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Part two of the IELTS speaking test for a long time has caused a huge number of problems for students

but it doesn't have to be that way.

What I'm going to tell you in this video is a little secret

that most students don't know about part two of the speaking test

and understanding this information will mean the difference between you getting the score

that you need and not getting the score that you need.

So in this video I'm going to give you our unique part two IELTS speaking strategy

that has helped thousands of our students get the score

that they need by understanding what this secret is

and then applying a very simple step -by -step strategy that any student can learn and dramatically improve their score.

So in this video what we're going to do is first of all

we're going to look at the top reasons why students find this part of the speaking test

so difficult and then share that little secret with you.

Then we're gonna give you the strategy.

And finally, we're going to give you practice questions and some samples.

So in order to show you all of that, I'm gonna jump into my computer and show you everything.

Okay, so first what we need to do is we need to look at part two cue cards, particularly the format of those cue cards,

because this is going to give us the information

that we need to understand what the main problems are what this little secret is

and it is also going to help you understand

and implement our strategy

so at the start of part two the examiner will give you a cue card

and you'll have one minute to prepare your answer

and then you'll be expected to speak for up to two minutes

and don't worry the examiner will stop you when you get to in and around two minutes.

So at the top of every cue card, there is going to be a main topic.

This never changes.

And then it says below the main topic, it says you should say.

Again, this never changes.

And then there will be four bullet points.

Again, this never changes.

So this is a little gift to us because if there are parts of the IELTS test that never change,

That means that we can give the examiners exactly what they're looking for

because it's very predictable what is going to come up.

So we can come up with a predictable solution to these problems.

So let's have a look at a sample.

So you'll have to speak for around two minutes about the topic below.

Describe an interesting movie you watched recently.

You should say what genre the movie was, when you saw the movie, what was the movie about and explain why you found the movie interesting.

So again, main topic at the top, you should say, and four bullet points.

So let's look at a reason for failure.

There are two main reasons why students fail to do as well as they could.

So when I'm talking about failure, I'm talking about a student who should be getting a band seven or a band eight, but they're struggling.

They're getting a band six or 6 .5, not because their English isn't good enough but just because they're not using the right system,

not using the right strategy.

So reason for failure number one, students often run out of things to say.

So imagine you get this one and what happens is you talk about what genre the movie was,

when you saw it, that's about 20 seconds or 10 seconds, that leaves you with one minute 50 seconds remaining.

What was the movie about?

You talk about that for about 20 -30 seconds and then

that leaves you with more than a minute to explain why you find the movie interesting

and then you get to that last bullet point

and you just run out of things to say and that affects your fluency, that affects your coherence and this is the classic thing

that many many examiners see every single day

when they are examining is students get to bullet point number four

and they still have a lot of time left

and the student is like I don't know what to say

so that is going to dramatically lower your score if you do

that I'm sure many of you let me know in the comments is

that something that you have experienced yourself

so the reason number two for failure is students often get stuck on one

or more of the bullet points

so describe an interesting movie you watched recently what genre the movie was what does genre mean um

i don't know

so then you start getting very stressed out you start second guessing yourself

you start becoming unsure about what to say again that affects your fluency that affects your

coherence when you saw the movie and let's say oh i can't remember when i saw it

What was the movie about?

I've spoken to a lot of students and examined with many, many students who pick a movie or pick,

you know, the question might be talk about an interesting book

and they pick something that they don't really understand or they don't really know what to talk about.

I actually did this with a few different students in the past a question about movies

and they were like I fell asleep

so how are they going to speak about that movie

if they were asleep for most of it explain why you find

that movie interesting

and I didn't find it interesting I find it quite boring I don't know what to say

so the examiners are looking for your ability to speak for up to two minutes fluently

and coherently and if you are running out of things to say

or you find it very difficult to speak about at least one of these bullet points

then you are going to not get the score

that you really deserve because you're not doing what the examiners are looking for you to do.

So what is this little secret?

The secret is you don't have to speak about all four bullet points you can speak about them

if you want to it's no problem to speak about all four in order

that is absolutely fine but you do not have to

and this is really important information for you guys

because this gives you the freedom to create a different strategy

because what your strategy really is at the moment is speak about bullet point number one then number two then number three, then number four.

And as I've just shown you, that strategy does not work for the vast majority of students.

And they are designed, the bullet points are designed to help you, all right?

They're designed just to give you ideas to talk about.

However, most students believe that they must speak about all of them, which doesn't help them, it hinders them.

So this is often the case in many areas of the

IELTS test where Cambridge are doing something to actually help you

but the teacher or the student creates a strategy that hinders them

that doesn't use the help that they are actually giving you

so to repeat this because many of you

when I tell many of you about this you're still confused

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you don't have to speak about all four bullet points you can speak about all four of them

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if you want but you don't have to.

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So what's the strategy that we use with our students

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and this is the same strategy that we share with many of our VIP students

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and it has led to thousands of them getting the scores that they need and dramatically improving their scores.

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So the strategy overall 30 ,000 foot view strategy is

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that do things that help you to speak for two minutes about the given topic as fluently

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and as coherently as possible why do we use

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that strategy what why is that our overall strategy

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because that's what the examiners are looking for everything

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we do at ielts advantage is examiner driven all

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we do is show our students this is what the examiner is looking for

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and this is how to give the examiners what they're looking for We don't give tips

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and tricks and shortcuts and things like that.

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We just teach you exactly what the examiners are looking for.

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So before we give you the step -by -step strategy, you need to avoid anything that prevents you doing this.

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So anything that stops you speaking for the given topic for up to two minutes as fluently

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and as coherently as possible for you, you need to avoid these things.

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So forcing yourself to talk about bullet points you don't know how to talk about.

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Remember, you don't have to talk about all of them.

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So if you see one that you don't feel comfortable talking about that one for whatever reason, just skip it, talk about something else.

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Try to speak about each bullet point for an equal length of time.

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You need to avoid this.

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This is one of the worst pieces of advice you could ever give a student

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because it makes their job so much more difficult

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because it's impossible to speak about each of the four bullet points for 30 seconds equally each.

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I can't do that.

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I've never met another student who could do that.

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So why would your teacher tell you to do that?

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It's impossible.

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Speaking about each bullet point and then having nothing else to say about before the two minutes are up.

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So as we've shown you, just rushing through four of them and then having like a minute 30 left

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or using a strategy that is very common online,

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such as PPF, which might lead to you answering the question incoherently or running out of things to say.

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PPF is an example of.. a tip a trick a shortcut students love these

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because it supposedly makes things easier for them in the short run

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but it leads to a huge amount of failure

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so a lot of our vip students have failed the test multiple times

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and when they come to us we ask them what what have you used before

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and they say oh we used this ppf method for part two

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and we say you know how did you do with that method

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and he said well i got a question where i couldn't really think of anything to talk about the past

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and i couldn't really think of anything for the future

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so ppf stands for past present future uh what happens

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if you get a question where you cannot talk about the past

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or you cannot talk about the future

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that severely limits your ability to give the examiners what they want

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so just because you see a tip or a trick

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or a shortcut or something

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that has millions of views on youtube doesn't mean it is actually going to satisfy the examiners

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so what is the examiner looking for they're judging your ability to speak fluently

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and coherently for up to two minutes this also gives them a chance to evaluate the other three criteria

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so the first criteria they are thinking about is fluency

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and coherence but they're also thinking about pronunciation they're also thinking about grammar

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and they're also thinking about lexical resource which means vocabulary.

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So you're speaking for up to two minutes.

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This gives the examiner a chance to sit back and really listen to you,

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which would indicate that part two is extremely important because if you are messing up this question,

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you're not only lowering your fluency and your coherence scores, you're probably also lowering your grammar score, your vocabulary score, and your pronunciation score.

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So it's extremely important to get this right.

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And students who follow our strategy not only nail fluency

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and coherence they do really well in the other three marking criteria

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because they're just speaking naturally and fluently and giving the examiners what they want

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so how do we do this number one make sure you always talk about the main topic

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so i've showed you this a couple of times i'll also show it to you at the end

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when we give you the sample questions, make sure you talk about that main topic for the two minutes.

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Don't deviate from that main topic.

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Pick the bullet points you feel comfortable talking about.

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Remember, Cambridge, IELTS are trying to help you with these bullet points.

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So pick out of the four, which one, two, three, or four do you feel very comfortable talking about?

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What does comfortable mean easy.

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It's easy for you to talk about those things.

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It's easy for you to think about them.

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It's easy for you to articulate them.

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Number three, ignore the rest.

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If there are one, two, three, or even four of the bullet points you don't feel comfortable talking about, ignore them.

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Feel free to just delete them with a pencil.

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Choose other things related to the topic that that you feel comfortable talking about.

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So what this does is it gives you the freedom

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to talk about the main topic in the way that you feel comfortable talking about.

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So you don't have to use all of these.

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I'm just giving you examples of other things that you could talk about.

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You could introduce the topic.

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You could provide details about the topic.

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You could tell a personal story.

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You could state how you feel about it.

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You could talk about the past.

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You could talk about the future or anything else you feel comfortable talking about related to the main topic.

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So you're not going to talk about all of these.

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What I'm doing is I'm giving you a wide range of tools in your toolbox.

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Because if I just gave you a hammer and a saw and told you to go and build a house,

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you would not be able to build a house.

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You need many, many, many different tools in order to build a house just like part two

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you need a range of different things to talk about in order to talk about them fluently

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and coherently so let's have a look choose an ad

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so describe something you own

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which is very important to you you should say where you got

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it how long you've had it say what you use it for

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and say why it's important to you

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so what I'm going to be doing in the one minute before

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I'm speaking i'm going to be looking at these

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and picking the ones that i feel comfortable talking about

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so what i'm going to do is talk about my mobile phone

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because it's the first thing that i saw on my desk

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so where you got it i got it in the apple store i'm going to talk about

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that because it's easy to talk about

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but that's going to take me less than five seconds to talk about and I need to be aware of that.

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Say how long you've had it.

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i can't remember how long i've had it

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so i don't feel comfortable talking about that

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because it's i'm going to be really thinking about that

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and i don't want to be thinking too much

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i want to be speaking fluently say what you use it for that's really easy for me to talk about

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because i use it for my job i use it to communicate with my team to make this video

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and right now and all sorts of other things

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and in my job

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so that's no problem say it's why it's important to you it's really important to me for my job

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so I'm not going to use bullet point number four

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because I don't want to be repeating the same things because

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that might lower my score for fluency

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and it might lower my score for coherence again we need to be thinking not only about pronunciation grammar vocabulary

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but we need to be thinking about fluency and coherence and how our brain works.

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If we are nervous, we are stressed, we are uncomfortable, we're thinking too much,

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it doesn't allow us to speak fluently and coherently.

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So what are things that I could add that are more comfortable for me to talk about?

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So I'm gonna talk about bullet point number one and number three,

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and then I'm also gonna talk about a new model you'll buy in the future

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because this week there's rumors about the iPhone 13

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or something coming out and it has a much better camera

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and a much better microphone and those are the two things that I really want.

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So I'm gonna talk about that one.

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Tell a story about when it broke.

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So when my phone breaks, it is a disaster because I can't work.

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So I have a easy story that I can tell that will allow me to speak fluently.

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And then finally, I probably won't need this one

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because I probably won't get to this one before the two minutes and the examiner will stop me before the two minutes.

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But what I like to do is just add in one more thing because it removes any doubt, any nervousness, any fear.

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And I know that I can provide a review of this product very easily at the end if I get there,

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but I probably won't even need this bullet point.

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So as you can see, using this strategy, what it does is it provides you with a huge amount of freedom to just do the job

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that you're supposed to do.

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It doesn't put any barriers in your way.

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It doesn't give you tips and tricks that don't really work.

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It doesn't make your job more difficult.

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It just makes everything much, much easier.

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So let's have a look at some sample questions.

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All right, so I'm going to use this sample question, and I'm going to use the old method, which is what most students do,

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which is just do bullet point number one, then two, then three, then four.

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All right, so describe a well -known entrepreneur.

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You should say who the person is, what kind of business this person runs, what you know about this person,

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and explain what you think about this person.

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So I'm going to try and put myself in the position, if I was a student doing the real test, what would I say?

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Okay, so I'm going to talk about Elon Musk and the kind of business that this person runs.

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Well, he runs many, many businesses.

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He runs SpaceX, he runs

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Tesla, he runs

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The Boring Company.

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He runs, there's one that he runs

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that is to do with inserting things into your brain

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and he also runs a company called SolarCity and he founded PayPal as well.

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What do you know about this person?

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Well, as I already said, he runs lots and lots of businesses.

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Okay, explain what you think about this person.

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Well, I really admire this person because he runs all of these really successful businesses

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so let's have a look at what I did there and

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so who this person is I introduced who this person was

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but that took me two seconds so in the student's mind

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and we know this because we work with our students really closely

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and we talk to them like what were you thinking here what were you thinking here

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if the first bullet point takes you two seconds what you're like oh oh my God,

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I've wasted one bullet point and I'm going to run out of time.

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So the nervousness, the stress, the fear, the doubt starts to build.

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What kind of business this person runs?

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So I just answered that question naturally.

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And what I did was I just listed lots and lots and lots and lots of businesses.

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And generally in the speaking test, you should avoid just listing things because it doesn't really take a,

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the you know a great range of grammar and vocabulary

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and to to just list lots of businesses like most people are able to do

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that that's not really testing your ability to communicate clearly in English what you know about this person

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and then I started to repeat myself so I'm like oh well I know

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that he owns lots of businesses and he found it

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and that's kind of why he's famous so I just repeated myself

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and now I'm getting even more nervous because I know that I shouldn't repeat myself.

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Explain what you think about this person.

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Now I'm so nervous, so frustrated, so full of fear and doubt that I just start repeating myself again.

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I completely lose track of time and it's really uncomfortable for me to talk about that one.

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So it's a disaster.

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So even though I have the ability to speak clearly in English and I have no problem answering these questions, using a method

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that doesn't work hinders me it puts barriers in front of me it makes me jump through hoops

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so you should never do anything on the IELTS test

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that makes it more difficult for you to give the examiners what they want

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so using our strategy let's look at why this strategy works

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and how easy it is

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so you should say who this person is I'm not going to talk about the other bullet points,

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what I'm going to talk about are two companies that I know a lot about.

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I don't know much about the other companies that he runs, but I know a lot about SpaceX and Tesla.

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So he runs other companies, but I'm going to talk about those two because those are the two that I feel most comfortable talking about.

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So I'm still talking about a well -known entrepreneur because I'm talking about his two main companies.

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The thing

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that he has taught me in my business is you are paid in proportion to the size of the problems

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that you solve and a business is really just solving big problems so that is what I'm going to talk about.

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Why I admire him it's very easy for me to talk about

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that because I genuinely do admire him

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and what he will do in the future I probably won't get to this before the two minutes

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but again I like to add something in there and that makes it easy for me to talk about it.

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So what I'm going to do now is demonstrate that strategy.

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So the entrepreneur

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that I'm going to speak about is a person called Elon

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Musk who in 2021 became one of the richest people in the entire world and this was principally because of his company

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Tesla which is an electric car company but he's also quite famous for the company SpaceX which is a space exploration company.

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The thing that Elon Musk has taught me about business is

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that you are paid in proportion to the size of the problems that you solve.

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So when Elon Musk was in his early 20s, he thought about the two biggest problems that the world faced.

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One was climate change and the other one was the inability for us to become an interplanetary species.

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So if there was some kind of event that threatened life on Earth, we wouldn't be able to actually survive.

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The other reason why I really admire Elon Musk is he's one of the only entrepreneurs

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that speaks very openly and honestly about how hard he works.

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And he actually backs it up with a huge amount of work.

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He is famous for working seven days a week, 12 to 16 hours a day,

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and he has done that for 20 years or something like that.

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And I truly believe that that has helped me in my business

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because I inspire my team to work extremely hard and I believe the harder I work,

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the more successful my company becomes.

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In the future, Elon Musk will probably change the world significantly for two reasons.

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Number one, he will probably achieve his goal of getting people to Mars, which is very exciting.

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And secondly, he will probably also achieve a major milestone for autonomous cars

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which is full self -driving mode so cars will basically drive themselves.

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Okay so that was around two minutes

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and I would not be able to do that without using this strategy

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but one thing I would warn you is

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that you can't just look at this strategy and then go into the test tomorrow and perform at the highest level.

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What you will have to do is go and find some real questions

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so this is one of the books that you will have to get

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ielts academic 15 or any of the other ones use real questions

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and i don't have any affiliation with cambridge they don't pay me money

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or anything like that the reason why i suggest these books is because these are questions that reflect the real test

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And if you use fake questions, you'll get questions that have topics in them that are really, really, really difficult.

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But if you have a look at these books, you'll see that the questions are not that difficult, which will really help you prepare properly.

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So you need to get real questions,

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use this strategy, and practice using this strategy until the point where you don't even have to think about the strategy.

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You just do it naturally.

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Just like tying your shoelaces.

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You don't tie your shoelaces and think about what you're doing.

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You just do it automatically.

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Practice it until it becomes automatic.

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All right, let's give you guys some practice questions here and a little task.

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So this is your turn.

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Look at the question below.

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And what I would like you to do is don't take one minute.

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When you're practicing, take as much time as you need when you're first learning a new strategy

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and then try and get faster and faster and faster at it.

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So don't try and do it in one minute.

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Take two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, five minutes.

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Really focus on learning the strategy rather than trying to do it at exam speed.

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You wouldn't, when you're first learning to drive a car, drive it at top speed.

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You do it at 10 miles an hour, then 20, then 30, then 40, then 50.

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That's what you should be doing in all parts of the IELTS test.

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Start slowly, focus on mastering each technique, each strategy, and then try to get faster.

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So in the comments, what I would like you to do is show me your little plan.

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So this was my plan.

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These were the things that I wanted to talk about.

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I want you to do the same thing.

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I want you to look at the question, look at the main topic,

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and then try to create a number of bullet points that you would feel really comfortable talking about.

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Post them in the comments below.

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So describe a country you would like to visit.

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You should say which country you would like to visit, what the country is like, which attractions you would like to see,

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and why you would like to visit there.

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So feel free to pause the video and take a screenshot of

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that or whatever you need or write it down and then practice using that strategy.

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And then at home, what you can do, just a little extra tip that you can use,

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what you can do is record yourself using that strategy on your phone.

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So get questions, use the strategy and then answer the question

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and record yourself on the phone and then listen back and give yourself feedback based on how fluent you were, how coherent you were, your vocabulary,

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your grammar and your pronunciation.

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Thank you very much and I hope you enjoyed the lesson.

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So I hope you enjoyed that video and I hope it was helpful.

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If you want any more help with your IELTS preparation, there's a few things you can do.

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Number one, take a look around our YouTube channel.

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There's a huge number of videos here that will help you prepare at home for free, or you can email us.

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We have a huge team waiting to answer any of your emails.

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So if you have a question about IELTS, you want a free course or free information,

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we're here for you, we're here to help you just send us an email chris at ieltsadvantage .com

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and we'll be happy to help you out don't forget to subscribe to the youtube channel

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so you'll get new videos coming soon i can't speak anymore

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and the vip course has more success stories than any other ielts course in the world.

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And when a new place becomes available, our course advisors will contact you and let you know.

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Now, before my voice completely disappears, I'll go, thank you so much for watching the video and thank you for all of your support.

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Thanks.

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Bye -bye.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “IELTS Speaking Part 2 Strategy That REALLY Works”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: strategy, student, bullet, speak. This video has 393 sentences and 4941 words to shadow. The speech runs for 29:01. The speaker talks at a natural 170 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 89% 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
bullet noun	/ˈbʊlɪt/	A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
examiner noun	/əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/	A person who investigates someone or something.
topic noun	/ˈtɑpɪk/	A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
grammar noun	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
vocabulary noun	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	A usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
trick noun	/ˈtɹɪk/	Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
genre noun	/ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/	A kind; a stylistic category or sort, especially of literature or other artworks.
entrepreneur noun	/ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/	A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.
admire verb	/ədˈmaɪɹ/	To regard with wonder and delight.
pronunciation noun	/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/	The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
naturally adverb	/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/	In a natural manner.
solve verb	/sɒlv/	To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
dramatically adverb		In a dramatic manner.
ignore verb	/ɪɡˈnɔː/	To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
disaster noun	/dɪˈzɑːs.təː/	An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
come up verb		To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
come up with verb		To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
look around verb		To inspect a building or area.
mess up verb		To make a mess of; to untidy, disorder, soil, or muss.
sit back verb		To recline while still in a seated position, with one's back on the frame of the seat.
stress out verb		To become stressed.

Sentences worth repeating

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

Then we're gonna give you the strategy.
I've never met another student who could do that.
It's easy for you to talk about those things.
It's easy for you to think about them.
What do you know about this person?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if you use fake questions, you'll get
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has caused · has helped · have experienced
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	student who should · students who pick · student who could
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be expected · are designed · are paid

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 147 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, proportion /pɹəˈpɔɹʃən/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
Long words — get the stress right: examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/

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 bullet, examiner, topic.

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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?