1 00:00:00,180 --> 00:00:00,390 Okay. 2 00:00:00,540 --> 00:00:03,060 This is an I'll speaking simulation today. 3 00:00:03,060 --> 00:00:04,980 We have with us Elena. 4 00:00:05,190 --> 00:00:06,630 How are you doing today, Elena? 5 00:00:07,980 --> 00:00:08,550 I'm pretty. 6 00:00:08,550 --> 00:00:09,540 Well, thank you. 7 00:00:09,810 --> 00:00:11,310 Thank you for joining me. 8 00:00:11,340 --> 00:00:16,650 We're going to be taking you through all three parts of the aisle speaking test. 9 00:00:16,950 --> 00:00:23,160 At the end of the test, I'll give you a brief assessment on what you need to work on the most and what 10 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,220 you're strong at according to the rubric. 11 00:00:26,370 --> 00:00:31,920 And then after a couple of days, I'll give you more of a full assessment or review so that you can 12 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,820 know, have an idea of what you're scoring at right now at this time. 13 00:00:35,820 --> 00:00:38,550 So let's go ahead and get started with part number one. 14 00:00:41,130 --> 00:00:41,510 Okay. 15 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,190 Part number one, could you please tell me your name? 16 00:00:45,690 --> 00:00:47,100 So my name is Alina. 17 00:00:47,340 --> 00:00:55,260 It's spelled like Ally and A and as far as I know, it's of German origin, but it doesn't have the 18 00:00:55,260 --> 00:00:56,550 meaning behind it. 19 00:00:56,550 --> 00:00:57,510 Just the name. 20 00:00:58,030 --> 00:00:58,500 Okay. 21 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:01,770 And are you currently a student or do you have a job? 22 00:01:03,290 --> 00:01:06,920 I'm an ESL teacher and I teach students of different ages. 23 00:01:06,950 --> 00:01:11,450 I work at a state school and I'm also a part time. 24 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:15,230 I also have a part time job for online schools. 25 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:19,610 OC Do you get on well with your colleagues? 26 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:22,360 Yeah. 27 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:28,180 I'm quite fortunate to have a colleague like I have because we are a friendly team. 28 00:01:28,330 --> 00:01:37,720 It means that I can ask her support of my teammates in any case cases, and I also serve on my team 29 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,610 and I can provide them with the necessary help whenever they turn to me. 30 00:01:43,060 --> 00:01:44,920 So it's a friendly team. 31 00:01:45,740 --> 00:01:49,540 OC And what are ways you could improve your skills at work? 32 00:01:51,700 --> 00:02:01,000 So there are lots of ways to improve my my teaching, my actually my technique. 33 00:02:01,660 --> 00:02:04,960 First of all, it's visiting different workshops and seminars. 34 00:02:05,710 --> 00:02:13,120 Self self education, which is a great opportunity to improve in teaching and providing events, giving 35 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,390 events or conducting events for my teammates. 36 00:02:16,630 --> 00:02:25,150 Because the more you give away, the more knowledge is knowledge are the more methods, the more information 37 00:02:25,690 --> 00:02:27,160 is returned to you. 38 00:02:27,190 --> 00:02:29,770 So it's like an exchange of information. 39 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:35,110 And does your job require your full concentration? 40 00:02:36,830 --> 00:02:37,580 Sometimes. 41 00:02:37,580 --> 00:02:38,540 Definitely. 42 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,210 I have to keep in mind lots of things than I teach them. 43 00:02:44,390 --> 00:02:51,620 The mood of my students, the attitude of them to the language that their health. 44 00:02:51,830 --> 00:02:55,820 Of course, some of these factors I can influence the others. 45 00:02:55,820 --> 00:02:56,540 I can't. 46 00:02:56,570 --> 00:03:01,760 My task as a teacher is to involve the students in a game game. 47 00:03:02,150 --> 00:03:05,660 So to see a studying of English. 48 00:03:05,780 --> 00:03:11,210 That's what I try to do as as good as I can. 49 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:14,570 And where do you currently live? 50 00:03:14,570 --> 00:03:16,400 In a house or an apartment? 51 00:03:17,580 --> 00:03:19,200 So I live in a house. 52 00:03:19,350 --> 00:03:21,840 I have been living here for seven years. 53 00:03:22,410 --> 00:03:23,850 Before this, we. 54 00:03:23,850 --> 00:03:26,000 We lived in the city. 55 00:03:26,010 --> 00:03:35,880 But after some consideration, we decided to move because life in the countryside gives more preferences 56 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,510 compared to the life in the city city centre. 57 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:47,550 So we enjoy nature, we enjoy fresh air, we enjoy a quiet peace and quiet, especially at the weekends, 58 00:03:47,550 --> 00:03:51,180 which is very important for me after stressful days at work. 59 00:03:52,700 --> 00:03:54,020 All right, let's move on. 60 00:03:54,020 --> 00:03:56,780 And we are going to talk about social media. 61 00:03:58,250 --> 00:04:03,020 OC Do you use social media or do you use social networking sites? 62 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:14,140 I am a great fan of Facebook and it's the main social network which I use. 63 00:04:14,410 --> 00:04:16,750 It's a source of information for me. 64 00:04:17,020 --> 00:04:20,920 On the one hand, on the other hand, it's a source of entertainment. 65 00:04:21,220 --> 00:04:32,140 Sometimes I enjoy myself posting funny comments because I consider myself a witty person who possesses 66 00:04:32,140 --> 00:04:33,460 a sense of humor. 67 00:04:33,580 --> 00:04:44,050 So I try to share it with my colleagues just or with my online friends and and I try to amuse them and 68 00:04:45,460 --> 00:04:46,820 be be funny. 69 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:53,500 For example, reads The Mood OC And how did you first find out about Facebook? 70 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:56,120 I don't remember. 71 00:04:56,130 --> 00:05:03,360 Probably I was invited by some colleagues and at first it wasn't very popular Social Network. 72 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:14,460 I didn't visit it regularly, but now it's my daily routine to get up to check my Facebook newsfeed 73 00:05:14,460 --> 00:05:15,840 and then to move on. 74 00:05:17,010 --> 00:05:23,340 What kind of people do you like to be friends with on those websites or on those social networking sites? 75 00:05:25,010 --> 00:05:28,580 First of all, they are teachers like me. 76 00:05:29,030 --> 00:05:36,080 We have common interests at work and we share different activities. 77 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,620 For example, different problems. 78 00:05:38,630 --> 00:05:40,250 We discuss different problems. 79 00:05:40,250 --> 00:05:48,080 And sometimes you can find the answer if something puzzles you at at work, because it sometimes happens. 80 00:05:48,530 --> 00:05:52,130 The other friends are just Internet friends. 81 00:05:52,130 --> 00:06:00,590 I have never met them before in real life, so to say they are so to say friends or friends. 82 00:06:00,980 --> 00:06:08,240 So I sometimes I participate in different workshops and I acquire more friends. 83 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:19,940 And of course I use the recommended pages and I join different groups, which interests me as from the 84 00:06:19,940 --> 00:06:22,910 point of view of hobbies and from the point of your work. 85 00:06:23,270 --> 00:06:26,690 Okay, let's go ahead and move on and talk about the future. 86 00:06:27,500 --> 00:06:30,440 How do you think your life will change in the future? 87 00:06:32,530 --> 00:06:39,190 I can't see how with 100% certainty how it would change. 88 00:06:39,190 --> 00:06:51,760 But I always picture myself like a peaceful picture where I change my place of living to some remote 89 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,770 island, a beach on the on some ocean. 90 00:06:56,770 --> 00:07:05,680 And I imagine myself, like barefoot, leading a simple life, eating seafood and teaching local kids 91 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:06,370 English. 92 00:07:06,370 --> 00:07:11,320 That's how I imagine, or picture my imaginary future. 93 00:07:12,130 --> 00:07:15,850 OC And how much traveling do you hope to do in the future? 94 00:07:18,050 --> 00:07:22,010 Actually I haven't been a great traveller. 95 00:07:22,850 --> 00:07:29,760 My travelling work connected with my work and of course my holidays. 96 00:07:29,780 --> 00:07:34,130 I prefer to spend on the seashore together with my kids. 97 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,880 That's basically all the travelling which I have now. 98 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:44,420 But I would like to have more travel, more trips and more journeys. 99 00:07:44,780 --> 00:07:52,210 But of course, right now this situation, till the situation improves, doesn't improve. 100 00:07:52,220 --> 00:07:55,610 I don't see the opportunity to travel. 101 00:07:56,180 --> 00:07:56,600 All right. 102 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:00,770 And what job would you like to have ten years from now? 103 00:08:03,260 --> 00:08:11,000 Actually, I have been teaching English for more than 20 years and I can't imagine myself doing someone 104 00:08:11,330 --> 00:08:12,410 something else. 105 00:08:12,830 --> 00:08:22,640 But I remember that a few years ago I had a strange idea about keeping a foster home. 106 00:08:22,670 --> 00:08:26,300 Like a home for foster children? 107 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:27,860 Not many of them. 108 00:08:28,010 --> 00:08:29,750 Some of them because I. 109 00:08:30,190 --> 00:08:33,680 I have two teenagers, teenage sons. 110 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:36,550 And they are quite grown quite grown up. 111 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:42,500 They don't need my help and support on every step they make. 112 00:08:43,010 --> 00:08:52,760 And I would like to accompany small children now on this path of growing up and helping them with their 113 00:08:52,760 --> 00:09:00,680 lessons, with a daily routine, with like distinguishing between what is good and what is bad or bad, 114 00:09:00,710 --> 00:09:04,910 like the ethics of our young children. 115 00:09:05,150 --> 00:09:05,770 Okay. 116 00:09:06,170 --> 00:09:06,500 All right. 117 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:08,990 And we're going to move on and talk about aliens. 118 00:09:09,410 --> 00:09:12,560 Do you believe there is another life in the universe? 119 00:09:14,660 --> 00:09:24,110 Actually, I am a great fan of science fiction, and I, I can't say that I believe in them, but I 120 00:09:24,110 --> 00:09:31,730 don't reject the existence of the aliens, maybe not in the form which our science fiction films try 121 00:09:31,730 --> 00:09:33,410 to show us. 122 00:09:33,830 --> 00:09:37,310 Maybe it's like the alternative reality. 123 00:09:37,310 --> 00:09:46,000 And maybe we we are just living in the reality, which is very close, maybe in some other world. 124 00:09:46,070 --> 00:09:52,130 The other person like me leads the other life, but it's very close to mine. 125 00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:56,330 OC And what do you think aliens might look like? 126 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,520 So it's difficult to say. 127 00:10:02,540 --> 00:10:11,990 According to science fiction, they we have a we can expect to meet a wide range of aliens from like 128 00:10:12,890 --> 00:10:24,710 insects who possess who have brains and who are able to act rationally to some to to human like figures. 129 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:35,430 And also, there can be some shapeless or figures or something quite different from what we expect to 130 00:10:35,460 --> 00:10:38,720 to see and to communicate as equals. 131 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:43,520 And why are humans so fascinated by aliens? 132 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:57,480 Because human beings like to believe in something in miracles for, for example, they they we humans 133 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:03,490 don't like to believe that this life which will lead is just everything which we have. 134 00:11:03,510 --> 00:11:11,820 That's why there exist in our cultures exist different theories of reincarnation, of if you of the 135 00:11:11,820 --> 00:11:19,320 idea that if you behave well in this life, you will be rewarded with some better position in life in 136 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:26,640 the other one, or that our just our experience doesn't stop when we die. 137 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:35,400 So it's like the attempt to extend our earthly existence to be beyond the limits.