IELTS Speaking test band score of 9 with feedback

Well, this is the international English language

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that will take place on Thursday, August 6. Center number dde1 120 and the candidate is Sarah Oda. The candidate number is 0131 3458. The examiner is examiner number 4435 33 of Samson C. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. My name is Samson. Could you tell me your full name? My name is Sarah Oar. Thank you. Can I see your ID? Please thanks. In the first part of the exam I will ask you some personal questions. Are you a student or not? job now currently I am working as a teacher okay and why did you choose this job?

I chose to be a teacher because I felt that teaching is part of me and when I am in the classroom, I really feel happy to be able to help. My students improve in a wide range of areas and what I like most about teaching is that I feel like I am raising my students' level of knowledge. Well, is there anything about your job that you would like to change? Really though, when I think about the pay, I wish I could go back in time and opt for another career, because the low pay sometimes really gets me down and it's what really keeps me frustrated all the time.

I'd like to go ahead and ask you a few questions about shopping. Who does most of the shopping in your home right? In reality, it is not just one person who does the shopping for the home. I would say it is a shared responsibility and everyone has it. a role to play in the home, so we always tend to go shopping together, okay? What kind of shopping do you like and why my favorite thing about shopping when it comes to shopping is buying gifts for my friends or maybe people's birthdays? Even at Christmas, my favorite store is a bookstore which is on the list of my top priorities and I believe that if I buy a book for someone, not only is it considered a gift, but I can also help that person gain other knowledge.

It gives me a great feeling of satisfaction. Shopping is a popular activity in your country. Why not? In fact, on Thursdays and Fridays people go out to the streets and to the shopping centers. It is considered more of a leisure activity. In addition to them not looking to buy something practical, I see that most teenagers and people go shopping, sometimes window shopping or wandering around the mall, so I don't think they buy something practical. Okay, so what kind of shopping do teenagers do? Like the best in your country, well, I hadn't thought about this before, but obviously, like any other teenager, they like much more to buy clothes, makeup to beautify themselves or maybe some music and this kind of thing, okay? let's talk about movies how often.

To be honest, you go to the movies. I can't even go to the movies. I only manage to watch one or two movies each week and after a long day of teaching, my favorite thing to do is curl up. I sit on a couch and watch my favorite movie, which really helps me relax. I usually do this on Fridays, right? What kind of movies do you like more? I really like dramatic and historical movies because they can help me better understand historical events in the past and even about human emotions in the past, so I think there is always something to learn from past events, historical events and even to convey it to the next generations in the future, wonderful, okay, that's the End of part one, well, let's move on to part two.

I'm going to give you a topic and I'd like you to talk about it for a minute or two before you speak, you'll have a minute to think about what you want. I'm going to say and you can take notes if you want you understand yes wonderful here is your paper thank you pencil and here is your topic now you have a minute to take notes Flash okay now you will have 2 minutes to talk about your topic Don't worry if the time runs out time. I'll stop you after 2 minutes. You can start talking now. I would like to talk about the time after I graduated from high school, it was at the peak of summer when I had to study very hard for the last grade of high school.

That year I had to sacrifice everything and give up all the joys and somehow get out of my comfort zone. Despite all this, I managed to keep my spirits high because I knew this would end very quickly and also mark a major milestone in that year, so I burned until midnight for months and after a couple of months when I took my certificate in hand, that was it. like over the moon and I could uh I have the feeling that all the sufferings have come to an end and uh it was like the time to open a new page of my life and uh for this reason my parents were so proud of me that they threw a party graduation for me and uh to go more into the details uh I can say that this party was just a dinner uh that only included my own family and some of my friends my parents invited a musical

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uh to perform my favorite songs and everyone We had a lot of fun together that night and at the end everyone congratulated me and wished me a successful college year ahead and I was very proud of myself that night which marked an indelible moment for me that I will cherish the pleasure of forever.

Think and, uh, I really want to return to university life in the future. Thank you so much. That's the end of the second part. Two minutes are up. I will collect your papers now. Thank you so much. And the role you have there. The topic. Thank you. now we will move on to the third part, so we have been talking about an important event in your life and now I would like to ask you some questions related to this, here we go, what days are important in your country, uh, the most important ones. most of our population are muslims and that is why muslims tend to celebrate eids and as a national festival and it is like a big celebration, sometimes they pay and pay each other back and sometimes they buy something new. clothes and cook some special cuisines on that day and it is considered a happy time on that day.

Wow, and why is it important to have national celebrations? When I think about it, national celebrations can boost unity between nations and others. The thing about these national festivals is the great advantage that it is an ending, it gives an overview, it reflects an overview of the attitude of gratitude and enjoying everything, that we are owners of everything we have instead of the things we don't have. t or what we want in the future, so it's a great time to be grateful for what we have and how the way your national celebrations are celebrated now is different from the way they were celebrated in the past.

Actually, I don't really like celebrations. That has happened that people used to have in the past, but today I think people tend to care a lot more about some private parties that people in the past didn't use to have, it's something that people in the past uh, I think used to celebrated more indoors, while nowadays people celebrate outdoors with their friends, like teenagers, they are more reluctant than ever to celebrate these national festivals with their family or relatives, they like to have their own independent lives and uh . have fun independently, okay? Are there any celebrations from other countries that you celebrated in your country recently?

We can easily see that people are celebrating some celebrations that are not part of their culture, such as Valentine's Day or Halloween. It's not part of our culture and despite all this, they are celebrating it on a grand scale, right? What are the benefits of having events that many people around the world celebrate on the same day? In my opinion, there are many The positive aspects involved in these global events remind us of the fact that we are all, all people around the world are human and we all have the same values ​​no matter what race, religion, entity or um or regardless who we are everyone sharing this world together to celebrate together and do you think new national celebrations will emerge in the future?

That is a good question. I would say yes because we have seen many celebrations that have been added to our daily lives throughout history. and uh, the future is no exception, we can expect a new festival to be added in the future, okay, thank you very much, this is the end of the oral test. Everything's fine. Your use of grammar is very similar to that of a native speaker. The way you use it and your vocabulary, your vocabulary is absolutely perfect. I like the way you use your vocabulary. Your vocabulary usage is very broad, it has a great variety and I would definitely say that you are a

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. name CU, you're ticking all the boxes the examiners want on this

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I mean, when you had these, you had some pauses in the middle, but that's what a native speaker would do, they would pause in the middle and obviously go on with the rest of their story think that because you were thinking about your story no. you were looking for a new choice of words or idioms that you were very natural that you were using in some of your answers um you use them exactly where they were supposed to be used, you weren't using too many because we understand this a lot, especially here, we have a lot of examiners who say that The more idioms you use, the better that will give you points. is not the case at all, they don't.

The examiner does not want to see someone

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more complicated. They want to see that you are natural. That's why we call it coherence. Cerencia is your natural way of speaking. something like a native speaker being fluent and your pronunciations being absolutely perfect, 100% spot on, so you don't really have any problem getting this band nine, you're naturally a band nine and you're speaking out loud, which obviously helps Very much, if I were to tell you to be better than you are now, make some improvement for this test, I would tell you to speak a little slower so that you pay attention to the time or think about the time because, obviously, you have two minutes to speak in the second part and in the third part.

There are questions, but if you answer these questions too quickly you will obviously limit yourself and it may be best to stick to the first three answers. and think more about what you are going to say, just explain it more, that's all you have to do. I mean, I wouldn't say look for more vocabulary. I wouldn't say work on your grammar because they're all spot on, they're all perfect and you're very eloquent, you're completely clear and understandable and are there any questions you want to ask? No thanks about consistency and fluidity. okay, the fluency, that's what I was saying, the fluency was absolutely spot on, I mean, it was something very impressive and close to what any native speaker would do and the pauses are related to the topic, they are not related to the topic at all. language.

I'm looking at everyone, they're all in their place, your pronunciations are perfect, your use of vocabulary was very impressive because obviously that will also be examined and when you have this wide range of vocabulary, you're going to have less repetition, which you didn't have in mind. absolute. I mean, if you were trying to repeat, you're trying to fix your sentence because that happens. This is not a newsletter. We're having a normal conversation. here, um, so all I would say is definitely just watch your speed, um, you can, you have room to slow down a little bit, you don't have to rush, this is just not a race, it's just a The conversation was divided. in three parts, obviously, the second part is more like a monologue followed by the third part, which is the continuation of the second part, it's just more about the related topic.

You seem to know a lot about what you were. speaking and you felt very comfortable with the topics they gave you