Prática de Shadowing: How to Sound Band 9 When Talking About Social Media - IELTS Speaking Part 3 - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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Right, imagine that you've just finished the part two of the IELTS speaking test and you did fine, maybe even better than fine.
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Then the examiner leans forward slightly, looks you in the eye and goes,
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so do you think social media has changed the way people communicate?
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And in that moment, you have to do something completely different.
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No more two minute monologues, no more cue cards to lean on.
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Just you, your opinion and the very real possibility of saying, yes, social media has changed a lot.
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Yeah.
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Three times in a row before you go quiet. That is part three.
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And that's what I want to help you with today, because it's where bands are won or lost.
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And today I'm going to walk you through a band five, seven and nine answer to a real part three tech question.
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So you can hear exactly what's pulling each one up.
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So today's topic is technology and social media.
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And let's get into that topic right now.
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For anyone newer to the IELTS speaking test, a quick recap.
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So part one is the warm up.
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Where do you live? do you work or study?
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Yeah, that kind of thing.
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Then part two is the cue card.
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So you get two minutes of monologue on a topic that you can't choose, but you do get a cue card.
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And we have covered that in a few other videos, the last episode that I did an IELTS episode on,
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and I'll link it in the description or at least at the end of this video.
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And then part three is the conversation.
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The examiner takes the topic from your cue card that you did in part two and goes broader,
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asking you to discuss, compare and give opinions or predict the future or agree and disagree,
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all of that stuff around the topic that your part two cue card was on.
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And the answers are usually 30 to 60 seconds each.
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So you're not aiming for a long speech, but you're aiming for a thoughtful,
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well-developed reply that shows you can actually think on your feet in English and not just describe things within it.
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That distinction, I would say,
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between describing and discussing is a complete game changer when it comes to part three.
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So keep that in mind as we go through it.
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But yeah, today's question is, do you think social media has changed the way people communicate with each other?
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I'm going to say that again just to be a proper teacher that repeats themselves.
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Do you think social media has changed the way people communicate with each other?
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OK, so let's hear a band five answer right now.
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yes i think social media has changed communication a lot um before people met in person
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or talked on the phone but now they use apps like whatsapp instagram um and tiktok so now communication
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is faster and and you can talk to many people at the same time
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but it is also a problem because we don't really talk face to face
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so much um people send messages
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and emojis instead i i think it's good for staying in contact with family in other countries
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but it's bad because young people are sometimes addicted to their phones.
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So yeah, I guess in conclusion, social media changed communication and it has good things and bad things.
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Okay, end scene.
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Now, before we break that down, quick side note, if you found yourself thinking,
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yeah, that actually sounds a bit like what I would say,
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then you'll really benefit from the free lesson pack I've made for this episode.
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Inside it, you'll find a handful more part three question sets on everyday topics with band five,
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seven and nine model answers for each one plus short exercises.
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So you can practice building your own responses instead of just listening passively.
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You can grab it by scanning the QR code on screen right now, or by checking the show notes description or comments section,
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click that link and it will take you to this page that video podcast viewers can see right now.
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Fill in your name and email and I'll be able to send the PDF straight to your email inbox for free.
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All right.
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So that band five response, it was fine.
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It was genuinely fine.
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The grammar is mostly correct.
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The speaker has a clear opinion and you understand them, right?
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but it's not getting above a five and you might be surprised by
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that because you know there wasn't any real issues with it or
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so it seems um firstly i'd say the vocabulary is incredibly
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basic i i said good things bad things problem addicted the good things and bad things are the main basic part there,
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but these are words a low intermediate student could use.
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There's nothing in that answer that says this person can really handle a discussion in English.
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Secondly, the structure is essentially a list, right?
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It's like this happens and this happens and this happens.
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No single idea actually gets developed live.
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And thirdly, and this is the big one for part three, There's no real thinking happening out loud.
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I say social media is good and bad, but never get into why or for whom or in what way.
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There's no nuance, no example and no. Yeah.
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But on the other hand, kind of reflection.
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And remember what I said earlier in the video, part three is asking you to discuss something.
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Band five describes it.
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That's the core difference right there.
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Describing versus discussing.
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So if you're around band five, here is a very simple unlock for you.
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Every single time you give an opinion in part three, ask yourself why.
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why did you give that opinion and answer it out loud
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and don't just say it's a problem say what kind of problem
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and for whom and give one tiny example and
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that single habit could potentially lift you a whole band on its own okay
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so time for us to level that response up from a band five to a band seven.
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So again, the same question as before, do you think social media has changed the way people communicate with each other?
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Yeah, I'd say it's changed pretty significantly, especially over the past 10, 15 years.
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The most obvious thing is that a lot of communication now happens through screens rather than face to face.
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Most of my friendships, honestly, are kept alive through WhatsApp groups and Instagram stories rather than meeting up in person.
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And I think there are real benefits.
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Like you can stay in touch with people across the world without thinking twice about it.
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And platforms like Zoom and FaceTime have basically erased distance for families.
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but on the flip side I do think it's made conversations a bit shorter and shallower
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people are quicker to send a meme than to actually catch up properly
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but yeah there's also the fact
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that you can't really hear tone in a text message
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so things get misread fairly easily so overall I'd say social media has made communication more constant,
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but maybe less meaningful, depending on how you use it.
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Okay, we've climbed a level there.
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And what actually changed?
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Well, I'd say the vocabulary got more interesting.
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We had things like kept alive through or erased distance,
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quicker to send a meme than catch up properly, right?
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That's the kind of phrasing that that shows real control of idiom
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and register um we got proper development like i said um i think there are benefits
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and then i actually gave examples i said then on the flip side and gave the counter side and that structure
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opinion plus example plus counterpoint is the bread and butter of band seven for part three.
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The opinion itself is also more nuanced.
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It's not good or bad.
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It's more constant, but maybe less meaningful.
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That kind of phrasing tells the examiner you can hold two ideas in tension at the same time,
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which is precisely what a part three is testing for.
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So maybe you're asking me, well, why isn't it a band nine?
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Why can't you get a band nine for that?
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And I'd say it's because it feels a tiny bit rehearsed.
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Like the phrases are good, but they arrive in a tidy, slightly textbook order.
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I'm not really thinking in the moment clearly.
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I'm just presenting the information.
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Band nine sounds like the brain is genuinely working in real time, like the speaker is finding the idea as they say it.
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And you'll hear what I mean when I give you the band nine answer.
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In fact, let's just go straight to that band nine right now.
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So yeah, here is a band nine response to the same question, which is, do you think social media has changed the way people communicate with each other?
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Oh, massively.
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Yeah.
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I think the most interesting shift is that communication has somehow become both constant and weirdly shallow at the same time,
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if that makes any sense.
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Like I'm in regular contact with people I haven't physically seen in years through Instagram stories and random WhatsApp groups.
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But the actual substance of those interactions is fairly thin.
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It's reactions, emojis, the occasional meme, rather than what I'd call a proper conversation.
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And the other thing I find genuinely fascinating is how social media has blurred the line between our public and private life.
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People share opinions online they'd never say to your face.
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I mean, partly because there's now a kind of audience, even for ordinary people.
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And I think that's made everyone slightly more like almost performative without realizing it.
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But that said, I don't want to come across as too cynical about it,
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because for people who deal with social anxiety or live far from each other or far from their homes,
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These platforms can genuinely be a lifeline.
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So it's not all doom and gloom.
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It's more than that.
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But somewhere along the way, we've traded depth for convenience without quite noticing.
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Right.
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So what's actually happening in that band nine answer?
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It's not really much more sophisticated grammar.
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The grammar is nothing wild, really.
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It's not bigger words.
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The vocabulary is sophisticated, but it's not like I'm showing off with really big words that most natives won't even know.
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What it is, is brain thinking out loud.
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Right.
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If you were to listen back to phrases that I said, like, if that makes any sense or what I'd call a proper conversation,
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or I said, I don't want to come across as too cynical.
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these aren't full sentences they're they're little detours they're they're the sound of real human speech
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and thought right because as we're saying stuff our brain is probably quicker than what our tongue
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and mouth can do and most of us interject within our own thought pattern
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or speech pattern rather so it's alive basically then there's the ideas themselves um trading depth for convenience
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pretty good um blurred the line between public and private
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and performative without realizing it that's not vocabulary that is memorized from a school textbook.
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That's the speaker shaping a thought as they speak.
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You know, you've probably never even come across that collocation before.
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It's the in the moment combination of thought and advanced vocabulary.
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It's not like sophisticated in the sense of like big words.
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It's just, you know the human touch
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and also there's a lot of hedging in there hedging is
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is softening a fact by making it subjective like i think
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this rather than this is the truth i i think this thing
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or even the phrase if that makes sense that's kind of hedging as well or i'm not sure we always notice
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That was another one.
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But yeah, band nine speakers don't dump opinions on you necessarily.
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OK, it's a bit subjective here,
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but they often offer them for you to decide what to do with because they've given you some softness around the edges.
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It signals confidence, I would say, without sounding arrogant, which I'd imagine most examiners will really respect.
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So yeah, the big takeaway from this one to push from band seven to band nine in part three is
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that you don't need fancier English.
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You don't need to swallow a dictionary.
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You need to actually have an opinion and then deliver it like you're discovering it as you speak, not reciting it.
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That's the band nine trick, especially for part three.
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It's a feeling, not such a formula.
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Now, the examiner won't only ask one question.
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Part three is a proper back and forth.
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So you should expect three to five questions on the topic.
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So here are a few more genuinely common part three questions on technology
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and social media that you should be able to handle.
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One is, do people today spend too much time online?
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another one is how has technology changed the way children learn
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pretty big um another one are older people as comfortable with technology as younger people
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and the last one i'll give you is what are the
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dangers of social media for teenagers i'd try answering each one out loud ideally with your phone recording you,
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then play it back and ask yourself one question.
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Was I describing or was I discussing?
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Okay, that single check done honestly can lift you a full band on its own.
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Now, if you're sat there thinking, yeah, Charlie, that is great, but how do I actually practice this on my own,
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well, that's exactly why I made a free lesson pack for this episode.
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You'll get a handful more part three question sets on different topics, each with full band five, seven and nine model answers,
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my breakdowns of what's making the difference and short exercises to help you build your own answers.
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And the reason this format works so well is that hearing that gap between bands
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is one of the fastest ways to start closing it yourself.
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It basically rewires your ear.
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So scan that QR code on screen right now or click the link in the description, show notes or comments.
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And that link will take you to this screen that video podcast viewers can see right now.
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Fill in your name and email and I'll be able to send you that free PDF right to your email inbox.
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All right, that's it for today.
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Next time you practice speaking, don't just answer the question, have an opinion.
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Then say it like you're working it out as you speak, not like you're reading it off a card.
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That is where part three fluency really, really lives.
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If there's an IELTS topic you'd like me to cover next, drop it in the comments below, and I'll aim to make the next video about that one.
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And if you want to keep going right now, there's another IELTS episode waiting for you on screen where we walk through a different part two
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cue card from start to finish.
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Click on that one next because it pairs really nicely with this one.
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So see you in that video.
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Bye bye.
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