All right.
So Shivam is going to follow exactly the same pattern that you just heard Pavan give.
You're going to do part two and then part three.
Okay.
Sounds good.
All right, everybody, we're about to do the sample right now, so please don't ask any questions in
the chat box because it will make an interruption.
So please don't do that.
All right.
Here is the cue card on the left.
On the left side, talk about a situation when you were not allowed to use a mobile phone.
Please say when it was, where it was, why you needed to use a mobile phone and explain how you felt
about it.
You have one minute to prepare.
Okay.
So your one minute is up.
You now have 2 minutes to speak.
You may begin speaking now.
So it was indeed I was not allowed to use my cell phone when I planned an impromptu trip to temple when,
you know, I suddenly found a lot of, you know, disturbances in my life and eventually went to calm
down myself when I was back a teen, maybe it was in somewhere near 26, 22,005, if I'm not mistaken.
And it was a temple, of course, where I went to kind of meditate and I taught to, you know, kind
of self introspect and I was probably went there to do a self-discovery.
So back there I was not allowed to use my mobile phone and it was kind of clearly written on the boards.
In spite of that, I went ahead and took out my mobile phone and I and that was probably the first place
where I encountered that.
No, you cannot use a mobile phone where it was it was in Bangalore, ISKCON Temple.
So it's called Temple is one of the most famous temple in India.
And apparently this temple is a known for regaining the consciousness amongst the people around and
it is located in on a hilltop.
And this place is kind of, you know, located in a serenity where people do come to meditate and,
you know, kind of self explore themselves and understand the meaning of inner life.
So that's what the Second Temple is about.
And I was trying to click the pictures of art history around and because there are a lot of beautiful
scriptures out there and I felt tempted to do that.
The importance I felt is that one should respect the discipline of a place, and it was something I
did not follow.
So, yeah, that's what I learned.
Please learn to be disciplined.
Yeah.
Okay, let's go ahead and move on to part number three.
All right.
So bottom part number three, please don't look at the screen.
Question one, what are the advantages and disadvantages of constant communication through mobile phones?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of constant communication through mobile phones?
So mobile phone, as the name suggests, is used for the intermediate immediate connectivity between
two persons.
So that's the first importance that you can exchange and immediate and important communication piece
with the person who is not nearby to you.
So that's one of the most important pieces while you are on a move.
So you need not be physically located at a place or connected to a particular fixed line, but you can
make exchange your exchange the communication piece on a move.
So that's the most important piece.
Yeah.
Okay.
What is the main purpose that people nowadays use mobile phones for?
So as daytime has evolved, the mobile phone has too.
So with the evolution of technology that you can use, one can use mobile phone for capturing a lot
of multimedia, which includes clicking the snaps around along with hearing the music while you're on
the go.
And also there are a lot of apps around which can help you, you know, kind of kill you and not kill
your time.
I'll say it can help you, you know, kind of a digital detox for yourself.
So, so just besides talking to someone, you can also use it for clicking pictures, you know, using
some kind of apps which enhances you or, you know, making some notes or emailing, texting and listening
to music and whatnot.
My phone is like world these days in itself.
And are there any differences between the younger and older generations regarding their use of mobile
phones?
Of course, there is a big disparity between the two generations.
It starts like if I use my cell phone, I will download all the complex apps which is available in the
marketplace.
But on the other hand, if my mother uses smartphones, of course she would be, you know, kind of
struggling when it comes to do basic SMS.
So that's the biggest disparity between the two generations.
But yeah, they are.
I will not say that it's their mistake, but eventually it's the it's because of the technological technology,
the technical gap between these two generations, which made them a little behind from what we can do
with our mobile, mobile phones.
So so yeah, there is a lot of gap, I would rather say.
Okay, sir Bob, thank you very much.
You can turn off your mic and audio now.
Please, Siobhan, go ahead.
And I'm not sure if I'm sorry.
If you have any feedback for Siobhan, please give it.
I'll get my brief feedback.
So Bob has great pronunciation, right?
So if you want to know what high level pronunciation is like, he has great pronunciation.
His part number two was very coherent.
The only thing I would say about part number two is Shivam kind of went off on a tangent.
Talking about the purpose of the temple.
And there are a lot a lot of information about the temple.
And I don't know what that really had to do with answering the question, but it gave a lot of a lot
of background about the temple.
And I would have rather him use some of that time to more address the question directly.
That's the only thing I heard about part number two.
Now, another thing about Shavon was he gives us a really good example of vocabulary.
So for example, if you listen to his response, he gave a good example of using idioms and using proper
collocations, right?
So as an examiner, when you can hear somebody giving proper collocations, such as digital detox,
technical gap, phrases like on the go kill time, and then also giving a range of pronunciation with
basic words and and academic words such as disparity.
Right.
So that's really what you're what you're looking for in terms of.
In terms of scoring.
Right.
That's really what you're looking for.
Yeah.
Somebody else said the same thing about the temple also.
Yeah, I don't know what I mean.
I don't know what happened to Shivam.
Shivam just started.
I don't know.
He went deep into the temple but.
But it was still, you know, it was actually really good.
Really, really good.
Okay.
All right.
I'll let you hear my response to this.
The mobile phone is very important in today's society, and as such is very rare that an individual
will go around without their phone practically attached to their hip.
However, there was a time about ten years ago where I was in a particular particular situation that
I was not allowed to use my mobile phone.
And it really troubled me at that time.
I happen to be in Frankfurt, Germany.
Like I said, this was around 2011, 2010, and I was going to fly on a Lufthansa flight that was heading
back to the United States.
Now, they let us know before the plane took off that you have to turn off your phone and that you're
not going to be able to use your phone.
So I was sitting there actually on the plane and we were getting ready to take off maybe in about three
or 4 minutes when suddenly I received a message from my wife that said my son had been injured and that
he needed to have surgery.
Upon reading that message, I was in a panic.
The flight attendant walked up to me and said, Sir, you have to turn off your phone right now.
You cannot use your phone right now.
I know we're going to have we're going to leave in about five or 6 minutes, but you must turn off your
phone.
I just wanted to call and get an update.
Now, I felt horrible about this situation.
And in fact, I really felt like an irresponsible father at that time, because as a father, you're
supposed to be able to fulfill your duty and check on your children or be able to support your wife
in that type of difficult, troubling situation.
So that Lufthansa flight ten years ago was when I was not able to use my phone and I still remember
it to this very day.
I'll never forget it.
Okay.
And there is my response.
So if you have any comments about my response to the question now, when I give, when I give, when
I give my sample responses, everybody, I'm just using my notes like those you see here on the screen.
I don't have a script in front of me.
I'm not speaking from a script.
So and the reason why I do it that way, when I give you an example, is to get a band nine.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
Right.
I'm not going to I'm not going to give you something spoken from a written script, because, number
one, it doesn't sound natural.
It doesn't sound natural and you need to be able to hear what a real response could sound like.
Somebody said that was intense.
I'm not sure what that means.
Ram said it was intense.
But you want to be able to speak in a natural.
Natural way with coherent.
And flows there has very clear progression and coherence.
And I'm staying inside the box of the question.
And that's what I was talking about in terms of Siobhan.
Siobhan.
Kind of left the box of the question and then he came back into it.
He kind of left it for a little while.
Of course, you're supposed to look at your notes.
Right.
You're supposed to look at your notes when.
When I'm speaking.
I'm looking at my notes.
So that's what you're supposed to do?
Absolutely.
And these are some examples of responses to the part three questions.