IELTS Speaking test band score of 8 with feedback

[Music] all right we are ready to begin this is the speaking test of the international english language testing system taking place on the 11th of february center number dde120 and the candidate is harvey the candidate's number is zero one three one three four five eight the examiner is samsung sees examiner number four four three five three three good afternoon my name is samson could you please tell me your full name yes i'm marina zafi great and can i see your identification please here you are thank you very much all right now in the first part of the test i'm going to ask you some questions about yourself first i'd like to ask you some questions about your free time describe a place in your city or town where you like to go to in your free time uh well there is this huge shopping mall right in the western part of my city called bumland i really like there and it has a great number of stores of all kind i usually go there in my leisure time with my sister and i enjoy window shopping there although there are so many other things to do so people can go there to do their shoppings spend time together and just have fun in their leisure time wonderful and why do you like to go there in particular um i think it's because there are so many different activities that you can do there whatever i need to buy i can find it there or if i want to get together with my friends it's a great place for us to hang out for a while in a summary to just have a conclusion i can say that it's like a little city under uh one roof it's amazing great and is there anything you don't like about it yes uh the only only thing that i can think of is the parking situation the parking garage is uh so crowded and sometimes i have to spend a lot of time just driving around to find an empty spot besides i have just obtained my driving license so it's kind of annoying and it annoys me even more so i think that they should have a system to show us where the empty spots are so that we can just go right to the spots without driving around and around for a long time great and is it a popular place for people in your city absolutely yes it's a well-known place among iranians especially people who live in tehran i think one of the reasons is uh because you can do many different activities there as i mentioned before and there are so many things that you can purchase the other reason that i can think of is that you can find whatever you need and uh people can buy different stuff needless to go anywhere else afterwards wonderful and let's now move on to talk about the internet how often do you use the internet to be honest i'm almost always online since my work and my studies both can be undertaken through the internet especially since this coronavirus situation happened uh we don't have any other choice than to use the internet i usually use internet to find information both for my work and some personal reasons so i'm i can say that i'm using internet several times a day wow and do you like shopping online yeah i'm a huge fan of online shopping because um it's so easy and um you just uh it's kind of my thing i can say that say that way um the shipping costs are kind of high but it's worth it and i really enjoy searching the nets and finding information before i make a big purchase that is one of the big benefits that online shopping uh has okay thank you very much all right now i'm going to give you a topic and i'd like you to talk about it for up to two minutes before you talk you'll have one minute to think about what you're going to say and you can make notes if you wish do you understand yes i understand okay wonderful so here's a piece of paper thank you pencil to make notes so here is a topic describe a hobby you enjoy doing you have one minute to make notes you may start now [Music] oh okay i think i'm ready okay yeah one minute is up as well so you may start speaking now um one of the hobbies that i really enjoy doing is painting uh i cannot say that i'm an artistic person but i really like it the material that i usually use are color water brushes and special watercolor papers i started learning how to paint a couple of years ago frankly i can't remember why i decided to do that but as soon as i knew that's what i wanted to do i started looking for a classes near my workplace and that was when i was an architecture student i've learned a lot through these years and now i enjoy painting a lot and that's because it's really relaxing and it just gives me a satisfying feeling it makes me feel great about myself and my work one of the other reasons that i can think of is that i find it so challenging i see it as a challenge making a painting look the way i want it to look has always been a challenge and i've had some frustrations through these years but whenever i feel like that i finally made mike made my painting look uh the way i imagined it or pictured it in my mind it's just great it makes me feel thrilled and so proud of myself so these are the reasons that i really enjoy painting also i really like it that i have something to hang on the walls but of course i only hang up the successful ones but i love all of my works equally so this relaxing hobby that i have and have is great and so useful thank you very much okay that's the end of the two minutes may i have the papers back please sure thank you here you are thanks very much okay so we've been talking about a hobby you enjoy doing and now i'd like to ask you some questions related to this what hobbies are common in your culture well iranians have always been so interested in having different entertainments one of the hobbies that is popular among my friends is collecting comic books i know some people might say that it's not that commonly done among iranians but it is people like collecting different comic books including comics from other countries however people like collecting other things like coins or stamps or some artistic people or creative people might like paintings and drawings although i think it's it can be an expensive collection okay and are there any hobbies that you think are not worthwhile um to be honest some hobbies can be a real waste of time for me for example collecting baseball cards is not one of my favorites because i'm so uninterested in baseball but of course i cannot say that it can't be worthwhile for someone who enjoys baseball and likes this hobby so i think that having a hobby is fine as long as it's not harmful to yourself and other people and as long as you're having fun with it so it's okay and it's worth doing it okay and why do you think people have hobbies um i think people have different entertainments in their free time because they want to relax after a whole week of working or studying we all need some time to relax and uh enjoy ourselves uh also people might have hobbies to learn some new skills like drawing like knitting or even learning a new language and the other thing that i can think of is finding new people and new friends you can join groups of like-minded people that have the same hobbies as you do and that can be so great and fun so i think these are the reasons why people allocate time to hobbies right and how important is it to encourage children to take up hobbies it's great i think it's so good to motivate children to take up hobbies from for themselves that's how they can use their free time instead of just wandering around watching tv or just playing with their phones it can be great it can be a good experience and they can learn some new skills too i mean even if their hobby is to just uh draw something simple they can learn some useful skills too like organizing like uh setting up their mind like uh choosing a goal and reaching it so i think it can be useful useful in their daily life too oh great and do you think it's also important for older people like retired people to take off maybe a few hobbies yes obviously hobbies as i said before can help you relax and enjoy your free time it can also be useful to take your mind off some of the problems that you might have in word problems personal problems and you can just enjoy what you're doing and have fun as long as you want and you can so it can be a great idea to have hobbies no matter how old are you or how many problems you have in your life thank you very much that's the end of the speaking test very you busy take a deep breath now i was a little bit distressed no that's that's natural that happens in in every actually i think it happens more in the markets okay so don't worry about that first we'll have a look at the uh the four criteria uh you know just a quick round up to get your your band score uh to your band score first so you know what we're looking at here is easily innate which congratulations thank you very much you know you earned it because um basically you're you're ticking all the boxes that uh the speaking tests and ielts requires you know we'll go through them one by one and you know easily you can you can increase that eight to a nine i don't think you have any particular problem and what we're looking at here so we'll start uh fluency and coherence this is the first thing we're going to look at um again a perfect you know all the the sentences that you're producing the you know the fluency sounding naturally i thought you sounded very natural to me very very natural and relaxed and you were not using particular you had maybe a few s uh self repetition yeah you had some self-repetition but very little very little you had a few um's you know these are just the the minor things you could just cross off from your list you know to get the the nine uh band score rather than the eight but you know you you seem very relaxed to me altogether and your speed uh as a whole it was good maybe sometimes here and there you rushed uh just a tiny bit and you that you could easily kill off some more time but just slowing down just a tiny bit but again because you were producing amazing ideas with all the answers that you were answering correctly um i don't think you had a problem with with time in particular but maybe just as a precaution you could slow down a little bit uh vocabulary again was amazing a wide range of vocabulary using them in the correct spots and maybe producing the same words or the same meaning but in again using a wide range of vocabulary which is very good for ielts criteria ielts speaking criteria uh maybe you repeated words here and there that happens i mean what do you call it native speakers they would do the same we all repeat our words and that's another natural part of the language maybe you could just polish that up for your ielts speaking test again just if you want if you want to get that nine band score grammar grammar and accuracy again you were using complex structures and i don't think you had any problem with that either because you see you seemed very relaxed you were using them in the correct at the correct time and one after the other and i don't think maybe at some point you were a little bit hesitant but i think that's more about the idea that you were talking about to continue talking about your idea maybe a little bit sometimes hard to extend my ideas that's right i think it's hard for anyone to extend their ideas particularly if they're not uh prepared for the sort of questions they're going to be asked that again could fall for that could happen for a native speaker a native speaker could fall into that trap i wouldn't worry too much about that again if you were slightly maybe hesitant thinking about your idea maybe just just a tiny bit slow down i would say just slow down in your answers in part two and part three because it is a little bit complex when when you're trying to think about multiple ideas to have a conversation with the examiners especially in part three um but again i don't think you had any problems with your ideas and you the complex structures that you were using again fantastic stuff pronunciation i don't think you had any problem with pronunciation i wouldn't look at that at all i mean you sounded very comfortable with all the words that you're pronouncing whether they were the simple words or some certain tongue twisters i felt that your tongue wasn't twisted at all it was it was very good and so definitely the pronunciation definitely i wouldn't concentrate on that at all altogether just a bit of timing with the you know spreading out your ideas a little bit with the answers and all that is just taking down the pace maybe if you're in gear five maybe reduce it to gear four yeah so many thoughts in my thought that i need to think of so yes you're right that's right i don't know that's that's absolutely fine are there any you know questions you'd like to ask me uh actually i was just worried about the time managing and that's one of the reasons why i was trying to talk as much as i can as fast as i can and um yeah it was a great uh feedback for me to just slow down a little bit and concentrate more oh it's my pleasure no you did a great job and you actually managed to control it in many of the uh most of the occasions especially uh part two um even you you went on to elaborate even more just to make sure the like you were talking about time management to make sure i'm getting over that's right to keep making sure the time is over try not to think too much about that if if i was in your position just you know stick to your ideas just what you were doing and yeah again it is it plays in the back of your mind okay i do have to talk for up to two minutes but you know how it works the examiner stops you after the two minutes so don't worry i mean if you just focus on that with controlling the speed um and if you control the speed and stop that you know slight hesitant side with the arms because we all do it native speakers we always have the um's and the pauses so you just polish it it's just basically polishing up what you have and you'd easily get that nine band score i don't see any problem yeah i hope so no i know so so i wish you the best of luck and well done thank you thank you very much it was uh great and i uh really i can really use the feedbacks that you gave me oh it's my pleasure anytime you

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Length: 18min 44sec (1124 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 03 2021