hello miss aubry welcome to part three of the mock speaking test for ielts welcome
to you this has been a really good series i'm so excited for our listeners to be able to hear this
for multiple reasons it's going to really help you see how to improve your scores so definitely
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very detailed feedback as well as the scores for this series but also just to get a better
idea of timing how many questions you will get asked how long your answers should be
all of that is so helpful for helping you be more confident on test day you know what to expect
exactly um guys if this is your first video in this series please go back and watch episode one
for mock test part one and episode two for mock test part two and then today of course
we're doing the mock test for part three so we wanna remind you guys that we are saying
exactly what the examiner says on test day so you guys are fully prepared you know what to expect
and remember in episode four of this series that is when we're going to give you really
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uh sample answers today because i wanted to and aubry's gonna take examiner notes yes perfect okay
so what i say first you guys are going to notice i'm going to say we've been talking about advice
because the part two was about advice that you've given to someone and these will be
related the examiner will transition into part three so note that all right ready we've been
talking about advice and i'd like to ask you one or two more general questions related to this
is it better to get advice from a friend or from a family member oh gosh well that completely defense
depends on who your friends and family members are and it also depends on what you're asking about
so if i could just take this on a personal level i would say that if i have questions about my
job or if i have questions about motherhood i go straight to my mom i call my mom and i can cry
and i can ask for advice and she of course has led a very uh sometimes tumultuous life
and therefore has experienced many mistakes and successes and i very much trust her advice
in those two areas however what if i'm having like um romantic issues what if i'm trying to
like date someone or something i'm not gonna go to my mom for advice i will call one of my
close friends and we'll just you know we could talk about anything with each other
so that's the personal example but i'm pretty sure that's true for the general population
what would you say are the characteristics of good advice um i would say that it's not
one directional if i am asking someone for advice i s that doesn't mean i want a lecture
and that doesn't always mean it definitely means i don't want judgment so i would say characteristics
of good advice would be one the person has to demonstrate empathy meaning that they understand
what you're feeling and so that advice would be kind and non-judgmental because if you're asking
for advice it means maybe you're scared about something maybe you think you made a mistake
so you're already in a vulnerable place you don't want anybody to tell you you're wrong first right
you just want comfort and help should people make their own work and career decisions or is a good
idea to ask for advice about this it depends on what stage of one's career one is at um i know
that i have definitely succeeded in professionally in certain parts of my life when i was beginning
to be a professional um and i had to seek advice from managers and i was lucky to have a series of
mentors early on in my teaching career that gave me excellent advice that i still go back to today
um however after having been in esl and been in a number of different related fields and
and industries um i'm pretty confident making my own career decisions at this point um so
yeah let's move on to talk about making decisions why do some people find it hard to make decisions
oh gosh well even i find it hard to make decisions um i think there are too many choices these days
which creates anxiety when one is making a decision because there's also a factor
of fomo fear of missing out like you're afraid of making the wrong decision because when you choose
one thing today it means you are not choosing a thousand things today so for example if you're
in a grocery store right and you're choosing um a type of pasta there's like 20 different types of
noodles made from wheat rice flour um vegetables there's too many choices and prices and discounts
so that makes it difficult and then at night if you want to watch something on tv
there are 10 different streaming services that you subscribe to and a billion different things to
choose from and so you can tell in my intonation that just thinking about it creates anxiety for me
thank you what are some of the most important decisions young people have to make
oh my gosh so many isn't it terrible that some of the most important decisions we make in our lives
have to be when our brains are still young and inexperienced
but that's a topic for another time so the most important decisions well um what to
study in university of course because that can um decide your future path for a lot of people
um also whether or not to go out of state for university or stay home um that can um
decide how you navigate student loans and what your future debt will look like should you um
get married early when should you start a family um thank you let's talk about mistakes
what should parents do when children make a mistake oh my gosh definitely kindness first
um again speaking from personal experience i do apologize i keep going to personal experience here
but this is the first thing that comes to mind um i know that i have always been very hard on myself
and so when i see my son or his friends being hard on themselves i try to be very careful about how
i react to that i don't want them to feel bad about their feelings because feelings aren't
wrong so if a kid makes a mistake then first of all you have to let them know that that is okay
that that is human that they are not alone in making mistakes that everyone makes mistakes
i also think it's useful to remind them that even as an adult we make mistakes too so establish that
it's okay first and then you can help that is the end of the speaking test great job as i'm
like oh i'm always so interested nope i have to cut you off i need to ask more questions
and i do want to know guys so we are going to talk about the scores in the very next video next week
but um i want to note because sometimes people say that maybe we're too laffy too informal in our
answers and yes i did laugh at times in part three because that's my personality you can do that on
the real exam as well guys be you that is the best way to be relaxed and get that high fluency
score and pronunciation score so although it may seem informal listen to my vocabulary and ideas
because those are not informal yes really good point right it's when are you laughing like have
you said something pretty funny and light-hearted about your personal life yes laugh be happy if
you're talking about crime in a city and it's very that would be that would be inappropriate to laugh
right you want to be native and natural if you're saying something that's funny and it's appropriate
yes you can still be laughing and having fun in part three and if the examiner cuts you off
like when aubry had to cut me off because i talked too much just be like i mean you could react like
that that's totally fine totally that's normal you cut off a friend that might be what they would do
well great job jessica i'm excited for the next video where we'll be able to provide scores and
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