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So for part number two, you're going to see a topic card that appears on your screen.

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You're going to have one minute to take notes and then 2 minutes to deliver your response.

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Yep.

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All right, so I want you to talk about something you borrowed from a person, you know.

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Talk about something you borrowed from a person you know?

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You have one minute.

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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 well, talking about talking about something that I used to illustrate from my classmates was I mean,

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there were a lot of things that I usually took from them, but something that I want to specifically

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talk about here is a VCD player.

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So during my time, the VCD players were not a common affair in my country.

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And usually people go to movie theaters to watch a movie.

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And it was during my ninth class when I was in high school that I asked him to lend me his CD player

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so that I can watch few movies, though that was a time when I have to take board exams, but that was

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the only time then it was free and he was able to give it to me.

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So I asked him and he was able to lend that to me for a month.

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And I spent a lot of time watching different movies or on VCD players appear and completing a lot of

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things related to encyclopedia and entertainment.

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So I think that was the time when I really remembered his help on giving his lovely VCD player and I

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still talk to him about that because that was one of the best time that I enjoyed during my childhood

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when I really liked to watch cartoons, movies and encyclopedias related to the studies during my high

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school.

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So so that was something that I admired and I love to talk about with people and friends.

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Thank you very much.

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You can now cover your screen again.

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We're going to move on to part number three, which is going to cover the same topic as part number

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two.

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All right.

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So.

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Question number one.

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Is borrowing things good or bad, in your opinion?

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I think it depends from whom you borrow and how many times you use.

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Ask somebody or request something to somebody.

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Because if you keep on asking or acquiring things from your friends or colleagues, that is not that

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shows you greediness and is not a good way to

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to take favor from somebody.

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However, borrowing with friends sometimes, which you may not buy in future for a particular or for

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a particular time, is quite okay.

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And I think that is something that everyone does.

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And would you let someone borrow a valuable thing from you?

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And yeah, I think that's that's fine.

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Unless you trust a person that they will they will give you their your valuable stuff back on time.

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There may be something very precious to you, like your car.

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But there was a situation when I, when I lend my car to a friend so that he can use it in his wedding.

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And I got my car back in time, so I was pretty happy with that.

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All right.

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And finally, is it a good idea to borrow books or is a better idea to use your own?

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Or in my opinion, borrowing books will definitely help you save some money because most of the times

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you use books for on a temporary basis, you may use it for a few months of X and then it may not be

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useful.

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Since the book has been published already, it can be utilized by someone else.

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So thank you very much for your participation.

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And give me just one minute to look at my notes and I'll give you some feedback.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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So a couple of things I want to mention to you.

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You did a really good job, by the way.

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You did a good job in terms of your fluency and coherence.

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You.

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You did a great job of expanding and explaining your answers or your responses, which is what you're

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supposed to do to be able to score very well.

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You did a good job of staying within the context of the question.

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A lot of students don't understand that.

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When you go beyond the context of the question, you're really not helping yourself, but you stay within

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the context of the question when you did expand.

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I would say that in terms of your your linking language, you, you, you I want you to really try to

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find another link.

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Other than however, you probably use the you're probably use the transition of, however, about four

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or five times.

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And if you could if you could if you can show more variety and in terms of that transition or that link,

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you're going to score better.

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I mean, it hurts your score when they hear the same link being repeated over and over and over again.

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And I realized that while I was speaking, but since it was in spontaneous answer, that was the only

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word that was coming in my mind.

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I know that happens.

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And so the way you break out of that is I encourage people to use Google Voice to record themselves

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while they're speaking.

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And the way you get out of that is you make you just start making a conscious effort when you're practicing

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to not use it and to use despite or nevertheless or notwithstanding that, something else.

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To show the range.

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Because remember, whenever you're talking about moving up the scale, whenever you're talking about

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moving up the rubric scale, it's about range.

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It's it's always about range.

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Your vocabulary was was really.

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Well, I heard some good colloquialisms.

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Collocations turns me off.

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Good vocabulary radiance bestowed on.

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Try to try to paraphrase as much as possible.

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So for example, when you were talking about I like to drive a car instead of using the word drive,

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maybe use the word operate, the more the more synonyms that you use.

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Again, range.

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Whatever people are talking about, I'm stuck at seven.

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Why am I not at an eight?

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That most of the time that comes down to range.

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Right now.

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You also want to avoid general words like things you probably use the word things about three times

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because whenever you whenever you use the word thing, basically it says, I don't have a vocabulary

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word.

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So I'm just going to use this general filler.

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When then there's always you're doing this in real time.

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So I mean, some things I'm just making you aware of some things in terms of grammar.

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Just a few little mistakes here and there.

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You said most of the times and it should be most of the time singular.

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You said by the mankind.

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There should be by mankind.

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But in general, you had really good verb control.

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When the question was about the past tense, you use past tense verbs.

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You did your compound sentences correctly.

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Your complex sentences were created correctly.

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In terms of pronunciation.

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You probably know this already, but a lot of students from.

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You're from India, right?

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Yes.

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From India have problems with BMW.

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Sometimes you guys say W like V and you say V like W.

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Yeah, I heard your videos.

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Or I mean, it's it's it is what it is.

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I mean, sometimes, like, with the word aware or the word involved, you know, it was a little bit

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off.

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But, you know, in general you did okay.

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But just be aware of that.

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Some words that were not pronounced correctly geographically.

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Thankfully.

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Those are two words that I could distinctly remember that I wrote down that were now not pronounced

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correctly.

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And there was another word that you said that I did not even hear clearly was take take something exams.

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I don't know.

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I can't tell you what the word was, but I didn't hear it.

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You were talking about something.

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But you were talking about taking exams.

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You said take.

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It was something.

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Take blank exams.

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But I couldn't make it out.

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And maybe it could have been.

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Maybe.

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Maybe it could have been a local.

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What do you say?

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I use board taking board exams.

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What is.

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Is that something specific to your country?

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Oh, board.

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Board.

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Yeah, let me let me hear.

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Say the word.

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Born.

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Are you saying?

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Are you trying to say both are right?

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Board.

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Board.

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Board.

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Bored?

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No, man.

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Okay, okay.

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You got to work on board because that was.

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That was the word I did not hear.

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I didn't hear that at all.

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And so.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's okay.

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You either need to avoid you need to use a different word or learn how to say that one correctly.

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Those are the things I heard that were pointed out that that stood out to me.

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In terms of your score, I think you're I think you're between a 7.5 and an eight.

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You have really good fluency, but those things that I mentioned are what you can do to really try to

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make sure that you're able to get an eight.

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Sure.

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All right.

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So Soderstrom, thank you so much for participating.

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And I thank you very much.

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And as I've told you, you're most likely going to find this upload into the course.

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I appreciate you being a volunteer and helping us out with this.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you so much.

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I'm glad to be part of this course and the session that you had and the wonderful lectures that are

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already there in the course has helped me a lot to improve my my speaking, my writing and also my listening

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and reading abilities.

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So thank you for that.

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You're very welcome.

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All right.

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Have a good and stock Stockholm.

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You have one more question that was about your part number two.

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And I think you were asking me about about at the end of your part.

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Number two, when you seem to be trying to fish around for something else to say, is that what it is?

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Yeah, I picked that up on your part.

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Number two.

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And I, I meant to mention that earlier from my notes, it looked like you had about 30 seconds to go.

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And with 30 seconds to go, you were trying to just find things to say, and you tended to sort of kind

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of repeat some of the same things because you were just trying to fill in, fill in the time.

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You were trying to fill in the time and so are you asking me what can you do in that situation?

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Yes.

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Well, when I look at the screen, you see there are four questions there.

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Right?

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What you borrowed when you borrowed it, why you borrowed it and when you returned it.

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I think the last one I'm not sure the last one you really fully addressed.

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I got what you borrowed when you borrowed it.

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Why you borrowed it.

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But I don't know how much you talked about when you returned it.

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And so you I think that's where you could maybe take it up some of your time.

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I always said that.

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I only said that I used it for a month and then I returned it.

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So, yeah.

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So when you just say that one sentence, you say a one sentence about that last point.

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If you had said two or three sentences, that would have taken up some of your time.

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I really think when it comes to part number two, when it comes to part number two, it's really about

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being able to when it comes to part number two, being able to really practice a lot.

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In terms of with a clock to get your timing down when they're four, when they're four points like we

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have right here.

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I really think you need to have about 2 to 3 sentences for each discussion point to be able to fill

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up the time.

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And then if you have three discussion points, if you have 3 to 4 sentences for each discussion point,

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that should be enough to be able to fill up fill up the time.

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You did a good job.

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But your first part, your first minute and 30 seconds was strong and then your last 30 seconds, I

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can tell or any examiner can tell.

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He's trying to fill up that time.

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He's trying to fill up that time.

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Now, one thing you can do, you can always go back to one of the other points and add some more information.

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So, for example, you could say, you know, I forgot to mention something about when I borrowed it.

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Or I forgot to mention.

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I forgot to mention something.

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About what exactly?

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I borrowed it.

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And if you want to describe it better, or I forgot to mention something about why I borrowed it.

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So you see how I'm going back and maybe adding in some extra information.

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Yeah.

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So that that would be something that I suggest in terms of being able to maybe fill it in and not repeat

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the same thing.

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All right.

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Thank you very much.

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Have a great, fantastic day.

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I'll talk to you later.