Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Test band score 6 with feedback 2025 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Okay, so from here starts the speaking test.

This is the speaking test of the International English Language Testing System taking place at Ross IELTS Academy.

The candidate is Parmida Durudi.

The candidate number is 0153610.

The examiner is Samson C's examiner number 443533.

Good afternoon, my name is Samson.

Would you please tell me your full name?

Good afternoon, I'm Parmida Durudi.

You can call me Lian.

Leanne, okay great.

So can I see your identification?

Sure, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

That's wonderful.

Thanks very much.

Okay, so in the first part of the exam, I will ask you some personal questions.

So first, I'd like to ask you about your hometown.

Where is your hometown?

My hometown is Tehran.

I was born in Tehran, Ekbatan town.

And I'm kind of used to living there because all my childhood friends are there.

I used to play in the playgrounds and I remember

that my mother and father used to take me there and I had so many friends.

I had so many friends back there, but unfortunately now I don't live there anymore.

Okay.

So, do you often visit your hometown?

Yes, actually I I'm coming from there now because one of my closest friends,

her name is Yasaman, is living there.

And I sometimes go and visit her.

Wow.

So let's now move on to talk about your daily routine.

When do you usually get up in the morning?

I usually get up early in the morning but it can change whether I have a

Whether I have homework or not because I because of my major,

which is architecture, Our homework is various. And...

we can either have a lot of homework or Not at all.

Okay, so do you usually have the same routine every day?

No, I don't usually have the same routine every day as I told you before.

because of my major, which is architecture,

We have various homeworks and I study different languages which are architecture, Korean and English.

So based on these facts, I have different daily routines and different plans everything.

Okay, now is your routine the same today as it was today? when you were a child.

I don't think so because as I grew up and became an adult,

my responsibilities has become way greater.

and my tasks has also became larger and more important.

So no, I don't think it's the same.

Good.

Now let's talk about dictionaries.

Do you often use a dictionary?

Yes, I often use the dictionary because I study different languages and I'm actually thinking about taking a course in Spanish

So I'm thinking about buying a new dictionary and learning a Spanish first.

Okay, and what do you use dictionaries for usually?

I /O dictionaries to look up different words and meanings

Dictionaries are much more useful when you're using them in the same language that you're studying.

because you can learn more words through the meanings and the examples of that language.

Okay good right that's the end of the first part.

Let's move on to the next part now.

So Here are the papers.

All right.

Now I'm going to give you a topic and I'd like you to talk about it for up to two minutes.

Before you talk, you'll have one minute to think about what you're going to say

and you can make notes if you wish.

Do you understand?

Okay.

Good.

So There's a piece of paper, a pen, and this is your topic.

"Describe a person who has interesting ideas or opinions.

There's your cue card.

So I'll give you one minute to make notes if you like.

Okay, you may start speaking.

Go ahead.

Okay.

So, you asked me about a person who has interesting ideas,

and I'm about to tell you who this person is.

This person...

He is Do Kim Soo.

He is my role model and he is a K -pop artist.

He is also an actor.

I started getting into K -pop when I was 16 years old

and you might not know this but I'm a kind of a perfectionist.

And as I started getting to know this person,

I realized that he has this kind of carefree attitude and he doesn't care about the results of the pandemic.

and the work that he does.

and he Cool.

And he's very successful.

And I think this kind of attitude towards his life is very helpful because--

because nowadays people are really struggling with their mental health

and this kind of And this kind of attitude and idea toward living is very important.

and as a perfectionist, I started acting like him and whenever I had a problem, even with my major or decisions,

I started thinking about What would you teach us to do?

What would he think?

And he helped me a lot with making my decisions.

And you asked me about what was, Uh...

Can you ask me about why his idea was interesting?

His idea was interesting because It's a new kind of idea in this world.

Okay, thanks very much.

That's the end of the two minutes.

I can take back your papers now.

Thank you very much.

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Wonderful.

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Just put that there.

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Thank you.

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Okay, so continue.

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So we've been talking about a person who has interesting ideas, and now I'd like to ask you some questions related to this.

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So let's consider opinions now.

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At what age do you think young people begin to have their own ideas, and why?

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Right.

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I think people start to have their own ideas at their childhood

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because it's the time that begin that they begin to assert knowing their surroundings and making decisions.

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toward life.

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And when do children start to have their own ideas?

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Thank you um they start to have their own ideas uh when they reach uh

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at the when they reach the age of teenagers

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Because I think that's the time they struggle with a lot of issues in the world.

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They see a lot of things on the internet and social media and they meet different people and I think that's it.

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Okay, now can you suggest why children, as they grow older, have more and more disagreements with their parents about ideas?

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I think that's because of the difference.

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I think that's because of age difference and the time that they were born in because

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Our parents were born in a different decade and we were born in a different decade.

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We we are more.

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we are more interacting with the social media and Other people knew ideas,

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but our parents aren't.

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It's alright.

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Good.

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Now let's consider the influence of opinions.

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Who do you think has more influence on children's ideas?

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Their parents or their teachers?

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Thank you.

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I believe at a young age, parents have the most influence on the

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children but as they start going to school teachers have the most influence

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and after that their friends because my best friend was the reason that I started studying architecture.

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Right and do you think private tutors have any role in this matter?

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Do you think they have influence on students?

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Yes, I think that's the case because they spend a lot of time together and it's obviously influence.

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Okay, and do you think children's ideas can be influenced by the school they go to? and why.

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Thank you.

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Yes, I think so because the environment is really important.

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I mean, have you ever seen the difference between public school and the private schools?

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The children are really different and sometimes private school children are Children are really spoiled.

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Um...

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- Okay, and let's have a.. think for a second here about university.

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Do you think students have get influenced by what goes on socially at university.

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Could you please repeat your question?

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Sure.

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Do you think students get influenced by other students at university?

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Yes, I think so, but it depends whether they are their best friends or not.

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I think we get more influenced by our best friends more than the others.

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Alright, okay, thank you very much.

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OK, that was a lot of talking.

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Do you have any questions?

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No, thank you very much.

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I really appreciate that you give me this feedback because I know this will help me.

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This is exactly what I need.

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Although my job is hard, I enjoy doing this.

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Usually, if you have a better practice, you can't do it.

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The last time you're going to have an exam day, you should make sure...

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Okay, this is the last time I'm going to talk about...

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.. how to get out of here...

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.. for our generation.

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.. let's hang out in a movie and talk about what they're in New York and film.

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So, now we're talking about...

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.. movie and cinnamon.

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Cinnamon for death.

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you So let's look into...

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fluency and coherence for a second here.

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So um, You were very coherent and, you know, the way you were, how you carried on with your conversation, you just kept going.

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You sounded very natural when you were speaking and the flow of speech, it was great.

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I mean, I could have, if I were to improve that, if you wanted to go any higher than that.

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Maybe you could have elaborated a little bit more on some questions in part three, the last part of the speaking test.

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I mean, other than that, the way you were expressing your opinions and elaborating on your topic, whatever you were talking about,

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it sounded very natural and coherent.

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It was spot on, it was fluent.

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So, very well done.

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That's wonderful stuff.

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Even part one, maybe if you switch that around a little bit, because part one you were giving good reasons and elaborating on your answers there.

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Which is good, even though that the questions are short and simple, the answers are very should be fairly short too.

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Maybe you could reduce that a little bit and increase the length of your answers in part three.

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I mean, these are just, you know, ways to improve for you.

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So, yeah, very well done.

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You had some pauses here and there, but that wasn't language -related.

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That was content -related.

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And so, you know, any IELTS speaking examiner will pick up on that.

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So that's not a problem.

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That would happen to any natural speaker looking for the idea, looking for the content, rather than the language.

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So very well done.

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So let's move on to lexical resource.

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That's your vocabulary.

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It was very strong, your vocabulary.

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I thought it was, you know, very well -related.

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And you could-- from complex words in your sentences all related, and that sounded very natural too.

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So I'd say that was a very, you know, well done, nice one.

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You were using, you know, coming up with all these expressions like carefree and stuff like that all in the right places.

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So very well done.

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I wouldn't really focus too much on that either.

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So let's look at your grammatical range and accuracy.

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This is somewhere where you can actually maybe improve a little bit if you like.

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Because most of your grammatical range and accuracy altogether, it was complex, it was accurate in most of the places in all three parts of the speaking desk.

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Maybe some things were...you missed a few things at times, maybe one or two, but nothing noticeable.

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You said, the age of teenager or when they become a teenager.

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So maybe you could have said that.

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And at their childhood, maybe during their childhood.

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So these were just two things I picked up on.

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The rest, I think it sounded all accurate.

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and you could form the very complex grammatical structures all together anyway, which brings up your bad score.

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So just these two little things, I mean, you would have got past.

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I mean, you would have been on your way to a name

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if you didn't miss these little things here with the grammatical range and accuracy.

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It was very minor, like I said.

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I mean, that could easily be improved on.

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And what I'm looking at, I mean, you had these techniques within you anyway,

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even though you said you didn't really studied IELTS or the IELTS techniques in particular, but you had them all.

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I mean, when you cover the four criteria, that's important.

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I mean, pronunciation here, again, strong, very clear.

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I mean, it was clear enough for, you know, to be on the level of a native speaker.

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So I don't think anything was mispronounced.

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I didn't pick up on anything in particular.

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“Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true	used to play · used to take
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was born · were born · can be influenced
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