WEBVTT 00:00.070 --> 00:00.810 Go. 00:01.590 --> 00:02.400 Good morning. 00:02.400 --> 00:05.000 Welcome to your iPod speaking test. 00:05.010 --> 00:10.890 There are three parts to the test and part one I'm going to be asking you a few questions to get to 00:10.890 --> 00:11.600 know you. 00:11.850 --> 00:13.620 Let us begin. 00:13.650 --> 00:13.950 All right. 00:13.950 --> 00:15.240 Hey thank you very much. 00:15.240 --> 00:17.000 I'm happy to be here. 00:17.010 --> 00:18.940 What is your full name. 00:18.960 --> 00:24.390 My full name is John Markels and my friends just call me Johnny. 00:24.510 --> 00:29.340 So I'm not sure if you want to call me Johnny or Mr. Markels is fine with me. 00:29.340 --> 00:30.780 Either one is good. 00:30.990 --> 00:31.730 OK. 00:31.950 --> 00:33.360 Can I see your I.D.. 00:33.690 --> 00:34.530 Yes. 00:34.620 --> 00:39.240 Here is my passport right here. 00:39.240 --> 00:40.540 Where are you from. 00:40.980 --> 00:49.050 Well originally from Mexico but I have lived almost all my life here in the United States. 00:49.050 --> 00:56.990 However I have to still take the Isles exam because of my sins because of my citizenship. 00:57.360 --> 00:59.110 Do you work or study. 00:59.700 --> 01:08.550 Right now I am studying at a university here in the United States and I have to take the exam because 01:08.550 --> 01:14.510 I need to get a higher score in order to be able to move on to a master's program. 01:14.520 --> 01:16.700 What subject are you studying. 01:17.250 --> 01:24.820 I am a psychology student and it's a subject that I really really enjoy a lot. 01:24.920 --> 01:29.670 I've been learning in my bachelor's and I find it very very interesting. 01:30.150 --> 01:33.720 Why do you think people would choose such a subject in your country. 01:34.050 --> 01:34.570 You know what. 01:34.590 --> 01:40.790 I don't think I don't think that a lot of people in my country actually choose this subject. 01:41.250 --> 01:49.200 It's not that often that you hear about people in Mexico that are psychologists you do you do have psychologists 01:49.200 --> 01:52.400 but it's not as popular as it is here in the United States. 01:52.590 --> 01:58.740 But I think what it might become more popular because it's a great way to help people handle and get 01:58.740 --> 02:03.760 better with their individual problems and also societal problems. 02:03.780 --> 02:08.290 Do you think English is good I think is pretty good. 02:08.310 --> 02:13.620 You know I've been I've been living here in the United States for a while and so I've had a chance to 02:13.620 --> 02:17.040 talk to a lot of native speakers. 02:17.040 --> 02:25.500 And by talking to native speakers I've really learned to improve my accent and to learn a lot of vocabulary. 02:25.530 --> 02:30.590 What will you do after studying this language after studying English. 02:30.600 --> 02:39.120 I hope that it can be very useful in my profession but I think will be very good because I'll be able 02:39.120 --> 02:42.960 to meet clients who speak Spanish. 02:43.240 --> 02:50.340 And also if there are any Americans or people from the UK I'll be able to help them as well. 02:50.340 --> 02:56.740 So I think that I'll still be using the language after I have been studying studying it for a while. 02:57.120 --> 02:58.800 OK let's talk about your home. 02:58.860 --> 02:59.420 OK. 02:59.550 --> 03:01.490 Can you describe your home. 03:01.950 --> 03:02.480 Yes. 03:02.490 --> 03:11.280 Right now I'm living in a three bedroom apartment located in a 16 floor apartment building. 03:11.280 --> 03:19.600 My apartment has a living room dining room two bedrooms kitchen and a laundry room. 03:19.600 --> 03:20.900 Do you like it. 03:21.400 --> 03:22.670 It's OK. 03:22.960 --> 03:28.140 I prefer I prefer to live in a house. 03:28.150 --> 03:36.710 But some of the things that I do like about my apartment are the location the availability of a of of 03:36.940 --> 03:42.660 my mass transportation and also my friends are pretty close. 03:42.670 --> 03:45.580 Would you like to change something about your house. 03:46.210 --> 03:54.160 Yeah if I could I would like to change the location of my apartment because I have some next door neighbors 03:54.640 --> 03:58.510 that are pretty loud in terms of playing music and having parties. 03:58.540 --> 04:03.970 So if I could actually change the actual location of my apartment that would be great because I need 04:03.970 --> 04:06.810 to be able to study for my classes. 04:07.170 --> 04:07.770 OK. 04:07.810 --> 04:09.650 Do you like flowers. 04:10.300 --> 04:11.640 Yeah I do. 04:11.650 --> 04:13.800 I do like flowers. 04:14.230 --> 04:15.470 I have grown. 04:15.490 --> 04:20.760 I have I've actually tried to grow my own flowers for a long time. 04:20.800 --> 04:23.500 I'm not very good at it but I love the smell of flowers. 04:23.500 --> 04:24.580 Yes. 04:24.640 --> 04:26.800 Do you have any plants in your home. 04:27.070 --> 04:34.740 As I was saying I have tried to grow flowers myself for a while so I do have some plants inside my home 04:35.770 --> 04:41.380 and I normally keep them near the windows and in the bedroom because it really helps to make the house 04:41.380 --> 04:42.660 smell good. 04:42.670 --> 04:44.210 What kind of plants were they. 04:44.380 --> 04:46.060 Oh wow. 04:46.060 --> 04:48.990 Really I'm not really good with names. 04:49.510 --> 04:56.470 I probably can't tell you the actual names of the plants because normally when I go shopping I just 04:56.470 --> 05:00.620 look for the color of the plant and the smell of the plant. 05:00.940 --> 05:04.650 And if I liked the color I like to smell it up by it. 05:04.870 --> 05:07.350 So I'm not really good at names. 05:07.360 --> 05:10.000 When was the last time you bought a plant. 05:10.730 --> 05:21.010 While I would probably say the last time I purchased a new a new plant was about four or five months 05:21.010 --> 05:26.430 ago I bought a camera the name of it. 05:26.470 --> 05:34.650 It was a big green plant and you're supposed to put it near the window and it grows very very long vines. 05:34.870 --> 05:37.130 But it's a beautiful plant. 05:37.540 --> 05:41.330 On what occasion do you use flowers in your country. 05:42.130 --> 05:52.300 Well in my country we use flowers definitely we use flowers sometimes when there's a funeral weddings 05:53.290 --> 05:57.070 or for some type of romantic situation. 05:57.520 --> 06:00.800 Do you like to travel by bus or by taxi. 06:01.360 --> 06:09.730 I definitely prefer the bus because on the bus you're able to really see the way people are inside of 06:09.730 --> 06:11.240 a country. 06:11.350 --> 06:17.730 You get you see all types of people on the bus some crazy people some funny people. 06:17.800 --> 06:24.510 But I think the bus is more interesting is it easy for you to use such a transportation method. 06:24.520 --> 06:25.890 Definitely definitely. 06:25.930 --> 06:34.300 Because actually on the buses here the signs are in English and also in Spanish. 06:34.550 --> 06:38.590 And so definitely is very very easy. 06:38.590 --> 06:46.480 What's more is that when you are riding the bus the bus driver is normally very helpful in terms of 06:46.480 --> 06:49.310 telling you where you should get off. 06:49.330 --> 06:52.750 Have you ever been on a very long bus journey. 06:53.260 --> 07:01.840 Although I've thought about wanting to travel for extended periods of time on a bus I've never had an 07:01.840 --> 07:03.750 opportunity to do it. 07:03.760 --> 07:13.230 However if I could take a long bus ride somewhere I definitely think I would love to ride a ride from 07:13.240 --> 07:18.930 from where I am now to maybe Oregon or Washington because I've heard it's very beautiful. 07:18.940 --> 07:21.600 Do you like giving presents to people. 07:22.180 --> 07:23.740 Yes yes. 07:23.830 --> 07:31.330 I think that it is very nice to give presses to people especially when they're not expecting it because 07:31.440 --> 07:36.440 it's nice to be able to see their happiness from receiving a present. 07:36.700 --> 07:39.790 So definitely that is something I love to do. 07:39.790 --> 07:42.200 What type of presence do you like to give. 07:43.990 --> 07:50.440 Well I think it's great to be able to give presents that are unique because I think that people will 07:50.440 --> 07:55.210 remember those types of presence a lot more do you give presents. 07:55.260 --> 07:58.030 You made yourself Tany on. 07:58.190 --> 07:58.920 No. 07:59.150 --> 08:06.730 I would have to say I've never done that before since I don't have any artistic talent to make presents. 08:06.920 --> 08:14.970 So I think that the person would find it very funny to receive something made by me. 08:15.140 --> 08:17.370 Do you read magazines. 08:18.080 --> 08:20.600 Yes I have. 08:20.720 --> 08:27.240 I have read I have looked at many many magazines over the years. 08:27.350 --> 08:35.660 I think that reading magazines is very helpful for your knowledge but also for being able to look at 08:35.660 --> 08:38.960 the pictures from many different places. 08:39.140 --> 08:41.440 Which ones do you prefer. 08:42.260 --> 08:49.940 I would have to say my favorite magazine is Discover magazine because in Discover Magazine It tells 08:49.940 --> 08:55.520 you all of the latest scientific discoveries that have happened. 08:55.520 --> 09:03.950 In fact I recently read an article that was talking about or was discussing about the way that Neanderthals 09:04.910 --> 09:06.910 would speak if we actually heard them. 09:06.920 --> 09:09.080 And that was very interesting. 09:09.080 --> 09:10.960 Did it help you to learn English. 09:11.090 --> 09:12.920 Yes definitely. 09:12.920 --> 09:20.450 Because when when looking at Discover Magazine It really gives me an opportunity to learn a lot of vocabulary 09:20.810 --> 09:22.970 that I've never heard of before. 09:23.000 --> 09:27.440 And so I've actually gotten better by reading magazines like that. 09:27.470 --> 09:32.480 Can you tell me the differences between the magazine and the newspaper. 09:32.480 --> 09:34.030 Let's see. 09:34.040 --> 09:36.160 Definitely definitely I can. 09:36.170 --> 09:37.130 I can discuss that. 09:37.160 --> 09:44.960 I can talk about that issue because when you think about a newspaper you know a newspaper is going to 09:44.960 --> 09:53.540 give you very instant right away information that happened the previous day and when it comes to a magazine 09:54.020 --> 10:00.160 they might have articles that contain information that is a month old or two months old because some 10:00.170 --> 10:03.030 magazines come out every month or every other month. 10:03.440 --> 10:09.350 So I think that's one of the major differences between a magazine and a newspaper is that the mag the 10:09.350 --> 10:14.480 magazine covers covers a longer period of time. 10:14.480 --> 10:19.300 And in a newspaper it's more of instant information OK. 10:19.610 --> 10:22.320 When did you get your first mobile phone. 10:22.790 --> 10:25.260 Well I received my my. 10:25.730 --> 10:36.870 I was I received I received a Nokia mobile phone probably about 10 years ago. 10:37.280 --> 10:47.430 And if I remember correctly that was the very first phone in my life in Mobile. 10:47.810 --> 10:50.960 When should a mobile phone not be used. 10:50.960 --> 10:55.750 Well that's that's very controversial. 10:55.750 --> 11:02.240 That's very controversial because some people feel that you should be able to use a mobile phone in 11:02.240 --> 11:04.760 class if it helps you. 11:04.760 --> 11:12.710 But my my feeling is that they should not allow us to use those phones in the classroom because that 11:12.710 --> 11:19.690 can be a distraction to to the student because they won't be listening to the teacher. 11:19.970 --> 11:27.730 Also if the cell phone goes off or makes any noise it will be a huge distraction for the teacher. 11:27.950 --> 11:33.740 So I think that they should not be used definitely in classrooms. 11:33.740 --> 11:42.670 The only other place I can think of would be an airport OK do you like to send or receive postcards. 11:43.790 --> 11:48.720 Actually I like postcards but I don't like to send them. 11:49.040 --> 11:52.640 The main reason why is that my handwriting is not very good. 11:52.940 --> 12:00.320 And so I think if somebody were to try if someone were to receive a postcard from me it may not be very 12:00.320 --> 12:02.190 legible. 12:02.420 --> 12:06.050 What type of cards you use in near friends or family. 12:06.590 --> 12:15.170 Most of the time when I'm traveling to different parts of the world I will get a postcard from the place 12:15.170 --> 12:20.080 that I visit because I think that the people will find it very interesting. 12:20.380 --> 12:23.680 The people will find the photos on the front very interesting. 12:24.170 --> 12:26.330 Did you dance when you were a child. 12:28.530 --> 12:32.690 Probably probably dance when I was a child. 12:32.710 --> 12:34.310 Yeah I think I did. 12:34.420 --> 12:40.970 You know now that I'm thinking about it you know we played a lot of music in the house where I lived 12:41.100 --> 12:45.480 and I can definitely remember getting up and dancing. 12:45.510 --> 12:47.360 Do you like dancing. 12:48.410 --> 12:51.340 I like the idea of dancing. 12:51.380 --> 12:56.950 I've tried the dance off and on over the years but I'm not very good at it. 12:56.990 --> 13:01.310 I would like to learn more so that I could appreciate it better. 13:01.310 --> 13:07.950 Where do you usually dance when I have an opportunity opportunity to dance. 13:08.240 --> 13:13.530 It's normally going to be at someone's wedding or at a party. 13:14.060 --> 13:15.230 Thank you very much. 13:15.250 --> 13:17.120 I will conclude part one. 13:17.440 --> 13:18.940 Thank you.