IELTS Speaking Band 9.0 - Advanced Answers

Let's start by talking about your daily routine Tell me about your daily routine Okay, I wake up around 8 am. uh every morning is like clockwork and I brush my teeth, I wash my face, I have breakfast, um and then I get in my car and I drive. to work and uh yeah, that's basically it. I come home and make myself some dinner and watch Netflix. Very average and mundane. How has your daily routine changed since you were a child? Not much, except that now I'm going to work instead of going to school, um, but. I have a lot of free time on the weekends, so I can do the things I like, like meditate and write.

I love journaling. I would love to publish some novels one day. I always thought I would retire. the countryside in my old age with my animals and writing books so yes, writing yoga, what else do I do on the weekends? Oh, I also want to try horseback riding. Is your daily routine different during the weekend compared to the week? Yes, 100%. So weekdays are for working mainly to be productive, pay bills and on weekends I can do whatever I want so I treasure and enjoy my weekends. Let's talk now about dreams. Do you dream a lot at night?

I dream sometimes, but not much. Often and when I dream I don't usually remember my dreams. Do you think we can learn something from dreams? I think so. I think there are a lot of repressed emotions and stress that arise during our dreams. Maybe we haven't. addressed in real life, so yes, I think we can learn a lot and I guess some people can even predict the future through dreams or images they see. I'm a little hesitant about that, I don't know, but it seems. Credible Now let's talk about email. What kind of emails do you receive about your work?

I get a lot of emails from my hups, so my manager, people from other departments also often follow up on things or schedule meetings, just a lot of work that needs to be done and reminders to do this work. Do you normally respond to emails as soon as you receive them? Oh no, um, I don't because I feel like there's no point in responding if the work hasn't been done, so let's go. Let's say we're supposed to schedule a meeting and something needs to be done. I would rather do that and then respond by saying okay, here it is, here's the file that you requested and that you requested and um yeah, instead of you know, kind of a random greeting, well received, thank you, are you happy to receive emails that advertise things?

No I don't think anyone would be unless it's for a brand that I follow or like unless they have an offer um in that case I would be more than happy to receive your emails now let's talk about exercise how often do you do exercise? Not as often as I would like. I find the gym quite tedious and boring. I prefer to do classes, but later. getting to class and sitting in traffic on the way back, so I'd love to work out a little more often and I tend to prefer slower exercises like yoga or swimming, something where I don't really have to break a sweat, which is not So. very realistic, but yeah, what do you think is the best exercise to stay fit?

I have tried Pilates. I think it's really good for toning the body and muscles and you see a big difference. You may not burn as many calories, but I see a big difference in your figure, so the types of exercise people like to do have changed since you were a child. I would say not really the types of exercises that people do. I would say they just don't exercise as much, maybe it doesn't exist anymore. from cycling and tennis to dancing on Tik Tok. I think that would be the main difference if I'm really honest. Describe a time when you enjoyed visiting family or friends.

I returned to Taiwan last month and stayed for about 3 weeks. I was visiting friends and family, but I don't really have much family in Taiwan, just my mom, so I realized that in life, when you don't have much family, the universe brings you friends and it might sound a little cliché, but friends really are the family that you know you have chosen, so now I moved away from Taiwan, but when I was there, I think I made many, very good lifelong friends who I go back and visit periodically. I visited Shirley. I've been friends with her since I was 15, so it's about 15 years now, so you can guess my age. um Tiffany, I've known her since she was 18 um still Eva, so I visited these particular friends.

Not to sound boring, we just hung out and talked a lot, caught up on life, what's been going on, who you're dating, you know, you're happy, so there was a lot of that over wine or tea and, um, too. I went and visited. The man's new restaurant and it has done very, very well. I'm very happy because we went and visited Jackie and found out that she was actually back in Taiwan for her wedding too, so she went to her wedding and she had a little time. Too much whiskey, but that's okay, we won't repeat that experience.

It was fun overall. It was fun. It was lovely to see Tiffany and Eva because they both had babies in the last year or two. and it was lovely to see them, yes, so we have been talking about the people you visited and we are going to continue talking about family, when do families celebrate together in your country? To thank you for watching this video that I want to give you. a free course that has helped thousands of students improve their I Speaking score. What it will do is guide you through each part of the exam and give you strategies for part one, part two and part three, and it will also allow you to practice at home for free and get feedback to register for free, all you have to do is simply Click the link in the description.

Thank you very much and let's get back to the video. Chinese New Year, which is a big deal, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also a Big One, any celebration really is an excuse for the family to get together, which can sometimes be a little stressful because we all know what We feel for our families, we love them, but it's a kind of love-hate relationship that sometimes they can accept. but hey, why is it that some people don't like attending family gatherings? I think because you know that relatives especially get it into their heads that their family and that's why they think they can ask any question, you know when you are going to get married, that is an important One, when are you going to have a baby while losing time?

That can be a little stressful because the point is you know you're on vacation because now to see my family I have to go on vacation and come back to my country, seeing them is relaxing, not stressing, so I think a lot of people have the same experience now, let's talk about daily life in families. Do you think it is good for parents to help their children with their homework? Yes I think it's a very good thing. I think it is important to have your mom or dad present during your childhood. It's very good for mental health, so you don't need to see a therapist when you grow up.

How important do you think it is to you? families to have dinner together oh very very very important it's important to feel that connection because they could be people who live in the same house if they don't communicate regularly they interact regularly what's the point of having a family what's the point of them knowing their So If they are not going to be parents, do you think everyone in a family should share the tasks? Yes I think so. I think that's very important. However, let's say that if dad is away working most of the week, then maybe he won't do it.

I don't need to do so many tasks. I know that may sound a little sexist, but it's really about um um, what's the word? Distribute work evenly. Now I'm going to give you some feedback on your performance, so let's break down the feedback. in part one, part two and part three, and then I'll give you some

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It was like talking to a colleague, talking to a friend, you didn't really have to think much about the

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, you didn't really have to think about the language you were using, it was all very, very natural, which I don't think. This is going to be a big problem for you, but sometimes, under pressure on test day, some students do this and you do it a little, that is, you list too many things if you did it with too many

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that you are indicating. The Examiner I don't really know how to construct a sentence exactly, so it's much better to pick one or two things and delve into them rather than expand on them, so expanding on them is just so you know what your favorite food is.

I like pizza. I like hamburgers I like sushi I like Thai I like it's better to choose one of those I like taii because and explain why that allows you to show your grammar show your vocabulary because your grammar and vocabulary are amazing we want to show you that to the examiner, I don't think it's going to be a problem for you, but like I said, some people when they practice they do incredibly well and then as soon as you call it, I call it test mode as soon as they get it. going to the exam they start doing these weird little things that are a little bit defensive um for someone like you we don't want you to be defensive we want to show how good you are part two you didn't have any problem talking about it You could have talked about it for many more minutes than two minutes, um, and I have no comments on that, it's just that the third part was really, really good.

You probably developed your answers enough, but you could have developed them a little more. Possibly you have shown the other side of things. You talked about everything from a personal point of view, which is good because you are very fluid when you do it, just remember that the third part is a discussion of ideas, so it is good to think things through. I really think this, but I can see why other people would think this way. So, for example, do you think it's a good idea for parents to help children with their schoolwork? That's pretty obvious, yes, it's a good thing, but it could be. say something like however, I understand that some moms and dads are very busy and don't have time to do that.

I don't agree with that, but I can understand why some people may not enjoy attending family events. gave a very direct answer that was very, very good, but maybe you could have, that's what I feel, but maybe there's another reason why people, um, you don't need to list it, you know five different reasons, but maybe You might say it, but some people might not have done it. these problems maybe yes, yes or something like that or something like that pronunciation you would get a

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nine, which is the best band because your pronunciation is perfect, not just accent, so a lot of people who watch this video will hear you and think, oh.

She has a beautiful British accent and that's something people can strive for, but they don't need a particular type of British accent to do well. You could have a Taiwanese accent, an Indian accent, a Vietnamese accent and still get a band nine, what's more. about the clarity of your accent rather than the kind of accent you have now, you have one of those accents that is very admired by people on our channel, so people will be very impressed with that, but people watching shouldn't think that I need sign. more British um because it's not a British PR test, it's an English test.

Clarity, I understood 100% of what you were saying and then you also have very high level pronunciation features, like intonation, so you sample. meaning and humor and things like that through intonation you also show that through um emphasis in the sentence, so the emphasis in the sentence is like this is my phone, this is not your phone, so you emphasize certain words to show the meaning your connected speech is great so if someone is learning they could say you want to go to the cafeteria so everything is perfectly clear but how would you say it you want to go to the cafeteria you want to go so signs like a continuous a sign or word like that band nine for coherence and fluency of pronunciation are in the same band and you get whichever is lower, so if your coherence is band eight and your fluency is band nine, you get a band eight and vice versa, your Fluency is perfect if you listen to someone who is learning.

Their fluency in English is affected because they are trying to look for the right word or the right phrase or should they use the past simple or the present perfect. You don't have any problem withthat and you have no problem with ideas and information. Simply effortless, your coherence is: did you answer the question and develop it enough? But we have to be careful with that if you took the real test because like I said, your fluency might be perfect but you're not developing. his answers are enough, which could sink him. I don't think it does, but we must be very careful with grammar.

I didn't hear a single grammatical error, so the examiner will be thinking about accuracy, whether he made any errors, and the range. she has enough tense enough grammatical structures to talk about the things she wants to talk about, so, for example, I asked you how the exercise changes since you were a child and requires you to use the past simple, present perfect, things like that, you didn't have no problem with that. so b nine for grammar b nine for vocabulary also because you used amazing idiomatic vocabulary like this, a native English speaker will use idiomatic phrases which are phrases that students don't really know how to use, you only know how to use them if you grew up in a

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country English or you reached a very high level of vocabulary in English, it is very precise and exact and you have a wide variety of vocabulary, you can talk about any topic that may come your way, so all over the world. board thank you which is extremely rare uh less than 1% of people join the upline oh wow okay thank you very much I'll work on my coherence that's true I tend to think out loud so maybe I'm not coherent in that sense because I'm basically listing in my head yes yes well thank you very much, thank you