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I'm Jay,
and this is Chris.
How are you doing, Chris?
I'm really well, thanks.
Today, we're going to be looking at part three of the IELTS speaking test,
so let's get going.
So, welcome back. In today's lesson.
we're going to be looking at part three of the IELTS speaking test.
If you remember a few of my videos,
previous were focused on part two,
and we had some relatively recent topics that we focused on.
Well, we're going to be continuing
those topics today.
Two of these topics were reading and writing.
And if you can remember from that video and the link is down below,
so please click on that.
I talked about my favorite place to read and write,
which is my study at home.
The second topic that we're going to talk about today
is something that you might have had a problem with the first time.
And in my video for that topic,
I have talked about the Google Pixel two phone
that I purchased and the screen didn't work.
So, without further ado,
Let's get started, Chris.
Are you ready to answer a few questions?
I am, but what does without further ado mean?
Ah,
it means without talking about anything else, to kind of...
Yeah,
let's go.
Let's go,
Yeah,
it's a really,
really useful phrase.
Without further ado,
have a look at that one.
You might want to use,
it means let's go.
Yeah,
so well,
yeah.
So your topic is going to be reading and writing. You ready?
I am very ready.
Ok, so let's start.
What's more important? Reading or writing?
Oh...
To tell you the truth,
I think both of them are equally as important.
I'm not much of a writer, to be honest,
I really like reading.
I do enjoy reading, and I'm not very good at composing my thoughts.
But that doesn't really mean that I don't think it's important.
I think lots of people have a really good skill,
a super fine skill at writing,
something that I don't have.
and I would miss that if we didn't focus on writing.
I think both reading and writing need to be focused on at schools.
I think they should have equal importance.
Why do some people listen to audio books?
It could be because they don't have the opportunity to read
if they are driving to work.
I know many of my friends listen to audiobooks
while they are driving because they can't read and drive obviously.
And it's also a great way to practice your language.
If you're learning English,
you could read the book while listening to the audiobook
and you hear how the words are pronounced.
It's a really useful way.
And finally, is reading becoming more or less popular?
What would you say?
Oh,
I would probably say they're less popular.
The world seems to be taken over by visual media,
videos and social media.
So whether we consider reading somebody's social media as reading,
I don't think so.
I think the original concept of reading a book or an audiobook
is probably becoming less popular, unfortunately.
Well, you did a really good job answering those questions.
A few things I'd like to point out, vocabulary related at the beginning
You've given an expression, "to tell the truth".
What does that mean?
To tell you the truth,
it's a filler phrase.
And I think I spoke about this in one of our other videos,
where you want to give some idea
about what you want to say and show that it's your
you're feeling or your thought.
Ok, and
the other things,
What else did I say in the test?
Well, you gave a good grammatical structure.
you said,
while you're driving a car,
you can listen to an audiobook,
so that's a good compound sentence there using the "while".
You also then added to that.
And so there was a
while you're listening to using the continuous verb structure,
you can listen to an audiobook because,
and then you gave the reason why listening to audiobooks is useful.
Yeah.
While is a great connector where we have
two clauses in a sentence two parts of a sentence,
and that makes it a complex sentence.
And if you want to reach a band seven,
I will continue to tell you this:
You need to have complex sentences.
Absolutely.
Good.
Let's move onto your topic now, Jay, which is to talk about a problem that you had the first time you used it.
And this question is:
What kinds of products do people have difficulty using the first time
they buy them or use them?
Oh,
that's a good question.
I would say...
Probably...
Tech, pieces of tech.
Using a phone, or a computer for the first time, or probably a camera.
Cameras are very difficult to use,
especially the big expensive cameras,
unless you're a photographer or someone who is using them on a daily basis
and you buy a brand new,
you know DSLR camera,
you're going to have trouble.
And if you,
I don't know if you've ever seen the instruction manuals
for those cameras, there like this thick.
So you know, you have to spend a lot of time
reading them and becoming familiar with them with their functions.
So, definitely I kind of started out my answer with tech,
but I'm going to narrow that down
and say cameras. Especially expensive cameras.
Great.
Do you think that written instructions are useful?
Yes, I do.
I do.
I think they're absolutely useful.
Instruction manuals are very important.
I collect all of the devices in my home.
I have in one spot for all of the manuals for them,
and I read them whenever I have,
whenever I need to use them.
I think one of the problems many people make is they skip the instruction manual.
And they think they could use the product
or the piece of tech without look without looking at it,
and then they make a mistake.
So if I can give some advice,
always read the instruction manual.
Fantastic,
what do people do in your country
if a product is faulty?
They usually contact the company that produced it,
or that they purchased it from,
and they seek either a refund or an opportunity to exchange that product.
If something happens repeatedly,
so, for example,
if I'm buying a product from one company
and I keep getting various products that are faulty,
then maybe they might complain to that company.
Send an email or call them up
and try to seek some sort of monetary reimbursement for that.
Fantastic, good.
These questions are quite tricky in part three of the test
and it may be the case that you don't understand the word.
a good example here is the word "faulty".
Faulty is a level B2 word.
It's quite high,
so if you don't hear that word,
or if you don't understand it,
it's critical.
It's really important that you ask the examiner to rephrase it.
in your speech, you said the word,
"unless". What does unless mean?
That's a good question. How can I describe that?
I can help if you want
It means "if not".
Yeah,
yeah.
So I wouldn't do something unless something else happens.
It's a condition,
but it's a "not condition".
Yes.
what else did we talk about, instructions?
You said you had a DSLR camera.
You said the word, tech.
And you wanted to... you focused on your answer.
That was really great.
So he started talking about tech,
and then he gave, he went more narrow.
He said, "narrow it down".
This was a good phrase.
Narrow something done.
I'm going to narrow that down.
I'm going to talk about it in more detail.
So you go from general to specific.
Exactly.
That's it for me.
That's it for me too.
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