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Feeling ready for your IELTS speaking exam?

準備好參加雅思口語考試了嗎？

Alright, let's test that.

What if your part two question was, describe a person who has inspired you?

Would you feel confident enough to give an answer that could actually get you a band nine?

Well, by the end of this video,

you might well be able to do exactly that because today we're going to listen to three answers to that exact question.

One band five, one band seven and one band nine.

All about one of Britain's most inspiring people, Sir David Attenborough.

And together we'll break down exactly why each answer scores what it does.

So you can start sounding more fluent, more natural and yes, more like a band nine speaker.

Oh, and before I forget, I've made a free IELTS lesson pack

that goes even deeper with five more part two questions with model answers and short exercises you can practice with at home.

You can grab it by scanning the QR code on screen right now

or you'll find it in the description box or the pinned comment below.

All right let's start with the band five answer shall we?

Okay so the cue card reads this.

Describe a person who has inspired you.

You should say who the person is, how you know them, what qualities they have,

and explain how they inspire you.

All right, so now let's go into the band five answer and then we'll analyze why it gets the mark it gets.

Okay, so I'm now going to imitate somebody who is non-native trying

to give an answer in the IELTS speaking exam who comes in around a band five.

All right.

Can you spot where their limitations lie?

So I might say, I want to talk about David Attenborough,

who is one of the most like famous nature people in the world.

I think he's from England and he make documentaries about animals and the environment.

I started watching his programs when I was like small and even now I still see him on Netflix or BBC.

He's very old, almost 100 but he he still you know go around and record things which I find really

inspiring what I really like is that he speak he speaks very calm and you can feel he really

loves nature from his heart sometimes when he he talks about animals dying

or or the earth getting worse I feel emotional it's not only like a tv guy

but kind of like a teacher for the whole world

because he tries to make people realize that we are destroying the planet

so yeah i think he's um very special person

and i hope i can do something similar in my life you know like

help the planet uh like he does okay so

that was the band five answer now let's go over why

that would get a band five in my opinion by breaking down the marking criteria

so first up we've got fluency and coherence um there's a lot of hesitation in the way that i did it

there's some filler language like um like you know

and self-correction I sometimes said he speak I should have said he speaks

so that signals a lack of confidence in real-time speech the ideas are logical but the sentences often lose structure halfway through

which is a classic feature of someone trying to express complex

thoughts before they've built the fluency to hold them together

which is a very common issue because for adult learners because

if you think about it you have really sophisticated thoughts in your own language

and very often you want to try and migrate those thoughts into this new foreign language.

But really what we want to do until we get the fluency going, until we have the grammar down, we want to stay in our lane.

We want to stay with some basic sentences using the correct grammar structure that we've learnt

and not try to get too complicated too soon.

Otherwise, yeah, it sounds discombobulated or it sounds,

otherwise it sounds a little bit confusing

because if you think about the journey of a native with any language as they grow up, they don't have sophisticated thoughts at the beginning.

You know, a baby is not going to be talking about the political agenda of 2026.

they're thinking milk that's it right i don't know how young we how old we are

when we evolve beyond just milk poo sleep

but you know we we gradually get more and more sophisticated thoughts

and the vocabulary grows with us what we want to do is we want to try

and mirror that

so avoid trying to do two complex sentences basically all right let's now talk about grammar um there were some verb

agreement errors.

I think I said he make documentaries.

I might have also said he speak very calmly.

May have said speaks, can't remember.

But that's the point that I'm making.

Try not to make those grammar errors.

And then some tense slips,

like I started watch instead of I started watching or there was another one that I used the non-ing form.

So those things you need to look out for.

And then occasional sentence fragments or unfinished thoughts.

Like he's not only like a TV guy, but dot, dot, dot.

And I kind of didn't finish my thought very well.

And again, what this shows is ambition without accuracy.

And that's perfectly typical of a band five.

The speaker's trying to stretch their English, but the grammar control just can't quite keep up. And then vocabulary.

Actually, it wasn't too bad.

Destroying the planet, for example, that was quite good.

And then from his heart, emotional, inspiring.

But some combinations were a little bit unnatural, like nature, people, the TV guy.

That was weird.

He speaks very calm instead of calmly.

That's what we call collocational inaccuracy when words are understandable,

but don't naturally fit together. And then pronunciation.

This was sort of hard to do because of my accent.

I didn't want to sort of mimic a non-native.

It would be very varied, inaccurate and not very helpful for you, I don't think but uh yeah it could be

that it was mostly clear but slightly uneven rhythm and stress patterns

that would be the most common thing for a band five for example um he speak very calmly um

if i was to say it like that

that sounds really robotic right whereas

if i said he speaks very calmly he speaks very calmly it's much more flowing

so you'd expect that from a higher band than band five.

So let's think about how to improve from these points.

So slow down and structure ideas before you speak.

You can sound more fluent simply by pausing strategically rather than filling space with um or like.

And I think a native might pause after a so

quite naturally so what i think makes an inspiring person is is is how they deliver themselves blah blah

so i really paused after the so and after the verb to be is what i think is

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i think that's really normal like i would i would be

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very happy to wait for somebody to to pause at

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that point it's it doesn't signal to me

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that they're lacking in vocabulary it signals

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that they're thinking in a more profound way

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and collecting their thoughts before they want to deliver the next word of the sequence

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that they're about to say so yeah pausing there instead of using filler words.

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Going beyond that, you could practice high frequency collocations around familiar IELTS topics.

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For this one, you could say something like raise awareness of environmental issues.

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He raises the awareness or our awareness.

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He raises our awareness of environmental issues.

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Another one could be be passionate about protecting the planet.

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So he is passionate about protecting the planet or maybe dedicate one's life to nature conservation.

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Yeah.

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So think about those kind of phrases and then in the answer,

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you're more likely to deliver them in a more natural way in terms of collocations.

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Now, if you're thinking, all right, Charlie, that was super helpful for this question, but what about the other part two topics I might get?

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Well, don't worry, I've got you covered.

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I've put together a free PDF lesson pack with five more IELTS speaking part two questions, just like this one.

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And for each one, I give you a band five, band seven and band nine model answers,

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along with short explanations and mini exercises to help you build your own response.

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It's completely free.

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And honestly, it's one of the best ways to train your ear and your instinct for what sounds band five, band seven, band nine.

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You can grab it right now by scanning the QR code on screen right now.

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If you're listening on Spotify, then there is a video version of this.

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So open your screen and click video player or video episode, and then you'll be able to see my face, hello, and the QR code right now.

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So you could scan that, or you could click the link in the description box or show notes or the pinned comment below.

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That will take you to a quick sign up page.

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Pop your name and email in there and I'll send you the whole pack straight to your inbox.

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So if you're serious about pushing your IELTS speaking score higher and actually feeling confident in the exam, don't skip that part.

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This free guide gives you everything you need to train smarter and not harder.

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Okay, you ready for band seven now?

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We're leveling up now.

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So remember, the cue card says, describe a person who has inspired you.

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You should say who the person is, how you know them, what qualities they have, and explain how they inspire you.

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Okay, so let's hear what a band seven version of this answer would sound like.

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A person who has really inspired me is Sir David Attenborough,

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the British broadcaster and natural historian.

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He's been creating nature documentaries for, I think, more than 60 years now.

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And he's basically become the voice of the natural world.

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I first came across him when I was a child.

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My family used to watch Planet Earth

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and Blue Planet together on on Sunday evenings

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and even back then I remember feeling completely amazed by the way he spoke about animals and the environment.

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He didn't just describe what was happening, he made you feel it.

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I think that's one of the biggest talents.

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What I admire most is his calm, patient way of explaining quite complicated ideas.

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He never tries to sound too scientific or too emotional.

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It's this perfect balance that keeps people listening.

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And even though he's in his 90s now he's still working still traveling

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and still encouraging people to care about the planet and

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that kind of lifelong dedication really motivates me I also find it inspiring

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that he's managed to adapt with technology and a new generations he's on Netflix he uses

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social media clips he's constantly finding ways to reach people without losing his authenticity it shows

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that passion doesn't have to fade with age

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and whenever i watch his programs i end up thinking about my own choices

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that affect the environment so he makes he makes me want to live more responsibly

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and to find work that feels meaningful just like he does okay there we go

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band seven done so what did you think of that um

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if we were to break it down and think about the fluency

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and coherence this uh this version this sounds pretty confident and

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and keeps i kept a steady natural flow for nearly two minutes, which is exactly what examiners look for at band seven.

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And the ideas follow the cue card really well.

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Who is he?

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How do you know him?

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What are his qualities?

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And why does he inspire you?

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There's a clear topic development with smooth transitions first come across him or what I admire most,

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or I also find it inspiring.

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However, some phrasing still sounds slightly rehearsed phrases like voice of the natural world

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and and lifelong dedication they're good but they feel a bit memorized

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and it's tricky

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because i imagine you might think it's a great idea to to memorize a lot of um answers

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but i think the examiner can tell really easily like this

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is their job every single day they're listening to these answers

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so they will be able to cotton on to some of

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the best actors i'm sure um they they would just be able to know whether this is rehearsed

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or whether this is your organic vocabulary coming out in the now

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so to reach a band eight

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or above the delivery needs to sound a little more spontaneous with flexible rephrasing or familiar ideas.

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I'd say there's also a mild over-structuring of every paragraph.

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It sounds, it's almost too neat, almost like an essay.

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A native speaker would weave ideas together more conversationally with phrases like,

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and another thing I love about him, blah, blah, blah or you know it's funny

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because blah blah blah let's move on to vocabulary i think

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there was a very solid range we had documentaries environment authenticity

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lifelong dedication complicated ideas collocations they were pretty accurate like care about the planet

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reach people live more responsibly a few word choices are slightly textbook sounding

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encouraging people to care or quite complicated ideas they're safe and and clear but not idiomatic

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adding expressions like he's a national treasure

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or he's dedicated his life to raising awareness would push this to a band eight

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so overall electrical resource easily sits in the high

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band seven range it was varied appropriate but but still a little bit a little bit cautious

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moving on to grammar um there was there was strong control

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and visible complexity there was the present perfect continuous i think he's been creating documentaries yeah um then there were

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what's called as concessive clauses, meaning like introducing an alternative idea.

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So he said, even though he's in his 90s, blah, blah, blah.

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Or I can't remember if I said it.

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I said the point and then I said the contrary thing, even though he's in his 90s.

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But yeah, so that was quite nice.

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And then I also think I said, who has inspired me, who's inspired me, or which I find inspiring.

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And these are good clauses.

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I think they're called non-defining relative clauses, but they're good.

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They help.

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To reach band eight and above, the speaker should be able to show that they can vary clause types.

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Like having spent his whole life exploring the planet, he's become a symbol of curiosity and respect for nature.

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But yeah, overall, this is a strong band seven because the speech is fluent

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and easy to follow the vocabulary is precise

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and appropriate the grammar is complex and mostly accurate

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and you know depending on how I delivered it pronunciation is clear

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and natural to push higher the speaker needs to use more idiomatic or emotional phrasing.

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And then also vary sentence rhythm.

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So mix short emotional statements with longer reflective ones and loosen the structure to sound more spontaneous and conversational.

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But yeah, in short, band seven is very impressive, confident and meaningful, but it still plays things a little bit safe.

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All right, so band five and band seven done with.

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We're now going to go on to the gold standard, the band nine answer.

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Again, the cue card reads, describe a person who has inspired you.

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You should say who the person is, how you know them, what qualities they have and explain how they inspire you.

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All right, let's load up that band nine IELTS candidate.

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Well, I'd say the person who's inspired me most is Sir David Attenborough,

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who to me is almost like the voice of the planet.

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He's a British natural historian and broadcaster who's spent his entire life sharing the beauty of the natural world through documentaries.

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I've been watching his program since I was a kid, Planet Earth, the Blue Planet,

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Life on Earth, all of them.

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And I remember being completely mesmerized, not just by the footage, but by the way he spoke.

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His voice has this calm, reassuring tone that makes even the most terrifying scenes,

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like a crocodile attack, somehow sound poetic.

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But what I think really sets him apart is his ability to connect emotion with education.

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He doesn't preach, He just shows you the reality and you come away feeling both amazed and responsible.

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I think he's in his 90s now, yet he's still narrating, still campaigning for environmental change, which is just incredible.

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And I think what inspires me most is his consistency, that quiet determination to just keep going,

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even when the world seems a bit indifferent.

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he's um i think he's proof

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that passion doesn't fade with age every time i watch one of his documentaries i'm reminded

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that one person can make an enormous difference simply by caring deeply

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and um communicating clearly so yeah he's for me he's more than just a presenter he's

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someone who's genuinely changed how we see our planet.

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And that's a legacy anyone would be proud of. And scene.

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Okay.

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So that was band nine.

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What did you think about that one?

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If we look at the fluency and coherence, this answer, it flows, I would say kind of effortlessly.

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There's a natural rhythm and smooth progression of ideas.

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There's not really many awkward pauses, fillers, or self-corrections.

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I sound comfortable thinking in English, not just translating it.

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And transitions are subtle but cohesive.

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Like I've been watching his programs since I was a kid.

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What really sets him apart though, blah, blah, blah.

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And another one I think I said, I think what inspires me most is that's really natural.

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So notice how the phrasing feels conversational yet structured, like a natural story unfolding.

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It's not a memorized speech.

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And that's a hallmark of band nine fluency saying,

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well, I'd say this, that tone immediately sets the whole thing off.

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It sounds lived, casual and confident, something that native speakers do constantly.

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When it comes to the vocabulary, pretty good, pretty bloody good, right?

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And the precision of it.

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The vocabulary isn't just advanced,

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it's appropriate and expressive, like mesmerized or connect emotion with education.

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I think I said quiet determination and legacy anyone would be proud of.

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That phrase, it's not too fancy, but it's really natural.

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Then the idiomatic phrasing, He doesn't preach.

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Passion doesn't fade with age.

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And then one person can make an enormous difference.

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These feel really authentic and not forced.

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I sound like I understand connotation and tone.

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And importantly, none of it sounds like a thesaurus dump.

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It's all in service of meaning and emotion.

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And that's what separates a band nine from a band eight, the control and naturalness.

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As for grammar, complex structures are used, but they're used naturally, like a relative clause,

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like who spent his entire life sharing, blah, blah, blah.

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Or I like the bit when I said, even when the world seems a bit indifferent.

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That was a nice clause.

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um we used contrastive linking he doesn't preach he just shows you the reality

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that was quite good and then we had like um i think they're called inversions

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and modifiers like i said so yeah for me he's he's more than just a presenter

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and then there were i don't think there were any grammatical

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errors no awkward phrasing uh sentence rhythm was varied there were long reflective ideas balanced with short,

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punchy comments like, he's proof that passion doesn't fade with age.

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That variation gives the speech melody and realism.

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I think this is a band nine because it's effortlessly fluent, no hesitations, logical structure, engaging flow.

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There was sophisticated yet natural vocabulary.

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There was idiomatic usage and it was precise and expressive.

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Advanced grammar, there was good control of it.

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Complex forms used seamlessly.

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And then the authentic emotional tone sounded human, not rehearsed.

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So yeah, it doesn't sound like the user is doing an IELTS answer.

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It sounds like someone is inspired by somebody and they're wanting to tell you why.

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So there you have it.

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Three different ways of describing the same person from hesitant to confident to completely natural.

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If you found that useful, go and download the free PDF I mentioned earlier.

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It's packed with more model answers, detailed feedback and practical exercises to help you move closer to that band nine.

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And if you enjoyed this style of lesson, subscribe to the British English Podcast YouTube channel.

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I post weekly videos that help you sound more fluent, more natural and more confident in English.

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Give this video a like.

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Give it a like if it helped and let me know in the comments

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which IELTS topic you want me to cover next.

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And when you're done with that, check out my other IELTS speaking video all about hobbies and free time.

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It's full of natural British phrases you can drop straight into your own answers.

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So click that one next and I'll see you there.

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Bye.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“How Good Is YOUR Part 2 IELTS Answer? Compare It to These”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：band, sound, answer, blah, natural。這段影片共有 299 個句子、3583 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 27:07。說話人語速平穩，每分鐘約 132 個詞，很適合跟讀。只有 81% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
inspire 動詞	/ɪnˈspaɪə(ɹ)/	授意, 鼓舞
vocabulary 名詞	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	詞匯 /詞彙, 語匯 /語彙
grammar 名詞	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	語法 /語法, 文法
fluency 名詞	/ˈfluːənsi/	流暢 /流暢
clause 名詞	/klɔːz/	分句
fluent 形容詞	/ˈfluənt/	流利, 滔滔
idiomatic 形容詞	/ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/	象成語
fade 動詞	/feɪd/	衰落, 枯萎
pause 名詞	/pɔːz/	停頓 /停頓, 暫停 /暫停
sophisticated 形容詞		有經驗的
rhythm 名詞	/ˈɹɪð.əm/	節奏 /節奏
collocation 名詞	/ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/	搭配詞 /搭配詞
rehearse 動詞	/ɹɪˈhɝs/	重複
preach 動詞	/pɹit͡ʃ/	講道 /講道
emotion 名詞	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	感情, 情感

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
break down 動詞	壞了 /壞了, 出故障
check out 動詞	退房
end up 動詞	到達
grow up 動詞	長大 /長大
put together 動詞	拼合, 組合 /組合
sign up 動詞	報名 /報名, 註冊 /註冊
slow down 動詞	減速 /減速, 放慢

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

All right let's start with the band five answer shall we?
Can you spot where their limitations lie?
I think that's one of the biggest talents.
How do you know him?
What did you think about that one?

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作	He's been creating · I've been watching
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	has inspired · I've made · they've built
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	person who has · somebody who is · minutes, which is
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is rehearsed · was varied · is inspired

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 66 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 they're, doesn't, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, authenticity /ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: collocation /ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/, dedication /ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, conversational /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, idiomatic /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/, collocation /ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/, dedication /ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, conversational /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, conversational /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/, expressive /ɪkˈspɹɛsɪv/, reflective /ɹɪˈflɛktɪv/, verb /vɝb/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: clause /klɔːz/, fluent /ˈfluənt/, idiomatic /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/, fade /feɪd/, pause /pɔːz/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, calmly /ˈkɑː(ɹ)m.li/, conversational /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/, reflective /ɹɪˈflɛktɪv/, realism /ˈɹi.əlɪzəm/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
用正常速度逐句跟讀，每句重複到你的節奏與說話人一致為止。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 inspire, vocabulary, grammar 這類單詞。

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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