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We've come to the birthplace of the

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IELTS exam, Cambridge, to find some

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non-native speakers, ask them some IELTS

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questions, and hopefully show you what a

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good response is like and a not so good

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response.

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Let's go.

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Can you describe a piece of advice you

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recently received?

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Well, because I love travel, someone

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told me that if I go to hostel.com

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after 10 bookings, they will give me a

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one hotel for free.

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And it was super cool.

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I need to try, obviously. I usually go

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to Expedia, but I will try hostel.com.

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Very nice.

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So, enjoy that and let's get back to

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Cambridge. Can clothing tell you much

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about a person?

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I think so. If you buy

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um

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really nice clothing

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can tell you about how much money you

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have.

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If you dress up like anyone else, you'll

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try to be fit in the group. And if you

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uh don't give

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uh be It's all stuff.

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Then you probably wear anything you like

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without noticing what other people wear.

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Sure. Why do so many people move to

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bigger cities these days these days?

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Well, I wondered that as well because I

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live in a very little village and I love

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it. Everybody knows you. You can leave

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your car and your door open.

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The other day I left my door open

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by accident for 2 days.

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And there was no problem. But if you

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live in a town like Amsterdam

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you can't even leave your bike outside

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on the

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on the street. You have to take it in.

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But I think well, especially young

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people because that's where the fun is,

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that's where everything is going on and

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of course for a job. Can you describe a

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place that you have visited recently?

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Uh just a place by the river.

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Cambridge, yeah. Yeah. It's nice with my

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family. Spend time. The weather was

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lovely.

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And

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yeah, that's the one.

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What makes a good student?

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First, passion. You need to feel passion

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for what are you doing. This is the most

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important because you can study, but

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if you don't have passion for what are

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you studying, it's no make sense. Mhm.

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Yeah. And dedication.

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Yeah, exactly. You need to have a lot of

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dedication and yeah.

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Brilliant. Did you enjoy your childhood?

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I did.

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Yes, I did.

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Um there wasn't much then. It's about 60

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years ago.

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Uh but we played outside a lot.

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We hadn't much toys, so we didn't play

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inside.

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Nice parents.

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Great brother.

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Um school holidays was lasted for ages.

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Uh nowadays, 6 weeks. School summer

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holidays are gone

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with a blink.

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Um but yes, I have had a great

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youth. No not much like computers, no

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television. Uh so, you had

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enough time to do things you like to do,

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but not obsessed by your phone or by

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your computer.

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What is a balanced diet?

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A balanced diet? Yeah. I'm coming from a

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country that we know very well about

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food. Yeah, you do. Hippocrates and

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everyone was saying your food is your

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medicine and your medicine is your food.

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Ah, yeah. We certainly felt that, didn't

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we? Can you describe an exercise that

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you know? Yes, running.

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And

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how is it done?

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With running

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you need to

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How can I describe how

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Wow.

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Sorry. Yeah, how can you? What was your

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favorite activity as a kid?

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Uh favorite, I think

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we went into the dunes explore.

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Uh there were bunkers from the Second

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World War.

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You could go in then. You could go in

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nowadays, they're all blocked up. Um it

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was quite an adventure.

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To run, you need to be very You need to

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have a lot of energy and after go on in

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the street on to the park and just run.

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I tried this one in Caracas in

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Venezuela. It was so cool because I

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started to do competition.

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But after this year I have a less

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like a pain in my knee and I didn't

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continue to do that. Usually the people

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do running, for example, here in England

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is because they love and they are very

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healthy. And

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to do running, you need to be very

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passionate because you need to have a

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lot of energy and as well it's quite

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difficult to do it. I think so.

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It's a good exercise because as well

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it's work as a meditation, I would say.

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Uh you are is and as well it's like a

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competition with your mind because you

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need to try to keep on all the time and

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it's like I need to do my goal. And it's

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for me so cool in that way. It's like

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really motivated. Yeah. So, do you run a

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lot? No, no. Not this year, but I used

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to participate in competition here like

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10K's and this kind of things. It's

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really nice.

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But not this year because we are with

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the business and when I finish here is

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so tired. I am so tired, yeah. Yeah. Can

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you describe an interesting hobby? I

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think that rowing is a very interesting

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hobby. Mhm. I took it up last year and I

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think it's marvelous. It's interesting

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or do you want to ask me a question?

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Then I answer it. No, yeah. Keep going.

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You think it's

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Well, I think because you're in a four,

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so you do always do together with other

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people and you always have to be

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helpful, so they're

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sociable people, you know, who never

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mind giving you a hand carrying the boat

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out.

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You're out in

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in the open. Mhm. You're having exercise

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and you can even do it in winter.

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And I live not far from a river, so

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for me it was

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such a marvelous

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discovery to find

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this as a hobby.

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I think I want to sign up. Yeah, you

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must.

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Yeah. Do. Do you think hunting is the

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same?

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No?

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Pushing Japanese round in a boat, no.

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We hope you enjoyed that footage of

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non-natives giving their answers to

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IELTS questions.

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We hope that you took away some good

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vocabulary, some good structure, and the

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corrections that we gave on top of that.

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Make sure that you give your own

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responses to the questions in the video

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in the comments below. We look forward

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to seeing them.

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See you soon.