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Naveed from Bangladesh, was on Band 6.5 in the writing. He had taken the test a few times before already ($$$). He’d gotten his essays corrected before but was infuriated with the feedback he was sent. So he tried the IELTSPodcast essay correction service and was ECSTATIC. He had just gotten married in Bangladesh, applying for PR in Australia, working as an accountant in Melbourne, and had his test in 14 days! Rather hectic to say the least! Before the IELTSPodcast essay corrections he had no idea where his mistakes were. After Daphney gave feedback on two essays, improving was obvious and in the next IELTS test he jumps to Band 7! Naveed was absolutely confident that if he had taken the online course (Jump to Band 7 or it’s Free), he would have easily surpassed Band 7. Interesting 😉 You can download or listen to the audio version here: |Direct Download Here | Stitcher | iTunes | Spotify | Soundcloud | Transcript | YOU MAY READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW: Naveed: I start listening for quite a while. I’m like wait a minute. This is actually really good information. I should write it down. INTRODUCTION Female Voice: You are now listening to the IELTS podcast. Learn from tutors and ex-examiners who are masters of IELTS preparation. Your host, Ben Worthington. [Music] Ben: Hello there, IELTS students. In this tutorial, we’re going to be speaking with Naveed who is based in Australia. So, Naveed, could you please tell us why you were taking the IELTS, where you’re from and how you ended up in Australia? Naveed: Right. Hi, my name is Naveed. I’m originally from Bangladesh and I came to Australia as a student and I studied three years here as an accounting student and I gave the IELTS exam again for my permanent residency in Australia. So, I needed really good grades to get the Australian PR– Ben: Got you. What grades– Naveed: –which is permanent resident. Ben: Yes. What grades do they request in the PR? Naveed: So, for different candidates, it’s a bit different. If you have experience and the education a triple 7 and an 8 would be good for you. If you have low experience then maybe a higher mark would be needed. For me, I needed the 8 triple 7. Ben: Right. Naveed: Which is 8 in listening and 7 in everything else. Ben: Interesting and by experience you mean working experience. Naveed: Yes, working experience, yes. Ben: I see. Naveed: And you need to graduate from Australia. So, they calculate so many points [unintelligible 00:01:58.26]. Ben: I see. So, you’ve been working in an accountancy in Melbourne. Naveed: Yes. Ben: Okay. How was that? Naveed: It’s good. I’m still working. It’s going good so far, but I really needed the grades for a longer-term stay in Australia. So, I really needed that. Ben: I see. I see. All right and before we started recording you were jumping– you almost started telling me about everything that you had done before joining the course. Could you just take up where I interrupted you from? Naveed: Yes, sure. So, basically, I gave IELTS total three times. The first time I gave it was for the Australian student visa and in that time, I had 7.5 in everything, but reading 6.5 or somewhere like that, but I know I had reading– sorry, not reading, writing 6.5 and then I gave it again for my sort of like a work visa after you graduate and I had 7.5 in everything again and writing I had 6.5 again and I’m thinking why am I getting 6.5 in this? Okay, maybe because– I know last time I got 6.5 and the next time I gave it, the second time, I went to some classes, I went to my friends, I went everywhere to see okay, what’s going on? I gave him a mock exam. Everyone is saying it’s very good. It’s not bad. Yes, it should be a 7, but I still keep getting 6.5. Ben: I see. Naveed: By the third time, I didn’t want to risk it and I know I have been listening to your podcasts for quite long and your podcasts are really, really amazing because I’ve been hearing like okay, I didn’t hear this before [unintelligible 00:03:59.18] and I wrote notes to myself. It’s not about let’s say– what should I say? Not just about the structure, not just about– it’s not that simple to make okay a nice essay needs this, this, this. Everyone’s case is different, right? Ben: Yes. Naveed: I might have this issue. Someone else might have this issue. Whatever issue it is, we don’t– we can’t see it. Do you know what I mean? Ben: Yes. Totally. Naveed: Yes. So, I had very short time. So, I went for your trial essay because my exam was within two weeks and I just came from holiday. Yes, I just came from holiday because I got married. Ben: Well, congratulations. Naveed: Thank you. So, I got married. So, I came back and your course I think was two months, right? Ben: You’ve got up to 90 days to complete it. Naveed: Yes, to take full advantage of it because I know you have a lot of stuff in there, but to take full advantage of it, I think you need at least a month maybe like what I saw. I’m working full time. I’m like okay, I’ll just do one essay. Let me see. I paid for one essay and the response I got I never got again. I never got this response from anyone else again. Just to give you context, I paid for someone else from Canada and they charged me 20 bucks or something. Okay, fine. No, no. Forget that one. I’ll give you the worst one. From the IELTS website, they have something called IELTS assist, right? I paid 40 bucks for that. They sent me my paper with like word– you know how like word document has okay this is wrong, this vocabulary is wrong? They just sent me this. Ben: Oh, gosh. Naveed: Spelling issue, grammar issue, that’s it. I’m just told oh, fix your grammar, please. What the hell? I could have done that by copying and pasting to a word document. I’m like what the hell! I was really, really angry, but when whoever who gave me the feedback– I think Daphne gave me the feedback. She gave it on a YouTube video and she highlighted, she read it. Hey, this sentence could have been better. This could have been arranged different. That could have been arranged different and it really helped me. She used real-life examples and that’s [unintelligible 00:06:42.01] life changer for me because that type of service you can’t get it anywhere else really. Ben: That’s interesting. Naveed: Yes, that’s the biggest thing for me. Ben: Yes. Daphne is an absolute star along with the other essay correctors we’ve got, Ellen. Both of them are native English speakers like myself and both of them have been trained to an extremely high level. I can’t say exactly how high for other reasons, but just to summarize, you tried a few different services; the one in Canada, you tried the official one and you weren’t impressed. In fact, you were kind of offended. It sounds like infuriated maybe even. Then you decided to do the trial essay correction. Is that right? Naveed: Yes. Ben: Got you. Got you. And then from that trial, you were quite impressed and you joined us on the online course. Is that right? Naveed: Well, I didn’t get the chance to join, but I would have definitely joined if I had the time. Ben: Oh, okay. Naveed: That’s what I emailed Daphne like thank you so much and if I had time, I know because for me personally, I could have had a way better score, a lot better score if I actually– I know I got a good score, but I know with your course, it would have been a lot better, but the thing is it just gives some time because I only took essay correction with her, but within those two, I learned more than anything I’ve ever learned before with my two years of studying IELTS because I always write the same and nobody tells me what’s wrong with it. Do you know what I mean? Ben: Right. Right. So, it’s like the feedback that really sort of like guided you and sped up your improvement. Naveed: Yes. It’s just one of those things like you’ve never noticed until someone points it out. Do you know what I mean? Ben: Yes, yes. Naveed: It’s really crazy. I was like wow! I wish I knew about this before studying IELTS, but you don’t and I never knew, too and it was really sad for me. People are charging so much money for IELTS. Like in Melbourne also, people are charging so much money to study IELTS, but yes. I don’t know, but I’ve already suggested it to a few of my friends. I don’t know if they went for it. I highly recommend it. Ben: Thank you. Thank you. Do you remember what exactly it was that Daphne helped you with that made such a difference? Naveed: Okay. I might have some notes. I have a book in front of me. What was it? Let me see if I can find it. Okay. Anyway, I’ve printed it out somewhere. Anyways, okay. So, the best thing about the review is the YouTube video because it’s easy to access, right? The access is easy, right? She highlights you wrote this sentence. It’s grammatically correct, but the points you’re going to receive is not going to be good enough for you to get that higher mark. So, because you might do let’s say– She says spelling is a huge deal, so don’t lose points on spelling. If you don’t know it, don’t spell it, right? Ben: Yes. Naveed: Because you might get 8 in everything else, but you get 6 on something, your mark just goes– it plummets to the ground. Ben: Yes. Naveed: So, it’s better to be consistent in every part instead of being– trying to be really high in vocab, but then losing points in spelling. So, she pointed out things like you have to remember these four points. I think it was vocab, cohesion and coherence and I forgot what was the other one. It’s been quite long since I [unintelligible 00:10:45.00]. Ben: Okay, no worries. No worries. Naveed: Yes, yes. There was– Ben: I’ll just mention something for the listeners. Naveed has touched on a very important point and we cover this in detail in the online course with– about spelling. It’s absolutely ludicrous, it’s an absolute crime if you’re losing points in spelling because this is something that you can remedy yourself by writing out essays, putting them through a word processor, Word, Google Docs, whatever and then just checking which words you are writing incorrectly and then learn them, master them. It’s straight forward. So, it’s absolutely– when I did the corrections, it used to drive me crazy when I would see bad corrections. I would be like there are zero excuses. Grammar, we don’t have the software. You need a native English speaker to look at it and tell you that it’s an error and you can’t see the error, but spelling, zero excuses. So, good point there, Naveed. Sorry, carry on, Naveed. Did you have anything else to say? Naveed: Another thing is so with the spelling, I was having advice you can download like a spelling app. Basically, what you do is you store the ones– like for me if I wrote an essay, everything that I spelled wrong I put it in this app and then I test myself every day. So, it’s not a test. It’s like most commonly adjectives I use or– do you know what I mean? Ben: Yes, yes. Definitely. Naveed: Because it’s always going to be the same type of topic and you really talk about these are the topics that are coming up even in your website. These are the topics that are coming up and it’s very similar; climate, education, healthcare and you also talk about being very precise with the vocabulary like climate change or healthcare, elderly; don’t use older people, use elderly and stuff like that gives you a lot of marks [unintelligible 00:12:55.17] using good words but like spelling it also– That’s it. That’s what I have. Ben: Got you. Got you. About the app, that’s a very, very good point and I’ve seen a lot of students use these apps and testing yourself daily is the best way forward or even a few times daily. Just one other thing, Naveed, when you were reviewing your essay corrections sent to you by Naveed– sorry, sent to you by Daphne, where were you? Were you on a train, on the metro or something like that or at home? Naveed: Well, I used to come back home and just watch it. Ben: Okay. Got you. Naveed: Yes, because she sends me in the morning which is my night time because it’s a 12-hour time difference. Ben: Right, right. Okay. Naveed: But I’m 100% sure if anyone is listening, give it a try at least with 100% get something that you didn’t know before. 100%. I’ve been to so many people and nobody told me like just don’t write like this. Write like that. Do you know what I mean? People can say hey, don’t write this. Okay, fine. Then what should I write? They’ll give you examples that’s not better than yours. Ben: Got you. Naveed: She actually gives examples that’s better than yours. So, you’re like hey, I never thought about that. Ben: That is awesome. I know exactly what you mean. I’ve seen some of these corrections where it’s like this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong. You are useless. Why bother? You know and it’s like what! Obviously, they don’t say it as [unintelligible 00:14:35.11]. It’s cruel. Naveed: They need our money so they’re not going to say it. Ben: But I have, Naveed, I have seen corrections where the teacher wrote this is a primary school level, yes? And I was like how can they get away with that? This student is struggling. They want to improve their lives. They want to get to Australia, get PR, join a uni in England or whatever. They’re trying their best to improve their lives and the teacher is just slapping them around the face with a super demotivating correction. It’s absolutely criminal. So, yes. Naveed: I think another thing a big part of it is that because an examiner is marking it, she knows exactly what she’s talking about. Like I have some credit. She’s credible definitely. Ben: Oh, for sure. Naveed: When someone else who’s not an examiner says that, I take it with a grain of salt. Do you know what I mean? Ben: Exactly. Yes. Exactly. Naveed: Yes, yes. Ben: And also you’ve got the benefit and you know confidently that what she’s saying is completely legitimate because you can hear that it’s a native English speaker. With the document that you get sent back, then it’s– anybody could have written that text and I’ve seen corrections which are very questionable and I’m like there’s no way a native English speaker would have encouraged the student to write like that. So, yes. This is another good point. Naveed: Even though– like to add on it, even if you are a native English speaker, for me I grew up a bit in the UK when I was young– Ben: Yes, in London I think. I can hear. I thought so. Naveed: I was in Cardiff, a bit of London, a bit of Cardiff. Ben: Okay, okay Naveed: Even me as a native– I consider myself– I’m actually [unintelligible 00:16:36.18] I have a good grasp in the English level, but the problem is with IELTS it’s not really about the English. It’s about– what should I say? Response; how can you respond? How can you communicate your ideas to people, right? Ben: Exactly, yes. Yes. Naveed: This is not taught like hey, this is how you actually communicate with someone. It actually really helped me with my work, too. In my emails, I’m more considerate on how I write things. Even when I’m talking to someone, I’m more considerate on how I talk about things. So, it’s really a communication exam rather than an English exam. How well can you communicate? Ben: Exactly. Exactly. You’ve just mentioned a few good points there that I want to expound on. The first one is as you said, not any native English speaker can sort of do the correction. Maybe you send your essay to a native English speaker, but just because they are native English speaker, they’ve got an extremely high level doesn’t really mean that they’re going to help you with your writing that you need for the IELTS exam. That’s like a whole other skill and then the second thing, I honestly believe that once you get better at writing, it sharpens your thought process in communication, not only in texts when you’re writing, but also when speaking and also sharpens the clarity of your thought. I think. Would you agree with that? Naveed: I 100% agree because you get to think what’s concise, what’s to the point. Ben: Exactly. Naveed: No filler episode or something. No filler, it’s just straight to the point. Only necessary information and it’s just like always oh my God. Like now I think I’m stupid when I was [unintelligible 00:18:39.06]. Before I used to write so many– I used to add so many things that didn’t need to be there. Ben: Yes, yes. I was the same, Naveed. I was the same really before I got into this and I look back at some of my university texts and I was like oh my word! I used to write so fluffy, it’s so unclear and so, unconcise. It would take me about 20 words to say what can be expressed– what I can express now in five words or in seven words. You just go through it and you can start cutting the fat, as I like to say– cutting the fat from the sentence. Yes, just getting it as concentrated and as clear as possible. So, you said that you’ve seen some improvements in your day-to-day writing and the day-to-day working environment. Naveed: Yes, of which I’m really happy about because I’m like oh man, I want to get this over with. I don’t want to study English anymore. Why am I studying again? But then I’m like hey, actually this is improving my thought behavior. It’s actually a beneficial thing. It’s not like– you actually gain a skill. It’s not just oh, you got a score. You actually gain a good skill. So yes, I never knew about that until I actually went very serious on it. Ben: That’s awesome. That’s awesome, Naveed. It’s like a real– it’s like an unexpected present; a very pleasant surprise. Naveed: Yes, yes. Ben: Okay. You said that you were going to– did you go to a language academy as well while you were in Melbourne? Naveed: Well, I went to one just for– they had a promotion. I went for a few classes. It wasn’t really helping because it’s sad to say, but they don’t know what they’re talking about because the thing is, okay, listening it’s just practice. You practice every day. That’s it. Reading you practice– okay, there’s like some skills also on loopholes. Ben: Strategies. Naveed: Yes, right. I always had a good mark, right? I always had a good mark, so I didn’t study that. I’m like I don’t care. I [unintelligible 00:21:03.14]. Speaking is like– you had really good advice. If I remember correctly, you always used to say that in your podcast. If you are stuck, say if I remember correctly then you get some points while you remember. That is the advice you gave, but yes. I didn’t have any good experience with them because it’s just when they talk you know they are not experts. They’re like oh, maybe this is not right. Okay, this is not right, but they never say write this instead. That’s my biggest issue. At least tell me what to write instead of what I actually wrote. Ben: Got you. Got you. I’ve been there. When I was– Naveed: That’s my experience. Ben: Yes, I totally understand you, Naveed. I’ve seen teachers being hired just because they looked right. In one academy, they hired these beautiful blond girls because they looked right. Naveed: Another thing is if someone has got all four 8s that doesn’t mean they can teach all four 8s. Ben: Yes, yes. Totally. Exactly. Naveed: Yes, because it’s like some people score behavior and some people understand it differently. You have to– when you teach someone, you got to go– because I was a private tutor for mathematics for two years. When you teach someone, you’ve got to go all the way from the foundation on the base level. Start from the beginning and all the way to the top. They were like this is wrong. Get to it. Ben: This is it. This is it. As you just said, being at a 7 level does not automatically qualify you and second, as I was just saying before, some of these academies especially the language academies if they’re desperate for a teacher, they’ll just take anybody, throw a textbook at them, throw an IELTS grammar textbook at them and say okay, there you go. Teach them IELTS. And it’s a joke. It’s a joke really. It’s kind of sad as well I think. Naveed: Yes. Ben: Because a lot of students they end up getting ripped off. Naveed: Another thing is– sorry, go on. Go on. Ben: No, I was just saying like a lot of students end up getting ripped off. Naveed: Another thing is I think a lot of people have the misconception of– like when I went to the– I know you [unintelligible 00:23:39.13] I don’t know if you said it or someone else said it. If you know you’re going to do good in the exam you’re not going to be that nervous, right? When you finish writing, you know what you wrote and you’re not going to be nervous. And so the first time, I wasn’t nervous after I left because I know I covered the four points and I covered it a minimum I’m getting the one live one. That was my [unintelligible 00:24:02.27] right? So, it’s basically cover what the necessary IELTS points, what they require and you’ll be– before I didn’t think about this. Before I thought I’m going to write this amazing essay and it’s got to be really good, but I said no. Just go back to everything is going to be good and you’re going to get the marks you’re going to need. Don’t try to excel at one thing and then lose marks in another thing. I think this was the biggest problem for me. I was trying to excel too much. I was trying to be like this has got to be the best essay of my life and when you try to do that, you lose your calm and collectiveness. Daphne really suggested me take five minutes to actually plan your essay. Take five minutes. It doesn’t matter. Don’t think about anything else. Just plan and have a thought process. Ben: Yes, yes. That is a really good point, Naveed, and I’m just going to highlight it for the students. Instead of going in there and writing some amazing essay like Naveed said, go in there, plan, but also be aware of the marking criteria that you’re going to have to fulfill. Be aware of the structure you’re going to write and how you’re going to write it, but I think the most important thing there is, as Daphne correctly taught you, spend some time on planning an amazing essay. I think this is the 80/20 of it. If you can plan a decent one and you’ve got a good structure to follow and you’ve got some strong language skills, I think it’s relatively straightforward. I think. Naveed: It was really straightforward when you said always have the same sort of template for your essays, right? You just got to fill in your other details, right? So, you automatically know what you’re going to write. You don’t go to the exam and think about what to write. You know what you’re going to write. You just fill in small details and it’s like whoa! I never thought about this. I should have already had a template in mind and words I should definitely use; my go-to words. So, I don’t have a thing about how do I increase points for my vocabulary? This is super important. Ben: Absolutely, yes. And if you’ve got the framework in mind, you can use that framework, if it’s a good framework, you can use it for an essay about climate change, for an essay about education, for an essay about crime. It’s very, very– it gives you an unfair advantage I think. Naveed: Yes, yes because you’re racing against the time anyway, right? Ben: Exactly. Naveed: It’s already a short time. You don’t have time to think about what should I write about? How should I write it? What structure should I use? You do not have that time. Ben: Yes, this is so true. Naveed: You got to come prepared. You got to come prepared. Ben: Yes, yes. You’ve got to come with a battle plan. You just can’t walk in there and it’s like– Naveed: Yes, a full plan. It was really helpful. Your podcast really saved me because if I didn’t come because I saw a lot of– there’s a YouTube I don’t want to name the names. I don’t want to put anyone down, but there’s a lot of YouTubers with millions of followers, right? And they say do this, do this and then you’re telling me don’t do this. I’m like wait, what! I’m like wait. There was one with what you call– if I found it in the– I wrote it somewhere, but this YouTuber told me use this type of sentence, use that type of sentence, use this complex sentence, but then you’re telling me don’t use sentences– don’t use complex sentences where it doesn’t belong. You can’t start like a beginning sentence and you can’t make it too complicated because it’s going to be– the essay will lose focus of the topic. Ben: Yes, it’s going to trip you up. Yes. Naveed: Yes, it’s going to trip you off and then you might go in a tangent somewhere else. My biggest flaw was I was going away from the topic. That was my– Daphne highlighted it. That was my biggest flaw. She said plan your essay. Know what you’re talking about. Focus really on the question. Go back to the question. You do one paragraph, go back to the question. You do another paragraph, go back to the question. Never lose sight of the topic. You lose sight of the topic, it doesn’t matter how amazing you write. You’re going to lose marks. Ben: Exactly. This is another point that we mention on the online course. You could write the most beautiful essay on the world, but if you’ve gone off-topic, you are just going to get hammered by the examiner. You can’t get any points and likewise, even if you’re on topic, but you’ve written it in a grammatical mess that nobody on this earth could understand, then also you’re not going to get any points. So, it’s a very, very– these two factors are insanely, insanely important. So, just before we move on, you got married then you came back. You got the essay– you got the trial essay correction and then you did a full essay correction and then you went straight into the exam. There was like two weeks in between it? Naveed: Just two days or three days later, but I was so happy. I was like oh, thank God. At least I know I’m okay. I’m okay. The thing is– another thing is on the exam day, also we talked about writing. We talked a lot about it. With speaking, I had such a horrid experience because– I had such a horrible experience. I went there. I had found a couple of questions on the internet; what’s likely to come up. I never thought in my head I would get a question tell me about an experience you had with your dad in a public– what do you think about the public transport with your dad or something like that. I’m like public transport in Bangladesh? It doesn’t exist. I’m thinking oh my god. I have to create another world for myself. Ben: What did you do? Naveed: I’m like okay. There are trains, but it’s really bad over there. It’s just horrible. It’s just very horrible. Bangladesh is a very poor country. There’s no way of getting around it. So, it’s a very poor country. So, we have no public transport basically except some trains but which are crazy because you don’t want to get in the trains because it’s filled and packed with other people. Anyway, back to the topic. This is me. I just go somewhere else. Anyway, the main thing is– so, this is why IELTS is helping me. Okay, I come back. Anyway, I come back. So, he said tell me an experience with public transport. What do you think about your public transport? And this was a big problem. I know I messed up when I said it. I start talking about yes, our public transport isn’t good blah, blah, blah. Oh, Japan has a really good public transport. I’m like oh God, why am I talking about Japan? And then I kept talking about Japan because I know a lot about Japan’s public transport for some weird reason. So, I start talking about Japan a lot and then she’s like okay– then I’m like okay and then she’s talking about– but then the examiner was really nice because I stopped. I stopped, right? And she did with her hand like talk more with her hand. Ben: She encouraged you, yes. Naveed: Yes. She said talk a little bit more you have to fill the one minute and a half or something. Then I started talking all type of nonsense and then she’s like tell me an experience with your dad in the public transport. I’m like what the! What is this? Can we talk about anything other than public transport right now? Even I started saying. Ben: Just to interrupt, she asks you about public transport with your dad, how did you transition into talking about Japan? Do you remember what you said? Naveed: First she said what do you think about the current state of public transport in your country, right? Now, with my skin complexion, I can’t say I’m from Japan. I’ve got to say I’m from Bangladesh. I have to say that. If I could have said that, that would have been awesome, but I couldn’t. So, I said okay this is our public transport. It’s not great. However, I know another country where it’s very amazing. So, that’s how I went there. Ben: Well done. Naveed: That’s good, but then she said tell me an experience that you had in– so specific I got so throw off. Tell me an experience that you’re with your dad in a public transport. I’m like okay. It’s very unlikely I’m in a public transport with my dad and then there to be an accident. So, the problem of the question was I had to use my imagination a lot and for me, I panicked. I panicked a bit. I was like and I was like I should be all right, but I thought oh man, what if I don’t get this 7 I need. I was so– I was like what if I don’t get the 7 because I was so ill-prepared and maybe I should have prepared for more. I was overconfident really. I was like it doesn’t matter. I know how to speak English, but I should have practiced maybe a bit more with someone. Do you know what I mean? That would have helped. I was overconfident. Ben: How did you recover from this nervousness that suddenly sprung up? Naveed: I didn’t. I didn’t. Ben: Oh. Oh, no. Naveed: I just winged it. I just winged it. I’m okay talking so I know I’m not that bad so I should get something. Ben: Let me just highlight a point for the students. Even though these nerves they jumped up and they came to surprise you about– what do you call it– about I should get a band 7, you sort of like corrected course and you reaffirmed to yourself during the exam. Naveed: Right, right, right. Ben: I’m good. Naveed: Which is really hard. Ben: You did it. You did it and you said I’m good at speaking. I can do this more or less. Is that right? Naveed: More or less. Ben: You don’t sound so convincing there. Naveed: I felt so disappointed. I was so thrown off the question. For me, I highly recommend practicing with someone else at least before you go to the exam. I didn’t practice. I didn’t touch it. I just heard like three of your speaking podcasts that you give advice on and I always use if I remember correctly and I used the keywords and I’m like I’ll be all right. Ben: Okay then. Naveed: But I believe you should practice. I believe you should definitely practice. Who knows? You might get a question that’s very– that you’ve never heard of. You have to go back to your preparation and it’s so sad. Ben: That’s good advice. So, just before we finish, you were getting 7.5s. Is that right? In everything except the writing. Naveed: Except writing, yes. Ben: Okay, as in you got married, you got a few essay corrections and then you did the test again and what happened? What were your latest results? What did you get this time? Naveed: I got listening 8, which is fantastic because I needed listening 8 and I got 7 in everything else, which is exactly what I need, but I know I could have done a lot better if I went with your course. A lot better because that was just me– this is me with two essay corrections. If I went with the course, it has 16 essay corrections that’s like you’re improving 16 times. You’re not improving two times. You’re like in a [unintelligible 00:37:12.10] reference. You’re like 16 times super saying and I was at the [unintelligible 00:37:17.09] for the same magic. Ben: Awesome. So now, you’ve got the grades that you need, you’re going to be applying for PR. Naveed: And another thing is thank you so much for your hard work and service and podcast design. It’s completely free and it’s just really amazing and thank you so much for the free information. I would like to highlight the free things because no one would give this information for free, but you’re giving it, which is amazing. Ben: Thank you very much, Naveed. That’s very kind. It’s very thoughtful. I’ll pass on your thanks and your praises on to Daphne. She’ll be over the moon. Daphne loves it when she gets success stories, when she hears of the students. So, thank you very much. So, now, you’re applying for PR and how long will it be until you can get this PR sorted? Naveed: I think maybe 6-8 months. It’s a long time, but I can wait. I’m happy now. I got this thing out of the way. Now, I don’t have to use my brain which I’m happy about. I just have to do physical work and go with it. Ben: I don’t know if your boss would be so happy about that. I don’t have to use my brain now. I’m just going to walk in to work, sit down and have a sandwich. Naveed: It’s like seriously I’ve never– my brain was on 100. I was using my brain so much I was like I gave the exams two times and I couldn’t get it. It’s expensive. In Australia, it’s $390, which is not cheap and I had to take a day off from work. So, it’s not a cheap thing. Ben: Not at all. Naveed: Yes. It’s not cheap. It’s very expensive. So, I was like okay and I don’t want to get that feeling of if I did bad first time, then the second time I might do bad and a lot of my friends spend thousands and thousands of dollars and one of my friend spent like $10,000 already. I’m like oh my God. I don’t want to be that guy. Ben: Horror story yes. Horror story. Wow! Naveed: There’re these horror stories everywhere. Ben: Yes, yes and a lot of students think– what is it now– IELTS IDP– a lot of people believe they just want to get my money and all of these and they get so frustrated. They get so frustrated. Naveed: You wouldn’t believe I was checking the reviews online. There are different centers. Oh, this center actually gives better marks. I’m like wait a minute. Ben: Wow! Oh, my word. Naveed: People in the review are like go to this center, this center, but one thing I would recommend, go to a small test center. It’s more nicer. Ben: This is a really good tip. I can just totally see the logic. Naveed: Yes, because I went to– my first one in Australia, I want to [unintelligible 00:40:30.06] IT University test center. There were hundreds of students. It was hectic, right? Oh, where to go? Where to go? You’re thinking other than the IELTS, right? But when I gave this test, there’s– what’s it called? It’s called Australia Institute of Language in Melbourne and there were only five students giving the whole exam. Right, and it was so quiet. Ben: That’s a genius tip. Yes, yes, rather than just a chaotic center with hundreds of students, with burned-out examiners who are tired of asking the same questions. Naveed: Everyone is nervous and you get nervous. Ben: Yes, of course. Of course. Naveed: And so much noise also and there super quiet you can really focus. I highly recommend it. Ben: Genius. Any more tips before we finish, Naveed? Anything else you’d like to mention? Naveed: I have got so many I could do a podcast on them. Ben: Let’s do it. Naveed and Daphne. Naveed: It was a great journey though. It was great. It was a horrible experience, but a great journey. Ben: Awesome. Awesome. Okay, we’ll finish there. So, just before we finish for the listeners, if you want your essay corrected, come to– just type into google IELTS podcast essay correction service– IELTS essay correction service. If you want to join me on my course, it’s the Jump to Band 7 or It’s Free and also, remember to sign up for the emailing list. We give out lots of tips and the trial essay correction that Naveed was talking about. You can only get that if you sign up for the email list as well. Yes, that’s everything and if you’ve got– if you’re struggling, send us an email. We can help you. We’d love to help you and all the best. From Naveed and us, I think that’s everything. So, goodbye and good luck. Naveed: All right. Ben: All right. Good work, Naveed. Absolute stuff. Thank you so much. [music] Female Voice: Thanks for listening to ieltspodcast.com Ben: All right. Naveed: It’s great that we are talking to you now because I listen to you so, so long. That’s why [unintelligible 00:42:55.04]. 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Rank #2: Speaking Questions with Model Answers (2020).
In this tutorial, we will be looking at recent Speaking Cue Cards seen around the internet sent in by students and sent in by our students as well who are on the IELTS Online course and taking exams. First, we look at a cue card and then apply a framework that will be very useful. It’s almost like a cheat sheet and after that, we are going to look at some of the follow-on questions for part 3. Tip: Listen to the audio, write down the phrases, and try to use them in your everyday conversations. Eventually they will stick and sound more natural. FRAMEWORK (BASIC VERSION) I would like to tell you about RELATIVE CLAUSE + SUPERLATIVE + CONJUNCTION I would like to tell you about one of my teachers who taught me in middle school. He was probably the most interesting teacher I’ve ever had, although he did set a lot of homework. I suppose you could say… to be honest…. I suppose you could say he was strict but fair, to be honest I think he was a real nice guy. If I remember correctly… OR If my memory serves me well… If I remember correctly he taught us maths and sometimes geography… If my memory serves me well it was back in 1992… As I was saying I liked it because of TWO REASONS firstly… secondly … FOR EXAMPLE… (As I was saying) I liked this teacher for two reasons, firstly he always came to the class prepared and worked with an amazing efficiency. Secondly he had a mean sense of humour, which was frankly awe inspiring when you’re a ten year old. It’s hard to explain why …. t’s hard to explain why or how, but I was honestly impressed by this teacher, Mr Sykes. And that’s my talk about …. And that’s my talk about one of my favourite school teachers. Cue Card (Part 2) Describe an interesting conversation you had. You should say: when and where you had it I would like to tell you about one of my older friends who sat down with me and answered all my questions about settling down and family life…he was about ten years ahead of me…. I suppose you could say he’s probably one of the wisest friends I’ve ever had…. although he did set a lot of homework. whom you were with If I remember correctly… it was just me and him, however, there were a lot of people at the dinner table but it was late and we kind of ignored everyone else … why it was interesting It was interesting for TWO REASONS firstly… secondly … FOR EXAMPLE… And explain how you felt after that. It’s hard to explain why ….. Now, let’s move on to the follow-on questions. These follow-on questions will be slightly different to the cue card we’ve just covered. These were specifically chosen for two reasons: These are quite popular current events and issues that are going on in the world. You’ve got a good opportunity for vocabulary that you can not only use in your Speaking but in your Writing as well. These were quite interesting and more likely to be relevant to our situation about what we are doing. PART 3 (A) Where is the most crowded place in your city? Why are cities becoming overcrowded day by day? People behave differently in crowded places, why do you think this happens? How do you think people should deal with traffic congestion? PART 3 (B) Do you think University should be compulsory? Describe a situation when you helped someone. How often do you help someone? What are the advantages of helping someone? Do young people help older people? PART 3 (C) Do you like watching comedy on TV? Do you think you can make someone laugh? When was the last time you laughed very hard? Do you like taking long or short breaks? What do you do in those short breaks? You can download or listen to the audio version here: |Direct Download Here | Stitcher | iTunes | Spotify | Soundcloud | Transcript | YOU MAY READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW: [Music] Ben: Hello there, IELTS students. Welcome to IELTS podcast. You no longer have to worry, fret or panic about IELTS because we are here to guide you through this test jungle. Enjoy these IELTS tutorials and if you need more help or want to access the famous online course, you can visit us at ieltspodcast.com. [Music] INTRODUCTION Ben: Hello there, IELTS students. In this tutorial, we will be looking at recent cue cards seen around the internet, sent in by students, and sent in by our students as well who are on the course and taking exams. The layout will be first we look at a cue card and I will apply this framework that I think you will find very useful. It’s almost like a cheat sheet and after that, we are going to look at some of the follow-on questions for part 3. I specifically chose these follow-on questions because 1) they are quite popular at the moment, okay? These are quite popular current events, current issues that are going on in the world. 2) Good opportunity for some vocabulary that should come relatively easy for you as a student and thirdly, I thought they were quite interesting and more likely to detain– more likely to be relevant to our situation about what we are doing. For example, they’re not going to be questions about golf. I doubt that. Not that many of you play golf, but they are questions about streaming services, video games, and all of that. Let’s jump straight into it. We will look at a cue card. LET’S LOOK AT SOME CUE CARDS Describe an interesting conversation you had. You should say when and where you had it, from where– sorry who you were with, and why it was interesting. Final point and explain how you felt after that. So, just to summarize: describe an interesting conversation you had. You should say when and where you had it, who you were with, why it was interesting, and explain how you felt after it. SOME IMPORTANT FRAMEWORK TO LEARN Now, the framework that I’m going to suggest for you is the one that I’ve suggested in previous episodes. So, grab a pen because this is very useful and it’s very straightforward and it’s very practical. So, if we memorize this sentence, we can use– or if we memorize this structure: relative clause, superlative, conjunction, okay, and we can start our talk with this. It’s very, very straightforward, extremely practical and we’re going to pick a bucket load of points in the process. The next phrase is if I remember correctly and then for the why answer– why it was interesting, we’re going to answer with this. It was interesting for two reasons. Firstly, because of this. Secondly, because of this and then throughout the talk, we are going to splice in or we’re going to put in some very useful phrases such as if I remember correctly, as I was saying, it’s hard to explain why. Now, I wanted to mention these to you at the start before I gave you the cue card talk because now that you are aware of them, hopefully, you will be able to pinpoint them and you’ll be paying attention and you can hear them being used naturally. So, just one more time I’ll go through the cue card and then I’ll jump straight into my two-minute presentation. Describe an interesting conversation you had. You should say when and where you had it, who you were with, why it was interesting, and explain how you felt after it. I would like to tell you about one of my older friends who sat down with me one evening and answered all my questions about settling down and family life. He was about ten years ahead of me. I suppose you could say he’s one of the wisest friends I’ve ever had although I wasn’t so impressed with his dress sense. Anyway, if I remember correctly, we were in Lisbon. There was a big event– big seminar. There were probably about 70 people on the table, but I managed to corner this guy. His name’s Eddie and we kind of orientated our seats to each other, so we kind of shut off everybody else. Plus, it was getting late so they were leaving. We just had like a one-on-one and I was asking him all the questions about, as I said about family life, about how to balance family life with business life– with work life, how to keep up to date with your interests, how to maintain your hobbies and all of this because to me, it seemed like quite a juggling act. You’ve got all of these different projects and responsibilities and tasks to complete every single day. So, it was just me and him and as I said, we kind of just ignored everybody else and the reason why it was– well, there are two reasons why it was interesting. Firstly, he seemed to have everything under control on the surface. That’s what I thought initially. Externally, everything was under control. It was going well. He seemed to be winning in every single department, but this is the second part why it’s interesting is because when I dug a little bit deeper, I found that not everything was as rosy as it seemed on the outside. For example, he did have arguments with his wife. I didn’t think so. I would never have dreamed that he would have had arguments, but he said yes, I have arguments. Yes, sometimes he has terrible days where he just doesn’t feel like working and I was surprised because I’d always seen him– he just seemed like five-star. Everything was perfect. So, as I was saying, Eddie he did seem to have success on the outside, but when I dug a little deeper, it just wasn’t as perfect as it seemed and he openly admitted that. How did I feel afterwards? Well, it’s hard to explain, but I think I’d say I felt kind of relieved because for me, he was the standard I wanted to get to if you understand. He was like one of my role models or almost a mentor because I was relieved that even people that look perfect don’t have it all together. They’re just human and that’s my presentation about an interesting conversation I had and I hope you liked it. Okay. So, while I was doing this talk, I had the bullet points in front of me, okay? So, I did use the relative clause— I had these phrases in front of me, so I used the relative clause. I said I’d like to tell you about one of my older friends who sat down with me and answered all my questions, okay? And then I said he’s probably one of the wisest friends I’ve ever had– superlative. Then I used a conjunction— although his dress sense did leave a lot to be admired. I think I said something like that, which is a lie, by the way. He dressed impeccably. He dressed very well, but I wanted to just use a conjunction and it was a small conjunction. I have all of this in front of me with the bullet points and I strongly recommend you do the same. You get all these phrases in bullet point form, you practice looking at a cue card, and then you go through. If I remember correctly– very easy to use. It’s almost a collocation because those four words you’re more likely to hear them together and you can use it anywhere. It’s universal. So, if I remember correctly and then I just set the scene. I was quite descriptive; seminar, 70 people, it’s in the evening in Lisbon. Then this is one of my favorites at the moment because the next part I said it made it sound like those like much better constructed. It sounded much easier on the ears because I gave you two reasons. I said firstly and then I said secondly, but when I say that I’m going to give you two reasons, you’re waiting for the second one. Anyway, it’s just lends a little bit of structure for your talk. So, there are two reasons and then the two next universal collocations as I was saying and it’s hard to explain why this person is a role model or it’s hard to explain how I felt afterwards. So, hopefully you have written these down. We’re still working on this construction and eventually, we will integrate it into the Speaking Confidence Online Course, but as we’re working through it and as we are refining it, I still wanted to share it with you because I find it very useful. I’ve tested it on students and we’ve managed to get them from 6.5 to 7 in the speaking. I’m not saying this framework was responsible, but it did play a big part. I’m very convinced. HAVE A LOOK AT SOME FOLLOW-ON QUESTIONS Anyway, let’s move on to the follow-on questions. These follow-on questions will be slightly different to the cue card we’ve just covered. As I said before, these are follow-on questions that I cherry picked, so to speak, because I think they’re relevant, I think they’re some of the most frequent topics and thirdly, I think that you’ve got a good opportunity for vocabulary that you can not only use in your in your speaking but in your writing. So, first one: Where is the most crowded place in your city? The most crowded place in my city would probably have to be– by the way, I’m going to talk about Manchester because where I’m from is not a city, but I live close to Manchester. So, the most crowded place in Manchester, England would possibly be Piccadilly Square and I think it’s busy because there’s a big bus station in the center, there are lots of popular shops such as Primark– I hate to say it, but Burger King and also, there’s a very large, very busy chaotic hectic train station which is just bringing in thousands and thousands of people every hour. When you leave the train station, there’s only one way and that’s straight into Piccadilly Square. Pretty much that’s like the main exit, so everybody just flows into Piccadilly Square. Next question: Why are cities becoming overcrowded day by day? This is interesting. Although I don’t have the exact reason, I would guess that they’re becoming more crowded because in the cities nowadays, it’s usually where you get– it’s usually where the jobs are located and if there’s a lot of jobs, people will go there and they’ll live there. Interestingly, I was listening to a podcast the other day. It was about Elon Musk and he said that although cities have gone 3D as in they’ve increased in height, transport has stayed 2D as in that we haven’t built 20-decker buses, but we’ve build 20-decker buildings, for example. So, this could be another reason why cities are becoming overcrowded. So, just to summarize: probably traffic and the newer or jobs and opportunity and probably more prosperity as well. People behave differently in crowded places. Why do you think this happens? I guess we become desensitized by the amount of people. For example, in my village where I’m from in England, if you’re walking around on the hills and– for example, on Boxing Day recently, I was walking around on the hills and everybody I met we usually sort of like locked eyes and said you all right and then carried on whereas in cities, if you had to do that every day, if that was the routine, you would quickly become insane. So, I guess we desensitize meeting people because we’re interacting with people every single minute every single hour. So, I guess that’s probably why we might behave differently. How do you think people should deal with traffic congestion? I think there are lots of ways people could deal with traffic congestion: use more public transport, take biking to work, work remotely. All of these actions would reduce the amount of cars on the road I guess. You could also do car sharing or carpooling, possibly even take taxis maybe. I don’t know actually. That’s probably not the best suggestion. So, I guess there are lots of different ways and it just takes time to change, to adapt these because for the last 20-30 years, the standard way to get into cities has been with cars. So, hopefully there you picked up a lot of vocabulary. Also, you’ll have heard that I would correct myself. I just want to mention one final point. It’s not really the quality of the answer. It’s just the quality of your communication. So, even though I kind of went off a little bit when I was talking about the podcast, the cities becoming 2D 3D, I still brought it back and hopefully, you still followed my train of thought. I didn’t go totally off topic and start talking about cows in the road in Delhi, for example. I still kept it on topic and just pulled it back. I realized that it was kind of relevant and I made it more relevant. Also, for the last question, I gave a big list of reasons straight away, yes? How do you think people should deal with traffic congestion? It’s quite straightforward, so I just gave lots of different possible solutions. I gave an example and these– it’s funny actually because this is actually what we teach in the writing course; to give lots of reasons because it’s an opportunity to show your vocabulary and then give an example and that’s exactly how I tackled that last question and as you’d have heard, it was a very complete answer. Next ones: the next questions are going to be related about study except for the last one, which is about older people and I’m pretty certain the examiners threw this question in about older people because it’s quite common for students to say old– for example, old people need care. If you say old people, it sounds a little bit rude. So, this is why we should say the elderly need to be looked after. The elderly are a tremendous source of wisdom, yes? So anyway, let’s jump straight into it. First, we’re going to talk about students and then we’re going to talk about helping, okay? Do you think university should be compulsory? Well, I guess there are two sides to this argument. On the one hand, having a better qualified workforce is definitely a strong argument. However, on the other hand, if everybody has a degree, I guess they kind of lose the value which I think is what’s happening in the West nowadays. So, to be honest, I don’t think everybody should have a degree. Also, some people are just not meant for academic study. Some people are more gifted as athletes or are more gifted in physical work. So, to force these types of people to go for a degree would be absolutely ludicrous. Next question: Describe a situation when you helped someone. I guess I can talk about my partner who I’m helping at the moment. She’s having a bit of difficulty finding a flat in her city and I’m offering sort of like different solutions and just trying to look at the problem differently. Maybe and possibly frustrating her by just looking at things differently, but I’m genuinely trying to help her. Also nowadays, what I’ve learned is that sometimes people don’t want help. They just want to vent their problems. Anyway, to answer the question, I’m currently trying to help my partner and find a city– sorry, find an apartment and it’s going okay, but I think it’s probably a skill I could develop more. How often do you help someone? This is interesting. Although I’m not an active volunteer in some kind of charity, when I see the opportunity to help somebody in the city, I take it and I do enjoy it. For example, I remember once I was in London with my uncle– in fact, with the whole family and the extended family and we were talking about nutrition for some reason and endurance running. We were just coming out of the subway and there’s this old lady with a massive bag and I broke off the conversation to help this lady get up the steps with this massive bag. It felt good and also, it felt good doing it in front of my uncle who is somebody who I admire. I wouldn’t say I help people every day though when I see the opportunity, I do like to jump in. What are the advantages of helping to someone? I guess the advantages of helping someone is that you get to prove your worth, you get to share your knowledge, you get to see them overcome problems faster, but it also depends on what type of help you’re giving. It might be academic help. For example, you might be giving them feedback on their essays. You might also just be physically helping them. Either way, I think it usually feels good. This is possibly one of the reasons why a lot of people volunteer in charities and organizations and possibly even choose certain careers such as teaching or medicine. Do young people help older people? This is a really tricky question because it’s very general. I would like to think that yes, young people do help older people. In the majority of cities where I’ve lived in, I’m on the tram or on the metro or on the bus and I usually see younger people getting up and offering their seat to older people. So, I think in general, they do. I think younger people definitely help their elderly grandparents, for example, especially with topics such as technology and mobile phones and apps and all of this and I guess those elderly people probably helped their elders when new technology came on the scene. So, I’d like to say that yes, I think in general, younger people do help elderly people. Okay. So, that first bunch of questions obviously it’s about helping and as I said, I wanted to get it out– I wanted to make it clear that we shouldn’t really be using old people. Also, I wanted to show that we could use two sides of the coin, so to speak. Do you think university should be compulsory? Well, I guess there are two sides to the argument. Firstly, everybody should be qualified. Secondly, not everybody is suited for university. So, we not only get to use the firstly and secondly– actually, I think in my answer I used on the one hand and on the other hand. These are some phrases that you can definitely use, but be careful. We can’t use all the vocabulary we’ve learned for the writing. We can’t use all of that in our speaking. For example, certain phrases such as nevertheless is overly formal and thus as well. It’s probably too formal for this part– for this exam– for the speaking part. So, just bear that in mind. Okay. Final questions: Do you like watching comedy on TV? I probably do actually although I don’t watch it on television. I don’t think that many people watch television anymore, to be honest with you. There’s a trend called cord cutting where people are cutting their cable TV connections, for example. I think more people are moving over to streaming services such as Disney Plus or Netflix. Anyway, I like watching comedy on TV. It varies. Sometimes I watch some British talk show or some British comedy show. I think I’ve been watching– the one I’ve been watching recently is 9 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, which is very dark English humor. And then also, there’s the more what I was thinking is stupid obvious humor which is the American humor. So, I will sometimes watch American comedy series. The ones I’ve binge-watched in the past are probably The Office– the U.S. version– and Brooklyn 99, which I didn’t like at first, but after like three episodes, I got into it. I think people– sorry. I like watching comedy on TV. I like watching comedy series, but more so on my phone or my laptop nowadays. Do you think you can make someone laugh? No. I’ve never been able to make anybody laugh in my entire life. I completely promise– just joking. By the way, don’t mess around like I just did. Sorry, let’s do that again. Do you think you can make someone laugh? Yes, I think so, but it also depends on the other person. Some people if you’ve got the same sense of humor, it’s obviously going to be quite easy. For some reason, Dutch people, German people, Swedish we usually have kind of a dark sense of humor although with my German friends sometimes there’s a bit of a delay. It might be a little bit evil, so to speak. Anyway, I think I can make someone laugh. I think the key is not to do it on purpose, but just to take advantage of opportunities that arise; situational opportunities or maybe stuff that’s going on around you or maybe in the conversation. I’ll just give you an example. Yesterday, I was at the bank and I’m in Tbilisi at the moment in Georgia and not that many people speak English. I had a ticket for the queuing system and I think it was 749 and there is this person next to me and I asked them what number do you have and she said 745 and I was like– and this was all in broken English because she couldn’t really speak that much. So, I was like okay, let’s swap– change and she almost did it, but I was only messing around. Sorry, just to answer your question, I think sometimes I can do, but it depends on the situation. It also depends on how I feel like. IMPORTANT TAKEAWAYS FROM THE TUTORIAL So, yes, that’s everything from me today. I think the best takeaway from this tutorial would be to write down the framework that I briefly mentioned. Write it down in bullet points; maybe put it on a card. Then when you’re looking at some cue cards, try and use fragments from this framework. What was it now? Relative clause + superlative + conjunction and then remember those phrases: if I remember correctly, if my memory serves me well, firstly, secondly, for example. Try and get all of this down onto a piece of paper and then when you’re doing your cue cards, use it. If you do enough cue cards, eventually it’ll just be memorized and then once it’s memorized and it’s integrated into your active memory, then it starts sounding very natural. The best way to get into this active memory is to keep on doing it and doing it until it sounds natural, until it becomes automatic and then you can use it confidently. So, yes, that’s it for me today. We will be upgrading the Speaking Confidence Course soon. That’s coming– I think I’ve got it penciled in for March or April to upgrade the online courses. If you’re struggling with your speaking or your writing, then get in contact. We can help you. We’ve got an expert team of native English speakers giving you feedback so you can improve much faster and we can just end this frustration. DON’T LOSE SIGHT OF THE BIGGER PICTURE By the way, just one last thing before we finish. IELTS is difficult and sometimes it’s easy to become obsessed with IELTS. Sometimes it’s easy just to take test after test after test and then we lose sight of the bigger picture. We lose sight of why are we even taking IELTS? Ah yes, it’s for my immigration. It’s for my university studies. So, don’t go down that rabbit hole. Just take a step back and think okay, is this the best thing that I’m doing right now? Is the best thing to get help? Is the best thing to join the course? Is the best thing just to take two months off and give myself time to improve? So, just keep that in mind. That’s it from me today. I wish you all the best with your IELTS preparation. Remember to keep going. We’re here to help you so come and visit us at ieltspodcast.com. Have a great day and keep listening. [Music] Female Voice: Thanks for listening to ieltspodcast.com The post Speaking Questions with Model Answers (2020) appeared first on IELTS Podcast.
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