IELTS Speaking Interview | BAND 9 | Real Exam!

now i'm going to ask you some general questions let's talk about what you do do you work or are you a student well at the moment i'm working i'm teaching sports studies in a university what do you like about your job well i like the fact that i can have an imprint on people's lives and teach them valuable skills that they're going to use in life i think this is particularly true teaching at a university and i work with a great bunch of people so yeah we have a lot of fun is there anything you don't like about your job not really i took up the job of teaching because i needed to fund my phd but now that i'm a teacher i have less time for my research so what do they say it's either time rich and money poor or vice versa yeah one day i hope to be both time rich and money rich at the same moment but would you think about changing your job no i'm happy with where i am at the moment um i find it i find it really fulfilling but i don't know where i'm going to be in 10 years time but for now it's okay let's talk about holidays do you prefer holidays near the sea or in the countryside depends really both um i like yeah if the weather's great i like to be by the sea um i love water sports but i like walking and hiking as well so a holiday in the countryside is fine as well what do you usually do on your holidays well if i'm by the sea i like to swim i'll do some windsurfing maybe some sub-aqua hang around for mates i'll play some beach volleyball um yeah just chat over some food and drink that sort of thing um but yeah if i'm in the countryside then my uncle he raises cattle so i'll help him out on the farm and i'll do some hiking trekking and then catch up on some sleep is having a holiday important to you yeah yeah i think holidays are important to everyone why just because it's um it's exhausting to be working all the time and teaching is particularly exhausting as well i think it's important to get some down time to recharge the batteries and just to get out the city for a while it feels good let's talk about current affairs how do you get your news of the world event i'm a real news junkie so i will watch and read news on my phone a lot an awful lot and i'll watch tv news as well but not so much nowadays really do you read newspapers not so much i might treat myself to a fat paper on a sunday and and have some coffee but yeah do your older friends or relatives read newspapers yeah more than i do i think they've just got into the habit of reading the daily papers for years and yeah i've tried to tell my parents to stop reading the dead tree press but they won't listen to me let's talk about shopping do you shop online yes i do actually i buy i get all of my music and books online there's the range is enormous and it's infinite actually whereas in town you can only get so much so yeah do you shop in real shops yeah um if i have to yeah i don't enjoy shopping um but i don't like shopping for clothes either online because it's just annoying if you know you have to change the fit or the color or anything like that you've got to send it back but i'm a very organized person so i know exactly what i want and where to find it i'll go into the shop and i'll try on the fit i'll come back and that's it i won't spend my time looking around has online shopping affected the shops in your hometown not so much yet um i think that some of the smaller shops specialized shops have disappeared the bigger global shops they seem to be surviving okay for the moment but i'm not sure how how long that's going to last um yeah so i think my generation actually and the coming generation they're going to see shops disappear a lot more and i know that some people think that's a shame and i do as well sometimes but i don't think things are suddenly going to go into reverse are they now i'm going to give you a topic and i would like you to talk about it for one to two minutes you'll have one minute to prepare and you can write some notes if you want do you understand yes thank you okay here's your card and some paper to write some notes i would like you to talk about an important invention can you start speaking that please okay well this was a really tricky topic because there's so many inventions and innovations that have changed the world there's computers the internet credit cards virtual money it was really difficult actually to choose just one of them but in reflection i think the biggest and most significant invention to have changed the world is social media i mean if you look at facebook and twitter and those kinds of platforms there's no doubt that they've had a huge profound impact on our lives and the good thing is is that with the uh coming of uh a global world we're now able to communicate with friends and family across the world instantly i mean i think that's wonderful um and also just for things like birthdays that's really handy to have as well just to be updated with things like that but i just wonder if in reflection if the disadvantages and drawbacks to social media aren't outweighing the benefits so if you think about the number of people who have posted things online and you know comments and photographs and then as they get older they suddenly regret that picture of themselves being up there so yeah i think there's definite disadvantages um also it can just be used as a a platform for people to get each other so attacking politicians or bullies at school or celebrities based on something that they've said you know so yeah and then there's the the playing around with our personal information um to manipulate political elections i mean that is frightening let's talk about mobile phones do you think people spend too much time on the mobile phones for example definitely i mean the amount of times that i've been in a restaurant and i've seen groups of people at the table not talking to each other or having conversations and usually on their phones any other negative effects yes but less seriously so how many times have you been walking down the street right and then you bump into somebody because they've been checking their mobile phone how can people limit the time they use on their gadgets that's a difficult one to answer because um just every single day there seems to be a new app that comes about um for people to play with and fiddle around with in fact i think right that there should be an app that comes out that stops people disables their phones after two hours of using them um yeah i don't know i think it's it takes a lot of willpower to do it yourself but probably it starts at the home how um i just think with parents you know parents have to do something to teach their kids to stop using their phones for at least part of the day um i've got uh friends who've got got kids and they will stop uh their children using their phones at bedtime um you know when they're going out to the bedroom and uh also at mealtimes you know they can't play with their phones at meal time so i think that kind of early training is is important do you think the level of quality of communication has improved with the use of mobile phones compared to say 50 years ago the quantity has increased but i'm not sure about the quality if you look at um uh grandparents who yeah they had phones in there in their house but bills are really expensive so they wouldn't just chat on the phone they would use their phones in an emergency or um yeah you know for important information and messages and that sort of thing how is that different from now well just that mobile phones nowadays are really cheap to use so yeah i mean i'm sure you've seen people in supermarkets um usually men i admit who will be checking up their uh something online you know usually a packet of cereal or something which one to have and there's the um ubiquitous you know i'm i'm on the train so the quantity of communication has improved um the quality is difficult to define i think i mean you could argue that conversation and phones have become more trivial um and in the past they were taken more seriously but then i don't know who's to say you know there's no harm in trivia and the people that a are watching you know or listening might you know they might think that it is trivial but maybe not to the people who are actually talking so yeah i think um it's a difficult one but i think that the jury's still out on that one thank you that is the end of the speaking test [Music] you

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Length: 11min 17sec (677 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 24 2022