Shadowing Practice: The Value Survey on House Prices: Đề thi thật IELTS LISTENING Vol 3 Test 1 Section 3 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Now turn to Section 3 on page 6.
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Section 3.
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Following instructions from their tutor, you will hear two economic students called James and Anna
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discussing a recent survey about the cost of buying a house in New Zealand.
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First you have some time to look at questions 21 to 25 on page 6.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 25.
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OK.
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For this week's assignment, you're going to assess the value survey on house prices.
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What were the survey's findings?
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Was it a reliable survey?
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Work in pairs, discuss what you've read and generate some ideas for the assignment.
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All right.
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Shall we work together, Anna?
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Sure, James.
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So, um, first, how did the values survey actually measure the cost of houses?
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Because there are lots of ways of calculating it.
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Well, it looked at all houses, didn't it?
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New and old.
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So it started with average incomes across the whole workforce and then worked out house prices in relation to that.
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I mean, to what people were earning. So it's about affordability.
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What people pay in real terms.
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There's no information about the size of a house a typical family can buy.
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No, that's a limitation.
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OK, then in the assignment we should give some background.
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I mean, what's different about the value survey?
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Yeah, there's lots of these surveys every year.
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Value is actually one of the newer ones, but it stands out because it gives figures for a range of the largest urban centres, which none of the others do.
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OK, good point.
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Then one finding was that New Zealand houses are relatively expensive.
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Why is that? because most of them are built of wood, and that's quite cheap.
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Yeah, it is.
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But the problem is, there are too many regulations and restrictions about where you can build.
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So if more building sites were created for housing, the costs would come down.
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That's it, isn't it?
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Because there are plenty of contractors ready to do the work.
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Exactly.
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So, um, what else?
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Well, what about transport?
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I mean, it's all very well to talk about new housing, but how are people going to get there?
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Is the survey proposing new roads, new rail networks?
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It should be a coordinated approach.
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Yeah, but the survey didn't mention it.
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It's a missed opportunity because a commitment to funding public transport from the outset would improve air quality in our cities.
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True.
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OK then, the next survey, what can we expect?
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It'll look at all the same places, right?
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Exactly the same.
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But the next one will give an idea of the way prices are moving.
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The government may have to think about how house prices are affecting society.
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Before you hear the rest of the discussion, you have some time to look at questions 26 to 30 on page 7.
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Thank you.
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Then in the assignment we need to evaluate how reliable the survey was, so we should look at some of the criticism made by commentators.
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OK, so there's the economist Andrew Coleman.
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He actually questioned whether the survey was money well spent, because it only looked at a single year in isolation.
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A year when it was difficult to borrow money to buy a house, pushing up costs.
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So he thought the survey should consider a longer timeframe.
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Did you get that article by Professor Massey?
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Because he's the leading authority on this topic.
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Yeah, interesting.
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He realised the method used to calculate how much money people had didn't take savings into account,
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so actually people looking for a house were richer than the survey shows, making houses cheaper in real terms.
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Alright right.
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Then Richard Bernard, his criticism was original.
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He found out they were using quite outdated software to process all the information they gathered, which was crazy because they actually had the money available for an upgrade.
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So even though it was a highly regarded team of people, the way the statistics were interpreted was open to question.
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OK.
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Then Professor Lowndes, he thought the report was just badly written.
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That's right.
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After all the work that went into gathering valid information, the finished report was just too long and weakly structured.
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And there was too much unnecessary detail.
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And the last one, Maria Darling.
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She made a point about the properties that were evaluated.
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There weren't enough of them, you mean?
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No, it wasn't that.
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But they were never identified for privacy reasons.
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But she thought the actual properties used should have been revealed, you know.
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The process should have been transparent if the people are going to have full confidence in the survey.
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Right.
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So a lot of criticism.
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Yeah.
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But this sort of research is often controversial.
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That is the end of Section 3.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “The Value Survey on House Prices: Đề thi thật IELTS LISTENING Vol 3 Test 1 Section 3”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: survey, assignment, prices, value, cost. This video has 84 sentences and 796 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:26. The speaker talks at a steady 124 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. 16 of its 84 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| assignment noun | /əˈsaɪn.mənt/ | The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. |
| calculate verb | /ˈkælkjʊleɪt/ | To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process. |
| evaluate verb | /ɪˈvaljʊeɪt/ | To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise. |
| affordability noun | The extent or degree to which something is affordable, as measured by its cost relative to the amount that the purchaser is able to pay. | |
| outset noun | /ˈaʊtsɛt/ | An onset; the beginning or initial stage of something. |
| weakly adverb | /ˈwiːkli/ | With little strength or force. |
| outdated adjective | /aʊtˈdeɪtɪd/ | Out of date, old-fashioned, antiquated. |
| tutor noun | /ˈtjuːtəː/ | One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction. |
| commentator noun | /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/ | A person who compiles explanations and critical notes on a text. |
| limitation noun | /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/ | The act of limiting or the state of being limited. |
| restriction noun | /ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/ | The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted. |
| interpret verb | /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/ | To decode the meaning of a topic and then act, whether to continue researching the topic, follow through, act in opposition, or further the understanding… |
| coordinate verb | /koʊˈɔɹ.dəˌneɪt/ | To place in the same order or rank. |
| economist noun | /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/ | An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories. |
| workforce noun | /ˈwɝk.foɹs/ | All the workers employed by a specific organization or state, or on a specific project. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come down verb | To descend, fall down, collapse. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| push up verb | To make (something) higher; to increase. | |
| stand out verb | To jut out, protrude (from a surface etc.). | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
| work together verb | To be coworkers with someone; to share a workspace with someone. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- What were the survey's findings?
- I mean, what's different about the value survey?
- There weren't enough of them, you mean?
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 9 contractions and reduced forms, such as didn't, isn't, it'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, restriction /ɹɪˈstɹɪkʃən/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: commentator /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/, limitation /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/, coordinate /koʊˈɔɹ.dəˌneɪt/, economist /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
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 assignment, calculate, evaluate.
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.