Prática de Shadowing: IELTS Speaking Part 1: Don’t Make These Mistakes When Talking About Your Home - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo
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If you've got the IELTS speaking exam coming up soon, then this video is for you and let me describe a moment you might recognise.
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So you sit down, the examiner smiles at you, presses record and asks you something gentle to ease you in.
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Do you live in a house or a flat?
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Lovely.
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Nice, easy question.
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And there are two ways people tend to get this wrong.
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Option one, you go too short.
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A flat.
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Yes.
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Silence.
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The examiner waits.
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You wait.
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The birds outside stop chirping and they wait.
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option two You panic and overcorrect and now you're going on far too long.
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So I live in a flat.
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It's a two bed on the third floor built in the 90s, I think.
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And to be fair, we did look at houses first, but the prices around here are ridiculous.
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So we went with a flat in the end, although my cousins actually got this lovely little house and a garden and...
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All the examiner asked was house or flat.
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And you've handed them a full life story. And that...
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is the part one problem.
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It's a balancing act.
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Too short and you haven't given them enough to go off.
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Too long
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and you might even be marked negatively for coherence as they
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could see it as you misread the simple question as a social issue to discuss in detail.
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Or.. more likely because they're not necessarily going to mark you down for that for going long
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it's possible though but more likely they'll interrupt you mid -flow they'll say okay and they'll move on to the next question.
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or they'll just say start saying the next question and i don't know about you but if i'm interrupted mid flow
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It does something to me and it will...
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likely make me second guess mean make me think twice about
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what I'm doing it will make me second guess what I'm doing going forward
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so if somebody interrupts me then I'm oh okay maybe I shouldn't talk like
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that going forward so it could negatively affect your following answers
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answering somewhere comfortably in the middle not too long not too short and also We've got to be honest,
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part one is where they are forming, the examiner, they are forming their first impressions of you.
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You know, they are a human, of course, and they will, whether the test is more focused on part two and three than part one,
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they will start to get a feeling for how good your English is in part one.
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So even though it's the simplest part of the test, it quietly sets the tone for everything that follows.
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So today I'm going to show you how to answer four of these part one questions in a way that sounds relaxed,
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natural and fluent.
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And we're going to do a band five.
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band seven and band nine side by side
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so today's topic is going to be around home and accommodation so let's get into it
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A quick recap though for anyone new to the test.
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Part one is the opening few minutes.
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The examiner asks you simple friendly questions about your everyday life,
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where you live, your work or studies, your hobbies.
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That sort of thing.
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There's no cue card, no big discussion.
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It's basically...
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a quick chat and
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because it's a chat there are two actually maybe three classic
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ways people get it wrong the first is is answering too short.
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Do you like your home?
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Yes, I do.
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It's nice.
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Done.
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And then nothing.
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The conversation just falls flat.
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On to the next question.
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The second way of doing it wrong is to over answer like it's a part three question by saying,
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well, homes play a crucial role in modern society because they provide a foundation for Blah, blah, blah.
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Thank you.
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It's a question about your flat.
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Calm down.
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Don't get all philosophical on them.
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And the third way you could do it wrong is to sound memorized, right?
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Oh, my accommodation is located in a convenient residential area.
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right?
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If it's overly rehearsed, it sounds a bit robotic, unless you're a very good actor.
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But the other risk of rehearsing it too much and,
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you know, making a memorised answer is that you might fall into the trap of using stiff,
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unnatural structures and clinging onto them.
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And we don't want them to know we've rehearsed it.
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The problem with that, if you might be wondering actually getting to know your true level of English.
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And they know that they can sniff it a mile away.
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If they are aware that you are memorizing a script, they will think, right, this isn't the actual level.
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I can't judge them on that rehearsed script because
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if they ask you a question
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that you haven't rehearsed then you might have no English for it
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that you are able to just come up with on the spot.
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And that's the whole point of the art to test.
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It is to test your spontaneous ability to communicate in English.
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So keep one idea in your head for this whole episode.
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Part one is a conversation presentation.
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Your job isn't to impress, it's to sound like a normal,
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relaxed human being who happens to be speaking very good English.
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Right, question one.
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Do you live in a house or flat?
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Right, so the band five answer might be...
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I live in a flat.
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It is nice.
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I like it.
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Or maybe a more natural version would be, I live in a flat.
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It is nice.
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I like it.
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Now, there's nothing wrong with that exactly.
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It answers the question, but it's over before it started.
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And now the examiner is going to move swiftly on to the next question without having been given any evidence
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that you can actually speak fluently.
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Band 7 might be: "Oh, I live in a flat just outside the city centre.
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It's not huge, but it's comfortable and pretty convenient for work." Okay.
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That's pretty good.
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We've got a location, a little detail and a reason.
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It actually feels like an answer now.
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But then if we go up to a band 9, it might sound like this.
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Oh, I live in a flat just outside the city centre, actually.
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And to be honest, it suits me really well.
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It's not massive, but there's enough space.
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And I like that I can get into the town without too much hassle. So, what changed there?
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Not the vocabulary really, there's nothing fancy in that band 9 answer, no long words, the difference is a little formula
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and it's the most useful thing I think I can give you in part 1.
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So, pay full attention, which is, answer the question, give a reason, add a small personal detail, that's it.
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Answer.
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reason, detail.
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The band five gave us the answer and stopped.
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The band nine gave us the answer
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a flat right they said i live in a flat a reason it works it suits me well
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and a tiny detail i can get into town easily three little beats and suddenly
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Your examiner has reason to believe you are a confident speaker of English, which you are.
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Right.
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And notice the length.
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We're not talking a long length speech here.
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A strong part one answer is usually Two to four sentences.
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Any shorter and it dies.
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Any longer and you're back to being a philosopher again.
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A quick side note before we carry on, though, I've put together a free lesson pack to go with this episode.
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Inside it, you'll get a handful more part one question sets on everyday topics, each with band five, band seven and band nine model answers,
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instead of just listening along.
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You can grab it by scanning the QR code on screen right now, or by clicking the link in the show notes description box or comments.
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And that link will open up this page that video podcast viewers can see right now.
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Just pop in your name and email and I'll be able to send it straight to your email inbox.
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Right back to question two, which is, what do you like about your home?
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What do you like about your home?
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Right?
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Band five might say, oh, I like my home because it is comfortable and quiet.
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Fine, correct.
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A bit flat though.
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No pun intended.
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No pun intended.
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Band seven might sound like this.
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I'd say the thing I like most is how quiet it is.
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I work from home quite a bit, so having a calm space really helps me.
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Okay, and then band nine, honestly...
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The thing I appreciate most is probably the choir.
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I work from home a fair amount so a calm space makes a real difference for me.
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Oh and there's loads of natural light which sounds like a tiny thing but it it genuinely lifts my mood.
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So let's have a little bit of a breakdown of those, especially the band seven and nine.
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Did you notice how I started those answers?
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I think I said I'd say dot dot dot or honestly dot dot dot.
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These are what we could call discourse markers, and they are your best friends in part one.
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Little phrases like, to be honest, I'd say, I suppose, not really though,
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or it depends, or to be honest right all of those do two jobs.
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They make you sound natural and relaxed and they buy you half a second to think without going silent.
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The unnatural robotic non -native might jump straight into the answer like it's a quiz show.
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The natural speaker eases in like, honestly, the things I like are these things, right?
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So it's a little tiny run -up that makes a big difference
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And then I want you to notice that little extra detail at the end of the band 9 answer
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I brought up the natural light and how I liked it, right? And it's...
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It's when you've almost You finished your answer, but then another thought pops into your head and you want to say it.
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That's really natural, right?
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We don't want to overdo this, especially in part two and three,
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but bringing this up in that way is very natural and it shows that you're not rehearsed.
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You're just answering from...
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you know, what comes up in your mind.
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All right, question three: is there anything you'd like to change about it?
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about your home right band five might sound like this yes i want a bigger kitchen Band 7 might say: Yeah,
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probably the kitchen.
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It's a bit small, so cooking can be a bit of a squeeze when there's more than one person in there.
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Band 9 Thank you.
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Yeah, if I could change one thing, it'd be the kitchen.
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It's pretty small.
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So the second there's more than one person in there, you end up getting on top of each other.
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Other than that, though, I'm honestly not too fussed.
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It does the job.
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Okay, let's break that down.
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So this question is where I want to make a point that matters a lot for you.
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Because a lot of learners believe that IELTS means formal.
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So they reach for the stiffest, most official sounding English they can find.
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But look at that band nine answer I just gave you.
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Not too fast.
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It does the job.
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Getting on top of each other.
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That's casual, everyday, slightly playful English.
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And it scores because it sounds like real spoken English.
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If you were to compare it to a very formal answer that a non -native might spend a long time memorising,
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that might be, there are certain aspects of my dwelling that I would endeavour to modify.
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I mean, not even the king talks like that.
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I'd say that a more natural, laid -back version wins, especially in the speaking test.
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There's also a sneaky bit of grammar hiding in that band nine answer.
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I said, if I could change one thing, it'd be the kitchen.
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That's a conditional and it sounds effortless, which brings us nicely to the next question.
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Would you like to move in the future? As in move house.
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Would you like to move house in the future?
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A band five?
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Yes.
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I would like to move.
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I want a bigger house, right?
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Band seven, Possibly, yeah.
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I'd like somewhere with a bit more space at some point, maybe with a garden.
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But I'm in no rush.
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Okay.
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Band 9.
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Yeah, I think so, eventually.
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I'd love a place with a garden one day, mostly so I'd have somewhere to sit out in the summer.
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But I'm pretty settled where I am for now, so it's more of a someday thing than a plan that I've got.
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Okay, now this question is secretly testing your grammar and most people might not notice.
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So look at the words flying around in that band nine answer.
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I said I'd love, or one day, or I'd have, or even for now at the end.
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And that's future conditional and present all woven in together.
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And I'm clearly not making a point of using it.
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You know, I'm not deliberately setting the whole answer up to show that I can use that future conditional
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just coming together easily, just like we're talking.
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And that's what examiners mean when they talk about grammatical range.
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It's not about reciting tenses, it's about a brain that naturally reaches for the right one at the right time.
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And the band five speaker sticks to one safe gear the whole time.
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The band nine speaker glides between them without ever sounding like they're actually trying to use them.
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And I will say, studying tense charts will only get you so far.
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They teach you the rules, which is kind of...
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I mean, it's tricky, but it's the easier part of it.
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The harder, more useful skill is weaving those tenses in and around each other so it sounds natural.
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And that comes from being deliberately active with your practice.
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So I would take one tense on its own, build your own sentences with it about your own life,
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then layer in another tense and notice how they sit together.
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Then ideally get feedback on whether it actually sounds natural and start to grow from there.
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And the right tenses stop being something you stop and choose and start being something that just,
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you know, start to show up on their own when you're speaking about your life.
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So before we finish this episode, let's summarize this one quickly.
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Part one is a conversation, not a presentation.
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Keep your answers to two to four sentences and use the formula answer,
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reason, small detail and sprinkle in natural discourse markers or fillers, whatever you like to call them,
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like to be honest or I'd say blah, blah, blah.
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really well in part one and if you do
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that you'll walk into part two
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and three having already convinced the examiner you can actually converse
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which is a very nice position to be in now if Charlie,
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this is great, but how do I practice this on my own?
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Well, that's exactly what my free lesson pack is for.
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You'll get more part one question sets on different everyday topics, each with full band five, seven and nine answers.
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Getting good at that hand gesture.
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My breakdowns of what's making the difference and short exercises so you can build your own answers out loud.
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The reason this works so well is that hearing the difference between the bands
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is the fastest way for you to score higher
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because it's it's quietly retraining your ear to what an examiner is looking for
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so just scan that qr code on screen
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or head to the link in the description show notes
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or comments open up this page drop in your email
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and name and it'll be with you in a matter of seconds for free
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if not check your spam or junk mail folder as well All right, that's it for today.
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Next time you practice part one, don't try to sound clever.
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Focus on sounding relaxed.
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Answer the question, give a reason, add one little detail and then stop.
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That's the whole skill.
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See you in that one.
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O vídeo sobre a Parte 1 do IELTS Speaking é um material valioso para quem quer aprender inglês com YouTube e melhorar a fala. Ele foca em um erro comum: responder perguntas sobre casa de forma muito curta ou longa. Essa abordagem prática ajuda a entender o equilíbrio necessário, fundamental para criar uma primeira impressão positiva no examinador. Além disso, comparar respostas de band 5, 7 e 9 mostra claramente o que diferencia um desempenho médio de um excelente, o que é essencial para quem quer se preparar de forma eficaz.
Analisando o diálogo: Por que essas frases soam naturais
O vídeo destaca a importância de respostas "no meio". Por exemplo, ao responder "Do you live in a house or a flat?", uma versão natural poderia ser: "I live in a flat, actually. It's a small one with two bedrooms, but it's close to my work, so I really like it." Essa frase é curta, mas adiciona detalhes relevantes (tamanho, localização, opinião), evitando o silêncio ou a digressão. Outra dica é usar conectivos como "actually" ou "but" para dar fluidez, o que deixa a fala mais humana. O examinador não quer uma história completa, mas sim uma resposta coerente que mostre domínio da língua.
Rota de prática: Como usar o shadow speech para melhorar
Uma rotina eficaz é o shadow speech (ou shadowing): reproduza o vídeo, pause e repita as frases imitando a entonação e o ritmo. Comece com as respostas de band 5, depois avance para as de band 7 e 9. Grave suas tentativas e compare com o original para identificar pontos a melhorar. Use um shadowing site para treinar diariamente, mas até mesmo o YouTube serve: basta ativar a legenda em inglês e praticar a sincronia. O shadow speak ajuda a internalizar a estrutura natural das frases, tornando sua fala mais fluente e confiante na hora do exame. Lembre-se: a Parte 1 é a base, então treine com consistência para não errar os primeiros passos.
O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.