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Welcome back language enthusiasts.
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Are you ready to conquer the speaking exam in either the B2 first or the C1 advanced Cambridge English exam?
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Well you're in the right place.
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I'm Izzy from English with Izzy
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and today I'm going to spill the beans on the ultimate game-changing strategies for the speaking part one interview questions.
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Now whether you're just starting to prepare for your exam
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or you've been working towards that certificate for a
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while perhaps you're a Cambridge English exam preparation teacher
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and you want to make sure that your students are really understanding the exam, well this video is going to be your secret weapon.
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But it's going to get even better because these aren't just your average textbook tips.
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What I'm going to be sharing with you today comes straight
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out of my student favourite Cambridge exam preparation online course which I have been fine-tuning over the last few years.
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So if you're ready to supercharge your speaking skills and walk into
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that exam feeling really confident because you're very well prepared and you know what the examiners are going to expect from you,
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then stick around because we're going to dive deep into the world of speaking part one for Cambridge English exams.
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Let's dive right in.
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So let's start with speaking part one.
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Speaking part one is called the interview part because that's exactly what's going to happen.
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The examiner is going to interview you by asking you three or maybe four short questions about yourself.
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They will ask you an individual question
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you will answer it and then they will ask your partner a question and they will answer it.
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In this part of the exam you are not going to
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talk to your partner you're just going to respond to the questions that the examiners ask you.
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This part of the exam is about two minutes long so it will really be over before you know it.
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Because this part is called the interview part and it's
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so short people tend to think that it's unimportant or
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that there is no strategy but that could not be further from the truth
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and because it's so short that is exactly why you have to use
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that time to prove to the examiner that you know what you're doing okay
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and that's why strategy is absolutely fundamental here
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so let's get down to the important information as you can
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see here from this diagram you're going to be sitting next
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to your speaking partner in front of you there's going to be an examiner
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and behind kind of in the corner there's going to be another examiner.
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The only person who's going to speak to you during the
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speaking exam is the examiner who is in front of you and also your partner next to you.
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So you should not even interact with the other examiner.
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When you enter the room for the first time please say hello to both examiners.
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Okay be friendly because that will leave a really good impression.
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Aside from that you don't need to talk to the other examiner that's at the back of the room.
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Let's start with the questions that are absolutely guaranteed to come up in the exam.
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As soon as you sit down the examiner is going to ask you to hand in your mark sheets
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and they are definitely going to ask you for your name.
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This is probably the only question where you're going to give a really short answer
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and you can simply answer it by saying hello I'm Izzy or my name is Izzy.
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Okay, nothing longer than that.
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And the second question that they're going to ask you is where you're from.
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A lot of people, they get quite nervous and they say, I'm from Oxford.
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You know, they throw the name of their city into the answer and they stop there.
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But I really recommend doing what I'm going to also explain further in the rest of this video.
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I really recommend that you give a very complete answer.
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This is one of the most important tips in the speaking exam and I'm going to give you an example right now.
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Look at this example answer which is what I would answer because I am from Oxford.
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If the examiner asked me where are you from I would say I'm from Oxford
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which is a small historic town in the southeast of England
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and is famous for being the home of the oldest English speaking university in the world.
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As you can see, I've mentioned not only the place, but I've mentioned exactly where it is in England.
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And I've mentioned one characteristic about the town, right?
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It's famous for this.
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So that when I give my answer to the examiner, they have a really good idea of my city.
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I don't just say I'm from Oxford, but they really understand a lot more about it.
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And that's exactly what you're going to do as well.
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Now, this is a strategy that you're going to apply to every single part of both the speaking and the writing exam,
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which is not to give really short and boring answers, but you know, to make your point and then go on to give some extra information.
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You're going to do this for the rest of the questions in well the whole speaking exam
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but also in the writing exam you should never just throw in an answer without justifying it
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or explaining it further so this is a really important strategy in the whole of your exam
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so regarding the question where are you from this is a really good template you can use
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if you don't like it
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or you already have a really good answer for this question
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you know you don't have to follow it word from word but it's definitely a format that works every time.
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So what you can say is I'm from, you give the name of the town, the city, the village, whatever type of place it is,
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which is a, and you can now start to give some good descriptive adjectives about this place.
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So I said it's a small historic town.
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I mentioned two adjectives.
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If you're taking a C1 exam, you should really try to use some good C1 adjectives
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because you want to really show to the examiner that you have a good range of vocabulary.
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You might say it's a quaint city, it's a manic city, you know, really understand what your city is like so you can describe it well in the exam.
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And then you're going to say, you know, it's a city, it's a town, whatever in the, and then I recommend mentioning exactly where it is geographically.
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You could say it's in the northeast, the southwest, in the center of the country that you're from.
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And now this is just a suggestion.
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You could say it's famous for or it's known for this.
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If it's not famous for anything, you don't have to use this exact phrase.
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But giving a bit of extra information, whatever it may be, is definitely important in this part of the exam.
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All right, guys, we're going to focus on the really important stuff now
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which are the three key strategies to do really well in speaking part one.
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We're going to talk about the phrase list which you can download here.
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We're going to talk about what I've already mentioned
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which is making a point and giving extra information
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and my super vocabulary tip which I'm going to talk about is using three keywords but let's start with the phrase list.
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I've compiled this list of phrases because when native speakers speak English you You know, there's a selection of phrases that we use all the time,
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which are more colloquial, which will make you sound much more natural
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and much more native when you're giving your answers in the exam.
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Remember that this is a speaking exam.
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And the most important thing here is that you sound really fluid and really natural when you're speaking, which is why it's really important to use,
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you know, colloquial phrases, native like phrases, idioms, expressions and things like this.
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and I've put them all together here so you can literally copy them, paste them and put them at the beginning of your answers.
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I recommend using one phrase for every single speaking answer
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that you're going to give in speaking part one and I want to give you an example of why it's really good.
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So look at this first question which is what is your job?
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You could say I'm a balloon twister.
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I know it's a really unusual job.
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However, I'm an extremely jolly person so it suits me perfectly.
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It also comes with lots of perks so I can't complain.
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Now this is obviously already a really good answer but listen to this one.
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It's funny you asked me that as I was just talking to my friend about my bizarre job.
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Now as you can see by putting this it's funny you asked me
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that I've just added this more personal twist right because it shows
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that I'm talking to the examiner like I'm really listening to
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their question you know I want them to relate to me
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like I'm talking to them like a friend not like I've
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just memorized my answer okay let's look at another example now
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imagine they ask you the question what's the furthest you've ever
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been from home now you could say once I went to
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Thailand I think it's the furthest I've ever been it's quite short answer, very boring, it's not really showing off your range of vocabulary.
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Now look at this one.
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I'm really fond of traveling.
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I'm a seasoned traveler actually and when I was a youngster, I went backpacking in Thailand.
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That's where all the adrenaline junkies were going at the time.
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Although I was traveling on a shoestring, I managed to fund my two week trip to Thailand, which is 3000 kilometers from home and the furthest I've ever been so far.
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This is a really good example of a very complete answer.
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And as you can see, I started my answer by saying, I'm really fond of, which is synonymous for I really like.
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At C1 level, we don't want to be using words like like, love, okay?
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Because we really want to show that we have a really good grasp of the language, which is why we need to replace those more basic words with words like this, you know, I'm fond of,
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because that's what native people use.
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And if you're at C1 level, you should try to be using these as well.
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So don't forget, try to use one speaking phrase before every answer in the interview part.
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The next thing we're going to talk about is the strategy I mentioned before, which is make your point and give extra information.
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Always give extra information, okay?
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Don't give short or boring answers because the examiner's going to want more from you.
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So let's look at this one.
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The examiner asked me, what's your job?
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I start by using my phrase, right?
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It's funny you asked me that as I was just talking to my friend about my bizarre job.
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Now my answer is I'm a balloon twister, but I'm not going to stop there because I want them to be informed.
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I want them to understand what my job is and why I like it.
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So then I'm going to say, I know it's a really unusual job.
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However, I'm an extremely jolly person.
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So it suits me perfectly.
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It also comes with lots of perks, so I can't complain.
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As you can see, I've given four extra pieces of information about my job.
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So the examiner is fully informed.
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They understand exactly what I do and why I like it.
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So there's no missing information here.
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Let's look at the second question.
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What's the furthest you've ever been from home?
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Again, I'm going to start with my phrase.
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I'm really fond of traveling.
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I'm a seasoned traveler.
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This is my extra information.
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I'm a seasoned traveler.
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When I was a youngster, I went backpacking in Thailand.
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I'm giving background information about the place that I went to.
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That's where all the adrenaline junkies were going at the time.
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Although I was traveling on a shoestring, I managed to fund my two-week trip to Thailand, which is 3,000 kilometers from home.
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This is my point, right?
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This is the fundamental answer to the question.
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What's the furthest you've been?
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Thailand.
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So I said, I managed to fund my two-week trip to Thailand, which is 3,000 kilometers from home and the furthest I've ever been so far.
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I kind of did this one backwards because I gave my extra information first
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and I made my point at the end but it doesn't matter
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because I've supported my main opinion by keeping the examiner informed
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and this is a much less boring answer right I could have said Thailand
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but I'm not showing the examiner that I know how to interact with them
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so that's why we have to give a complete answer
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so it feels natural you know just like when you're with a friend if you ask them a question
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and they respond with just one word.
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It's like, okay, you're kind of boring.
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I don't know how to have this conversation with you.
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That's why we have to do this.
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Okay, you want them to be informed.
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You want them to enjoy what you're saying.
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And most importantly, we need to justify what we're saying and try to show off some good vocabulary as well.
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Last but not least, I generally recommend to my students that they learn three keywords for as many vocabulary topics as possible.
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A lot of people kind of fall into the trap of memorizing answers for their exam
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which is a really bad idea because you don't sound very natural
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and you're just not 100% sure of what the examiner is going to ask you on that day.
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So a good trick is you know opening your Cambridge textbook having a look at the different topics
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that appear in it and finding three really good really good phrases, expressions related to that topic.
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So if they ask you any question, or if you have to talk about photos related to this topic,
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you don't have to memorize 5,000 different words related to that topic, but you have three really good,
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really impressive C1 pieces of vocabulary ready to fire at the examiner.
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So let's go back to the same questions that we looked at before.
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What's your job?
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I know that the examiner is probably going to ask me about what I do, my job, university of some kind
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so before going into the exam I prepared three really good words
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which I know I want to use in any topic about work and about me.
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So the questions I chose were bizarre which means strange or weird.
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I chose jolly which is a c1 synonym for happy and
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I chose perks which means you know the advantages of a job.
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Now all of these are really good c1 words
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which is why I chose to write these down and
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when I ask you to do your exercise of writing down some c1 words I want you to make sure
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that they are of a high level.
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Let's go back to the same question.
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What's your job.
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It's funny you asked me
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that as I was just talking to my friend about my bizarre job
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because I went into the exam knowing I was going to use this word.
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I used it, I impressed the examiner and I gave my complete answer.
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Well I'm a balloon twister.
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I know it's a really unusual job however I'm an extremely jolly person
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so it suits me perfectly and it also comes with lots of perks so I can't complain.
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So remember don't memorize answers but start learning three really really good words,
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phrases or expressions for a whole variety of topics in English.
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Let's look at this next question.
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What's the first thing you notice about people when you meet them for the first time?
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The phrases I've chosen to prepare before the exam were painfully perceptive which means extremely perceptive,
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body language and to look past.
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So I put a really good C1 phrasal verb here.
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It's funny you asked me that.
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So I'm using my natural speaking phrase.
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As right before the speaking exam I was talking to my friend about this.
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Now I'm a painfully perceptive person
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and one of the first things I pay attention to when meeting someone new is their smile.
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I think body language is extremely important and it's hard for me to look past a fake or uncomfortable smile.
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So that's the last point I really want you to take into consideration
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and to help you really show off your language to the examiner without stressing too much you know
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and thinking I have to use 5,000 different words if they ask me about this topic.
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No, just have a handful of really good words and that's all you need.
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The three things I want you to remember are to use your natural speaking phrases to make your point
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and to give extra information and last
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but not least try to think of at least three really good words
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that you can use in the topic of the question.
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The last thing to bear in mind as I'm sure you
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saw from the videos before your answers should be about two
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sentences long okay enough time to make your point to give extra information
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but because this is just the interview part your answers should not be too long.
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Okay so they're going to last about 20 seconds.
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And there you have it language learners.
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I hope you found these strategies useful and
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that they've managed to give you some insight
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and at least a little bit of confidence on how you're supposed to be facing part one of your speaking exam.
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But I've got an extra trait for you.
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I know how important it is to get your hands on the right resources
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and ones which go straight to the point so you don't waste your time preparing for this exam.
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So what I'm going to do is give you access to a free sample of my course.
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I call it a sample but there are hours of useful strategies in this.
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So it's the perfect way to dip your toes into what could be a life-changing exam preparation course.
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I'm going to drop the link in the video description below
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so you can start watching it right away if you want to.
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Anyway don't forget to subscribe, hit that notification bell so whenever I release a new video
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Anyway that's it for today guys thank you for joining me in sitting through this video
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and investing your time in your own education which is always a fantastic thing to do.
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I can't wait to see you in the next lesson but until then stay curious, stay learning.
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