C1 ADVANCED CAMBRIDGE SPEAKING TEST. Teacher feedback on CAE students' speaking exam. Did they pass?

Hello everyone, thanks for joining me again and welcome to all the new viewers. This gets to the point. English with Ben. I'm Ben and I think you will find this video useful and interesting, especially if you are preparing for C1 Advanced. Cambridge English

exam

, but even if you are not, I hope you find it interesting because I will react as

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say nowadays or just analyze and give

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on the official Cambridge English language assessment video in the oral

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. that

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released, they released it about seven years ago and now it's got over 5.7 million views, so there's a good chance you've already seen this video, um and I think these videos because they released videos on the C2 and B2 domain first. and other Cambridge exams, I think they are really useful because they give

students

who are preparing for the exams a good idea of ​​what will actually happen in the oral essay on exam day, but I think the

feedback

is missing a bit, right, a little bit of professional feedback from a

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because we don't really know how good the performance was or if it was good enough for these

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to

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We would like to know if you

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ed the exam. exam at the end now you can download the examiner's comments, they are attached in the description of the original video, the official video, so I have taken a look at them, but I am going to give my opinion and at the end of the video I am going to say if I believe In my opinion these candidates are Raphael and Maude. If I think they passed the exam, I have to remind them that I am not an examiner, I am not a trained examiner but I am a

teacher

with a lot of experience with Cambridge English exams in general, so I think that my comments will be valid and useful.

One thing we need to keep in mind when looking at this oral

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example is the examiner's marking. criteria, um, so when you're looking at this as I will, you have to take into account the fact that they look at the grammatical resources, the grammar, the candidates use lexical resources, the vocabulary, if they use a wide range of appropriate. Vocabulary and speech management, so how coherent and cohesive and fluency really has a lot to do with fluency, pronunciation and also interactive communication, so those are the five criteria that examiners are looking at when they're grading. Now before we continue I have to mention a couple of things first of all the bonsai tree is here, it's just out of shot, don't worry.

I know people get worried when the bonsai tree can't see the bonsai tree behind me and we leave. to decide on a name very soon and secondly, don't forget that I have my full C1 Advanced Cambridge English exam preparation course C1 Advanced, it is now available so check the description, the link in the description for that if you are interested , okay, so let's go ahead and watch the video together now and I'll stop regularly to give my opinion on the candidates' performance, the good and the bad so that you can learn. of both and I hope you find this useful, let me know in the comments foreign english the most valuable English qualifications in the world that is good to know if you are planning to take one of the Cambridge exams, let's go ahead and look at the first part.

Well, with my comments on this oral

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, the C1 Advanced oral test, good morning, hello, my name is Bridget Harrison and this is my colleague Mary Whiteside, just before we continue. I think it's good to see what you yourselves will see when when you go to this exam because this is a real situation I mean, these are real examiners the two ladies here you have the interlocutor and the evaluator and of course the two candidates this is uh um These are real students now I'm not sure if this is a real exam. I'm not sure if they're just asking for a couple of volunteers. um just for the YouTube video.

I guess that's probably the case because I think that would be a little cruel. ask them to take such a stressful exam and record them for video, but this is what it would look like, so that the interlocutor is the only examiner talking to the candidates, the examiner just takes notes behind um, I often wonder about Raphael and Maude I think they probably asked for some volunteers that morning and they volunteered and they didn't think there would be 5.7 million people watching them, but they're very brave to do that. I think that's okay, so let's go. continue and your names are Raphael fails Ure, can I have your mark sheets?

Please, first of all, we would like to know something about you Raphael, where you are from. I'm from Lucerne, it's a city in Switzerland and it's in the German part so what. What are you doing there? I'm still in school. I don't have two years left. Mode. How long have you been studying English? Well, I think I've been studying English for about six years. Yes. What do you enjoy learning the most? English, it is very useful. I mean talking to foreigners. I have many foreigners who are foreign friends and I really enjoy being able to talk to them.

Okay, so you have to realize that the first part of the oral exam is called the interview. and we often think of it as a kind of icebreaker or warm-up, which is true, but at the same time it is being assessed, so it is just as important as the other parts of the oral essay, so it is important to convey the content to the examiner. um and and that's my first question about these to Rafaela Maude Rafaela's first question where are you from and he said I'm from Lucerne um in Switzerland it's in the German part okay okay I mean I think I could have given a little more content said he's still in school, he's two years away, that's a pretty nice

advanced

phrase or structure, he's two years away, so he didn't say much, but he managed to use a nice phrase and he'd get marks for that and then they asked Maude um how long she had been studying English six years she said you know again you should explain a little she should be explaining expand on her answers don't just give the minimum um in this first part it's an opportunity to make a good first impression, so if you are just giving the minimum, yes, you are not giving much content to the examiners, but then she said, she likes to learn English because, to communicate with foreigners, she has foreign friends, so you used to use the right . structures there and good pronunciation, those words are quite difficult to pronounce, so yeah, not bad, not a great start because I think they could have given more content, but they both showed some good pronunciation and something, like I said with Raphael , two years ago.

Wow, that's a nice little grammatical structure, let's move on to the next questions Sir, do you think you spend too much time working or studying well sometimes maybe because I work hard? I like it and sometimes I think I should rest. Take time to rest. Yeah, why, because well, when I study I stay at home, I don't go out with friends or I like to work in a cafe or something, so it's not a very social activity, yeah, okay, yeah, so, again , it's not enough because the fact that the questioner asked why that suggests that she didn't consider the mords that the questioner didn't consider Mod's first answer to be enough they usually don't have to ask why if you've given them enough content so she wanted more to say more maybe because the first answers were very short and she just wanted more so she said she used good vocabulary she said she is a hard worker she should rest more I think she said about socializing so yeah , it's not a bad answer, but you want to be a little more proactive, a little more, take the initiative to give more answers or elaborate your answer a little more, so yeah, not bad, but I think she could have given more content.

Let's look at Raphael's third question, so it should hit. My friends and it is very important Raphael, do you like using the Internet to keep in touch with people? Yes, sometimes, but to keep in touch with people, I think it's better to see them face to face, not just writing, but something like Facebook, I think it is. useful as a contact book, but not really as an interaction between people, so in this case the interlocutor did not ask why she was satisfied or decided that she thought that was enough, that it was enough content, so yes, I think Raphael gave a more expansive answer, so That's good, that's a good sign and I think yes, it was a good answer.

She said it's better to see each other, to see people face to face. I think she said that she answered the question pretty well and spoke relatively fluently, so yeah, okay again. Neither of them have started in a spectacular way, they haven't really used much vocabulary or

advanced

grammar, but you know, solid performance. The most important recommendation I would give in this part is to simply expand on your initial answer a little. because you want to try to get the perfect length of your answer, but that's very difficult, which is why I always recommend to my students to talk too much instead of too little.

It is always better to talk too much than too little, simply giving one or two words. The answers are it is not enough, it is better. I mean, the perfect or ideal answer would be a perfect length answer that's maybe two or three sentences, but yeah, yeah, it's very hard to judge what a perfect answer is, so talk more than more. That's okay, so that's the first part, pretty simple personal questions, but nothing too stressful or intimidating, although you will be nervous in the exam of course, now the second part is more complicated. This is the image, the part of the exam where, each one.

The candidate has to talk on their own, that's called the long term, they talk on their own about the images and then they have to answer an additional question about their partner's images, which will be explained now, so this is a more complicated part of the oral essay. They only have one minute to do it um and there are certain things that you have to do that the questioner will explain to you now, but I will go into more detail in the test. I'm going to give each of you three images. I would like you to talk about two of them on your own for about a minute and also briefly answer a question about your partner Raphael's photos, first it's your turn here are your photos, they show people doing things together okay just I'm going to take a break.

That's because you might be sitting at home or wherever you are, you might want to try to answer this yourself and then compare your answer with Raphael's answer to give yourself some time, but as the questioner said, in this part you have to compare or choose and compare two of the images, just two of the images and then answer these questions, that's all you have to do, but it's actually quite a bit because you only have a minute and you will notice that in these both questions contain The word "could" now "could" is a word of speculation because you don't know or we don't know exactly what is happening in these images and why people could be doing these things together, we don't know we can.

To be sure, we can't use certainty vocabulary because we don't know, so that's a big part of this exam. You have to speculate about what's happening, why people are doing these things together, why they, how they might feel, it's um. so it's about power, so I use speculation vocabulary. I've made videos about this if you want to see them, but that's very important, so you have to compare two of the images and answer the two questions, so use comparative and speculative vocabulary all in one. minute and then of course Maude will have an additional question okay so let's see how Raphael is doing.

I would like you to compare two of the images and say why people might be doing these things together and how people might feel good about them. um, I think these two guys are just playing music together and these three little girls are baking. I don't know a cake or something and I think they are doing it together because they could be sisters because they look very similar and these two are maybe in a band or a music group and I think they like to play music together and interact together and These three girls just like to have fun here and bake in the kitchen.

I don't think it's a good cake, but yes. just to learn how to cook and it's just an activity for them together and I think both guys might also be preparing for something, maybe a concert or something, but yeah, yeah, thanks Rafael, okay, what did you think of that? What is your comment? My comments are not bad, but not great either, okay, I think again, very good, so he managed to use speculative vocabulary. He said they could be sisters because they look very similar. Again, it's a good structure. They could be sisters. They look very similar.

They said maybe they are in a music group for the other photo. Then you use topic-specific vocabulary, as if you were baking a cake. Not much, not much. Advanced vocabulary to be honest and not a very wide range. Not a wide range. of grammatical structures either and I think he didn't actually compare the images, he was just describing the images um so you can see two guys, two guys playing music um and some girls baking a cake, that's what could have linked those um thosetwo descriptions with a comparative word and that would tell the examiner that you are comparing, so you could say that in the first image we can see two guys playing music together, while in the second image we can see some girls baking a cake and just using it, whereas he's now comparing the images instead of just describing two separate images, so there's a missed opportunity there, um, but yeah, I mean, he speculated, he said, um, both.

The guys are just playing music. You know, just playing music would be better. He said he didn't think it would be a good cake. I think they like playing music together. First of all, playing music in the original form should be enjoyed. the verb, not the infinitive and then the word order, they like to play music together, so there were a couple of mistakes in a sentence. um and he said maybe girls like to have fun, baking in the kitchen, so yeah, he did it, he completed the task. a lack of comparison, a good speculation, a good vocabulary, but you know that in an ideal answer he would have used a wider range of advanced vocabulary and grammatical structures, but it's very difficult to do everything in a minute, so it's not bad. but it's not great, you'll hear me repeat that many times today.

I think that's okay, let's see how Moore responds to his additional question, rather than what situation do you think people benefit the most from being good together and I think each type of situation depends. about the kind of relationship you have with the person um when you're at school maybe in a class it's good to talk to some people sometimes just to think about something else and when you're cooking the same thing you share ideas you learn things when they're playing music, well they learn from each other so it really depends on the situation thank you okay again not bad but not great first of all she started talking about school and class situations which It was totally irrelevant. this question these questions these extra questions are for you to comment on your classmate's photos if you talk about something that is not in the photos then you are not doing the homework because that question is not about school or other situations but about what is in the pictures that your partner talked about, then yes, she started talking about school, she said that every type of situation depends on the relationships you have with the graded person in class, then she realized, I think she realized that I should talk about the photos and she said um so for cooking it's good to learn and in the kitchen I think she said and then uh playing music is also for learning so again there's not a lot of advanced vocabulary and yeah, no, great advice here is no. talk about anything that's not in the pictures because that's irrelevant, that doesn't do the task okay but let's move on to the mod pictures now, so long term mods now Maude, here are your pictures showing the students doing different activities.

So, again, you might want to. spend a minute thinking or doing the homework yourself before looking at Maude, yes, again, you see the word power in this sentence and how students can benefit so it's still about speculating when answering these questions. I guess The first question is less speculative, it's more about how you think students can benefit from doing these different activities, but you still can't be sure what exactly the right activities are, but some of these activities aren't very clear. , but if. Let's listen to the modifications. I would like you to compare two of the activities and say how students can benefit from doing these activities and how useful the activities could be in preparing them for their future lives.

Okay, let me see. I would like to talk about these two images. Well, in these two images we can see two students who are doing different things. I think she is studying very well. While she was studying, it's a pity that she gained knowledge and prepared for an exam, maybe something. so it helps you prepare and maybe you will pass the exam if you worked hard and this student is giving a presentation and it helps you develop a kind of ease in talking to other people so if you want to be well Maybe in the entertainment field it will be very useful for her to be able to talk to people.

Thank you. What do you think? Yes, this is an advanced C1 exam and there were some very basic mistakes, not great, you shouldn't make them. kind of mistakes at that level um I'm going to give it more of the benefit of the doubt I'm going to suggest that maybe she's very nervous and maybe this is at the beginning of her preparation for the exam so maybe she would do better on the actual exam, I don't know, but he made some basic mistakes and didn't really do them. I mean, she talked about the two images, but I couldn't hear much of a comparison.

She said: I think a lot, but no. Not much speculation either, but really the biggest problem with this answer was the basic mistakes she made, for example, first of all, first of all, she said: Like I would like to talk about these two images, of course it should be. I'd like to do it. talk about these two photos but anyway I don't recommend that you do that I don't think you need to specify or point out which photos you are going to talk about because you are wasting precious seconds there you only have 60 seconds To complete this task, if you spend five or ten seconds To tell the interlocutor what images you are going to talk about, you are wasting time because it must be clear and obvious when you start answering the question, depending on the vocabulary you use, what images you will use.

We are talking about it, it should be clear, then she said: I think she is studying and while she was studying she acquired knowledge. So, of course, she this is the third person singular. You need the S. She acquires knowledge. She now she had just made that mistake. Once she wouldn't be like that. Too bad, but he repeated the same mistake three times, so this is not just a slip, it's a real mistake because then he said he prepared himself and then he said if he worked hard, three times he made the same mistake, and you know, that is. you're going to lose your points um grammatical device there that's grammar that's the grammatical device Criterion um and then she said it's going to help you it's going to help you so it's almost the opposite she was adding an S here when she didn't need an S she didn't she needed to use an S, it will help her of course, so yes the grammar device is very bad in that part of the exam, but remember that this is only one part of the four parts of the oral exam, so you have many more chances to make. he makes amends and redeems himself, um, so yeah, I mean, he talked about the entertainment field, he said the student is giving a presentation to get some grades, it wouldn't be a complete disaster, but yeah, there's a lot of room for improvement there , so apart from the basic errors like I said I should have been comparing more speculating more and giving more content I think in general but let's see how Raphael responds to your extra question Raphael which of these activities do you think is most useful I think there is one where They built a I think it's a tent or something like that because it helps with teamwork and I think that's the most important thing for future life because when they are in the office or just at work they have to be prepared to work in the team and ask the artists about their opinion and work together with them thank you, okay, not a bad answer, he talked about teamwork again, he made a grammatical mistake at the end at the beginning, he said, I in this one, they build a tent or something like that. i just said where they built a tent or something that would be grammatically correct but it's not really the proper form oh he said where they built a tent um the present simple is not the best form uh the best tense here should be where they are building a tent or where they have built a tent, but in the picture you can see that it would be the present continuous, so it was a mistake, but then he said that it would help for teamwork, you know, when you work in a office. you have to work as a team to be able to prepare them for that, so yeah, that's not a bad answer, a good short answer, you don't need to give a long answer, just 20 seconds for this 20 or 30 second answer, not too long.

Well, yeah, again, the second part is not very good, it could be worse, it could be better, so let's move on to the third part now, which is the first time it's called a collaborative task and it's the first time that the candidates They talk to each other, so they have to do this. task for together, as the interlocutor will now explain. I'd like you to talk about something together for about two minutes. Here are some things that people often have to make decisions about and a question for you to discuss first. They have some time to analyze. on the task is fine, so they will have about 15 seconds to look at the task before they have to start.

I'm going to pause here because this is a part three task it always looks the same, you will always have a spider diagram with a question in the middle and then five prompts, always five prompts around the outside that you can use for what you need to do. use to help you answer the question. You can't talk about anything else, you just have to talk about the prompts which I don't have to talk about all the prompts, but I recommend my students talk about at least three of the prompts, three or four would be great, five, yeah, fantastic. , but not one or two, if you only talk about one or two of them. directions, then you're in danger of just repeating yourself or repeating each other or just not really giving yourself the opportunity to use a lot of different vocabulary if you move forward quite quickly or keep going, yes, you move forward quite quickly, then you're going to give, you'll have more vocabulary to use and more things to say, just more content to give the examiner, so keep that in mind and move on, but let's see how Maude and Raphael do this task.

Now talk to each other about what people may have to consider when making these decisions, okay, so let's talk about choosing a college first. I think people have to think first, students have to think about what they like. Yes, of course, when they want to study at a university. Yes, and the students. and parents have to think about money because in some countries universities are very expensive like in England here and I think you also have to choose the right university for um, where you can study the subject that you really want and also that the university with the subject is the best university of all the universities with the subject like the best results in an exam or something like that and what if we start a family um again um there is a financial criterion to consider I think um and well when If you start a family, you need talk maybe about children, yes, you also have to think about hope, are you ready, yes, and if you have enough money and where to settle, and yes, think about jobs, maybe because I think that's now.

Well, while the parents, I mean, both parents are working, so you have to take that into account and, moving to another country, I think language is very important and also there are some restrictions on languages, like if you want to move . to Australia you need to pass the IELTS test thanks, okay, now again, what do you think of your own comments? What comments would you give for this part of the exam? Maybe thinking about the criteria that examiners look at and the grammar. resource Mexico resource speech management pronunciation and interactive communication um now, of course, as I said, this is the first time that the first part of the exam where the examiner and the candidates can interact is a collaborative task, so Maude started , I think they must He agreed on that beforehand because Raphael was just looking for more to start with, so he talked about choosing the University to think when people need to think about what they like, they think about money because in some countries universities They are and then it was corrected to say ah. more expensive or are quite expensive is well that's a good point if you make a mistake and you realize it right away then correct yourself immediately and that mistake the advisor that lady here won't um notice the mistake no It will be, it won't be.

She considered it, but if you realize like five or ten seconds or a minute later, it's too late, you have to ignore it, and then Raphael reacted, he responded by saying that you should choose the right university for the subject you will want, then you will do it. you want to study you want to study it would be better and more to say the best results yes um and then Maude went on to start a family so she started talking about a different topic and then she talked about financial criteria Raphael said you have to think about whether you are ready now I think what did she mean are you ready um and then uh more reacted they said yes kids about where to settle down so settle settle is a very nice verb it's a pretty advanced verb and then she talked about jobs and then she went on to move to another country language is very important um so I think Maude did pretty well she kept going every time so in the end she talked about three different topics.

Raphael was very passive. I don't think so. "He wasn't very communicative, he wasn't very proactive, he let others do a lot of talking."more, um, it's a collaborative task, so the two candidates have to invite each other to speak and react and respond to what the other person says, um and I." I don't understand much of that, I think you know, I think It was very unbalanced. I think tied up was dominated. No, I don't think she was particularly dominant. I think Raphael didn't really show much interest in participating, he was quite passive, so I also felt that they lacked urgency.

I mean, Maude took a long time to start. You only have two minutes and you want to. I really use this time to demonstrate your level to use all that vocabulary and grammar and give it content for the evaluator to grade. They repeat without urgency or enthusiasm and yes, a. bit lackluster. I think that's the best word here, lackluster, so yeah, especially Raphael. I think Maude used good vocabulary, she was more proactive, but it was a little unbalanced, like I said, I didn't feel like it was a real interaction, for that matter. so to speak, so yeah, a missed opportunity, especially for Raphael mode, they did well for most of them, so now they will do it.

I have one more question in the third part, there is another question where we have a minute to answer this additional question which is always about deciding or choosing one of the options or two of the options, but it is about negotiating towards a decision that does not they have to take Okay, there's no obligation to agree, but you have to try to make a decision together again. The interlocutor will explain. Now you have about a minute to decide in which situation it is most important to make the right decision. Well, I think the most important thing is to get married because When two people find the app, meet and think about getting married, they should really think about it because it is an important decision.

I agree with you, aware that getting married is signing a contract with Cancer and here those people are together for their entire lives. so they need to think about it before getting married. I think this is also related to starting a family because maybe I think it's another country, well, yes, everything, realizing, yes, okay, so, yes, yes, and also when you are and you get married. I think it's better to get married first before starting a family because then you're like, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, uh, legal partner or something, okay, well, I guess the first thing I have to say about what you have.

What I noticed is that they finished too early and that's one of the worst things that can happen in these

speaking

parts, especially in the timed

speaking

parts because they had a minute to talk. I think they stopped after about 40 seconds and you know the caller is gone. They're going to have to give you a minute because that's fair, you know people are taking this test all over the world and it should be fair, they should have the same amount of time, so if you finish early, first of all, have that silence. uncomfortable and embarrassing in which you know and the interlocutor is not going to say anything because it is your time it is your time to do to use it is your opportunity so it is uncomfortable and uncomfortable but the most important thing is that you are not taking advantage of the time and it is going to It can be very difficult to start again when you stopped when you think it's okay, if you look at the speaker you realize that you have to say more, so you have to concentrate again and it's very difficult, so I highly recommend you.

I recommend that you keep talking until the interlocutor interrupts you, and unless you have a clock in your head and can finish in exactly one minute, you will have to try to stay in the zone and concentrate on what you are saying. and don't worry about time forget about time just answer the question include your partner interact with your partner but don't worry about time until the interlocutor interrupts you because you really don't want that to happen, that's one of the worst things that can happen so it's good that you see it here that you can learn from their mistakes um you don't have to make the mistakes yourself um but other than that um obviously I think they had decided that Raphael would start this question so Maude started the last question Raphael started this question uh decided to choose to get married the most important thing is to get married and only two people when two people meet um uh Maude egregated I agree with you you have to sign a contract for everything in their lives so for their whole life or for all their lives no not quite right there um but then Raphael said yeah that's related to starting a family and he was going to say something else but it interrupted him more which um you don't want to interrupt each other unless if your partner talks too much yeah is dominating, he or she is dominating you and you feel like you haven't said enough, so you should be prepared to interrupt, in this case I think you should have done more.

I let Raphael talk a little bit more because he was just going to say something and she interrupted him saying to move to another country and then they kind of stopped talking and then they had to start again because the minute wasn't over again, it's not evil. other than that, other than that, but again, I don't feel like they were constructing complete grammatical sentences just saying things here and there, not very coherent or cohesive words, not very fluid either, so um it could have been better, I think in En This second part, in general, Maude did better than Raphael.

I think she took the opportunity. Raphael didn't really give much content for the examiners to grade, so yes, again, it could have been worse, but it could have been a lot. better, no matter what happens in the first three parts of the exam, they and you can always keep in mind that you have the discussion, the fourth part is the discussion part of the exam and this is really an opportunity to demonstrate your level because With luckily, you are simply going to have a nice conversation with your partner about the questions that the interlocutor asks you on the same topic as in the third part, so you just continue the conversation, but without time restrictions, there is no strict time limit , um and the interlocutor will continue to ask you questions until the end of the exam, so it's usually about four minutes, but like I said, it's not a strict time, so yeah, we'll see, we'll see how well I'll say something before we look.

I recommend My students say that they talk about one, two or three questions. I mean, it depends on how the conversations go, but if you talk, if the interlocutor needs to ask you more than three questions in four minutes, that suggests that you're not actually one. by giving them they're not having a nice interaction, a nice discussion about the topic, so if they just talk for four minutes about the first question, but they're not repeating themselves or each other and they're giving new content and it's a very nice conversation. and fluid it's okay if you talk about two questions it's okay three it's okay anything more than that I really don't think you're having an argument I think it's just that the interaction is too short and they shouldn't be monologues either it should be an interaction that's the key, you should interact with your partner, so let's see how Maude and Raphael get along with Raphael, is it for people to make decisions for themselves or ask others for advice?

Yes, I think it's always important to consider others. opinion because they have a different view on the topic of the question and that is why I think it is always important to ask as many people as possible and consider the different points. Do you agree? Is it okay in some ways? Yes, I think some people should weigh in. their own decision when the advice given to them by older people is not very strong, so yes, um mod, some people think it is better to plan their lives carefully, others prefer to make spontaneous decisions, what is your opinion, well it depends of the individuals and of me.

I think planning your life is very important. In my opinion, playing studies and vacations is very important because when you study you don't have much time to go on vacation, so if you book a vacation or something like that. That's what you need to think about first, do you agree? Rafael, yes, I agree, but I think it's also important that we don't plan everything because when we don't read it at the end, maybe we'll be depressed, so it's always lonely. The most important thing we should plan for is why do you think some people find it harder to make decisions than others?

I think some people are not very used to making their own decisions, like when you are very pushy, parents see you, you don't really understand to make your own decision and maybe some people are afraid of the next thing, yes, he had the others opinions or and it's also, it's like, I think it's like if you, or are very good at making decisions, then you should also be like a leader of a group or something, but when you don't, I think it's better when you just listen to someone else, yes, you hear someone's voice, yes, how do you think young people can be helped to take responsibility?

I think it's important. They teach them this at school and also from parents, yes, very important, I think parents play a very important role because they are like an example for their children and yes, they should teach them the good way to live while making a decision and how thinking beforehand about how to make a decision, yes, I think, and you can also start at a young age, giving them little tasks to do and then they have the responsibility to do the task and learn what it means, yes. or often ask them questions like what do you want, what do you think, so that they can talk and share their ideas and give their opinion on things and develop these kinds of skills, yes, skin, so outside of work they will receive tasks from their boss and then they also know and they know what it means to do homework and yeah, yeah, and they encourage them to do their homework or things like that when they're really little, thank you, that's the end of the test, okay, so that's the end of the test so yeah when you finish the discussion part that's the end then you can go home or go have a drink or whatever you want to do so yeah that was the discussion what did you think ?

What is your opinion? I think, like I said, the discussion part is a real opportunity to demonstrate your influence, your last opportunity to demonstrate your wide range of vocabulary or your excellent grammar, your speech management, all the pronunciation, everything, um and I think, curiously, I think um. He really improved as the exam progressed. I think she started off pretty bad, but I think the third and fourth parts were the strongest parts and it was almost the opposite. For Raphael, I think it got worse. I think she started off pretty well and got it. worse as the exam progressed so I think more in the last part he did better, he used more vocabulary, a wider range of vocabulary, things like pushy parents, parents play an important role, it depends on individual planning for which life is important. studies and vacations to develop skills um then people should make their own decisions um again, not spectacular, but at least some nice vocabulary, some good vocabulary, she also made a couple of mistakes, for example, she said that the tips They're not very solid, so first of all.

It would be that the advice is um it's uncountable so the advice is um and then very strong you don't talk about strong advice um very good you could just say or very appropriate whatever and also said that some people are not used to making decisions Some people are not used to making decisions, so they made a couple of grammatical errors, but as I said, although she was not particularly enthusiastic and spoke fluently, she demonstrated a relatively good level of English, so not bad, Raphael, again a bit. mediocre, he said it's always important to consider other opinions, it should be another opinion or other opinions, uh, or other opinions, whatever, it depends on what you wanted to say, but to get a different view on the topic, it was okay, one different view of the subject it is important that we do not plan everything because when we do not achieve it we can become depressed he said when we do not achieve it um when we do not achieve it I think he was referring to when we do not achieve something that we planned he said that some people are afraid uh he said uh some people are good at making decisions again that's a grammatical mistake or a vocabulary mistake with the preposition and I should be good at making decisions you no you're not good at doing something but actually the biggest mistake I'm sure it's possible that have you heard Rafael make and again, you shouldn't make these mistakes at an advanced level, he says, he said, it's important that they be taught in school, teach, no, I'm sure you know that and I.

I'm sure Raphael knew it at the time and he definitely knows it now, seven years later, he probably has nightmares about this thinking that 5.7 million people have seen him make this mistake, of course the simple past tense of teaching is taught like that at school, um, so yeah too. many errors and not enough fluency is not very good. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt as I said that maybe this is early in their preparation process. I'm sure they were very nervous. I mean, most people get nervous in exams. but with the cameras filming them it's probably even worse, so it often happens thatWe make these basic, silly mistakes when we're on a test because we're not really concentrating, but it's not very difficult to think.

Clearly, when you have so many things to think about, so yeah, that's the end of the exam, so the big question is whether or not they passed well in my opinion. I think Maud approved. This is my opinion before talking about what the examiner says. The comments were the examiner's grades, um, but not by much. I think she's pretty borderline, um. I think she got better, like I said, as the exam went on. I think maybe she started to relax, but she was very shy, she seems to speak very softly. I couldn't understand some of the things she said.

She didn't actually make complete grammatical sentences, but she did use good vocabulary. She gave more content to the examiners and some good grammatical structures. I could have done a lot more to improve Mark, um, and yes, I would have liked to see more advanced vocabulary in general, but she was fine interacting, like I said, the interactive tasks They were his strongest tasks, so yes, I think he would do it. I have passed Raphael I think in my opinion he may not have passed I think he didn't just didn't show enough to pass an advanced level Not enough Advanced vocabulary Grammar too many very basic errors He wasn't very communicative with the interaction especially as the course progressed exam um and yeah, I mean an example in that last discussion that used the word important three or four times important important important is such an easy word that it has so many synonyms that you can use cinnamon so if he is a synonym then if there was used um uh The crucial, essential, vital, critical or of utmost importance instead of just repeating important all the time, that's something you should keep in mind for your exam, um, so yeah, I professional, I don't think Raphael passed having said that the official examiners of the examiner Marx um, the overall score for Raphael was three, three out of five, remember that each criterion is rated out of five, in fact, Raphael scored three for each criterion, each criterion, I should say, like this that you have three for a grammatical resource three for a lexical resource uh three for pronunciation three for discourse management and three for interactive communication now three we still don't know if he passed or not because three uh you need sixty percent to pass and three out of five depending on whether you didn't I don't know if the examiners would have to go into more detail, but like I said, I don't think they would.

Maud on the official examiner's comments. The qualifications of the official examiner. He got four out of five. I think he got a three in grammar. resource and four for the other criteria, so yes, he passed again, I think for the minimum, I think they had many or many opportunities to impress the examiners more, but yes, I think it was a particularly stressful situation for them, so I'm sure if they had a few more weeks to prepare or maybe months, they could have improved in all areas and passed with a better score, so there's that. Yeah, what did you think?

Do you think they passed? Would you expect to do? better in the exam yourself if anyone knows for sure if anyone knows Raphael or Maude or if Rafael or Maude are watching this video. I would love for you to contact me because I would love to interview you to see what your experience with the exam is like and what you are doing now and how the exam helped you or not um anyway that's the end of this. I'm going to do it. I'm planning to do this for the C2 proficiency 2 and maybe the B2 first, so stay tuned. so and see you soon for another video