what's up guys so if you like many
english learners out there
are interested in applying to a
university or
getting a job in an english-speaking
country then oftentimes it is not enough
to simply state on your resume
that you are an intermediate or advanced
speaker of english
you're going to actually need to certify
your level of english
and this is exactly what the ielts exam
does for you
it accurately assesses the test taker's
ability to speak in english
and it also tests on all four of the key
areas of the language
and these of course are reading writing
speaking
and listening
now if you're like most learners out
there then you probably think studying
for a test like this sounds pretty
boring right
but today we're gonna make it a ton of
fun we're gonna focus on the listening
part of the exam
with some scenes from the tv series
friends but before we get into that
there's some things that you should
probably know about the exam
so at the listening section of the ielts
exam
you will be tested with four specific
types of recordings
and you will have to answer 40 different
questions what this means of course
is that you can train your listening to
improve your comprehension for those
four specific types of recordings
however in my opinion when you do this
you're simply fine-tuning your skills
to be able to respond to and be prepared
for those types of recordings
however first you're going to need to
work on kind of the fundamental base of
your listening
which the best way to do this is by
constant exposure
to the language with that said all that
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all right so in this lesson we're going
to use a few clips to test your
listening
now the first ones will be for
intermediate learners and they will
include
subtitles and even if you're advanced
already this is still kind of a good
warm up for you before
the more advanced listening exercises
and if you're intermediate then it's
going to provide significant assistance
for you
if you find that you struggle to
understand the recordings without some
sort of help
now of course the problem here is that
if you use subtitles it can kind of turn
more into
a reading exercise and of course you
won't have this
luxury on the actual ielts exam but it
can
be a good bridge from taking you from
the point of not being able to
understand anything
to later being able to understand even
without the subtitles
and then the other clips will be for
advanced learners and they will not
include the subtitles
alright are you ready grab a pen and a
piece of paper and let's get into it
all right they got water orange juice
and what
looks like cider taste it
yep it's fat i drank fat
yeah i know i did that two minutes ago
hey hey mr tux why aren't you guys
dressed
we have a half hour no four minutes ago
you had a half hour we have to be out
the door
20 to eight relax ross we'll be ready it
only takes us two minutes to get dressed
you know i'd feel a whole lot better if
you got dressed now okay
hey oh look at you all sexy
really oh wow
oh hi hi how come you didn't come over
earlier because i'm a stupid stupid man
hey ross want some cider no
so well let's see you're pretty close
huh oh makeup's on hair is done
yeah i just have to get dressed yay and
that takes what just six or seven
minutes
yeah once i figure out what i'm wearing
glass of fat
i'm sorry mr bing there's no record of
your reservation in the computer
well that's impossible can you check
again please check again please
i'm sorry it's not here not there
let me get this straight i called
yesterday to try to cancel my
reservation was told it's
not refundable then we drove six hours
all the way up here and now you're
telling me that we don't have a
reservation
i don't know what to say she doesn't
know what is that
just give us the cheapest room you have
well unfortunately the only thing we
have available is our deluxe suite the
rate is 600
that's insane it was totally insane dude
let's drive home we'll hit all the maple
candy stores on the way back and
if if they're closed then maybe we'll
we'll tap a tree and mix them ourselves
does that room have a closet i can lock
him in
we'll take it great
but they are totally ripping us off dude
don't worry about it i know how we can
make your money back
this is a nice hotel you know plenty of
amenities we just load up on those
like those apples instead of taking one
um
i take six great at a hundred dollars an
apple we're there
come on you get the idea you know we'll
make our money back in no time
dude you're shaking i think it's the
sugar can you hold the apple
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and now let's get into the next practice
test
i'm i'm kind of going through a dry
spell sex wise
oh for like months five to be
lying six six months wow that's rough
well i mean it's not all bad i'm
learning to appreciate the uh
smaller things in life like sound of a
bird and
the color of the sky sky's blue ross and
i had sex yesterday
please help me i have a date tonight it
has to go well okay i'm scared for my
health
okay okay oh oh oh i got something
okay it's this story that i came up with
very romantic i swear any woman that
hears it they're like putty
really well then tell it to me okay
now you're going to want to have sex
with me when you hear it but
you have to remember it is just the
story
i'll try to control myself
okay years ago
when i was backpacking across western
europe you were backpacking across
western europe have a nice six more
months ross
okay i'm sorry please please you you
were in western europe
and
i was just outside of barcelona hiking
in the foothills of mount
tibidabo
i was at the end of this path and i came
to a clearing
and there was a lake very secluded and
there were tall trees
all around it was dead silent
gorgeous and across the lake i saw
a beautiful woman bathing herself
but she was crying
why
oh this is great wine it's from france
in europe western europe
you know um a few years ago uh actually
i was backpacking across western europe
really wait it gets better
um yeah i was in um barcelona i studied
for a year in barcelona
anyway um so i was um i was hiking i
love hiking oh that's great
i was hiking along the foothills of a
mountain
bidebo i think it's tibidaba okay do you
want to tell the story
i was just outside of barcelona hiking
no no no ross i'm not hot are you hot
it's been six months i'm always hot
well you're not selling the story it's
like it's like you don't believe it
look i got to go i got a date but try
this
do what i do when i'm preparing for an
audition okay i'll set you up with my
video camera
and you can record yourself and and see
what you're doing wrong
i'll try that all right now
all right you're all set up you're good
to go just hit record all right good
luck
thanks
do
hey look joey i'm just saying if you
need something to hold you over i can
get you a job right here as an
entry-level processor
but don't you need experience for a job
like that it's not that hard to learn
and as for people realizing that you
have no idea what you're doing hey
you're an actor act like a processor
people will think you're a processor
joey is a fellow processor
no kidding oh yeah
yeah i process people want the
processing
i'm the one they call i was just telling
joey about the opening in fleischmann's
group
a fleishman's group whatever you do
don't touch your sandwiches
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are all you processors dorks hey
hey how's the first day going pretty
good it's like you said it's mostly just
putting numbers from one column
into another column well there you go
eight and everybody is so nice
i just had a good talk with that lady
with the red hair genie
genie the head of east coast operations
genie yeah
turns out our kids go to the same school
yeah small world huh
weird world your kids
i figure my character has kids
you know there there isn't a part of
that sentence that i don't need
explained
well see when you're acting you need to
think about stuff like that
my character joseph the processing guy
has two little girls ashley and brittany
ashley copies everything britney does
hey mr douglas sir uh listen bing i
receive your memo so we're not going to
see the system's report until next
friday well the people in my group want
to spend the holiday weekend with their
family
i have a family i'm gonna be here
yeah bing what's that about
it's about cutting my people a little
slack you know for morale look if you
want to see some rough numbers i can get
them to you by wednesday
rough numbers
this company was not built on rough
numbers
i have the final numbers on my desk by
tuesday
if you say so sir joseph's good isn't he
well i'm going to kill you
hey hey i just figured joseph's the kind
of guy who likes to mix it up
you know get in there ruffle some
feathers
why
look i'm sorry but that's what joseph
does
okay if you try to pull something he'll
call you on it
what are you trying to pull he'll say
mr douglas is looking for you why why
why why why is mr douglas looking for me
because he has a strong suspicion that
you dropped the ball on the lender
project
why why why why why does he suspect that
because at first he thought it was
joseph but after he asked joseph about
it
turns out it was you anyway i just
thought you should know
all right that's it look joey
i'm sorry i realize this is the role of
a lifetime for you and if i could just
fire joseph
i would but unfortunately that's not
possible so i'm gonna have to let both
of you go
what are you talking about everybody
loves joseph i don't
i hate joseph okay i think he's a
brown-nosing suck-up
oh yeah well you can't fire joseph you
know why cause he's not in your
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department
learners write us here on youtube and by
email
all the time asking us how to know what
their level of english is
have you ever asked yourself this this
can be
challenging to know because it depends
on various factors
so you need a test that can help you
determine your knowledge of the
different aspects of the language
well based on countless messages we've
decided to make an
entire video that you can use to tell
exactly what level of english you have
i know tests are not fun we have bad
memories of taking them in school
and being anxious to finish so we could
go do something more interesting
this test is based on the cambridge
general english test
but as always we've made your learning
experience more fun
by converting the questions into a video
format with scenes from
tv series like the big bang theory
modern family and of course
everybody's favorite show for learning
english friends