can you believe that every single year three million people sit the IELTS exam
that's like 10 times the population of Tonga and to get a place in a university
like this one Cambridge you need a 7.0 in all four areas of the exam including
the speaking form but how hard is this speaking part in a native English
speaker pass this part of the test relying solely on their ability to speak
English we've come to the birthplace of where it all began for the IELTS exam to
see whether the native English speakers can pass this test without any
preparation and today we're specifically going to be focusing on part 1 of the
IELTS speaking test so let's go find some people of Cambridge and put them to
the test for this video we have teamed up with a
language learning app called cambly because we think they provide a really
great and innovative way for you to turn down time which is time where you're not
active you're not working into productive speaking practice imagine one
day you are just sitting in the park admiring the Queen's lovely swans but
you don't have anyone to talk to and you want to practice your English one thing
you can do is get this app onto your mobile telephone and all you need is
connection to the internet and you can connect with native English teachers
from all over the english-speaking world at the click of a button so this app is
brilliant for people who are really busy it's available 24/7 and it means that
you don't have to plan your lessons ahead of time so if you want to give
Cambly a go for free then use the link in the description box below and you'll get
15 minutes of credits given to you and then if you really like
you can sign up to any of their plans and you will get 10% discount on us but
make sure you do that quickly because you only get two weeks from now to get
that 10% discount so enjoy that and let's get back to Cambridge did you
study art at school? No I did not, no.
what is the weather like today? Very a very hot. Yes it is. Where is your
hometown? My hometown is Manchester and I come from Middleton in Manchester yeah
Do you like art ? No I do not. No I've got no interest in art at all.
How could your hometown be improved? it could be
improved by having an ice rink all year round. Do you ever work or study in the
evening? well it depends really on what's going on at work sometimes the school
where I work have evening activities in which case I need to hang around and
help out with those but in general no I get off around 5:00 p.m. let's take a
quick coffee break because these guys are not doing particularly well so far
and if they carried on in this fashion for the rest of the test they would most
likely fall short of a 7.0 this is because their answers are not long
enough they're not paraphrasing the questions and there's not much
interesting language being used all of which are key for a high score in part
one so we decided to give them a few tips to see if they can improve their
scores let's see how they get on what is your favorite mode of transport Mary? My
favorite mode of transport would be a horse
we've got horses at home .. love a horse! My daughter rides I ride and I prefer
to go by horse and carriage to most things ha ha ha amazing! Do you enjoy your birthday?
I love my birthday it was my birthday about two weeks ago so a summer birthday
it was fantastic we went to Hunstanton which is a beach seaside town not far from
Cambridge my hometown about two hours in the car and it was really sunny and it
was very nice.. lovely. Do you often watch TV? Do you know what, I don't
actually watch a lot of TVto be honest I've not got time to watch TV I've got two
young children a two-and-a-half-year-old and a 14 week old so when I get home from
the market packed up and done I have to deal with them and by that time I'm just
ready to sit down and just chill speak to my other half and go to bed. Do you
like your hometown yes yes yes yes I used to like it but now I've been down in
Newmarket now for say for 40-something years I'd never move back to Manchester now
because this is my town this is my home now Newmarket and I love it yeah come over
to cambridge about once a month it's.. you can't beat it, can you? Beautiful place.
Do you do the same things in the evenings now as you did when you were a child? Some of the things
are the same I still enjoy watching some comedy
programs on TV but some things have changed for instance nowadays I'm much
more into learning foreign languages so I spend at least an hour catching up on
some French or maybe even German these days. How did you get here today today?
Today we came via a car on the road Alex's car my daughter's car and we came for about an
hour and a half it took us to get here yeah
did you enjoy your childhood yes I grew up in London I was the oldest child of
three I lived with my parents in a house on the
outskirts of London I went to school there yes it was a nice it was a nice
happy childhood. What's your favorite food? In terms of food I enjoy the most
it's got to be traditional British sausages they're not everyone's cup of
tea but for me as a a real English guy there's nothing better. And what's your
favorite TV program. What's my favorite TV program, what currently? Yeah. Well I'm watching
a thing on Netflix at the moment actually which I'm quite into, but I don't
know if it's very good but I'm watching a program called Safe. I've only watched
two episodes so that's I'm into that at the moment other than that I don't
really watch a lot, as I say. I sometimes I sometimes get persuaded to watch a bit
of Emmerdale 'cos that's my girlfriend's cup of tea. Where do you usually buy your
clothes? You mean where I usually go shopping to buy things to wear? I usually
go to most of the big shops in Cambridge we've got some shopping malls I'll go in
a shopping mall. I like to have a really good look around the shops before
I decide what I buy. Are you a happy person? I like to think of myself as a
happy person, yes. If the Sun is out and the weather's good then I'm as happy as
anyone but I'm not always happy and if it's raining or it's snowing then that
tends to affect my mood as well. So after a disappointing start our native
speakers have ended on a high and they've all been able to get a score of
7.0 or above, well done them! Do keep in mind that an IELTS examiner would need
more time to evaluate somebody's level than what we showed today and for that
reason they give you an overall mark from all three parts of the speaking
exam and would never give grades based on just part one like we did today
meaning if you were to do badly in part one you could still get a high score by
performing better in part two and three. So we really hope that you have found
this video fun and also informative if you are preparing yourself for the IELTS
speaking exam. As we can see it's difficult even for native speakers if
they don't have the right strategy and techniques in place to tackle these
questions, they are difficult. So when it comes to your exam take it seriously
find a teacher find the free resources online or even Cambly that can help
you to answer these questions well and give the examiners exactly what they are
looking for. Good luck in your exam and see you again soon for another video