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Hello and welcome to this practice exam conducted by IELTS Daily. My name is Mai and I'm your
practice IELTS speaking examiner. The questions in this test are designed to simulate the IELTS
speaking test. Let's start. What's your first name please? Lucy. At the beginning of the IELTS test
you need to provide some identification, but as this is a practice test there's no
need for this today. Are you ready to begin? Yes. I want to begin by talking about you.
Are you a positive person? Yes, I think so. For example, if there's a rainy day I would think oh,
I can see the rainbow after. Do you often encourage your friends and family? Yes,
I think I'm kind of person. For example, last week my roommate failed test and I gave her a
really good lunch and said that you can do better next time. So this is an interesting function,
in English when we talk about something we said to someone we say and I told her, and I told him,
and I let him know. Something like this, and I said that you can have, we don't use it like that
because we are reporting on what we said at the time. So yeah, going to lose a little bit here in
terms of grammatical range. I'd like to move on to the topic of science. Did you enjoy studying
science at school? Yes, I love physics but I don't like chemistry at all. So also here, we're talking
about at school so we're talking about the past. 'I love physics but I don't love chemistry', so,
when we're talking about at schools the past we really should say I loved, if we're talking
about something at that time or I used to love. Okay we could probably leave it alone because if
she still loves it then actually the president is okay, but a more accurate answer would be just to
reference the time that was asked. At school, then it's going to be the past for most of us. Why?
Because I almost over my fingers in one chemistry test, it's really not good experience for me.
There is really a not good experience there are more high level ways to explain it. If you want
to use the positive, it was, it was a horrible experience. If you want to use the negative,
it wasn't, it wasn't a very good experience rather than it was or not as you heard. Do
you think science is an important subject? Yes, absolutely yes. It's where happens in our lives
such as the materials, our food, our daily life, something else. So and something else is okay but
a more high level materials, foods, and other things. So if we want to keep it talking about
I'm going to give you two or three things and then other things, some people might say ectera. In a
conversational speaking test, 'and other things' would be a more suitable finish to that sentence.
How does science help you in everyday life? Like I just said the material we used, like the table,
like the sofa, and, and the food we eat, it's all about the science. Now, let's think about the
topic of birthdays, parties and celebrations. Did you ever have a birthday party as a child? Yes,
I remember my sixth first birthday, I invite 10 people in my house it's really good in memory.
So just here, 'on my sixth birthday party, I invite 10 people', past tense 'I invited 10
people' and also 'in my house', 'to my house'. 'I invited 10 people to my house'. So you're
gonna be dropping there a little bit on the lexical resource and also the grammatical range.
Did you ever attend the birthday party of other children? Yes, I think so but it's
a before six and little birth memory for me. Do you attend birthday parties or celebrations now?
Not recently because the COVID 19 lockdown I haven't been to either party for two years.
What was the last birthday you attended? I remember three years ago. Um, my roommate's friend
invited us to the birthday party. It's a yard, and a swimming pool and a lovely dogs. So here,
'invited us to the birthday party', us as the listener or the examiner don't know which birthday
party so it's improper to use 'the birthday party'. 'Invited us to a birthday party'. We
use the indefinite article 'a' or 'an'. It's a really good time. In the next part of the test,
I'm going to give you a topic and I would like you to speak for one to two minutes. You will
have one minute to think about what you want to say and I will give you a pencil and some
paper to make notes if you want. Is that clear? Yes, thank you. Here is your paper and pencil.
You have one minute to prepare.
Thank you. Now, I'd like you to talk about an app or piece of software you use. Remember
you have one to two minutes for this so don't worry if I stop you.
I'll tell you when the time is up. Can you start speaking now please? Yes.
I will describe an app I use daily is Wechat. This is a communication application in the mobile phone
and this also can be used on the mac top or an iPad. I think it's very useful because I can
communicate with people in there. In the serious version of the company use
and we can check the friends moments, and even received emails in the application.
For nowadays in China area, we can use the delivery service, delivery service or the
hospital service in the Wechat too. It's very combination application and about the
question when I use it, I started to use the Wechat from 2011 when I was in university. I
just find out everyone beside me was using it so I want to try it a little bit, and I find it's
really good for students and it's better than the normal text, text application, because it can send
pictures and send the voicemails by just not the regular price. It's very cheap price. So here,
Lucy's moved to 'regular price, not a cheap price', it seems that describing with Wechat
that it's free to use or it's a very low cost, so to describe it better than email,
more natural language would be, 'it's cheaper to use than email' or 'it's cheaper to send
photos and videos than other methods', something like this but just saying cheap price,
for the free product, cheap price actually is incorrect
and so it doesn't actually just accurately describe what she's trying to say. And if,
if you ask if I will continue using the future, I think the answer will be yes,
because the not just the students and the employees we use it. Even our parents. Again
here with the word 'the' not just 'the students'. Which students? We don't know which ones yet so
generally speaking you need to drop the 'the' when you're talking about things generally.
So in this context, students and employees know that 'the'. Elder person are using it too because
it can turn the voice message directly to the text so it's very convenient for the older people.
So I think the answer will be yes. I think the software will become better and better. Thank you.
I want to stay on the topic of computer applications and software. Yep. Do you think
people are becoming too dependent on software and apps? Yes, for the 21st century it's the digital
time so we rely on computer, mobile phone and other digital applications too much. So here, we
really need those 's's', computers, mobile phones, because we're talking generally and there are more
than one we can, we can count sort of how many there are. And when we're describing computers
as the concept or as ones that we see, we need the 's' there. It's not friendly for the other people
I think. Why do you think so? Because they're learning new things in a lower very low pace.
I think not not. So just here, Lucy's getting a little bit stuck. A low pace or a low place that
it takes them longer to learn. You'll hear in the next section comparing with younger people,
so more natural language would be that they learn at a slower pace, using the comparative adjective
'slower'. As fast as the younger generation, so I don't think it's a very good thing for
the other people. Should parents limit a child's ability to download apps and software? I think so
because it's a future ability if you want to join the modern city, you must learn how to use them.
Again here, 'join the modern city', which one? We don't know so we use the indefinite article 'a'.
'Join a modern city'. Do you think artificial intelligence will become more popular
in the future? Yes, I think so but into not in the recent future because our internet
and uh... Just here, when we use future we don't say recent, we use 'near' Recent will generally be
about the past recently but if we're talking about the future, the near future, in the near future.
Hardware and still need time to deve, develop. So I think maybe 10 years later,
the real artificial intelligence will become and go into the normal daily use. Thank you. That is
the end of the practice speaking test. Thank you. Thank you. So nice work by Lucy in terms
of fluency and coherence, we're looking at about a 'six' that she's able to speak at length and
very confidently, but loses a bit of coherence at times. Some repetition, same words, the,
the hesitation is not such a problem but just the, the, the discourse markers where she's choosing
words that don't really sort of blend and convey the idea clearly, the examiner is going to be a
bit sort of stuck trying to catch what the meaning was and to go over in their mind what was said.
So we're looking at a 'six' there. In terms of lexical resource, a good range of vocabulary
typically used very accurately, not much idiomatic language or expressions,
and it's wide enough vocabulary to convey the message. In terms of grammatical range
and accuracy, this is where it gets a little bit lower and scores a 'five' that the basic
sentence forms were fairly accurate, when she goes into more complex structures either there
was something missing in the pronunciation or the word choice, all the nouns, and the verbs and the
adjectives just weren't working in agreement. Whether it was across tense or in word choice.
In terms of pronunciation a 'six'. Mostly understood, good control of different sounds
the diphthongs, also intonation was clear enough to understand. Where she was slipping was the
past tense especially that last sound and some words were completely in unintelligible,
where I couldn't quite catch what was being said and so some of the meaning was lost.
Again that affects then fluency and coherence. So a 'six' in pronunciation. Well done to Lucy and
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welcome to this practice exam conducted by IELTS Daily. My name is Mai and I'm your practice IELTS
speaking examiner. The questions in this test are designed to simulate the IELTS speaking test.
Let's start what's your first name please? Lucy. At the beginning of the IELTS test you need to
provide some identification, but as this is a practice test there's no need for this today.
Are you ready to begin? Yes. I want to begin by talking about you. Are you a positive person?
Yes, I think so. For example, if there's a rainy day I would think oh, I can see the rainbow after.
Do you often encourage your friends and family? Yes, I think I'm kind of person.
For example, last week my roommate failed test and I gave her a really good lunch and
said that you can do better next time. I'd like to move on to the topic of science. Did you enjoy
studying science at school? Yes, I love physics but I don't like chemistry at all.
Why? Because I almost over my fingers in one chemistry test, it's really not good experience
for me. Do you think science is an important subject? Yes, absolutely yes. It's where
happens in everywhere in our lives such as the materials, our food, our daily lives, something
else. How does science help you in everyday life? Like I just said the material we used, like the
table, like the sofa, and, and the food we eat, it's all about the science. Now, let's think about
the topic of birthdays, parties and celebrations. Did you ever have a birthday party as a child?
Yes, I remember my sixth first birthday, I invite 10 people in my house. It's really good in memory.
Did you ever attend the birthday party of other children? Yes, I think so but it's
a before six and little birth memory for me. Do you attend birthday parties or celebrations now?
Not recently because the COVID 19 lockdown, I haven't been to either party for two years.
What was the last birthday you attended? I remember three years ago,
my roommate's friends invited us to the birthday party. It's a yard,
and swimming pool and the lovely dogs. It's a really good time. In the next part of the test,
I'm going to give you a topic and I would like you to speak for one to two minutes. You will
have one minute to think about what you want to say and I will give you a pencil and some
paper to make notes if you want. Is that clear? Yes, thank you. Here is your paper and pencil.
You have one minute to prepare.
Thank you. Now I'd like you to talk about an app or piece of software you use. Remember,
you have one to two minutes for this so don't worry if I stop you.
I'll tell you when the time is up. Can you start speaking now please? Yes.
I will describe an app I use daily is Wechat. This is a communication application in the mobile phone
and this also can be used on the mac top or the iPad. I think it's very useful because
I can communicate with people in there. In the serious version of the company use
and we can check the friends moments, and even received emails in the application. For nowadays,
in China area, we can use the delivery service, delivery service or the hospital
service in the Wechat too. It's very combination application and about the question when I use it,
I started to use the Wechat from 2011 when I was in university. I just found out everyone
beside me was using it, so I want to try it a little bit and I find it's really good for
students and it's better than the normal text, text application, because it can send
pictures and send the voicemails by just not the regular price. It's very cheap price and
if if you ask, if our continue using future, I think the answer will be yes because the not just
the students and the employees will use it, even our parents, the older person are using it too
because it can turn the voice message directly to the text, so it's very convenient for the
older people. So I think the answer will be yes, I think the software will become
better and better. Thank you. I want to stay on the topic of computer applications and software.
Do you think people are becoming too dependent on software and apps? Yes, for the 21st century it's
the digital time so we rely on computer mobile phone and other digital applications too much.
It's not friendly for the older people I think. Why do you think so? Because they're learning
new things in a lower, very low pace, I think not not as fast as the younger generation so I don't
think it's a very good thing for the older people. Should parents limit a child's ability to download
apps and software? I think so because it's a future ability, if you want to join the
modern city, you must learn how to use them. Do you think artificial intelligence will
become more popular in the future? Yes, I think so but into not in the recent future
because our internet and the hardware and still need time to develop, so I think maybe
10 years later, the real artificial intelligence will become and go into the normal daily use.
Thank you, that is the end of the practice speaking test. Thank you. Thank you.