Hi students! Nice to see you all.
My name's Chris from IELTS Daily.
And I'm very happy to be here today
because I'm going to be showing you
a band 6.5 or a band 7 in the mock exam.
You're going to watch this mock exam,
and you can see what the student does well,
and how they can improve,
so that you can apply the same things in your speaking test.
Hi friends! It's Chris, from IELTS Daily,
the best place for you to practice your IELTS everyday.
We're continuing our mock exam review session today,
where I'm going to be looking at part two
of a mock exam with Tony.
Remember Tony in part one made some grammatical mistakes.
Let's see how he does in part two.
Now, I'm going to show you a topic,
and I would like you to talk about it for one to two minutes.
You have one minute to think about what you want to say,
and you can make some notes if you wish.
Do you understand?
Yes.
Here is some paper and a pencil to make some notes on your topic.
Thank you.
I would like you to talk about a style of music you enjoy.
You have one minute to prepare.
Now while Tony is preparing,
let's talk about this topic.
It could be a common topic in the test.
Music is a a topic that everybody knows about.
I think this question would be really hard.
A style of music that you enjoy.
You'd have to talk about that for over one minute.
So try to think about different styles of music,
because you can talk about many styles of music.
You do not only have to talk about one.
One of the biggest misconceptions,
or something that people are confused by,
or don't quite understand,
is that in part two you can go off the topic,
and you won't lose marks.
Remember in writing,
if you go off the topic,
you will lose marks.
But in speaking,
it is absolutely okay for you to talk as much as possible about the topic.
So if you start on one thing,
and you go off and start talking about another type of music,
that's absolutely fine.
Remember in the test,
don't make too many notes.
Okay, that's your minute.
Now you have one to two minutes for this.
So don't worry if I stop you.
I will tell you when your time is up.
Could you start speaking now, please?
Yes.
So, I play piano.
So one of the type of music I enjoy will be classical piano music.
Okay.
"One of the type of music I enjoy",
will be a few grammatical mistakes in here.
"One of",
one of is always plus the plural.
One of the types, always.
One of the doors,
one of the people,
one of the languages,
one of the types of music I enjoy is,
not will be.
One of the types of music I enjoy is classical music.
So I always listen to this music
when I'm deciding I will be playing piano,
or after I play piano.
So, the music is quite relaxing
and at the same time,
it's... kind of make me feels like I will be learning this piece.
"It make me feels like".
For me,
this is a big grammatical problem,
because he's mixing up different forms and tenses within the same sentence.
So it's kind of...
set up a goal to help me to learn something in the future.
So why I'm learning,
why I listen to this music?
First of all,
a feeling relaxing.
Okay.
Feeling relaxing.
Remember that if it's a feeling,
you have to use the -ed ending.
Really important go and learn about it,
the difference between relaxed and relaxing,
tired, tiring,
interested interesting.
If you don't know the difference,
go and learn about it.
In this case,
Tony should have said,
"It makes me feel relaxed",
not relaxing.
And then it helps me to find a new song to practice.
And when I'm listening to this music,
I feels relaxed.
But more importantly,
I feels...
Did you notice that Tony said,
"I feels", twice?
He said it two times.
Very simple mistake.
You can avoid these mistakes
just by focusing.
One of the best ways that you can learn is by recording yourself
and then listening back.
And not trying to notice any grammatical mistakes.
How those writers or musicians,
how they're feeling of the piece.
So I'm really enjoy
by just learning... like listening through the masterpiece.
It's quite refreshing,
and makes me... wanna be one of them in the future.
And that's one of the way I enjoy play piano,
because I really enjoy to feel the heart,
or feel how the musicians are great musicians feels.
Great.
Thank you.
Could you please return your piece of paper and your pencil?
Thank you.
All right.
In this part of the test,
again Tony probably makes too many grammatical mistakes for him to reach a band seven.
You have to be able to speak with a number of grammatically accurate sentences.
If you find that there are mostly grammar mistakes,
or sorry grammar grammatical mistakes in most of the sentences,
you're not going to get a band seven, unfortunately.
I wouldn't say focus too much of your time on grammar.
But if you are looking for a seven,
you do need to focus some of your time on making sure
that you're not making these types of mistakes.
Remember,
I tell students again, and again, and again,
you don't need to cover all of the question points that are given on the card.
The question points on the card are there just to help you to direct you.
If you don't cover part of it, that's okay.
If you talk at length about one part,
and just cover one short part of another question,
that's okay too.
If you miss some of the questions all together,
no problem.
It's different for the writing section.
Speaking you can miss parts of the question card altogether.
I know that for many of you,
the speaking part two is a very difficult part of the exam.
So, try to go to the IELTS Daily website.
Look at as many of the speaking questions as you can.
Record yourself.
Post some of your answers to our Facebook group.
You can record yourself on the video.
Post them,
and we'll try to give you a score.
I hope this was useful for you.
That was part two of the test.
Again, Tony scores a band 6.5 to a band 7.
I hope to see you in the next video.
Bye for now!