Why?
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Alone time is very important.
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I myself require a lot of time alone, especially after being around many people.
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I need time to recharge.
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What kinds of things do you like doing when you are by yourself?
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I like reading, I like meditating, I like decompressing, I like lying down with my legs up on the wall.
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When was the last time you did all of these things?
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Last night.
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Would you like to spend more time by yourself?
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I think I already spend quite enough time alone.
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Now I'm going to give you a topic and I would like you to talk about it for one to two minutes.
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Before you talk, you will have one minute to think about what you're going to say.
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And you can make some notes of you.
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Do you understand?
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I understand.
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There's some paper and a pen for making notes.
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And I want you to describe a job you wouldn't like to do.
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The job that I chose is being a politician.
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I would never ever get into politics, never in my life.
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And it's for many reasons, which I'm sure you can understand, but I will start by listing them one by one.
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Number one, it's way too much responsibility.
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I can barely look after myself.
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How can I be put in charge of an entire country of people?
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that's just crazy i don't feel like honestly
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i mean am i failing am i already failing okay okay
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i just keep going okay secondly it's a very very incredibly stressful job
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i do not know how politicians do it because as an artist
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and an influencer
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and a musician who is not famous at all
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i'm very small currently my job i already consider it very stressful
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i already have such a difficult time dealing with people's opinions backlash controversy
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when i'm on tiktok live i can see one comment
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that is like a terrible comment
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and i have to like hold my tears back from crying
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so i do not know how these politicians go to work
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every day with millions of people saying horrible things about them
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and it's one of those jobs where no matter what you
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do you can never ever make a decision where everyone will be happy never
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and that's something in life that I struggle with so much is
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because I want everyone to be happy I want everyone to get along
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I want everyone to be you know in peace and rainbows
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and sunshine but you can't that's not the world
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that we live in so that's why I would never ever enter politics even
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if you paid me 10 million dollars and
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that leads me to my next point not enough pay I do not know how much politicians are making
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but it's not enough because I mean I don't know if I should say it.
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It looks like enough, actually.
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Do you know anyone who does this job?
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No. No. Thank you.
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We've been talking about a job you don't want to do,
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and I'd like to discuss with you one or two more general questions related to this.
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Now we stop talking about youth.
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We're going to talk more generally.
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Let's talk about jobs for young people.
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What kinds of jobs young people in your country want to do?
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A lot of people, I can't speak for Uzbekistan, but I can speak for Australia.
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A lot of people want to be content creators, influencers, stuff like that.
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Is it a good thing, trend for the country?
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I believe yes and no.
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I think that a lot of people don't truly understand what it takes to be a successful content creator and influencer.
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They just see, you know, people like Mr. Beast making billions of dollars.
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They think it's all fame and quick attention.
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And it's actually not, at least if you want a career that has longevity, that has impact, that has permanence and that has value.
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And I feel like being an influencer, it's very much how it's done these days.
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It's very much like riding a wave.
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And then equally as fast as you ride it, it comes crashing down.
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So I believe that if people want to have a platform, if they want to create, then there needs to be a genuine reason behind it.
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Which is more important to most young people?
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An interesting job or a job that pays a high salary?
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I think people are very split on this because based on their own experiences of the world and what they've seen,
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people from low -income families, people who have struggled a lot financially, they would most certainly choose a job which provides financial security.
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Whereas other people who grew up with more privileges, maybe with a middle -income kind of family,
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these kids would want a job that provides them with passion, interests, entertainment, creativity.
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Something that truly fulfills them.
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Now with AI, do you think this is changing?
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Does it affect young people's choices?
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Absolutely.
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AI, it's only just been introduced in the last year and yet we've seen crazy impacts already in job fields,
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in even social media, what you see online.
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I honestly, I can't imagine what life is going to be like in the next few years, even 10 years.
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Let's now talk about attitudes to work.
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What kind of factors motivate people to make an effort in their work?
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Obviously I think money, salary, I think also reputation, the social standing,
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the opinions of other people, society, also opinions from family, expectations as well.
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There's a lot of things which influence that but I think today, I can't speak again for Uzbekistan,
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I think Uzbek people do work very hard but at least in Australia where I grew up.
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I feel like people don't want to work as hard anymore because society has just changed so much.
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20 years ago you could buy a house on one salary.
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Children these days and people my age know
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that you can work your whole life and still not be able to afford a house.
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So then what incentive is there to actually work hard anymore.
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So do you think that has to do with economic system in your country
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or is it something that's happening in every country?
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No, I think it's definitely specific to Australia because in Australia the housing market, the cost of living is genuinely unprecedented.
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We've never seen anything like it before.
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Do you agree or disagree that some people are naturally more hardworking than other people?
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Absolutely.
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You can see this already in children.
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What do you see in children?
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Well, as someone who has experienced a variety of children,
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from family, friends, even seeing kids just in my day -to -day life, you can always see some kids are just naturally more type A.
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They're more put together.
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They're more motivated.
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The pencil has to go exactly in the spot where it belongs otherwise a tantrum is going to be thrown,
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things have to be done in a certain way
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and that's their natural personality whereas other kids will literally walk out the house wearing not the same shoes
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and they don't care, they're less motivated.
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I think it comes naturally to them.
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Can you tell me, evaluate the psychological importance of people having a job?
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Having a job, I think obviously it's important to have a job to survive.
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Do you think if people were given a chance to not work and to work, which one would they choose?
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Honestly, I don't know.
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But what I can say is that I do know for sure that human beings need meaning in their lives.
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They need purpose.
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They need something to work towards.
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Without this, man dies.
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Without purpose, man will wither to exist.
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So there are two kinds of jobs.
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The kind that you take for money and the kind that gives you purpose.
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I think human beings, if they're lucky, they can find both in the same career.
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Thank you very much.
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That's the end of the speaking test.
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Did I pass?
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Yes, for someone who doesn't have any idea about this exam, you've done a wonderful job.
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Oh, thank God.
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So there were moments in, I guess, a quick feedback, like some of the questions you found a little childish, right?
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Yes.
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Especially part one seems a little this way because you were like...
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Running.
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Running, right?
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I keep asking these running questions.
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And then for you, it's a yes and no question.
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Yes.
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But IELTS expects a little bit of development.
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Yes.
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So that might seem a little repetitive to you, because sometimes the questions sort of repeat the previous ones.
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And that kind of happened to you and then you got a little frustrated, I guess.
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There is, I guess, ideally in the exam, I give you a cue card with four bullet points in them.
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So you could sort of look at them and then develop your response better.
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But you've done a wonderful job about how you don't want to be a politician.
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And then I guess in part three, the same, probably that's a Ben 9 performance, which is the highest score in the IELTS exam.
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Woo!
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Yes.
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And I didn't even study.
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Exactly.
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You see that?
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Yes, with zero prep and nine.
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So congratulations on passing the test.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “IELTS Speaking Band 9.0”. This video has 195 sentences and 1872 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:55. The speaker talks at a natural 157 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 37 of its 195 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| examination noun | /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ | The act of examining. |
| politician noun | /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/ | One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official. |
| naturally adverb | /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/ | In a natural manner. |
| salary noun | /ˈsæləɹi/ | A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or… |
| creator noun | /kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/ | Something or someone which creates or makes something. |
| motivate verb | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | To provide someone with an incentive to do something; to encourage; to actuate. |
| whereas | /(h)wɛɹˈæz/ | In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although. |
| musician noun | /mjuˈzɪʃən/ | A composer, conductor, or performer of music; specifically, a person who sings and/or plays a musical instrument as a hobby, occupation, or profession. |
| stressful adjective | /ˈstɹɛsfəl/ | Irritating; causing stress. |
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| reputation noun | /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/ | What somebody or something is known for. |
| horrible adjective | /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/ | Causing horror; terrible; shocking. |
| passion noun | /ˈpæʃən/ | A true desire sustained or prolonged. |
| aspect noun | /ˈæspɛkt/ | Any specific feature, part, or element of something. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| get along verb | To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble. |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. |
| put together verb | To assemble, construct, build, or formulate. |
| walk out verb | To stage a walkout or strike. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Can you tell me your full name please?
- Do you work or are you a student?
- What kind of work do you do?
- What do you enjoy most about your work?
- Has your work changed since you started your job?
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 | they've seen · have struggled · it's only just been introduced |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | anyone who does · people who have · people who grew |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be put · been introduced · be thrown |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 43 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, passion /ˈpæʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, congratulations /kənˌɡɹæt͡ʃəˈleɪʃ(ə)nz/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like examination, politician, naturally.
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.