Hello I'm Chris from IELTS Daily.
Welcome back to another fantastic mock exam video. I'm here to give feedback on
another candidate in one of our practice sessions. We have lots of the questions that you might
have in the test so please feel free to make some notes. As you're going along pretend that
you are the examiner. I'm ready let's go.
Okay are you ready? I'm just
putting in my earphones now so that we can listen to today's candidate who
is Kyong Jin and she is from Korea originally but now lives in Japan. If you're just
interested in first watching the full video, we're actually going to put the full video without
any feedback at the end of this video so the last 15 minutes of this video is just the mock exam
without any feedback or any interruptions from me. You might want to go and watch that first and then
come back and watch the section about my feedback. Well, today we want you to be the examiner.
We want you to really pick up some of the fine details of what to expect in the test. As
always, I am looking at the band descriptors for the IELTS speaking, the marking rubric and
I'm trying to apply each score where Kyong Jin does well and where she could improve.
This is what the examiners do in the test so if you think that I'm being really critical
of her grammar or of her pronunciation, that is exactly what an examiner is expecting
in the test. That's what their job is, so shall we start listening to Kyong Jin and there's
a, there's one thing that I want you to do. At the end of the feedback session, I noticed that
Kyong Jin repeats a few phrases. I'm not going to talk about them during the video but I want you
guys to listen which words and phrases does Kyong Jin repeat and if you spot them write them in the
comments because we'll talk about that at the end. Let's go. Hello and welcome to this practice exam
conducted by IELTS Daily my name is David and I'm your practice IELTS speaking examiner. So let's
start with what's your name. My name is Kyong Jin. Lovely and at the beginning of the IELTS test you
need to provide some identification, usually your passport but as this is a practice test there's
no need for that today. Are you ready to begin? I'm ready to go. Okay. So the interesting start
here the examiner says 'are you ready' to begin and Ching yang says 'I'm ready to go'. I
love that. I love the fact that she's already paraphrasing some of the words from the examiner.
Fantastic. Great. So let's talk about neighbors. How well do you know your neighbors? Oh, I have
really good relationship with my neighbors. So um, I live in first floor and then
in fourth floor there are like um five different houses and then we always share
our foods, and then we sometimes go out together, and then especially my mom has a
really strong relationship with them, so whenever my mom cooks really delicious food,
my mom always asked me to deliver the food to our neighbors. Yeah, lovely. Okay, my first piece
of feedback here, Kyong Jin does a great job at expanding her answer. Remember that we really
try to encourage you guys to speak a little bit more. If it's a short question, try to give some
details. Now, the, the things that I would like to pick up on here - Grammar. Throughout this video,
you will hear Kyong Jin making a number of very basic grammar mistakes particularly related to
articles which are 'a', 'an' and 'the' and also with subject and verb agreement. So if I said
something like 'I were at the tennis'. 'I was at the tennis' is the correct subject verb, they
agree with each other and throughout this video, Qin Jiang seems to make a mistake with the the
'it' form and the 'he', 'she' form which is the third person form. So just note that I won't
mention it too often in the video and if you, if you can spot those as well, that's great because
that's really showing that you can recognize where people are going wrong. And if you are the type of
person that would make that mistake really try to focus on it because the examiner will be looking
out for those type of very basic grammar mistakes. In this particular section, Kyong Jin said 'I live
on fourth' or in fact I think she said 'I live in fourth floor', so it should be 'I live on', so
there's an incorrect preposition that 'I live on the fourth floor'. So again, 'I live on the
fourth floor', 'I live on the sixth floor', really try to to focus on
those very basic mistakes. In, in her speaking I love the, her inflection
at the end. It shows that she's really, you know, been listening to a lot of native speakers where
she goes up at the end, um the kind of the varied inflection and intonation in her speech, that
was a really good feature of her pronunciation but you will notice that throughout this
test, Kyong Jin like many people struggle. She struggles with um the, 'th' sound and also
she struggles with the 'r' and 'l' sound and that's a really common problem particularly
with people from Korea and from Japan. It's very difficult to hear the difference between 'l'
and 'r' and we'll listen to some examples later. And how often do you see each other? Uh, almost
every day and then whenever we meet in front of door or in elevator we um say hello or anything.
We talk about our things together... In both her answers, for the first question and the second
question Kyong Jin has used the phrase 'whenever'. I think she said 'whenever my mom cooks food' and
I think in a, in this sentence she said 'whenever we meet in front of door'. It should be in front
of the door or even at the door would be better. I just want to focus on the positives here because
remember with grammatical range you have to use a range of complex sentences, and a complex sentence
is when you have two clauses within the sentence and 'whenever' sentence which is what Qin Jiang
used is an example of a complex sentence. So she is trying to use complexity which is wonderful.
Well done to Kyong Jin. So I really like them Yes, and what kind of relationship do you have
with them? Also like I said, we shared our food and also on special occasion like um birthday,
if someone's birthday we um get some presents like delicious uh fruit boxes or first baskets and
then uh sometimes my mom um take them to the Café, and then they have a really good conversation,
sometimes I joined, yeah. All right, I'm just going to jump in here. I'm going to look at my
notes here so the first thing that I noticed was that she said 'on a special occasion'. Special
occasion is a good example of collocation, which is two words which fit together and that will
really show that for her lexical resource mark. She's pushing herself well, she did mispronounce
the word 'birth day', 'birthday' she said 'birsts day' and a picky examiner is really focusing
on those pronunciation features. The correct pronunciation is with the 'th' sound. We focus,
we focus on it a lot in our videos not 'birsts' with a 's' sound but 'birth' with a 'th' sound. If
you need to practice that make sure that you are spending a lot of time doing that. She also said
'fruit boxes' and 'fruit baskets' and she showed that she has a range of vocabulary there. She did
maybe say 'fruits boxes' and 'fruits baskets'', remember that 'fruit' is an adjective so you would
just have it in a singular form there. When you're describing it as a noun, you can say 'fruits'.
'I like many different fruits' but when it's an adjective it would just be fruit boxes and fruit
baskets but using those two together it was a nice way of showing she has lexical range. I love it.
And have you ever had a problem with a neighbor? Ah not really but sometimes the people
live upside on our house, sometimes we have some problem with the noisy because
there's a like children, and then sometimes they just run around their room, and then it sometimes
bothered me so I called them and then but we um tried to uh solve the problem with
peaceful way, so it was good. So a little vocabulary mistake there, she said when p, 'some
people live upside' or 'my neighbors live upside', should be 'upstairs', so she's um misused
a word there. She also said some problem with the 'noisy', and 'noisy' is an adjective and
in this case would be the 'noise'. So we have had some problems in the past with 'noise', 'noise'
being the noun. A couple of minor mistakes there. I'd like to move on to the topic of pets. Do you
have a pet? Yes, I have a pet. I have a dog, um he's three years old, and then he's a male, and
then um I really like him. His name is Hete and then he's 'Pomelanian'. Right, so we have spoken a
lot in previous videos about expanding answers and improving your fluency. In this case, Kyong
Jin is doing a great job. First of all, she comprehends all the questions that the examiner
is asking and she's making an attempt to expand and talk more which is wonderful. It's really
helping her fluency and coherence score here, really understands the question and is able
to give extended answers. Did you remember at the beginning of this video I talked about the
problem of 'l' and 'r' particularly for Korean and Japanese speakers. If you do speak Korean
or Japanese you may want to focus a little bit on this. Qin Jiang said 'Pomelanian' she
talked about her dog which is a type of dog. You'll see the word on the screen now and that
sound in the middle is not 'lanian'. Can you see my tongue 'lanian' it's actually 'rainian' so it's
'Pomeranian' not 'Pomelanian', and examiners are looking for those little pronunciation features
and she would be marked down a little bit for that. And then I really enjoy walking every
morning, and then yeah he always makes me happy. Beautiful. Now, what type of animals do you think
make the best pets? Uh, I personally think that dog is the best pet to have because uh
comparing to cats and other like um animals, I think dog is more friendly and then always
give loves to people without any reason, yeah so I, I think like having a dog
is the best option for people.
Great, so in these couple of questions Qin Jiang
has done a great job in expanding. She's talked more, she's given reasons which is wonderful.
A couple of really picky things I'm going to, to focus on here. So subject and verb agreement
is something that we spoke about before which is whether the subject and the verb agree
with each other. Then she she started by saying 'I personally think dog is'. First
of all there's a missing article there so it would be something like 'personally,
I think, I personally think that a dog is'. So you could, an even better sentence
would be talking generally to say 'dogs are', 'I personally think that dogs are great'.
So what does your typical morning look like? I, every day I wake up at 6 00 am and then I do
a little bit yoga for like 20 minutes, and then I recently, I tried to meditation every day for
five minutes and after that I'll eat breakfast and while listening to podcasts. Nice, great. So,
we're on a new topic now and the first piece of feedback that I want to say is she said 'I do
a little bit yoga'. 'I do a little bit yoga', it should be 'I do a little bit of yoga'. 'I do a
little bit of yoga', nice and fast all together. 'I do a little bit of yoga, of yoga', so the
missing of sound there that she, she had then. She said 'which is wonderful', a new grammatically
complex, complex form which was while listening to podcasts, a 'while sentence' is a good example
of increasing complexity within your sentences, so good job. And what would you like to change
about your morning routine or your daily routine? Uh so I think my sleeping habit is not as good so
I want before sleeping I always check my social media and smartphone and then emails and I think
that affect my quality of sleep, so I want to um stop doing that. Instead of that, I want to do
like some stretching or some yoga before sleeping, that might be good for my health. She
said 'I think my sleeping habit is not good as as good a, as good I think she
should say 'is not as good as'. It's a comparative so you could say 'I don't think
my sleeping habit is as good as the past'. She did say 'before sleeping I always check
my social media' which is great because this is grammatically complex,
'before' plus the gerund form, really nice. And then she said 'in my smartphone'
and she really didn't get the pronunciation of the smartphone. The 'o' sound, 'smart phone' and
examiner would be listening for that. Do you think breakfast is important? Yes, especially I think
um, I heard that breakfast is really good for our mental health and the brain so I try to
uh, I try not to skip breakfast every day. Really nice vocabulary here, I'm so impressed
she uses kind of mental health which is a a collocation and then she used the word 'skip, skip
breakfast' which means not to eat breakfast. This would be examples of less common language which
you definitely need to get a band seven or higher. She even did some self correction, she said 'I
tried to' and then went on to say 'I try not to skip breakfast'. Wonderful. Good and what's
the best thing about your morning routine at the weekends? Uh weekend, oh I like to walk
with my dog in the morning on the weekend, it makes me really peaceful and then um I can you
know really really relieve my stresses so I think I really like walking with my dog on the weekend,
yeah. Wonderful. So David is a new examiner for us and he's going to be doing some feedback videos
as well. David is a, a new addition and I don't think a real examiner would use words like 'great'
or 'wonderful' when they are going on to the next question because that might give the student a
little bit of false hope. They might say things like 'okay', 'thank you' rather than using
adjectives such as 'great' or 'wonderful'. Okay, well in the next part of the test I'm going
to give you a topic and I would like you to speak on the topic for one to two minutes. You will
have one minute to think about what you want to say and I'll give you a pencil and some paper
to take notes if you want. Is that clear? Yes, yeah. Great. So here's your paper and pencil.
Thank you. Then you have one minute to prepare.
All right, thank you. Now, I would like
you to talk about someone who is kind. Remember, you have one to two minutes for this so
don't worry if I stop you. I'll tell you when the time is up. Can you start speaking now please?
Yeah, I want to introduce my boss um, I work in digital marketing company and then he is my boss
and then he is an Australian. I think he is really kind both and he has great leadership and then he
never get upset toward my colleagues including me, and then he always increa, encouraged us to work
more but not hard, and then also he motivate us to do better for our clients but he also, he always
understands whenever I make mistakes, even big mistake he tried to solve the problem with me
and always we tried to think about the solution, what we can do and then also he always helped me
to move, move forward, so I think that he is the kind person, and then I have worked with
him for two years, but for two years we have really good relationship, and then even
every Friday, we always drink beer after work, so that's really good time and then
at the time we just have a casual conversations that also makes me feel that
I like to work my company, in my company, yeah. So someday I want to be the kind of senior
staff like him, yeah. I thought it was great, I thought she gave lots of expansion on her
answers even at the end she realized she needed to speak a little bit more and pronunciation of
the word 'boss'. I think many of you might have noticed that she mispronounced the word 'boss' and
she said 'boss' rather than the word 'boss' short 'o' sound, 'o'. So it would be 'boss'. She said
'I work in digital marketing company' would be 'a digital marketing marketing company',
so she forgot the article again. He never get upset. he never gets upset, he always
encourage us. 'And he always encourages us', so this would be an example where she had lots of
mistakes using the subject and verb agreement especially as I mentioned with the 'he', 'she',
'it' forms which is the third person. Great, well done. Okay, so thank you. I'd like to stay
on the topic of relationships actually. What type of relationships other than with friends or
family are important in people's lives? I think
the work relationship. Relationship with
colleagues is really important because every day we need to go to work and then we spend
most of our time with them every day, so and then they are not our friends, they're not my family
so there's always like boundaries we need to uh protect. So I think the making good relationship
with colleagues in the work environment is really important. Certainly. Again lots of expansion on
her answers. Kyong Jin is doing really well here. She understood the question, she gave her
thoughts on that, she said we spend most of the time with our colleagues and we have to cr,
you know form good relationships, she used words like 'boundaries', 'there was always boundary'. I
think she said 'boundary' so it should be 'there are always boundaries we need to protect'. Super
nice, like really good. Now, what is the attitude towards marriage in your country? Um I think
uh in Korea so marriage is really important life events and then there are many people that if
you turn in specific age you need to do marriage, but I heard that recently most um especially young
people they think that marriage is not um we need to do so they sometimes uh just choose to live
alone and then they just enjoy their own lives. So even though I'm married but I think I
agree with their opinions and then that I think that's a good idea um like uh comparing
to like marriage, living alone they enjoy their times. It might be a good idea to live their life.
Again lots and lots of great expansion on answers. Kyong Jin really struggles here with the the
idea of the word 'marriage'. 'Marriage' is a noun and in English we say 'to get married
to somebody' or 'to marry somebody' and I think she uses a couple of different incorrect
forms there which would show the examiner that she doesn't quite know how to collocate that
word, but she did, she did say something like 'if you turn in specific age', so she used an 'if
sentence' but she doesn't quite use it correctly. 'So if you turn a specific age' but the 'if
sentence' is again showing grammatical complexity and I think she also maybe used a 'while
sentence' and an 'even though sentence', I remember. Great work. Yeah, certainly. And
how have attitudes changed towards marriage in the last 50 years in your country? Yeah
like I mentioned, many people just
married to someone like um because
parents like keep them pressure on them and but I think recently of um more like open
mind toward like marriage. Someone doesn't need, someone doesn't need to do marriage at some
point in like specific age. Some people can marriage at like 60 years, 50 years that doesn't
matter so I think uh Korean people recently um get more open-minded toward relationship, and
then our um stereotype, pickle thinking might be a little bit changes. I think I think that's
positive way and then that that that's good, uh I think that's good attitude. Do young
people in your country plan on getting married? Oh I think 10 or 15 years ago young people usually
plan to get married after getting a job but I think recently people change it and then they
prefer like natural way to meet someone and they get married and then I think they um they like to,
they enjoy more, they enjoy, they want to enjoy their lives more and then after getting a job,
and then they finally have some financial freedom and they want to use money for their own like uh
lives not for marriage, but I think of course um they try to plan on their marriage I think yeah,
yeah. Cool, and in your opinion should couples be allowed to get divorced? Yeah, of course. Uh
heard that in Korea recently the rate of divorce uh increases and then I
think um divorcing is totally the choice of people. So if they can
satisfy their marriage in life, they can totally get divorced with their partner
and they can find like better people for them and then I think Korean society currently um allow
their kind of diversity culture. Great, okay. Well, thank you. That's the end of the practice
IELTS speaking test. Well done. Thank you.
Well, we've reached the end of Kyong
Jin's part three and the end of her test. I really liked her fluency and her comprehension.
She understood all the ideas and all the questions that the examiner asked her and she was
able to give additional expansion on her, on her answers which was really nice. I, I, I
was very impressed by that. The sentences and the phrases that she used really often, do you
remember that I asked you to look out for those? So, she very often says 'and then'. I don't know
if you heard that throughout the speech 'and then' and she also used the word sometimes a lot. Um,
in an exam situation when you're under pressure sometimes you talk about things and you don't even
realize what you say and so be careful about the repetition of the same word too many times. What
did you think about that? Did you think that that was something that she um, that you noticed? Was
it something that was really obvious to you? So the main pieces of feedback that I would give
Qin Jiang would be subject verb agreement for the grammar, the articles that she forgot in the
grammar. The um, the extension on her answers was wonderful but sometimes that was um at the expense
of her grammar so she tried to go with grammatical complexity but sometimes made mistakes which,
which happens. Pronunciation as well of the sounds 'l' and 'r' and also the pronunciation
of the sound 'eu' in, in words like 'word' and 'world' and 'girl'. Those would be the main areas
of feedback. I want to bring the band descriptors up on the screen now and we'll talk about
kind of the areas that she could um work on and what she did well. So on the screen you
should see the speaking band descriptors. Okay, let's have a look. So fluency and
coherence, for band seven it says speaks at length without noticeable loss of effort or
coherence, may demonstrate language-related hesitation at times. She didn't know, she didn't
have any language related hesitations, and uses a range of connectives and discourse markers with
some flexibility. I actually think that she did, I think the biggest problem here would be that
she repeated the word 'and then' and so maybe the exam, a really strict examiner might pick
her up on that and over to abandon 'six'. I, though I'm gonna give her the benefit of the doubt
and actually give her a band seven for um fluency and coherence but please bear in mind that it
may be that she would score a band six here. Now, let's have a look at the, now, let's
have a look at the lexical resource for a band 7. It says uses vocabulary resource
flexibly to discuss a variety of topics, I think she did, uses some less common
and idiomatic vocabulary, yes, she did. She used words like 'skip breakfast' and which is
really nice and she uses paraphrase effectively. Possibly a seven here. I actually don't, I think
her vocabulary was her strongest suit. Here, I think that was the area that she did the
best on. To grammatical range and accuracy, she used a simple sort of for a band 6, she used
a sim, a mix of simple and complex structures but with limited flexibility. She may make frequent
mistakes with complex structures. I do think that the, the complexity, the, the problems
that she made with some of these structures might impede her with, from getting a band seven.
So for a band seven, it says produces frequent, sorry frequently produces error free sentences
though some grammatical mistakes persist. She did make the same grammatical mistakes
throughout which were from kind of the subject verb agreement and also the articles. Um,
somewhere between a seven and a six here. For me depending on the how strict the examiner would be
and for pronunciation, band six says uses a range of pronunciation features with mixed control,
shows some effective use of features but this is not sustained, can generally be under, understood
throughout, mispronunciation of individual words and sounds reduces clarity at times. Um a strict
examiner would award her six here. I don't think she would meet the, the band seven which is
looking at the features of a band eight. Overall for me, I would go with the following - Fluency
and coherence - seven, Lexical resource - seven, Grammatical range and accuracy - six, and
Pronunciation, probably six. So overall for me, this was a band 6.5. However, I recognize that
some examiners would be really strict on the fluency coherence with the 'and then', 'and then'
repetition. So that would give her a band six four and that could be six, seven. Six, six which
may mean that Kyong Jin actually gets a band six, so for me, Qin Jiang sits between the band 6.5 and
6. Somewhere around there. I'm gonna give her 6.5 today. Really, really well done to her for this
great test. She, she's expanded on her answers really well. Don't forget you can watch the full
unedited test coming right up after this section. Well done to you guys for working so hard. My
name is Chris from IELTS Daily. I look forward to seeing you in a future video where we have lots
more mock exam videos coming up and remember, if you like this video please give it a
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Hello and welcome to this practice exam conducted
by IELTS Daily. My name is David and I'm your practice IELTS speaking examiner. So let's start
with what's your name. My name is Kyong Jin. Lovely, and at the beginning of the IELTS
test, you need to provide some identification, usually your passport but as this is a
practice test, there's no need for that today. Are you ready to begin? I'm ready to go.
Great. So let's talk about neighbors. How well do you know your neighbors? Oh, I have
really good relationship with my neighbors. So um, I live in first floor and then
in fourth floor there are like um five different houses and then we always share
our foods, and then we sometimes go out together, and then especially my mom has a really strong
relationship with them, so whenever my mom cooks really delicious food, my mom always asked
me to deliver the food to our neighbors. Yeah, lovely. And how often do you see each other?
Uh, almost every day and then whenever we meet in front of door or in elevator we um say hello
or anything. We talk about our things together so I really like them. Yes. And what kind
of relationship do you have with them? Also like I said, we shared our
food and also on special occasion like um birthday, if someone's birthday we um get
some presents like delicious uh fruit boxes or first baskets and then uh sometimes my mom um take
them to the Café, and then they have a really good conversation, sometimes I joined, yeah. Lovely
and have you ever had a problem with a neighbor? Ah not really but sometimes the people live upside
on our house, sometimes we have some problem with the noisy because there's a like children, and
then sometimes they just run around their room, and then it sometimes bothered me so I called
them and then but we um tried to uh solve the problem with peaceful way, so it was good.
I'd like to move on to the topic of pets. Do you have a pet? Yes, I have a pet. I have a
dog, um he's three years old, and then he's a male, and then um I really like him. His
name is Hete and then he's Pomelanian,
and then I really enjoy walking every morning,
and then yeah he always makes me happy. Beautiful. Now, what type of animals
do you think make the best pets? Uh, I personally think that dog is the best pet
to have because uh comparing to cats and other like um animals, I think dog is more friendly
and then always give loves to people without any reason, yeah so I, I think like having
a dog is the best option for people, they're not but why why do people have pets? I
think uh pet is very um different from people like human being so pat didn't want us
to do something for them for some reason and then they always um give us love and also
um it's really good to touch their fluffy fur, makes me feel really happy. Fair enough. Okay,
well now let's think about the topic of a daily routine. So what does your typical morning look
like? I, every day I wake up at 6 00 am and then I do a little bit yoga for like 20 minutes, and
then I recently, I tried to meditation every day for five minutes and after that I'll eat
breakfast while listening to podcasts. Nice and what would you like to change about
your morning routine or your daily routine? Uh so I think my sleeping habit is not as good so
I want before sleeping I always check my social media and smartphone and then emails and I think
that affect my quality of sleep, so I want to um stop doing that. Instead of that, I want to do
like some stretching or some yoga before sleeping that might be good for my health. Nice. Do you
think breakfast is important? Yes, especially I think um, I heard that breakfast is really
good for our mental health and the brain so I try to uh, I try not to skip breakfast every day.
Good and what's the best thing about your morning routine at the weekends? Uh weekend, oh I like to
walk with my dog in the morning on the weekend, it makes me really peaceful and
then um I can you know really really relieve my stresses so I think I really
like walking with my dog on the weekend, yeah. Wonderful. Okay, well in the next part
of the test I'm going to give you a topic and I would like you to speak on the topic for
one to two minutes. You will have one minute to think about what you want to say and I'll give you
a pencil and some paper to take notes if you want. Is that clear? Yes, yeah. Great. So
here's your paper and pencil. Thank you. Then you have one minute to prepare.
All right, thank you. Now, I would like
you to talk about someone who is kind. Remember, you have one to two minutes for this so
don't worry if I stop you. I'll tell you when the time is up. Can you start speaking now please?
Yeah, I want to introduce my boss um, I work in digital marketing company and then he is my boss
and then he is an Australian. I think he is really kind both and he has great leadership and then he
never get upset toward my colleagues including me, and then he always increa, encouraged us to work
more but not hard, and then also he motivate us to do better for our clients but he also, he
always understands whenever I make mistakes, even big mistake he tried to solve the
problem with me and always we tried to think about the solution, what we can do
and then also he always helped me to move move forward, so I think that he is the kind
person and then I have worked with him for two years but for two years we have really
good relationship, and then even every Friday, we always drink beer after work so that's really
good time and then at the time we just have a casual conversations that also makes me feel
that I like to work my company, in my company, yeah. So someday I want to be the
kind of senior staff like him, yeah.
Great, well done. Okay, so thank you. I'd like to
stay on the topic of relationships. Actually what type of relationships other than with friends or
family are important in people's lives? I think
the work relationship. Relationship with
colleagues is really important because every day we need to go to work and then we spend most of
our time with them every day. so and then they are not our friends, they're not my family so there's
always like boundaries we need to uh protect. So I think the making good relationship with colleagues
in the work environment is really important. Certainly and what is the attitude
towards marriage in your country? Um I think uh in Korea so marriage is
really important life events and then there are many people that if you turn
in specific age you need to do marriage, but I heard that recently most um especially young
people they think that marriage is not um we need to do so they sometimes uh just choose to live
alone and then they just enjoy their own lives. So even though I'm married but I think I agree
with their opinions and then that I think that's a good idea um like uh comparing to like
marriage, living alone they enjoy their times. It might be a good idea to live their life. Yeah,
certainly. And how have attitudes changed towards marriage in the last 50 years in your country?
Yeah like I mentioned, many people just
married to someone like um because parents
like keep them pressure on them and but I think recently of um more like open mind
toward like marriage. Someone doesn't need, someone doesn't need to do marriage at some
point in like specific age some people can marriage at like 60 years, 50 years that doesn't
matter. So I think uh Korean people recently um get more open-minded toward relationship,
and then our um stereotype pickle thinking might be a little bit changes. I think I think
that's positive way and then that that that's good uh I think that's good attitude. Do young
people in your country plan on getting married? Oh I think 10 or 15 years ago young people usually
plan to get married after getting a job but I think recently people change it and then they
prefer like natural way to meet someone and they get married and then I think they um they like to,
they enjoy more, they enjoy, they want to enjoy their lives more and then after getting a job, and
then they finally have some financial freedom and they want to use money for their own like uh
lives not for marriage, but I think of course um they try to plan on their marriage I think yeah.
Yeah, cool. And in your opinion should couples be allowed to get divorced? Yeah, of course.
Uh heard that in Korea recently the rate of divorce uh increases and then I think um divorcing
is totally the choice of people. So if they can
satisfy their marriage in life, they can totally
get divorced with their partner and they can find like better people for them and then
I think Korean society currently um allow their kind of diversity
culture. Great, okay. Well, thank you. That's the end of the practice
IELTS speaking test. Well done. Thank you.
