Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 7.5 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video

All right, so let's begin.

So could you tell me your full name, please?

My full name is Young Joon Kim.

Okay.

And Young Joon, are you working or are you a student?

I'm a student right now and I'm actually planning to go to school,

start a new semester in March as a senior.

Okay and now let's talk about your home.

So do you live in a house or an apartment?

I live in apartment and I live in apartment with my family members,

so my sister and my parents and me, so four of us and I think it's a good place to live.

And what is your favourite room in your apartment?

My favourite room is, it's kind of obvious, but it's my room because that's the room that I feel the most comfortable

and it's named the bathroom so it's very convenient to get there and it's cozy.

Yes.

Would you like to change anything about your apartment?

My apartment has a gym for the residents who live in the same apartment.

And the gym is a little bit too far, so maybe if the gym was close enough from my apartment,

then it would have been convenient.

And also recycling, about recycling.

I can't do it when I want to.

It's only the day that I can recycle is fixed Monday, Tuesday.

So if they make it a little bit longer, then I think that will be also convenient.

Great.

Now let's talk about street markets.

So are there many street markets in your country?

Of course, I think there are many street markets.

Nowadays, compared to like 10 years ago, 20 years ago, the number of street markets has been reduced.

But still, I think there are many compared to other countries like the US or England.

especially in Jong -lo.

You can find at least I think three or four big small street markets and I think still they are popular enough.

And what do people usually buy at street markets?

I think usually it's groceries or food like street foods as well

so people some people have this norm

which is they sell more fresh groceries or food than normal supermarket

so people tend to go there

and also you you can find many street food delicious street food that you can't find in other stores.

So I think yeah that's the reason why people visit there and buy things.

Great and so do you prefer to go shopping in a shopping mall or at a street market?

I would prefer to go shopping to shopping mall because I don't really buy groceries.

I only buy groceries online like using apps so when I go shopping it's usually clothes or

stationary items so

because they have you know more options to buy in a shopping mall than street markets

so I would choose to go to shopping mall yeah great now let's talk about sports

so do you like watching sports on TV?

I do love watching sports especially football soccer in America

so I actually do love playing football as well

so I have a team that I support in English Premier League

which is Man City the team's name is Man City

and I love this team and also other team as well where Korean players play.

So yeah, I do watch highlights every day, every time when I yeah, when there's a game that I'm interested in.

And have you ever watched a sports game in a stadium?

Yes, I have some experience watching it, watching football in a stadium.

When I lived in London, I watched Arsenal game, Arsenal vs Liverpool.

The stadium's name was Emirates

and also in Wembley Stadium I watched Republic of Korea vs Ghana

which was Olympic Games that was also football and in Korea I've watched two or three games, K League games.

So yeah I do have experience.

I really enjoyed it.

Yeah, nice one, man.

Nice one.

Man City fan.

I'm a Liverpool fan.

Liverpool.

Liverpool is also a good team.

They're going to win this season.

Oh, you're very polite. So there's your question.

So I'll give you one minute to do some note -taking.

So you can use pencil there, man.

You can do note -taking on the paper.

All right.

Okay, mate, that's a minute.

All right.

So could you describe a difficult decision that you made and had a good result?

Okay.

So I had lots of thoughts and concern before taking the test called OPIC test,

which is similar to this IELTS speaking test.

It's English speaking test.

So English proficiency, speaking proficiency.

and I did lots of things to get a good result

so I went to academy which teaches OPIC tests

but I thought it was a bit difficult to study

so I had this feeling that I needed to study more than the Academy teaches

so I decided to make a study group with friends with some people who also prepare for this test

and we revised each other so to make a better answer

and it helped a lot and also I started to record my answer by my phone

and I heard and I heard the speech that was recorded

and I revised the speech over and over and

so I practiced like that and took a test

and I managed to get a highest level of the test

so it was quite difficult decision to find

solutions to get myself on certain level on English proficiency to get a good result on this test.

Okay that's two minutes now exactly okay perfect okay nice one

so yeah let's go on to a part three of the test now.

Yep.

Okay, so do you think advertisements influence consumers decisions?

Yes, I think so

because the products needs to be exposed first of all to intrigue people's curiosity

or it can't so therefore you can make the companies can make customers to think about this product and

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And yeah, I don't think there's no more efficient way than advertising product.

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Yes, and apart from advertisements,

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what else influences consumers when they're looking to buy a product?

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Apart from advertisements...

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I think I have a time

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I maybe promotion which is I think this is sort of advertisement

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but like if we speak about advertisement it's usually showed by TV or like online banners.

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I think promotion is a little bit different.

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So where like celebrities, famous like public figures,

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they advertise promote this item.

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actually like using and showing the reviews of the item.

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Yeah, I would say promotion.

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Thank you.

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Yes.

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And why do some people like to ask for advice when making decisions?

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Because I think if you think of the concept of brainstorming, you can find the answer easily from the question for the question

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So I think more and more opinions and options the people here and people here then they have

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They have met more chances to decide on something so So you're you're more creative when you gather

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people's opinions than thinking alone.

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So yeah again so that's why people brainstorm to get the best solution.

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So I think that's why.

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Yes.

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And why do some people dislike asking other people for their opinion when making a decision?

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Maybe it's because they actually decided,

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like actually in their mind, they have decided for an option.

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But if they don't want to hear anything than that, then they will avoid talking to people to get some help

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because he or she already decided like what to buy

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or what to do so that can be one reason

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or maybe he or she is a bit snobbish

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so I don't need anyone to help me I only think the best way yeah

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and what kind of decisions do young people have to make?

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Young people, what kind of decisions young people should make?

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I think young people should make decisions on future I think so what jobs they should do or or person to

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What person should I be friends with

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sort of things like that especially I think career wise you need to decide things a lot because

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After high school you need to choose your major if you

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if you're going to university because most of the students go to University in Korea,

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so a major it's It affects a lot on

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the career that you choose or the field

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that you want to work on yes

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so yeah what to prepare to get a certain job

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and what major to choose what to study i think those are the decisions

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that are most important for young people to make okay perfect

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that will do us for the test thank you for your

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time all right let's start with the feedback part now

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so i would estimate your score to be 7 .5 i

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think it was a really good test um your pronunciation and grammar are very clear

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if i was to look at some tiny errors there just a little bit with articles

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when you were talking about your home you were like i

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live in apartment make sure you include the article i live in an apartment

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and when we talk about clauses here ah yeah that's the room

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that i feel more most comfortable you should say that's the room where

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if it's an action afterwards that's the room where I did my exercise that's the room where I felt comfortable

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in part two when you were talking about the test

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so you said there were other people who also prepared you

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should probably use the past continuous there there were other people who were also preparing for the test

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so you made a study group together.

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One small thing with prepositions, right?

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I think in part three you said make customers to think about the product.

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So just when we use the verb make, we do not use the preposition there.

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So like make customers think about the product.

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Yeah, it's a kind of, it's an exception there.

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Yeah, in terms of vocabulary, it was pretty strong the whole way.

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Maybe a couple more we could use when you talked about celebrities, they promote products, you could say that another word you could use is a endorse Yeah.

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So for example, like who Cristiano Ronaldo endorses Nike.

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So he gives it his kind of approval.

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Right.

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Um, and you said some people were snobbish, maybe a better word there would be a headstrong.

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Yeah.

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So some people are quite headstrong.

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They do not like listening to others' opinions.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, it was really good test.

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So thanks for coming in.

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Cheers.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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.

Shadowing Practice: IELTS Speaking Band 7.5 Mock Test with Feedback - Learn English Speaking with Video

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