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So here is your question.

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I want you to describe a time you started using a new technological device.

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I want you to describe a time you started using a new technological device.

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Wow.

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The first thing I possess my obsessed, my new devices, which was when I was at my age of 21, when

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I was in France.

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I like France.

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France is a beautiful country.

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I would like to take a lot of pictures I only have at the moment.

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I only have my huge camera on my apple.

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So it's really for for €4 is really hard to carry to everywhere.

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And at a moment I decided to buy a new a new smart mobile with a very strong, very strong camera,

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which I can take a lot of spectacular pictures as my camera.

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And at the first moment, I didn't really enjoy to have it because I found that I can easily addict

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I used it a scrolling down my social media and I don't only use it as a tool, but then I found it.

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When I learn how to control myself, it became really practical, practical for me because I can take

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it to everywhere without carrying having cameras.

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I can take a lot of pictures and every corner of that country.

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So I was I was really thankful for having that new smart mobile.

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And now we're going to go ahead and move on to part number three.

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So please cover your screen again.

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So now we're going to wrap up with some follow up questions about technology.

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Do you think people rely too much on technology?

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Definitely.

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I'm sad to say that I would like to take my city as an example.

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A lot of people knows that Taipei Taipei is well-known for its telecommunication and information industry.

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So we have really we can easily have a lot of affordable devices, technological devices and everything.

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When I when I saw people sitting and the people use or who rely on their devices while taking the transportations,

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they don't talk to people next to them.

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things later scrolling down the screen while watching the culture.

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And how will technology change our lives 10 to 20 years from now?

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Take note.

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I think I feel I feel grateful for more.

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And this this generation that we can having having technological devices easily while it does make our

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life easier for example we can we can easily communicate with someone in a foreign country by our phone.

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We can easily make a video, video, video call on the computer, which is which makes a lot for for

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We can easily kick contact with the world outside.

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And does technology help workers or make their lives more difficult?

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How do you use this technology, use this devices?

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Because while some people are really I know I know for the young generation, most of them, they really

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are really addicted to technology.

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For example, I feel that mobile or laptop is already become a part of their body.

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They can't get, get, get rid of it.

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And while in a sense I still so many mature people, they know how to deal with it.

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They really took their take, their devices as a tool to use in their in their professions.

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All right, Zazu thank you very much.

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I'm going to take I'm going to take a pause and then I'll be right back with you.

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So in looking at your overall performance, I think you did a really good job.

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I think that your in terms of your in terms of your fluency, you have your fluent you actually did

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a good job on your fluency.

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Every now and then you had some self corrections that you made.

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You did have a tendency sometimes to repeat some of the same discourse markers.

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I think I heard personally probably three or four times.

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And so with discourse markers, you don't want to overuse them, right?

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The discourse of our discourse markers are like transitions.

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It becomes almost becomes almost mechanical in a way.

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And so you have there's always you have to have a healthy diet of those.

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You did a great job of expanding and extending your ideas, which goes towards having really good fluency.

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You had there weren't times that you had really hesitation.

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I think on one of those last questions about technology and part number three, it tripped you up a

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little bit, but that was one of the only times where you had some pausing or hesitation in your speech.

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Your vocabulary was was pretty good.

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You did a good job of not repeating the question.

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You you one thing I like that you did is you directly answered the question.

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And then and then explain.

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Which is what you're supposed to do.

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Not not repeat the question.

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You directly answered it and then you explain.

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I think you want to do a better job of avoiding words like things.

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You use the word things a lot, and whenever you're using the word things is a sign that you don't have

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a vocabulary word to say.

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So there are some some general words like things and people and stuff.

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Those general words you got to take out of your vocabulary.

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You know your word combinations are good for the most part.

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You had the right word form.

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Your weakest area was your grammar.

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In your in your sentences, there were article mistakes in terms of using and in the.

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For other other types of mistakes were it depends on how do you use a technology you really should be.

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It depends on how you use the technology.

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And that depends on how do you use a technology.

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Sometimes you are using the wrong verb tense when you were talking about the past or using present tense

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verbs, and you should be using past tense verbs.

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A lot of people knows that and it should be a lot of people know the most difficult things.

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There were just some some of those fundamental mistakes in terms of your pronunciation.

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I think you did a good job on your pronunciation.

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You did try to have good intonation and stress in terms that there was rising and falling in your speech.

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And that's something that always helps out your pronunciation.

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You were also very easy.

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It was easy.

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It was easy to follow.

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You didn't have any difficulty following you.

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Sometimes your coherence can be affected when you're making some grammar mistakes because it gets in

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the way of understanding.

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But in terms of being able to follow you, you didn't you?

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I was able to follow you with very, very well.

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And you had good rising and falling in your speech.

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or Japan, sometimes it can be very they have more syllable timed speech or it sounds very mechanic

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and robotic.

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And I think you made a conscious effort to avoid that

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in terms of your score range, I think out of at a minimum, I would put it right around a seven.

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In terms of in terms of your scoring, I think you're close to a 7.5.

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You know, you're able to say, but you're between a seven and 7.5.

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I think if you if you clean up if you clean up some of those grammar mistakes, you know, you clean

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up some of those grammar mistakes.

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You stop saying some of those general words like things and people.

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I think if you do that, you're you're on your way to scoring even better.

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But at a minimum, I would say you're round of seven.

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Thank you.

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I just have one question.

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I would like to know if because I know the problem is that because when I try to speak faster, I can

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easily make grammar mistakes.

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So if it's if I speak slower, if it will hurt my scores or so I'm I'm going to correct your grammar

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real quick.

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If I speak slower, if if I speak slower, if I speak slower, will it will will it affect my score?

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Not if I speak slower, if it will correct my score.

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Thank you.

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So those are the kind of grammar mistakes that you're making in your speech, and that's kind of what

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pushes you to a seven as opposed to a seven in terms in terms of a 7 to 7.5 instead of a 7.5 to 8.

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But to answer your question, should you should you speak slower?

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I think your fluency was really good.

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That's hard for me to tell because I don't know what I don't know what's slower.

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Sounds like, you know.

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I don't know.

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I don't.

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When you say slower, I don't know what I don't know what that sounds like.

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Like, give me an example of what was slower sounds like.

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I'll ask you a question and then you.

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I'll ask you a question.

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Then you you you answer it in terms of what's what slower is.

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All right.

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Do you think what kind of what kind of challenges do children face?

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Wow.

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Personally, I believe that.

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I believe that kids.

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Has to.

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Please have to.

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I have no idea.

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I believe that kid.

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Oh, you're lucky I didn't ask you that question.

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That was one of the questions I could have asked.

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Yeah, that was on the list.

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I'll ask you a easier question.

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Do you like to read books?

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Absolutely.

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I enjoy reading books because reading aloud reading allows me to broaden my horizons.

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That's not cheap.

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That pace is I mean, I would say probably not that slow, maybe a little bit, a little bit more,

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a little bit faster.

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But that pace was fine.

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Yeah, that pace that wasn't I mean, if you if you think that that's going to make you have less mistakes,

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I would say a great tool maybe for you to use is to use the Google voice typing.

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You use the Google voice typing this in Google Docs and, and you have to be using the Chrome browser.

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But it will it will type.

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It will type exactly what you say.

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Okay.

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And I think it's a great tool for you because you can do it at the at the pace you just did your test

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and then maybe you can do it at a slower pace and you can see if it comes out with more grammar mistakes,

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because when you use the voice typing, you can look at your grammar, you can look at the words you

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use for vocabulary, and also you can check your pronunciation because if you don't pronounce the word

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correctly, it will right the wrong word, right?

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So it's a good tool for self practice.

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But I don't.

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I like your pace.

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I like your pace.

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I just think that the one area you have to you have to work on is your is your your real is really your

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grammar and not really repeating repeating that word personally so much.

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Mm hmm.

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There are other discourse markers, but but that's I think overall, you did a great job.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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So thank you very much for participating.

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Have a fantastic day.

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And and thanks for taking the course.

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Thank you so much.

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Have a nice day.

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Okay.

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Bye bye.

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Bye.