WEBVTT 00:03.580 --> 00:05.260 OK so this. 00:05.750 --> 00:08.580 This is a speaking test for Graham. 00:08.580 --> 00:10.820 Graham how are you doing today. 00:11.760 --> 00:12.700 I'm good. 00:12.780 --> 00:13.780 Good good good. 00:13.830 --> 00:22.050 And have you had an opportunity to watch the videos that I have on the speaking section. 00:22.310 --> 00:26.140 Actually no I haven't finished my school yet. 00:26.600 --> 00:26.860 Right. 00:26.860 --> 00:29.260 No I'm not writing. 00:29.490 --> 00:33.230 So for us to see how they study it. 00:33.690 --> 00:34.430 OK. 00:34.470 --> 00:38.400 But you have taken this yet you have taken Nile's exam before. 00:39.120 --> 00:40.320 No never. 00:40.320 --> 00:42.640 You've never taken it before. 00:42.800 --> 00:43.250 Never. 00:43.260 --> 00:48.400 I'm just I'm now I'm planning to be up here in June or July. 00:49.180 --> 00:49.850 OK. 00:49.860 --> 00:51.780 All right well we'll we'll see how you do. 00:52.040 --> 00:57.450 We were we we wanted to be able to get people that have taken it before or at least watched the videos 00:57.480 --> 00:59.300 because I'm not sure if you're aware. 00:59.390 --> 01:01.720 Have you listened to the other people today. 01:01.980 --> 01:04.490 Yeah I listen. 01:04.820 --> 01:06.960 I mean a few people call me. 01:07.370 --> 01:07.770 OK. 01:07.770 --> 01:07.970 All right. 01:07.980 --> 01:14.520 Because that's the most important thing when you are wanting to do well in the speaking section or the 01:14.520 --> 01:19.190 writing section is they'll understand what the graders are looking for. 01:19.260 --> 01:19.820 Right. 01:20.100 --> 01:25.770 And so so when you when you get to this speaking section you know you'll be able to learn a little bit 01:25.770 --> 01:32.640 more about what the graders are looking for because the speaking section and the writing section are 01:32.640 --> 01:35.060 the subjective parts of the exam. 01:35.250 --> 01:35.600 Right. 01:35.610 --> 01:41.920 And what I mean by that is this is a real person as evaluating your skill. 01:41.970 --> 01:46.680 It's not like it is not like the listening session and the reading section which are the object of parts 01:46.680 --> 01:47.780 of the exam. 01:47.940 --> 01:49.970 You know you get it right or do you get it wrong. 01:50.010 --> 01:53.020 It's not up to another person. 01:53.160 --> 01:59.430 If you want to be able to do well on the speaking section then it's very very important that you understand 02:00.120 --> 02:06.910 what do I need to show this human person that will make them be able to give me a high score. 02:07.340 --> 02:07.830 OK. 02:07.860 --> 02:08.750 OK. 02:09.150 --> 02:18.180 So I'm going to take you through the three parts of the exam and if you have any questions along the 02:18.180 --> 02:25.720 way be sure to ask me and I'll stop you if I hear anything that you're not doing correctly. 02:26.040 --> 02:26.480 OK. 02:26.710 --> 02:27.340 OK. 02:27.640 --> 02:28.120 OK. 02:28.140 --> 02:30.200 All right so let's get started. 02:30.270 --> 02:33.360 Would you please give me your full name. 02:34.410 --> 02:43.650 Well my fear is and me that I'm saying that because my grandfather's name and my friends tell me there 02:43.650 --> 02:47.740 are more and more more than that I'm the ME. 02:48.030 --> 02:49.830 OK very good. 02:49.980 --> 02:53.720 And where are you from. 02:53.960 --> 03:02.450 I'm from India and from India and I'm not part of the biggest paying job. 03:02.720 --> 03:14.480 And from my speciality I think Joe and the Garvey's I mean with off for B-trees. 03:14.580 --> 03:15.840 Yes. 03:15.890 --> 03:16.250 All right. 03:16.260 --> 03:21.400 And how has your hometown changed in the last 20 years. 03:22.010 --> 03:32.780 Yeah it is good for me because as many of you know any of the or any good just this is you know they 03:32.780 --> 03:34.350 are waiting. 03:34.560 --> 03:36.530 He is having a ball. 03:36.720 --> 03:40.540 So it is in getting enough equipment. 03:40.560 --> 03:41.800 I see. 03:42.460 --> 03:43.240 OK. 03:43.290 --> 03:43.690 All right. 03:43.740 --> 03:48.790 And if someone were to visit your hometown where would you take them. 03:49.440 --> 03:52.340 Well we had so many pieces of what do we have. 03:52.380 --> 03:57.110 I mean if that person into the media that we have for many places to our own. 03:57.480 --> 04:03.470 I mean in respect of Egypt a key city is a political kiss and he would say. 04:03.620 --> 04:06.730 And part of that we have a war museum. 04:07.140 --> 04:17.460 We have a few shopping malls here and we can also go for the picnic and all these things. 04:17.460 --> 04:21.110 We also have those people. 04:21.680 --> 04:24.510 We also have a Web site. 04:24.740 --> 04:25.170 So good. 04:25.170 --> 04:28.560 You're doing pretty good and you're doing a great job of extending your answer. 04:28.590 --> 04:34.050 You want to make sure that you're able to work on the sentence structure life for example in that last 04:34.050 --> 04:34.400 answer. 04:34.400 --> 04:34.860 You see. 04:34.860 --> 04:42.030 You said we we also we have to use that also we have use you said also we have so. 04:42.170 --> 04:47.300 So you want to kind of put that information together if you can. 04:47.710 --> 04:48.250 All right. 04:48.260 --> 04:51.190 You mean your book the application right. 04:51.330 --> 04:52.610 Yes exactly. 04:52.620 --> 04:55.400 It's like you're repeating the same form. 04:55.560 --> 04:58.710 You know also we have museums also we have parks. 04:58.710 --> 05:06.690 Also we have zoo so you want to make sure you can really kind of put that together into one really good 05:06.690 --> 05:13.080 coherent sentence and not three short simple sentences rereleased at least don't repeat the same format 05:13.650 --> 05:14.750 again. 05:14.970 --> 05:15.740 Right. 05:16.080 --> 05:16.980 OK. 05:17.490 --> 05:20.340 Now let's move on and talk about something else. 05:20.350 --> 05:24.570 How could how do you described yourself. 05:24.990 --> 05:27.540 I'm nobody they what they vote for. 05:27.630 --> 05:34.330 Usually don't speak like I would say I'm more focused on my job right. 05:34.680 --> 05:43.870 I would love to read that respect to my will make them fight right now or ever. 05:44.460 --> 05:46.280 I have very distinctive friends. 05:46.270 --> 05:56.480 I would say and I mean they just things I have and I think I take more time to mingle with others. 05:57.290 --> 05:58.100 Yeah that's it. 05:58.310 --> 05:58.940 OK. 05:59.220 --> 06:03.780 And what are your long term career goals. 06:03.810 --> 06:12.370 Well my long term goal is one of my goal is to become like any specialists in my in my job. 06:12.990 --> 06:19.230 I'm working as an engineer or I would like to be done in the next two years. 06:19.350 --> 06:23.240 And after that I would really like to work for our manager. 06:23.490 --> 06:26.910 After that if I haven't been with my technique. 06:27.020 --> 06:29.390 OK enough of that after that. 06:29.500 --> 06:31.770 I would like to for a minute you. 06:32.030 --> 06:32.290 All. 06:32.290 --> 06:36.240 So are you currently a student or do you have a job. 06:36.240 --> 06:38.240 I have all of those. 06:38.490 --> 06:44.590 You know any communication that could be OK for you here. 06:45.570 --> 06:46.030 OK. 06:46.110 --> 06:50.260 And do you have friends at your workplace. 06:50.300 --> 06:59.640 Yeah I have two few friends and I look at it. 07:00.090 --> 07:10.170 Again I repeat the question Do you have do you have friends at your workplace that have friends looking 07:10.170 --> 07:11.080 at me. 07:11.100 --> 07:11.670 No. 07:11.880 --> 07:25.230 We usually discuss our age and you know the cost of each other and we also we also you know discuss 07:25.900 --> 07:27.080 all those pieces. 07:27.090 --> 07:34.140 And I get to the problems so that we can overcome the problems. 07:34.320 --> 07:35.250 OK. 07:35.280 --> 07:41.080 And do you like to dine out with your friends. 07:42.090 --> 07:55.240 Well sometimes we both for parties but usually I do what we my you know the boss friends it's a one 07:55.250 --> 08:01.290 off thing and because you know the whole day began or it's been that simple. 08:01.320 --> 08:04.880 And so that's why I need a change. 08:05.010 --> 08:10.770 And have you ever had any conflicts with a friend at work. 08:12.390 --> 08:14.130 That is fight. 08:14.190 --> 08:17.980 You know it happens all the time. 08:18.150 --> 08:22.630 I mean sometimes we all have the same opinion about the same thing. 08:22.660 --> 08:24.670 I caught up with him. 08:24.810 --> 08:27.640 So we have to fix something. 08:28.030 --> 08:28.790 All right good. 08:28.800 --> 08:32.160 You're doing actually actually doing a pretty good job your fluency is good. 08:32.190 --> 08:34.620 Your pronunciation is pretty good. 08:35.400 --> 08:40.230 You know you you're doing a good job of extending your answer so you actually you're doing pretty good. 08:40.230 --> 08:45.900 There's some small grammar mistakes here or there but is not something they're so small that it's not 08:45.900 --> 08:49.910 something that the graders are really going to pay attention to. 08:49.920 --> 08:51.790 I mean it's not. 08:52.050 --> 08:55.980 I mean you once you listen back to the recording and you might be able to pick up on some of the things 08:56.010 --> 09:02.610 but it's really minor minor issues in terms of in terms of your grammar but your sofa so far so far 09:02.610 --> 09:04.020 so good so far you're doing really good. 09:04.020 --> 09:05.830 Let's keep going. 09:05.940 --> 09:10.190 We're going to move on and talk about chocolate. 09:10.230 --> 09:12.390 Do you like sweets or. 09:12.570 --> 09:13.500 Or do you like. 09:13.500 --> 09:15.210 Do you like chocolate. 09:16.020 --> 09:18.750 All of it is free. 09:18.780 --> 09:22.760 So I don't usually eat affects my bike. 09:22.830 --> 09:24.160 Yes. 09:24.250 --> 09:33.270 Are there enough people for whom I think I don't like say things like me because I love getting these. 09:33.390 --> 09:43.220 So I believe I would other wise that loud so you know of it from these kind of things. 09:43.230 --> 09:45.230 All right and well let me ask you this. 09:45.310 --> 09:47.010 Why do people like chocolate 09:51.480 --> 10:00.890 so I'm not sure why do people like chocolate. 10:03.630 --> 10:06.400 Everybody has their own days. 10:06.450 --> 10:16.670 I mean if you like a company because you are full of energy then I mean it depends. 10:16.740 --> 10:19.050 I mean people think like that. 10:19.410 --> 10:24.350 If they topics are they all make oppression these kind of things. 10:24.390 --> 10:27.650 Maybe that that's all right. 10:27.660 --> 10:32.510 Have you ever given Schottland as a present to someone. 10:32.920 --> 10:37.970 I given this to one of my friends. 10:39.430 --> 10:46.550 But I don't see that what is. 10:47.060 --> 10:50.000 This is this is actually a real question from from an exam. 10:50.010 --> 10:56.520 And the reason I'm giving it to you is on the exam graders might give you they give you questions like 10:56.520 --> 11:02.340 these that they don't think you don't you're going to expect because really it with a question like 11:02.340 --> 11:10.470 this it really gives a really good idea of how comfortable you are with the language what kind of vocabulary 11:10.470 --> 11:11.260 you know. 11:11.400 --> 11:17.320 How comfortable are you with having a question set that you haven't thought about and that's unexpected. 11:17.340 --> 11:18.590 So you doing pretty good. 11:18.630 --> 11:25.890 But let me but let me also advise you with this if they ever give you a question that you're that you're 11:25.890 --> 11:27.470 not really sure about. 11:27.600 --> 11:29.620 Just keep this in mind. 11:29.880 --> 11:32.160 The truth doesn't matter. 11:32.160 --> 11:32.580 Right. 11:32.640 --> 11:33.080 OK. 11:33.180 --> 11:35.300 It is not it is not a truth test. 11:35.310 --> 11:36.910 It's an English test. 11:37.150 --> 11:44.800 So and So even if you don't even if you don't have any personal experience with it make it up. 11:45.430 --> 11:46.020 Right. 11:46.140 --> 11:46.770 Make it up. 11:46.770 --> 11:51.900 Sure I've given shots to for two friends before I remember when I was 17 years old and I used to like 11:51.900 --> 11:56.370 this girl and I want to give her something sweet so I gave her a big box of chocolate. 11:56.370 --> 12:01.980 She was so happy right that wasn't true I just made that up. 12:03.090 --> 12:08.820 Right so it is not about it's not about the truth it's about your command up they're listening to your 12:08.820 --> 12:09.720 English. 12:10.020 --> 12:13.190 Right now nobody is going to come after words and fact check you. 12:13.230 --> 12:14.730 So don't don't don't. 12:14.730 --> 12:20.070 Don't worry about you know it's all it's all fictional. 12:20.360 --> 12:21.340 OK. 12:21.720 --> 12:27.300 So if you get something that you haven't had before but you can't say no like sometimes people say do 12:27.300 --> 12:31.370 you like to read books or somebody says no that's not acceptable. 12:31.410 --> 12:36.810 Right because you're not showing me any English ability it's all about showing English ability. 12:36.810 --> 12:37.470 All right. 12:37.740 --> 12:44.720 But I gave you that question because they do they give questions like that to try to see how when you 12:44.730 --> 12:48.610 how you are when you're outside of your comfort zone of a topic. 12:49.300 --> 12:49.840 OK. 12:50.100 --> 12:50.750 All right. 12:51.000 --> 12:51.330 OK. 12:51.330 --> 12:54.230 So let's keep one more question set for you. 12:54.240 --> 13:02.380 So we're going to move on and we're going to talk about children. 13:03.090 --> 13:03.650 OK. 13:03.930 --> 13:04.740 All right. 13:04.740 --> 13:12.720 Who plays a more vital role in bringing up children men or women in society. 13:13.030 --> 13:16.850 Well I believe that the men are all in the. 13:16.900 --> 13:24.450 Because even though you don't feel more comfortable with them instead of their fathers. 13:24.600 --> 13:36.720 Yes I believe both are equally by saying that go off to get into the team and all of these things and 13:36.850 --> 13:43.870 be ready for it for a child I believe it is superheroes. 13:44.130 --> 13:49.700 So they always always want their parents to be that dad. 13:49.860 --> 13:54.300 I believe from the mothers side. 13:55.600 --> 14:05.670 They become more into the I mean in doing the time. 14:06.010 --> 14:07.130 All right. 14:07.290 --> 14:15.100 How can children be more engaged in outdoor activities or outdoor activities. 14:15.230 --> 14:30.100 We can get into the you know the outdoor games and then also take them to you know I'm in the today 14:30.240 --> 14:39.620 again playing to the you know outdoor box so we can engage them like that. 14:40.710 --> 14:41.290 OK. 14:41.430 --> 14:45.080 And what would you recommend that parents do for children. 14:45.080 --> 14:47.370 They have an issue with their cell phones. 14:47.460 --> 14:59.330 Mobile phones was like No I believe this is what I make for everybody not even that is in that category. 14:59.330 --> 15:09.680 I mean if you don't if they're going to look and they have to again pick up that I'm talking about them 15:09.810 --> 15:15.370 right now if their parents had to pick up them for it is that it can be here for like you know to give 15:15.380 --> 15:16.820 up on it. 15:17.000 --> 15:27.830 And there are other ways that that type of time for the parents because they have to do that they don't 15:28.120 --> 15:34.280 you know every day it is back to this day and age usually in our game. 15:34.470 --> 15:39.470 So I mean all there is has to be there for that. 15:39.480 --> 15:48.840 So on that was I need a very good team for that Dave and you are here is there you going to do is as 15:49.980 --> 15:53.390 taken as children. 15:53.600 --> 15:54.050 Yes. 15:54.290 --> 15:55.140 That's that's OK. 15:55.140 --> 16:01.170 I mean you know you want to you want to kind of keep your answer about three sentences. 16:01.770 --> 16:03.020 You know the budget you do. 16:03.040 --> 16:03.630 You're doing fine. 16:03.630 --> 16:07.530 The one thing that I would recommend that you go on is that you're going to have to work on between 16:07.530 --> 16:14.670 now and your exam is you tend to have of all you tend to have like a three or four or four or five words 16:14.670 --> 16:17.500 and there's like a in-between. 16:17.520 --> 16:17.790 Right. 16:17.790 --> 16:27.540 So you kind of want to reduce those those days you kind of want to kind of reduce those between your 16:27.800 --> 16:35.400 in your sentences because if you can say your sentences fluently from beginning to end without pausing 16:36.210 --> 16:42.260 or without any hesitations that's going to make it much much better for you in terms of your grade. 16:42.760 --> 16:43.360 OK. 16:43.380 --> 16:45.020 So how like in the video. 16:45.290 --> 16:47.700 I mean is there any hope for that. 16:47.910 --> 16:55.040 Well I mean there's a lot of that is just is just practicing a lot of that is listening to yourself. 16:55.360 --> 16:55.780 Right. 16:55.840 --> 17:01.270 You're going to have to record yourself and listen to yourself and it it's difficult. 17:01.350 --> 17:05.570 It is something that's done better with practice. 17:05.640 --> 17:12.390 You know people that are the more you practice speaking the less the less that you have that issue or 17:12.390 --> 17:14.010 have that problem. 17:14.310 --> 17:15.450 It also gets better. 17:15.450 --> 17:16.490 I don't know. 17:16.860 --> 17:22.470 In your country are you speaking English all the time or are you speaking are you speaking another language 17:22.470 --> 17:28.710 most of the time or could you be speaking another language your native language. 17:28.960 --> 17:35.040 I think were the people I saw then what you want to make sure you do what's going to help you is just 17:35.040 --> 17:39.760 like what I recommended for the previous person is at least a week before your exam. 17:39.870 --> 17:48.780 Really try to use English all the time as much as possible because a lot of that hesitation will be 17:48.780 --> 17:54.060 reduced if your brain is thinking in English and responding in English. 17:54.330 --> 17:57.330 And that's what's normal for it. 17:57.510 --> 17:57.840 Right. 17:57.840 --> 18:02.600 So if you're if you're speaking your native language and then you try to switch to English. 18:02.670 --> 18:06.500 It takes a while for your brain to warm up to the language. 18:06.720 --> 18:11.370 But the more I use what I find for most students the more they're speaking and the longer I talk to 18:11.370 --> 18:16.050 them the more those pauses and those and that hesitation is reduced. 18:16.140 --> 18:21.240 So you're going to have to just you know before you take your exam this kind of really work on that 18:21.240 --> 18:23.580 part of it. 18:23.870 --> 18:24.780 OK. 18:25.100 --> 18:31.250 All right now we are going to move into Part Number two when it comes apart. 18:31.250 --> 18:37.230 Number two you're going to see a question come on the screen and if I'm looking at in terms of in terms 18:37.230 --> 18:42.820 of scoring you right now I mean if you really work on the the pausing and hesitation you know you're 18:42.820 --> 18:49.920 you're easily at a 7 or right now because you're really extending your answers very well and your you 18:49.920 --> 18:50.630 have your. 18:50.670 --> 18:52.320 Your pronunciation is fine. 18:52.320 --> 18:57.030 There's some words that are some minor things that I'm mispronounced but you're also demonstrating you 18:57.030 --> 19:04.830 have a good command of your language because I hear some more academic type of words and not only basic 19:04.830 --> 19:09.100 words and that's always going to help out your lexical vocabulary. 19:09.550 --> 19:14.970 You know you but you just have to work on some pausing and hesitation and being able to handle a question 19:14.970 --> 19:20.070 that you're not familiar with so you don't get hung up or are not able to respond. 19:20.100 --> 19:22.580 Just keep in mind that it's about it's not about the truth. 19:22.620 --> 19:24.120 It's just really about you demonstrating.