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interlocutor who's sitting there with a pen and taking notes that's the assessor and they're just listening um for the content that you are giving them and if you don't give the...

Course: Confidence in Cambridge speakingSection: Cambridge speaking mistakesSubtitles: en

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that sits behind the

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interlocutor who's sitting there with a

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pen and taking notes that's the assessor

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and they're just listening um for

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the content that you are giving them and

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if you don't give them content to mark

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then it's going to be very difficult to

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get a good score

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apart from that if you finish early the

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interlocutor is just going to sit and

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wait for you to continue until the time

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is up because again it's your time they

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don't want to stop before you've taken

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advantage of your time so that's going

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to be a very awkward silence for however

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many seconds it is

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so i always recommend that you keep

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talking until the interlocutor

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interrupts you

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it's fine if it is no problem if the

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interlocutor interrupts you as long as

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you have completed the task that's

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that's the balance keep talking don't

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give irrelevant information but make

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sure you complete the task

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and mistake number three is not

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interacting well with your partner

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now in all of the exams the b2 first the

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c1 advanced and the c2 proficiency there

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will be collaborative tasks so in these

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tasks you have to

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do

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a task with a with your partner with one

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partner usually sometimes with two

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partners

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