Rahul, welcome to this post test interview where we're going to be hopefully
talking about what you discussed in your test. How did your test go?
It was according to me, it was good but uh I think it was good sir. I learned a lot.
Great, great. And do you remember the topics that you had in part one? Yes, questions
were revolving around family, healthy living and colors. Aha, so let's help the students today by
talking about the topic of your family. Now, you had questions such as do you have a large family?
How often do you see your family and so what I want to do is give you a quick test, do you mind?
No, I don't. So, the first one is how many different family members can you name in English? Uh, I think we
can say mother, father, paternal uncle, paternal aunt, sister, brother, and I think the list can
go on. You can say my paternal, the daughter of my paternal sister, the son of my maternal uncle,
and I think that should be enough. Would that be things like cousins, and grandfathers, and
stepsisters, and step brothers. Those are things that you could also say right?
Yes, we can. I'm not sure why I missed this. Um, now if I said in English who do you take after? What does
that mean? Uh to be very honest I don't know about this. Great, so if I said to you who do
you take after it means who do you resemble, or who are your behavior and characteristics like.
So if I asked you who do you take after? Do you take after your mom or do you take after your dad?
It's definitely my mother. Great. It's really important to think about phrasal verbs in the
test, in the speaking test, because they can help with your score. Do you know what it means if I
said to be the spitting image of? Uh I'm not very sure about the meaning but I think it's something
you are exact replica, or something like. Correct. So to be the spitting image of,
are you the spitting image of anybody? I am the spilling image of my mother I would say. Great,
now this is an interesting one, it's an idiom and it means, in fact I'll tell you the idiom.
If I said the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree,
what do you think that means? I think it means that you are definitely going to be something like
your parents. Correct. Yeah, so you have again many of the characteristics of those people.
Um, if I said blonde hair runs in the family, to run in the family, what does that mean?
Maybe it's a habit which a lot of people in the family are having. Yeah, so it could be some
genetic precondition, something that you look like somebody or you act like somebody. Okay,
so it means something which is related to biology, biology. Correct. So you could say um for example,
anger runs in the family. We have a really angry family. Um, now what about this idiom if I said
to have some bad blood. I have bad blood with somebody. What does that mean?
I'm not sure but I think not some good relation. Correct. It just means that there's some
animosity or some um yeah the relationship isn't great. So you could say I have some
bad blood with my cousin. And the last one that I want to talk about is to be
the black sheep of the family. To be the black sheep of the family. What does that mean?
I'm not very sure about. Okay, so the black sheep of the family is somebody who
doesn't act like the rest of the family. So maybe um they have some problems with their behavior, or
maybe they leave home early, they would be the black sheep of the family. That's interesting.
Now let's move on to the topic of healthy living. I can see that you obviously enjoy keeping fit
and going you know keeping active. Would you say that you are in shape? Oh yes, I am. Great. I'm
very proud of it. Excellent, and what would it mean if I said somebody was out of shape?
No, I think it can mean that they they don't have a body which is looking very presentable,
and I think they need to work, um work out. Would you say that you were the picture of health?
Uh I'm close to that. So you don't smoke, you don't eat badly. Great.
Now what would um well there were two, there were two ways that we could talk about this,
we can say to go on a diet or to be on a diet. What would that suggest?
I'm not really sure I got the question. Sure, so to go on a diet or to be on a diet, what would that
suggest about somebody? Uh I think this suggests that the person is now starting to take care of
himself or herself. Yeah probably trying to lose weight. Yeah and in the past you could say I went
on a diet or you could even say I was on a diet. Have you ever been on a diet? Luckily my genes
and my body, my biology is designed in such a manner by the supreme power I would say,
that I I have a body structure which never gets fat so I'm lucky. I'm very athletic. I am very
jealous of you because I am always on a diet. Um now, what about a healthy eating plan? Do you have
a healthy eating plan for yourself at home? Uh yes, I can say that. It's not 100 healthy but it's
it's on the side of health I would say, because I drink protein shakes,
I I don't eat something which is having a lot of fat, saturated or unsaturated, but I definitely
take care of my calorie intake. Fabulous. Um, now there's a phrasal verb which means to cut down on
or even to cut out. Do you know the difference between to cut down on and to cut out? Uh, I think
cut down means to reduce the amount of intake, and cut out means to completely shut it off. Perfect,
excellent. So cut out means to, yeah to eradicate or to to not eat something for, so you could say
I'm trying to cut out meat, um or you could say I'm trying to cut down on the sugar. Cut down on
and cut out. Excellent. Now the final topic that you had was colors and you told us in the test
that you your favorite color was green. Um now there are some verbs that I want to talk about
today. Um mean, symbolize, stand for, and associate are all ways that you could use to signify or to
represent something. So for you, for example you could say red means, what does red mean to you?
Uh red definitely means danger something which is we should be cautious of. Okay, and what does blue
symbolize? So blue symbolizes what? Blue symbolizes peace I would say, and it symbolizes the sky which
means you are limitless. Perfect, and we've got the verb to stand for, what does green stand for
for you? Green stands definitely for nature, for me at least. Perfect, now we've got the word
associate with, and what would you associate the color black with? Uh I would associate,
I'm not sure if I should use the word over here but it stands for something which is looking
pretty awesome. You know whenever somebody is dressed in black, they look at their best. Wow,
interesting. What about the word represent, what does yellow represent for you?
Yellow represents that you need to stop your car because the red light is gonna crash. Great,
now I'm gonna give you a test. I'm gonna give you a word and I want you to tell me
what the noun is, okay? So if I said the word jealous, what's the noun of jealous?
Uh is it jealousy? It is jealousy. Dangerous? Danger. Courageous. Courage. Well done. Joyful. Joy. Sad.
I don't know this one. Sadness. Um, die. Death. And we're going to learn
a new word today which is vitality. Um, if we had the word vitality which means lots of energy,
which color would you associate with vitality. Vitality is definitely white. Can I just check
your pronunciation of the the word vitality. Not vitality, you've got to focus on your v.
Okay, so we say it as vitality. Vitality, again. Vitality. Can I have a ve, ve, ve. Ve, ve, ve. Vitality.
Vitality. You've still got the w so go go away, and practice that. Well done Rahul today. I hope you
enjoyed this test today. We will see you for another test. If you want to watch uh Rahul's
test, you can see it in the corner of the screen now. I definitely recommend you go and watch
his full test because he did really really well. Thanks Rahul for coming along today. Thank you.