sasuke you have finished your ielts
practice speaking test
how was it for you i found it pretty
good it wasn't too tough
um it's like carrying a normal
conversation in english
and i found it to be pretty good you've
taken the ielts test before
yes so compared to the real test which
is obviously a lot more nerve-wracking
how were the questions in this one um
well i took my real test
three years ago so i don't fully
remember it
i feel like the questions here were a
little more streamlined
whereas when i did the actual exam it
was a lot broader and there was just
a lot more space for me to talk
but yeah this wasn't too different
hello wonderful ielts daily friends my
name is chris from ielts daily
and we're back today for another in our
super
mock exam speaking videos today we have
the student
saskia and she is going to talk
as though she's speaking in the real
mock exam
so we have a practice examiner and
we have feedback throughout the video
and i hope that this feedback is really
useful for you
so you can learn some of the techniques
which sasuke uses
and maybe you can take on some of the
language she uses
i'm going to tell you she's a great
speaker today so pay attention
let's go hello and welcome to this
practice exam conducted by ielts daily
my name is maddie 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 saskia
thanks saskia at the beginning of the
ielts test you will be required to
provide some id
but as this is a practice test we don't
need to do that today
so i want to begin by talking about you
do you work or do you study
i'm a student at the moment great and
what do you study
i'm at university and i'm in my first
year i'm doing a bachelor of arts
in literature as you know
a really common question is do you work
or study i would
really advise you that you should
prepare for that type of question
are you working or are you studying are
you a full-time employee or are you a
part-time employee
maybe you're a job seeker maybe you're
looking for a job
whatever you are whoever you are make
sure that you're ready
let's move on to the topic of maths do
you like math
i'm not particularly a fan no this is
some great language by sasuke she says
i'm not particularly a fan no i'm not
particularly a fan
no this is great way to say no
but it's adding some language so if
you're a fan
of something yeah you could say i'm
really a fan of
and why is math so important i think it
is very fundamental for a lot of degrees
and a lot of not just educational but
occupational things that you might go
into
math has always provided to be a basis
for everything
and is maths easy for everyone no i
can't say that it is
i think it's a personality trait that
you were either
more inclined towards mathematical
thinking or you are not
in this section she talked about math or
you can say maths you know that math is
the
american way to say maths or mathematics
you can say either doesn't really matter
but in this
section saskia used some great language
she says you are more inclined
she talked about personality some people
are more inclined other people are not
inclined and that means that they have
some tendency or
trait that they have an ability to do
something
great great now i want to talk about
smiling what makes you smile everything
as you can tell everything will make me
smile i think i'm a very smiley person
and how often do you smile a lot of the
time i can honestly say
i really like this because saskia has a
great rapport
or relationship with the practice
examiner make sure that in your test
you're not feeling too nervous try to
pretend that you're talking to a friend
have a natural conversation
sometimes your sentences will be short
sometimes you can expand on them
it doesn't really matter just make sure
that you
properly address the question so that
you feel confident that you've answered
it
yep and when do people smile at each
other
when they're happy when they're
loving in love just excited sometimes
when you're sad you can give a
sympathetic smile
and smiles can convey so much
great language here she said smiles can
convey to convey to
show or to get some meaning across
so she said smiles can convey it can be
convey good things or bad things
do you smile when you're having a photo
i
try to i try to but you know sometimes
you've got to give that
the steely the blue steel look i think
it's called
that's the one a pause i pose
i'm going to give you a topic and i'd
like you to talk about it for one to two
minutes
okay the only piece of feedback that i'd
give to sasuke here
is that at times some of her answers are
a little bit short
and i feel that she could elaborate a
little bit more on her answers
for example she talked about whether
people smile in photographs
and she could say well yeah i tend to
smile
often in photographs but i suppose it
depends on the situation
if it's an active photograph and we i'm
doing something then maybe there's no
chance to smile
but she did um use a word which
i'm not that familiar with but i'm not
doubting her it was a blue steel
smile and i don't really use that phrase
very often but i think it's probably
true you can talk about having a steely
complexion
which means that you're quite stern and
you don't always smile so somebody who
has a steely complexion
might not smile so often before you talk
you'll have one minute to think about
what you're going to say
and you can make some notes if you wish
so here is a paper and pencil for making
notes
and here is your topic i would like you
to describe an
advertisement you remember you'll have
one minute
okay so remember you have one to two
minutes for this
uh don't worry if i stop you i'll tell
you when the time is up
you can start speaking now please well
an advertisement that has stuck to me a
lot
is i don't know if you remember the 2016
i believe the pepsi advertisement with
kendall jenner
basically she breaks up a protest
between
the protesters and the cops by handing
a can of pepsi and this was a video and
it went viral across the internet
because of the racial backlash that it
faced
after you know it came out and went so
popular because
i think the idea was that it would
it trivialized the ideas of race
and protesting and things that people
might believe in
and also just just the social values
of culture race everything
and basically by you know dissolving a
protest
and dissolving tension by a can of pepsi
it just trivialized things like the
black lives matter
any sort of protest whether it was
racial cultural sexual
anything and this
went viral and i do remember it because
people still talk about it today and i
was actually having a conversation
recently
about how even though this was so long
ago
and people have apologized kendall
jenner has apologized pepsi has
apologized
it has not taken away from
just how iconic it was and how it
commemorated how people saw
how people trivialized racial tension
and so that's an advertisement that i
fully remember
very very vividly and that's it yes
where were you when you first saw the i
think i was in sri lanka
and it just came up on a youtube post
like you know how they give you the
advertisements before they actually get
to the actual video
it was one of those things and you don't
actually think about
how how iconic it is because you just
kept
get to the skip button but i actually
watched the entirety of that video and i
remember thinking you know
what are you doing i remember
considering pepsi is like what
that is not what you should be doing as
you know such a multi-million dollar
company
and even kendall jenner as an individual
and as somebody who signs up to do this
sort of
um protest exactly you just have to
question where their morals are
yeah right great wow
so much excellent language in here i
think
sasuke did a fantastic job
however there's one piece
of her speaking which may
limit her from a band nine at the moment
i think saskia is
heading towards about nine in this uh in
this speaking practice
but there's one word which i don't know
if you noticed
she didn't pronounce it in the way that
most
people would pronounce it and it was the
word
advertisement advertisement
now some people may say advertisement
and there are two ways that you could
probably say this which would be
advertisement or advertisement
you can choose most of those or both of
those are
just accepted ways the problem here
is that she said advertisement
and i spoke to sasuke after her test and
i said
why did you use the word advertisement
and she said yeah i know actually
in my country in sri lanka we say
advertisement
and i said really that's very
interesting
the problem with ielts
is that they have specific ways
which are acceptable for pronunciation
and those ways are usually
standard british american south african
canadian and accents but any deviation
maybe australian and new zealand as well
but any deviations from those
standard ways to pronounce things and
this doesn't
uh account for accent remember the
accent you can have an accent that's
okay
the pronunciation of words is actually
quite important
and i think that a really strict
examiner
would say because she said advertisement
she probably would score an 8 in the
pronunciation section
which i think is really unfair because
she has been brought up
speaking and using the word
advertisement
anyway that's a little bit about
pronunciation and how important
pronunciation is
to have some sort of standard
pronunciation but let's talk about her
language
she said well so much language she said
went viral racial backlash
trivialize the idea of social values
dissolving the protest trivializing the
black lives matter protest protest
so so much excellent high-level language
with a variety of complex grammar for me
she's on a nine nine nine
eight for the pronunciation but that's
because
i'm looking from a really strict
examiner's point of view
well done saskia let's continue to
section three
thank you now let's talk about
advertisements
generally why do companies advertise
because it attracts the attention of
consumers and they can capitalize on
their product
and is advertising becoming too
commonplace
i think it might be because we're at a
point now where we see product
placements
in the news and tv in movies and we
don't actually
realize how it's so commonplace that we
don't actually realize that we are being
advertised too
we're just there and we see them say oh
i could do with a cook
because i have seen somebody drink a
coke in this film
it's that sort of thing that's made it's
ridiculously commonplace yes
[Music]
sasuke's fluency is excellent in this
section
she's elaborating on her answers and
giving lots of
supporting points she had some great
language as well
and we'll talk about those words now she
said product
placement do you know what a product
placement is well it's when you see
something on a tv show
or on tv which is
advertising a product but you don't
actually
uh realize it's an advertisement it's
sitting maybe there's a
a cup sitting on the desk or maybe
there's a
car in the background that's called
product placement
she also said it's commonplace she said
it's
so commonplace which means it's really
common
but it's a different way to say common
commonplace
and she also said i could do with a coke
i could do the coke means i really want
a coke
i could do with a cup of tea i really
need a cup of tea
should advertising be regulated i think
it should be because otherwise
we fall into we're in a very capitalist
economy
and society and i think that without the
regulation
of advertisements you don't actually
realize that you are being advertised
too and
you lose that sense of control over
yourself your spending
you don't have any autonomy
did you catch saskia saying the word
advertisement again
yep it crept in and i think the examiner
would notice
that such a shame great speech by the
way she's
talking at length using great great
language
is celebrity endorsement a good or a bad
thing
i understand how for the company that
could be a good thing
it's an excellent way to get you know
the layman's attention
but at the same time like you said i do
believe that it has to be regulated
because celebrity endorsement is
excellent
and it's very very effective but at the
same time it does come with its
you know issues have you ever found
yourself buying something because a
celebrity promoted it
i have found myself considering things
because a celebrity celebrity
has promoted it because i'm just like
huh i mean her skin is great she's using
the skin care product there has to be
some sort of correlation
but you don't actually think about you
know the amount of editing etc that goes
into her skin being great
that sort of thing and what celebrity
might that be i think it was just
some model i remember i think it was
gigi hadid because i think
when it comes to young girls and women
and fashion industries
you you see a model of somebody who's
very high up and very popular and
immediately you think oh well you know
if they're doing it it must be right
so that's just that sort of thing thank
you very much
that is the end of the speaking test
wow sasuke had an excellent speaking
test
in this example do you agree i think she
would score
overall a band 8.5 and she definitely
has the opportunity to score a nine
i can't really find anything to fault
her with
no mistakes really and if there were any
mistakes they were called
slips and you are allowed to make slips
at the uh
band 9 level same thing for language you
can make slips at the band 9 level so
i think here saskia would really be
close
to a band nine fantastic fantastic
opportunity for you guys
to watch and learn from some of the
things she says
notice how she delivers her speech she's
very calm and
confident she doesn't worry about it and
she talks naturally
i know that's really hard for some of
you guys to do but you've got to keep
practicing
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it's been such a pleasure talking to you
today i love watching these mock exam
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lots more for you guys to learn from so
for now
take care be kind and see you in the
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