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- Fri Jul 24, 2015 7:58 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Speaking needs to be evaluated.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12592
Re: Speaking needs to be evaluated.
Hello, again, Kami. Here are some notes and corrections: Relax myself – where I like to relax / where I can relax Cinema – don’t add r at the end of the word Roller skate rink – roller skating rink Where they could paint – where they CAN paint (“Could” indicates that the kids were able to paint ther...
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 7:49 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Feedback needed for my speaking. Thanks, friends.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17965
Re: Feedback needed for my speaking. Thanks, friends.
Hi, Kami, Thanks for sharing about the incident with the watch. I think your mom understands that you were just a child when this happened, so hopefully you don’t have to worry about repaying her for breaking it. Agreeing with the assessment previously done, I would say that you really need to con...
- Fri Jul 03, 2015 3:13 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Feedback needed for my speaking sample.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9611
Re: Feedback needed for my speaking sample.
Hello, lkrishna, Thank you for sharing your recording. Driving is a lot of fun, especially with the right car, the right road, and the right weather. First, I’d like to say that you were fluent overall in your speech. There were few pauses in your recording, and you continued speaking. However, you ...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:35 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please criticise my speaking, need 7
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9974
Re: Please criticise my speaking, need 7
Hi, Ielts 7. Thanks for sharing your recording with us! I think libraries are the most amazing institution in the world, so I loved listening to your speech. Here are some thoughts. First, your speech sounds very memorized or like you were reading it. I understand the need to write down a speech, bu...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:24 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: NEED HELP ON ESTIMATED BAND SCORE/ speaking fluency
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8809
Re: NEED HELP ON ESTIMATED BAND SCORE/ speaking fluency
Hello, Fenobus. Thanks for sharing your recording with us! First, I’d like to say that I am going to assume you have been learning English from a young age, as Nigeria is a country where the language is widely spoken, in addition to many others. So you obviously have an advantage over many other stu...
- Mon May 25, 2015 2:58 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Is this a band 8 speech?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11216
Re: Is this a band 8 speech?
Hello, Terry3218. Thanks for sharing your recording. While I cannot comment on whether this is a band 8 speech, I will say the following: 1.) You have a nice introduction. You went from general to specific, but you didn’t waste much time on it. You got to the point of answering the questions right a...
- Mon May 25, 2015 2:49 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Any comments and estimated band score please.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11592
Re: Any comments and estimated band score please.
This recording was short, as you said, but here are some notes: 1.) Perhaps you could have explained the picture tradition a bit more as I, as a person not familiar with this custom, am quite curious about it. What do people do with the pictures, exactly? 2.) Remember to stick your tongue between yo...
- Mon May 25, 2015 2:44 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Any comments and estimated band score please.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11592
Re: Any comments and estimated band score please.
This is regarding the first recording: Hi, Matilda, Thank you for your recording. You did a nice job, overall. First, your pronunciation was easy to understand, so nice work there. Additionally, I like that you gave some examples of what you were talking about in your speech. You said, “for instance...
- Thu May 14, 2015 1:39 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please assess my speaking, target band is 8
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10384
Re: Please assess my speaking, target band is 8
I just meant those are good high-level words to use.
- Thu May 14, 2015 11:08 am
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please assess my speaking, target band is 8
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10384
Re: Please assess my speaking, target band is 8
Thanks again for sharing the second recording. I’m not sure what I would do without my laptop, so I understand your connection to your tablet-PC. Here are some notes: -Good introduction with, “I’m gonna talk about.” -Nice transition with “Speaking of. . .” to move from the first question to the seco...
- Thu May 14, 2015 10:41 am
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please assess my speaking, target band is 8
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10384
Re: Please assess my speaking, target band is 8
Hi, Terry3218, Thank you for sharing your recording of your speech. Here is some commentary for your first recording. Overall, I would say that you speak with great confidence and with very few errors. You use complex grammatical structures, like “has been proven” and longer sentences, which indicat...
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:28 am
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Can I get 7.5?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9751
Re: Can I get 7.5?
Hi, KrK, Thank you for sharing your recording. First, your speech was quite well-organized. You gave a solid introduction that made it easy for me, as a listener, to know what to expect. You used transition words to separate and at the same time link your different ideas together. Also, your vocabul...
- Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:32 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please help critique my speech!!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10058
Re: Please help critique my speech!!
Hello, Anye, Thank you for sharing your thoughts about this professor. I can see why he was influential. Being a mentor was going above and beyond his job description. Would that all teachers were like him. Your vocabulary was quite good. I heard “disclosed my intentions,” although I wonder if this ...
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:29 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Need at least band 7 in speaking.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9436
Re: Need at least band 7 in speaking.
Hi, Anye, Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences here. First, your vocabulary is quite advanced. I heard “profound,” “delivery ward,” etc. I would encourage you to work on the pronunciation of “fateful” because it sounded like “faithful” when you said it. Your pronunciation is overall e...
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:21 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Recorded Speaking Part
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9260
Re: Recorded Speaking Part
My apologies. I just downloaded the top file that was attached to your post and didn’t pay attention to which was labeled “first” and “second.” Sorry! That being said, here are some notes. First, your pronunciation was a bit difficult to understand at the very beginning after you said your favorite ...
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 4:14 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Recorded Speaking Part
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9260
Re: Recorded Speaking Part
Hi, blueberryCake90, Thank you for sharing your first recordings with us. Overall, I would say that you have a rather solid command of English. Here are some thoughts I have. First, if you are going to pass the IELTS, make sure you actually answer the question the interviewer puts to you. I was expe...
- Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:10 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please assess my Speaking (Need 8 Bands, already have 7)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11227
Re: Please assess my Speaking (Need 8 Bands, already have 7)
Hello, IndianHarry, Thanks for sharing your recording with us. First, I’d like to echo OnlineEnglishTeacher and say that your vocabulary was great. I heard “relentlessly nudging,” “technophile,” “technophobes,” “pertains,” and many other great words. I also heard a couple of idioms, such as “an expe...
- Thu Mar 19, 2015 6:39 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please help me assess this speaking!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11066
Re: Please help me assess this speaking!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I still can't get it to load for some reason. It may be a problem on my end. Thanks for trying, though.
- Thu Mar 19, 2015 3:07 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please help me assess this speaking (2)!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10022
Re: Please help me assess this speaking (2)!!!!!!!!!!
Here are some grammar notes from this recording: -“To love to me is a feeling to what people who are important and close to me.” – You might rephrase this as “Love is a feeling is what I feel for people who are important and close to me.” You started off with “to love,” an infinitive, so I would exp...
- Thu Mar 19, 2015 3:01 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please help me assess this speaking (2)!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10022
Re: Please help me assess this speaking (2)!!!!!!!!!!
You have great ideas, and you organize them well. Your vocabulary is fantastic and so is your grammar (“if I were to choose, . . .I would choose the former,” for example), as I’ve noted before, but I would encourage you to reduce the number of fillers you use, like, “umm. . .” It detracts from your ...
- Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:58 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please help me assess this speaking (2)!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10022
Re: Please help me assess this speaking (2)!!!!!!!!!!
Hello, again. In the recording about the elements of friendship, I again want to commend you on your use of vocabulary. You use words like “crucial,” and regularly use the words in such a way that it sounds natural and unforced. You have apparently worked hard building your vocabulary. Nice work. I ...
- Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:52 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please help me assess this speaking!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11066
Re: Please help me assess this speaking!!!!!!!!!!
I couldn't get the last file to download, so I can't comment on it.
- Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:52 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please help me assess this speaking!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11066
Re: Please help me assess this speaking!!!!!!!!!!
Hello, again! Regarding your second recording on the future of advertisements, your organization, grammar (Great job with the complex sentence beginning with “Although many people are annoyed by advertisements. . .” toward the end of the recording! Also, nice job on using adverbs correctly in this a...
- Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:47 pm
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Please help me assess this speaking!!!!!!!!!!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11066
Re: Please help me assess this speaking!!!!!!!!!!
Hello, Nguyenquanghuy, Thank you for sharing these practice recordings with us. First, I would like to say that you are quite fluent in terms of speed and vocabulary. In the first recording about the future means of transport, for example, I heard you use “it’s difficult to predict”, “fueled by,” an...
- Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:19 am
- Forum: Post your speaking
- Topic: Help assess my speaking, please
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9416
Re: Help assess my speaking, please
Hi, Femi, Thank you for uploading your sample Part I. I don’t think you’re going to have any problem getting the score that you want. You were very easy to understand, stayed on topic, and provided good examples. Your vocabulary is fantastic, and your pronunciation is awesome. Given your accent, I a...