1 00:00:01,470 --> 00:00:10,470 ‫Here are some videos where we're going to focus on I am speaking task, too, so we're going to be looking 2 00:00:10,470 --> 00:00:16,740 ‫at some cue cards that have actually come up in previous AIDS tests. 3 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:21,180 ‫And we're going to go through those cue cards for common topics. 4 00:00:21,510 --> 00:00:28,950 ‫And then I'm going to show you a model answer and talk about some of the great features of language 5 00:00:28,950 --> 00:00:33,400 ‫that I've included in the answer for the task to cue card. 6 00:00:33,990 --> 00:00:37,320 ‫So our first topic is going to be art. 7 00:00:37,710 --> 00:00:40,530 ‫Let's take a look at the first test card. 8 00:00:42,340 --> 00:00:55,390 ‫Describe a piece of art that you like looking at, you should say when you saw it, where it is, what 9 00:00:55,390 --> 00:01:01,340 ‫it looks like, and explain what you know about it. 10 00:01:02,170 --> 00:01:06,710 ‫So here we have all of the details that we need to include. 11 00:01:06,970 --> 00:01:16,690 ‫It's worth saying that, of course, we don't have to order our answer in the same order as the different 12 00:01:16,690 --> 00:01:18,400 ‫prompts on the cue card. 13 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:25,510 ‫As long as we talk about most of the things we are asked, but specifically about a piece of art we 14 00:01:25,510 --> 00:01:26,800 ‫like looking at. 15 00:01:27,580 --> 00:01:30,490 ‫So let's take a look at the model answer. 16 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:41,740 ‫It's kind of a tough question, really, as generally I'm not a huge fan of art, but if I really put 17 00:01:41,740 --> 00:01:49,300 ‫my mind to it, my favorite painting would probably be The Starry Night by Van Gough. 18 00:01:49,990 --> 00:01:53,320 ‫At least I think that's what it's called. 19 00:01:54,900 --> 00:02:03,030 ‫I'm pretty sure I've not seen the original painting, but it gets printed on loads of things you see 20 00:02:03,030 --> 00:02:06,420 ‫around, like postcards and things like that. 21 00:02:07,580 --> 00:02:11,380 ‫I've even seen a T-shirt with it printed on before. 22 00:02:12,270 --> 00:02:14,910 ‫Maybe I should buy one myself. 23 00:02:16,770 --> 00:02:27,090 ‫I can't quite remember where I saw it first, but I'm guessing it must've been quite a young age. 24 00:02:28,850 --> 00:02:33,710 ‫We might have even had a copy of it inside my family house. 25 00:02:35,810 --> 00:02:44,800 ‫The reason I really love this painting is because of the colors and how relaxing it looks, basically 26 00:02:45,140 --> 00:02:51,740 ‫it's a town seen at night, like a small town in Europe or southern France or something. 27 00:02:52,820 --> 00:02:58,640 ‫What's really weird about it is that the moon almost looks like a sun. 28 00:03:00,220 --> 00:03:09,490 ‫It's bright yellow, if I remember rightly, Van Gough often uses really fast, strong brush strokes, 29 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:18,100 ‫and by doing this, the colors from the stars and yellow moon wash all over the painting, giving this 30 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:22,510 ‫guy a really tranquil and inviting kind of look. 31 00:03:23,770 --> 00:03:27,230 ‫I would absolutely love to visit that town. 32 00:03:28,150 --> 00:03:33,430 ‫Maybe I should try and research where it was painted and head there myself. 33 00:03:34,450 --> 00:03:38,080 ‫I don't actually know too much about it. 34 00:03:38,830 --> 00:03:45,760 ‫I guess it's one of his more famous paintings and is probably worth a lot of money. 35 00:03:46,540 --> 00:03:49,210 ‫I can only afford the prints anyway. 36 00:03:52,740 --> 00:03:59,370 ‫So here we have our full model answer for the first test card for the topic Art. 37 00:04:00,030 --> 00:04:08,090 ‫Let's take a bit more of a focused look at some of the really great language used in this answer. 38 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:19,370 ‫So highlighted in blue are examples of really great language that I've included in this response and 39 00:04:19,790 --> 00:04:25,890 ‫of course, we're beginning with it's kind of a tough question, really. 40 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:33,140 ‫So this is a great way to begin pretty much any task to response. 41 00:04:33,770 --> 00:04:36,950 ‫It means that you're thinking about the answer. 42 00:04:36,950 --> 00:04:39,320 ‫And it doesn't mean it's too difficult. 43 00:04:39,470 --> 00:04:42,670 ‫It just means it's kind of a difficult question. 44 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,760 ‫I'm thinking carefully about what I will say. 45 00:04:46,070 --> 00:04:56,080 ‫You can really use this phrase for pretty much any task to response, as generally I'm not a huge fan. 46 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:03,040 ‫So if you saying you like something a lot, you can say I am a huge fan. 47 00:05:03,350 --> 00:05:06,500 ‫It's a very native phrase, a collocation. 48 00:05:06,740 --> 00:05:10,270 ‫Or if you don't like something, I'm not a huge fan. 49 00:05:10,790 --> 00:05:18,620 ‫So generally this person, which is me, of course, I'm not a huge fan of art, a very native phrase, 50 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:22,780 ‫but if I really put my mind to it. 51 00:05:22,790 --> 00:05:28,430 ‫So that's kind of a bit of figurative language, put my mind to it. 52 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:32,270 ‫It means to really think carefully. 53 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:34,780 ‫So we're thinking carefully about something. 54 00:05:34,790 --> 00:05:38,150 ‫This is a great figurative phrase to use. 55 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:45,420 ‫If I really put my mind to it and think my favorite painting would probably be this one. 56 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:49,420 ‫OK, the next bit of language is here. 57 00:05:49,430 --> 00:05:54,830 ‫Pretty sure it's just a native sounding phrase. 58 00:05:54,830 --> 00:06:00,500 ‫I'm pretty sure you don't 100 percent know that. 59 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:01,730 ‫You're pretty sure. 60 00:06:01,730 --> 00:06:04,030 ‫Maybe 70 percent sure. 61 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,270 ‫Pretty sure. 62 00:06:05,810 --> 00:06:14,780 ‫A very native sounding phrase and another good piece of vocabulary loads, but it gets printed on loads. 63 00:06:14,780 --> 00:06:17,780 ‫So instead of lots, we can say loads. 64 00:06:17,990 --> 00:06:26,720 ‫And again, this is all showing the examiner that you can speak in a native sounding way and hear like 65 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,170 ‫postcards and things like that. 66 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,500 ‫I've highlighted that really because that's just showing a bit more detail. 67 00:06:33,510 --> 00:06:42,710 ‫So when we do the test to cue card, we really want to give quite a lot of examples and add extra detail 68 00:06:42,710 --> 00:06:43,750 ‫to our speaking. 69 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:50,930 ‫I've even seen a shirt that Ed and here we have the next piece of highlighted language. 70 00:06:51,380 --> 00:06:53,750 ‫Maybe I should buy one myself. 71 00:06:53,990 --> 00:06:56,270 ‫So this is a rhetorical question. 72 00:06:56,510 --> 00:07:04,460 ‫I'm not expecting that the examiner will respond to me, but I'm kind of talking to myself and asking 73 00:07:04,460 --> 00:07:13,160 ‫myself a question that shows the examiner that you have a lot of confidence in your speaking by using 74 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:18,210 ‫a rhetorical question I can't quite remember. 75 00:07:18,380 --> 00:07:26,840 ‫So using quite you'll see often that I try and use this phrase quite it's again, a native sounding 76 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:28,010 ‫piece of language. 77 00:07:28,010 --> 00:07:33,770 ‫I can't quite I can't really I can't quite remember where I saw it. 78 00:07:34,430 --> 00:07:38,690 ‫It must have been it's quite again, a young age. 79 00:07:39,770 --> 00:07:44,450 ‫OK, our next piece is the reason I really love this painting. 80 00:07:45,180 --> 00:07:53,090 ‫Is that just a nice way to open up the next part of our speaking and it also shows organization. 81 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,710 ‫So it shows that I am answering the prompts on the cue card. 82 00:07:59,180 --> 00:08:01,820 ‫We've got an opener here basically. 83 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:12,260 ‫So this is me beginning my sentence with basically it can almost be a sentence filler as well, a conversation 84 00:08:12,260 --> 00:08:12,680 ‫filler. 85 00:08:12,950 --> 00:08:23,810 ‫So it means basically so to round things up to get right to the point, basically a nice opener here 86 00:08:23,810 --> 00:08:25,600 ‫we have what's really weird. 87 00:08:25,820 --> 00:08:34,190 ‫So again, a collocation here, which sounds very native and here it's bright yellow, if I remember. 88 00:08:34,190 --> 00:08:35,810 ‫Rightly so, yeah. 89 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,950 ‫Native sounding and adding more detail. 90 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:48,950 ‫It doesn't really matter if you aren't correct in these facts or if you completely create your own story 91 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,020 ‫about the cue card. 92 00:08:51,530 --> 00:08:56,270 ‫The Examiner isn't marking for you being factually correct. 93 00:08:56,510 --> 00:09:05,030 ‫Just on the fluency of your language here we have giving this guy a really tranquil. 94 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:08,250 ‫So this means peaceful, a great piece of vocal. 95 00:09:08,630 --> 00:09:09,570 ‫Larry, tranquil. 96 00:09:10,250 --> 00:09:16,440 ‫I would absolutely love so instead of just really love, I would love a lot. 97 00:09:16,710 --> 00:09:19,460 ‫Let's use expressive language. 98 00:09:19,470 --> 00:09:22,430 ‫This would of course, score high for lexical resource. 99 00:09:22,620 --> 00:09:27,170 ‫I would absolutely love our very native sounding. 100 00:09:27,590 --> 00:09:30,900 ‫Maybe I should try and research where it was painted. 101 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,770 ‫So just adding more detail again. 102 00:09:34,460 --> 00:09:39,920 ‫So that really rounds up a lot of the great language in this model answer. 103 00:09:40,070 --> 00:09:43,370 ‫Let's take a look at the next cue card. 104 00:09:47,530 --> 00:09:57,040 ‫Describe a time you drew a picture or painted a piece of art, you should say, when this happened, 105 00:09:57,670 --> 00:10:06,280 ‫what it looked like, why you drew it and explain if you enjoyed this activity. 106 00:10:06,760 --> 00:10:10,120 ‫So still around the topic of art. 107 00:10:10,420 --> 00:10:17,770 ‫However, instead of asking, like the last cue card, what art you enjoy, here we are being asked 108 00:10:17,770 --> 00:10:25,930 ‫what art we have created a simple drawing, sketch painting, model sculpture, something like this. 109 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:33,040 ‫If you haven't really drawn anything or painted a piece of art for a while, as many people won't have, 110 00:10:33,310 --> 00:10:42,970 ‫then you can quite simply make your own version of this story so you can think of a piece of art and 111 00:10:43,090 --> 00:10:46,540 ‫really just make a story about it. 112 00:10:46,870 --> 00:10:54,490 ‫The more you practice this storytelling, the more confident you will be to do it if you don't have 113 00:10:54,490 --> 00:10:57,990 ‫a real life example ready to hand. 114 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:06,610 ‫So here I've created my own story, as actually I haven't drawn a picture, painted a piece of art in 115 00:11:06,610 --> 00:11:07,230 ‫a while. 116 00:11:07,540 --> 00:11:10,300 ‫So let's take a look at the model answer. 117 00:11:12,940 --> 00:11:21,460 ‫I used to really love drawing, but in the last few years, it's been something I've done less and less 118 00:11:21,460 --> 00:11:21,750 ‫of. 119 00:11:22,630 --> 00:11:32,840 ‫But the last real drawing I did that I can remember clearly was a doodle of a mountain village in Asia. 120 00:11:33,630 --> 00:11:39,610 ‫Actually, I stole the idea from a book I was reading at the time. 121 00:11:40,630 --> 00:11:51,370 ‫I think I even traced parts of it to this must have been a few summers back, maybe even four or more, 122 00:11:51,370 --> 00:11:56,180 ‫as that's when I was reading this book on Asian history. 123 00:11:57,370 --> 00:12:05,320 ‫You probably wouldn't call it an amazing piece of art, but I did draw it on the long haul because after 124 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:11,170 ‫all, it must have taken me about three hours to complete. 125 00:12:13,030 --> 00:12:18,490 ‫Off the top of my head, I used only four colors in total. 126 00:12:19,300 --> 00:12:22,450 ‫I didn't have many with me at the time. 127 00:12:23,470 --> 00:12:26,260 ‫The rest are shaded in black with pencil. 128 00:12:27,430 --> 00:12:34,390 ‫That was a big tree hanging from the side of a mountain with small houses littered around it. 129 00:12:35,650 --> 00:12:39,790 ‫To be honest, maybe I can't remember it so clearly. 130 00:12:40,130 --> 00:12:45,610 ‫I've got a memory like a goldfish at my old job. 131 00:12:45,610 --> 00:12:49,490 ‫I used to travel at the end of the week to go home. 132 00:12:50,410 --> 00:12:54,700 ‫This was the best time to do some drawing or reading. 133 00:12:55,690 --> 00:12:59,560 ‫It was actually my favorite part of the week. 134 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:05,660 ‫Often I would just draw silly pictures all the way back home. 135 00:13:07,340 --> 00:13:14,520 ‫At times, it was difficult to hold the pencil straight, though that was pretty annoying. 136 00:13:15,530 --> 00:13:19,460 ‫I think I should try and take a few more trains and buses. 137 00:13:19,910 --> 00:13:23,840 ‫That way I can do some more drawing again. 138 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:32,970 ‫OK, so lots of detail in this answer, and once again, I did actually make this up. 139 00:13:32,990 --> 00:13:36,790 ‫Now I know that I've been able to write a full response. 140 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,240 ‫However, this is a story that I've just created. 141 00:13:41,270 --> 00:13:46,880 ‫Now, this is a model answer that, you know, would score very highly. 142 00:13:47,060 --> 00:13:53,390 ‫But it's not something from my experience is actually I haven't done any real art in quite some time. 143 00:13:53,840 --> 00:14:01,760 ‫So I've made this story up by really putting together a few stories I know from friends and a piece 144 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,810 ‫of art that I've seen a long time ago. 145 00:14:07,790 --> 00:14:16,940 ‫Here we have our really expressive, high scoring pieces of language, so let's go from the top and 146 00:14:16,940 --> 00:14:26,360 ‫here we have last few years, but in the last few years, this is a very colloquial sounding phrase, 147 00:14:26,580 --> 00:14:28,870 ‫the last few years. 148 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:36,340 ‫So if you're talking about something that has happened from now previously, let's say three, four 149 00:14:36,340 --> 00:14:44,760 ‫or five years ago, you can say in the last few years it's something I've done less and less of. 150 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:52,340 ‫So when you have been doing something recently, not as much as you would like, you can say I'm doing 151 00:14:52,340 --> 00:14:58,960 ‫that less and less or, you know, I've done less and less of it. 152 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:08,720 ‫Here we have a great phrase, remember, clearly so clear and remember a very common collocations that 153 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:14,030 ‫words that are often seen together here we have Dugal. 154 00:15:14,030 --> 00:15:24,140 ‫So instead of drawing or piece of art, we have a doodle, which basically means a sketch or something 155 00:15:24,140 --> 00:15:26,990 ‫that hasn't taken a long, long time. 156 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:31,370 ‫It's something for Forna, a pencil drawing for fun. 157 00:15:31,370 --> 00:15:34,940 ‫That is reasonably quick actually. 158 00:15:34,950 --> 00:15:40,240 ‫So we have a nice opening sentence or phrase to our sentence here. 159 00:15:40,250 --> 00:15:42,720 ‫Actually, I stole the idea. 160 00:15:42,740 --> 00:15:45,890 ‫So this is organizing our thoughts. 161 00:15:47,420 --> 00:15:55,640 ‫And next up, we have I think I even traced so traced when we are tracing things, it's when we put 162 00:15:55,650 --> 00:16:00,800 ‫paper on the top of the picture and draw around the outside of the image. 163 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:06,110 ‫So a pretty good piece of topic, specific vocabulary for art. 164 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:10,400 ‫This must have been a few summers back. 165 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:15,010 ‫So often we can say that seasons we say they were back. 166 00:16:15,350 --> 00:16:21,980 ‫So if there was something I did last winter, I could say, oh, a few winters before I might say a 167 00:16:21,980 --> 00:16:23,300 ‫few winters back. 168 00:16:23,420 --> 00:16:24,650 ‫I went skiing. 169 00:16:24,950 --> 00:16:31,370 ‫A very native sounding phrase here and here we have a piece of art. 170 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:38,680 ‫This is what we call one masterpiece, a very famous work. 171 00:16:38,690 --> 00:16:40,250 ‫So something is well known. 172 00:16:40,250 --> 00:16:41,900 ‫For example, Mona Lisa. 173 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:49,130 ‫That is a piece of art opening phrase here off the top of my head. 174 00:16:49,140 --> 00:16:52,700 ‫So a great way to organize our language. 175 00:16:52,700 --> 00:17:00,740 ‫Off the top of my head is an idiomatic expression, figurative language, idiomatic expression. 176 00:17:00,740 --> 00:17:04,060 ‫So there isn't anything coming really off the top of our heads. 177 00:17:04,340 --> 00:17:07,520 ‫It just means that we are thinking quickly. 178 00:17:09,530 --> 00:17:11,540 ‫And here we have there was a big tree. 179 00:17:11,540 --> 00:17:21,290 ‫So I'm adding lots of detail and examples into my answer to make sure that I'm really giving the examiner 180 00:17:21,290 --> 00:17:22,790 ‫lots to hear. 181 00:17:23,090 --> 00:17:30,620 ‫Remember, this is really your sort of few minutes to shine at, to be honest, a great opening phrase 182 00:17:30,620 --> 00:17:31,070 ‫here. 183 00:17:31,610 --> 00:17:33,350 ‫Remember it so clearly. 184 00:17:33,350 --> 00:17:36,620 ‫Remember, clearly so is using this collocation. 185 00:17:36,620 --> 00:17:43,720 ‫Again, here's another idiomatic phrase, which is a great one to use. 186 00:17:44,060 --> 00:17:48,200 ‫I've got a memory like a goldfish. 187 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:55,390 ‫So in English we often say that goldfish have very short memories. 188 00:17:55,400 --> 00:18:05,000 ‫It may be that you do say this as well, but a great phrase, idiomatic expression to use is a memory 189 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,560 ‫like a goldfish. 190 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,590 ‫So I have a very short memory. 191 00:18:10,910 --> 00:18:17,270 ‫And lastly, just here, adding for detail, it was actually my favorite part of the week. 192 00:18:17,630 --> 00:18:21,200 ‫So it's just adding that extra bit of detail. 193 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,660 ‫So giving more of your thinking through speaking. 194 00:18:25,670 --> 00:18:30,260 ‫So make sure that you really do give lots of examples and ideas. 195 00:18:31,220 --> 00:18:36,620 ‫So here are some of the great bits of language used in this model answer. 196 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:45,770 ‫And if you want to go to the Q&A section and show me you are using this using some of these expressions, 197 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:50,070 ‫then that would be a great bit of practice for you. 198 00:18:50,690 --> 00:18:51,890 ‫See you in the next lesson.