Okay.
This is an I'll speaking simulation today.
We have with us Elena.
How are you doing today, Elena?
I'm pretty.
Well, thank you.
Thank you for joining me.
We're going to be taking you through all three parts of the aisle speaking test.
At the end of the test, I'll give you a brief assessment on what you need to work on the most and what
you're strong at according to the rubric.
And then after a couple of days, I'll give you more of a full assessment or review so that you can
know, have an idea of what you're scoring at right now at this time.
So let's go ahead and get started with part number one.
Okay.
Part number one, could you please tell me your name?
So my name is Alina.
It's spelled like Ally and A and as far as I know, it's of German origin, but it doesn't have the
meaning behind it.
Just the name.
Okay.
And are you currently a student or do you have a job?
I'm an ESL teacher and I teach students of different ages.
I work at a state school and I'm also a part time.
I also have a part time job for online schools.
OC Do you get on well with your colleagues?
Yeah.
I'm quite fortunate to have a colleague like I have because we are a friendly team.
It means that I can ask her support of my teammates in any case cases, and I also serve on my team
and I can provide them with the necessary help whenever they turn to me.
So it's a friendly team.
OC And what are ways you could improve your skills at work?
So there are lots of ways to improve my my teaching, my actually my technique.
First of all, it's visiting different workshops and seminars.
Self self education, which is a great opportunity to improve in teaching and providing events, giving
events or conducting events for my teammates.
Because the more you give away, the more knowledge is knowledge are the more methods, the more information
is returned to you.
So it's like an exchange of information.
And does your job require your full concentration?
Sometimes.
Definitely.
I have to keep in mind lots of things than I teach them.
The mood of my students, the attitude of them to the language that their health.
Of course, some of these factors I can influence the others.
I can't.
My task as a teacher is to involve the students in a game game.
So to see a studying of English.
That's what I try to do as as good as I can.
And where do you currently live?
In a house or an apartment?
So I live in a house.
I have been living here for seven years.
Before this, we.
We lived in the city.
But after some consideration, we decided to move because life in the countryside gives more preferences
compared to the life in the city city centre.
So we enjoy nature, we enjoy fresh air, we enjoy a quiet peace and quiet, especially at the weekends,
which is very important for me after stressful days at work.
All right, let's move on.
And we are going to talk about social media.
OC Do you use social media or do you use social networking sites?
I am a great fan of Facebook and it's the main social network which I use.
It's a source of information for me.
On the one hand, on the other hand, it's a source of entertainment.
Sometimes I enjoy myself posting funny comments because I consider myself a witty person who possesses
a sense of humor.
So I try to share it with my colleagues just or with my online friends and and I try to amuse them and
be be funny.
For example, reads The Mood OC And how did you first find out about Facebook?
I don't remember.
Probably I was invited by some colleagues and at first it wasn't very popular Social Network.
I didn't visit it regularly, but now it's my daily routine to get up to check my Facebook newsfeed
and then to move on.
What kind of people do you like to be friends with on those websites or on those social networking sites?
First of all, they are teachers like me.
We have common interests at work and we share different activities.
For example, different problems.
We discuss different problems.
And sometimes you can find the answer if something puzzles you at at work, because it sometimes happens.
The other friends are just Internet friends.
I have never met them before in real life, so to say they are so to say friends or friends.
So I sometimes I participate in different workshops and I acquire more friends.
And of course I use the recommended pages and I join different groups, which interests me as from the
point of view of hobbies and from the point of your work.
Okay, let's go ahead and move on and talk about the future.
How do you think your life will change in the future?
I can't see how with 100% certainty how it would change.
But I always picture myself like a peaceful picture where I change my place of living to some remote
island, a beach on the on some ocean.
And I imagine myself, like barefoot, leading a simple life, eating seafood and teaching local kids
English.
That's how I imagine, or picture my imaginary future.
OC And how much traveling do you hope to do in the future?
Actually I haven't been a great traveller.
My travelling work connected with my work and of course my holidays.
I prefer to spend on the seashore together with my kids.
That's basically all the travelling which I have now.
But I would like to have more travel, more trips and more journeys.
But of course, right now this situation, till the situation improves, doesn't improve.
I don't see the opportunity to travel.
All right.
And what job would you like to have ten years from now?
Actually, I have been teaching English for more than 20 years and I can't imagine myself doing someone
something else.
But I remember that a few years ago I had a strange idea about keeping a foster home.
Like a home for foster children?
Not many of them.
Some of them because I.
I have two teenagers, teenage sons.
And they are quite grown quite grown up.
They don't need my help and support on every step they make.
And I would like to accompany small children now on this path of growing up and helping them with their
lessons, with a daily routine, with like distinguishing between what is good and what is bad or bad,
like the ethics of our young children.
Okay.
All right.
And we're going to move on and talk about aliens.
Do you believe there is another life in the universe?
Actually, I am a great fan of science fiction, and I, I can't say that I believe in them, but I
don't reject the existence of the aliens, maybe not in the form which our science fiction films try
to show us.
Maybe it's like the alternative reality.
And maybe we we are just living in the reality, which is very close, maybe in some other world.
The other person like me leads the other life, but it's very close to mine.
OC And what do you think aliens might look like?
So it's difficult to say.
According to science fiction, they we have a we can expect to meet a wide range of aliens from like
insects who possess who have brains and who are able to act rationally to some to to human like figures.
And also, there can be some shapeless or figures or something quite different from what we expect to
to see and to communicate as equals.
And why are humans so fascinated by aliens?
Because human beings like to believe in something in miracles for, for example, they they we humans
don't like to believe that this life which will lead is just everything which we have.
That's why there exist in our cultures exist different theories of reincarnation, of if you of the
idea that if you behave well in this life, you will be rewarded with some better position in life in
the other one, or that our just our experience doesn't stop when we die.
So it's like the attempt to extend our earthly existence to be beyond the limits.