hello ielts daily fans i'm chris and i'm
here with the wonderful
saskia nice to see you all and today we
have
saskia's practice mock test now you've
just finished your test ask yeah how did
it go
i think it went pretty well yes i'm
pretty confident
good if you guys want to watch and see
what saskia did well and how you could
improve
then keep watching do you think that the
ielts speaking test is difficult
well i agree with you the great news is
that we've made some
fantastic mock exam videos with a
real practice exam with real students
and a real practice examiner during
these videos
i'm going to be looking at what the
students do well
how they can improve and also how you
guys
can use some of their tips techniques
and ideas
in your speaking test
ladies and gentlemen welcome back it is
chris from ielts daily and i'm here to
help you pass
your ielts speaking test we have another
mock exam video for you today
with a practice examiner and a practice
student if you haven't already seen this
student
she is one of our channel's very
favorite students her name is saskia
and you can see her other video by
clicking
the link in the description below you'll
see it on the screen
now it is a wonderful video on how you
can improve and sh
and score really highly during the test
sasuke is back for another video we're
very happy to see her again
and she has some different questions and
i want to talk about confidence today
one of the most important things when
you're sitting the test
is to feel confident about the way
you're speaking
ielts is about speaking naturally you
don't have to show off
or try to speak with really high level
words
your language and this is from the band
descriptors
needs to be natural with some
less common words idiomatic words but
for the most part
you just have to give reasons for your
answers
speak fluently without stopping and try
to vary your language as much as
possible
so we have saskia for her second mock
test today
let's see how she does hello and welcome
to this practice exam conducted by ielts
daily my name is matty and i'm your
practice examiner
the questions in this test are designed
to simulate the ielts speaking test
let's start what's your first name
please sasuke
thanks saskia at the beginning of the
ielts test you'll be required to provide
an id
but as this is a practice test we don't
need to do that today
i want to begin by talking about you do
you have a large family
i don't actually it's just myself and my
brother
so it's very tight-knit and how often do
you speak to your family
every day i make sure to call my parents
with my mom and my dad at least once a
day
and my brother and i are very close so
i'm actually going over to see him
after this because of the distance i
make it a point to
you know call them every day so we don't
feel such a large gap
what do you think about the language
tight knit
great high level idiomatic language
there
sasuke uses it naturally during her
speech
she says we're a tight knit family
so it's a dis it's a description which
says that they are very
close you'll see it in the in the
description below
a tight knit family
okay let's move on to the topic of water
do you drink a lot of water i try to i
know you're supposed to have like six
liters a day
that does not happen but i try to keep a
bottle on me as much as possible
and do you ever drink bottled water i do
yes
um because in sri lanka where i grew up
you don't actually
drink water from the tap you can't you
will get sick
um but yeah so i do drink quite a bit of
bottled water
now i want to talk about the sky do you
like to look at the sky
i do it's very peaceful and just calming
to look at the sky do you prefer to look
at the sky during the day or the night
if you're not in the city i think the
night sky is stunning
because you you don't have the light
pollution so you just see a lot of stars
and it's just beautiful
but if you are in the city i can see why
the the sky during the day is a lot more
pleasing
okay so we're talking about confidence
today sasuke comes across as a very
confident person
she answers the questions very naturally
however
and this is an area where kesasky could
maybe improve
occasionally some of the questions she
answers
are a little bit short when she gives
the answer
she probably could elaborate a little
bit more
so we talked about drinking bottled
water and she just said
yes i do and then she kind of
felt the need afterwards to explain a
little bit more
she didn't push herself quite as much
but
then she she spoke at length about the
next topic
so just make sure that for every
question that you answer
try to speak as much as possible
and do you enjoy learning about the
stars and planets i do
i i think it's very interesting how the
stars of the planets really influence
how people perceive their lives i'm not
saying that they actually influence
your life but i'm saying how you know
i feel like people always want something
to blame when things go wrong
and the stars have been a very good
scapegoat for them
the stars have been a very good
scapegoat for them
to be a scapegoat for something lovely
lovely language
she speaks really naturally she's
talking as though she's talking to a
friend
she's sitting back in her chair she's
looking directly at the examiner
great body language it won't help you in
your test but it might make you feel a
little bit more relaxed and confident in
yourself
good job great i'm going to give you a
topic and i'd like you to talk about it
for one 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 here
is a paper and pencil for making notes
thank you and here is your topic
i would like you to describe an older
person who has
inspired you
okay so remember you have one to two
minutes for this so don't worry if i
stop you
i'll tell you when the time is up can
you start speaking now please
so an older person who has inspired me
would be my mother
she is well i know her because she is my
mother
and i don't see her very often because
we live so far apart
but i make it a point to call her every
day communicate and
literally if i'm doing something she'll
be on the phone there with me i'm just
talking
i'm just wasting time but i am just
talking um
and the reason i find her so inspiring
would be because
she didn't finish like she didn't go to
university um
she started she got dragged into like
she got a modelling job
uh started that and from that point on
she has gone on to she
is a director of finance at my parents
companies
and she built buildings
for like she built the office buildings
herself she built a house herself
and she didn't have the educational
background that so many people think
is necessary for you to do so many
things with your life
but she has done everything and she's
one of the most intelligent people that
you would ever meet like you can have a
conversation with her and you'd think
that she was the most learned scholar
but really she just has an opinion and
she just goes with it and she'll make
sure she knows
she makes sure that she knows you know
that her opinion
exists and is valid and yeah so that's
why i find her so inspiring it's just
that
she never let anything stop her
when she grew up she grew up in the
height of the war back home in sri lanka
and she still didn't let that inhibit
her
getting an education or getting places
in life
she always made sure that regardless of
what happened
she and her family were well looked
after
she was a working mom but she always
made sure that by the time three o'clock
came and my brother and i were out of
school
she was hands on she would drive us to
classes
take us back swimming practice drama
classes this that and the other and she
was very
very involved which with a working mom
you don't always expect
right thank you
wow saskia spoke at length for the whole
of part two great she elaborated on her
answers
she gave her opinions her thoughts
explained about who the person was who
inspired her
gave details she did look down at the
card a couple of times but that's normal
she looks for some prompts from the card
no major mistakes
great features of language fantastic
pronunciation
really top quality job
now let's talk about older people
generally
who normally looks after older people in
your country um
well the family back home as much as
possible you wouldn't put anybody all
day into a home
you'd look after them yourself you'd
look after your parents yourself because
we have the idea that
my mother looked after me it's my turn
to look after her that's
that's the sort of mentality but i think
now with the
with migration becoming so big you have
a lot more people who
put their parents in homes and then just
migrate to other countries like
australia the uk wherever else
but for the most part we look after our
parents and our older people
does the government provide good social
care for elderly people where you live
not really because we are a developing
country
and because of that i feel they don't
actually
take the time to make
the space and this like i don't know how
best to explain this because it's such a
complicated
and dynamic thing because there's so
much political involvement
with the social lives of people but
somehow it's not always
for the best i'm just going to pause
there and i just want you to notice this
is a feature
of all our language she started talking
about one topic
and i think she was trying to buy
herself a little bit more time
and then completely changed the way that
she was going
and expanded on her answer then so this
would be a completely normal thing to do
start talking a little bit about
something and she's looking for ideas
this is
content-related hesitation and we've
spoken about that in a previous video
and then she realizes she has her answer
and starts talking more
totally normal to do that and when it
comes
to you know having a good
social program for older people
it's hard to say that it exists not for
a lack of
trying but it's just a lack of
follow-through
i think now if i listen to the substance
of saskia's answer
she didn't actually explain too much
about her thoughts but she did give an
answer
i think this was a tricky question
remember that part three questions are
always quite difficult
she didn't really give a a reason for
um whether the government really
supports elderly people
she kind of skirted around the topic but
did give
somewhat of a vague answer and that's
okay
there's no right or wrong answer in
ielts you just have to be able to speak
fluently which
she did how can society ensure that
older people
are not neglected i think it comes with
teaching the younger generations to
respect their elders
because neglect it's something that you
know if you
if you see your parents neglect their
parents you're more likely to neglect
your own
does that make sense and if you teach
young kids that this is how you are
supposed to care for somebody
regardless of how old they are or how
valuable they are to you and your
society i think then
you'd make sure that you know there's
less neglect going on of older people
all right thank you very much that is
the end of the speaking test
wow a little bit shorter today normally
a speaking test would be
about 10 minutes long this was a little
bit shorter
it was a mock test a practice test what
did you think of saskia
in her speech i was really thoroughly
impressed
she speaks so well so confidently
and remember we talked about confidence
today she answers really naturally
sometimes you'll find her looking up
looking for ideas but that's completely
normal remember on the test day you're
going to be nervous
and you're going to be facing the
examiner that maybe doesn't give you any
emotions back so don't be put off by
that
try to just speak as naturally and as
honestly as possible
i was really impressed and i think a
typical examiner
in this particular case would score nine
for fluency and coherence
she spoke at length nine for lexical
resource
nine for grammatical range and accuracy
and nine for pronunciation
this was an example of an excellent
9 speaking answer so well done to saskia
if you watched her previous video she
did make a small
pronunciation mistake and lots of people
said how can the examiner be
so strict in pronunciation well that's
just how the test works i'm afraid so
be prepared for a really strict examiner
today saskia did
fantastically well so good job to her
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