can you believe that every single year three million people sit the IELTS exam
we've come to the birthplace of the IELTS exam Cambridge to find some native
speakers ask them some IELTS questions and hopefully show you some good
responses and some not-so-good ones and in this video we're going to be focusing
specifically on part 3 of the IELTS speaking exam let's go
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Pleased to meet you too. Can clothing tell you much about a person only if they're wearing
it what makes a good student? What makes a good student? Yeah somebody who's just
fun and wants to get involved. Good. Where did you go to school?
Central along by Parker's Piece. What is the difference between the way that
adults learn and the way that children learn? Children learn slowly and with
mistakes by mistakes they learn by mistake that's not right
Do most people have a computer in your home country?
definitely yes almost everybody has a computer here yeah. Why do some companies
ask their staff to wear uniforms so they all look the same I guess they're
not doing too well at the moment are they they're not I expected better yeah
should we give them some tips I think we should I think they need it yeah and
then give them a second chance yeah let's give them one more chance to prove
themselves. Let's see what they've got do you believe everything you read in
the newspapers? It depends on the newspaper to be honest there are some
terrible newspapers and there's some pretty good ones but generally I think you need
to take everything you read with a little pinch of salt otherwise yeah you
can very easily get misled and it doesn't pay to believe everything you
read in newspapers ("that was beautiful!"). What makes a good student in your opinion very simple
somebody who works hard it's that simple in university as in school it's a dead
simple thing you work hard no stress you pass you don't work stress you fail so
good students work hard that's it that's all they have to do and it's not
clever it's dead simple. What did you study? Well in my time you you just
went through the curriculum of all sorts of things you never concentrated on any
one thing like they do today I mean you had Maths English History Geography
whatever but you just got 45 minutes of each never..in my time there was never
any direction into one particular subject. How can a teacher make lessons
for children more interesting? Find a way to engage the children and connect with
things that the children might already be familiar with in order to kind of
associate the thing that the topic that they're being introduced to to something
the children have maybe already experienced I can't think of an example
of what that would be but children obviously have limited
experience they've some of them have been stung by by wasps so if you're
teaching them about..I don't know where I'm going with this.. if it's about something
bad then you could use the sting of a wasp somehow..I don't...What are the main
environmental problems that you have in your country in England we have a
certain amount of pollution with plastic waste that ends up in the sea. I dunno if you
saw the series blue planet by David Attenborough that pictured that. We also have
problems with the exhaust from cars producing nitric oxide and so on
pollution in the air. Yeah we do! Do you think computers will one day replace
teachers in the classroom? No not at all the teachers I remember even now here at
Cambridge are those with a personality those that can lighten up a lecture with
a bit of humor that can make a face they can wave their arms about.. that you
relate to them they're the good teachers and they're the ones that help learning
computers can't do that! How were your teachers when you were growing up? Well I remember
one guy a guy called Archie and he was.. specifically because he was like that
some others were really lousy and I'm sure they were lovely people
I'm sure they loved their mothers but they were lousy teachers. Haha.. Children... a teacher
could best help a child by using things they are already familiar with and with
fun with play as well children children love to play so if you can turn
something into a game and you can transform a topic or a subject into a
game they're more likely to play you know all all children puppies like to
play young young mammals of any of any description they love playing so if you
want to help if you want to help just mess about turn it into a game. What was
your favorite subject?
I suppose handicraft as they called it woodwork. I was in woodwork for a
while and then they they decided after a certain period we're going to shut that
down and you're going over to metalwork they were the two subjects you could join
whichever one you want but I liked wood, I liked working with wood but metalwork
I just didn't enjoy it really, I didn't enjoy it
so there you go even native speakers who have been talking English all of their
life they struggle when they don't have the right tips and the right strategies
to tackle these questions so when you come to your exam make sure you take it
seriously and I hope this video has helped you and you can take home some of
these tips that we have given you good luck in your exam and see you again soon