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So, Emma.
Hi, Emma.
Go ahead and turn on your video also.
Emma.
I already turned on it.
There you are.
I'll see you, Emma.
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You ready?
Yes.
All right.
So I know I know you're going to do fantastic because you've had two examples.
You've heard what I had to say.
So I know you're going to do fantastic, right, Emma?
I hope so.
All right.
Let's go ahead and get started.
All right, Emma, here's the card on the left hand side.
Before I get started.
Please don't.
Don't ask any more questions, everybody.
Nothing in the chat box, please.
All right, Emma.
Here's your.
Here's your card.
Describe a house you visited that caught your attention.
Please say when it was where it was.
Describe your visit and explain whether you whether or not you would live in that house.
You have one minute to prepare.
Okay.
Emma, please stop.
Emma, you have 2 minutes to respond and you may begin speaking.
Last year I went to I went for travelling to Thailand and I went to a small city called LOI.
It was in the northeast in Thailand.
I will.
I had a homestay in my friend's house for a week.
Her house was really special because and they are it's the structure is it's very different from like
my country's buildings.
Though I can I could see a lot of insects and
the.
And.
Uh, that, um, I, I can also see the view of the sky in the mountains.
So one day, I.
I saw the sunrise with my friends and.
The House was really special things.
Things.
Okay.
Let's move on to part number two.
Part three.
All right.
So, Emma, don't look at the screen.
Question one in which part of your country would you like to live in?
Why?
In my country.
I like to live in in the south.
Because they are there are a lot of famous foods and ancient buildings in the south.
Okay.
And what kind of checklist do people have for buying a house in your country?
I had.
Sorry, I.
I didn't quite follow it.
Could you.
Could you repeat again?
Sure.
What kind of checklist do people have for buying a house in your country?
A.
These fine house in my country.
To be honest, I have no idea about this question.
Okay.
Let's move on to the final question.
What is the difference between houses in cities and in the countryside in your country?
The differences between the city and the countryside in my country.
I in in the city the the houses are more modern in luxury.
But in the countryside, the house that the house houses are.
Mostly they are like two, two stories house, not the tall buildings in the countryside.
All right.
Thank you very much.
I saw Emma in your part.
Number two, Emma, you have a lot to work on.
There was a lot of pausing, a lot of hesitation, a lot of gaps.
When you're speaking, it also it also appears that you have trouble with with your with your with language
related in terms of searching for words to say.
There's a difference between your pausing and hesitation being language related versus your pausing
and hesitation being content related.
If you're pausing and hesitation is content related, you actually score at a higher level when you're
pausing and hesitation is language related, meaning you're trying to search for the right words to
say or having trouble with the right words to say, or there's low automaticity that causes a big drop
in scoring.
So Emma.
Emma has to work on her fluency a lot and being able to speak that 2 minutes is a lot longer than you
think.
Also an example in part number three of one, on the second question that she got caught up on was,
I'm not I don't think she had a clear understanding of the word checklist.
Right.
Checklist.
And it's okay to ask to repeat repeat a question.
But, you know, fluency.
Pronunciation.
GRAMMER There's there's a lot that has to be worked on there.
But Emma, thank you very much for participating because we can learn from responses that are great
and we can learn from responses that are not so great.
And so thank you for participating.
But you do, you know you'll be okay.
You still have time to prepare.
You just have to work on, you know, improvement in almost all the areas.
But that's okay.
And I will let you hear.
My response to this one.
Growing up in the United States, one has an opportunity to see many, many different forms and types
of homes.
We have Spanish villas, single family homes, many, many types of homes that you come across.
However, about two years ago, I saw a house that really took my breath away.
This had to be around 2019, so it was fairly recent.
I happened to be traveling in Morocco, the central part, to be exact.
I was actually probably around 20 or 30 miles outside of Casablanca in an area called Busy Businessman,
and forgive me if I'm pronouncing it incorrectly, but as we were driving through that area, I saw
a home that really just was outstanding.
I had never seen a home like that before.
As we were driving along on the road off to the left, I can see this new home on a big plot of land.
And I was simply in all because these were eco dome homes.
The homes were in the shape of a dome.
And so I had an opportunity to walk around this home and I marveled at the shapes of the home.
Then we got an invitation to go inside.
And I was inspired because inside the home there were no right angles.
Everything was in a curvature or curved shape.
Now, I would definitely live there for sure, because that type of home is cool in the summer and warm
in the winter.
So when I have an opportunity to build a home, I'm definitely going to call those people.
And I might even have a built in Morocco because I want that type of home.
That's how much I loved it.
OC So there is my response.
If you have any questions about my response, please feel free to ask again.
I am speaking directly from my notes in an unscripted way to give you an example of what it's like and
give you an example of progression in terms of speaking.
A couple of questions I must ask me about what's the significance of taking notes?
When you take notes, you're able to you have or you can give an organized and coherent response.
When you're when you're talking off the top of your head, which is what you're asking me about when
you're talking off the top of your head, you're doing two things.
You're trying to think of what to say.
And how to say it.
And when you're trying to think of what to say and then how to say it, that causes interruptions in
pronunciation, fluency, hesitation.
So when you have an outline, you already know what you want to talk about.
You don't need to think about.
You just need to focus on how to say it.
That's why you outline.