Hi students! Nice to see you all.
My name's Chris from IELTS daily,
And I'm very happy to be here today
because I'm going to be showing you a band 6.5 or a band 7 in the mock exam.
You're going to watch this mock exam.
And you can see what the student does well,
and how they can improve,
so that you can apply the same things in your speaking test.
Hello, friends! It's Chris from IELTS daily.
In this fantastic video today,
I'm going to be watching a full mock exam.
I'm going to be giving feedback on what the student does well,
and how the student can improve.
There are many things that you can take away from this video,
and see what the student does well.
And you can put some of those into your speaking.
And if the student makes a mistake,
think about whether you make the same mistake.
Shall we begin?
Let's go!
This is a practice speaking test,
replicating the International English Language Testing System,
taking place on Monday, 7th of September, at Melbridge Testing Center.
This practice test is conducted by IELTS Daily.
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come to ielts-daily.com.
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Okay, let's watch this part one.
The practice candidate is Tony.
The practice candidate number is 1-1-2-2-3-3.
The practice examiner is Catherine,
and the practice examiner number is 3-3-2-2-1-1.
Let's begin!
Good morning! what is your full name, please?
Morning! My name is Tony.
And what would you like me to call you?
Tony, please.
Okay, at the beginning of the IELTS test,
you have to give your name,
and the examiner may ask you what you prefer to be called.
Be prepared for that.
It's a very common question.
And Maddie will tell us about the identification
that you will need to show during the test.
In the real test,
you will be asked to provide some identification.
but as this is just a practice,
we won't do that today.
In the first part of the practice test,
I would like to ask you some questions about yourself.
So do you work or study?
I'm currently a student at Melbourne University.
I'm studying agriculture as my course.
And I'm planning to do plant and soil science.
So here, this is a very common question:
Do you work or study?
Tony tells us that he is currently a student.
He makes a small pronunciation mistake with the word agriculture.
He says agriculture.
So just be careful with that word.
For example, culture.
So, good start.
He tells us a little bit about what he wants to do.
If I were Tony in a test,
I'd be thinking about all of the things that I could possibly say:
Am I studying now?
What will I do in the future?
What's my dream job?
Those types of ideas.
And do you enjoy what you do?
Yeah.
It's actually pretty interesting.
As an agricultural student,
I could... do something about sustainability,
as well as precision agriculture.
But it's more about basics.
I'm learning about soil, plants,
how animal behaves and so on.
Okay, so a couple of mistakes here:
First of all, he said how animal behaves.
In this case, you have to choose either singular or plural:
How an animal behaves or how animals behave.
You can't say how animal behaves.
He also said some sing- very common problem
if you don't have the sound, "th" in your language.
"th", is a useful sound
because many languages don't have it.
So you need to practice a lot.
In this example,
Tony said, "some sing" and not something.
Be prepared.
Let's talk about the weather where you live.
What's the weather like?
Yeah, like currently, I was in Melbourne.
So, Melbourne's weather is crazy.
He says,
"Currently I was in Melbourne", okay.
Or "the weather was crazy".
Just be careful with past and present tense
if you're talking about something in general.
You should use the present simple form.
Think about a little bit about grammar
because you have to use a variety of grammatical forms,
but they have to be correct and accurate.
Yes, you can have massive range,
but then after that, you can follow by a sunny day.
And then the morning and evening is freezing.
But the noon could be sunny, and warm, and nice.
So yeah, the weather is pretty crazy
but I kind of like it.
Okay.
So he said "massive rains". In English,
we don't normally collocate those two words.
They don't normally fit together.
We normally say heavy rains.
Okay.
So just be prepared for collocations.
Now, collocations are two words which fit together.
If you use them accurately, this is great.
You're showing the examiner that you have a good lexical resource.
However, if you use them inaccurately,
that could bring down your mark a little bit.
But he tried.
So he's good for trying.
And what type of weather do you prefer?
Actually, I prefer a mild, like melt summer,
but a cold freezing winter with snow, that's perfect.
I enjoy snow a lot,
like I wanna have some sports like skiing, and yeah, it's going to be fantastic.
Okay, a few things here:
First of all,
he struggles with the pronunciation of the sound "la",
so he said mile.
The correct pronunciation would be "mild"...
Mild.
So it's a bit of a harder "le".
And he also said it's "gonna be".
The examiner doesn't really ask tony what the weather will be like in the future.
In fact, the examiner asks:
Does he like the weather in general?
So here, he is mixing the grammatical tenses.
He's using the future to talk about something which is in the present.
So you just got to be careful with that one.
And I'd just like to ask you about being outside.
Like, do you enjoy spending time outside?
Yeah, definitely spending time outside.
It's doing exercises or just take a walk.
It's gonna be great for both my mentally and physically.
Here, he said, "mentally and physically".
"It's difficult for my mentally and physically".
Mentally and physically are both adverbs.
So you have to be very cautious.
You have to use them correctly.
A better way to say it would be,
"It's bad for my mental health or my physical health".
The good thing about Tony is that he tries to elaborate.
He tries to talk more about his topic.
One of the biggest problems for students
is that they only say single sentences or two sentences.
You do need to be able to show the examiner
that you have the ability to create longer sentences
and join them together with some coherence, okay?
So make sure that you are trying to say as much as possible.
I enjoy playing ping pong but that's kind of a indoor sport.
But I do enjoy jogging and running... stuff like that.
It's gonna be pretty nice.
Okay, again,
he said, "it's gonna be pretty nice".
So that means that he again is mixing the present and the future tense.
And what activities do people like to do outside in your country?
Like all sorts of activities could be done in my country.
but most popular one is jogging, and like walking around.
yeah.
Because that's... there's no cost for doing that.
You just need a playground, that's it.
But then, yeah, that's people love playing basketball,
and football, and volleyball.
So yeah, all sorts of stuff sports.
I like the fact that he says all sorts of sports.
It's good language, okay.
It's a collocation,
kind of a prepositional phrase.
All sorts of...
it's a fixed phrase.
All sorts of ideas,
all sorts of people,
all sorts of genres of films.
I enjoy all sorts of sports, good language.
And do you like to do activities which involve water?
Yeah.
I enjoy swimming a lot.
So, if I got time and always go to the sports stadium,
the swimming pool near the Melbourne uni,
and I go there once a week last year.
But yeah due to the pandemic, that's not happening this year.
But I... hopefully everything will be all right,
and I will still be able to go swimming as normal.
"I go there once a week last year".
What's the mistake there?
Well, this is a grammar mistake.
"I used to go there", something that you did in the past but you don't do anymore.
I used to do something.
I used to play tennis when I was a kid.
I used to read a lot, but now I don't have time.
"I used to", okay.
So this one, he just... there was a bit of inaccuracy there.
He didn't use it very accurately.
So if you can use it correctly, great language.
So that's the end of part one.
Tony did a great job here.
His main area to improve would be grammatical accuracy.
He really tries, but occasionally he mixes the present and the past, the present, and the future.
You have to be able to think on your feet.
You have to think really quickly about using correct and accurate grammar.
Remember that grammar is only 25 of your mark,
so it's not the end of the world.
He does really well with trying.
He tries to use good language,
he tries to speak as much as possible.
He tries to expand on his ideas,
which is all great.
But I think his main limitation would be the grammatical accuracy.
So in order for him to get a seven,
he would need to have seven in every aspect.
And I sense here that a strict examiner might give him a six for his grammar.
Well done, Tony.
Come back and watch the second part of this video,
which is talking about part two when he has to do a monologue.
See you soon!