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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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we've come to the birthplace of the

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IELTS exam Cambridge to find some native

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speakers ask them some IELTS questions

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and hopefully show you some good

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responses and some not-so-good ones and

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in this video we're going to be focusing

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specifically on part 3 of the IELTS

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speaking exam let's go

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please music can clothing tell you much

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about a person only if they're wheeling

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it what makes a good student almost a

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good student yeah somebody who's just

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fun and wants to get involved good where

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did you go to school

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Central Park Lawn Boy Buffett pays what

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is the difference between the way that

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adults learn and the way that children

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their children learn slowly and with

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mistakes by mistakes they learn by

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mistake that's not right

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that children learn do most people have

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a computer in your home country

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definitely yes almost everybody has a

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computer here yeah why do some companies

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ask this staff to wear uniforms so

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they'd all look the same I guess they're

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not doing too well at the moment are

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they they're not I expected better yeah

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should we give them some tips I think we

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should I think they need it yeah and

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then give them a second chance yeah

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let's give them one more chance to prove

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themselves I see what they've got

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do you believe everything you read in

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the newspapers it depends on the

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newspaper to be honest there are some

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terrible news papers unless some pretty

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good ones but generally I think you need

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to take everything you read with a

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little pinch of salt otherwise yeah you

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can very easily get misled and it

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doesn't pay to believe everything you

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read in newspapers that what makes a

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good student in your opinion very simple

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somebody who works hard is that simple

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in university as in school it's a dead

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simple thing you work hard no stress you

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pass you don't work stress you feel so

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good students work hard that's it that's

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all you have to do and there's not

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clever is dead simple

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study well there my time you you just

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went through the curriculum of all sorts

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of things you never concentrated on any

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one thing like they do today I mean you

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had math English history geography

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whatever but you just got a 45 minutes

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of each never my time there was never

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any direction into one particular

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subject how can a teacher make lessons

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for children more interesting find a way

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to engage the children and connect with

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things that the children might already

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be familiar with in order to kind of

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associate the thing that the topic that

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they're being introduced to to something

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the children have maybe already

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experienced I can't think of an example

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of what that would be but children

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obviously haven't have limited

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experience they've some of them have

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been stung by by wasps so if you're

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teaching them about I know where I'm

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going with this if it's about something

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bad then you could use the sting of a

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wasp somehow I'd what are the main

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environmental problems that you have in

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your country in England we have a

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certain amount of pollution with plastic

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waste that ends up in the sea and if you

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saw the serious blue planet by David

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Attenborough that yeah we also have

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problems with the exhaust from cars

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producing nitric oxide and so on

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pollution in the air yeah we do do you

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think computers will one day replace

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teachers in the classroom no not at all

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the teachers I remember even now here at

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Cambridge are those with a personality

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those that can lighten up a lecture with

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a bit of humor that can make a face that

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can wave their arms about that you

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relate to them the other good teachers

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and the other ones that help learning

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computers can't do that how were your

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teachers when you were well I remember

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one guy a guy called out and he was

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specifically because he was like that

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some others were really lousy

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and I'm sure there were lovely people

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should they love their mothers but there

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were lousy teachers children a teacher

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could best help a child by using things

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they are already familiar with and with

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fun with play as well children children

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love to play so if you can turn

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something into a game and you can

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transform a topic or a subject into a

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game they're more likely to play you

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know all all children puppies like to

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play young young mammals of any of any

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description they love playing so if you

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want to help if you want to help just

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mess about turn it into a game what was

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your favorite subject

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I suppose handicraft as they called it

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would work well Jim would work for a

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while and then they they decided after a

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certain period was going to shut that

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down and you can open a metalwork but

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the two subjects you could join

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whichever one you want oh I like would

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like working with wood but metalwork

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just didn't enjoy

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so there you go even native speakers who

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have been talking English all of their

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life they struggle when they don't have

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the right tips and the right strategies

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to tackle these questions so when you

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come to your exam make sure you take it

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seriously and I hope this video has

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helped you and you can take home some of

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these tips that we have given you good

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luck in your exam and see you again soon

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