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And we have our speaking sample tests with Javier.

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Thank you for joining us today, Javier.

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Thank you, too.

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Okay.

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So we're going to walk you through all three parts of the speaking test.

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Thank you very much for covering your computer screen for parts one and parts three, because on the

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real exam, you cannot see the questions for part one and part three.

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When we have part number two, you can then look at your screen again and be able to see the card for

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part number two.

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So let's go ahead and get started.

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All right.

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Let's do it.

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So, Javier, where are you from?

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I am from Chile.

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Specifically, I am residing in the city of Santiago, Chile.

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I have been living here during all my life.

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And yes, I'm living right now in the commune of La Reina.

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

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Right now, unfortunately, unfortunately, I'm unemployed because of the coronavirus situation.

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I'm a professional in the tourism area, specifically in the ecotourism area.

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But right now I am unemployed because of the distance and the quarantine situation.

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When you did work, what was what was the interesting part of your job?

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Well, my last work was in San Cristobal here.

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That is located here in Santiago, Chile.

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And the most exciting part was that it was a park of adventure games.

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What I mean by this is that you had a lot of climbing walls and sea lions or bungee jumping, and that

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was the most exciting part of my job was adventure tourism.

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To be more exact.

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

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By 100%.

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I prefer to work in a team because I think that when you have a group of persons, you have different

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abilities and features and at the end of the day they work, the group work as a complement and everybody

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pulls their their strength to reach the final goal.

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And I want to talk about your hometown for a moment.

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Has your hometown.

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Has your hometown changed much since you were a child?

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Well, my actual hometown is USA.

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That is a place located in the middle of my pool.

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And to be honest with you, this place hasn't changed a lot in the last year.

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The most important improvement that this place, this place had was I knew neighborhoods with bigger

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houses and a large park.

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But apart from that, there isn't an important change from that.

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That part.

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And what are people like in your hometown?

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People in Seattle.

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They are very friendly and they need you help.

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I need you have any kind of problem.

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They without thinking twice, they start helping you with any kind of situation.

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We experimented that two years ago and that's what we find because you have reliable neighbor neighbors

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in that place.

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All right.

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And what changes would you like to make to your hometown?

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Definitely I would like to build maybe one or two hospitals because sadly there is a place located far

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from Santiago de Chile.

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Maybe one hour bike by car.

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So the place really needs more sensors in case of any emergency.

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And yes, I think there needs to have a good health center to solve any kind of health problems with

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the habitants.

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I would like to move on.

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I'm going to move on and talk about smiling.

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Smiling.

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Do you think people smile a lot nowadays?

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Currently, I think that people forgot about smiling because everybody right now is so stressed, so

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stressed, so hurry.

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Everybody's running from one side to the other.

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And because of the work, because of the situation, because of disagreements with political situations

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and all of this.

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So, yeah, normally people are not very are not smiling a lot.

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Especially in Europe and places like Santiago.

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And when do you when do you usually smile?

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Well, naturally, I smile when I am hanging out with friends or when I am having conversations with

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my family.

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In general, I tend to smile when I am having good moments that I really enjoy.

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For example, when I am doing an exciting activity, when I am in a party with friends, that kind of

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We're going to move on and talk about running.

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Do you?

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Running.

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Running.

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Do you participate in running races?

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I'm glad that you brought that up, because I'm very passionate about running.

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I have been doing, running, doing all my life because of my parents.

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Both of them are physical, educational teachers.

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So I have during all my life I have been doing running and doing athletics competitions.

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Unfortunately, right now, I can't participate in any kind of marathon or running competition because

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of the quarantine.

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Because but I am waiting for the for the next event.

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And do you have do you have suitable places for running in your area?

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Yes, definitely.

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Here in the communal arena, there exist many kind of large parks.

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There is this a large site close to the streets that is perfect for runners and bikers.

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And that's the place when I when I frequently go to train three times in the week.

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So this is a perfect place to practice my sport.

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And do you like to watch the athletic events during the Olympics?

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And the athletic events are my favorites by far with the Olympics, because on that competition you

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see big stars of the athletics like Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and many other

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athletes that are well known for their sport achievements.

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And that's one of the best things of the Olympic Games and the most beautiful the athletics.

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And now we're going to go ahead and move on and talk about part number two so you can look at your computer

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And part number two, I'm going to show you a topic card on the computer screen.

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You will have one minute to take notes and then 2 minutes to speak.

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You have your pencil and paper in front of you.

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Yes.

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I had this.

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Talk about a decision that you made that was wrong.

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Talk about a decision that you made.

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That was wrong.

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You have one minute to prepare.

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You have 2 minutes to speak and you may begin speaking now.

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Well, one of the first things that comes to my mind in terms of maybe bad decisions is when I choose

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my professional practice place to do my my professional practice.

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And I did my my practice on the on a place located in Altobello that is the ninth region of Chile.

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And that was a sad touristic place that was starting to develop.

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And my my boss was someone who didn't know almost anything about tourism but has a lot of money.

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So he used to have a lot of good ideas, but he doesn't used to have the technical knowledge to improve

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this.

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Me and my me and my partner used to help help him to develop the goods, the goods and checking parts

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and the realization of that place.

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But when I took the the practice and when I chose the place to do my to do my job, I was thinking about

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a different a different a different situation.

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I started thinking that that was a serious business or maybe a more developed touristic place.

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And when I finally saw that this wasn't what I expected, it was kind of.

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It was kind of bad because I started feeling that I took the wrong decision.

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And because of because of the place, there were no any kind of organized or or professional people

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from tourists.

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And that really made me feel so bad.

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But however, then that place gave me a lot of experience in terms of speaking with real tourists and

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being in charge of it, being in charge of of trekking parts and giving the people the best advice as

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possible while the trekking and other kind of things.

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And please cover your screen.

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We're going to move on to part three.

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I did it.

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So now we're going to have some follow up questions on this topic about decisions.

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Do you find making decisions easy?

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In general, I think that this topic is kind of challenging in some some ways in some moments, because

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sometimes you have to make important decisions, like if you will study this career or the other, or

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if you are going to do this, travel the other.

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And sometimes it is difficult to handle these kind of situations.

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Personally, I am insecure in some in some kind of moments.

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So for me, it's kind of challenging in some occasions to take the best decision.

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And do you think decision?

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Do you think decision making is a skill that should be developed?

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But if you're taking good decisions, it's something that everybody needs to develop well, because

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in many, many moments of the life, taking the right decision is essential to have a great developing.

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Doing your doing the rest of your life.

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Maybe.

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Moving to another place or not taking this job or not, and many other kind of essential decisions that

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you need to take during your life.

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But this is by far one of the one of the most important features of people.

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And is proper analysis necessary when we take important decisions?

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Yes.

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Personally, I am a person that thinks that you need to analyze and compare the pros and cons of the

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situation before taking.

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Harry decision before taking a decision, you need to evaluate the situation, see what are the positive

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and the negative things.

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And after doing this, then do it.

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But not before, because you can commit a mistake or a serious, serious trouble if you take the wrong

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decision in many cases.

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All right.

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So thank you very much.

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Javier, give me one moment.

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I'm going to look at my notes and then I'll be right with you, okay?

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All right, I wait here.

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Wait right here.

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Hi.

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Javier, I want to tell you a few things about your performance and maybe some advice in terms of what

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you can maybe work on to get better.

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In terms of your fluency, you have really good fluency.

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I heard that a little bit better towards the end than in the beginning.

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For example, in the very beginning, you when you first started off, when I asked you about where

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you're from, you gave me like four or five short, simple sentences.

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And when you're speaking in short, simple sentences, you're not really showing off your sentence variety

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in terms of being able to create compound and complex sentences, which is going to get you a better

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score.

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Now, like I said, you made up for that somewhat towards the end and maybe in the beginning I may have

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been just a matter of you being nervous in terms in terms of starting, but first impressions are important.

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And so I want you to just think about that in terms of how you're starting off.

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You want to start off impressive because people are human beings.

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And like when I first heard short, simple, short, simple, short, simple, short, simple.

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So this might be it.

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It might be going in the wrong direction.

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But like I said, you made up for it.

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Try your best.

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Most of the time you were successful at doing it, but sometimes you would repeat the language of the

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question back to me.

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And you want to.

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You want to paraphrase as much as possible that helps alter your lexical score to to be much better

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in terms of vocabulary.

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You did a good job with your vocabulary.

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You had some really good phrases, to be honest with you.

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Apart from that.

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You did a good job of changing word form.

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When I talked about analysis at the end and you changed it to a analyze again, try to upgrade the vocabulary.

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So when you're talking about people from your hometown, you know, you want to talk about residents.

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You know, you use a better use a better word than people.

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Yeah.

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So show that.

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Show that you can upgrade the language.

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Really good.

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Colloquialisms, like without thinking twice.

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That's really good.

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Where you probably fell apart the most was in your part number two.

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And that that was because of grammar, to be honest with you.

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Part number two is when some of the grammar really came out.

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For example, for some reason you kept saying, when I choose and it should have been past tense when

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I chose, that was more of a word choice.

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You thought it said on a place.

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It should be in a place.

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Moments of the life.

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Moments of life.

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What I expect should be what I expected.

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It should be professionals, professionals from tourists, it should be professionals from tourism.

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And that may have been just a pronunciation issue that I didn't hear clearly.

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But I think that yes, I think that this happened because I I have a lot of ideas in my mind, and I

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want to say them out.

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And sometimes I missed the pronunciation.

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Well, the words or the sentence.

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Yeah.

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So it was your it was your part.

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Number two.

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And what I normally tell students, what really makes your score is really part number two.

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Yeah, I know.

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Our number two was what?

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Really?

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Because it reveals.

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It reveals people can hide in part number one.

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Yeah.

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You know, because you can you've seen the questions, you're prepared for them and things like that

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a lot of the times.

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So there were some grammar issues.

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Your pronunciation, like I said, was generally pretty good.

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The other only other suggestions I would make is learn how to probably make put a little bit more stress

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and stress that intonation into your sentences.

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Examiners normally like that.

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I can tell from your personality that you're more of a it seems like you're a low key kind of guy,

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but, you know, add some, I guess, stress into your sentences, stressing words.

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But again, these are just I'm just nit picking.

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Now, you really you really did a pretty good job overall.

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I think if you if you paraphrase and you work on those grammar issues, you can really get the mark

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that you're looking for.