1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:02,360 Yeah. 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:04,060 If somebody has if you're yeah. 3 00:00:04,070 --> 00:00:09,620 If you have another question, you can ask me any question you want within the Udemy course. 4 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:13,410 But there are no other questions right now. 5 00:00:17,430 --> 00:00:17,730 All right. 6 00:00:17,730 --> 00:00:21,210 So I'm going to go ahead and talk about moving from Band six to Band seven. 7 00:00:26,070 --> 00:00:32,520 I also exam students often find themselves stuck at a 6.5 in the speaking section. 8 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:43,090 And normally normally if somebody is stuck at a six or 6.5 and they can't get over a seven. 9 00:00:44,410 --> 00:00:46,780 It's related to one of these four things. 10 00:00:48,580 --> 00:00:51,790 Number one, precision and range. 11 00:00:52,590 --> 00:00:54,270 Precision and range. 12 00:00:55,110 --> 00:00:57,840 To be able to score seven, eight or nine. 13 00:00:58,710 --> 00:01:00,630 You have to show a range. 14 00:01:00,630 --> 00:01:08,070 And when I talk about range, I'm specifically talking about your your your vocabulary and your grammar. 15 00:01:08,910 --> 00:01:11,790 You show range in vocabulary. 16 00:01:12,460 --> 00:01:17,950 By using subject specific vocabulary, synonyms and paraphrasing. 17 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,820 That's how you show range in your vocabulary. 18 00:01:22,610 --> 00:01:30,890 You shall range in your grammar by being able to speak in compound complex sentences, conditional sentences, 19 00:01:31,070 --> 00:01:34,070 and being able to use cohesive devices. 20 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:36,470 That's how you show that kind of range. 21 00:01:37,070 --> 00:01:39,680 Also in terms of precision. 22 00:01:40,550 --> 00:01:41,000 Band. 23 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,110 Seven students always choose the right form of the word. 24 00:01:46,460 --> 00:01:48,450 Always choose the right form of the word. 25 00:01:48,470 --> 00:01:55,760 Another big difference between a band six student and a band seven plus student is the ability to extend, 26 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,290 explain, expand. 27 00:01:58,330 --> 00:02:03,160 Again extend explain expand does not mean over talk. 28 00:02:04,890 --> 00:02:05,060 Right. 29 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:10,890 It does not mean over target does not mean just keep running your mouth like you have zero control. 30 00:02:12,090 --> 00:02:16,260 Speaking to the three sentences answer get ready for the next question. 31 00:02:18,260 --> 00:02:26,300 Of course, one difference between the band six or what keeps somebody stuck at a band 6.5 is your overall 32 00:02:26,300 --> 00:02:27,440 English level. 33 00:02:28,780 --> 00:02:29,470 Right. 34 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,510 English level is a limitation. 35 00:02:32,460 --> 00:02:39,150 And so some of the best advice I can give anybody is, you know, keep improving your English. 36 00:02:40,140 --> 00:02:46,350 In the way that you keep improving your English in terms of speaking is speak English as much as possible. 37 00:02:47,430 --> 00:02:53,010 Right when you're when you're just speaking in general every day and you know, you have that exam coming 38 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:58,500 up in a month and you're speaking English and your everyday life as much as possible. 39 00:02:59,650 --> 00:03:07,270 Overexplain explain and talk about things way more than you need to just to get yourself, you know, 40 00:03:07,290 --> 00:03:11,830 increasing your overall English level and your comfort and response. 41 00:03:12,250 --> 00:03:14,980 And then finally, the type of hesitation. 42 00:03:15,860 --> 00:03:20,840 The type of hesitation that you have makes a difference in your scoring. 43 00:03:21,770 --> 00:03:24,260 And this is something that a lot of students are not aware of. 44 00:03:25,430 --> 00:03:28,790 If you have language related hesitation. 45 00:03:29,750 --> 00:03:33,860 Then that's might be while you're stuck at a band six or a 6.5. 46 00:03:34,650 --> 00:03:37,830 If you have content related hesitation. 47 00:03:38,450 --> 00:03:41,060 That's OC great content related. 48 00:03:41,060 --> 00:03:43,220 When you have content related hesitation. 49 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:51,200 You can still get a band eight or a band nine, but if you have language related hesitation, that's 50 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:52,670 what gives you a lower score. 51 00:03:53,960 --> 00:04:02,540 So, you know, there are some differences between, you know, the band five, six, 6.5 levels and 52 00:04:02,540 --> 00:04:06,440 the band seven, 7.5, eight and nine levels. 53 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:08,870 And so we have to recognize that. 54 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:12,490 So how to improve? 55 00:04:13,660 --> 00:04:17,380 There are three, three, three pieces of advice I'm going to give you for improving. 56 00:04:18,070 --> 00:04:20,560 Number one, record yourself and keep a record. 57 00:04:22,370 --> 00:04:25,490 A lot of a lot of us don't like to listen to ourselves. 58 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,350 But if you're practicing for Dale's exam, you want to listen to yourself. 59 00:04:30,950 --> 00:04:34,820 You want to record yourself and keep a record. 60 00:04:36,130 --> 00:04:43,810 When I say keep a record, I'm talking about keeping a written record of evaluating your responses. 61 00:04:44,410 --> 00:04:47,020 But recording yourself is how you get better. 62 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:55,810 Number two, I've already explained speak English consistently and in detail as much as possible. 63 00:04:55,810 --> 00:04:57,070 You have to speak. 64 00:04:57,900 --> 00:04:59,790 Especially when you're coming up to the exam. 65 00:04:59,790 --> 00:05:07,230 One reason why you have hesitation on the exam or hesitation happens on the exam is because the student 66 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:14,790 has not been speaking English prior to the exam, and then they have trouble getting the words that 67 00:05:14,790 --> 00:05:16,020 are already in their head. 68 00:05:17,180 --> 00:05:23,510 And then finally, the more you improve your vocabulary and your grammar range, the higher your score 69 00:05:23,510 --> 00:05:24,380 is going to be. 70 00:05:25,310 --> 00:05:33,620 So when you start studying for an exam like the exam or the full exam, you don't stop increasing your 71 00:05:33,620 --> 00:05:35,120 vocabulary and your grammar. 72 00:05:35,570 --> 00:05:38,000 That's something that you keep practicing. 73 00:05:38,420 --> 00:05:41,540 That's something that you keep improving and your score will get better that way. 74 00:05:43,820 --> 00:05:44,300 All right. 75 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:46,850 So now I'm going to get into. 76 00:05:48,270 --> 00:05:52,530 Speaking Part one and going over some of the recent Part one questions. 77 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:59,160 I already have my eight volunteer speakers by eight volunteer speakers. 78 00:05:59,850 --> 00:06:04,780 There are eight different eight different sets we're going to do. 79 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:08,730 And like I say, these are not we're not going through a full practice test. 80 00:06:08,950 --> 00:06:12,090 There are these are the these are the recent questions. 81 00:06:12,780 --> 00:06:15,420 These are some of the recent questions that they've asked. 82 00:06:15,690 --> 00:06:25,830 So there may be a question about museums or a question about communication or different types of questions. 83 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:27,390 And if you have. 84 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:32,730 And so as a volunteer, you're going to have four questions. 85 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:37,880 So, for example, if I'm calling on Delilah, I'm not calling you right now, Julie. 86 00:06:37,890 --> 00:06:42,450 I'm just using as an example if I'm calling Angelia to volunteer. 87 00:06:42,780 --> 00:06:48,180 She may be she may be giving answers to the questions about farming and they'll be four questions. 88 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,770 And I will ask the question and then Julia will respond to each question. 89 00:06:53,970 --> 00:07:01,230 Now what you can if you're not one of the volunteers, what you can do at home on your by yourself. 90 00:07:02,310 --> 00:07:08,790 Is while I'm answering, while I'm asking the questions, you can answer the questions yourself at home. 91 00:07:09,330 --> 00:07:15,510 And if you do that, I encourage you to record yourself while you are answering the questions. 92 00:07:16,170 --> 00:07:18,660 Record yourself while you're answering the questions. 93 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:25,260 And like I said, if you're using a great application like honor, I honor. 94 00:07:25,260 --> 00:07:30,420 I will transcribe what you're saying while you speak. 95 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:32,530 That way you can see what you see. 96 00:07:32,550 --> 00:07:34,890 It is a great, great tool. 97 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:41,280 Also, if you're not going to be self speaking or self answering the questions. 98 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:49,770 When somebody is speaking, when a volunteer is speaking, I need some people to act as peer checkers, 99 00:07:50,340 --> 00:07:55,230 meaning I want you to be able to give I want you to give feedback to these speakers. 100 00:07:55,260 --> 00:08:02,730 Give feedback to these volunteers and comment on any grammar mistakes that you heard in the lexical 101 00:08:02,730 --> 00:08:04,080 mistakes that you heard. 102 00:08:04,290 --> 00:08:07,410 Any issues you heard in fluency or pronunciation? 103 00:08:08,590 --> 00:08:08,920 Right. 104 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:13,750 So if you're a volunteer, people are going to comment on your speech. 105 00:08:13,750 --> 00:08:14,100 Right. 106 00:08:14,110 --> 00:08:19,810 And remember, this is they're trying to give you helpful criticism to help make you better or to help 107 00:08:19,810 --> 00:08:20,830 you improve. 108 00:08:21,310 --> 00:08:28,330 And by by your volunteering, you're allowing for them to be able to really see how they should or should 109 00:08:28,330 --> 00:08:30,160 not give certain responses. 110 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,640 So what you're doing is going to be a really great help. 111 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:40,510 I'm going to take I'm going to answer these questions that I have in the chat box, and then I'm going 112 00:08:40,510 --> 00:08:42,340 to go with the first person. 113 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:50,460 The first person that I'm going to ask questions to is going to be Julia. 114 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:56,850 And so, Julia, you're going to be number one, and I'm going to go with you first, Julia, and then 115 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,160 I'll I'll decide who's next. 116 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:05,710 Yeah. 117 00:09:05,860 --> 00:09:08,650 Basque Basque gave it to you correctly. 118 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:13,090 The the the app is utter I. 119 00:09:16,450 --> 00:09:21,250 And Honor II is a great application because our I will transcribe. 120 00:09:22,420 --> 00:09:24,580 It will transcribe what you're going to say. 121 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:31,000 So I'm going to give everybody I'm going to I'm going to pause for just one minute because there are 122 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:38,140 some people that are trying to there are some people that are trying to download the order app on their 123 00:09:38,140 --> 00:09:38,410 phone. 124 00:09:38,410 --> 00:09:40,120 I want to give them a minute to do that. 125 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:43,140 Brasilia. 126 00:09:45,030 --> 00:09:46,590 I'm going to. 127 00:09:46,740 --> 00:09:48,030 Julia, can you turn on your mic? 128 00:09:48,030 --> 00:09:48,760 I'm not sure if I've. 129 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,420 I gave you the ability to turn on your mic, guilty or not. 130 00:10:00,790 --> 00:10:02,820 I have the turtle and Julia's microphone. 131 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:06,600 Julia. 132 00:10:06,630 --> 00:10:07,170 Julia. 133 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:07,740 Julia. 134 00:10:07,770 --> 00:10:08,670 Julia. 135 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:12,320 Here's Julia. 136 00:10:15,210 --> 00:10:15,630 Okay. 137 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:17,340 Julie, are you there? 138 00:10:17,940 --> 00:10:19,050 Yes, thank you. 139 00:10:19,050 --> 00:10:20,720 I wasn't able to do that. 140 00:10:20,730 --> 00:10:25,980 Yeah, yeah, I have a I have everything on mute because that's the only way I could control the classroom. 141 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:31,270 You know, some sometimes I have 200 or 300 students in a live class. 142 00:10:31,870 --> 00:10:33,760 And so I have to keep the mute mikes on mute. 143 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:34,450 But you're okay now. 144 00:10:34,450 --> 00:10:39,820 So, Angelia and in about 30 seconds, I'm going to ask you four questions. 145 00:10:40,180 --> 00:10:46,360 And these are these are these are questions that appeared on recently on part one of the exam. 146 00:10:46,870 --> 00:10:49,780 And I want you to answer each question to the best of your ability. 147 00:10:49,780 --> 00:10:50,180 Okay. 148 00:10:51,810 --> 00:10:52,200 Mm hmm. 149 00:10:52,350 --> 00:10:53,070 Yeah, of course. 150 00:10:56,780 --> 00:10:57,020 All right. 151 00:10:57,020 --> 00:11:01,010 So I'm going to go ahead and go through the first set of four questions. 152 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,790 Julia is going to be responding to these questions. 153 00:11:05,030 --> 00:11:11,900 Like I said, if you're at home, you can also respond to the questions on your own and practice. 154 00:11:12,620 --> 00:11:19,400 Also, for some of you, please listen to her responses and please go over and make comments on her 155 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,800 grammar, lexical fluency and pronunciation. 156 00:11:22,310 --> 00:11:22,610 All right. 157 00:11:22,610 --> 00:11:23,780 Let's go ahead and get started. 158 00:11:28,470 --> 00:11:28,680 All right. 159 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:31,320 So this is set number one. 160 00:11:31,470 --> 00:11:34,290 And as I said, they're going to be four questions. 161 00:11:38,030 --> 00:11:41,240 All right, Julia, let's talk about farming. 162 00:11:44,260 --> 00:11:44,700 Mm hmm. 163 00:11:44,830 --> 00:11:45,370 Of course. 164 00:11:46,660 --> 00:11:46,980 Okay. 165 00:11:46,990 --> 00:11:49,660 Julia, what kind of farm do you like? 166 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:55,740 Oh, that's an interesting question. 167 00:11:56,370 --> 00:12:00,030 I guess I would choose a cattle station. 168 00:12:00,150 --> 00:12:03,450 Is it kind of farm or. 169 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:06,480 From what I understand the question. 170 00:12:07,530 --> 00:12:09,630 I think cattle stations are. 171 00:12:11,790 --> 00:12:21,870 Like it's hard to think of an appropriate adjective, but they are necessary in terms of agriculture 172 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:30,900 and very helpful in gastronomical matters for those who eat meat. 173 00:12:31,910 --> 00:12:32,540 Okay. 174 00:12:33,310 --> 00:12:34,660 Next question. 175 00:12:37,550 --> 00:12:39,590 Do you think farming is important? 176 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,700 Of course, I think farming is very important. 177 00:12:47,750 --> 00:12:58,340 If we talk about, for example, growing vegetables, it it's crucial because number of vegetarians 178 00:12:58,340 --> 00:13:00,650 is growing throughout the world. 179 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:11,150 And I also like the trend of growing things on in houses not. 180 00:13:12,110 --> 00:13:14,750 Like global farming, but some local farming. 181 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,710 And I think it's also important to support such 182 00:13:21,050 --> 00:13:21,950 farmers. 183 00:13:21,980 --> 00:13:23,180 Next question. 184 00:13:23,420 --> 00:13:26,360 Did you do farm work when you were young? 185 00:13:27,260 --> 00:13:28,550 Yes, of course I did. 186 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:37,880 Actually, I live in a very tiny town and my grandmother had a garden and we did a lot of farming. 187 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:44,180 We we had potatoes, cabbages or origins. 188 00:13:44,270 --> 00:13:48,020 And I enjoyed it a lot when I was a kid. 189 00:13:49,260 --> 00:13:49,740 All right. 190 00:13:49,740 --> 00:13:55,680 And final question, does your country still use many traditional farming methods? 191 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:03,730 I don't think I know what traditional farming methods are. 192 00:14:04,730 --> 00:14:12,920 But I suppose, yes, because our cow, our country is very agricultural. 193 00:14:13,370 --> 00:14:17,660 It's a huge part of the economics of the country. 194 00:14:18,110 --> 00:14:30,860 And of course, a lot of things are modernized and they use all machines and things to make farming 195 00:14:32,150 --> 00:14:34,250 more up to date. 196 00:14:34,250 --> 00:14:43,820 But I'm pretty sure that traditional, traditional, traditional methods are also well, they're perpetual 197 00:14:43,820 --> 00:14:45,650 in this field. 198 00:14:46,580 --> 00:14:47,060 All right. 199 00:14:47,060 --> 00:14:49,840 Thank you very much, Julia, for your volunteering. 200 00:14:49,850 --> 00:14:51,680 Please get your microphone. 201 00:14:51,980 --> 00:14:53,300 Thank you very much. 202 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:54,950 Thank you. 203 00:14:56,180 --> 00:15:07,130 And everybody, that is if you can, go ahead and take a minute and give Julia feedback on her responses. 204 00:15:08,660 --> 00:15:12,080 What you heard that was really good. 205 00:15:12,290 --> 00:15:14,120 Any mistakes that you heard? 206 00:15:15,210 --> 00:15:24,630 Any comments and feedback that we all can benefit from just in general in terms of it's difficult for 207 00:15:24,630 --> 00:15:32,880 me while I'm asking her the questions to be able to, you know, listen for some of the errors or mistakes. 208 00:15:33,060 --> 00:15:38,010 That's the reason why the Isles Examiners record what you're saying, because they want to be able to 209 00:15:38,010 --> 00:15:39,360 listen back to what you're doing. 210 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:47,040 But one of the highlights of what I heard her from Jilly is that she has really good pronunciation. 211 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:51,450 Number one, she can pronounce a range of words very well. 212 00:15:51,690 --> 00:16:02,130 And also in terms of in terms of her vocabulary, you heard a lot of really more advanced vocabulary, 213 00:16:02,310 --> 00:16:10,020 whether it's talking about gastronomical or using words like crucial and using those advanced level 214 00:16:10,020 --> 00:16:15,990 words and then being able to pronounce them correctly also shows the range. 215 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:19,530 But I'm going to look at some of your comments also when feedback. 216 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:25,060 The pronunciation. 217 00:16:28,050 --> 00:16:29,420 You see. 218 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:31,010 Yeah. 219 00:16:31,110 --> 00:16:32,430 Pronunciation is very good, I think. 220 00:16:32,610 --> 00:16:34,740 I think that's one of the the highlights. 221 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:38,170 Yeah. 222 00:16:38,890 --> 00:16:40,030 And you're right. 223 00:16:40,780 --> 00:16:45,580 I did hear a couple of grammar, grammar, grammar mistakes also. 224 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:53,640 So what you just pointed out also like I think she used the word vegetarians and then use the b verb 225 00:16:53,650 --> 00:16:55,980 is and it should have been vegetarians. 226 00:16:55,990 --> 00:16:58,450 Ah, that's where we're getting into that subject. 227 00:16:58,450 --> 00:17:00,670 Verb agreement, mistake issue. 228 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:05,280 Yeah. 229 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,440 The pronunciation variety. 230 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,090 There were a couple of times where she repeated the question back to me. 231 00:17:11,100 --> 00:17:11,760 You're right. 232 00:17:13,060 --> 00:17:19,540 There was some hesitation in the very beginning, but like I said, I'll I'll chalk that up to her being 233 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:23,740 more a little bit nervous in terms of getting started. 234 00:17:24,820 --> 00:17:28,360 But once she got into it, that that hesitation kind of cleared up a little bit. 235 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:33,640 But there was there were some issues with that hesitation, but I think we can go ahead and get better 236 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:34,300 with that. 237 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:38,620 No, no, no. 238 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:39,230 She had it. 239 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,010 She had very good vocabulary. 240 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:48,930 And more and more importantly, in terms of her vocabulary, what she had is what she she had a lot 241 00:17:48,930 --> 00:17:53,700 of different subjects, specific vocabulary related to farming. 242 00:17:54,870 --> 00:18:01,710 And so, you know, that that's something that when somebody is able to do that is it's really impressive 243 00:18:01,710 --> 00:18:05,040 when somebody has subject specific vocabulary that shows range. 244 00:18:05,940 --> 00:18:06,490 Right? 245 00:18:06,510 --> 00:18:07,380 No, you can't. 246 00:18:07,410 --> 00:18:08,250 There's no rain. 247 00:18:08,670 --> 00:18:10,170 People have to have banned what I give her. 248 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,090 She answered four questions. 249 00:18:12,430 --> 00:18:13,050 Right? 250 00:18:13,490 --> 00:18:14,580 The answer four questions. 251 00:18:14,580 --> 00:18:15,270 That's all. 252 00:18:16,420 --> 00:18:17,980 It is not a it's not about. 253 00:18:18,370 --> 00:18:19,700 It's not about giving her a band. 254 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:19,900 No. 255 00:18:20,630 --> 00:18:21,070 They're all. 256 00:18:21,220 --> 00:18:23,050 I only have eight volunteers, everybody. 257 00:18:23,060 --> 00:18:25,590 And I got these eight volunteers in the very beginning. 258 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:26,920 There are only eight sets. 259 00:18:27,130 --> 00:18:28,750 I can't I can't test. 260 00:18:29,050 --> 00:18:29,680 I can't do this. 261 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:35,340 Is the purpose of me doing this is for you all to hear responses to questions. 262 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:37,630 Be able to evaluate people. 263 00:18:37,630 --> 00:18:43,600 And like I said, if you want to practice, you can answer the questions at home while I'm answering. 264 00:18:43,630 --> 00:18:49,870 For example, while I was asking Julia that the questions, you could be answering those questions also. 265 00:18:50,990 --> 00:18:51,130 Right. 266 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:53,220 You could be answering those questions also. 267 00:18:54,270 --> 00:18:54,690 All right. 268 00:18:54,690 --> 00:19:04,570 The next person I have that I want to speak to and I'll activate your microphone right now is my. 269 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:06,420 I'm going to say your name wrong. 270 00:19:06,420 --> 00:19:08,100 I know, maniac. 271 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:10,720 I'm going to activate your microphone. 272 00:19:10,730 --> 00:19:13,520 You're going to be my second person maniac for the second set.