WEBVTT 00:00.960 --> 00:04.370 Good morning welcome to your old speaking test. 00:04.380 --> 00:06.770 There are three parts to this test. 00:06.840 --> 00:10.960 In part one I'm going to be asking you a few questions to get to know you. 00:11.190 --> 00:12.210 Let us begin. 00:12.240 --> 00:12.660 OK. 00:12.700 --> 00:13.770 Sounds great. 00:13.770 --> 00:15.470 What is your full name. 00:15.480 --> 00:24.300 My full name is well my parents name me Antonio Silva but most of the friends in my neighborhood just 00:24.300 --> 00:25.680 call me Tony. 00:25.740 --> 00:29.780 And so you are more than welcome to call me that also. 00:30.010 --> 00:30.590 OK. 00:30.600 --> 00:32.270 Can I see your I.D.. 00:32.520 --> 00:33.560 Sure. 00:33.570 --> 00:35.800 Here is my passport. 00:36.090 --> 00:39.150 And you're welcome to check my information. 00:39.150 --> 00:40.920 Where are you from. 00:40.920 --> 00:50.970 I am from Brazil which is located in South America and specifically I am from a city called Salvador 00:51.600 --> 00:57.900 Salvador is located in the north of Brazil and it's a very beautiful city. 00:57.900 --> 01:01.250 Do you work or study right now. 01:01.320 --> 01:10.520 I am a student learning English in an ESL school located here in Denver Colorado. 01:10.770 --> 01:21.350 And after I finish my ESL school I plan to go study engineering at a university here in the United States. 01:21.360 --> 01:23.450 Tell me about the country you're from. 01:23.850 --> 01:28.450 Well Brazil is a very famous country. 01:28.560 --> 01:31.970 There's a lot of diversity in terms of the ecology. 01:32.040 --> 01:39.480 You can have the beaches all along the all along the East Coast of the country and then to the west 01:39.480 --> 01:48.630 of the country we have the Amazon forests and the Amazon River which is very famous all over the world. 01:48.750 --> 01:54.000 Many people like to come here as tourists to visit our country because of the beautiful beaches but 01:54.000 --> 01:57.680 also we have a very vibrant and exciting culture. 01:57.690 --> 02:00.400 Do you like it and resume. 02:00.400 --> 02:07.770 Yeah I think I think I think you can tell by the way I talk about it that I really do like it a lot. 02:07.770 --> 02:09.990 We we we work really hard. 02:10.020 --> 02:13.590 But also we know how to play really hard too. 02:13.830 --> 02:16.350 And I like that about our culture. 02:16.350 --> 02:17.930 Do you like the weather there. 02:18.120 --> 02:20.270 Yes absolutely. 02:20.310 --> 02:26.290 The weather in Brazil you can almost you can say is almost always and always nice. 02:26.280 --> 02:31.800 We don't really have bad weather like in Canada or the or some parts of the United States where you 02:31.800 --> 02:39.300 have a lot of snow and cold weather in Brazil is sunshine as green as beaches is very beautiful. 02:39.370 --> 02:42.280 Is that kind of weather suitable for children. 02:42.570 --> 02:44.000 Yes definitely. 02:44.340 --> 02:47.960 Because it's not like is not like in the desert. 02:48.150 --> 02:55.880 You know in the desert is very hot and it's unbearable to be outside in Brazil is hot. 02:55.890 --> 03:00.840 But it's great for children because it's important for children to go outside and play. 03:00.840 --> 03:04.160 And in Brazil you can do that year round. 03:04.210 --> 03:08.130 Do you like the place where you live. 03:08.140 --> 03:09.940 Do I like the place that I live for you. 03:09.940 --> 03:13.480 Do you mean like my house or. 03:13.840 --> 03:15.200 Yes your house. 03:15.690 --> 03:16.130 Yeah. 03:16.190 --> 03:21.120 Yeah I definitely like my my house where I'm staying right now in Colorado. 03:21.520 --> 03:27.700 I'm staying with a whole family and we live in a two story house. 03:27.700 --> 03:33.640 I think this it is called a ranch style house I'm not sure but it is it's a very beautiful house. 03:33.640 --> 03:36.310 And and that's where I live right now. 03:36.310 --> 03:41.280 Is that a good location to keep in touch with your friends. 03:41.440 --> 03:43.540 Yeah yeah I think so. 03:43.810 --> 03:48.360 I think it's a really good location for that. 03:48.390 --> 03:56.470 What I'm able to when I'm able to work when I have to go and visit my friends I can easily get on the 03:56.470 --> 04:00.700 train which is a few blocks away and go to their houses which are very close. 04:00.810 --> 04:07.050 And so that is one thing I like about it is that I'm able to get to them in about five or 10 minutes. 04:07.150 --> 04:09.770 What subject are you studying. 04:10.750 --> 04:20.650 Well right now I am studying English but as I told you I'm going to be going to study engineering because 04:21.220 --> 04:27.890 this is a very it's a very very it's a very interesting major to study. 04:27.930 --> 04:31.770 Why do you think people would choose such a subject in their country. 04:32.280 --> 04:40.170 Well I think that especially for Brazil Brazil is a developed country but there still are many parts 04:40.170 --> 04:41.070 that are developing. 04:41.070 --> 04:48.530 We have a we have the petrol industry we have the we have the logging industry. 04:48.650 --> 04:54.720 There are so many different industries in Brazil and India where engineering is very much needed because 04:54.720 --> 04:57.200 there's still so much of the country that needs to be built. 04:57.510 --> 05:02.440 And so that's why a lot of people choose to study engineering in Brazil. 05:02.490 --> 05:04.960 Do you think English is good. 05:05.700 --> 05:17.490 Yeah I think I think that my English is pretty good and then you know is very helpful in terms of in 05:17.490 --> 05:25.350 terms of working nowadays because all over the world people speak English and that's why I've tried 05:25.350 --> 05:27.260 my best to learn it very well. 05:27.670 --> 05:29.980 OK let's talk about music. 05:30.290 --> 05:32.120 What kind of music do you like. 05:32.490 --> 05:36.140 Well of course I like Brazilian music. 05:36.210 --> 05:38.440 I love samba. 05:38.700 --> 05:42.500 And there are so many different varieties of music all over the world. 05:42.510 --> 05:49.530 I'm a big fan of the jazz music from the United States but also I listen to music from all over the 05:49.530 --> 05:50.480 world. 05:50.930 --> 05:53.650 Did your taste in music change with time. 05:53.670 --> 05:55.210 Yeah definitely. 05:55.470 --> 06:02.520 I would say when I was much younger when I was much younger I used to listen to a lot of pop music like 06:02.520 --> 06:05.140 Michael Jackson and stuff like that. 06:05.430 --> 06:13.410 But then as I became as I got a little bit older I learned to appreciate jazz and some other slower 06:13.410 --> 06:17.660 forms of music because they're better to study too. 06:17.670 --> 06:21.320 Do you prefer live concerts or records. 06:21.330 --> 06:30.930 I probably prefer records because at a live concert is very very noisy and very often the the music 06:30.930 --> 06:35.850 that comes out of the speaker system or the sound system it doesn't sound the same. 06:36.030 --> 06:42.780 And so I don't like the big crowds and all the noise if I want to really hear music I like to put on 06:42.780 --> 06:45.480 a record and just sit back and listen to it. 06:46.550 --> 06:53.220 OK do you like to walk. 06:53.290 --> 06:55.840 OK let me think about that for a second yeah. 06:56.170 --> 06:57.820 I love the walk. 06:57.970 --> 07:00.720 I try to walk as often as I can. 07:00.730 --> 07:07.600 One one reason one reason why I really like walking is because it gives me a chance to learn the area 07:07.600 --> 07:13.590 where I live and also to really get out in nature. 07:13.600 --> 07:16.500 Did you do outdoor activities as a child. 07:17.580 --> 07:18.550 Yes. 07:18.660 --> 07:25.560 Yes I did a lot of I do I do our activities as a child when I was with I was much younger. 07:25.600 --> 07:32.850 I definitely would ride my bike play basketball go swimming and sometimes just just walk around the 07:32.850 --> 07:40.350 neighborhood and play various little games with my children with my play various games with my with 07:40.350 --> 07:41.740 my friends. 07:41.880 --> 07:46.370 And so that some of the things that I did as a child. 07:46.860 --> 07:47.940 Thank you very much. 07:47.950 --> 07:50.710 We're now going to move on to part two.