IELTS Speaking test band score 9 with feedback 2022

Well, I think we can start. This is the oral

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of the international English language

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ing system that will take place on February 11. The center number ddc125 and the candidate is Harvey. The candidate number is zero one, three, one, three, four, five, eight, the examiner is Samson. examiner number four four three five three three good afternoon my name is samson could you please tell me your full name sure my name is marine shafi wonderful can I see your identification please sir thank you welcome wonderful thank you very much ok in the first part of the exam I will make you some personal questions let's talk about your free time when and how much free time do you usually have in the week uh well, actually I have a pretty hectic schedule during the week and I'm almost working 24/7 from nine in the morning until ungodly hours in the morning night because I have a full time job with a very heavy workload that I have to manage so to answer your question I can say that I don't really have much free time during the week. these days right and who do you usually spend your free time with if I have the opportunity to have some free time for me I prefer to spend it with my family since on other occasions or the other days we really don't have much time and we are very busy with our schedule barbecues, so when we have this opportunity we have to take advantage of it to be together and if I want to tell you about the activities we do when we are together, I can say that we just sit and watch our favorite drama series in the evenings that is called that's us and we have some joint snacks to enjoy this wonderful quality time together and what are some activities you enjoy in your free time?

Just go over them briefly, as I mentioned before, I have a I have a very very busy schedule and I don't have a lot of free time for myself so sometimes I prefer to sit down and relax because sometimes I feel exhausted and yes, I need some, I need some sleep and have free time just for um. maybe be with my family and that is also something else I would like to do in my free time. We can talk to each other about the plans we have for the future just to know, it really helps me figure out what I want to do. my life and motivates me and encourages me to keep trying as I am, yes, these are the things I normally do in my free time.

Wonderful and what do you like about these activities in total? I really enjoy spending time with my family, especially my mother and sister because it really gives me more energy after finishing my work or my studies, so it really helps me emotionally and I need to go out with my friends on the weekends, especially because I usually We go hiking and it's a very good opportunity to be away from the frenetic pace of Tehran and I can just look at the snowy peaks of the mountains and enjoy the fresh air, so these are the things that I really love about the activities.

I do these activities in my free time, okay, let's talk about animals, do you like animals? It depends on what kind of animal we are talking about, but I can say that I like farm animals because I meet them from time to time. when I go to the countryside for a walk and I can tell that the lighting is an extraordinary time of year and I enjoy looking at the lamps breastfeeding their mother, I think, mothers, I think it's adorable and I think it's the reason why sometimes I go to my uncle's farm in the northern part of Iran just to see these animals and enjoy nature and what kind of animal would you like to have as a pet, I would say I would like to have. dog as a pet, but to be honest, I used to be afraid of dogs until I saw Coco, who was actually my students' pet and Coco's change made a big change in me and made me consider taking a puppy. an animal shelter he had.

I haven't finished it yet, but I have plans and I would say that dogs make good pet animals because they are compatible, they can be house trained and they obey commands, which I love, oh, that's wonderful, okay, thank you very much, you are welcome. now in the second part I will give you a card with a topic and you will talk about this topic for two minutes you have one minute to think about what you are going to say and you can take some notes to help you if you want I understand, okay, so I want you to describe a interesting animal that you have seen, here is a piece of paper, thank you, the pencil, and here is your topic, okay, okay, then you have a minute to take notes.

Please go ahead, thank you, okay, that's the minute you have left. Now you have two minutes to talk, you can move on. Well, so you asked me to talk about an interesting animal that I've seen to be honest. In my country we usually see cats, but we rarely see dogs roaming the streets, which is not really the case. people's favorite, but I mean other countries like Canada, um uh, people have the opportunity to see other animals like skunks or even bears every day, so what I want to say is that if I had the chance to live In a country like Canada, I could name several animals right now to answer your question, however, I remember going to a zoo in Africa with my sister in 2018, where I saw an African wild cat that actually looked like a tabby cat. enormous. but it had a thicker tail with a very blonde tip with some black stripes.

I can say that it looked nothing like the other wildcats I had seen on TV before and from what I heard these wildcats are quite shy and have been on the verge of extinction for a while which is sad. and what happened that day was that they allowed us to feed the wild cats so I tried to do it but the cat approached me like it wanted to attack me and I was terrified so my sister told me that I should have been more careful because these animals that are these cats Wild animals cannot be domesticated under any circumstances, so in my opinion, it was a really interesting animal because it was different and I had never seen anything like it before, so I can say that is the reason why I can simply explain about this animal, it was something extraordinary for me and to talk more about that I can say that uh, thank you very much, okay, the two minutes are up, okay, I can get your papers back now, thank you very much, okay.

In the second part you talked about an interesting animal that you saw now in this part I want to ask you some questions related to this topic now how can animals cause problems to humans? To answer this question, I can say that they can only represent one problem. when they pose a threat to our safety or when they stalk the animals we hear, what I mean is that maybe some types of wild animals can bite us and that can cause some injuries and infections that in some cases are considered irreparable. damage to our health and on the other hand, in my opinion, maybe they can cause emotional problems like when we have a pet and they die for some reasons that can contribute to something, very deep pain and sadness, I would say.

Yes, that's a problem, right? And what kind of animals do people keep as pets in your country? Overall, I don't have much information to answer that question because I'm not an animal lover and I don't know many people who have them. pets, but from what I have heard, many Iranians have some birds like parrots and parakeets. I can say that they are allowed to fly freely inside the apartment, but their owners just make sure to keep all the doors and windows closed or they can escape and On the other hand, in recent years Iranians have shown some interest in taking care of some stray puppies , which I consider a really nice and wonderful job.

Do you think animals will continue to be important in the future? What I predict is that yes, they will have absolutely the same meaning in the future or even more because they are actually essential for maintaining a balanced ecosystem and for livestock production, which is what influences water, air or soil and , as I mentioned earlier, due to the reason that many people not only in Iran but also in other countries have shown interest in taking care of puppies or pets in general and have been supporting animal rights. Yes, in the future we can have even more of these animals or we can. bring some of them back with another cloning technology perhaps and how do you think we can prevent the animals from going extinct?

Those that are critically endangered today. I think it is something that both the government and the people have to do. First of all, the government has to take some measures to take care of some animals or set some rules to prohibit some acts that may harm animals or their lives and on the other hand, we have to simply improve our own culture, such as culture what we have. we have each other and not harm the animals or um I'm not just talking about harming the animal if we just teach ourselves to take care of the animals or we just don't do anything to them that also works, we don't need to just do something to improve the situation.

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sheet music and then we can see the other situation so all I can say from the The beginning is wow, thank you very much.

It was brilliant, that wow had a lot of meaning actually because you know we're clearly looking at a nine here because you have so much control not only of the English language but of everything. The structures and all the techniques that are required for the IELTS

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test, so let's go through them one by one and you can listen to me here. I mean fluidity and coherence. We'll see them first. I mean your linking words. They were wonderful. everyone was in the right places as we looked to answer the way you answered the questions by referring to the questions, even if you didn't know what the questions were, you made some reference to the question, gave the answer and then continued with your topic off topic, particularly with the discussion side of things, which is absolutely fine, as long as there is a reference towards the actual answer, then you are good to go, basically, then you will get your marks for speed and also for connecting your ideas, which which was also fantastic, you had your ideas, you had your sub-ideas, uh, I would say you had a very, you know, excellent speed in the way you spoke, um, normally, you would know how to tell.

Candidates have to speak a little slower, but in his case he obviously has no problem being able to produce his idea and keep it going, so speed didn't get in the way at all, as we could clearly see, see there and then. knows. your intonation sounded very natural again, adding to this whole thing of fluency and coherence, just having a general conversation and being able to express the language as best you can and then, well, let's look at the vocabulary, now you had a wide range of vocabulary that I could see. you could just paraphrase any word and have the same meaning and use different words just to connect all that different vocabulary and it was a wide range and you used them all in the right places depending on the topic and depending on the question that was asked, so again no I saw no difficulty or struggle with your vocabulary.

Wonderful things. Okay, now, grammar and accuracy. Grammar again. I didn't even see that you have any grammatical errors. Actually, to be honest with you. and that's wonderful, it would be great if everyone could do that um structure again, I mean your simple sentences, no problem at all, complex structures, you didn't have any problem with that and you didn't even stutter, okay, there were some uh um here. and then maybe just a little bit and that would happen with any native speaker, any English speaker is asked a question they didn't know so there will always be pauses, in fact pauses are good in the IELTS

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test which gives you. you know you have a few seconds to recover and you know how to give your answer, so excellent grammar and accuracy were wonderful.

The pronunciation again with the simple pronunciations and the complex words that are more difficult to pronounce. I think you got it right and you were very clear. I don't think you have any problem with that, so you know we're looking at, clearly we're looking at a nine here, this is a typical nine, uh, in the IELTS speaking test, uh, I mean, are there any? uh the questions you'd like to ask me about the whole situation are a little mixed up with the second part because the question that was asked, I didn't really have much to say about it, but what I did was go off topic for the first time.

First I think in the first minute I guess I took a minute to talk about other things from my own experience and then I got back to the main topic. So, that's a problem, no, no, it's not a problem at all.Absolutely, in fact, we encourage candidates. to do that and I was going to make a reference that you actually spoke for the full two minutes and I even stopped you in the middle, that's what the examiner does, they stop the candidates, so when the two minutes are up, you're well and Going off topic like that, I mean you referenced the answer right away so I clearly understood what the question was even though I didn't have much information or maybe couldn't talk too much about the actual topic at hand. asked. so we encourage candidates to do that and you did it perfectly, you made reference 30 to the actual topic and then you went off topic and it's absolutely fine to do that, that's not a problem, in fact it's a technique that we would always encourage our candidates to IELTS to do it, because it will save them, it will definitely eliminate the two minutes of time. and then again you made another reference to the actual question so that it shows the examiner that you have understood the question even though you don't have much information about it and you can be there to talk and It was all smooth and I didn't have any problems you know , when telling it, it's more like telling a story, the two minutes of reality I didn't mean go to Africa, it didn't really happen to me, I just wanted to say something and that's why I referred to an experience I never had.

Oh, there's nothing wrong with that, I just wanted to explain about it, so yes, absolutely because it's about talking for two minutes, yes, and based on the four criteria, so it doesn't matter. if that never happened, it could be a completely false story, it doesn't matter if it's true or false, in IELTS speaking test, I mean, some people know this, some people don't know this, but it's true. or false doesn't really matter in the IELTS speaking test, it's just about understanding the question and working it out with your ideas, going off topic if necessary, because no candidate is expected to fully know what topics there are, I mean. your brain would explode if you wanted to review all the topics in the world and memorizing everything is impossible and unfortunately some academies do it, in fact they even include it, which is not good, they tell you to keep studying different topics. it's not about studying different topics and memorizing things, I think that's impossible, it's impossible, you're absolutely right and what candidates would do, what you just did, I would encourage all candidates to do is when you don't know about a topic that is very likely to happen, it is very natural because they actually test you for not knowing about a topic and dealing with the situation about a topic that you do not know and you did it clearly, you made reference to the question that I am I'm not very knowledgeable on this topic, but I can talk about this and then you answer the question in 30 and then you move on to your own topic, that's absolutely fine, so definitely what you did was we're looking at the correct techniques of a band.

Score nine, very, very well done, thank you very much and no more questions and I guess not, thank you very much for the comments. Oh, it's a pleasure and I hope to see you around, sure, thank you.