Managing nerves and showing your English

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impression

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secondly you have to see this as an

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opportunity to demonstrate

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your level of english the bad news is

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you will be

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nervous okay that's inevitable unless

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you're one of those

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few lucky people who just don't get

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nervous in these situations

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you will be nervous but you have to see

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that this is an opportunity

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it's it's an opportunity to demonstrate

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your fantastic level

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okay so see it in a positive way

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so what is speaking part one well it's a

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short conversation between the examiner

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and each candidate individually and the

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focus is on general social and

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interactional language

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so the examiners will usually ask one or

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two questions

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about the the candidate themselves and

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then they will ask more general

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questions about other subjects for

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example

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their leisure time their studies their

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future plans

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travel holiday experiences and their

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daily routines

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so how should you answer those questions

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well

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as you can see in the example at the

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beginning of this video

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the first attempt of the the candidate

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was

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too short england is not enough of an

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answer when somebody