OK so this.
This is a speaking test for Graham.
Graham how are you doing today.
I'm good.
Good good good.
And have you had an opportunity to watch the videos that I have on the speaking section.
Actually no I haven't finished my school yet.
Right.
No I'm not writing.
So for us to see how they study it.
OK.
But you have taken this yet you have taken Nile's exam before.
No never.
You've never taken it before.
Never.
I'm just I'm now I'm planning to be up here in June or July.
OK.
All right well we'll we'll see how you do.
We were we we wanted to be able to get people that have taken it before or at least watched the videos
because I'm not sure if you're aware.
Have you listened to the other people today.
Yeah I listen.
I mean a few people call me.
OK.
All right.
Because that's the most important thing when you are wanting to do well in the speaking section or the
writing section is they'll understand what the graders are looking for.
Right.
And so so when you when you get to this speaking section you know you'll be able to learn a little bit
more about what the graders are looking for because the speaking section and the writing section are
the subjective parts of the exam.
Right.
And what I mean by that is this is a real person as evaluating your skill.
It's not like it is not like the listening session and the reading section which are the object of parts
of the exam.
You know you get it right or do you get it wrong.
It's not up to another person.
If you want to be able to do well on the speaking section then it's very very important that you understand
what do I need to show this human person that will make them be able to give me a high score.
OK.
So I'm going to take you through the three parts of the exam and if you have any questions along the
way be sure to ask me and I'll stop you if I hear anything that you're not doing correctly.
OK.
All right so let's get started.
Would you please give me your full name.
Well my fear is and me that I'm saying that because my grandfather's name and my friends tell me there
are more and more more than that I'm the ME.
OK very good.
And where are you from.
I'm from India and from India and I'm not part of the biggest paying job.
And from my speciality I think Joe and the Garvey's I mean with off for B-trees.
Yes.
All right.
And how has your hometown changed in the last 20 years.
Yeah it is good for me because as many of you know any of the or any good just this is you know they
are waiting.
He is having a ball.
So it is in getting enough equipment.
I see.
OK.
All right.
And if someone were to visit your hometown where would you take them.
Well we had so many pieces of what do we have.
I mean if that person into the media that we have for many places to our own.
I mean in respect of Egypt a key city is a political kiss and he would say.
And part of that we have a war museum.
We have a few shopping malls here and we can also go for the picnic and all these things.
We also have those people.
We also have a Web site.
So good.
You're doing pretty good and you're doing a great job of extending your answer.
You want to make sure that you're able to work on the sentence structure life for example in that last
answer.
You see.
You said we we also we have to use that also we have use you said also we have so.
So you want to kind of put that information together if you can.
All right.
You mean your book the application right.
Yes exactly.
It's like you're repeating the same form.
You know also we have museums also we have parks.
Also we have zoo so you want to make sure you can really kind of put that together into one really good
coherent sentence and not three short simple sentences rereleased at least don't repeat the same format
again.
Right.
OK.
Now let's move on and talk about something else.
How could how do you described yourself.
I'm nobody they what they vote for.
Usually don't speak like I would say I'm more focused on my job right.
I would love to read that respect to my will make them fight right now or ever.
I have very distinctive friends.
I would say and I mean they just things I have and I think I take more time to mingle with others.
Yeah that's it.
OK.
And what are your long term career goals.
Well my long term goal is one of my goal is to become like any specialists in my in my job.
I'm working as an engineer or I would like to be done in the next two years.
And after that I would really like to work for our manager.
After that if I haven't been with my technique.
OK enough of that after that.
I would like to for a minute you.
All.
So are you currently a student or do you have a job.
I have all of those.
You know any communication that could be OK for you here.
OK.
And do you have friends at your workplace.
Yeah I have two few friends and I look at it.
Again I repeat the question Do you have do you have friends at your workplace that have friends looking
at me.
No.
We usually discuss our age and you know the cost of each other and we also we also you know discuss
all those pieces.
And I get to the problems so that we can overcome the problems.
OK.
And do you like to dine out with your friends.
Well sometimes we both for parties but usually I do what we my you know the boss friends it's a one
off thing and because you know the whole day began or it's been that simple.
And so that's why I need a change.
And have you ever had any conflicts with a friend at work.
That is fight.
You know it happens all the time.
I mean sometimes we all have the same opinion about the same thing.
I caught up with him.
So we have to fix something.
All right good.
You're doing actually actually doing a pretty good job your fluency is good.
Your pronunciation is pretty good.
You know you you're doing a good job of extending your answer so you actually you're doing pretty good.
There's some small grammar mistakes here or there but is not something they're so small that it's not
something that the graders are really going to pay attention to.
I mean it's not.
I mean you once you listen back to the recording and you might be able to pick up on some of the things
but it's really minor minor issues in terms of in terms of your grammar but your sofa so far so far
so good so far you're doing really good.
Let's keep going.
We're going to move on and talk about chocolate.
Do you like sweets or.
Or do you like.
Do you like chocolate.
All of it is free.
So I don't usually eat affects my bike.
Yes.
Are there enough people for whom I think I don't like say things like me because I love getting these.
So I believe I would other wise that loud so you know of it from these kind of things.
All right and well let me ask you this.
Why do people like chocolate
so I'm not sure why do people like chocolate.
Everybody has their own days.
I mean if you like a company because you are full of energy then I mean it depends.
I mean people think like that.
If they topics are they all make oppression these kind of things.
Maybe that that's all right.
Have you ever given Schottland as a present to someone.
I given this to one of my friends.
But I don't see that what is.
This is this is actually a real question from from an exam.
And the reason I'm giving it to you is on the exam graders might give you they give you questions like
these that they don't think you don't you're going to expect because really it with a question like
this it really gives a really good idea of how comfortable you are with the language what kind of vocabulary
you know.
How comfortable are you with having a question set that you haven't thought about and that's unexpected.
So you doing pretty good.
But let me but let me also advise you with this if they ever give you a question that you're that you're
not really sure about.
Just keep this in mind.
The truth doesn't matter.
Right.
OK.
It is not it is not a truth test.
It's an English test.
So and So even if you don't even if you don't have any personal experience with it make it up.
Right.
Make it up.
Sure I've given shots to for two friends before I remember when I was 17 years old and I used to like
this girl and I want to give her something sweet so I gave her a big box of chocolate.
She was so happy right that wasn't true I just made that up.
Right so it is not about it's not about the truth it's about your command up they're listening to your
English.
Right now nobody is going to come after words and fact check you.
So don't don't don't.
Don't worry about you know it's all it's all fictional.
OK.
So if you get something that you haven't had before but you can't say no like sometimes people say do
you like to read books or somebody says no that's not acceptable.
Right because you're not showing me any English ability it's all about showing English ability.
All right.
But I gave you that question because they do they give questions like that to try to see how when you
how you are when you're outside of your comfort zone of a topic.
OK.
All right.
OK.
So let's keep one more question set for you.
So we're going to move on and we're going to talk about children.
OK.
All right.
Who plays a more vital role in bringing up children men or women in society.
Well I believe that the men are all in the.
Because even though you don't feel more comfortable with them instead of their fathers.
Yes I believe both are equally by saying that go off to get into the team and all of these things and
be ready for it for a child I believe it is superheroes.
So they always always want their parents to be that dad.
I believe from the mothers side.
They become more into the I mean in doing the time.
All right.
How can children be more engaged in outdoor activities or outdoor activities.
We can get into the you know the outdoor games and then also take them to you know I'm in the today
again playing to the you know outdoor box so we can engage them like that.
OK.
And what would you recommend that parents do for children.
They have an issue with their cell phones.
Mobile phones was like No I believe this is what I make for everybody not even that is in that category.
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
right now if their parents had to pick up them for it is that it can be here for like you know to give
up on it.
And there are other ways that that type of time for the parents because they have to do that they don't
you know every day it is back to this day and age usually in our game.
So I mean all there is has to be there for that.
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
taken as children.
Yes.
That's that's OK.
I mean you know you want to you want to kind of keep your answer about three sentences.
You know the budget you do.
You're doing fine.
The one thing that I would recommend that you go on is that you're going to have to work on between
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
and there's like a in-between.
Right.
So you kind of want to reduce those those days you kind of want to kind of reduce those between your
in your sentences because if you can say your sentences fluently from beginning to end without pausing
or without any hesitations that's going to make it much much better for you in terms of your grade.
OK.
So how like in the video.
I mean is there any hope for that.
Well I mean there's a lot of that is just is just practicing a lot of that is listening to yourself.
Right.
You're going to have to record yourself and listen to yourself and it it's difficult.
It is something that's done better with practice.
You know people that are the more you practice speaking the less the less that you have that issue or
have that problem.
It also gets better.
I don't know.
In your country are you speaking English all the time or are you speaking are you speaking another language
most of the time or could you be speaking another language your native language.
I think were the people I saw then what you want to make sure you do what's going to help you is just
like what I recommended for the previous person is at least a week before your exam.
Really try to use English all the time as much as possible because a lot of that hesitation will be
reduced if your brain is thinking in English and responding in English.
And that's what's normal for it.
Right.
So if you're if you're speaking your native language and then you try to switch to English.
It takes a while for your brain to warm up to the language.
But the more I use what I find for most students the more they're speaking and the longer I talk to
them the more those pauses and those and that hesitation is reduced.
So you're going to have to just you know before you take your exam this kind of really work on that
part of it.
OK.
All right now we are going to move into Part Number two when it comes apart.
Number two you're going to see a question come on the screen and if I'm looking at in terms of in terms
of scoring you right now I mean if you really work on the the pausing and hesitation you know you're
you're easily at a 7 or right now because you're really extending your answers very well and your you
have your.
Your pronunciation is fine.
There's some words that are some minor things that I'm mispronounced but you're also demonstrating you
have a good command of your language because I hear some more academic type of words and not only basic
words and that's always going to help out your lexical vocabulary.
You know you but you just have to work on some pausing and hesitation and being able to handle a question
that you're not familiar with so you don't get hung up or are not able to respond.
Just keep in mind that it's about it's not about the truth.
It's just really about you demonstrating.