Is I'm going to take you through a speaking test.
And if I hear any weak areas or hear anything that I think should be done differently or improved then
I will definitely definitely definitely let you know.
So when it comes to part one in your opinion what do you need to do to be successful in part number
one.
AM In part one I think I think part one goes goes ok with me.
It's easy it's good.
And I can handle it with ease.
Indeed.
But I need to extend my answers a lot.
I don't want to stop at some basic information about me or my home my home country and so beside the
point I want to extend my answers more and more.
OK.
So let's get started.
And I will point out anything that I see as a problem OK.
OK.
So starting off could you please tell me your full name.
My parents called me up the law and they called me after my grandfather.
And so my whole name is are the law of the law.
So he was an agricultural specialist and he was an amazing person in the.
All right.
And where are you from.
I'm from an amazing country from the African continent.
I'm from Egypt.
Egypt is about 7000 years civilization the oldest civilization around the world.
For Onix of laisse and then the Bob Clemmie of Islamic civilization.
So it has a lot of states and a lot of diversity in one instance.
OK.
And are you currently working or are you a student.
Am I do both.
I am a teacher of English speakers of other languages especially the Arabic students and all.
So a student a method candidate and his university work in the field of teaching English just because
of other things which is I don't work and also my master's thesis right now.
OK.
All right.
And have you ever had a deal of a part time job or a full time job.
Indeed my job right now is a it's a full time job.
I start to wake up to 2:00 p.m. Then after that I go for a part time job for a 4 hours job as an English
instructor in one of the English centers here.
All right.
And do you like your job.
English is my English is my favorite subject.
I just tell her I used to have good marks in English.
And then I insisted be an English teacher.
I'm very satisfied with my job and I feel it's a very pro-American improve myself and improve my skills
too.
Well what profession do you want to have when you were a child.
Seen in that light a long time ago.
OK.
And I fly in and I'm flying.
So I want to be an astronaut.
And that's why I thought of having a helium Hadian balloons just like the movie Up.
A lot of helium balloons and go up up up up to them.
So I was fascinated by Neil Armstrong and the other space astronauts.
But after the age of puberty he been a teenager an adult a.
My folks were rambling too weird and easy job and easy coming gaps like teaching and and so on.
So that's why I got attracted by languages.
Killing of.
So I stopped for a moment like I point out a couple of things.
All right.
A couple of things.
One you you have to make sure that you use.
Do you use a variety of discourse markers you tend to start your sentences with the same word.
Indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed.
And so you need to show that you can use some other type of discourse marker other than the word indeed.
Right.
So a lot of times sometimes when we're doing a test like dilates exam that's what is difficult for anybody
who's even a writer to edit themselves.
Us I was teaching the language edit themself because you don't realize a lot of times what you're doing.
So you definitely want to work on starting with with words other than Indeed there are many many types
of discourse markers but don't just rely on just that one.
All right.
Another thing if you want to make sure you do is that you want a lot of times when students are taking
the speaking section they say well why don't I want to extend my answer and I want to talk more.
Even if you're going to win you when you're going to extend the answer.
You have to stay inside the box of the question right was what you've done a couple of times and you
did it on this previous question also is when you were talking the question was about what job did you
want to have as a child.
You answered the question and then you started talking about what you wanted to do as an adult.
So I did look other things in teaching jobs.
That wasn't that's not what the question was about Gray.
And so a lot of times students don't realize you heard Sure scoring you hurt your score when get it
when you don't demonstrate that you can stay inside the box of the question.
OK so when when one graders hear you just talking and you're talking kind of the question the perception
is that you don't know how to answer a question.
Right.
So there's nothing wrong with extending your answer but you have to stay inside the question.
All right so just make sure that make sure that you're doing that.
Extending the answer is good but don't go outside the question.
OK.
All right so let's keep going.
We're going to keep an eye.
So where do you live now.
Currently I'm living in Saudi Arabia kingdom of Libya for the purpose of working.
OK so that's an example.
Again you want to extend that answer is some kind of way.
What I tell people apart.
Number one I don't think two sentences minimum right for any question.
For any question two sentences men.
OK.
All right.
OK.
And you want to also what what really impresses a greater is when you demonstrated the ability to use
synonym language.
So far about three or four the questions like X where do you live now you said I live now in Egypt.
Don't repeat my question.
Right.
Change the language because you can if you show the ability to use synonyms if you show the ability
to paraphrase and use synonyms shows a higher command of the language and you have to keep in mind that's
what they're doing you know.
So that's what they're testing they're testing English ability.
So you want to be able to show as much of your English ability as you can.
All right now let's keep going.
How far away is your house from the exam Center OK.
How far away is your house from them in the live.
I live in LA.
It's about 20 kilometers.
The exam center is in the harbor.
Whoever is in the eastern province I are here.
I'm in the ESA province.
So I need to throw the man and a Jubail also.
So it's about 20 kilometers OK.
And do you live in an apartment or house.
Right now I live in a house.
It's a spacious house with two stories and an open area.
I have also a large swimming pool pool.
It's looking on directly to the Arabic Gulf to the Arabian Gulf OK let's move on and we're going to
talk about dictionaries.
How often do you use a dictionary.
Indeed.
Dictionaries are my favorite author ever is actually is more than twice or three times a day as in English
as an English speaker and as an English researcher also I remember go with me with dictionaries when
I just entered my college my professor advised me with an Arabic English dictionary called Hands for
hands.
I went to him and they voted.
It was a very large dictionary.
The next and that it cut my bag.
But I said it's sort of a challenge to the dictionary itself.
I get a very traditional Arabic words from a very old poem and I try to look it up.
But the actually one indeed.
Are let me ask you this what would that last those last few sentences with you gave me what did they
have to do with answering the question.
In the last few sentences you gave me they had nothing to do with answering the question.
Right.
What was do you remember the question.
The question the question was how often how often do you use a dictionary.
Right.
So you kind of went off talking about I said I used to change that I do I know you answered in the beginning
but then when you're extending you're going in a different direction.
Right you thought your dictionary was a big dictionary you like a dictionary.
Those things have nothing to do with answering the question.
Right.
So you want to make sure it's OK it's OK to extend it but you got to stay in the side of the question.
So for example for example give an example of what I'm talking about.
I'll give an answer the question right.
That's a great question.
I would say you I utilize a dictionary probably three or four times a day because as I said earlier
my profession involves teach the teaching of the English language.
In fact when I was a student in university my professor gave me a dictionary that I still use to this
day and that you know that is literally use probably three or four times every day because of my job
so DCL I stayed inside the question.
Yes.
OK.
So you got an idea you linked my past experience today and I still talked about that I use that I'm
using that dictionary which I use that dictionary.
How often do I use a dictionary.
All right now what what dictionary do you prefer.
A book an e-book or a mobile app.
Right now I prefer you.
I pray for it either.
He's very accessible and easy to behold.
Also they are free.
For example at Merriam-Webster dictionary.
All that easily from the App Store.
And I can access it every time it anywhere without bothering myself with holding more than two kilograms
of papers with me or something like that.
OK let's move on to a different topic and we're going to talk about sports.
Did you do any sport activities during your childhood.
Childhood.
When I was a kid I was not interested a lot of outdoor activities or sports but playing football in
the same football was.
It was always open and free at school and that even in the street with the neighborhood kids.
But then I when I got to great five or six I used to be fond of cycling.
Then I got a a cycle and I found myself there indeed there.
I participated in marathons in long runs with the cycle.
After that I give.
I give up sports.
OK.
And what kind of outdoor activities do you do now.
These days I've done a lot of recess time to go and do outdoor activities.
We're going out.
So my work has taken most of my time and also on my vacation.
I study I prepare I read.
So most of my activities are outdoor and Werber.
I preferred reading in the gardens sometimes but not currently.
OK.
And where do people spend leisure time in your country.
My country and the people are people who don't have a lot of a lot of leisure time.
Oh wait.
So the average of working there maybe maybe over 12 hours a day.
So it's crowded country and harsh there.
So they don't have that time to spend as leisure so they most of them indeed prefer staying at home
during vacations and so.
However we have some costs some abusable costs an attractive along the Red Sea and Jaylene seen and
Xandra and in her again charm some of them but a large number only the elite of the richest richest
people ever made the country they got to France or any other in Europe like Turkey.
OK.
All right Malaysia even in Asia.
OK.
All right now based on what I hear right now.
Right.
I would say probably sorry but I lost none and all the things that you need to be able to work on in
terms of your part one is you definitely want to try your best to paraphrase that language or the question
as much as possible because see if you want to get.
Have you ever looked at the grading rubric for like for the speaking section.
Have you looked at the grading rubric before.
Yes I've seen it before.
Good.
Well one thing that I suggest you do is really really.
I study it really really study it because if you I mean your fluency is fine you're you're pregnant
you pronounce your words very well.
Right.
You make some like small small grammar mistakes every now and then.
But you want to make sure you look at OK for me to be able to get an 8.
I have to make sure that I'm doing my stuff right.
So when you look at when you look at some of the things that will give somebody an 8 if you're not doing
8 things they're not going to give you a score.
It doesn't matter how you feel about it.
You have to be able to do those things that that will make the grade or give you an 8.
And those are some of those things are paraphrasing synonym of language extending your answer and staying
inside of the answer right now going outside of the fence or using a variety of different sentence types.
Right.
Compound and complex sentences having most of your sentences be mistake free right now making many mistakes
in your sentence.
Your pronunciation is fine.
Your fluency is pretty good.
But you every now and then you have some issues with hesitation.
But I mean if I'm listening to you right now on your part 7 I can see why they would give you a 7.
I mean you can definitely You definitely can get a 7.
But what you have to be you have to be worried about am I able to do that things are going to get around
I'm going at.
So I lost high.
I didn't hear you laugh.
You lost and you lost your sound.
OK.
No I was just mentioning the I love the sound the I love the sound yeah I mentioned that you should
just make sure that you review the rubric and make sure that you're doing the things to get yourself
out OK.
And you know if you're doing the things that will give you that good.
They're not required by an 8 on the rubric then you should be able to get that score.
Now we're going to move on to part number two and number two even though all three months of the exam
are graded equally.
Part Number two is actually when I've solved the most greatest part number two is where they really
decide your score because you know normally when you finish like right now when you just finished now.