This is an aisle speaking simulation.
Self practice tests six.
Okay.
Now, in terms of the instructions, if you need to read these instructions, please pause the screen
right here and read all 12 of these instructions.
If you've been doing all the practice tests, you know these instructions by now.
I'm going to go ahead and skip forward to part number one and get started.
Part one of the speaking test.
Make sure that you cover your screen so that you cannot see the questions.
I will ask a question.
Pause, 5 seconds, then ask the next question.
You must press the space bar and pause the video.
After I ask each question so you can give your response.
Then you press the space bar to restart the video and hear the next question.
Make sure you are recording yourself with that honor.
A.I. software is a great tool.
Let's begin.
Could you please tell me your name?
Do people in your country like to change their name?
Have you ever changed your name?
Does your name have any special meaning?
Let's talk about your job.
How long have you been doing that job?
Why did you choose that job?
Are you willing to keep your job permanently?
Let's now talk about your residential area.
Can you describe the house that you live in?
What is there to do in the area?
What do you like about the area?
Let's now talk about pens and pencils.
Do you prefer to write with a pen or pencil?
When was the last time you purchased a pen or pencil?
How would you feel if someone gave you a pen or if how would you feel if someone gave you a pen as a
gift?
Now let's talk about laughter.
What kind of things make you laugh?
Do your friends laugh at the same things that you do?
Is it important for people to laugh?
Now let's talk about cakes.
Did you like cakes and sweets as a child?
Have you ever baked a cake before?
What kind of cakes or sweets have you had as a result of your culture or cultural influence?
Let's now move on to part two.
You can now uncover your screen for part two.
Part two is the only part where you can see the question.
I'm going to give you one minute to review the topic card and take notes.
Afterwards, you will be given 2 minutes to give your response.
Remember to record yourself.
Let's begin.
Describe a time when you were sick or injured.
Please state what illness or injury you had.
Describe the illness or injury.
Describe how it made you feel.
Explain how you recovered from it.
You have one minute to prepare.
Please stop.
You now have 2 minutes to deliver your response.
Begin speaking now.
Please stop.
Your 2 minutes are up.
Let's move to part three.
Now remember to cover your screen again because you're not supposed to see the questions.
Make sure that you press the spacebar to pause after I ask the question so you can deliver your response
and then press the spacebar again to continue.
I have some follow up questions for you about illness and sickness.
What difficulties do some people face with social distancing as a result of the coronavirus outbreak?
What technology has helped us to manage and combat the effects of the coronavirus.
What can people do to maintain a positive state of mind during a pandemic?
All right.
So thank you very much for doing that self practice test.
Make sure you do a self assessment.
Now listen to the recording of your self test.
Do an analysis according to the rubric.
You should be able to see some improvement by now because we just finished the six practice test.
So we should see improvement now.
You know, you should be paraphrasing.
Speaking in compound and complex sentences, using subject specific vocabulary, making sure they're
just speaking and mistake free sentences, and also speaking without hesitation and pausing.
Those are all the aspects that are going to help you get a great score, upload your recording into
the Otter website, get your transcription and do your analysis.
Make sure you keep a record of your progress.
Make sure you're making notes according to making notes for each part of the rubric so that you can
track yourself and see your improvement.
Spend some time looking at the band score descriptors so that you can know what you need to do to get
a great score.
So you can see a lot of people want a seven or eight for fluency and coherence.
So are you speaking at length without any noticeable effort?
Is your any hesitation you have?
Is it going is it language related or content related?
That's really, really important to understand.
To be an eight, it has to be content related, meaning that is some question about robots or aliens.
And you have never heard it before.
It's content related.
Hesitation.
Language related.
Hesitation is when you can't find the right words to say all right or you're having problems with your
sentence structure or know.
So that's that's the there's a difference between language related hesitation and content related.
So we got to see where you fit on there, and you could do that by doing your own self analysis.
Thank you very much for joining me.
I'll see you in the next practice test.