hi guys and it's asiya yesterday i watched a few sample ielts speaking exams and was really
surprised at how sophisticated and formal some of the students sounded even though their score was
like 7.5 and i don't want you to think that you have to be very smart during your exam
i actually speak much more plainly and don't use any complex ideas and achieve 8.5 so today
i want to show you my candid answers but i don't have an examiner at hand so i'm just going to
use a book to ask myself questions i'm going to use parts two and three okay let's get started
okay this book is cambridge ielts academic number fourteen but ielts speaking exam is the same in
both ielts academic and general training so it doesn't matter let me find a speaking section okay
that is test number three and now i have to manage a timer so one minute to read my second
task
describe a very difficult task that you succeeded in doing as part of your work studies you should
say what task you did why this task was very difficult and how you worked on this task
and explain how you felt when you had successfully completed this task
okay
well my minute is almost up five seconds left okay yeah that's it and now i'm setting two minutes
and today i would like to tell you about my idea of filming videos for my business i first had it i
first had this idea several years ago and i wanted to start a youtube channel where i would tell
people about how to prepare for their ielts exam and actually as a keen photographer myself
i could use a camera comfortably and i didn't anticipate any serious problems with making videos
but i was so wrong and the first few videos was really really embarrassing both from
the technical side and from my performance in the videos oh first of all i discovered that
using a camera to film videos is absolutely not the same as taking steel photos and
even though i had quite a good dslr camera not a professional one but not a very simple one either
i thought that that camera was capable of doing everything i needed but actually
i had to upgrade to a new camera that would have more settings to control how
the video looks like that was the first thing and of course i had to learn about
all the video settings which differ quite significantly from photo settings
even though you use the same the same buttons but you somehow use them in a slightly different way
and in terms of my performance i was really shocked at how at how shy and embarrassed i
looked on those videos and how much i paused and hesitated and that was some
okay apparently that was two minutes
dismissed uh and probably you've noticed that i haven't covered my bullet points
if you look here so i needed to explain what the task what task i did so i did that
and why this task was very difficult yeah so i was explaining that in a lot of details and how you
worked on this task um i didn't really i didn't really tell you about how i filmed videos right
and explained how you felt when you had completed the task no i didn't get to that point but that
is all right because in ielts speaking you don't need to cover each bullet point
those points are there to to guide you to give you some ideas of what you should talk about
but you don't have to cover them one by one and you should actually concentrate on telling a story
because it's easier to talk for two minutes if you are concentrating on your story or rather than
answering those bullet points otherwise you can finish very very quickly anyway um
so top part three uh it should last not more than five minutes between four and five minutes and
and usually examiners would ask you questions and they would adapt questions slightly based on what
you said before but i just have to read some from the book and questions in part three are somehow
related to questions in part two but sometimes it's quite difficult to get how okay let's start
okay part three and we are gonna discuss difficult jobs and the first question is
what are the most difficult jobs that people do well it depends i think it depends on how you
look uh and how you define a difficult job so some jobs are dangerous for example being a policeman
or being a fireman those people put their life at risk some jobs are just physically challenging
such as mining and other jobs are intellectually challenging such as being a scientist so i think
that many different jobs can be considered difficult but from different points of view
the next question is why do you think some people choose to do difficult jobs
some people choose jobs because they are better paid if a job is dangerous or if it's
challenging then the pay the salary will be higher than in a simpler job and i think that
is definitely an appeal for some people but others just look for a rewarding career
or something that would be satisfying in the long run and those difficult jobs may give that
do you agree or disagree that all jobs are difficult sometimes oh absolutely
i think we get used to a certain level of activity and then when it suddenly jumps
up or something happens we perceive that this job is difficult and perhaps for other people
it wouldn't be so because that's the normal way the normal day for them so i think it all depends
okay now let's talk about your personal and career success
and the first question is how important is it for everyone to have a goal in their personal life
well i think that goals motivate you to move forward and to actually achieve something
because um when we do something for a long time we eventually get tired and we if we don't have
a clear goal we may actually just drop it uh when it's tiring when it's boring when it's difficult
uh but if you really desire something that it will keep you going
is it always necessary to work hard in order to achieve career success in short i would say yes
of course we hear those stories about some overnight success but i think what we don't hear
even in those stories is that someone worked hard for 10 years without any recognition
and then did something for example wrote a song and that song suddenly became a number one song
in that person became famous but it doesn't mean that they didn't work hard it just means that we
didn't see their hard work before do you think that successful people are always happy people
unfortunately i think that the relation between success and happiness is quite indirect
uh on the one hand if we want something for example a successful career and we achieve it so
we become successful then we do get satisfaction from that and it gives a certain sense of
happiness however there are other aspects of our lives such as health or our relationship with our
family and our loved ones which are ultimately more important and someone may be very very
successful in their professional life but feel absolutely miserable because of something else in
their private life and also i think people always need this okay five minutes so that's enough
this means okay so these were my answers and you've probably noticed that sometimes i didn't
quite finish my thoughts because i didn't really know what else to say but that's all right it
happened during real exams as well and according to my score i wasn't really penalized for that
you know those senses are not perfect because we don't really talk perfectly and that is fine
and ielts examiners understand that and i think during your exam you should just let yourself
speak be friendly be chatty don't try to control what you want to say too much because otherwise
you kill any ideas just trust yourself and speak don't care about your mistakes if you're not
fluent in english you will make some but that's all right and i hope that this video was helpful
and it will inspire you to practice your speaking and to will help you to perform
better at your exam so thank you very much for watching me today and good luck all the best bye