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0:01okay i think we can start this is the
0:03speaking test of the international
0:05english language testing system taking
0:07place on the 11th of february center
0:10number
0:11ddc125 and the candidate is
0:14harvey the candidate number is zero one
0:17three one three four five eight the
0:19examiner is samson sees examiner number
0:22four four three five three three good
0:24afternoon my name is samson would you
0:26please tell me your full name sure my
0:28name is marino shafi wonderful can i see
0:30your identification please sir thank you
0:33you're welcome
0:41wonderful
0:42thank you very much
0:45okay
0:46in the first part of the exam i will ask
0:49you some personal questions let's talk
0:51about your leisure time when and how
0:54much leisure time do you generally have
0:56in the week uh well actually i have a
1:00quite hectic schedule in the week
1:02and i'm almost working 24 7 from nine in
1:06the morning to ungodly hours at night
1:08because i have a full-time job with a
1:11very heavy workload which i have to
1:13manage
1:14so to answer your question i can say
1:15that i don't really have much free time
1:18during the week these days right and
1:20who do you generally spend your leisure
1:23time with
1:24if i get the chance to have some free
1:26time for myself i prefer to spend it
1:28with my family
1:30since on the other occasions or the
1:32other days we don't really have much
1:35time and we are so busy with our
1:37grilling schedule so when we have this
1:39opportunity we have to take it to be
1:41together and if i want to tell you about
1:44the activities we do when we're together
1:46i can say that we just sit and watch our
1:49favorite drama series in the evenings
1:51which is called this is us and we have
1:54some joint food snacks to enjoy this
1:57quality time together
1:59wonderful and what are some activities
2:01you enjoy in your leisure time just go
2:04through them briefly
2:06um
2:07as i mentioned earlier i have a very
2:09very busy schedule and i don't have much
2:11free time for myself so sometimes i just
2:14prefer to sit and relax because i feel
2:17exhausted
2:18at times
2:19and
2:21yeah i need some uh i need to get some
2:23sleep and free up some time just to
2:25um maybe be with my family and that's
2:28also something else i would like to do
2:30in my free time we can talk with each
2:32other about the plans we have for the
2:34future just to uh you know it actually
2:37helps me figure out what i want to do
2:39about my life and it motivates me and it
2:42encourages me to keep on trying as i am
2:45yeah these are the things i normally do
2:46in my free time wonderful and what do
2:49you like about these activities
2:51altogether
2:52um
2:53i really enjoy spending time with my
2:56family especially my mother and my
2:58sister
3:00because it really
3:02gives me more energy after i'm i i'm
3:05done with my work or with my studies so
3:08it really helps me emotionally
3:10and uh i do need to hang out with my
3:14friends uh on the weekends especially
3:16because
3:18we usually go hiking
3:20and
3:21it is a very good chance to be away from
3:23the hectic pace of tehran and
3:26i can just look at the snow-covered
3:28peaks in the mountains and enjoy the
3:31fresh air so these are the things i
3:33really love about the activities these
3:35activities i do in my free time right
3:38okay let's move on to talk about animals
3:41do you like animals
3:43it depends on what kind of animal we're
3:44talking about but
3:46i can say that i like farm animals
3:49because i encounter them from time to
3:52time when i go to the countryside to
3:55have a walk
3:56and
3:58i can say that uh
4:00lamping is an extraordinary time of the
4:03year
4:03and i enjoy uh looking at the
4:07lamps suckling up to their mother i
4:09think mothers i think it's uh adorable
4:12and
4:13um i think that's the reason why i
4:15sometimes go to the uh to my uncle's
4:18farm in the northern part of iran to
4:20just see these animals and enjoy the
4:22nature right and what sort of animal
4:25would you like to have as a pet i would
4:28say i would like to
4:30have a dog as a pet but to be honest i
4:33used to be afraid of dogs until i saw
4:36coco which was uh my students pet
4:40actually and coco change made a big
4:43change in me and made me consider
4:45taking a puppy from an animal shelter
4:48which i haven't done yet but i have
4:50plans to
4:51and i would say dogs are good animals as
4:54a pet because they're compatible they
4:57can be house trained and
5:00they
5:01obey commands which i love oh that's
5:03wonderful okay thank you very much
5:05you're welcome
5:06right now in part two i will give you a
5:10card with a topic and you will talk
5:13about this topic for two minutes you
5:15have one minute to think about what
5:17you're going to say and you can make
5:18some notes to help you if you wish you
5:21understand okay
5:22so i want you to describe an interesting
5:25animal you have seen here's a piece of
5:27paper thank you the pencil and here is
5:30your topic okay okay so you have one
5:33minute to make notes
5:35please go ahead thank you
6:36okay that's the one minute up you now
6:38have uh two minutes to talk you can go
6:40ahead okay
6:42um so you asked me to talk about an
6:46exciting animal that i have seen to be
6:48honest uh in my country we usually see
6:51cats but we rarely see dogs roaming the
6:54streets
6:55which are not really
6:57the people's favorite
6:59but
7:00i mean in some other countries like
7:02canada um
7:04uh people have the chance to see see
7:06some other animals like goose bubbers
7:08skunks or even bears every day so what i
7:11want to say is that if i had the chance
7:13to live in a country like canada i could
7:15name a number of animals right now to
7:17answer your question
7:19however i remember that
7:22i went to a zoo in africa with my sister
7:25back in 2018 where i saw an african wild
7:29cat it uh actually looked similar to a
7:34huge tabby cat but it had a thicker a
7:36tail with a very a blonde
7:40tip with some black stripes i can say
7:43that it was nothing like the other
7:46wildcats i had seen before on tv
7:49and
7:50from what i heard these wildcats are
7:52fairly shy and they have been on the
7:54brink of extinction for a while which is
7:56sad and what happened that day was that
8:00we were allowed to feed the wild cats so
8:03i tried to do it but the cat approached
8:06me like he wanted to attack me and i was
8:08terrified
8:10so my sister told me that i should have
8:11been more careful because these animals
8:14these wild cats are cannot be tamed
8:16under any circumstances so in my opinion
8:20that was a really interesting uh animal
8:23because it was different
8:24and i had never seen something like that
8:26before so i can say that's the reason i
8:29can i just explain about this animal it
8:32was something
8:34extraordinary to me and
8:37to talk more about that
8:39i can say that uh thank you very much
8:42okay that's the two minutes up okay i
8:44can take your papers back now
8:46thank you very much
8:52all right in part two you talked about
8:54an interesting animal that you saw now
8:57in this part i want to ask you some
8:59questions related to this topic
9:02now how can animals cause problems for
9:04humans
9:06um to answer this question i can say
9:10that
9:11they can only pose a problem when they
9:13pose a threat to our safety or to or
9:17when they haunt the animals that we
9:19heard
9:20what i mean is that maybe some kinds of
9:23wild animals may bite us and that can
9:26result in some injuries and infections
9:28which in some cases
9:30are considered as
9:31irreparable harm to our health
9:35and um
9:37and on the other hand in my opinion
9:39maybe they can cause emotional problems
9:41like when we have a pet
9:43and uh they
9:45die due to some reasons which can
9:47contribute to some
9:48um to a very deep sorrow and sadness i
9:53would say yeah that's a problem actually
9:55right and what kind of animals do people
9:58keep as pets in your country mostly i
10:01don't really have much information to
10:02answer that question because i'm not an
10:05animal lover and i don't know many
10:06people who
10:08have pets but from what i have heard
10:10many iranians keep some birds like
10:12parrots and budgies i can say
10:16however they are allowed to fly free
10:20within the apartment
10:22but the their owners uh just make sure
10:25to keep all the doors and windows closed
10:27or they may escape and
10:30on the other hand in the past few years
10:32iranians have been
10:33uh have been
10:36showing some interest to take care of
10:39some stray puppies which i consider a
10:41really nice job
10:43wonderful and do you think animals will
10:45still be important in the future
10:49um
10:50what i predict is that
10:53yes they will absolutely have the
10:56um
10:57the same significance in the future or
10:59even more
11:00because they are actually essential for
11:03maintaining a balanced ecosystem and for
11:06the production of
11:08uh livestock which is which influences
11:12the water air or soil
11:14and
11:15as i mentioned earlier
11:17due to the reason that many people not
11:20only in iran but also in other countries
11:23have been showing
11:24an interest to
11:26take care of puppies or pets generally
11:29um
11:31and they have been supporting animal
11:33rights yes in the future we can have
11:35even more of these animals or we can
11:37bring some of them back with other
11:39cloning technology maybe
11:41and uh how do you think we can stop
11:43animals going extinct the ones that are
11:45critically endangered now this day and
11:47age i think uh it's something that uh
11:51both
11:52the government and the people have to do
11:55like
11:56first of all the government has to take
11:58some steps to just take care of some
12:01animals or establish some rules
12:03to forbid some acts which can harm the
12:07animals or their lives and on the other
12:09hand we have to just improve our own
12:11culture like the
12:13culture we have among us and not to harm
12:16the animals or um i'm not just talking
12:18about harming the animal if we just
12:21teach ourselves to take care of the
12:23animals or
12:24uh just do do nothing to them that would
12:27also work we don't need to just uh do
12:31something to improve the situation you
12:33know
12:34thank you very much okay that's the end
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13:12now we can quickly just go to your band
13:14score and then we can look at the other
13:16situation so all i can say is at the
13:18very beginning is wow
13:20thank you very much it was brilliant um
13:24that wow had a lot of meaning to it
13:26actually because you know we're looking
13:27at uh we're clearly looking at a nine
13:29here because uh you're very much in
13:32control of not only the english language
13:34but also all the the structures and all
13:36the techniques that are required for the
13:39ielts speaking test so
13:41let's go through them one by one and you
13:44can hear me out here i mean fluency and
13:45coherence
13:47we'll look at that first i mean your
13:48linking words they were wonderful they
13:50were all in the correct
13:52spots as we were looking at answering
13:55the way you were answering the questions
13:56referring to the questions even that you
13:58you didn't know what the questions were
14:00you made some reference towards the
14:01question you gave the answer and then
14:03you went on to your off topic
14:05particularly with the particularly with
14:06the discussion uh side of things which
14:09is absolutely fine as long as there's a
14:10reference towards the uh the actual
14:13answer then
14:14you're good to go basically then you'll
14:16you'll get your marks for the speed and
14:18also
14:19connecting your ideas together which was
14:21also also fantastic you had your ideas
14:23you had your sub ideas uh i would say
14:26you had a very uh you know great speed
14:29of the way you were talking um normally
14:32we would you know tell candidates to
14:34speak a little bit slower but in your
14:36case obviously you have no problem with
14:38being able to
14:40produce your idea and keep your idea
14:42going so speed didn't get in the way of
14:44anything as as we could see clearly see
14:47there and you know your intonation it
14:49sounded very natural again adding to all
14:51this fluency and coherence business um
14:54just having a general conversation and
14:56being able to express the language the
14:58best you can and then okay let's look at
15:01vocabulary now you had a wide range of
15:03vocabulary i could see you could just
15:05easily paraphrase any word and have the
15:08same meaning and use different words
15:10just to connect all those
15:12different vocabulary together and it was
15:14a wide range and you use them all in the
15:17correct places depending on the topic
15:20and depending on the the question that
15:21was asked so again i didn't really see
15:24any difficulty or any struggle with your
15:26vocabulary wonderful stuff okay now to
15:29uh grammar and accuracy the again
15:32grammar i didn't even see you have any
15:34uh grammatical errors at all actually to
15:36be honest with you and that's wonderful
15:38it would be great if everyone could do
15:40that um
15:41structure again i mean your simple
15:43sentences no problem at all complex
15:46structures you didn't have any problem
15:48with that and you didn't even stutter
15:50okay there were a few uh um's here and
15:52then maybe just very tiny bit and that
15:55would happen with any native speaker any
15:57english speaker being asked a question
15:59they they didn't know about so uh there
16:01will always be a pauses in fact pauses
16:04are good in the ielts speaking test that
16:06gives you you know a few seconds to pull
16:08yourself together and you know give out
16:10your answer
16:12so a great grammar and accuracy was
16:14wonderful uh pronunciation again with
16:17the simple pronunciations and complex
16:21harder words to pronounce i i think you
16:23were spot on and you were very clear and
16:26i don't think you would have any problem
16:28at all with that so you know we're
16:30looking we're clearly looking at a nine
16:31here this is this is a typical nine uh
16:34in the in the ielts speaking test uh i
16:36mean are there any uh questions you'd
16:38like to ask me to regarding
16:40the whole situation a bit confused with
16:42part two because the question that i was
16:45asked
16:46um i didn't really have much to say
16:48about it but what i did was going off
16:51the topic for the first i think the
16:53first minute i guess it took me one
16:55minute to talk about some other things
16:57my own experience and then i i just came
17:00back to the main topic so
17:03is that a problem no no it's not a
17:05problem at all in fact we encourage
17:07candidates to do that and i was going to
17:09make a reference to that actually you
17:10spoke for you know the full two minutes
17:12and i even stopped you in the middle
17:14that's what the examiner does they stop
17:16the candidates so when the two minutes
17:18is up that's fine and going off topic
17:20like that i mean you you gave reference
17:22to the answer straight away so you
17:24clearly understood what what the
17:25question was even though you didn't have
17:27much information or maybe you couldn't
17:29talk too much about the actual topic
17:31that was asked so we actually encourage
17:33candidates to do that and you did that
17:35perfectly you made the 30 reference
17:38towards the the actual topic and then
17:40you went off topic and it's absolutely
17:42fine to do that that's not a problem in
17:44fact that that's a technique that you
17:46know we would always
17:48encourage for our ielts candidates to do
17:51that uh because it will save you it will
17:53definitely kill off the two minutes of
17:55time and then again you you made another
17:57reference to the the actual question so
17:59that just that proves to the examiner
18:01that you've understood the question even
18:03though you don't have much information
18:04about it and you can you're there to
18:07talk and it was it was all fluent and i
18:10didn't have any problem you know with
18:11the telling it's more like telling a
18:13story that the two minutes of actually i
18:16didn't i mean going to africa didn't
18:18really happen to me i just wanted to say
18:20something and that's why i referred to
18:22an experience i never had oh that's
18:24there's nothing wrong i just wanted to
18:26explain about the topic so yeah
18:28absolutely because it's about talking
18:30for two minutes yeah and uh based on the
18:32four criteria so it doesn't matter if
18:34that's if that never happened it could
18:36be a complete fake story it doesn't
18:38matter if you're if it's true or false
18:40that in in the ielts speaking test i
18:42mean some people know this some people
18:44don't know this but being true or false
18:46really doesn't matter in in the ielts
18:49speaking test it's all about just
18:50understanding the question and getting
18:52through it with your ideas going off
18:55topic if you have to because no
18:57candidate is expected to know fully
19:00about
19:00what what topics there are i mean the
19:03brain would explode if you wanted to go
19:05through every single topic in the world
19:07and and memorize everything it's
19:09impossible and unfortunately some
19:12uh some academies do that in fact they
19:14even they inc which is not a good thing
19:16they tell them to keep studying
19:18different topics it's not about studying
19:20different topics and memorizing stuff
19:22from i think that's impossible it is
19:24impossible you're absolutely right and
19:26what what candidates would do what what
19:28you just did i would encourage all the
19:30candidates to do is when you don't know
19:32about a topic which is very likely to
19:34happen it's very natural because you are
19:36actually tested on not knowing about a
19:39topic and dealing with the situation
19:41about a topic you don't know about and
19:44you did that clearly you made reference
19:45to the question i i'm not
19:47very well informed about this topic but
19:49i can talk about this and then you
19:51answer the question in 30 and then you
19:53go on to your own topic that's
19:55absolutely fine so definitely what you
19:58did was
19:59we're looking at
20:00the correct techniques of a band score
20:03nine so very very well done thank you
20:06very much and do you there's no other
20:08questions and i guess no thank you thank
20:10you so much for the feedback oh it's my
20:12pleasure and hopefully we'll see you
20:13around sure thank you
20:20[Music]
20:21you

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