IELTS Speaking Band 8.5 Mock Test with Feedback

okay let's get started to begin can you tell me your full name um I'm Helen Kim but you can also call me Chloe which is my English name okay sure and are you working or studying right now um I'm currently a student I go to the University of Toronto in Canada and I just completed my second year there I major in the book and media studies yeah okay do you enjoy your studies yes definitely because I'm very passionate about media and when I finish studying I want to work in one of those uh contemporary like digital companies media companies like Netflix um Instagram Tick Tock so I definitely enjoy what I'm learning right now yeah and what do you enjoy doing in your free time in my free time I like to watch YouTube videos uh also the short like reels on Instagram it's very fun to watch and I also love to listen to music uh find new songs and not only that but I also like to dance to the music so I enjoy that a lot and what is your hometown my hometown is uh pundang in Korea it's quite close to Seoul um yeah and like the air there is more clean and it's like a nice neighborhood so I don't live there anymore but I like to go there often once in a while yeah oh um what things do you like about your hometown um as I mentioned I definitely like how it's a very quiet and comforting neighborhood it's more safe and the the scenery or the nature there is nice to look at as well so I like to visit there yeah and what things do you not like about it um I think it could be quite inconvenient at times because it's not really in the middle of like the city so if I want to get around or if I want to hang out with my friends I have it's quite far away from the popular areas which is like kangnam or like hongdae so yeah okay good um now let's talk about public transportation yeah do people usually use public transportation in your country uh definitely yes because the public transportation here in Korea it's very convenient and I know all my friends um we don't have a car yet so we like to get our own places to uh with using like the Metro or the buses um even uh like the taxis are very affordable I think compared to like America or Canada and you can just call them through using those apps yeah okay um what do you want to change about the public transport um in Korea in Korea um I think maybe for uh people who are not from Korea it could be at times maybe quite confusing so maybe for the foreigners it'd be nice if there are more translation application is available or more signs in English as well maybe some kind of platform or services available for people who are not from Korea true and will you ride public transportation in the future uh yes because even now when I'm trying to go out to places I always use the Metro so I I would always be using it even in the future okay that will do us for part one and now we can move on to part two so to begin you're going to have one question uh and I'll give you a minute to prepare and here's a pen to take notes this is your question uh and in a minute we'll go ahead and get started all right that's a minute um so you're going to describe a person who often helps others uh so um this person is my middle sister she's eight years older than me um and uh she's like such a smart individual and um also just her uh true personality as a such a caring person loving person um she loves to just care for the people who she loves so um not only that but she wants to she's actually doing her in the process of completing her PhD degree so she wants to become a professor and she's very into education she's passionate about it so as I was growing up she would just um be like a sort of role model and a teacher for me she would just teach me how to write how to read how to organize stuff everything and I I just look up to her a lot and I definitely have a lot of love for her because I just have so much to learn from her and seeing how she treats others and the people around her it's very inspiring and it just warms up my heart a lot yeah okay all right we can move on to part three now so why are some people willing to help others I think um it could be due to several different reasons uh it definitely depends on who that person is but for one uh personally I like to help others because it gives me a sense of satisfication because I think growing up people learn about things like morals and principles and knowing that you did a good thing and you brought a positive change to the world I think it gives you that sense of like a good feeling that you did something good today yeah okay and in what kinds of professions do people like to help others more um I think that maybe uh people who are in the medical field or people who are in the who are in the police police field yeah or um I think but I think uh people just in many different careers they could help others in many ways so I think to a degree to an extent it could be like any career or job yeah who should teach children to help others parents or teachers I I believe teachers are more fitted to help to teach children because um with parents I think there's the fact that there can be a sort of personal sense to how you see your children so if they're not doing well when you're teaching them you can get more frustrated because you know how much you believe in your child in your child and you you could have a lot of expectations for them so with teachers it's their job and it's their expertise so I think it's more suitable to let your children be educated by professionals okay good and do people nowadays help others more than they did in the past that I never really thought about that question but I think to an extent maybe people help others Less in the current uh contemporary Society because um when I see people just around me I feel like uh today like the society is so fast moving and people are so busy to just and they don't really have time to care for others I feel even students we have to compete a lot to succeed and be better than our peers and I think that's a lot of pressure so I feel like people are becoming more uh they care more about themselves than as like a collective Society yeah yeah okay good um we made it to the end good job um that was a very good test and now we can do a little bit of feedback so as you probably know there are four categories there's fluency and coherence there's pronunciation vocabulary and grammar um I think you did well in all of these categories but we can talk about them each briefly uh on their own fluency is really no problem uh pronunciation as well I can tell you've spent a lot of time in an English-speaking environment because it's all very natural and native-like so that's very good um more good news your vocabulary and grammar are also very good um there's really no um there's not really any errors um that I uh noticed the only thing that is possible is to slightly increase the range um so your vocabulary was very accurate but another part of that is is how wide it is how many um idioms and really Advanced words that you can use um so I think there's a few places where you could you could have found a more accurate uh and more advanced word in part three I think was a good example uh the last question when you were thinking of uh people working alone or working collectively yeah I think you might have been looking for individualistic right as a word and in the first question in part three um uh the field that you might have been describing is maybe the service industry or service and medical professions but having all of those words just on um immediately in command is uh is is very good uh in terms of grammar I mean I guess you could use more unusual tenses but your grammar is very good and I understood uh everything so I think you did a very good job one only other bit is um in part three it's generally a good idea to not use a personal example um the questions are all structured so you can sort of talk about society and talk in general about other people but I think it was the first question about people willing to help others where you discuss or how you would do it in the real test it's a good idea to avoid using a personal example and just sort of talk about other people in general yeah um but like I said it was a really good test um I would estimate your score at 8.5 for today and uh yeah so thanks for coming in uh really good job and good luck

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Length: 13min 14sec (794 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 03 2024