Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Test band score 7 with feedback 2025 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Are you ready?
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Yeah.
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All right.
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From here starts the speaking test.
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This is the speaking mock test of the International English Language Testing System taking place in Ross Isles Academy.
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The candidate is Bita.
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The candidate number is 01413278.
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The examiner is Joseph.
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Examiner number 44321.
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Good afternoon.
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My name is Joseph.
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Would you please tell me your full name?
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Thank you.
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Nice to meet you.
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can i see your identification please yeah here you are all right thank you here
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so uh let's begin by part one
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and the first part of the exam i will ask you
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some personal questions let's talk about friends who is your best
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friend uh my best friend uh is azadeh actually she was my classmate and Right now,
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we are actually, we have a good connection by now.
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Are you still friends with people from your childhood?
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Yes, I can say that.
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You know, as far as I think, the best friendships actually can be made,
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actually, when actually you're a child or actually, if I want to say that, from your childhood.
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Do you prefer spending time with family or friends?
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Honestly, with my family because I think we actually are a close-knit family
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and I prefer to actually spend my time with my family.
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Perfect.
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Let's talk about television programs now.
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Where do you usually watch TV programs or shows?
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I am really keen on sports TV shows and I really want to spend my time on that, of course.
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And what's your favorite TV program or show?
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It is actually called NABAD and I really love that
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because of actually it's a host that his name is Adelferdo Sipur and I really like this man.
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And do you think you will watch more TV or fewer TV programs or shows in the future?
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In the future, I think I will watch it more, you know, because right now I'm really trying for my life
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and I really spend my time on studying and a lot of things.
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So I think in the future, maybe I am not busy as I am right now.
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I would actually.
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All right.
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Now let's move on to talk about age.
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Are you happy to be the age you are now?
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I think yes, I am happy, but you know, I'm stressed because I'm getting older and I think it is so scary for me.
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And, you know, I think maybe I will lose my opportunities.
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And when you were a child, did you think a lot about your future?
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Yes, I did.
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You know, I used to think a lot about my future
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because all the time I was so worried about my future
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and I had a lot of goals and plans and I wanted to achieve them.
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And do you think you have changed as you have got older?
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Sorry, can you repeat your question?
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Sure.
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Do you think you have changed as you have got older?
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I think yes.
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I actually, I changed a lot, especially I was a kind of introverted person.
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And right now I am so extroverted and I think it could be a big change for me.
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Thank you.
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That's the end for part one.
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Now let's move on to part two.
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In part two, I will give you a card with a topic
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and you will have to talk about the topic for up to two minutes.
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You have one minute to think about what you're going to say.
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You can make some notes to help if you wish.
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Do you understand?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Well, the topic would be describe a time when you started using a new technological advice, e.g. a new computer or phone.
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That's your cue card.
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Thank you so much.
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That's a piece of paper for taking notes and a pen.
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We're reading it pretty much.
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Until one minute time for taking notes and thinking starts right now.
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Thank you.
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All right, your one minute time is over and now we can speak for up to two minutes.
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Okay, so if I want to start my speech,
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I can say that one of the actually devices that I was really keen on was my actually phone,
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my smartphones, because as I can remember, when I was a student at high school,
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actually I was familiar with these devices and they were actually kind of new devices and I really wanted to have one.
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And because I actually really wanted to improve my life quality
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and I actually was thinking that it actually could be
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so effective and it could have a lot of effect on my life
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and i can actually you know uh do a lot of faith with
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that and so uh first of all
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if i want to talk about my experience about using these
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actually mobile phones uh first of all i should say
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that uh it was so easy for me like a piece of a cake
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and i really you know uh because uh i really loved
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that devices and uh um you know i was
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so interested about them
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and uh in a actually one in a short time i actually had known that how can i use them
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and so uh i can remember that
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when i really wanted these devices uh all the time i was saying
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that i wish i would actually in a place
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that my friends for example uh are in that and uh you know uh it It was so,
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it was so dreamy for me.
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I really wanted to do that, to have them of course.
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Perfect.
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Thank you so much.
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Now let's move on to the third part.
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And would you please hand me back the piece of paper, the cue card and the pen?
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Here you are.
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In part two, you talked about the time when you started using a new technological device.
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Now, in this part, I want to ask you some questions related to this topic.
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First, let's consider technology and education.
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What is the best age for children to start computer lessons?
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Can you, sorry, can you explain it?
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Can you, of course.
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What is the best age for children to start computer lessons?
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I think, you know, when the children can understand what they can do for their life,
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actually, and what is wrong and what is, you know, the best decision, they can actually keep learning and,
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you know, start to studying and just this.
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And do you think that schools should use more technology to help children learn?
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Definitely yes, because, you know, as far as I think,
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technology can be so effective in the actually learning process.
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And I think it could be so, you know, it could boost actually the process of learning.
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And do you agree or disagree that computers will replace teachers one day?
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I agree, actually, because, you know, nowadays we can see, for example,
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some bots like AI that they can do a lot of things that, you know, it is more than a kind of,
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you know, it is more than individual powers, of course and I think it could be so challenging,
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but I think, yeah.
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Now let's talk about technology and society.
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How much has technology improved the way we communicate with each other?
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A lot.
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Of course, you know, it is different.
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as my point of actually as I think it made people to have more connection with actually other people
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and make new friendships and of course do a lot of things
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that we can't do it without them but I think
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that you know some close actually close-knit families for example destroyed by this technology.
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And, you know, for example, like some applications that you can have video calls or something like that,
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I think it could be, it couldn't be actually.
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Do you agree that there are still many major technological innovations to be made?
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Yes, definitely.
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because actually, you know, day by day, we can see the world actually getting better.
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And, you know, so I think because of that, we can see a lot of,
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you know, new technologies and new approaches in the future. And yeah.
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And could you suggest some reasons why some people are deciding to reduce their use of technology?
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Sorry, can you repeat that again?
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Yes, could you suggest some reasons why some people are deciding to reduce their use of technology?
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You know, it depends on each individual perspective, actually point of view, I wanted to say that.
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I think the people that decide to, actually want to decide to reduce using technology,
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you know, So maybe the thought is about we don't have any close relationship nowadays
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and it will make people so lazy and so because of that maybe they don't want to do that.
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Thank you so much.
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This is the end of the speaking test.
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Okay, 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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I'm going to share with the questions.
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This is the last time I'm going to talk about the exam day.
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We 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 do you know for our generation.
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...tongue out of the movie and talking about what's in a movie and film.
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We're going to spend a lot of time on film.
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All right, so time for the feedback.
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Well, as you know, there are four criteria for evaluating your performance,
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fluency, lexical resource, or vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
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When it comes to fluency, you are easy to follow.
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That's what matters.
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You were easily understandable, and then you didn't repeat yourself.
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You had a couple of self-repetition and self-correction, but that's okay.
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It looks like you were repeating yourself naturally like everybody, even people with other, even if their native language is English,
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they do repeat themselves.
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So that was the good part of it with regards to the fluency and coherence and you were coherent, easily understandable.
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But you need to slow down a little bit.
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You have to give yourself that time to find the ideas and find the words.
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You don't need to rush because rushing makes you nervous.
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And getting nervous is a killer in IELTS exams, speaking exams.
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So So you need to slow down, keep pace when you speak, try to think wisely before choosing any word.
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And in order to do that, you need to diversify your connectives, the fillers and boosters and connectives.
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You need to pay close attention to what connectives to use.
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You know we have fillers,
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which are the phrases used by the speaker to try to find the right word okay like you say like
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or you know or I mean you're buying yourself time to find a better word right
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so you have to pay attention to the fillers
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and the boosters to find the next ideas like you need
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to use some boosters like for example you say a sentence
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and you're not sure what the next sentence would be So you would say,
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with that being said, then blah, blah, blah.
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You find yourself and other ideas to move on and keep the flow of speech, maintain the flow of speech.
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So you need to also
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use a wide range of boosters to try to figure out what to speak about and maintain the flow of speech.
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But let me tell you something.
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You need to use those fillers and boosters judiciously, carefully.
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An overdose of fillers and boosters is not okay because
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that would also show that you're not able to be coherent or be to the point.
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So overdose or excessive use of fillers and boosters is dangerous, but try to use them carefully.
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So that is for fluency and coherence.
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Let's move on to lexical resource, which is vocabulary.
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You did a great job finding some very good words like, yeah, I'm keen on, that's perfect.
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That's professional.
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You also said use some idiomatic language, which is very okay.
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You are really great in finding some colloquial words and an idiomatic language, like you said, piece of cake.
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You use day by day is really important to try to diversify and expand the vocabulary used naturally,
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used idioms by native speakers.
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That is okay, but pay attention to the overuse of some words, like you overused the word actually,
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and that is not okay.
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So try to avoid overusing some specific words, And you also, one good point is that you said definitely yes.
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When you were really sure what the answer would be, definitely yes, absolutely yes.
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All those phrases are really amazing and they really caught my attention.
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With regards to grammar, you had some little issues.
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You have to avoid them.
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Let me begin by your bright side.
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You used this phrase as far as, which is okay.
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That shows that you are able to use some complex structures,
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but your usage of complex structures were not fully okay because sometimes you make some mistakes.
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When you want to expand the answer or expound on the answer, elaborate on the answer, you would face some problems.
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You want to use that complex structure, but then you face some shortcomings but as far as you were speaking
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and using some simple structures you were okay
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but the issues would be um you used will
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but instead of mentioning the simple form of the verb you use the past
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form of the verb so that is an issue
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and then you also said a lot of thing instead of a lot of things things, he said, I know that how can I,
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which the correct form would be, I know how I can.
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He said, I wish I would, then he didn't say, I wish I would be, I wish I would do something.
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He used, you were not accurate in this part.
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you said the world getting better without using the is.
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So you have to say the world is getting better instead of the world getting better.
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So try to also use some complex structures and pay attention to how they're used.
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Try to practice them in order to increase your band score.
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When it comes to pronunciation, you are easy to understand.
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That's what matters.
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You really you did a very great job.
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Instead of a couple of mistakes, like stressed instead of stressed, you have to avoid that e or schwa.
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Because in Iran, because of the form of their language, Persian language, we cannot say stressed or sport.
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People here in Iran usually say sport or stress or school.
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You have to pay attention and remove that schwa at the beginning of each word.
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So you also said dreaming instead of dreaming and then close family instead of close family.
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So paying attention to those subtle mistakes will definitely increase your band score.
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Of course, we're not talking about pronunciation.
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We're not talking about accent.
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I repeat, we're not talking about accent.
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We're talking about clarity.
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You have to be clear and pronounce the words correctly.
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So you had a very good intonation when you were speaking about something important.
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You had that word stress and you had that sentence stress, which is very good.
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You did a very great job in pronunciation.
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So instead of, except for those couple of mistakes, very subtle mistakes, you did a great job.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “IELTS Speaking Test band score 7 with feedback 2025”. This video has 247 sentences and 2699 words to shadow. The speech runs for 21:02. The speaker talks at a steady 128 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 87% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| booster noun | /ˈbustɚ/ | Something that boosts. |
| filler noun | /ˈfɪlɚ/ | One who fills. |
| fluency noun | /ˈfluːənsi/ | The quality of smoothness of flow. |
| pronunciation noun | /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/ | The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken. |
| connective noun | /kəˈnɛktɪv/ | That which connects. |
| overuse verb | /ˌoʊvɚˈjuːz/ | To use too much of (something); to use (it) too often. |
| bind verb | /ˈbaɪ̯nd/ | To tie; to confine by any ligature. |
| 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. |
| distress noun | /dɪˈstɹɛs/ | Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. |
| technological adjective | /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/ | Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology. |
| keen adjective | /kin/ | Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested. |
| coherence noun | /koʊˈhɪɹ.ən(t)s/ | The quality of cohering, or being coherent; internal consistency. |
| diversify verb | /daɪˈvɝ.sə.faɪ/ | To make (something) diverse or varied in form or quality; to give variety to (something) to distinguish by numerous aspects or differences. |
| idiomatic adjective | /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/ | Pertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language. |
| lexical adjective | /ˈlɛksɪkəl/ | Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slow down verb | To decelerate. |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Would you please tell me your full name?
- Are you still friends with people from your childhood?
- Do you prefer spending time with family or friends?
- Sorry, can you repeat your question?
- Can you, sorry, can you explain it?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | can be made · is actually called · be made |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | friends who is · resource, which is · language, which is |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have changed |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 28 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, schwa /ʃwɑ/, intonation /ɪntəˈneɪʃən/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, shortcoming /ˈʃɔːtˌkʌmɪŋ/
- Long words — get the stress right: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, technological /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.dʒɪ.kəl/, diversify /daɪˈvɝ.sə.faɪ/, idiomatic /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/
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 booster, filler, fluency.
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.