IELTS Speaking Practice- Perfect Band 9

let's start off by talking about art do you like art growing up um a way to express myself and uh just generally showing my emotions through whatever medium that i cho I choose um I actually prefer art more than music in some uh different ways I like to paint and I like to I like to see people how they Express themselves as well uh through their art um so yeah I do love art do you think that art classes are important in school I actually feel like art is very subjective um teaching basic theories about

art and stuff like that I feel like yes it is sometimes necessary so people can understand let's say basic concepts such as color theory and whatnot however I don't feel like um following a certain um concept or how to draw this or how to draw that um is quite necessary like I feel like your own creative mind can go in whatever Direction you want it to go to who are your favorite artists so my favorite artist in terms of uh the music industry I would say Rihanna I love her music I love like every time

time I put it on um um my car and I'm driving I just love listening to her music because it it literally changes my mood um and I love listening I love sharing that experience with my friends as well so it's she's tops my favorite artists now let's talk about animals do you have a pet at home I actually have two pets um they're both cats I love animals but specifically cats I love um everything about them so I have two cats one her name is NI the other is tuti um and N kind of

describes me as a person like we kind of share the same um behaviors so she's very uh lazy sometimes she's also um introverted I would say I really love cats I love how fluffy and sometimes friend L they are I also enjoy their company just them being there would you like a different pet in the future so I used to have Ducks um two ducks and I unfortunately I had to give them up to um shelter because I felt like I couldn't um properly take care of them in my house so in the future I

really hope that I could um revisit that memory of them of taking care care of my ducks so hopefully in the near future maybe if I'm fully settled in my own house I would love to have two more ducks and do you prefer cats or dogs definitely cats like I think it's because I'm uh I come from like a Muslim family so we kind of have like a taboo or like an idea of dogs like not it's not clean it's not you know know um so cats are just the way to go like I love

cats their personality the way they look the way they act everything about them now let's talk about reading how often do you read books back in middle school I used to be so into books it was basically my personality trait I really really enjoyed like I had my alone time is just spending um my time reading books and at one point my family just told me like get out of the house like what are you doing and even if I did go out of the house like I would just carry my book everywhere I go

as of recently I kind of fell off of that habit of reading constantly because just with everything happening in my life I can't keep up but um I would say once every two months I I would read books what book would you recommend to a friend so I would recommend all the bright places I forgot the name of the author but I think that book really depicts what a teenager would go through like I said I used to read back in middle school and also in high school so I felt like that book really spoke

to me I really related to that book and I would recommend it to a friend because I generally feel like it kind of relates to You Know The Adolescents or teenagers in general do you prefer to read ebooks or paper books I generally prefer uh physical or hard copies because I like the feel of the book being in my hand um especially because I use my phone daily for a lot of things I would like to change up my routine every once in a while so a hard copy would feel like it's a different vibe

um to my daily routine now let's talk about photography who do you normally take photos of whenever I go out or step out of outside the house I love taking pictures of whether it's of my friends my family members or cats I actually enjoy looking at things from a different perspective perspective so let's say just like the book on the table or the light or even just a bird from afar I like taking pictures to show people like through my eyes what I see or how I view the world do you ever put any of

your photos in frames I've actually never thought about that I've never done that before it's actually interesting because I've seen a lot of people do that online where they print out their polaroid pictures or like a physical copy of pictures that they've taken before and they framed it and actually I think I've seen my friends do that before so I mean why not maybe once I move out when you are on holiday do you prefer to send postcards or do you prefer to take photos and send them to people I've never done the postcards thing

before I feel like it's kind of outdated but I wouldn't mind doing that or start doing that in my vacations but I usually just take photos and send it on WhatsApp let's say my family group I send it just to show them like what I've been up to in my vacation so yeah just photos I would like to talk about uh the author or the writer that I would like to meet uh in the future um unfortunately she passed away but um the writer is Jane Austin she is the writer of Pride and Prejudice uh

which is the current read that I'm uh reading right now the reason why I would like to meet her is because of how um during her time which is around 1700s um or 1800s I was always interested in like the Victorian or like um how they were in the past um the way they dress the way they talk uh especially because um people in the past spoke differently like the language or the um words that they used were very different right now I'm reading one of her books Pride and Prejudice and sometimes I have to

um Google what she's saying like I don't understand what she wrote it's very interesting the way she writes or like the language that she uses describing her like the setting the story setting I really enjoy it and um I would like to find out about her lifestyle specifically because again I'm just very interested or intrigued about the idea of like living in uh that era of where um the time that she was still alive why I would like to meet her is because I'm again very interested in how she speaks or how she uh spoke

um and the language or uh language that she uses okay well done that's the end of the two minutes so we've been talking about a writer that you would like to meet and we're going to continue to talk about reading in section three what kind of books are most popular with children in your country to thank you for watching this video I want to give you a free course that has helped thousands of students improve their I speaking score what it's going to do is take you through every single part of the test and give

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um it Rhymes it was just fun to read to be honest why do you think that some children don't read very often so I I'm a firm believer in in terms of how parents um reinforce their children so when it comes to like I've seen seen I've personally seen how parents act uh with their children um giving them iPads or like just letting them watch TV so I believe that if parents uh enforce their children to read more books or encourage them to start reading together that would be a fun exercise to do at home

other than that I feel like the parents are usually the biggest reinforcers now let's talk about reading for for different purposes do you think that speed reading is a useful skill to have I do think that it is a useful skill so for me I I read really slow like sometimes I have to reread um a paragraph because it I couldn't just decipher what it was saying so I feel like in terms of um like high demand jobs where they need to get a lot of things done on time so speed reading could be a

useful skill some people believe that reading novels is more interesting or more enjoyable than reading non-fiction why do you think that is so I feel like reading just generally could give you a timeout from everything I would understand why people would prefer fiction over non-fiction because just in your daily life you're experiencing a lot of you know draining um energies around you so when it comes to your alone reading time you get to experience or I guess be creative in your imagination so yeah that's why I think um fiction books are more popular recently many

book shops have had to close because of competition from online bookstores do you think that's a good thing or a bad thing I think that it's a bad thing because I personally love um when I physically go to the store and look through the books and just read or because I feel like buying a book should feel like an experience rather than like a chore um so buying it online di diminishes that experience uh overall so yeah I feel like it is a bad thing um that the physical stores are closing and online stores are

overtaking let me give you some feedback on your performance so you're hoping to get uh a b nine and I'll go through the four markting criteria so pronunciation fluency and coherence grammar and vocabulary so let's start off with your pronunciation to thank you for making it this far in the video I want to give you 10% off our VIP course I VIP course is the most successful I course in the world that is a fact because we have more band seven eight and N success stories than any other I course in the entire world we

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Examiner will be thinking about two things one will be Clarity can he or she understand everything that you're saying and I can understand 100% of what you're saying every word every syllable is extremely clear the examiner is not really thinking about accents or anything like that what they're thinking about is do I understand you I can understand you 100% % so that's excellent The Examiner will also think about higher level pronunciation features such as intonation intonation is when our voice goes up and our voice goes down we use that to convey meaning and you do

that very very naturally you also use connected speech and sentence stress and word stress very very well so good start with the with the pronunciation let's move on to fluency and coherence coherence is did you answer the question and did you develop your answers enough did you give enough information and really dive into the topic for part one you really did you nailed every single question you answered it um appropriately um you developed it enough um part two you're talking about Jane Austin you would be fine for this one it was described a writer you

would like to meet hypothetically we could meet someone who has passed away just be very careful on test day make sure that you're really really focusing in on that topic for that one I don't think any examiner would say oh you can't meet Jane Austin so let let's mark you down because it's it's kind of one of those questions who would you like to meet alive or dead so you would be fine but just be careful on on teste part three you did answer each question however you could have shown the other side of some

of the things and so for example why do you think some children don't read books very often so you said it's because of the parents are there any other sides to that is it because of maybe you could talk about children maybe they're distracted with other things you did mention that I'm being overly critical just to to make sure that you do get the the highest Mark but also some of the other questions you know could you have shown the other side of of the argument could you maybe have um thought of different ideas and

explored different ideas the way that you did answer it I think would be absolutely fine but on test day towards the end of the test students are of often tired stressed they just want it to be over and on test day you might just pick a pick an answer pick an idea answer it quite quickly without really knowing that you're answering it quickly and then if you do that for all questions in part three it could affect your score for this one I don't think it did I'm just being really really cautious a good way

to answer those questions is okay what do I think what would someone who disagrees with me think explore the the topic a little bit more if you can you don't have to do it for every answer because what will happen is if you try to think too much it could affect your fluency so you could be like uh I don't know and then that will affect your fluency a little bit um overall your fluency was excellent in part three you could tell when you were thinking generally when people pause and hesitate a little bit it's

because they're thinking a lot more but you were only thinking about the next idea you weren't thinking about vocabulary or grammar or which tense am I using or what's a better adjective to use if you were doing that quite a lot it would lower your score but the examiner recognizes that you're not looking for language you're not looking for English you're just thinking about the next idea and you did you were like like I know you know at times but that's quite natural the way you did it was very natural if you and I were

speak having a normal conversation you would hear me doing that sometimes so it's the examiner isn't looking for Perfection they're looking for you know if you went to University in an english- speaking country or you started working in New York or Sydney would you be able to interact with people and sound natural and you you would your grammar is excellent um you have a massive range of grammar you can talk about any topic and you also do that very accurately you did make a couple of little tiny tiny slips like prepositions um I think you

said in Holiday instead of on holiday for example um but native English speakers do that all the time you can actually make these tiny little slips and still get one of the the higher bands because it is a reflection of the fact that native English speakers in including me who is an English teacher I make little grammar slips from time to time when I'm speaking I used some really really high level vocabulary like this so This demonstrates that you know we we asked you about a range of different topics and you had enough vocabulary to

discuss any of those topics and all of your vocabulary was very very accurate and you were using great topic specific vocabulary idiomatic vocabulary it's like speaking to a native English speaker so you would get a band nine well done and yeah have every faith that you would if you did the real test you would get the highest score well done thank you