Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Test Band score 5.5 - 2025 | from France - Learn English Speaking with Video
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from here starts the speaking test this is the speaking mock
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test of the international english language testing system taking place in
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ross's academy the candidate is mateo the candidate number is zero
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one four one three two seven eight the examiner is ross
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examiner number four four three five three three good afternoon my
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name is ross would you please tell me your full name my full name is mateo is it
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and can i see your identification yes thank you thank you
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in the first part of the exam i will ask you
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some personal questions first i'd like to ask about leisure time
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what's your favorite leisure activity my favorite leisure activity is reading
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uh since my childhood i read a lot and i guess i started with harry potter and um
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and yes and then my studies are about literature
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so i like i like reading great
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and what did you enjoy doing in your free time as
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a child my free time as a child i played a
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lot video games uh i really loved pokemon for example
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and uh yes i play every weekend every wednesday
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when i was three
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so okay do most people in your country get two days
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off a week yes most people uh for instance my mother works every weekend
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and yes when you are a child you have your Wednesday afternoon
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and also the weekend you don't have to work
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when you are child on Wednesday afternoons
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and now let's move on to talk about neighbors do you like your neighbors I like my neighbors yes
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because they are helping me to yes okay and
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and our neighbors usually close to each other in your countries
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and not really there are a lot of problems in france
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uh concerning yes the neighbors issues there are a lot of uh critical problems okay
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so yes okay now let's move on to talk about pets
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do you have a tweet i have two pets i have a cat called ace
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and i have also a dog called elac yes an old dog
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and a young cat okay
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and what's a popular pet to have in your country in
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my country the most popular cat um pet is a dog
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okay everybody has a has a dog in france okay
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and why do people have pets uh maybe to to feel less lonely or uh yes to have a
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you know love with a you know okay a lot of
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friends okay this is the end of the first part now
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we move on to the second part in the second part i'm going to give you a topic
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and i'd like you to talk about it for two minutes
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before you talk you will have one minute to think about what you are going to say
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and you can make notes if you wish do you understand yes okay
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so here is a piece of paper for you to take notes okay
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and here is your topic topic your one minute of preparation starts now
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Thank you.
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okay your one minute is over you can start speaking now okay so
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okay the last time i lost uh something was uh my keys uh
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and i was late for an important Italian course and
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so I was in panic I searched everywhere
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and I didn't I don't remember how I watched it
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but finally I found it in my pocket kind of stupid things that everybody does and
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I found it 30 minutes later so I was yes really really really late and
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it was an important day so
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when i found it i felt released i felt really happy
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and um but uh i uh i was then stressed
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because i remember
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that it was this kind of important day i had an an evaluation uh an exam
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so um so for me it was really important
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and i i ran around to my uh to my course
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and uh and yes i was uh i was sorry in front of my teacher
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but uh everything uh get better then
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and what can i add for this do you want to add more information uh
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I don't know, because when I found it, it was okay, so, yes, it always happened with me to lose things,
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my keys, my books, my,
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yes, because I'm kind of not organized,
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kind not against people but uh yes now i don't have anything to to add
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okay uh this is the end of the second part now i need you to give me back the paper
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and the pen please yes thank you
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so in the second part we've been talking about an occasion
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when you lost something
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and I'd now like to ask you some questions related to
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this why do people always forget things maybe people's people always forget things
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because they are really busy and they think of other things so they yes they They lost the keys,
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like me, the books.
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So yes, maybe people are busy.
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In France also, we are busy, so we lost time.
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And how can people avoid forgetting things?
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Maybe people can avoid this by writing the things they have to think about.
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um it's maybe useful for them okay and what is the best action to take if you find something
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the best action when i find something find something for example on the street ah yes ah okay
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so maybe uh you have to think if this thing is uh belongs to somebody else and maybe
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if you find i don't know five dollars uh you have
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to say ah who uh who lost the five dollars
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and uh if nobody lost each you can uh if you are maybe in a shop you can go uh
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with the welcoming people to say yeah somebody left something and
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if there's uh nobody you can take it it's sad
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but yeah and in our modern world people tend to forget their culture
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ah what are the reasons for that uh maybe by uh the globalization so we have uh
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the americans of power for example that influences us we can find a coca -cola
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and the peruvian mountains so everywhere
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and with also cinema with hollywood uh recently the film by
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the film by riley scott the movie napoleon uh modified a bit the story of the french
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importer in pro so um
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so yes the south power the american south power tends to
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uh to modify modify our kind of our our culture our thoughts
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and uh yes and what can we do to avoid that
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uh we have to be proud of our own history i know
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that in france we sometimes we are not proud of for example napoleon
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so uh yes to um to reconnect ourselves with with our culture to celebrate it
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and uh yes okay thank you
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so much this is the end of the speaking test
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and have a great rest of the day thank you do
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and 13 minutes of comprehensive feedback, plus we'll give you useful tips on how to make your performance better.
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that was a lot of talking do you have any questions no thank you very much i really appreciate
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that you give me this feedback
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because i know this will help me this is exactly what
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i need although my job is hard i enjoy doing We should make sure,
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okay, this is the last time I'm going to talk about how to give them help for our generation.
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Let's hang out on the movie and talk about what's a movie for and film.
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So now we're talking about the cinema for film.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “IELTS Speaking Test Band score 5.5 - 2025”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: test, neighbors, pet, speaking. This video has 114 sentences and 1349 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:52. The speaker talks at a steady 124 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| pet noun | /pɛt/ | An animal kept as a companion or otherwise for pleasure, rather than for some practical benefit or use. |
| leisure noun | /ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/ | Freedom provided by the cessation of activities. |
| modify verb | /ˈmɑ.dɪˌfaɪ/ | To change part of. |
| ross noun | A swamp. | |
| feedback noun | /ˈfiːdˌbæk/ | Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results. |
| examination noun | /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ | The act of examining. |
| cinema noun | /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/ | A movie theatre, a movie house. |
| mock verb | /mɑk/ | To mimic, to simulate. |
| napoleon noun | /nəˈpoʊli.ən/ | A person resembling Napoleon Bonaparte, (usually) in having come to dominate an area or sphere of activity through ruthlessness or illegality as well as… |
| examiner noun | /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/ | A person who investigates someone or something. |
| pocket noun | /ˈpɑ.kɪt/ | A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items. |
| belong verb | /bɪˈlɒŋ/ | To have its proper place. |
| occasion noun | /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/ | A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance. |
| comprehensive adjective | /ˌkɑm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪv/ | Broadly or completely covering; including a large proportion of something. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | the most popular · the best |
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | start speaking · avoid forgetting |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | will ask · will have · you'll get |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | have to work · have to think · have to be |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 16 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'd, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: leisure /ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/, examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, evaluation /ɪˌvæljuˈeɪʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, napoleon /nəˈpoʊli.ən/, examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, comprehensive /ˌkɑm.pɹəˈhɛn.sɪv/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
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 topic, pet, leisure.
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.