IELTS Speaking Practice - Intermediate/Advanced English Listening — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hello everybody. This is teacher Levy.
2. 0:04Today we'll be speaking in normal
3. 0:07English. So we'll cover IELTS today. The
4. 0:11test, it's very common for my students
5. 0:14to practice for the IELTS. Uh, so we'll
6. 0:18do a speaking practice and I'll do it
7. 0:22myself and that way you can listen to my
8. 0:26thinking process and how I would answer
9. 0:29a part two question. So there's three
10. 0:32parts. Me and a lot of other students
11. 0:36agree that the second part is perhaps
12. 0:39the most challenging from all three. So,
13. 0:43we're going to do part two questions
14. 0:46um and I will answer them today. So,
15. 0:48thanks for tuning in to day six of the
16. 0:51English boot camp.
17. 0:54I wanted to visit an archaeological site
18. 0:59today,
19. 1:01but I'm not sure if I'm going to find
20. 1:02it.
21. 1:04Um, and time is of the essence, which is
22. 1:07a saying that we don't have so much
23. 1:09time. We need to make it count
24. 1:13to make it make it count. So
25. 1:17maybe it won't happen today, but we're
26. 1:19going to do the IELTS
27. 1:21practice. So that's the plan. I heard
28. 1:26some
29. 1:27animals.
30. 1:29Of course,
31. 1:31when the camera is off, I see a lot of
32. 1:35animals around here. And then when I
33. 1:38turned the camera on, they ran away. So
34. 1:42that's okay. Sooner or later, as we say,
35. 1:47sooner or later, we'll see some
36. 1:49together. So let's hope.
37. 1:54So I recommend this website, IELTS by
38. 1:57Liz. If anyone is looking to take the
39. 2:00IELTS test, then IELTS by Liz is an
40. 2:04amazing site. It's fully free. So you
41. 2:07can access speaking, reading, writing,
42. 2:10listening
43. 2:12sections on the site and she has a very
44. 2:16good breakdown of the topics and
45. 2:19questions that could be on the test. So
46. 2:22I recommend that. Perhaps this was
47. 2:27something that they dug out. Who knows?
48. 2:30But that's a big hole.
49. 2:33Um I by Liz. I'm going to put the link
50. 2:37in the description
51. 2:39and you guys can check it out. I'm gonna
52. 2:42find or I already found a few topics. I
53. 2:46will put them on screen and we'll go one
54. 2:49by one. The part two speaking
55. 2:53is divided into
56. 2:56one minute of preparation
57. 3:01and one or two minutes of speaking. So
58. 3:04that's what you should attempt or try to
59. 3:08do. That's what I will do today too. So,
60. 3:12I'll think out loud so that you guys
61. 3:15know what I am thinking of while I'm
62. 3:20preparing for a question. An important
63. 3:23part for answering a question, in my
64. 3:26opinion, is TTQA.
65. 3:29I might have talked about this before in
66. 3:32another video, but TTQA,
67. 3:35the letters mean turn the question
68. 3:37around. A lot of times when I ask a
69. 3:41question to my students, they say
70. 3:44because. They start the sentence with
71. 3:47because, which is not a good way to
72. 3:50start. So a basic example would be if I
73. 3:55ask what's your favorite color? You
74. 3:57would say my favorite color is green
75. 4:01because I love the color of leaves. For
76. 4:04example, so turn the question around.
77. 4:07What is your favorite color? My favorite
78. 4:09color is
79. 4:11So, let's do the first question or topic
80. 4:14for part two. This is exercise. I will
81. 4:18put it on screen so you can read it
82. 4:21along with me. Describe an exercise you
83. 4:24know. You should say what it is, how it
84. 4:27is done, when you first tried it, what
85. 4:30kind of people it is suitable for, and
86. 4:33explain why you think it is a good
87. 4:34exercise. So, we'll do one minute
88. 4:37preparation.
89. 4:38Instantly,
90. 4:40uh, I'm thinking of the rowing machine.
91. 4:44Usually, I would write it down so you
92. 4:46can take notes and glance at your notes.
93. 4:49So, I would have the rowing machine,
94. 4:52which I tried years ago when I was more
95. 4:57consistent with going to the gym. So, I
96. 5:00used to use the rowing machine for
97. 5:02warming up. It is similar obviously to
98. 5:06rowing, but it uses this pulley device
99. 5:12that you can pull. It's good for cardio
100. 5:15and it's also good for perhaps upper
101. 5:17body uh muscle growth. So that's what I
102. 5:21would instantly think of what kind of
103. 5:24people it is suitable for. I would write
104. 5:26down that athletes
105. 5:28and people who go to the gym. So that's
106. 5:31what I would discuss. I think that was
107. 5:34roughly a minute and now I'll do one or
108. 5:36two minutes for answering the question.
109. 5:40So an exercise I know that I really
110. 5:42enjoy is the rowing machine. This
111. 5:47exercise is used for developing your
112. 5:51upper body muscles and also your cardio.
113. 5:56It is a good exercise for warming up and
114. 6:00if you have only 20 or 30 minutes to
115. 6:04work out, it is a good exercise for that
116. 6:07as well. You use this machine by sitting
117. 6:12on a seat that slides back and forth. I
118. 6:15first tried this machine maybe 10 years
119. 6:19ago when I started attending a workout
120. 6:25program provided by my football team.
121. 6:29So, we were scheduled to go to the gym
122. 6:31three or four times a week and they
123. 6:35showed us different exercises and
124. 6:38machines we could use during the
125. 6:41sessions. So, that was my first time
126. 6:44trying the rowing machine. I think it's
127. 6:47good for athletes or people who are
128. 6:50looking to get started in working out or
129. 6:54going to the gym because it is pretty
130. 6:56easy to use. It doesn't take a lot of
131. 7:00practice to get the hang of it. For
132. 7:03beginners, even for advanced athletes
133. 7:07who are looking to get a good warm up
134. 7:11before doing perhaps heavy lifting, I
135. 7:13think it's a good exercise
136. 7:16because you're able to do two things at
137. 7:19once or get two birds with one stone.
138. 7:22You're able to get your cardio done and
139. 7:24you're also able to work on your muscles
140. 7:27perhaps toning your muscles because it
141. 7:30is not super heavy. For example, bench
142. 7:34pressing or squatting. This is perhaps a
143. 7:38more high intensity
144. 7:42and high reps exercise. So, I think that
145. 7:45was pretty good.
146. 7:47Not bad. Ideally, you would have notes
147. 7:51so that your structure or speaking
148. 7:55structure is more organized and you're
149. 7:58not all over the place. I like to go
150. 8:01down the list. So, answering questions
151. 8:04from top to bottom and then set up your
152. 8:08speaking so it roughly matches one or
153. 8:10two minutes. The idea is also not to
154. 8:13speak too slow.
155. 8:15I've had students where they're
156. 8:18answering the question and they get
157. 8:21interrupted by the instructor
158. 8:25um and they say that the time's up and
159. 8:28they were speaking too slow to fully
160. 8:31answer the question. So, that's a
161. 8:33problem that happens sometimes. It's
162. 8:35best to speak fast, but speak clearly.
163. 8:38Don't rush. Try to get as much useful
164. 8:41vocabulary as you can while speaking or
165. 8:44answering the question.
166. 8:47Okay, let's do one more. So,
167. 8:51book. We'll do book. Describe a book you
168. 8:55have recently read. You should say what
169. 8:58kind of book it is, what it is about,
170. 9:02what sort of people would enjoy it, and
171. 9:04explain why you liked it.
172. 9:06So, keep in mind I'm trying to speak at
173. 9:11a normal speed. Sometimes I might repeat
174. 9:15myself just to clarify or if there's
175. 9:18pronunciation that I think you should
176. 9:20pay attention to, but it's roughly the
177. 9:25same speed as I would speak normally.
178. 9:28So,
179. 9:30uh, describe a book you recently read.
180. 9:32My first thought is this book about
181. 9:36water and the importance of drinking
182. 9:39enough water. This book I read a few
183. 9:43years ago but they don't need to know
184. 9:45that. I think the term recently
185. 9:49is subjective or relative. So it could
186. 9:54be last year, it could be last week. I
187. 9:58think this book is good for um an answer
188. 10:02that would give me a good score. So try
189. 10:04and pick a a book or a answer which fits
190. 10:10all the questions that we have here.
191. 10:13That way you can have your thoughts
192. 10:16ready and you don't need to stop and
193. 10:19pause and think about what you're going
194. 10:20to say. So the water book is what I
195. 10:23would talk about. It's about drinking a
196. 10:25lot of water. what sort of people would
197. 10:28enjoy it? Uh people who are into health
198. 10:31or diet and explain why you liked it. It
199. 10:34helped me a lot. So that's kind of my
200. 10:36what my answer is going to be.
201. 10:40So a book I've recently read is you're
202. 10:43not sick, you're thirsty. It is a book
203. 10:46written by an Iranian doctor who has
204. 10:51since passed away. It is a book about
205. 10:55health. It focuses on improving
206. 11:00different conditions that we might have
207. 11:02or we might face. So the key uh concept
208. 11:06from the book is that we are dehydrated.
209. 11:08We don't drink enough water. And um a
210. 11:12common term that he uses throughout the
211. 11:14book is chronic dehydration, which is
212. 11:17long-term dehydration
213. 11:19when we don't drink enough water for
214. 11:22perhaps years or even our whole lives. I
215. 11:25think people who are into health,
216. 11:27they're into diet or even exercise,
217. 11:31these would be good people
218. 11:34um to recommend the book to.
219. 11:38I really enjoyed the book because it
220. 11:41changed my life. I started drinking a
221. 11:43lot of water afterwards and I started
222. 11:46paying attention to drinking water
223. 11:49specifically after waking up after
224. 11:52exercising
225. 11:54and also adding salt sometimes to
226. 11:57hydrate myself better. So these are
227. 12:00takeaways or key lessons which I learned
228. 12:04from reading the book.
229. 12:07So I think that answer was pretty good,
230. 12:09not bad. um try to minimize grammatical
231. 12:13mistakes while you're speaking. Of
232. 12:15course, for this you'll have to
233. 12:18do other speaking practice. Uh for
234. 12:22example, having a uh coach or teacher
235. 12:26who can write down your mistakes perhaps
236. 12:29with prepositions or basic tenses and
237. 12:33you can work on those separately. When
238. 12:35you get to these questions, it will be
239. 12:37helpful. So that will improve your
240. 12:39speaking overall.
241. 12:41So these were the two topics for IELTS.
242. 12:44I recommend this even for people who
243. 12:46aren't taking the test. It's a good
244. 12:47exercise uh just to have fun and switch
245. 12:51it up and try something different. So I
246. 12:54think it can't hurt so to do these
247. 12:56practices or exercises.
248. 12:59Uh thank you for joining day six of the
249. 13:01boot camp. We'll have day seven tomorrow
250. 13:05and on Monday which will be day eight
251. 13:10we'll have the live stream
252. 13:12as well as the members video. The live
253. 13:16stream will be at the usual time and
254. 13:20different topic. We won't do only
255. 13:22phrasal verbs this time. So something
256. 13:25else. But thank you for watching. Thank
257. 13:27you for the comments and the suggestion
258. 13:31um of what I read this morning. Somebody
259. 13:35commented to do IELTS. So that is where
260. 13:38I got the idea. Thank you for that. I'll
261. 13:40put the comment on screen as well. And
262. 13:43some of the comments are funny. Somebody
263. 13:46said it's still way too slow. Obviously,
264. 13:50it's not. But thank you for the support.
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267. 13:59you tomorrow. Thank you.