Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 7.0 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Okay, we can get started now.
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To begin, can you tell me your full name?
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My name is Nina and my last name is Wira Hadiraksa.
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Can you spell your last name for me?
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Yes, W-I-R-A-H-A-D-I-R-A-K-S-A.
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All right, nice to do it.
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And are you working or studying right now?
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I'm currently studying but I am in an off book period.
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Okay.
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What do you study?
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I'm studying nursing.
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And what is an off book period?
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It's like breaking, like taking a break from school.
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And do you enjoy your studies?
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So far, yes.
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It's pretty demanding but I'm enjoying at the moment.
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And what do you enjoy doing in your free time?
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I enjoy listening to music, watching some random videos, chill out and go for a walk.
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And sometimes I like to just read a book and chat with my friends on the phone.
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And what is your hometown?
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I mean, I have two hometowns.
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Like one is in Switzerland, which is called Schindeläcki, and the other one is Gunpo.
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It's like a city but kind of a town.
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Yeah.
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Where is Gunpo?
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It's in Gyeonggi-do. In Gyeonggi-do.
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Okay.
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You can pick either one.
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Yeah.
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And what are some things that you like about one of your hometowns?
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I would actually pick Strindelage because I actually recently lived there because I immigrated to Switzerland in 2016.
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And what I like about there is the nature.
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It's very wide and really, really big
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and it's got a lot of people and just not so many supermarkets.
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So then we have to drive a lot to the city parts to do grocery shopping,
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but just the nature, I guess.
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Okay, good.
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Sort of following on that, what are some things that you don't like about it?
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Yeah, the grocery shopping part and...
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I mean, I said the good thing about my town was nature, but it's also...
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the other hand, like, it's also not the good part because there's not so many things to do.
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So I would have to travel to the city side to do something with my friends
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because there are only houses and train stations nearby my house.
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Okay.
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Now, we'll talk about shopping.
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So, to begin, do you like shopping?
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I do.
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Why?
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It keeps me off from negative thoughts sometimes, and just...
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Irrelative thoughts regarding schools, or just...
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try to chill me out sometimes.
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Okay, good.
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And do you compare prices when you shop?
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Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, depending on the items.
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Okay, can you tell me more?
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Yes, for example, if it's related to me, I don't really consider the price.
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Like, if it's, for For example, items like clothes or something like a book or something related to skincare,
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then I wouldn't really care about the cost so much
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because it's related to me and taking care of myself and my body.
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So cost doesn't really matter.
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Okay.
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And is it difficult for you to make choices when you shop?
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Yes, and that also depends.
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When it comes to me, it doesn't take so long for me to pick out items.
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But if it's for someone else, like picking out presents, for example, my family or my relatives or just anyone other than me,
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then it would take a long time compared to me.
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Why does it take longer?
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Because it's someone else than me.
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I don't know what they like.
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I don't know their preferences.
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So that's why.
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Okay, good.
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Do you think expensive products are always better than cheaper products?
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I think in some ways it does show that yeah you do have some extra vacancy kind of
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attached to it in the item
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and yeah it can show a bit of a more I don't know in some sense
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that you care a lot more about this person in a way of a gratitude weight
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but not always because I do think that the meaning and what this what that item means to someone is what matters.
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Okay good good so that's the end of part one now we can move on to part two
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So for part two you're gonna have one question and you'll have a minute to prepare, make some notes, and then up to two minutes to give your answer.
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So here is your question and here is a pen so you can take some notes.
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I'll set a timer so you can go ahead and take some notes.
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Okay so that is a a minute and when you're ready can describe a time when you changed your opinion.
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So about a year ago in summer in Switzerland I went
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to an ice cream shop with my friend like a gelato shop in the city center
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and I usually go for a cheesecake flavor
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but there was a new flavor called mint chocolate
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and I'm not like an anti mint chocolate person like flavor person
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but I was kind of like thinking maybe I should go for it
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and my friend was like yeah you know you should go for it
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and then it was actually my family's controversial kind of a conversation always like mint chocolate
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or not like the flavor kind of a debate
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because my mom likes it and my sister doesn't
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and my dad doesn't know about the flavor and i was thinking for quite a long time actually
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not for like a 15 minute thing but like maybe five minutes and um although my original opinion was cheesecake.
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I actually did go for the mint chocolate because I was curious.
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Being inquisitive about the new flavor kind of, yeah, it was intriguing to,
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you know, try out a new flavor and discover what it actually means to try out that flavor itself.
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And I did, and it tasted very different from what I thought.
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I thought it would taste something like a chewing gum that I I used to like chew on like a mint flavor,
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spearmint, but actually tastes really nice and sweet.
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And I felt surprised, pretty odd actually.
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And yeah, I was very, I wasn't really like very excited about it,
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but it was more that I was very odd about it.
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Okay, good.
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Yeah, that's two minutes there.
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Nicely done.
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And now we can move on to part three.
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So the first question, do children like to change their opinions?
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I think they do.
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I've worked with children for some months because I had an internship at a daycare school.
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and I think their preferences change a lot depending on the situation
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and I think situation is definitely it because like for example they see
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that their friend has something and it looks like theirs are more nice
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and theirs look bigger and fancier and they suddenly want that one than
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the ones they have and they change their opinion
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and sometimes it's like that
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and like they used to have this preference on this kind of a cookie
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and then later on they discovered this taste
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and then they changed their preferences and kind of an opinion on other food and tastes okay good Good.
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And more generally, when do people change opinions?
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I think it's a situational thing.
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Although one can have their own opinion, depending on what the group has, like the opinion the group has,
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I think one can change.
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For example, if the group has a definite sole opinion on this and the other one has another opinion,
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then I don't think that person can advocate their opinion on their own.
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Okay, good.
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And who do young people turn to for advice?
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The person who they feel emotionally close to, I guess that's number one,
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but maybe depending on their level of dependency,
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their friends or other adults that can be close.
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yeah, they're parents or emotionally dependent people.
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And do people like giving opinions about politics?
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Oh, not so into politics,
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but But from what I've seen, I think so.
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And it's, I guess, politics, it's a very big topic.
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And it's a topic that has to do with many different branches
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and many different storylines and headlines that are connected to each other
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that it's connected to culture and media and so many things that it can trigger someone,
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it can just be a controversy, it can be a debate,
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it can be anything that it can go on and on and on.
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It can be a conversation on a bus, it can be a conversation in a cafeteria.
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I've seen a lot at school, but I've never been in one.
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But I think people really like to give opinions, especially my schoolmates.
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Okay, sure.
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All right.
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That's the end.
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And now we can move on to a little bit of feedback.
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As you probably know, the IELTS test is scored on four categories.
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So there's fluency and coherence, there's pronunciation, and then vocabulary and grammar.
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I think you did a really nice job overall, sort of working in order.
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The first two categories, fluency and pronunciation, I thought were both very strong.
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You have a sort of natural rhythm of speaking,
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and all of the words are pronounced with a easy to understand common standard English pronunciation.
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So those are both very good.
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vocabulary were also good but it might be here that
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that a little bit of improvement is possible just to point out a few vocabulary things
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that I heard along the way in part one
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when you were describing the nature sort of landscape in Switzerland
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I think you described it as wide yeah I know what you mean
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but there's probably other expressions and maybe you could describe it as expansive
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impressive imposing I'm picturing the mountains of Switzerland
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but yeah expansive rather than why would be the kind of
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the kind of adjective to to try there there was one
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little mix up around I think you're looking for the word irrelevant
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but I'm not sure it came out quite right in part
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two as you were describing the the ice cream you use
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some good words like inquisitive is a very good advanced word
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a couple words to maybe think about I think you described
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the debate about mint chocolate as controversial again I know what you mean
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but I'm not sure something like that would be controversial
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because it's so it's not really important something like politics can be controversial
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because it has a sort of emotional charge ice cream flavors they might be hotly debated
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but it's in a sort of in a playful spirit
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so I'm not sure it would be described as controversial
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and it would probably would be possible in
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that answer to to think of some other ways to to express the idea
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that you wanted to try it you repeated the idea that you wanted to go for it and go for it, which is a very good expression,
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but trying for more variety to express the idea that you want to try this new flavor.
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More vocabulary in part three.
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There's some very good words.
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It talked about advocating for your position, which is very good, and talked about something triggering.
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So these are good sort of advanced words to be using.
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So, mostly good, but there's always room for improvement.
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In terms of grammar, mostly pretty good.
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Good use of the past tense in part two.
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A couple of little slip-ups, kind of working in reverse order.
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In part three, I think you described something as being more nice.
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but that's a good opportunity to use the comparative to describe it as nicer rather than more nice
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and in part one there's maybe a preposition at one point
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mentioned something I think shopping was would keep you off negative thoughts
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instead of off and maybe keep you away from
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or help you avoid negative thoughts so these are small things
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but at the at the advanced sort of bands it's important
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to to try to keep them as accurate as possible
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so really good job and based on all
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that I think your estimated score today would probably be 7.0
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but a strong 7.0 and
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and with a little bit of fine-tuning on the on the vocabulary I think you get higher
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so thanks for coming in and good luck

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