Band 9.0 IELTS Practice Speaking Exam

Let's start talking about art and photography. Do you like art? That is interesting. It depends on what I like. Cinema, for

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ple, movies, music, but I don't know much about paintings or modern art. Don't know. I'm familiar with that, it depends on what kind of art you like to take pictures of. Yes, I wouldn't say the photographs are good, but I enjoy taking photographs. Yes, do you prefer to take photos of yourself or other things of other things? It's hard to take photos of yourself unless it's a selfie and that's limited, so photos of other things mainly now let's talk about animals.

You love animals? I love animals, uh, land animals, friendly, so to speak, animals, not insects and nothing from the ocean, which one is your? favorite animal um probably a dog dogs for obvious reasons you can keep them as pets in terms of non-domesticated animals probably jaguars do you have any animals in your house as pets? Yes, I have two dogs, they are both from the shelter. shelter the rescues um yeah, I've always had pets our family really likes having animals around now let's talk about bags what kind of bags do you like? I prefer cigars that are a little bit bigger just because I like to put everything in my life in my bag um so it ends up weighing maybe 20 kilos yeah bigger bags probably bigger structured bags how often do you carry a bag when you go out every day?

I think that's the case for most women. I think they carry a bag every day. Even if you go to the supermarket or supermarket, you usually carry your bag with you, what kind of bags do women like to buy? It depends, it depends on your outfit, it depends on where you're going to spend the day, if you're going to the office, you probably want something bigger that can fit your laptop, your phone, documents, everything you might need during the day, if it's at night you'll want something smaller like a clutch, something more elegant, elegant, then it depends if you're traveling and you'll want a much bigger bag that can fit, mhm, not just you but all the stuff. from your family, so women like all kinds of bags, that's why we have so many now, let's talk about birthdays, mhm.

What did you usually do on your birthday when you were a child? So when I was a kid, when I was a kid, at school we had a uniform, everyone wore a uniform at school, so when it was your birthday, it was the one day of the year where you were allowed to wear whatever you wanted, so It was a big problem. I mean at least I would choose my outfit 2 months in advance, it would be like a little dress like a princess dress, matching shoes, matching accessories for your hair and then you would bring some kind of chocolate or candy to school and then you could have free time and going to hand out candy to other teachers and other kids at school and we looked forward to it every year, it was the highlight to not have to wear the uniform to wear whatever you wanted and basically be able to skip classes and going out to hand out chocolates because it's your birthday, how do you normally celebrate your birthday now?

Very differently, everyone can wear whatever they want. Now, so it doesn't have the same charm, it depends, I like to have a small dinner with my friends, something discreet. I'm not a big party person, so dinner is usually good, probably followed by games. night or a movie night movie night at home or at the cinema something discreet do you think it is important to give someone a card on her birthday like a handwritten card like a birthday card? um, I think so, because I'm quite sentimental and emotional, so I prefer more emotional, sentimental gifts, so I think if someone takes the time to write something by hand for you, I think I mean, I save things like that, like that which I think is a very nice and thoughtful gift to give someone on their birthday.

The first time I met a new friend, so I'm going to back up, it was my first day of kindergarten and I met a girl named Aman prit k um, she we were, I think we just turned four, obviously we met in kindergarten, the first day of school, what I liked about her when I first saw her, I mean, we were sitting together and the teacher made us sit next to each other and she had long hair and she was Like split into two parts and it was just braided all the way down and he had the cutest face I've ever seen, he had that fluffy little marshmallow face I guess that's all it takes when you're a kid to want to be friends with someone. um and then I tried, so there's this little thing that kids do where they stick out their thumb to show other kids that I want to be your friend and then if you don't want to be their friend, you do this, it's like dumb.

So I did this to him, I stuck out my thumb to say hey, do you want to be friends? And she was like this and I was heartbroken. I thought: how can she know that she wants to be my friend? And then I saw her again. the next day um and the next day after that and the day after that and we finally ended up becoming best friends, she did it to me again, obviously at some point she was my first best friend that I had in life, she was from Punjab, which is part of India, and her mom used to make something amazing, it's called parata, it's like this stuffed bread, it's like they put a potato and spices in a flatbread and my mom used to make something called CA, That This sweet grits situation, that's the end of the two minutes.

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Thank you very much and let's get back to the video, it depends. I would say that Maybe I would think that quality is more important than quantity, so I wouldn't say that the goal should be to make as many friends as possible or be popular, but rather to build meaningful friendships with people who could be one person who could be five. people that could be 10 situational people I would say yes, so it's not so much about how many friends you have but um, it's not as important to have a lot of friends as it is to have people that I can trust that you can take with you in the long-term life, do you think it is wrong for parents to choose which friends their children have?

H again that is a complicated question now as I answer these questions I am thinking about real life situations and in some cases I have seen parents interfere and try to make those decisions for their children when they were right to do so because the child was in bad company and they were too naive or too um, I mean, I guess they were too naive to see that that situation wasn't right for them, but his parents were obviously able to identify that my son is in Bad Company, so in those cases I would say that Your parents can read a dangerous situation better, but there is also the other side. where everyone makes bad decisions your parents made bad decisions you made bad decisions and the way you learn from them is to have a negative experience and then find your way out of it, so I would say I can see certain situations whether they are bad relationships bad friendships um when you're younger not relationships when you're younger friendships when you're younger sometimes you need to have that experience so you know firsthand how to deal with that situation and you may not be able to do it Get that experience if your Parents always protect you from everything that can go wrong, so I can see, it depends on the situation.

I would say now let's talk about making new friends. Can you think of any disadvantages of making new friends online? Disadvantages of Making New Friends Online I think there are more disadvantages to making new friends. I mean, recently there was a show that came out on Netflix called Tender Hustler. The thing is, most of what we see online is not real, whether it's social media or um, even news, uh, everything is edited and monitored to present a certain type of image, so if you know someone on line and you know nothing about it, it can really present any version of reality or a completely curated, sometimes dishonest form. of their reality for you, so it's a very dangerous game to play friendships or relationships, both friendships, friendships, yes, it's someone you know nothing about.

Anything can go wrong there, right? Would you say it's harder for people to make new friends as they go? Getting older, yes, I think it gets harder for people to make friends as they get older. I think adults are maybe a little more structured. I mean, the older you get, the more you pay attention to your habits, your routine at work. your family your gym kids for kids it becomes very easy for kids to interact with other kids like if you put two kids in a room and 3 seconds they are talking to each other without restrictions, they are talking about their whole family secrets and everything you know, they feel comfortable, but with adults, obviously, people tend to be more filtered when they interact with other adults.

I also think if you've been friends since you were a kid with someone you've lived with. Through so many life events together, that kind of bond is hard to build with someone you meet when you're 30 because you've wasted so much time that you're learning something about that person from scratch, where they went. to school about their family, about their relationships, about their siblings, so yeah, I think it's not impossible, you can make a lot of amazing friendship ships later in life, but it's probably harder to do than if you were a kid at play school, so what?

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It was like talking to a friend or colleague and the length of your answers was pretty good too. This is not a criticism, it is simply who you are as a person. You are a very friendly and talkative person who wants the other person to interact, so you are often like a girl who likes to buy bags. That's fine in a normal conversation if you did the real test. The examiner might be quite unmoved because they are doing their job they are not being unfriendly they just have a job to do and they are trying to think about your grammar and your vocabulary and your pronunciation and your fluency and there is a lot going on there and for them I can't start to interact with you, yes, and on the day of the exam you may not find a very friendly examiner like me.

I don't know if I was friendly or not, but they might tell you, "Don't do that," or some of them might. I know I'm having a bad day and they just don't ask questions. Now I have experienced it not with myself, but other students have said that when they did it they thought the examiner was criticizing them or being rude, they took it seriously and thought. Oh my god, I failed my exam and they went from doing very, very well to everything falling apart because if you feel nervous, yeah, you feel uncomfortable around someone, then that really affects your fluency, you can shut up, you don't want to really show your language. . and who you are, you don't want it because one of the great advantages or great strength that you have is that you are very open about who you are as a person and that is great because it allows you to speak in a very fluid way, if you go and take the exam True, you probably won't interact that much with the examiner.

Part two, you did a great job because you just picked a real event, a real person from your life and it's so much easier to talk about. that some students try to choose something high level or impressive to impress the examiner there is no such thing uh the best thing you can do is choose something from your real life because it is easy to talk about the third part you did very, very well because you really extended youranswers again you use real situations from your own life you don't have to do that but it really helped you develop your answers terms of the scores the pronunciation is pretty perfect The examiner will be thinking if I can understand every word this person says saying 100% I can understand every syllable then the examiner will think about high-level pronunciation features, like your intonation, so our voices go up, our voices go down, you speak like a native English speaker in that sense, sentence stress is when we emphasize certain words, this is my phone not yours so you emphasize certain words sometimes you do it 100% naturally and then you use connected speech the same way native english speakers speak we wouldn't say i want to talk about my friend he says I want to talk about my friend the flow of the language is absolutely perfect, there are no problems, coherence and fluency, coherence is: did you answer the questions?

It's important, so in the last, I think it was the second to last question, you were talking about adults and you were saying that their lives are more structured, so you weren't trying to think of the right vocabulary because your English isn't good enough. just formulate your thoughts and find the precise and appropriate word, which you did, to show the examiner that you have a very high level of vocabulary because if you were because you are trying to think of what the word is, what and when. people who don't really know the language then they would stop and also because you approach this not as a test but rather as a conversation and you are very open and talk about your life in a very open way which really helps with fluency so again .

The best grades in fluency and grammatical coherence. I didn't hear a single grammatical error. The examiner will think about the accuracy of your grammar. Did you make any mistakes? and in the scope of your grammar. So if I told you about a birthday party in the past, you used the appropriate past tenses and then I asked you what you are doing today, you changed tenses, you used the appropriate grammatical structures and tenses to talk about each situation and again you did that perfect, very natural vocabulary, you use it. a good mix of normal everyday words that everyone uses and you also use idiomatic language very very well so as you can see you are using very natural English and overall you would get a perfect band oh wow which is very weird, oh wow, very very strange well well done thank you