IELTS Speaking Test- Perfect Band 9

let's talk about music how often do you listen to music I think I listen to music mostly when I'm driving I think it puts me in such a good mood when I'm like out there on a drive and I play my favorite music I'm usually into afro music a lot hip-hop and afro and R&B so I prefer listening to music when I'm driving or sometimes when I'm working out I'm at the gym something like that is music an important subject in schools in your country in schools in my country it is because you know um

I'm from India so in India music and dance and um expressing our emotions is usually through music and uh dancing so in every school they teach classical music or they have a subject where there is something about music usually so I think it is important do you ever go to live concerts oh I've been to three concerts and three of them are my favorite artists and it was actually on my um wish list and I made it happen and uh it was one of the best experiences and uh in live concerts it's a lot different

than you would imagine um just have to keep your energy uh straight and it's it's like um it's like you can't believe it's happening now let's talk about magazines and newspapers do you prefer to read magazines or newspapers definitely magazines um mostly on the topics of fashion or Interior Design This is what I really like because I like to see creative sides all from all over the world I like to see what people are talking about what's new what's trending and um I like to learn like I like to have knowledge of things of like

what is this called what is that called CU usually when you see pictures you don't usually know what it's called so when you read a magazine know where you get the knowledge that's that's where you get to know oh this fabric is called this or this uh decor a is called that so I think it's very good on information do you think you can learn as much from a magazine as a book definitely not cuz magazine is like a shorter version of what's in a book so I definitely prefer books over magazines do you think

that you will continue to read paper based magazines in the future I think I'm very old-fashioned like that I need to have a physical book in my hand and that's how I think it produces serotonin in my brain otherwise no digital it's very different it's I I like uh physically reading a magazine or a book now let's talk about outdoor activities do you like being outdoors I love being outdoors um I usually spend my time planning an activity or just being out my friends even if I'm not doing anything I must stay Outdoors I'm not

a very like home based person like I can't stay home much I have to keep moving all the time which outdoor sports do you enjoy doing I like uh um going out with my friends and playing football or or some kind of uh activity like swimming um going to the beach this is this is something I really really enjoy which outdoor activities are most popular in your country definitely it's like the game of uh India everybody loves Cricket when you go out of your house you're always going to see like some kids playing uh or

or also batminton actually uh people enjoy that a lot as well I'd like to describe my favorite actor and actress um so my favorite actor will be Benedict Cumberbatch and um my favorite actress is Angelina Julie and I like their movies so much um they usually star in action films or mystery films and that's very similar to where I am like in my personal life I love mysterious stuff I'm I'm like always into like detective uh theories or mystery books and stuff like that so I always watch movies as such and their acting is on

point it's always number one and I like Angelina Julie also for her humanitarian work that she does throughout her life she's been very present uh with charity work and um making sure that a lot of kids are fed in countries which are unfortunate and I really like that about her and I also like how Fierce she is and uh when she presents herself it's it's very divine feminine so I really really like that and I feel like she has that sort of energy where um a woman can feel powerful about herself just by looking at

her and kind of um understanding where she comes from she doesn't really come from a very mentally stable place but now at this point in her life she's a very like strong woman and and she's done it all herself and Benedict Kash I actually watched his uh TV show which was called Sherlock and I am a crazy Sherlock fan and I'm I love mystery like I said and um detective stories and everything and him playing that really showed me what kind of an incredible actor he is because I felt like I'm watching Sherlock Holmes from

the books and not an actor on screen and um he's also done a movie that I really love it's called Doctor Strange that's my favorite superhero from The Avengers and he has just done an amazing job uh in that movie so we've been talking about a famous actress and actor that that you enjoy and we're going to continue to talk about movies and and Theater what are the most popular types of movies in your country it would be to thank you for watching this video I want to give you a free course that has helped

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um and also comedy yeah there's a lot of Comedy that goes on in the films that are coming out now and from India do you think that going to the cinema will be as popular in the future uh I think 50/50 yeah I'm not sure about that but it looks like uh people enjoy watching movies at home and uh it's not as much uh exciting as it used to be back then and um I think probably yes it would be more digitally available at home and uh probably yeah now let's talk about the theater how

strong a tradition is it today in your country to go to the theater um mostly I think in out of City areas actually it's mostly now as a as an activity that families go to with their kids just to show a play to their kids and to introduce them to this form of um culture and activity I think it's more of that now uh theater is not as much popularized uh back in India as much as Cinema and film and movies are so I think that is kind of on the backseat um it's not so

much as it used to be do you think that theater should be run as a business or as a public service oo I think both I think it goes hand in hand um so that people can be employed as well at the same time and um it it is of a public service at the same time I think um I think that people do enjoy it but at the same time uh um it could be used as an as an excuse and used as like um an opportunity what I'm is what I mean uh to

employ people and uh because there's a lot of people who would love to do acting but they can't really make it in the movies so maybe they could use theater as um as their hobby so I think yeah both can go hand in hand in some countries governments pay theaters to put on shows for the public do you think this is good use of public money it depends on if whether or not if it's free to the public because if you're charging for them to see that play then it doesn't make any sense is what

I think and I think that it shouldn't be this way in the first place I think it should be available freely to the people um yeah let me give you some feedback on your performance so you're hoping to get 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

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we answer 100% of the questions that we get hope that you become a VIP if not enjoy the rest of this free video pronunciation is one of your your strong points oh okay the examiner will be thinking can I understand what this person is saying how clear are they and then um some higher level pronunciation features like intonation for example I can understand 100% of what you're saying you do have a a hint of an accent but it is extremely clear listening to you for anyone watching who has an Indian accent they shouldn't feel bad

about it or or anything like that you know you shouldn't try and remove your accent I think it's about speaking as clearly as possible but you you certainly do you also use intonation extremely well so we use intonation to convey meaning for example when you came in here today and I said please sit down very flat intonation going down do I sound happy or rude or serious yeah a bit rude a bit serious but if I said we sit down my intonation is going up sounds completely different but the words are exactly the same so

you use intonation like that a lot to show that you're excited about something that you're happy about it that you're talk that you're serious about something in a very very high level way which is very difficult to learn and you do it very naturally you also use connected speech um so for example if you were talking about movies someone learning English might say do you want to go to the cinema but someone at a high level like yourself do you want to go want to go signs like one word want to go cuz you're connecting

all the speech up you do that lot and very naturally you also use um sentence stress which where you emphasize certain words that's your coffee so you're you're emphasizing that word because that's the most important word it's very difficult to to teach that it takes a long time to learn wow you're doing you're doing very well in that area fluency is are you able to speak without unnatural pauses without unnatural hesitation and there's there's two reasons why people pause and that that type of thing audible pauses like that one one reason is they're learning a

language and they're trying to think should I use present simple or present perfect or you know what's the correct adjective to use you don't do that cuz your your language is at quite a high level you do sometimes pause and think and hesitate a little bit for the second reason which is trying to think of ideas so you can tell especially in the part three you were formulating ideas and you were let me think about that and pausing a little bit but that's natural and and a good examiner knows the difference between those two things

so they're not going to give you a low Mark for pausing or hesitating a little bit for thinking of the idea now coherence is different it's did you answer the question and did you develop your answers a little bit more you need to be a little bit careful for example the first question I asked you how often do you listen to music and you told me about when you listen to music so that's slightly different M now the examiner will base their score on all of your answers it's not like oh she didn't she slightly

didn't answer that question in one in one question give her a low score that's not how it works and the way that you answered that question by saying I listen to music in the car and I listen to it in the I think you said when I drive when I drive you're answering the question implicitly mhm by implication I know how often you listen to it you should try to answer each question explicitly how often do you every day I don't think that this is an issue for you today but imagine you go and do

the test imagine you have a Canadian visa application that's like if I don't get this I'm going to I can't go and meet you know my family or or you know or do whatever I want to do there's a lot of pressure on you so often when people are under pressure and under stress they mess up just make sure that you answer every question exactly how they want it the same with the Q card for part two it said describe your favorite actor or actress and you did both mhm so technically an examiner would be

extremely picky if they marked you down for that but again I'm not criticizing you but I'm being overly cautious because on exam day if you go and do the test you might go off and talk about something related to that topic but not really answering it correctly I think you would be fine but we just don't want to take any risks definitely towards the end especially the last question part three what the examiner is thinking about is can this person really develop their answers can they speak at length about topics the last question it was

quite a short answer for part three but that was quite impressive I I'll tell you why if you get a really really difficult question in part three you should be happy because the examiner thinks you're good if the examiner thinks you're bad they'll just throw easy softball questions at you if the examiner thinks that you're really good they'll throw more and more difficult questions to really just stretch you and test you and that's what I was trying to do at the end a really good band eight band n student even if they get a question

that they don't know much about they're not too sure about they will attempt it answer so your attempt at an answer even though it was quite short indicates that you are at a very high level coherence is the only area that I'm really really concerned about but overall it's very very good I'm focusing on the negative but it's only because you're you should because otherwise how would I know yeah uh grammar The Examiner will be thinking does this person have enough awareness of grammar structures that they can talk about anything like can they use comparatives

to compare two things can they use superlatives to talk about their favorite things and talk about the best things whatever I throw at you you're able to to handle that and they'll also then think about how many grammar mistakes are you making I think I only only heard one or two small slips I think like preposition slip or an article slip but that is comparable to a native English speaker if you listen to native English speakers speak for 15 20 minutes they'll make little preposition errors or subject verb agreement errors that's natural so don't need

to worry about that and your vocabulary is also excellent for example this you use very topic specific words and idiomatic language which is great only very high level students actually do that so your final Bond score would be the highest one which is a bond n no way thank you so much yeah that's amazing but but but if on test day you didn't answer the questions in part one you didn't really answer the question in part two and you didn't develop your answers enough in part three that would drop you down a little bit not

hugely MH but just be careful with that all right less than 1% of people get about nine oh wow yeah so there you go thank you