IELTS Speaking Test Band score 3.5 with feedback

ok from here the oral

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starts, this is the international english language

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ing system oral test conducted at ross isles academy, the candidate is shahram rafarpur, candidate number 0143273, the examiner is mehnu shafi, examiner number 443523, good afternoon, my name is mehnu shafi. please tell me your full name good afternoon my full name is and how can I call you how can I call you like your name can I call you shahram yes okay okay very good and can I see your ID please thank you very much great here go well we can start with the first part of the exam in the first part I will ask you some personal questions first I would like to ask about studying what did you study I study English these days uh because I decided uh I decided to immigrate to Canada in the future, okay, and why did you choose English and not another language?

Because English is international and easier than other languages, okay, is it a popular language in your country? My disadvantage in my country, the popular language is English, and then Turkish and Spanish ok very good and if you had the opportunity you would choose another language to learn in the future I learn I will learn I will learn like Spanish because I want to say that I am interested very good perfect now let's move on To talk about flowers, you like flowers, yes, like all people, I like other lovers, okay, and what is your favorite flower, my favorite flowers are frozen rose flowers, why did it rise, because it is very beautiful and is okay, and when was the last time you gave flowers to someone, can you, when was it? the last time you gave someone flowers um I give you I uh I gave you uh I gave you one I gave a flower to my mother on her birthday in Europe in grass later close ok very good now let's talk about food what is your favorite food my food Favorite For example, karma sabzi payment is easy, okay, and have you always liked the same food? and now we can move on to the second part in the second part I am going to give you a topic and I would like you to talk about this topic for two minutes but before

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you will have a minute to think about what I am going to say and you can take notes if you want. you want, do you understand?

Yeah, okay, now I'm giving you your cue card and a piece of paper and a pencil to take notes, so here's your cue card, here's the pen and here go with the paper now you'll have a minute to think. on what you're going to say and start now well, your minute is up and please pass me the cue card. Thank you very much, now you will have two minutes to speak. this topic and it starts now in the last speech work I get up I get up uh earlier than before because I have worked in my company my company and I should I should go to uh I should go to the project projects company and I should call I should call to cause some of the company some of the communications clients company one of one of the companies employees was with me and we are going to going to uh going to companies projects and visits uh, I already visited it, actually, it is needed, I woke up, okay , thank you very much, we are done with this part and your two minutes are over, now we can move on to the third part and please give me your work. and pencil, thank you very much, great, well, we have been talking about the time you woke up early and now I would like to ask you some questions related to this first, let's consider sleeping, what effect would sleeping late have on life?

Yes, I can repeat my question, what effect would a sleeping clearing have on life? Okay, I can ask you. I can ask you the question one more time. What effect do you think sleeping late has? What effect do you think a sleeping sword has on life? I usually sleep. early for example when I sleep I slept two I slept 11 or 11 to 12 o'clock okay that's right so I'm not okay okay and what time do people usually go to bed in your country at what time what time do people usually go to bed in your country another country in your country in my country my people my people in my country my people normally slept at 12 o'clock ok midnight and what time do you go to bed at night as you say as you have been told as you have been told saying? you slept I always slept I always slept from 11 to 12. okay very good now let's talk about getting up early what do you think are the benefits of getting up early?

It's really yes, what do you think are the benefits of getting up early? uh when I uh I think uh when I get up early we get to work um on time and why is that why can you get there on time or earlier when you change your wake up time in the morning why because we have much more than much more than time for um much more than time for the last few days okay, okay and do you think that older people find it easier to get up early than young people? I think that older people all people should all people should get a lot of sleep for two young people, why is that because all people are um are much older, much older and uh and the and they uh and they are uh they are tired and very tired okay thank you very much we are done with your

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test and for now you can relax this is the end and great thank you very much thank you well then let's see what

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you get on each criterion, but before starting I would like to know what you think of your performance, how do you think? did you answer the questions um I think I answered two questions average average okay okay so I start with the first criterion which is your fluency and coherence in general I can say that you are able to answer the questions at some point like in Some questions was a little hard for you to answer or understand what I'm asking you to talk about, but you did a great job.

Thank you so much. First I would like to start with your fluency and coherence, I would say. that in parts one, two and three you were struggling to give me an answer and sometimes you had some hesitations and pauses as if you were stopping to think what word or what grammatical structure you wanted to use, so it wasn't really related to the context, but which was related to language, so that's something that maybe you should work on, because of your doubts because of your self-correction and self-repetition, well, maybe I can mark you, so that's something you should work on and also, you were really trying to use something. connectives like, for example, I could hear it, but because and and also some discourse markers or even some words like, I think, actually, so these are very good words to use, if you can use these simple connectives, you can get a 5 on your fluency, but if you can use a wider range of them, for example too or, in addition, add some more connectives to that, then you can get a 6 in your fluency and coherence.

Now let's talk about your vocabulary, the use of vocabulary or your lexical resource. I can tell that since I was talking about getting up early you tried to use some words related to this topic, but the thing is that you didn't use a very wide range of words related to the topic and you made some mistakes when using them. words and my recommendation for you shahram is to paraphrase more like when I ask you a question, don't copy exactly the same words that I am using, try to use some synonyms, for example, if I say, what time do people usually go to sleep ? your country you can say uh, for example, people in my country sleep at ten o'clock instead of going to bed or they go to sleep, they go to bed, they sleep well, these are the paraphrased form of the words , these are the synonyms, so try to use better to better paraphrase the questions that can really help you improve your

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Now let's talk about your grammatical range and accuracy. As I listened to you in parts one, two and three, you were able to use the simplest structures like short sentences using and or even bought or because to link your sentences, but usually when you tried to make more complex structures you had difficulty and made mistakes with them, so you're fine with simple structures, but uh, I could. I don't really hear conditional sentences or subordinate clauses and maybe you can work on that, then I would say you get another four in your grammar. My suggestion to you is to work a little on making some longer and more complex sentences and reduce your errors.

It is much better to speak without errors. You know some candidates try to use very fancy words and structures to show what they know, but that's totally wrong, like you're okay. You were trying to be natural and use simple words and whatever you were using. You were sure that was a very good thing, but perhaps you could try to improve your score by working more on complex structures. It's good, very good. I could see from your pronunciation that I could totally understand what you were saying. The accent didn't really have a very negative impact on your English pronunciation, but you did have some lapses.

I can tell you had some lapses and some hesitations, like for example you said clients, that's actually a client to give you an example and maybe you could link some. sounds, for example, I don't know if you want to say half an hour, you can say half an hour, link some sounds and give better intonation to your sentences, it was a bit monotonous, right, you can raise and lower your voice. when you talk to me, that's why I can say um sometimes I had a hard time understanding what you're going to say and you had some lapses so I can give you another four on your pronunciation, I would say what you can work on is, first of all, work on your grammar. and then reduce your doubts, your self-correction and your self-repetition.

You were using, you were saying um um all the time, maybe instead you can use some fillers, for example, well, to talk. about that I can say or to be honest I can also add that use some fillers to buy some time, on the other hand try to cover your two minutes by talking about all the points of the cue card like you talked about the first one. one when it happened the time you got up early why you got up who you were with but how you felt about getting up early you didn't really cover that you didn't explain much about it so make sure you cover all the points and then move on to other things related to the topic or deviate from the topic.

You have time, you can work on your English and techniques and next time you come back you will definitely get a better score. Any questions, no thanks. OK, thanks a lot