IELTS Speaking Test with Feedback – Band 8.5

so let's start off by talking about the weather can you describe the weather today the weather today is so nice it's winter yet it's still summer but the temperature is uh acceptable you can have like a light jacket during the day you can go to the beach so for me it's the perfect weather what's your favorite kind of weather uh summer I like summer I like going to the beach spending time with the family uh outside uh exploring yeah is there any type of weather you really don't like I like winter but I don't like

to be in a place where it's likeus 20° I like to go outside not to be stuck at home let's talk about photography do you like taking photos so much I took a course at the University photography course and I had like 19 over 20 it's my passion and I have my own camera my own lances I like it do you like to shoot people or landscap mainly you can play with the display you can play with the with everything like it's um I don't know I like it what do you think it takes to

become a great photographer a good eye and to know how to capture the moment you have to have it otherwise you will like wait for the Y take a pose no don't wait for this person to take a pose just follow the person and uh capture the moment now let's talk about animals do you like animals so much especially dogs I had dogs um in my life but uh my main issue was my mom so because she used to have allergy I used to take them back to my Grandma at that time I felt like

I have a baby at home taking the dog for a haircut to doctor that you it's I treat the dog like a like a baby do you think that animals should be kept in zoos definitely not it's not their place we created the zoo so no it's their freedom you cannot put them in a cage in where they have to sit there or the Birds it's not their place their place is the sky is is the forest not the zoo do you have any animals in your home as pets now no I used to have

dogs but now no because of the weather here it's I feel it's difficult to have a dog at home to take the dog outside for a walk in like 50° so no I would love to have but um no not here now let's talk about colors in your country what are the most popular colors I can tell you about the color of the flag we don't have a specific color in the country the color of the flag is red white and green my favorite color is black so I don't know we don't have a specific

color in the country do you prefer to wear dark colors or light colors recently both before I used to like dark colors more maybe when I lost weight uh I switched to uh bright and light colors do colors affect your mood definitely if uh if you live in a dark room you will feel like uh everything is dark that's why I like to have white walls everything white you feel um the house is bright and uh it reflects on you so I'll describe the house of my grandma so who lives there my grandma lives there

and uh my grandpa used to live there where the property is it's in the mountain in Beirut in Lebanon what it looks like it looks like a castle for me it's not a castle but for me it's like a castle we we have a lot of memories there that's why I decided to talk about this house if you like it definitely I do I like this house as I mentioned because it reminds me of my childhood and the best days we spent there and we're still spending when we go to see her uh we have

a lot of memories we had good food she used to cook a lot for us the house is simply like um I feel like home I just love it and especially because it's an old house it's still the same till now the second I enter the house I feel like I'm back to my childhood the memories uh comes back so yeah as I told you it's a big and old house you know the old houses you have the how how we say it um the walls are like uh you feel like you're in a castle

but it's it's it's a house the smell of the the nature the garden everything I like everything in this house so we've been talking about a house that you like and we're going to continue to talk about houses do you think it's better for people to live in an apartment or a house to thank you for watching this video I want to give you a free course that has helped thousands of students improve their ielt speaking score what it's going to do is take you through every single part of the test and give you strategies

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think it's better for someone to buy a house or to rent uh it depends if uh the prices are high like now it's better to wait because um they will go down so wait on until you find the right time to buy but definitely yes I'm with the buying I'm not with the renting thing I feel like I'm losing my money do you think that there is a certain age when someone should move out of their parents' home and move into their own home uh for me is like when I got married I moved we

don't have this in Beirut like at the age of 18 we have to move or we have to have our own apartment no at the contrary I enjoy is spending time with them so what I'm going to do now is give you some feedback we did one before and and you've come back 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

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become a VIP if not enjoy the rest of this free video your your grammar is good your F cabulary is good your pronunciation is good we really focused on um coherence and fluency um in the last one overall your fluency and coherence was quite good at times you were searching for the correct word and that affected your line of thinking and you would maybe avoid that I think again you should not be afraid to paraphrase and explain the thing and say I don't know the word for this but explain what it is I think because

you live in in the Middle East you can often use Arabic words maybe and say well in Arabic it's it's this yeah people will know even English speakers would know what you're saying and of course more people here speak both English and Arabic and and then French and and things like that so maybe you're just not used to operating 100% in English um that could be an issue but overall you you did well one thing that you did in part two was you looked at the Q card and you just said who lives there started

talking about that where it is what it looks like explain why you I'm uh I'm answering U the question you are very capable of not look looking not looking at this at all but you I didn't want to skip any question yeah but you don't you can't skip them you so this is just a guide to help you but a better way of doing it would be talk to me like I'm your friend or your colleague and just use this when you get stuck yeah when people are looking down and looking at this and reading

they sound less fluent what also happens is you were getting through each of these very quickly so then at the end when you when you had nothing else to talk about then you have to think a lot and that affects your fluency the idea and then you repeat the same idea and everything so if you were doing the test again I would say just practice not using these too much yeah and then part three overall quite good but you generally just gave your own personal point of view so you just said I think this yeah

all right a way of developing your answer a little bit more would be okay so I think that buying a house is better because I don't want to give money away to landlords but I can see why some people would prefer to rent because there's a greater Freedom with rent so if you rent a place you are not tied to that location and you can leave at any time so there's a lot of benefits to that but the drawback is is you're wasting a lot of money you were giving very straight good good answers outside

of this test if you gave those answers totally fine yeah but because this is a test that they want to you to develop your ideas and talk about what what is going on that that might hold you back a little bit there's nothing wrong with your English you you gave a very interesting performance and I think it's very useful for people to see this video because it shows that someone could have very good English a very high level but they're not used to the format of the test and that can lead to them getting a

lower score than they believed that that they were capable of because IELTS is not just having great English it's learning the format of the test and giving the examiner what they want yeah and you just have to learn that a little bit more it just comes down to practice yeah half a day of practice and you would be you know You' be ready to get the score that you amazing okay