Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Test band score 7 with feedback, 2025 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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In the first part of the exam, I will ask you some personal questions.

First, I'd like to ask you about studying.

Do you work or study?

I currently work, but I've been studying till the last year.

And I have studied English translation, actually, at the university.

and what is or what was the most interesting part of this major?

I think literature.

We had poetry courses, we had literature courses,

and I really enjoyed those courses in our college years, university years.

And what kinds of majors do the people in your country study?

All kinds of major, I think.

But I think medical majors are very popular nowadays in our country.

But it used to be engineering, I think.

Now, let's move on to talk about languages.

Can learning languages help us?

Learning languages help us.

Yeah, of course.

They help us in many ways in being able to connect with the world and being able to learn about other cultures.

It helps in all sorts of ways.

And have you ever learned a new language, or do you wish to?

Yes, I have tried to learn Spanish, and I have also tried to learn some Turkish, but I'm not really fluent in those languages.

But, yeah, I think it's a really fun experiment.

Does knowing languages allow effective conversations?

Of course, that's how we connect.

We use language through language, we connect with other people.

And knowing the language and actually knowing the culture of language would significantly help us to better connect with other people.

Now let's move on to talk about smiles.

Smiles?

Yes.

What are the things that make you smile?

Lots of things.

There could be lots of occasions.

Like seeing a little girl picking a flower and giving it to her mom would make me smile.

Seeing someone doing some acts of kindness.

Cats, I don't You know,

seeing like when people playing football, yeah, things I like.

And when was the last time someone smiled at you?

I think just in the beginning of our conversation, you had a beautiful smile and you smiled at me.

I think that was the last one.

Do you like to smile while posing for photos?

Actually, I get really awkward, like for posing in front of cameras.

I'm not really good in front of the camera,

so I might sound a little bit clumsy to the photographer or videographer.

Why do you think so?

Because I think I'm more of an introverted kind of person.

And because of that, I am not really comfortable sharing and coming out in front of the people.

All right.

Now, that's the end for part one.

For part two, 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?

Yes, I do.

All right.

You can take some paper and a pencil to make notes. And here's your topic.

I'd like you to describe a big company in your hometown that employs a lot of people.

Here's your cue card.

Thank you.

Your one minute preparation time is over and you can start speaking right now.

All right.

So a big company that employs lots of people has lots of staff.

And my My hometown is Ligicala, that comes to my mind.

It is a very big company and they actually started as an online market for buying phones.

But they expanded after that and included all sorts of products in their store.

And people now can almost find any sort of products there and it somehow could be considered the Amazon of Iran.

The headquarters for the company is located in Tehran,

but they have offices throughout the whole country.

I think they provide lots of opportunities for working

and from like the staff in marketing and they have people in production

and they have a wide distribution system

and they will deliver the packages throughout the whole country so

that takes lots of energy and that takes lots of effort and i think

I think they actually might spoil the citizens

because they can buy anything online and get them delivered to them in just a matter of minutes or days.

and the disadvantage is I think of online shops you might not always get the actual product

that you see on the website and you might actually get delivered the wrong order

or you might actually get the whole different product

and you have to send it back and yeah some confusions may happen there

and yeah uh did you have the experience of buying online from that company that you mentioned

yes actually i've been uh actually i've been a customer of the website for years

and yeah i have bought different kind of products

but mainly uh technology related products like hard drives and things like

that all right thank you so much that's the end of part two please hand me back Yes, paper, the cue cards, and the pen.

And now let's move on to the third and the final part.

All right.

We've been talking about a big company in your hometown that employs a lot of people.

And now I'd like to ask you some questions related to this.

What is the benefit of working in large companies?

You, I think when you work in a big company, you become a part of a community

and you have the advantage of meeting people and at work

and you can have like group activities as a company or

or you can go on and have a holiday with your co-workers.

Do you think the work environment or work culture plays an important role at a firm?

Of course, like where we work,

the atmosphere that is dominant in our workspace could really affect how we do our jobs.

So I think that plays an important role

and companies should actually dedicate considerable amounts of effort into making the working atmosphere as friendly and productive as they can.

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And do big organizations provide better opportunities than smaller organizations?

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It depends, not necessarily.

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I think you could do good in a local business.

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You could do even better on a big company.

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It depends on the person, actually, I think.

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And it could be different for individuals.

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And has technology become inseparable at workplaces today?

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I do think so, yes.

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I think wherever you go these days, you will find a computer sitting on a desk.

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And it's an inseparable part of businesses today.

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And I think technology has helped us a lot.

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And we do not have to do menial things ourselves.

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And we don't have to sometimes think about some problems.

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And the computer will do the thinking for us.

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And what do you think the future of technology at the workplace would be?

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To be cynical, to see the half empty part of the situation,

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we people might not have any kind of job, so not being in a workplace to start with.

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But to be optimistic and to see the half full,

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we don't have to do any kind of menial and ordinary jobs and we do the creative and fun part.

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Thank you very much.

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That's the end of the speaking test.

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Please give me two minutes to review your performance and we'll get back to you with the feedback.

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Thank you for your time.

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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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Welcome back.

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I did review your performance based on the four criteria or band descriptors, fluency and coherence, lexical resource,

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grammatical range and accuracy and pronunciation to be straight forward with you.

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You were great.

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All of those four criteria, you demonstrated a great capability to overcome all of the challenges and also maintain the flow of speech.

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Let's begin with the fluency part.

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you did have minor hesitations and all of those hesitations have nothing to do with language.

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You were searching for ideas and as long as it's not language related, it's okay.

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So it's content related.

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You are trying to come up with the ideas and the right way of expressing your answers.

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It's okay.

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Those are natural hesitations, which everybody, even those speaking English as their mother tongue, they face such issues as well.

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Lexical resource, nothing, no issues to mention, no shortcomings, no problems.

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And I've jotted down all of the great and strong points that you demonstrated it.

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You used act of kindness, which is a great way of referring to the question that I asked you.

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You used some advanced words like clumsy, introverted.

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You also used some idiomatic language.

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You said nowadays with CPC sitting on a desk of every company.

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You also said half empty, half full.

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This colloquial language is needed to enhance your band score, and you really rocked it.

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Thank you so much.

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And then also used appropriate collocations.

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You said, provide opportunities, deliver packages in a matter of minutes, in a matter of days,

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dominance dedicate a considerable amount of time

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and none of them were faked none of them were unnatural

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they're all natural they're not memorized there's something we call a

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memorized language you intentionally sometimes try to use some words

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or terms that are you have memorized and you search for occasions or opportunities to try to use them,

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but none of this happened today,

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and you used all of those collocations and terms and words naturally.

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Grammar, flawless.

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There's one single issue, which I know you were a little bit nervous or stressed out.

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You said A online, N online.

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And then you use some redundancies like throughout the whole country.

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When you say throughout, it's throughout the country or in the whole country.

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And then, yes, but you need to also use complex structures.

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You missed out on that.

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you have to intentionally try to come up with some more complex structures to, I know you know, but perhaps you forgot.

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You need to also focus on this part to increase your band score.

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When it comes to pronunciation, it was clear, easy to follow.

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You had the stress on the words and on the sentences.

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But the thing you need to add is the intonation, the rise and fall, the rise and fall based on different circumstances.

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You're talking about, for example,

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something unpleasant, you fall, and then there's something that provokes happiness, you rise.

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This natural rise and fall, or what we call intonation, is needed for you to show the examiner that you are natural English speaker.

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Good luck, Emirates, on your next journey.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 180 sentences and 1908 words to shadow. The speech runs for 16:51. The speaker talks at a steady 113 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 86% 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
connect verb	/kəˈnɛkt/	To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
bind verb	/ˈbaɪ̯nd/	To tie; to confine by any ligature.
feedback noun	/ˈfiːdˌbæk/	Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results.
workplace noun	/ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/	The place where someone works.
employ verb	/ɪmˈplɔɪ/	To retain (someone) as an employee.
hometown noun	/ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/	An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
hesitation noun	/ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/	An act of hesitating
topic noun	/ˈtɑpɪk/	A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
atmosphere noun	/ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/	The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
package noun	/ˈpæk.ɪd͡ʒ/	Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
desk noun	/dɛsk/	A table, frame, or case, in past centuries usually with a sloping top but now usually with a flat top, for the use of writers and readers. It often has a…
resource noun	/ɹɪˈzɔːs/	Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
occasion noun	/əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/	A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
considerable adjective	/kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/	Significant; worth considering.
demonstrate verb	/ˈdɛm.ənˌstɹeɪt/	To show how to use (something).

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
come up with verb	To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
come out in verb	to be afflicted by (a visible disruption of the body)
get back to verb	Return to (an activity)
stress out verb	To become stressed.

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	I've been studying · We've been talking
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have studied · have you ever learned · have tried
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	could be considered · is located · is needed

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 24 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'd, I'm, I've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, considerable /kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, 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.
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 connect, bind, feedback.

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.

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