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can you believe that every single year

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three million people sit the IELTS exam

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that's like 10 times the population of

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Tonga and to get a place in a university

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like this one Cambridge you need a 7.0

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in all four areas of the exam including

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the speaking form but how hard is this

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speaking part in a native English

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speaker pass this part of the test

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relying solely on their ability to speak

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English we've come to the birthplace of

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where it all began for the IELTS exam to

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see where the native English speakers

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can pass this test without any

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preparation and today we're specifically

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going to be focusing on part 1 of the

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IELTS speaking thing so let's go find

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some people of Cambridge and put them to

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the test

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for this video we have teamed up with a

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language learning app called cambly

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because we think they provide a really

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great and innovative way for you to turn

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down time which is time where you're not

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active you're not working into

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productive speaking practice imagine one

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day you aren't just sitting in the park

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admiring the Queen's lovely swans but

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you don't have anyone to talk to and you

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want to practice your English one thing

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you can do is get this app onto your

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mobile telephone and all you need is

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connection to the internet and you can

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connect with native English teachers

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from all over the english-speaking world

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at the click of a button so this app is

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brilliant for people who are really busy

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it's available 24/7 and it means that

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you don't have to plan your lessons

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ahead of time so if you want to give

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cambly ago for free then use the link in

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the description box below and you'll get

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then if you really like

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you can sign up to any of their plans

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and you will get 10% discount on us but

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make sure you do that quickly because

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you only get two weeks from now to get

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that 10% discount so enjoy that and

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let's get back to Cambridge did you

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study art what is the weather like today

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very a very hot yes it is where is your

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hometown my arm term is Manchester and

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come from Middleton in Manchester yeah

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do you like art no how could your

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hometown be improved it could be

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improved by having an ice rink all year

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round do you ever work or study in the

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evening well it depends really on what's

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going on at work sometimes the school

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where I work have evening activities in

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which case I need to hang around and

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help out with those but in general no I

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get off around 5:00 p.m. let's take a

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quick coffee break because these guys

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are not doing particularly well so far

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and if they carried on in this fashion

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for the rest of the test they would most

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likely fall short of a 7.0 this is

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because their answers are not long

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enough they're not paraphrasing the

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questions and there's not much

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interesting language being used all of

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which are key for a high score in part

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one so we decided to give them a few

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tips to see if they can improve their

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scores let's see how they get on what is

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your favorite mode of transport Mary my

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favorite mode of transport would be a

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horse

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we've got horses at home ah the horse

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the daughter rides I ride and I prefer

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to go by horse and carriage to most

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things ha ha ha do you enjoy your birth

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I love my birthday it was my birthday

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about two weeks ago so a summer birthday

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fantastic we went to hung Stanton which

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is a beach seaside town not far from

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Cambridge my hometown about two hours in

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the car and it was really sunny and it

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was very nice

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do you often watch TV do I don't

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actually watch a lot to me to be honest

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I've got time to watch TV I've got two

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young children a two-and-a-half-year-old

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a 14 week old so when I get home from

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the market packed up and done I have to

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deal with them and while that time I was

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ready to sit down and just chill speak

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to my other half and go to bed do you

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like your hometown yes yes yes yes used

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to like it but now I've been down in

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Newmarket no for say for 40-something

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years I never move back to nice to know

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because this is my toe this is my um no

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Newmarket and I love it yeah come over

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to carries about once a month it's you

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can't beat it can you do you do the same

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things in the evenings now as you did

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when you were a child some of the things

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are the same

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I still enjoy watching some comedy

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programs on TV but some things have

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changed for instance nowadays are much

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more into learning foreign languages so

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I spend at least an hour catching up on

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some French or maybe even German these

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days how did you get here today today we

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came by a car on the road Alex's car my

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daughter's car and we came for about an

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hour and a half it took us to get here

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yeah

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did you enjoy your childhood yes I grew

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up in London I was the oldest child of

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three I

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lived with my parents in a house on the

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outskirts of London I went to school

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there yes it was a nice it was a nice

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happy childhood what's your favorite

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food in terms of food I enjoyed the most

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it's got to be traditional British

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sausages they're not everyone's cup of

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tea but for me as a a real English guy

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there's nothing better and what's your

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favorite TV program that's my favorite

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TV program what currently yeah and what

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sort of thing on Netflix at the moment I

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see which I'm quite into but I don't

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know if it's very good but I'm watching

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a program called safe when he watched

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two episodes so that's I'm into that at

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the moment other than that I don't

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really watch a lot as a same I sometimes

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I sometimes get persuaded to watch a bit

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of Emmerdale yes that's my girlfriend's

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cup of tea where do you usually buy your

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clothes you mean where I usually go

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shopping to buy things to wear I usually

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go to most of the big shops in Cambridge

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we've got some shopping malls I'll go in

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the shopping mall I like to have a

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really good look around the shops before

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I decide what I buy are you a happy

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person I like to think of myself as a

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happy person yes if the Sun is out and

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the weather's good then I'm as happy as

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anyone but I'm not always happy and if

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it's raining or it's snowing then that

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tends to affect my mood as well so after

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a disappointing start our native

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speakers have ended on a high and

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they've all been able to get a score of

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7.0 or above well done them do keep in

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mind that an IELTS examiner would need

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more time to evaluate somebody's level

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than what we showed today and for that

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reason they give you an overall mark

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from all three parts of the speaking

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exam and would never give grades based

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on just part one like we did today

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meaning if you were to do badly in part

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one you could still get a high score by

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performing better in part two and three

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so we really hope that you have found

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this video fun and also informative if

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you are preparing yourself for the IELTS

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speaking exam as we can see it's

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difficult even for native speakers if

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they don't have the right strategy and

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techniques in place to tackle these

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questions they are difficult so when it

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comes to your exam take it seriously

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find a teacher find the free resources

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online or even Camberley that can help

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you to answer these questions well and

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give the examiners exactly what they are

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looking for good luck in your exam and

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see you again soon for another video

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