IELTS Speaking Test band score 9 with feedback

Well, from here the oral

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begins. This is the oral

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of the international English language assessment system held at Ross Iowa Academy. The candidates are Samsung. Go to candidate number zero one four one three two seven seven. The examiner is Mehn Schofie. Examiner number four four three five. two three good afternoon my name is mahmoud scofie could you tell me your full name? Hello my name is Samson see how can I call you can you call me Samson okay Samson great can I see your ID please absolutely thank you very much here you are? thank you very much thank you well so we can start with your oral test the first part in the first part of the exam first I will ask you some personal questions I would like to ask you about studying what are you studying now?

I'm studying three subjects, dramatic music and performing arts, so it's a combination of dance music again and a certain type of acting. Do you like that subject? I really love these subjects because I didn't really know which one to choose, I decided to choose. music first of all and then I realized that I also love theater studies, then I realized that I also love media, so I chose performing arts to get more involved. How was your first day on this topic? It was very exciting to be Honestly with You because I was really struggling with maths and science and all those subjects that the school and the national curriculum really wanted us to study and they said you have to have these qualifications otherwise you can't do any further study. , so I thought it was very exciting.

To go ahead and choose these songs that I feel like I'm most comfortable with and that's why I like them a lot, okay, very good, now let's move on to talking about music, what is your favorite type of music? Oh, that's funny, you should ask that because it happens to me. I'm a musician and I play the piano, so I love all kinds of genres. If I'm going to talk about music, but to answer your question and pick one in particular, I'm actually going to pick two. I love classical and new music. age and also a mix of pop in the middle is also good, very good, can you sing?

That's the embarrassing question that many people ask me. Can I sing well? Sometimes I sing in the choir, but I would never risk being a solo singer. I prefer to just be the musician and play the piano or even take up a second instrument that's fine, very good, now let's talk about neighbors and neighborhood, do you like your neighbors? To be honest with you, I have good neighbors and bad neighbors, I don't want to name anyone except some neighbors, they are just not very cooperative if you want to have a bonfire in the garden, so on the left side of my father's house we have to Rosalind, so she's very picky, she always complains a lot and we You can't turn the music up very high and your neighbors aren't usually very close in your country.

I don't think neighbors or people who live next to each other in the UK are particularly close unless you have a very special friendship. and the atmosphere on the road, but you can find the occasional friendly person from time to time, okay? How is your neighborhood? Our neighborhood in North London is a very quiet place. I'd rather live there full time if I'm going to compare. that to central London because it is a suburb and we have a lot of green areas, we have a local park and you can sleep peacefully at night without the noise of anything else.

Great, thank you very much, we are done with the first part of the

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tests. You can go to the second part. In this part I am going to give you a topic and I would like you to talk about this topic for two minutes, but first you will have a minute to think about what you are going to say. You understand, yes, great, very good, now I will give you a document and a reference card. You will have a minute to think about the topic and you can take notes if you wish. Okay, here's your cue card and here's the document.

Thank you so much. a lot and here's a pen, wonderful, so I'd like you to describe a quiz show or a game show on TV that you like. Now you will have a minute to think about the topic and your minute starts right now. Okay, your minute is. finished and if you feel ready you can talk about it for two minutes your two minutes start right now so i was asked to talk about a tv show that i really like i want to talk about bruce nolan's generation game so it's a game of questions and it basically applies to two families on stage when they have a live audience, so these two groups, these two families, would basically have to play games and do different activities and then they would be graded on the spot. final and I always found it very interesting because they put them in situations where they don't know, for example, how to make pottery or how to act on stage, it depends on what the activity is.

We always watch this show and hear about it. from itv, although itv advertising is our third channel in the UK and we love sitting in front of the TV and watching it together as a family, we find it great fun so I enjoy the activities they do, like I said, they get on the scenario they have to do an acting game or maybe make a tableau to see who can interpret the tableau better than the other and I always like the way the presenter presents the show, he is always very energetic and the way he addresses The candidates. and then the way he talks to the audience is always very theatrical and very friendly at the same time and then in the middle he keeps joking around and trying to encourage other people to get up on stage and participate, and sometimes he even chooses in the people in the audience, so it's a very, very fun show to watch.

Another show I'd like to talk about is cilla black's blind date and that's where she invites people to make people single of course and then if they choose the blind date and they like what the someone else, then they'll pick that person to maybe go on vacation, that's what they'll do on the trip, and then they'll come back next week. Thank you so much. Great, we are. We're done with the second half and your two minutes are up. Now we can move on to the third part. We've been talking about a quiz show or game show on TV that you like.

Now I would like to ask you some questions related to this topic. Great, so let's consider television. Do people in your country like to watch television? Well, I consider my country. If I am going to answer this question, I consider that the nation I come from is a country very involved with the media. Call it the mother of all UK media because they created the BBC, they created BBC radio many years ago, I think it was sometime in the mid-20th century, so I think it's very, very important that they have government channels. , they also have a lot of private channels and a lot of people like to watch these channels, you can watch whatever you want, you can watch movies, TV series, soap operas, but nowadays, obviously, because of the Internet and technology, people They prefer to watch the same shows that our televisions show on their phones. maybe laptops maybe netflix so that's a social media channel and everything so there might be a pay per view and they might want to watch a certain tv channel okay cool tell me about the types of programs that are usually broadcast on television in your country.

Well, as I talked earlier in the previous part of this test, people love watching quiz shows, I think a lot because it is very challenging and the way they present these shows is very exciting, not only do many people learn something. It could be a language related show where there is something we have called a catchphrase and many people love to watch it and improve their vocabulary but there is a lot of entertainment on our television channels that many people like to watch and how about you do you like it? Those quiz shows on TV I certainly mentioned before and there are quite a few quiz shows I would choose.

I would definitely choose a tagline and in the previous one I talked about Bruce Nolan's spawn game because it's very creative and this is something that will keep me engaged and the shows are not too long whether they are about 25 minutes or 30 minutes and I think That's enough to sit and watch a TV question, okay? And why do some people like to watch TV on their computer? That's a very debatable question if you ask me because now, if you look at the way generations are shaping up in the 21st century, it's not like the old days where we sat in front of a television as a family and watched Too Many Shows Too Much.

People like to do things individually, especially with accessible technology, like we have our laptops, we have tablets and just walking around with our phones and being connected to the Internet, it's much easier to access the type of home entertainment that a lot of people have. are looking for, okay, very good and what is the difference between the favorite television drama of young people and old people. Well, that's something I wouldn't really know how to answer because I don't really know what young people definitely watch in terms of drama. and the same goes for the older group, but maybe I can feel a pattern of what they are watching, so if they are young, they will probably watch an action related drama, if that is if we are talking about children, uh. men or men, if we are talking about girls, maybe they are the most likely to watch romantic things, romantic TV series and why do you think that is so?

Why do you like to watch romantic movies? I think a lot of these problems have to do with hormones, I mean. I don't like to be picky and definitely generalize about all these things, but in general girls love to watch TV series or movies that are romantic and have some kind of sweet angle towards them, guys, because they tend to be more energetic and again It has to do with hormones, they love watching action and being entertained by all those exciting things. Thank you very much, we are done with your

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test for today. Now you can relax and breathe deeply.

Thank you, yes, very good, so let's see. What you did in your mock speaking test today, but before we get into the details of the different criteria, what do you think about your performance? I thought I did well, maybe I could have used an even greater range of vocabulary, but I thought that was mostly. related to the topics yes, I think I answered the questions just as you asked me, yes, that's totally true, because Samsung, what I loved about the way you spoke was a wide range of vocabulary that you were using, so I would say it was enough even more. more than enough and that would give you a very good

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on your lexical resource, but if I just wanted to start with your fluency and coherence, what really stood out in your way of speaking is the fluidity of the speech that you have as if you do not stop when you are speaking and you speak very fluently in English and on the other hand, I didn't notice any self-correction or self-repetition, you didn't repeat yourself, you were just using all the words and all the structures. correctly and accurately and that was really good, I couldn't really notice any effort to keep talking to me, so it was wonderful, maybe you had some doubts, some not many, but it was about you just trying. to think of ideas and you know when you know what you want to say what language you want to use so these doubts are okay you're not looking for words you were looking for ideas and that was just wonderful something else about your fluency that was really good, it was a good use of connectives and discourse markers, like when I was asking you a question, you were just paraphrasing my question and using some reinforcements, that's a good thing, of course, that's a good thing, I love reinforcements.

You used, for example, in the first part. You started one of your answers by saying that I happen to be something and then you gave me the answer or that's the embarrassing question I should answer or it's not particularly correct, so you didn't give me a direct uh answer at the beginning, buying time to really exactly why who knows how to answer all the questions correctly some topics may be unknown what about you? Did that sound familiar to you because from what I understood you had a lot to say about the question, thank you very much and are we looking at a pretty good

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Of course we are, of course we're looking, could you give me a number? Oh yeah, we're definitely looking at a nine score

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here. Yes, because everything was perfect and yes, we're just talking about different criteria, so your fluency was wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you for talking about your lexical resources. You use a very good variety of collocations and vocabulary. I could say that. I heard you use idiomatic vocabulary and unusual collocation rewards and that's really good, it just boosts your score to eight or more and your paraphrasing was wonderful. I really loved that you didn't repeat the same words I was using in my questions and how was my pronunciation?

By the way, what was it like to clarify your pronunciation? You used a variety of pronunciation functions and what wasreally cool thing about your pronunciation was that you could link different sounds together like it wasn't word for word that you were linking and just talking. very naturally as a native speaker as you are so not as a native speaker as a native speaker was great and Samson, I just have one problem with your general speaking in parts one, two and three and that's the pacing of your speech, or not? too fast a little fast sometimes it's a little fast right, I mean, you managed to speak at that pace and you answered all the questions very well, but sometimes when you speak too fast, you can get a little stressed and magic errors are more likely make sense and the pronunciation of some words may not be clear if you speak too fast, some of you can work on that a little.

I know they have a lot of information, but sometimes it was too much. You know I needed a little bit, you know, tone it down exactly and yeah, that's it and your grammatical range as the last thing I want to talk about, you use a variety of complex structures if I want to give you examples, for example. You were using conditional sentences, relative clauses, compound sentences very well and I could hear some adverbs. You started some of your sentences, for example, by saying generally, you definitely know and you were talking about the different topics, so that was really good and in the second part what I noticed was that you covered all the points, which It's great, but then you covered the two minutes, but after uh, you had like 10 or 20 seconds left and you were speechless, so you got off topic. and you started talking about another program, right, that's right, because I didn't do it.

I thought it was good to complete the two minutes and keep this flow of speech and that's great, that was really good. You went off topic and didn't stop talking. The same thing happened in part three, like question number four, you said that's something I wouldn't really know, you didn't have an answer to the question, but you didn't stop, no, I didn't stop because you have to address it. the question I thought about, so you know from a different angle, get into the idea and stop answering the question, okay, great, yes, that's totally true, yes, I have good examples of what you did here, yes, the only problem I have is with the pacing of your speech, as you said, you handled it very well, but yes, maybe you can work on that a little bit and finally, the last thing I would say, the connectives and conjunctions that you were using, no. you were just using them and so because, but it was more than that. like plus unless you also know it's more conversational I thought exactly why not use it yeah I could totally feel like I was having a conversation with you it wasn't like a real exam and you were so sure we had eye contact These are not part of the criteria, but they really help you reduce your stress levels.

Yes, I felt better just engaging in the chat. Okay, thank you very much, you're welcome. Do you have any questions or problems? No no. I think you basically covered everything, so I really appreciate it. Thanks for your time. Thank you. Alright.