1 00:00:00,270 --> 00:00:02,880 This is an aisle speaking simulation. 2 00:00:02,910 --> 00:00:05,610 Self practice tests six. 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:08,170 Okay. 4 00:00:08,190 --> 00:00:14,100 Now, in terms of the instructions, if you need to read these instructions, please pause the screen 5 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:17,490 right here and read all 12 of these instructions. 6 00:00:17,580 --> 00:00:21,790 If you've been doing all the practice tests, you know these instructions by now. 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:25,920 I'm going to go ahead and skip forward to part number one and get started. 8 00:00:28,610 --> 00:00:31,010 Part one of the speaking test. 9 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:35,360 Make sure that you cover your screen so that you cannot see the questions. 10 00:00:35,630 --> 00:00:37,310 I will ask a question. 11 00:00:37,310 --> 00:00:40,520 Pause, 5 seconds, then ask the next question. 12 00:00:41,420 --> 00:00:44,870 You must press the space bar and pause the video. 13 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:48,650 After I ask each question so you can give your response. 14 00:00:49,190 --> 00:00:53,360 Then you press the space bar to restart the video and hear the next question. 15 00:00:53,540 --> 00:00:57,530 Make sure you are recording yourself with that honor. 16 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,810 A.I. software is a great tool. 17 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:00,890 Let's begin. 18 00:01:08,570 --> 00:01:10,430 Could you please tell me your name? 19 00:01:17,020 --> 00:01:20,170 Do people in your country like to change their name? 20 00:01:28,730 --> 00:01:30,530 Have you ever changed your name? 21 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,110 Does your name have any special meaning? 22 00:01:45,250 --> 00:01:46,990 Let's talk about your job. 23 00:01:48,270 --> 00:01:50,820 How long have you been doing that job? 24 00:01:56,340 --> 00:01:58,410 Why did you choose that job? 25 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,800 Are you willing to keep your job permanently? 26 00:02:09,820 --> 00:02:12,400 Let's now talk about your residential area. 27 00:02:13,540 --> 00:02:16,120 Can you describe the house that you live in? 28 00:02:21,470 --> 00:02:23,750 What is there to do in the area? 29 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,100 What do you like about the area? 30 00:02:33,860 --> 00:02:36,950 Let's now talk about pens and pencils. 31 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,870 Do you prefer to write with a pen or pencil? 32 00:02:47,100 --> 00:02:50,670 When was the last time you purchased a pen or pencil? 33 00:02:54,950 --> 00:03:02,270 How would you feel if someone gave you a pen or if how would you feel if someone gave you a pen as a 34 00:03:02,270 --> 00:03:02,930 gift? 35 00:03:12,810 --> 00:03:14,610 Now let's talk about laughter. 36 00:03:15,660 --> 00:03:18,150 What kind of things make you laugh? 37 00:03:22,610 --> 00:03:26,180 Do your friends laugh at the same things that you do? 38 00:03:30,590 --> 00:03:32,870 Is it important for people to laugh? 39 00:03:40,730 --> 00:03:42,770 Now let's talk about cakes. 40 00:03:43,910 --> 00:03:47,090 Did you like cakes and sweets as a child? 41 00:03:51,340 --> 00:03:53,590 Have you ever baked a cake before? 42 00:03:57,970 --> 00:04:05,470 What kind of cakes or sweets have you had as a result of your culture or cultural influence? 43 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:14,340 Let's now move on to part two. 44 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,760 You can now uncover your screen for part two. 45 00:04:18,060 --> 00:04:21,630 Part two is the only part where you can see the question. 46 00:04:22,650 --> 00:04:26,610 I'm going to give you one minute to review the topic card and take notes. 47 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,420 Afterwards, you will be given 2 minutes to give your response. 48 00:04:30,930 --> 00:04:32,940 Remember to record yourself. 49 00:04:33,690 --> 00:04:34,620 Let's begin. 50 00:04:39,170 --> 00:04:43,280 Describe a time when you were sick or injured. 51 00:04:45,370 --> 00:04:49,150 Please state what illness or injury you had. 52 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,060 Describe the illness or injury. 53 00:04:52,420 --> 00:04:54,970 Describe how it made you feel. 54 00:04:55,750 --> 00:04:57,970 Explain how you recovered from it. 55 00:04:58,420 --> 00:05:00,460 You have one minute to prepare. 56 00:06:02,940 --> 00:06:03,990 Please stop. 57 00:06:05,970 --> 00:06:09,810 You now have 2 minutes to deliver your response. 58 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:12,120 Begin speaking now. 59 00:08:18,910 --> 00:08:19,780 Please stop. 60 00:08:19,810 --> 00:08:21,760 Your 2 minutes are up. 61 00:08:22,180 --> 00:08:23,980 Let's move to part three. 62 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:31,190 Now remember to cover your screen again because you're not supposed to see the questions. 63 00:08:31,610 --> 00:08:37,940 Make sure that you press the spacebar to pause after I ask the question so you can deliver your response 64 00:08:37,940 --> 00:08:40,610 and then press the spacebar again to continue. 65 00:08:44,620 --> 00:08:49,090 I have some follow up questions for you about illness and sickness. 66 00:08:50,500 --> 00:08:59,830 What difficulties do some people face with social distancing as a result of the coronavirus outbreak? 67 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:12,510 What technology has helped us to manage and combat the effects of the coronavirus. 68 00:09:16,620 --> 00:09:22,890 What can people do to maintain a positive state of mind during a pandemic? 69 00:09:31,370 --> 00:09:31,880 All right. 70 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,630 So thank you very much for doing that self practice test. 71 00:09:35,660 --> 00:09:37,990 Make sure you do a self assessment. 72 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,390 Now listen to the recording of your self test. 73 00:09:41,990 --> 00:09:44,660 Do an analysis according to the rubric. 74 00:09:45,830 --> 00:09:51,740 You should be able to see some improvement by now because we just finished the six practice test. 75 00:09:51,740 --> 00:09:54,140 So we should see improvement now. 76 00:09:54,140 --> 00:09:56,300 You know, you should be paraphrasing. 77 00:09:56,780 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaking in compound and complex sentences, using subject specific vocabulary, making sure they're 78 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:09,830 just speaking and mistake free sentences, and also speaking without hesitation and pausing. 79 00:10:10,250 --> 00:10:15,590 Those are all the aspects that are going to help you get a great score, upload your recording into 80 00:10:15,590 --> 00:10:20,510 the Otter website, get your transcription and do your analysis. 81 00:10:20,750 --> 00:10:24,020 Make sure you keep a record of your progress. 82 00:10:24,590 --> 00:10:31,130 Make sure you're making notes according to making notes for each part of the rubric so that you can 83 00:10:31,130 --> 00:10:33,530 track yourself and see your improvement. 84 00:10:34,070 --> 00:10:41,060 Spend some time looking at the band score descriptors so that you can know what you need to do to get 85 00:10:41,060 --> 00:10:42,590 a great score. 86 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:47,810 So you can see a lot of people want a seven or eight for fluency and coherence. 87 00:10:49,070 --> 00:10:53,570 So are you speaking at length without any noticeable effort? 88 00:10:54,770 --> 00:10:57,770 Is your any hesitation you have? 89 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:02,540 Is it going is it language related or content related? 90 00:11:03,380 --> 00:11:05,930 That's really, really important to understand. 91 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:14,450 To be an eight, it has to be content related, meaning that is some question about robots or aliens. 92 00:11:14,450 --> 00:11:16,430 And you have never heard it before. 93 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:18,110 It's content related. 94 00:11:18,140 --> 00:11:19,100 Hesitation. 95 00:11:19,310 --> 00:11:20,510 Language related. 96 00:11:20,540 --> 00:11:27,860 Hesitation is when you can't find the right words to say all right or you're having problems with your 97 00:11:27,860 --> 00:11:30,550 sentence structure or know. 98 00:11:30,620 --> 00:11:35,930 So that's that's the there's a difference between language related hesitation and content related. 99 00:11:35,930 --> 00:11:42,230 So we got to see where you fit on there, and you could do that by doing your own self analysis. 100 00:11:43,340 --> 00:11:45,230 Thank you very much for joining me. 101 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:47,930 I'll see you in the next practice test.