Good morning welcome to your old speaking test.
There are three parts to this test.
In part one I'm going to be asking you a few questions to get to know you.
Let us begin.
OK.
Sounds great.
What is your full name.
My full name is well my parents name me Antonio Silva but most of the friends in my neighborhood just
call me Tony.
And so you are more than welcome to call me that also.
OK.
Can I see your I.D..
Sure.
Here is my passport.
And you're welcome to check my information.
Where are you from.
I am from Brazil which is located in South America and specifically I am from a city called Salvador
Salvador is located in the north of Brazil and it's a very beautiful city.
Do you work or study right now.
I am a student learning English in an ESL school located here in Denver Colorado.
And after I finish my ESL school I plan to go study engineering at a university here in the United States.
Tell me about the country you're from.
Well Brazil is a very famous country.
There's a lot of diversity in terms of the ecology.
You can have the beaches all along the all along the East Coast of the country and then to the west
of the country we have the Amazon forests and the Amazon River which is very famous all over the world.
Many people like to come here as tourists to visit our country because of the beautiful beaches but
also we have a very vibrant and exciting culture.
Do you like it and resume.
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.
We we we work really hard.
But also we know how to play really hard too.
And I like that about our culture.
Do you like the weather there.
Yes absolutely.
The weather in Brazil you can almost you can say is almost always and always nice.
We don't really have bad weather like in Canada or the or some parts of the United States where you
have a lot of snow and cold weather in Brazil is sunshine as green as beaches is very beautiful.
Is that kind of weather suitable for children.
Yes definitely.
Because it's not like is not like in the desert.
You know in the desert is very hot and it's unbearable to be outside in Brazil is hot.
But it's great for children because it's important for children to go outside and play.
And in Brazil you can do that year round.
Do you like the place where you live.
Do I like the place that I live for you.
Do you mean like my house or.
Yes your house.
Yeah.
Yeah I definitely like my my house where I'm staying right now in Colorado.
I'm staying with a whole family and we live in a two story house.
I think this it is called a ranch style house I'm not sure but it is it's a very beautiful house.
And and that's where I live right now.
Is that a good location to keep in touch with your friends.
Yeah yeah I think so.
I think it's a really good location for that.
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
train which is a few blocks away and go to their houses which are very close.
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.
What subject are you studying.
Well right now I am studying English but as I told you I'm going to be going to study engineering because
this is a very it's a very very it's a very interesting major to study.
Why do you think people would choose such a subject in their country.
Well I think that especially for Brazil Brazil is a developed country but there still are many parts
that are developing.
We have a we have the petrol industry we have the we have the logging industry.
There are so many different industries in Brazil and India where engineering is very much needed because
there's still so much of the country that needs to be built.
And so that's why a lot of people choose to study engineering in Brazil.
Do you think English is good.
Yeah I think I think that my English is pretty good and then you know is very helpful in terms of in
terms of working nowadays because all over the world people speak English and that's why I've tried
my best to learn it very well.
OK let's talk about music.
What kind of music do you like.
Well of course I like Brazilian music.
I love samba.
And there are so many different varieties of music all over the world.
I'm a big fan of the jazz music from the United States but also I listen to music from all over the
world.
Did your taste in music change with time.
Yeah definitely.
I would say when I was much younger when I was much younger I used to listen to a lot of pop music like
Michael Jackson and stuff like that.
But then as I became as I got a little bit older I learned to appreciate jazz and some other slower
forms of music because they're better to study too.
Do you prefer live concerts or records.
I probably prefer records because at a live concert is very very noisy and very often the the music
that comes out of the speaker system or the sound system it doesn't sound the same.
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
a record and just sit back and listen to it.
OK do you like to walk.
OK let me think about that for a second yeah.
I love the walk.
I try to walk as often as I can.
One one reason one reason why I really like walking is because it gives me a chance to learn the area
where I live and also to really get out in nature.
Did you do outdoor activities as a child.
Yes.
Yes I did a lot of I do I do our activities as a child when I was with I was much younger.
I definitely would ride my bike play basketball go swimming and sometimes just just walk around the
neighborhood and play various little games with my children with my play various games with my with
my friends.
And so that some of the things that I did as a child.
Thank you very much.
We're now going to move on to part two.