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So this is the student speaking sample for Don Francis.

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Thank you for joining us today.

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Don Francis.

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We're going to proceed we're going to proceed through all three parts of the exam.

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Thank you also for blocking your screen so you cannot see part one and part three of the exam.

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You can only see part number two.

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Afterwards, we'll take a short pause and I'll give you an idea of your score range and some things

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you could work on to improve.

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So let's go ahead and get started.

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So beginning with part number one, could you please tell me where you're from?

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So I'm originally from a state called Kerala in India.

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And right now I am residing in Dubai for for work purposes.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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And are you a student or do you have a job currently?

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I have a job here in Dubai and I'm in the construction industry.

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I've been doing I've been in this industry for the past six years, and I really enjoy the work that

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I'm doing here.

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All right.

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And do you prefer to work in a team or alone?

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Actually in my industry, it's never possible to work alone because, you know, a lot of construction

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activities is carried out as part of teamwork.

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So actually, I prefer working in teams or working alone.

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And what do you like most about your job?

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So what I like most about my job is it's highly flexible and adaptive and it's highly dynamic also.

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And actually, I must say that no two days are exactly the same in my line of job.

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All right.

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And what are your responsibilities?

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So my responsibilities entail supervision of the work at site and that includes monitoring the work

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at site, measuring the progress at site, comparing it with deadlines that we have set for our project.

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Making short what you call we call it this thing, this short, short, short term.

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Look at programs and comparing our work activities against that.

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Yes.

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So now we're going to move on and we're going to talk about walking.

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All right.

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Do you walk a lot?

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Oh, yes, I walk a lot actually.

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Walking to me is like is actually I feel that's a really good exercise compared to a lot of other,

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you know, cardiovascular exercises or maybe even there are other forms of exercises which are very

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popular these days, like HIIT or.

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But I feel that walking actually with walking actually we are able to do it for a longer duration and

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that way we are able to burn more calories than any other system because of the endurance factor associated

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with it, because we can walk for maybe one, one and one half hours, but we cannot do very high intensive

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exercise for that, that longer duration.

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So I really like walking.

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And do you walk more now than you did in the past?

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Oh, yes.

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Actually, recently I have picked up on this routine of walking every day, at least for ten km each

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So I start out in the evening, maybe around 7:00, and I walk up to 8:00.

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And do you think people will walk?

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Do you think people will walk more in the future?

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Oh, yes.

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I believe that people will realize the health benefits associated with walking.

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And I really think that it's actually it's in the best interest of people to walk for long distance

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and thereby have a lot of health benefits.

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Now we're going to move on and talk about being alone.

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Why do people like to be alone?

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Some people prefer to be alone because that way they are not affected by any peer pressure.

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So they actually can really discover their own calling and their own passion.

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And that way they can work on that and build their or hone their skills in one particular one particular

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So that's one reason for people preferring to be alone rather than with being a lot of people.

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And do you think being alone is important?

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It actually depends.

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It's actually varies from person to person.

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that they can be influenced in a very positive manner.

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And how often do we need to be alone and think to ourselves?

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Could you repeat that question?

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How often do we need to be alone and think to ourselves?

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So as I said, you know, preferring to being alone is actually a very personal choice.

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It's highly subjective.

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It it varies from person to person.

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So for somebody who is actually who who is able to you know, who is able to do more things, you know,

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being alone, they should actually tend to do it more frequently than those who are, you know, not

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better of being alone.

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And finally, we're going to talk about baking.

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Do you enjoy baking?

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Not really, because I'm not a person who.

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Who spends a lot of time in the kitchen.

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I prefer somebody cook for me rather than cook myself, so I don't actually enjoy baking.

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You can now look at your screen.

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We're going to move into part number two.

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Uh huh.

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All right.

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And for part number two, you're going to see a question car card appear on your screen.

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You'll have one minute to prepare and then 2 minutes to deliver your response.

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All right.

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Moving into part number two, I want you to talk about an important journey that was delayed for some

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Talk about an important journey that was delayed for some reason.

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You have one minute to prepare.

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Okay.

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Please stop.

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You now have 2 minutes to deliver your response and you may begin speaking now.

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So I would like to speak about a an important journey that was delayed.

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And this journey was actually I was supposed to take this journey to get to a dance event that we had

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for an inter college fest.

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So this was a really important journey because, you know, the stake of, you know, our college winning

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depended on it.

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So it was a really high stake thing for us.

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unfortunately, I was not able to make this journey at the correct time because I could not find the

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keys to my car.

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And I really felt miserable for missing this opportunity.

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Because of this, we had to postpone our our whole event for a later time.

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And this was something which we had never anticipated because all of our team members had really put

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in a lot of effort to come up with the best, best dance show that they could do.

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So it was really unfortunate.

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And but the only, only thing that's comforting is the fact that we were able to do it at a later time.

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You know, even though some some some spectators we were anticipating for the show didn't turn up because

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they weren't we could not, you know, inform them about the change in time.

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So a lot of spectators that I mean, a lot of a lot of people that we actually really wanted to see

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the show.

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All right.

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Now, please cover your screen again.

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We're going to move on to part number three.

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Uh huh.

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All right.

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So now I'm going to ask you some follow up questions on the same topic we were just discussing.

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All right.

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So what mode of transport were you attempting to use in that previously mentioned journey?

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So the mode of transport was a car, but a car of mine.

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And I was supposed to live for the show, I mean, for the event in the morning.

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But because I didn't find my keys at the right time, I was not able to make the journey at the time.

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And what is the difference between modern and older forms of transport?

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Mm hmm.

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So in modern days, actually, we have a plethora of options to choose from.

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We have public transport.

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We have private transport.

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So within the public transport itself, we have a lot of options, like we have train service, we have

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subways, we have vessels, we have, um, what do you say, other forms of transport like airplanes

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and so on.

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And in, back in olden days, there weren't much options available.

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You know, mostly people depended on animal driven, animal driven vehicles to make their journeys.

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And do you prefer to use your own transport or public transportation?

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I prefer to use my own personal vehicle for transportation because because of the flexibility associated

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with it, because that would give me the liberty to take the journey, whichever time I need to.

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And finally, what is the importance of traveling?

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Traveling.

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The importance of traveling is very much profound because, you know, it's it's actually the, you

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know, the evolution in the forms of transport that enables people to reach destinations easily.

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Without the technological advancements in transport over the past few decades, we wouldn't be able

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to have a have a set of people who would be able to migrate to other countries for work or be able to

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just visit some places just for the sake of tourism, visiting and so on.

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All right.

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Thank you very much.

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Don Francis, I actually can give you your feedback right now.

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I thought sometimes I need to take a pause to think about it, but I can actually have myself written

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down already to give you a feedback.

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In terms of scoring, you're easily at a minimum, you know, you're a 7.5.

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You're but I think you're just like today, I think you're really right around eight in terms of your

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speaking ability.

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But I will tell you some things that you need to watch for and be careful with so you don't so that

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you don't drop down into like a 7.5 or so.

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Number one, you have a you have a tendency sometimes and it probably it probably more showed itself

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in part number three than part number one, where you are repeating the question language back to me.

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And the more the more you're the more you're able to paraphrase the question language that's going to

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help out your lexical score.

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Because see, the way the way the way the scoring works is in each one of these in each one of these

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categories, you get a score.

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So in influencing incoherence, you get a score.

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In lexical, you get a score in grammar, you get a score in pronunciation, you get a score, and then

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they add up those four, they add up those four scores divided by four.

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And that's what gives you your score.

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So you want to just watch yourself in terms of in terms of your lexical in terms of trying to paraphrase

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as much as possible.

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Also.

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Also, you have to be careful with some issues with fluency.

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When you're answering questions, you have a tendency sometimes when you want to say when you want to

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say a series of things, you tend to repeat the same sentence phrase over and over and over again.

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So, for example, when you were in one one and she kept saying, we have this, we have this, we have

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this, we have kept on.

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When you hear the recording later on, I'm going to send you the recording.

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You'll you'll hear what I'm talking about.

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Sometimes you'll repeat the same phrase.

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For example, if somebody said at a restaurant, we have spaghetti, we have pasta, we have pizza.

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So sometimes your phrasing is repeating the same.

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Instead of using proper parallelism, showing that you use proper parallelism and saying, we have pizza,

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pasta and spaghetti.

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Right.

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That would be the proper way to do.

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Do it in terms of parallelism.

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Can I say something about the.

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Sure, sure.

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Yeah.

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Can I say something about the real action that I had taken?

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Well, let me let me finish giving you.

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So, actually, on that.

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Let me let me.

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All right.

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Because some of this stuff is in my.

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I don't want to lose what's what's in my head.

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All right.

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Okay.

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And in terms of your your strongest point, your vocabulary is really, really strong.

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I heard I heard some really good phrases and collocations like pick up on this.

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No two jobs are the same high.

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You said high stake.

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And it should have been high stakes.

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Cardiovascular.

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Good collocations like animal driven.

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Peer pressure.

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So your vocabulary is really, really strong and that that's going to help out your score a lot.

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Uh huh.

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You did do a good job.

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I did here properly use complex and compound sentences.

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There were there were some things in terms of pronunciation, and I won't be able to give you feedback

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on it until I go back and listen to it again.

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There were some things that were not pronounced clearly, but again, with that I have to listen to

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the recording again to try to figure it out.

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But there were some things that you said I didn't hear clearly.

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It was like it may have been three or four words.

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You did also have good you did have good intonation and stress, which a lot of students don't understand.

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But in some instances, you you would stress the words that matter.

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And that's what you want to be able to do when you're speaking instead of speaking in a really robotic

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All right.

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That's my feedback.

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Go ahead and ask me whatever whatever you want to ask.