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Today we've got another practice speaking test with Min from Korea, who does pretty well in some areas of the speaking test.
But, as always, there are things that we could take away, both you and I.
We could learn from Min, and I hope to show you that in this video.
Let's go.
Great, so I have my headphones in.
I'm ready to listen to Min who's going to take us through the full test.
Our examiner is David today and I'd like you, as always, to make some notes as you go along.
Take away something and kind of be prepared to give your feedback on Min's answers.
What areas of the test do you think he does well?
And don't forget that in the speaking part of the test, you will have four components, which are marked.
The first one is fluency and coherence.
It's your ability to speak at length and develop your ideas.
Remember that you don't actually have to answer the question completely.
You are allowed to go off topic or tangentially, but just remember that you've got to keep talking.
The next component is lexical resource.
Then we have grammatical range and accuracy and finally pronunciation.
And for each one, you'll get 25% of the score.
And don't forget that in the speaking and the writing component, the final mark is actually rounded down.
Okay,
It's an important one to remember.
Right, I'm going to press play, let's go.
Hello.
Hello.
Welcome to this practice exam conducted by IELTS Daily.
My name is David, and I'm your practice IELTS speaking examiner.
The questions in this test are designed to simulate the IELTS speaking test.
So let's begin.
What's your first name, please?
Sorry?
What's your first name?
My first name is Min.
Interesting start.
Min didn't quite get the first question, which is, what is your first name?
That's okay.
He said, sorry, and the examiner was able to repeat himself.
Great.
At the beginning of the IELTS test, you need to provide some identification, usually your passport, but as this is a practice test, there's no need for that today.
Are you ready to begin?
Yep.
Great.
All right.
So, let's talk about your hometown.
Can you tell me where your hometown is?
My hometown is Busan in Korea.
And the places are very famous for tourism.
For example, kind of beaches and actually famous at seafood, kind of.
Okay, I'm just going to jump in here.
It's really important with pronunciation that you have to distinguish and know the difference between the short I sound I and the long E sound.
The difference between I and E. And in this case, I think Min made a small mistake.
I think he wanted to say the word beaches, beaches.
One of the best ways is to smile as you do it, beaches, okay?
If you say the short E sound, it can be a very unpleasant word, okay?
And that will be the same for three words which, if you get them wrong, you may cause a problem for yourself.
So those three words are beaches, Peace and sheet.
Beaches, peace and sheet.
Don't say the short is sound because it could cause you some problems.
And the second problem that Min had here was that he said it's famous and he should have said it's famous for
If I remember, I think he said it's famous at.
So it should be it's famous for its beaches.
How can I say?
The low fish and Korean style sushi.
Yeah, kind of that.
And how often do you visit your hometown?
Actually, when I just stay in Korea, I always stay in my hometown, because my university is in Busan too and my house is in Busan too.
Then I just go to uni and go to gym, just come back to house.
Yeah, that's my daily life.
During this question.
He made a couple of mistakes and I noticed that the same mistake continues throughout the test and he often forgets his article.
And the article is a and the.
And if you're one of those people that forgets the article, please make sure that you spend a little bit of time focusing on it.
He said, go to gym. and it should have been go to the gym.
I go to the gym.
And then he said I come back home or I think he actually said I come back to house actually.
It's better in that case to say I come home.
So home is usually the direction so I come home.
And can a foreigner do or see anything interesting in your hometown?
Ah, yeah.
In this day, my hometown is famous for cafe.
Actually, the normal cafe is just just coffee and a little dessert.
But in our space has the how can I say Interestingly here, he actually said famous for cafe.
A better way would be.
It's famous for cafes, because we're talking generally about what the general situation is in that place.
He has repeated the word, how can I say, a couple of times.
And for me, that's indicating, it's showing to me that maybe he's looking for language.
And remember that in the fluency and coherence section, you have to keep going.
And if you're spending a lot of time looking for language, this will be called language related hesitation.
And it's going to limit you to band seven.
The one city?
In the one city, half of part is almost cafe.
And we have lots of tourism place and at the tourism place has lots of coffee shop too.
Seems to me that min has a problem with plurals, singular and plural one and many.
So he said uh, he said we have lots of tourism place, and it should have been we have lots of, we have many tourist places okay, and i think he also forgot the plural of cafes as well.
You'll see this a lot through his test.
So please, if you're watching this Min, make sure you focus on your singular one and many plural.
And then if you go to the Busan, you can drink coffee with watching beaches and look some sunset.
Yeah, I think it's kind of beautiful place to hang out.
One of the hardest things that you can learn in English is the difference between the verbs see watch, look.
They're really common words, but they have different meanings.
So I think he said you can watch the beaches.
Okay.
When you watch something, you usually have a reason for doing it.
So we watch somebody do something.
You can watch the TV.
It's an extended time.
So if I were Min, I would say something like I like to go to Busan because I can watch things happening at the beach, or I can watch people at the beach.
If you just want to look at the beach or see the beach, That's perfectly fine, but we wouldn't normally say watch.
I like to go to Busan because I like to see the sea.
I like to see beaches.
I like to look at the beach.
I like to watch the sunset.
Remember that watch the sunset is the process of the sun going down.
So that's a longer process.
You're watching something do something else.
Therefore, if you don't know the difference between watch and look and see, please take some time, go and have a research on the internet.
There's many, many resources available on the internet which will show you the difference between those three verbs.
They're common mistakes.
I don't want you to make the same mistakes.
And is your hometown a good place for children to grow up?
Maybe it depends on area.
Some leach area.
Yeah, absolutely.
But Some good things from this last part.
In the previous part.
I forgot to mention to you that he did actually say it's a cool place to hang out.
So he's showing his range of lexis, his range of words.
So hang out is a phrasal verb.
I encourage you, if you can use phrasal verbs correctly, please try to use them.
Now, he made a pronunciation mistake here, and this is a very common problem, especially for Japanese and Korean speakers.
So if you are from Japan or Korea, this may be a problem for you, which is the difference between rich and lich.
So we're focusing on the l and the r sound.
Remember in a previous video, we had hero.
Hero had a similar problem l and r and then he also said maybe it depends on area.
I like the fact that he's using complex grammar.
Maybe it depends on, but again he's forgotten the article which, and it should have been.
Maybe it depends on the area.
Normal place is just, I think normal, just jumping in here normal place is just normal.
Mmm seems a bit awkward this sentence.
Again it should be normal places, because he's speaking generally.
Normal places are just standard.
Don't repeat the word normal.
Some normal places are just standard, nothing special.
Seoul is our capital city.
I think education for children is good in Seoul.
Now I'm going to ask you some questions about evenings.
Do you have much free time in the evenings?
Yeah, on weekends, I have lots of free time in the evening.
In weekends, I have lots of free time in evening.
I think he could have expanded much more here.
There was a little bit of a mistake.
It should have been in the week or at weekends, I have a lot of free time in the evenings.
Just be careful that you get the right preposition for the right kind of situation.
That's one thing to notice.
A lot of people mix up prepositions.
And again, his answer was really short.
I think he could have explained lots more, you know?
At the weekend, I have lots of free time.
I tend to, you know, spend it playing video games or catching up with some friends or watching a film.
Watching a movie.
I remember last weekend I actually visited a friend of mine who lives just in a neighborhood close by.
Do you notice that there was a little bit more expansion there and it was completely invented?
I didn't actually do that.
And remember that in the test, if you are struggling for ideas, you are allowed to make up your own stories.
And is your evening routine the same every night?
Yeah, in weekday I just go to uni and have some lunch with friends and come back to my area and go to the gym with my friends and hang out some great things here, hang out with my friends, great language, and in this case he didn't forget to use the gym.
I go to the gym.
If you listen back, he actually included the article, which is great, so it's clear to me that he knows what to do.
It just seems that in previous sentences he just completely forgot, and he did make the mistake.
He said I think he said in weekends.
It should be at the weekends, or Americans might say on weekends, or during the week, or and on a weeknight.
There are many different prepositions that you could use for these phrases.
So make sure you use them accurately.
Okay, and in your country, what is a popular evening activity for young people?
Maybe I think Korean people like to drink, then There was a lot of content-related hesitation here.
I don't think he was looking for words.
I just don't think that he knew what to say.
So remember that content-related hesitation is up on the band eight or band nine.
It's acceptable.
I don't think that he's going to be there yet, because there's too many pauses and slow parts of the speech.
But I just wanted to highlight the difference between language and content-related hesitation.
If you go to the city hall, nearby city has lots of lots of bar, kind of Korean style.
If you go to the city hall, nice complex grammar, but it was let down by lots of bar.
And this is a consistent problem all the way through many, many problems related to singular and plural.
It should have been lots of bars.
And you can drink kind of Korean traditional drink and Japanese style sake or just ginger ale kind of this.
Yeah, maybe drinking thing.
Yeah, that's all.
So now I'm going to ask you some questions about your neighborhood.
How do you feel about your neighbors?
I live in an apartment, but sometimes we have a problem with kind of noise, noise thing because uh, they're so sensitive about noise.
Now this is not related to min's speech, but it seems to me that min likes to make some noise.
I don't know if this is true or not, but he said that his neighbors are sensitive to noise and there have been some problems with him.
So um, it seems to me that min doesn't have a good relationship with his neighbors, which is a shame.
I don't know if he's telling the truth maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but remember that if you're living in an apartment block, it's really difficult and it's difficult to live with people around you.
So you always have to be respectful, don't you?
Then maybe?
I think we don't.
I, i don't have a good relationship with neighborhoods.
I don't have a good relationship with neighborhood.
So a couple of problems there.
I don't have a good relationship the difference again between the le and the re relationship with my neighbors, not with my neighborhood, really.
So I don't have a good relationship with my neighbors.
In your country, do neighbors tend to be close to one another?
Yeah, it depends on person, but...
This answer was really short and he said it depends on person.
It should have been obviously that it depends on the person.
Again, a forgotten article.
I would say that he could have expanded a lot more here rather than just repeat it depends on person with a pause and then it depends on person again repeated the same thing.
That for me would be a problem because when we look at the score later, you'll see this idea of repetition and filling phrases.
It's very difficult.
Now how would you describe your neighborhood?
Sorry, describe?
How would you describe your neighborhood?
How would you describe your neighborhood?
And at this point, Min is looking for lots of ideas.
The pauses are too long.
My advice to you is if you're in the test, please don't try to think too long about an answer.
It may be that you actually have to invent something and make something up.
It's not really a good idea if you're spending a lot of time thinking of ideas.
What's in your neighborhood?
What's in?
Sorry, I can't understand.
Okay, no problem.
We'll move on to the next question.
Okay.
So, is your neighborhood a safe place for children to play alone?
Yeah.
I have been in America but when I was there it looks a little dangerous for children because every people looks a little annoying, kind of that.
Uh, they are just screaming in the load.
Yeah.
I think that's literally dangerous.
Looks like dangerous for children.
I don't quite know the reason why he's answering about America.
The examiner was asking about, is his neighborhood a safe place for children?
So he is going a little bit off topic here, but it's fine because he's trying with fluency.
There were a couple of pronunciation issues.
I think he meant to say loud rather than lord.
But I think that he could have expanded and talked about his own neighborhood first.
It wasn't a particularly difficult question.
But I think he's struggling a little bit to answer it.
Kind of educating thing.
But Korea is kind of safe country, I think, similar as Japan.
Yeah, then in my country just lots of Children go to the academy, kind of piano or just studying math or science, and they just come back at night, late night, but it doesn't cause any problem.
Yeah, I think it's pretty safe place for children.
Ah, interesting.
I just told you that he wasn't really answering the question, but he actually came back and answered the question and started talking about Korea.
He didn't specifically talk about his neighborhood.
I think he could have talked about that, which was, is his neighborhood a safe place for children?
And you could probably quite easily talk about something like that.
Okay.
Well, in the next part of the test, I'm going to give you a topic and I would like you to speak for one to two minutes.
You will have one minute to think about what you want to say and I'll give you a pen and some paper to make notes if you want.
Is that clear?
Yep.
Great.
So here's your paper and your pen.
And please turn it over.
And you have one minute to prepare.
So describe a sporting event you went to.
What do you think about this one?
Do you think that this one's a difficult question?
I think it could be a difficult question, because not everybody is sporty or not everybody enjoys going to sporting events.
So what you could do is talk more generally and maybe say I've never been to a sporting event, but I have watched, you know, the Olympic Games or the Winter Olympic Games online.
And you can use that as an idea which might help you if you have never been to a sporting event.
You may even want to talk about something from your childhood, when you used to play sports at school.
Don't worry if you've never been to a specific sporting event, but try to think of other things in the back of your mind that could help you through.
All right.
Thank you.
Now, I would like you to talk about sport.
Remember, you have one to two minutes for this, so don't worry if I stop you.
I'll tell you when the time is up.
Can you start speaking now, please?
Okay.
First I want to talk about the match of American football, because I was an American football player when I was in my university.
I was in the American Football Club.
Yeah, and that time I went to the Busan Stadium.
It's kind of a huge place.
We rent that stadium for our match and we did match with first prize university.
And that time lots of people came for watching our show.
And that time was my first play, first match to playing American football.
That time I was nervous because I'm junior.
I was a university junior and maybe I didn't know all about the plan, kind of exercise plan.
Then I was nervous, but my team leader, I think he's kind of cool guy.
He always told me, everything will be okay.
You can do it.
He talked like that.
After that, I feel kind of adrenaline.
At the first time, I did lots of fail.
But at the time, the other teammates said, it's okay, because it's your first time.
Everything will be okay.
And after that, I find my I got my condition and I... Okay.
Sorry to interrupt you, but that's the two minutes.
Well done.
Okay, what did you think of Min's part two?
I've got a few ideas that I want to give to you and talk about what he did well and any areas where he could improve.
He said lots of people came for watching our show.
It would have been better to say lots of people came to watch our show.
Then he had a couple of mistakes with pronunciation.
Stadium, stadium, and people.
Again, the last part, people, rather than people, l, need to finish with the hard l sound.
He said, that was my first play.
A better way to say it would be, that was my first match and that was the first game I'd played.
So, that was the first game I had played.
Different grammar forms there.
He said, I was university junior.
He should have said, I was a university junior.
Again, article problem.
A few times through his speech, I've heard him say and then rather than .
So just be careful with the difference between then and then.
If you're struggling, put your teeth, open your teeth and put your tongue between your teeth.
Then, then, then, then, then.
And then he said, after that, I feel kind of adrenaline.
I liked the fact that he used after that, which is grammar.
Adrenaline is a higher level word.
After that, I felt adrenaline.
At first time I did lots of fail, should have been at first.
I made lots of mistakes, or at first, not at first time.
At first I failed a few times.
I think he did pretty well in his part two speech.
He elaborated on his answers.
He took the full two minutes.
I think he could have been faster.
Sometimes his speech was a little bit slow, but overall that was a pretty good job.
Well, thank you.
I want to stay on the topic of sport.
So, in your opinion, is it important for children to play sport at school?
Yeah, I think it's important.
For example, math case, we just use only plus or minus in our daily life.
But sports thing is important, I guess, because When you play sports with your classmates it can grow up your friendship and kind of leadership, leadership thing.
And you can know the way to conversation with friends or the other people.
Yeah, then I think it's important for children.
So at the beginning of this speech, I think he said maths' case.
Pronunciation there is really hard.
Maths.
And I think a better way to say this would be in the case of maths.
Then he said when you playing sport.
I like the fact that he's trying with complex grammar, but it should have been when you play sport.
Because it's talking generally, you have to talk about this habit.
And when we talk about habits, we use the present simple.
When I do my homework, when I see my friends, when I go to the theater.
All right, we use the present simple.
And then he said you can grow up some of your friendship.
I'm not entirely convinced that's the right language there, so it probably should have been you can build some friendships or you can make friends more easily.
You can make friends more easily.
And how do you think technology is changing sport?
Yeah, from what i was young, i was kind of sportsman, But when I was young the sports technology is not good as much as now.
But when I was playing American football in uni at that time I was so surprised about sports technology because there are lots of mechanical things and medicine things.
I can't see kind of dead things when I was young, then I was so surprised.
Yeah, I think then, yeah, that's all.
So many things to talk about in this particular section.
He started with from I was young, and a better phrase would be since I was young.
But then he actually corrected himself and said when I was young.
I think when is probably the most preferable term here for me.
He said sports technology is not as good as much as now.
He tried to make a comparison here but he didn't quite get it right.
A better phrase would be sports technology was not because it's.
In the past, sports technology was not as good as it is now.
Sports technology was not as good as it is now.
Did you hear how fast I said that?
Well, sports technology was not as good as it is now.
Please try to focus on joining and linking your pronunciation together into chunks of language.
Then he said when I playing, it would be better to say something like when I played or whenever I played.
And that's complex grammar too.
Then he said lots of mechanical thing.
And it should have been lots of mechanical things and medicine things or medical things.
Plural again, the same mistake keeps creeping through.
Are team sports more important than individual sports?
Why or why not?
Yeah, I agree about that question.
I think the team sport is more important.
It's clear here that Min didn't quite catch the question, because David the examiner asked are team sports?
And then he said yes, I agree.
You can't answer the question.
Yes, I agree if the question is do you think Okay, or are team sports?
Yes, they are or no, they are not.
So that would be a small mistake there.
It's comprehension of the question.
As I told, a kind of friendship.
Gosh, there's a really long pause here.
He's trying to find something to say.
He just started with, as I told.
That's not possible to say in English because you tell somebody something.
You can say, as I told you already.
As I mentioned already, as I said earlier, those are different ways that you could say, as I said earlier, as I mentioned already, but not as I told.
But you could say, as I told you already, as I told you already yeah, different ways that you could say it, but not as I told.
You know how to do the.
You can know how to pretend to person.
Yeah,
At this point.
For me it seems like Min is actually quite struggling to get through and get a full developed answer.
He often finishes his answer with, so yeah.
And it's like he hasn't given too much.
So for me, the fluency and coherence mark is now really going to be limited.
We're falling down the ladder a little bit more.
We're probably somewhere around a band six because he's not extending and developing his answers.
And the cohesion between the sentences is a little bit faulty.
And what makes a sporting event exciting to watch?
Gosh, another very long pause.
It seems like he's trying to develop content.
Again, not necessarily looking for language, but I think he could do much better.
I think starting the sentences almost as soon as the examiner finishes is going to really help you guys.
So try to take what Min has done here and learn from it.
For example, one of my friends is really a big fan of Arsenal, the football club, and he always watching that uh arsenal's match and he feel like uh, he's the member.
He feels like he is in the member of the arsenal.
Always he put uniform and he cheering the arsenal and After his long pause he started with one of my friend is and it should have been one of my friends is.
Always, always, always, always, always use the plural of the noun when you use one of.
So one of my friends.
You know, neighbors.
One of my cars.
Then he had a problem with literally and really.
It's again, it's this le and re problem.
He said literally and it should have been really.
If you are from a country that struggles with le and re, please practice that one.
And then he talked about his friend and he said he always watching.
And it should be, he always watches.
He always watches.
And then he said he feel like and it should have been he feels like.
Lots to learn from that one.
I think sports can make the person in the same team.
Cool.
Okay, and how does sport influence people's lives?
Yeah, maybe actually they got lots of money and they got lots of fame.
For example, Ronaldo or Messi, they have lots of followers on Instagram.
I think sometimes their life is a little annoying.
Many people.
If some people find a day they want to say hi or take a picture, they want kind of that.
Actually a few times.
They are glad to, but I don't want to.
I think that in their daily life, Their daily life, is not happy as much as the normal person.
That brings us to the end of Min's sample speaking.
What do you think of his answer?
I was quite impressed and I think there were a few things that we can all learn from here.
Let's talk about his score section by section.
The first section that I want to talk about is his fluency and coherence mark.
Now, for him to get a band six, he needs to speak at length.
He needs to have occasional loss of coherence.
I think that he does this well here.
He uses a range of connectives, not always appropriately for a band six.
A strict examiner might look at him and say a band five, because He may be penalized for these very long pauses.
Sometimes there was self-connection and some self-correction.
I just corrected myself there.
And sometimes there was slow speech.
So a strict examiner might award him five here.
Lexical resource this would be somewhere either a six or a band seven.
For a band seven it does say uses vocabulary flexibly.
Uses some less common and idiomatic vocabulary.
He used some phrasal verbs.
In this case he had awareness of the style and collocation.
So i'm going to be nice to him today and give him a seven.
But it could be that he scores a six in this section.
Grammatical range and accuracy.
I wanted him to score seven, which would need complex structures and frequent error-free sentences.
But unfortunately for me, there were just too many of the same mistakes that came through.
The plural and singular mistakes, but also the mistakes with the verbs the first person and the third person, and also the articles, forgetting the articles all the time.
Pronunciation, he did pretty well, but had this same le and rote mistake.
It could be that he scored seven on one day and six on another day, but overall for me I would give him a band six.
And that would leave him with a six, seven, six, six, which would be 6.25 average.
And as we know, the scores are rounded down, therefore it would be an overall band six.
Well done to Min today and well done to you guys for watching this and persevering through.
I'm Chris from IELTS Daily.
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Hello.
Hello.
And welcome to this practice exam conducted by IELTS Daily.
My name is David, and I'm your practice IELTS speaking examiner.
The questions in this test are designed to simulate the IELTS speaking test.
So let's begin.
What's your first name, please?
Sorry?
What's your first name?
My first name is Min.
Great.
At the beginning of the IELTS test, you need to provide some identification, usually your passport.
But as this is a practice test, there's no need for that today.
Are you ready to begin?
Yep.
Great.
Alright, so let's talk about your hometown.
Can you tell me where your hometown is?
My hometown is Busan in Korea.
And the place is very famous for tourism.
For example, kind of beaches and Actually famous at seafood, kind of how can I say, the low fish and Korean style sushi.
Yeah, kind of that.
And how often do you visit your hometown?
Actually, when I just stay in Korea, I always stay in my hometown, because my university is in Busan too.
And my house is in Busan, too.
Then I just go to uni and go to gym, just come back to house.
Yeah, that's my daily life.
And can a foreigner do or see anything interesting in your hometown?
Ah, yeah.
In this day, my hometown is famous for cafe.
Actually, the normal cafe is just coffee and a little dessert.
But in our space has the... How can I say?
The one city?
In the one city, half of part is almost cafe.
And we have lots of tourism place and at the tourism place has lots of coffee shop too.
And then if you go to the Busan, you can drink coffee with watching beaches and look some sunset.
Yeah, I think it's kind of beautiful place to hang out.
And is your hometown a good place for children to grow up?
Maybe it depends on area, some rich area.
Yeah, absolutely.
But normal place is just, I think, normal.
Seoul is our capital city.
Then I think for kind of education for children is good for maybe, it's good.
In Seoul.
Okay, well now I'm going to ask you some questions about evenings.
So do you have much free time in the evenings?
Yeah, in weekends, I have lots of free time in evening.
Okay.
And is your evening routine the same every night?
Yeah, in weekday I just go to go to uni and have some lunch with friends and come back to my area and go to the gym with my friends and hang out and study later.
Yeah, that's my daily life.
Okay, and in your country, what is a popular evening activity for young people?
Ah...
Maybe I think Korean people like to drink.
Then if you go to the city hall, nearby city hall has lots of lots of bar, kind of Korean style.
And you can drink kind of Korean traditional drink and Japanese style sake or just ginger ale kind of this. yeah yeah maybe drinking thing yeah that's all okay so now i'm going to ask you some questions about your neighborhood how do you feel about your neighbors uh i live in a in an apartment but sometimes we have a problem with kind of noise noise thing because uh they're so sensitive about noise then Maybe I think we don't... I don't have a good relationship with neighborhood.
In your country, do neighbors tend to be close to one another?
Yeah, it depends on person, but... Yeah, it depends on person.
Okay.
Now, how would you describe your neighborhood?
Sorry, describe?
How would you describe your neighborhood?
What's in your neighborhood?
What's in?
Sorry, I can't understand.
Okay, no problem.
We'll move on to the next question.
Okay.
So, is your neighborhood a safe place for children to play alone?
Yeah.
I have been in America but when I was there it looks a little dangerous for children because every people looks a little annoying kind of that.
Uh, they are just screaming in the load.
Yeah, i think that's literally dangerous.
Looks like dangerous for children, kind of educating thing.
But korea is kind of safe country, i think, similar as japan.
Yeah then in my country uh, just lots of children go to the academy, kind of piano or just studying math or science, and they just come back at night, late night, but it doesn't cause any problem.
Yeah, I think It's a pretty safe place for children.
Well, in the next part of the test, I'm going to give you a topic and I would like you to speak for one to two minutes.
You will have one minute to think about what you want to say and I'll give you a pen and some paper to make notes if you want.
Is that clear?
Yep.
Great.
So here's your paper and your pen.
And please turn it over.
And you have one minute to prepare.
Now, I would like you to talk about sport.
Remember, you have one to two minutes for this, so don't worry if I stop you.
I'll tell you when the time is up.
Can you start speaking now, please?
Okay.
First I want to talk about the match of American football, because I was an American football player when I was in my university.
I was in the American football club.
Yeah, and that time I went to the Busan stadium.
It's kind of a huge place.
We rent that stadium for our match and we did match with first prize university.
And that time lots of people came for watching our show.
And that time was my first play, first match to playing American football.
That time I was nervous because I'm junior.
I was a university junior and maybe I didn't know all about the plan, kind of exercise plan.
Then I was nervous, but my team leader, I think he's kind of cool guy.
He always told me, everything will be okay.
You can do it.
He talked like that.
After that, I feel kind of adrenaline.
At the first time, I did lots of fail.
But at the time, the other teammates said, it's okay, because it's your first time.
Everything will be okay.
And after that, I find my I got my condition and I... Okay.
Sorry to interrupt you, but that's the two minutes.
Well done.
Well, thank you.
I want to stay on the topic of sport.
So, in your opinion, is it important for children to play sport at school?
Yeah, I think it's important.
For example, Masses case, we just use only plus or minus in our daily life.
But sports thing is important, I guess, because when you play sports with your classmates it can grow up some your friendship and kind of leadership, leadership thing.
And you can know the way to conversation with friends or the other people.
Yeah, then I think it's important for children.
And how do you think technology is changing sport?
From what I was young, I was kind of sportsman.
But when I was young, the sports technology is not good as much as now.
But when I was playing American football in uni at that time I was so surprised about sports technology because there are lots of mechanical things and medicine things.
I can't see kind of that things when I was young, then I was so surprised.
Yeah, I think then... Yeah, that's all.
Are team sports more important than individual sports?
Why or why not?
Yeah, I agree about that question.
I think the team sport is more important.
As I told, kind of friendship and You know how to do the.
You can know how to pretend to person.
Yeah.
Okay.
And what makes a sporting event exciting to watch?
For example, one of my friends is really a big fan of Arsenal, the football club, and he always watching that Arsenal match and he feel like he's the member.
He feels like he is in the member of the Arsenal.
Always he put uniform and he cheerleading the Arsenal.
I think then I think Sports can make the person in the same team.
Okay, and how does sport influence people's lives?
Yeah, maybe.
Actually, they got lots of money and they got lots of fame.
For example, Ronaldo or Messi, they have lots of followers on Instagram.
But I think sometimes their life is a little annoying.
Many people, if some people find a date, they want to say hi or take a picture.
They want kind of that.
Actually, a few times they are glad to, but I don't want to.
I think that in their daily life, their daily life is not happy as much as the normal person.
Well, thank you.
That's the end of this practice IELTS speaking test.
