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Use language for speculation

particular you you don't really know exactly what you are looking at sometimes usually you have to speculate about what is happening in the pictures so you have to use speculati...

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

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pictures in

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particular

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you you don't really know exactly what

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you are looking at sometimes

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usually you have to speculate about what

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is happening in the pictures so you have

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to use speculative vocabulary

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also sometimes you need to use

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comparative vocabulary

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so you're comparing

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different pictures and speculating about

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what might be happening in the pictures

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and as i said people who are not

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prepared for the exams don't really

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understand that and they don't use the

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appropriate vocabulary and the examiners

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are listening out for that vocabulary

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so

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speculative vocabulary as i've said in

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many of my previous videos

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it might be it looks like it seems

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it could be it must be they must be they

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look like that type of thing go back and

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check out my other videos for more

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speculative vocabulary but

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as i said it's a big mistake that people

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make that they're not using the type of

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vocabulary that the examiners are

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looking for

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in the speaking paper and finally

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mistake number five is waffle

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no not that waffle to waffle is to speak

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for a long time without giving any

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useful information

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or just speaking about irrelevant things

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in general and this is a big problem in

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the exam because

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