WEBVTT 00:00.510 --> 00:03.770 Is I'm going to take you through a speaking test. 00:04.290 --> 00:12.600 And if I hear any weak areas or hear anything that I think should be done differently or improved then 00:12.630 --> 00:16.120 I will definitely definitely definitely let you know. 00:16.740 --> 00:23.280 So when it comes to part one in your opinion what do you need to do to be successful in part number 00:23.280 --> 00:23.730 one. 00:28.120 --> 00:33.430 AM In part one I think I think part one goes goes ok with me. 00:33.430 --> 00:36.820 It's easy it's good. 00:37.330 --> 00:39.560 And I can handle it with ease. 00:39.580 --> 00:40.700 Indeed. 00:41.560 --> 00:43.580 But I need to extend my answers a lot. 00:43.630 --> 00:52.810 I don't want to stop at some basic information about me or my home my home country and so beside the 00:52.810 --> 00:56.460 point I want to extend my answers more and more. 00:56.470 --> 00:57.090 OK. 00:57.130 --> 00:58.270 So let's get started. 00:58.300 --> 01:02.280 And I will point out anything that I see as a problem OK. 01:06.200 --> 01:07.240 OK. 01:07.310 --> 01:10.840 So starting off could you please tell me your full name. 01:15.540 --> 01:21.170 My parents called me up the law and they called me after my grandfather. 01:21.350 --> 01:24.090 And so my whole name is are the law of the law. 01:24.100 --> 01:32.060 So he was an agricultural specialist and he was an amazing person in the. 01:32.240 --> 01:33.020 All right. 01:33.030 --> 01:34.990 And where are you from. 01:40.230 --> 01:44.180 I'm from an amazing country from the African continent. 01:44.310 --> 01:45.390 I'm from Egypt. 01:45.600 --> 01:53.930 Egypt is about 7000 years civilization the oldest civilization around the world. 01:54.230 --> 02:00.490 For Onix of laisse and then the Bob Clemmie of Islamic civilization. 02:00.510 --> 02:09.610 So it has a lot of states and a lot of diversity in one instance. 02:10.680 --> 02:11.300 OK. 02:11.400 --> 02:14.170 And are you currently working or are you a student. 02:17.620 --> 02:20.190 Am I do both. 02:20.260 --> 02:29.680 I am a teacher of English speakers of other languages especially the Arabic students and all. 02:29.690 --> 02:37.570 So a student a method candidate and his university work in the field of teaching English just because 02:37.580 --> 02:41.680 of other things which is I don't work and also my master's thesis right now. 02:42.580 --> 02:43.160 OK. 02:43.220 --> 02:43.850 All right. 02:43.850 --> 02:49.340 And have you ever had a deal of a part time job or a full time job. 02:56.110 --> 02:59.540 Indeed my job right now is a it's a full time job. 02:59.710 --> 03:10.270 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 03:10.270 --> 03:14.680 instructor in one of the English centers here. 03:16.170 --> 03:16.580 All right. 03:16.620 --> 03:18.330 And do you like your job. 03:25.140 --> 03:31.540 English is my English is my favorite subject. 03:31.830 --> 03:35.530 I just tell her I used to have good marks in English. 03:35.610 --> 03:38.720 And then I insisted be an English teacher. 03:38.730 --> 03:46.650 I'm very satisfied with my job and I feel it's a very pro-American improve myself and improve my skills 03:46.650 --> 03:48.020 too. 03:48.090 --> 03:51.390 Well what profession do you want to have when you were a child. 03:55.480 --> 03:59.960 Seen in that light a long time ago. 04:00.340 --> 04:00.950 OK. 04:00.950 --> 04:05.520 And I fly in and I'm flying. 04:05.530 --> 04:08.250 So I want to be an astronaut. 04:08.610 --> 04:14.550 And that's why I thought of having a helium Hadian balloons just like the movie Up. 04:14.770 --> 04:19.300 A lot of helium balloons and go up up up up to them. 04:19.340 --> 04:25.430 So I was fascinated by Neil Armstrong and the other space astronauts. 04:25.880 --> 04:31.960 But after the age of puberty he been a teenager an adult a. 04:32.240 --> 04:42.790 My folks were rambling too weird and easy job and easy coming gaps like teaching and and so on. 04:42.800 --> 04:46.310 So that's why I got attracted by languages. 04:46.420 --> 04:48.230 Killing of. 04:48.390 --> 04:51.710 So I stopped for a moment like I point out a couple of things. 04:51.710 --> 04:53.100 All right. 04:53.440 --> 04:54.440 A couple of things. 04:54.480 --> 04:57.460 One you you have to make sure that you use. 04:57.480 --> 05:03.050 Do you use a variety of discourse markers you tend to start your sentences with the same word. 05:03.050 --> 05:06.550 Indeed indeed indeed indeed indeed. 05:06.620 --> 05:12.540 And so you need to show that you can use some other type of discourse marker other than the word indeed. 05:12.640 --> 05:12.910 Right. 05:12.920 --> 05:17.840 So a lot of times sometimes when we're doing a test like dilates exam that's what is difficult for anybody 05:17.840 --> 05:20.340 who's even a writer to edit themselves. 05:20.520 --> 05:24.900 Us I was teaching the language edit themself because you don't realize a lot of times what you're doing. 05:24.900 --> 05:32.300 So you definitely want to work on starting with with words other than Indeed there are many many types 05:32.300 --> 05:37.240 of discourse markers but don't just rely on just that one. 05:37.250 --> 05:38.640 All right. 05:39.050 --> 05:48.920 Another thing if you want to make sure you do is that you want a lot of times when students are taking 05:48.930 --> 05:55.250 the speaking section they say well why don't I want to extend my answer and I want to talk more. 05:55.790 --> 05:59.790 Even if you're going to win you when you're going to extend the answer. 05:59.790 --> 06:06.080 You have to stay inside the box of the question right was what you've done a couple of times and you 06:06.080 --> 06:11.570 did it on this previous question also is when you were talking the question was about what job did you 06:11.570 --> 06:13.380 want to have as a child. 06:13.400 --> 06:17.670 You answered the question and then you started talking about what you wanted to do as an adult. 06:17.700 --> 06:20.160 So I did look other things in teaching jobs. 06:20.330 --> 06:24.870 That wasn't that's not what the question was about Gray. 06:24.890 --> 06:30.200 And so a lot of times students don't realize you heard Sure scoring you hurt your score when get it 06:30.220 --> 06:34.180 when you don't demonstrate that you can stay inside the box of the question. 06:35.040 --> 06:42.270 OK so when when one graders hear you just talking and you're talking kind of the question the perception 06:42.270 --> 06:44.320 is that you don't know how to answer a question. 06:45.590 --> 06:46.130 Right. 06:46.310 --> 06:52.110 So there's nothing wrong with extending your answer but you have to stay inside the question. 06:56.080 --> 07:00.500 All right so just make sure that make sure that you're doing that. 07:00.500 --> 07:04.420 Extending the answer is good but don't go outside the question. 07:04.680 --> 07:05.240 OK. 07:09.490 --> 07:10.040 OK. 07:10.240 --> 07:11.490 OK. 07:11.530 --> 07:13.530 All right so let's keep going. 07:13.530 --> 07:16.410 We're going to keep an eye. 07:16.420 --> 07:18.490 So where do you live now. 07:22.470 --> 07:34.470 Currently I'm living in Saudi Arabia kingdom of Libya for the purpose of working. 07:34.500 --> 07:35.730 OK so that's an example. 07:35.730 --> 07:40.350 Again you want to extend that answer is some kind of way. 07:40.350 --> 07:41.270 What I tell people apart. 07:41.270 --> 07:46.560 Number one I don't think two sentences minimum right for any question. 07:48.540 --> 07:50.570 For any question two sentences men. 07:50.610 --> 07:51.430 OK. 07:51.840 --> 07:52.960 All right. 07:53.520 --> 07:54.020 OK. 07:54.060 --> 07:59.280 And you want to also what what really impresses a greater is when you demonstrated the ability to use 07:59.290 --> 08:00.930 synonym language. 08:00.930 --> 08:06.070 So far about three or four the questions like X where do you live now you said I live now in Egypt. 08:06.390 --> 08:07.710 Don't repeat my question. 08:08.940 --> 08:09.560 Right. 08:09.600 --> 08:15.960 Change the language because you can if you show the ability to use synonyms if you show the ability 08:15.960 --> 08:22.700 to paraphrase and use synonyms shows a higher command of the language and you have to keep in mind that's 08:22.710 --> 08:23.660 what they're doing you know. 08:23.660 --> 08:26.750 So that's what they're testing they're testing English ability. 08:26.920 --> 08:32.290 So you want to be able to show as much of your English ability as you can. 08:32.290 --> 08:33.360 All right now let's keep going. 08:33.360 --> 08:37.150 How far away is your house from the exam Center OK. 08:41.400 --> 08:45.350 How far away is your house from them in the live. 08:45.480 --> 08:50.110 I live in LA. 08:50.650 --> 08:53.410 It's about 20 kilometers. 08:53.530 --> 08:55.490 The exam center is in the harbor. 08:55.580 --> 08:59.140 Whoever is in the eastern province I are here. 08:59.150 --> 09:01.200 I'm in the ESA province. 09:01.450 --> 09:05.950 So I need to throw the man and a Jubail also. 09:05.950 --> 09:10.200 So it's about 20 kilometers OK. 09:10.470 --> 09:14.690 And do you live in an apartment or house. 09:20.410 --> 09:22.920 Right now I live in a house. 09:23.110 --> 09:28.810 It's a spacious house with two stories and an open area. 09:28.810 --> 09:33.760 I have also a large swimming pool pool. 09:33.850 --> 09:43.360 It's looking on directly to the Arabic Gulf to the Arabian Gulf OK let's move on and we're going to 09:43.960 --> 09:46.390 talk about dictionaries. 09:46.390 --> 09:48.420 How often do you use a dictionary. 09:54.460 --> 09:55.230 Indeed. 09:55.390 --> 10:04.450 Dictionaries are my favorite author ever is actually is more than twice or three times a day as in English 10:04.810 --> 10:14.150 as an English speaker and as an English researcher also I remember go with me with dictionaries when 10:14.220 --> 10:22.390 I just entered my college my professor advised me with an Arabic English dictionary called Hands for 10:22.570 --> 10:23.480 hands. 10:24.040 --> 10:25.770 I went to him and they voted. 10:25.840 --> 10:28.040 It was a very large dictionary. 10:28.040 --> 10:31.850 The next and that it cut my bag. 10:32.610 --> 10:36.440 But I said it's sort of a challenge to the dictionary itself. 10:36.670 --> 10:44.060 I get a very traditional Arabic words from a very old poem and I try to look it up. 10:44.170 --> 10:46.040 But the actually one indeed. 10:46.740 --> 10:51.490 Are let me ask you this what would that last those last few sentences with you gave me what did they 10:51.490 --> 10:53.220 have to do with answering the question. 10:57.530 --> 11:03.190 In the last few sentences you gave me they had nothing to do with answering the question. 11:05.520 --> 11:05.880 Right. 11:05.880 --> 11:07.480 What was do you remember the question. 11:12.380 --> 11:20.220 The question the question was how often how often do you use a dictionary. 11:20.290 --> 11:20.640 Right. 11:20.660 --> 11:28.070 So you kind of went off talking about I said I used to change that I do I know you answered in the beginning 11:28.100 --> 11:31.990 but then when you're extending you're going in a different direction. 11:35.000 --> 11:41.390 Right you thought your dictionary was a big dictionary you like a dictionary. 11:41.390 --> 11:43.720 Those things have nothing to do with answering the question. 11:44.600 --> 11:45.240 Right. 11:45.260 --> 11:51.050 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. 11:51.050 --> 11:54.350 So for example for example give an example of what I'm talking about. 11:54.350 --> 11:57.380 I'll give an answer the question right. 11:57.920 --> 11:59.190 That's a great question. 11:59.210 --> 12:06.680 I would say you I utilize a dictionary probably three or four times a day because as I said earlier 12:06.970 --> 12:11.120 my profession involves teach the teaching of the English language. 12:11.120 --> 12:17.450 In fact when I was a student in university my professor gave me a dictionary that I still use to this 12:17.450 --> 12:24.440 day and that you know that is literally use probably three or four times every day because of my job 12:25.520 --> 12:28.790 so DCL I stayed inside the question. 12:28.910 --> 12:29.500 Yes. 12:31.150 --> 12:31.800 OK. 12:31.980 --> 12:39.170 So you got an idea you linked my past experience today and I still talked about that I use that I'm 12:39.210 --> 12:41.960 using that dictionary which I use that dictionary. 12:41.960 --> 12:43.820 How often do I use a dictionary. 12:46.010 --> 12:49.720 All right now what what dictionary do you prefer. 12:49.740 --> 12:56.600 A book an e-book or a mobile app. 12:56.690 --> 12:59.800 Right now I prefer you. 13:00.020 --> 13:03.630 I pray for it either. 13:03.840 --> 13:08.570 He's very accessible and easy to behold. 13:08.630 --> 13:10.330 Also they are free. 13:10.670 --> 13:14.570 For example at Merriam-Webster dictionary. 13:14.800 --> 13:17.370 All that easily from the App Store. 13:17.510 --> 13:26.300 And I can access it every time it anywhere without bothering myself with holding more than two kilograms 13:26.570 --> 13:29.950 of papers with me or something like that. 13:31.300 --> 13:36.520 OK let's move on to a different topic and we're going to talk about sports. 13:36.560 --> 13:39.700 Did you do any sport activities during your childhood. 13:44.580 --> 13:46.570 Childhood. 13:47.180 --> 13:55.100 When I was a kid I was not interested a lot of outdoor activities or sports but playing football in 13:55.100 --> 13:58.160 the same football was. 13:58.350 --> 14:06.920 It was always open and free at school and that even in the street with the neighborhood kids. 14:06.980 --> 14:17.720 But then I when I got to great five or six I used to be fond of cycling. 14:17.910 --> 14:24.080 Then I got a a cycle and I found myself there indeed there. 14:24.360 --> 14:31.360 I participated in marathons in long runs with the cycle. 14:32.700 --> 14:35.070 After that I give. 14:35.250 --> 14:36.830 I give up sports. 14:36.920 --> 14:38.200 OK. 14:38.250 --> 14:41.420 And what kind of outdoor activities do you do now. 14:48.450 --> 14:56.360 These days I've done a lot of recess time to go and do outdoor activities. 14:56.560 --> 14:57.390 We're going out. 14:57.390 --> 15:04.290 So my work has taken most of my time and also on my vacation. 15:04.950 --> 15:07.960 I study I prepare I read. 15:08.250 --> 15:12.410 So most of my activities are outdoor and Werber. 15:12.450 --> 15:19.210 I preferred reading in the gardens sometimes but not currently. 15:19.460 --> 15:19.990 OK. 15:20.100 --> 15:24.290 And where do people spend leisure time in your country. 15:30.500 --> 15:37.940 My country and the people are people who don't have a lot of a lot of leisure time. 15:37.950 --> 15:39.220 Oh wait. 15:39.250 --> 15:46.500 So the average of working there maybe maybe over 12 hours a day. 15:46.880 --> 15:51.180 So it's crowded country and harsh there. 15:51.420 --> 16:00.740 So they don't have that time to spend as leisure so they most of them indeed prefer staying at home 16:00.770 --> 16:02.480 during vacations and so. 16:02.720 --> 16:14.090 However we have some costs some abusable costs an attractive along the Red Sea and Jaylene seen and 16:14.090 --> 16:25.670 Xandra and in her again charm some of them but a large number only the elite of the richest richest 16:25.670 --> 16:33.250 people ever made the country they got to France or any other in Europe like Turkey. 16:33.350 --> 16:34.010 OK. 16:34.370 --> 16:36.660 All right Malaysia even in Asia. 16:37.070 --> 16:37.700 OK. 16:38.090 --> 16:43.940 All right now based on what I hear right now. 16:43.960 --> 16:44.730 Right. 16:44.780 --> 16:50.840 I would say probably sorry but I lost none and all the things that you need to be able to work on in 16:50.840 --> 16:59.420 terms of your part one is you definitely want to try your best to paraphrase that language or the question 16:59.420 --> 17:02.600 as much as possible because see if you want to get. 17:02.600 --> 17:06.470 Have you ever looked at the grading rubric for like for the speaking section. 17:10.360 --> 17:12.230 Have you looked at the grading rubric before. 17:12.280 --> 17:14.340 Yes I've seen it before. 17:14.410 --> 17:14.780 Good. 17:14.830 --> 17:18.310 Well one thing that I suggest you do is really really. 17:18.430 --> 17:25.450 I study it really really study it because if you I mean your fluency is fine you're you're pregnant 17:25.450 --> 17:27.760 you pronounce your words very well. 17:27.760 --> 17:28.430 Right. 17:28.690 --> 17:34.160 You make some like small small grammar mistakes every now and then. 17:34.660 --> 17:39.220 But you want to make sure you look at OK for me to be able to get an 8. 17:39.520 --> 17:43.560 I have to make sure that I'm doing my stuff right. 17:43.600 --> 17:50.050 So when you look at when you look at some of the things that will give somebody an 8 if you're not doing 17:50.130 --> 17:53.370 8 things they're not going to give you a score. 17:53.380 --> 17:55.990 It doesn't matter how you feel about it. 17:56.020 --> 18:00.470 You have to be able to do those things that that will make the grade or give you an 8. 18:00.640 --> 18:07.810 And those are some of those things are paraphrasing synonym of language extending your answer and staying 18:07.810 --> 18:14.590 inside of the answer right now going outside of the fence or using a variety of different sentence types. 18:14.680 --> 18:14.980 Right. 18:14.980 --> 18:22.300 Compound and complex sentences having most of your sentences be mistake free right now making many mistakes 18:22.300 --> 18:23.100 in your sentence. 18:23.140 --> 18:25.300 Your pronunciation is fine. 18:25.510 --> 18:27.620 Your fluency is pretty good. 18:27.640 --> 18:32.380 But you every now and then you have some issues with hesitation. 18:32.560 --> 18:36.790 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. 18:36.820 --> 18:41.250 I mean you can definitely You definitely can get a 7. 18:41.290 --> 18:46.280 But what you have to be you have to be worried about am I able to do that things are going to get around 18:46.290 --> 18:53.090 I'm going at. 18:53.230 --> 18:59.610 So I lost high. 18:59.720 --> 19:01.280 I didn't hear you laugh. 19:01.520 --> 19:04.120 You lost and you lost your sound. 19:04.160 --> 19:04.760 OK. 19:05.000 --> 19:13.570 No I was just mentioning the I love the sound the I love the sound yeah I mentioned that you should 19:13.630 --> 19:18.780 just make sure that you review the rubric and make sure that you're doing the things to get yourself 19:18.980 --> 19:20.840 out OK. 19:20.920 --> 19:24.330 And you know if you're doing the things that will give you that good. 19:24.320 --> 19:29.260 They're not required by an 8 on the rubric then you should be able to get that score. 19:29.260 --> 19:36.070 Now we're going to move on to part number two and number two even though all three months of the exam 19:36.070 --> 19:37.440 are graded equally. 19:37.640 --> 19:43.030 Part Number two is actually when I've solved the most greatest part number two is where they really 19:43.630 --> 19:50.380 decide your score because you know normally when you finish like right now when you just finished now.