1 00:00:01,690 --> 00:00:05,030 So this is going to be the speaking test for Monique. 2 00:00:05,050 --> 00:00:10,360 Thank you very much, Monique, for being a volunteer and helping us do a student sample. 3 00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:13,930 Welcome to the practice speaking test. 4 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:16,510 Thank you. 5 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:17,380 All right. 6 00:00:17,380 --> 00:00:19,450 And so we're going to go ahead and get started, Monique. 7 00:00:21,350 --> 00:00:21,860 Yes. 8 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:23,090 All right. 9 00:00:23,090 --> 00:00:24,980 So please tell us where you're from. 10 00:00:26,290 --> 00:00:33,880 I'm from Brazil, but not from the fact that I'm from a small city in Brazil called Madeira. 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,170 It's it's been a dry state, but it's in the south of Nigeria. 12 00:00:39,170 --> 00:00:42,220 It's really small, like 10,000 habitants. 13 00:00:43,050 --> 00:00:43,470 Okay. 14 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:48,310 And are you a student or are you currently employed? 15 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:50,620 I work. 16 00:00:50,620 --> 00:00:51,790 I'm working. 17 00:00:51,790 --> 00:00:56,260 I'm a geologist and I work in the mining company. 18 00:00:56,530 --> 00:00:58,000 So, yes, I'm working. 19 00:00:58,750 --> 00:01:01,240 And what do you like most about your job? 20 00:01:03,820 --> 00:01:08,890 I like the field experience, so I'm almost. 21 00:01:09,310 --> 00:01:12,610 Most of my time I'm not in the off season I'm. 22 00:01:12,610 --> 00:01:15,340 I'm walking and doing some research. 23 00:01:15,340 --> 00:01:17,470 So I like to be outside. 24 00:01:17,470 --> 00:01:22,960 So that's the most that's there for me is the the better part of my job. 25 00:01:24,420 --> 00:01:24,950 Okay. 26 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:29,340 And do you prefer to work in a team or alone? 27 00:01:30,620 --> 00:01:32,080 Our team, definitely. 28 00:01:32,090 --> 00:01:41,890 I'm a very collaborative person, so I like to be with people and I like to share, experience and talk. 29 00:01:41,900 --> 00:01:44,490 So I prefer to team working. 30 00:01:46,190 --> 00:01:49,580 And does your job require your full concentration? 31 00:01:52,610 --> 00:01:54,590 Not really much. 32 00:01:55,430 --> 00:02:02,750 It's more, yeah, I require concentration, but at full concentration I'm more relaxed. 33 00:02:02,750 --> 00:02:04,250 Relax it then. 34 00:02:04,250 --> 00:02:06,770 Concentrate, concentrate or stresses. 35 00:02:08,030 --> 00:02:08,570 Okay. 36 00:02:09,170 --> 00:02:09,830 All right. 37 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:16,810 All right. 38 00:02:16,810 --> 00:02:19,810 So very quickly about your hometown. 39 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:22,840 Is there much to do in your hometown? 40 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:31,670 Actually, yes, because it's a small town, but there's a rural a big rural area. 41 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:40,520 So you can do cycling, you can go for walking or you can just sit and appreciate the view. 42 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:43,460 So, yes, there is quite good things to do there. 43 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:44,880 Okay. 44 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:47,300 And what changes would you make to your hometown? 45 00:02:49,010 --> 00:02:49,790 Nothing. 46 00:02:51,590 --> 00:02:52,580 I like there. 47 00:02:52,580 --> 00:02:54,650 I'm not living there anymore. 48 00:02:55,010 --> 00:02:59,150 But I used to consider there my hometown. 49 00:02:59,150 --> 00:03:03,080 So maybe the change is that I'll come back to live there. 50 00:03:04,250 --> 00:03:04,660 Okay. 51 00:03:04,670 --> 00:03:07,820 And we're going to move on and talk about film comedies. 52 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:09,800 Film comedies. 53 00:03:10,430 --> 00:03:12,620 Do you like to watch comedies? 54 00:03:14,030 --> 00:03:22,940 Yes, I prefer actually, I prefer romance, romantic comedies. 55 00:03:23,210 --> 00:03:25,250 But yes, it's good for relaxing. 56 00:03:26,990 --> 00:03:27,600 Okay. 57 00:03:27,710 --> 00:03:31,400 And when did you last watch a good comedy? 58 00:03:33,950 --> 00:03:36,110 Last weekend. 59 00:03:36,110 --> 00:03:46,250 On Sunday, I watched a good comedy from Friends, was in a French festival and was quite funny and 60 00:03:46,250 --> 00:03:47,090 relaxing. 61 00:03:47,130 --> 00:03:48,010 Yeah, it was. 62 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:49,550 I had fun. 63 00:03:50,570 --> 00:03:51,020 All right. 64 00:03:51,020 --> 00:03:55,700 And do you think you and your friends will laugh at the same things? 65 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,680 Depends on the friends. 66 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:00,730 On friends. 67 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,310 But I believe yes. 68 00:04:03,310 --> 00:04:05,640 Because we are quite similar. 69 00:04:05,650 --> 00:04:09,340 We quite we like a similar theme. 70 00:04:09,340 --> 00:04:10,660 So maybe. 71 00:04:10,660 --> 00:04:15,610 Yes, you, you, you find it interesting the same part. 72 00:04:16,870 --> 00:04:17,290 Okay. 73 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,060 Let's move on to talk about books. 74 00:04:19,090 --> 00:04:21,520 What type of books do you read? 75 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:35,290 Now that we are in quarantine, I'm reading more than before and I think the spiritual books, it's 76 00:04:35,290 --> 00:04:36,850 my favorite this time. 77 00:04:36,850 --> 00:04:43,480 So spiritual and some business books for a little bit. 78 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:44,140 Study. 79 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:46,400 Okay. 80 00:04:46,740 --> 00:04:49,260 And are you reading a book presently? 81 00:04:50,990 --> 00:04:51,770 Sorry. 82 00:04:52,220 --> 00:04:52,970 Are you reading. 83 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,040 Are you reading a book right now? 84 00:04:55,340 --> 00:04:56,450 Currently, yes. 85 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:58,220 Thank you. 86 00:04:58,370 --> 00:05:08,450 Yes, I'm reading a book called Homo Sapiens that talk about the history of the humans on earth. 87 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:19,330 It's quite interesting because it starts from through this history about 3000 years ago. 88 00:05:19,340 --> 00:05:26,720 So I change my perspective about the humans and it's quite interesting. 89 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:29,460 Okay. 90 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:32,180 And would you like to write a book in the future? 91 00:05:34,050 --> 00:05:34,360 Mhm. 92 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:37,380 I don't think so. 93 00:05:37,410 --> 00:05:39,510 I'm not a reading person. 94 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:47,070 Writing person I'm not, I need to put effort to write something so maybe I'm not. 95 00:05:47,850 --> 00:05:48,380 Right. 96 00:05:48,630 --> 00:05:49,260 Writer. 97 00:05:49,330 --> 00:05:49,770 No. 98 00:05:50,460 --> 00:05:51,090 Okay. 99 00:05:51,180 --> 00:05:51,510 All right. 100 00:05:51,510 --> 00:05:58,320 So we're going to now move on and talk about partner, too, so you can remove your screen cover. 101 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:01,500 All right. 102 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:07,320 In part number two, I'm going to show you a topic card. 103 00:06:07,650 --> 00:06:12,330 It will it will have an introduction in terms of what the topic is about. 104 00:06:12,540 --> 00:06:19,170 And you will have one minute to take notes that you can use when speaking. 105 00:06:19,410 --> 00:06:25,140 After the one minute is up, you'll have 2 minutes to deliver your response. 106 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,080 Do you have a pencil and paper in front of you? 107 00:06:29,030 --> 00:06:29,820 Yes. 108 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:30,350 Okay. 109 00:06:30,710 --> 00:06:31,220 All right. 110 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:41,750 So I want you to describe an incident where someone apologized to you. 111 00:06:42,110 --> 00:06:46,220 Describe an incident where someone apologized to you. 112 00:06:46,670 --> 00:06:48,590 You have one minute to prepare. 113 00:07:52,570 --> 00:07:52,910 Okay. 114 00:07:52,930 --> 00:07:53,830 Please stop. 115 00:07:54,430 --> 00:07:59,740 You now have 2 minutes to speak and you may begin speaking now. 116 00:08:02,170 --> 00:08:05,890 The last time I remember something. 117 00:08:06,340 --> 00:08:11,740 Some opinion change and the person need to apologize me was. 118 00:08:19,050 --> 00:08:23,040 Was was about Jim Sivers. 119 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:28,230 So I was paying a lot more money than my, my friend. 120 00:08:28,230 --> 00:08:30,060 And I just realized that. 121 00:08:30,150 --> 00:08:34,050 And the owner of this gym is my friend. 122 00:08:34,050 --> 00:08:38,070 So I had to ask him to change. 123 00:08:38,070 --> 00:08:39,810 And I was, what's going on? 124 00:08:39,810 --> 00:08:43,140 Why I'm paying more money for the same service. 125 00:08:43,470 --> 00:08:52,890 And I felt very bad because I felt that I could believe and trust in my friend. 126 00:08:52,890 --> 00:08:55,800 And but that was his business. 127 00:08:55,800 --> 00:09:01,650 So he had to to make money, but not that way. 128 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:12,090 So it was two months ago when I realized that I was paying two times more money than that worth and 129 00:09:12,510 --> 00:09:16,590 my friends had sorry, that was a mistake. 130 00:09:16,590 --> 00:09:21,180 And it's not because it's you just the business. 131 00:09:21,180 --> 00:09:34,650 And he tried to give me some discount to keep in this the service, but I tried to just give to to just 132 00:09:34,650 --> 00:09:39,030 ask my money back the difference of the service. 133 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:40,950 And that was memory. 134 00:09:40,980 --> 00:09:47,520 Memory that's remained in my mind because that was a person who really cared. 135 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:48,990 And I really appreciate. 136 00:09:48,990 --> 00:10:00,210 So when someone who you like do something that you feel bad, it's caused a sensation that made the 137 00:10:00,210 --> 00:10:07,120 word, it's not that good and you need to be very bad station of everywhere. 138 00:10:08,850 --> 00:10:09,420 All right. 139 00:10:09,420 --> 00:10:11,400 Go ahead and put your screen cover back. 140 00:10:14,140 --> 00:10:16,510 We're going to move on to part number three. 141 00:10:17,410 --> 00:10:21,460 But number three is related to the topic of part number two. 142 00:10:22,060 --> 00:10:24,640 And so we're going to talk about apologize. 143 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,290 And you have just a few follow up questions about apologizing. 144 00:10:29,770 --> 00:10:32,380 Why do some people hate to say sorry? 145 00:10:34,770 --> 00:10:36,810 Because they hate to be wrong. 146 00:10:37,540 --> 00:10:49,300 And they they hate you to make mistakes and to realize that sometimes you don't know everything and 147 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:53,050 you just need to say sorry and start again. 148 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,460 So it's a hard thing to. 149 00:10:57,490 --> 00:11:03,780 To feel that you are not the best one in the world all the time. 150 00:11:04,140 --> 00:11:07,680 So it's hard to say sorry for. 151 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:10,440 For a lot of people, including me. 152 00:11:12,630 --> 00:11:13,260 Okay. 153 00:11:13,260 --> 00:11:17,430 And what situations should we apologize immediately? 154 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:29,270 In any case that you realize you are doing something that affects someone. 155 00:11:29,630 --> 00:11:36,200 So it's better to do it immediate, just in time, just. 156 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:37,790 Just to realize it. 157 00:11:37,790 --> 00:11:38,600 You do it. 158 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:45,010 Then you just wait or wait for have some more information. 159 00:11:45,010 --> 00:11:54,490 It's better to say and say sorry and say I'm not sure then to fix the things as soon as you can. 160 00:11:55,700 --> 00:11:56,150 Okay. 161 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:01,070 And when was the last time you found it hard to accept an apology? 162 00:12:04,450 --> 00:12:10,570 I believe this this history that this story that I told the last. 163 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:12,230 SFI. 164 00:12:12,230 --> 00:12:23,960 So two months ago when I realized that a close friend was making money on my fidelity, so it was hard 165 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,430 to apologize. 166 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:33,320 But yeah, for sure I apologize because if that's my problem, if I don't apologize, I don't make the 167 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:34,400 problem free. 168 00:12:34,550 --> 00:12:40,070 So I have a responsibility to understand and apologize. 169 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:41,080 Okay. 170 00:12:41,150 --> 00:12:49,580 And finally, what kind of a what kind of apology means more to you words or actions? 171 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:50,800 Who? 172 00:12:52,430 --> 00:12:59,110 Depends on the case because sometimes it's you don't don't have any action to do. 173 00:12:59,150 --> 00:13:10,730 You just need to say and but usually if you can do something, it's I worth I would prefer both words 174 00:13:10,730 --> 00:13:12,320 and also actions. 175 00:13:12,890 --> 00:13:14,900 But sometimes you don't have action. 176 00:13:15,110 --> 00:13:23,570 And a lot of times they you need to apologize about something that you said, some words that you. 177 00:13:23,570 --> 00:13:29,510 So to apologize it or to borrow it, you don't have any action. 178 00:13:29,510 --> 00:13:42,620 You just need to to say and try to to change the the point of view and make the other one understanding 179 00:13:42,620 --> 00:13:49,460 what we're why you commit this mistake and what was your purpose doing that? 180 00:13:49,460 --> 00:13:56,480 Because sometimes you are not you're not conscious that you're doing something wrong. 181 00:13:56,510 --> 00:13:57,230 So. 182 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:00,600 All right, Monique. 183 00:14:00,630 --> 00:14:02,200 You did a good job. 184 00:14:02,220 --> 00:14:03,510 Thank you very much. 185 00:14:03,570 --> 00:14:04,380 Give me one minute. 186 00:14:04,380 --> 00:14:09,600 I'm going to pause for a moment and look at my notes and I'll be right back to give you some feedback. 187 00:14:09,630 --> 00:14:10,390 Give me one minute. 188 00:14:10,410 --> 00:14:10,860 Okay. 189 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:12,560 Okay. 190 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:13,070 All right. 191 00:14:14,580 --> 00:14:15,430 Okay, Monique. 192 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:19,380 So let me ask you, what do you what do you think your problems are? 193 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:22,320 Lots of problems. 194 00:14:24,740 --> 00:14:25,400 I. 195 00:14:27,210 --> 00:14:29,930 I have problems if I. 196 00:14:29,990 --> 00:14:32,220 I don't like the question. 197 00:14:32,220 --> 00:14:35,310 I get nervous to answer it. 198 00:14:35,310 --> 00:14:39,510 So maybe I need to have more vocabulary and. 199 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:45,390 Also Grandma and. 200 00:14:46,010 --> 00:14:46,490 Yeah. 201 00:14:46,490 --> 00:14:48,590 Vocabulary and grammar. 202 00:14:49,610 --> 00:14:53,960 And I believe that I have a strong Brazilian accent. 203 00:14:54,140 --> 00:14:55,950 So, yeah. 204 00:14:55,970 --> 00:14:56,300 Okay. 205 00:14:56,300 --> 00:15:03,170 So you pretty much identified the major issues that you're having. 206 00:15:03,620 --> 00:15:04,070 Right. 207 00:15:04,070 --> 00:15:08,120 And so that's what I'm going to talk about very quickly in terms of trying to point some things out 208 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:08,720 to you. 209 00:15:10,100 --> 00:15:16,700 There are definitely are issues with pronunciation, and I don't know why, but this is something that's 210 00:15:16,700 --> 00:15:17,690 really. 211 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:24,450 I feel like in Brazil, this is something I hear more from people from Minas Gerais than than most other 212 00:15:24,450 --> 00:15:25,860 parts of Brazil. 213 00:15:26,130 --> 00:15:32,800 I don't know why you all, you all like saying stuff like you said, like not in the office. 214 00:15:32,820 --> 00:15:34,800 Si bigot. 215 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:36,350 Bigot, dh. 216 00:15:37,530 --> 00:15:39,740 Relaxing the stress. 217 00:15:40,860 --> 00:15:50,340 You're having some difficulty with the IDs and the words that end and e you you're stretching them out. 218 00:15:51,660 --> 00:16:03,930 And so that's something that you're going to have to really work on in terms of your pronunciation is 219 00:16:03,930 --> 00:16:07,830 these words that are ending in Y and E and ed. 220 00:16:09,370 --> 00:16:09,760 Right. 221 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:17,620 So it's relaxed, stressed, realize like you would say, realize Ed relax. 222 00:16:17,620 --> 00:16:18,760 Ed stress. 223 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:22,450 Ed Biggert, big ed office. 224 00:16:22,450 --> 00:16:23,050 See? 225 00:16:23,050 --> 00:16:23,460 Right. 226 00:16:23,470 --> 00:16:25,330 That's what you were saying. 227 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:32,020 And if it happens, if it happens just once, not a big deal, right? 228 00:16:32,020 --> 00:16:35,050 Somebody can write that off as just a slip of the tongue. 229 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:40,450 But for you, it happened probably about a good 10 to 12 times. 230 00:16:41,230 --> 00:16:46,120 And that's an indication of it, of an issue in terms of grammar. 231 00:16:47,050 --> 00:16:50,880 You have to be careful with your subject verb agreement. 232 00:16:50,890 --> 00:16:58,080 Like, for example, it talks about you said that talk about and it should be that talks about you said 233 00:16:58,090 --> 00:17:00,520 it's start and it should be it starts. 234 00:17:01,150 --> 00:17:03,580 And when I ask you about reading books, you said I'm reading. 235 00:17:04,390 --> 00:17:06,070 I like to read spiritual. 236 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:07,660 It's my. 237 00:17:08,450 --> 00:17:10,550 It's my favorite, I think you said. 238 00:17:10,550 --> 00:17:15,760 But you wouldn't say I like you wouldn't say I like to read spiritual. 239 00:17:15,770 --> 00:17:20,720 It's like you don't you don't put a pronoun directly next to a noun. 240 00:17:22,330 --> 00:17:22,630 Right. 241 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:29,590 So those are those are some of your your grammatical issues, putting pronouns right next to nouns, 242 00:17:30,270 --> 00:17:38,290 you know, plural or singular se, putting in articles, putting in articles where they don't belong. 243 00:17:38,590 --> 00:17:43,630 Like you were talking about the book, I think you were talking about the book Sapiens, which which 244 00:17:43,630 --> 00:17:45,700 I've read also is actually a really good book. 245 00:17:46,150 --> 00:17:47,020 But you say it is. 246 00:17:47,170 --> 00:17:51,670 It's about the humans and it really you just say it's about humans. 247 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:57,400 So these are like these are like foundational grammar problems. 248 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:05,440 And that's that's really that's really an issue because if you were if you had high level grammar problems 249 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:10,420 like advanced level grammar problems, that's that doesn't affect you as much. 250 00:18:10,420 --> 00:18:13,960 But those foundational grammar problems are which you have to really clean up. 251 00:18:17,580 --> 00:18:22,350 Other things like too time to time as many should be. 252 00:18:22,350 --> 00:18:24,180 Two times as many. 253 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:30,320 Things like that in terms of your in terms of your fluency. 254 00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:37,390 You most most of the time you have no you have no problem extending and explaining. 255 00:18:37,390 --> 00:18:40,240 Like, I don't I don't think you have any problem with ideas. 256 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,910 You have ideas that's not an issue for you. 257 00:18:43,270 --> 00:18:46,720 So being able to explain what you want to talk about is not a problem for you. 258 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,450 I do think that your speech is a little bit slow. 259 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:52,070 In terms of fluency. 260 00:18:52,100 --> 00:18:53,840 Like sometimes you would say. 261 00:18:56,490 --> 00:19:03,160 You know, as you will say, like, it's not the best one all the time. 262 00:19:03,180 --> 00:19:08,570 Like, you're you're you're you're you're you're slowly going through it and you want to go through 263 00:19:08,570 --> 00:19:11,190 it with more fluency, not the best one all the time. 264 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,510 And so that's going to help you in terms of your fluency. 265 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,030 You're part number two. 266 00:19:18,910 --> 00:19:20,850 Was actually well structured. 267 00:19:20,860 --> 00:19:25,420 You got thrown off in the beginning, but you recovered very well. 268 00:19:26,260 --> 00:19:27,700 You recovered very well. 269 00:19:28,540 --> 00:19:33,100 And then actually your part number three, you did a good job of answering part number three, you see, 270 00:19:33,100 --> 00:19:35,950 because because you're able to answer part number three. 271 00:19:35,950 --> 00:19:38,650 That's how I know you have no problem with ideas. 272 00:19:39,370 --> 00:19:41,950 You just have to work on your delivery of English. 273 00:19:43,290 --> 00:19:48,420 Right now, if somebody were scoring you today, it would it wouldn't be any higher than a six. 274 00:19:50,230 --> 00:19:55,390 Because of the grammar and you're in danger of like dropping below that because there were a lot of 275 00:19:55,390 --> 00:19:55,750 grammar.