003（7.5）

Okay, hi, welcome. Let's go ahead and get started. To begin, can you tell me your name?

My name is Sam Park, and my Korean name is Jeong Ah Park.

Can you spell your name, first and last name?

My Korean name? My Korean name is J-E-O-N-G, and A-H.

Yeah, and you have an English name also?

Yeah, my English name is Sam Park.

Sam, okay. Nice to meet you. Are you working or studying right now, Sam?

I am none of them. Okay, I'm looking for a job.

Okay.

Because last year I graduated from university.

Okay.

And I'm looking for a job recently, but the market in Korea is not that good right now, so I don't have any job right now.

Understandable. What did you study in university?

Uh, my major is psychology. I majored in psychology because I wanted to be a profiler before, because I'm a big fan of Sherlock Holmes, but then it was different from what I thought, so I regret it.

And what is your hometown?

My hometown? Uh, my hometown is in Korea, Changwon. Yeah, I was born there.

Can you tell me about Changwon?

It is a place next to Busan, so people are more—uh, Busan is more popular than Changwon. However, Changwon is popular with the cherry blossoms. You know, there's a very long trail road, um, full of cherry blossoms during spring.

Yeah, sounds like a nice place. And what do you like to do in your free time?

Free time, I like to watch Netflix and listen to a lot of music.

Okay, what kind of music do you like?

I like hip-hop. Yeah, I like hip-hop.

Alright, now we're going to talk about clothes. What's your favorite color of clothes?

Oh, my favorite color is green because it suits me a lot, and I like the color green because, um, I like nature, and green is the color of nature, so it's my favorite color.

And what kind of clothes do you never wear?

Oh, never? Um, black and white clothes. Okay, like a mix of black and white, because I like colors a lot, so if there is no color in it, I don't like it.

Okay, yeah. And what kind of clothes do you usually wear?

I usually wear brown or green. Yeah, as I said earlier, I like nature, so brown and green are the colors of nature, so I usually really like those colors.

Okay, maybe there's one more question. Do you wear the same style of clothes on a weekday and a weekend?

It doesn't depend on weekdays or weekends, because, uh, it depends on whom I meet. Like, if I am meeting a person who's much older than me, then I will wear more polite clothes, but if I'm meeting friends that are younger or about the same age as me, then I wear, um, some kind of like hip-hop clothes.

Yeah, sure. Alright, good. Very nice start. Now we can move on to part two. Okay, so in part two, you get a topic and you get one minute to prepare. This is your topic. You can take notes to prepare in any way that you would like. Here's a pencil. Just set a timer, and in a minute we can start.

Okay, and that is a minute. So, in this part, you're going to describe an energetic person you know, and you want to say who the person is, how you know this person, why you think they are energetic, and explain how you feel about this person. Are you ready?

Yeah.

Alright.

So, the energetic person that I know is Tony Stark. So, I know Tony Stark from the movie called Iron Man. There are series of Iron Man: 1, 2, 3, but I'm a big fan of Tony Stark in the movie. The reason why I think Tony Stark is energetic is, first of all, he is—he—I saw him dancing while he's working, and I think it's really, really hard to dance and enjoy his work when it comes to making money. So, I thought he is very energetic. And second of all, I consider him energetic when he's dealing with the villains. Like, I never saw him being depressed or very, uh, very—how to say—sad when the villains were overtaking him. So, I thought—I'd consider him as energetic. And what I feel about him is that he's very confident about himself, and he's very cool and very, um, independent person. Yeah.

Cool. Just a couple of follow-ups about Tony Stark. Do you know any other movies or shows that he has been in besides Iron Man?

Um, I've never seen him in any other movies other than Avengers or Iron Man.

Avengers, okay. What kind of clothes does he usually wear?

Suits.

Suits? Like a business suit?

A business suit, yeah.

Is he a sharp dresser, a good dresser?

Um, he's a good—oh no, he doesn't wear suits, he wears, um, jeans and t-shirts.

Okay, yeah, casual clothes.

Yeah.

Okay, good, good, good. Alright, we can move on to part three. First question: what kinds of jobs need a lot of physical work?

Um, for me, I think jobs such as cameraman need a lot of physical work because what I know about cameras is that they're really heavy. I thought—I heard it's about five kilograms, but they are holding it on their shoulders for about, um, 12 hours at least. I think that requires a lot of physical work.

Okay, and what's the difference between the payment for physical work and that for brain work?

Oh, I think brain work should be paid more than physical work because brain work, um, requires a lot of time to be, um—how to say—professional in the job field. However, physical work doesn't really take a lot of time to be professional in that work field.

Why does it not take as much time?

Um, because for physical work, if they go to the gym and work out for a month, they can become very strong and get a lot of muscles. But for brain work, it takes at least one year to study in the field. For example, for me, I studied for, I would say, 12 years. I studied 12 years, so I think it is more valuable than physical work.

Yeah. And can physical workers receive higher salaries in the future?

In the future? Um, maybe. Maybe about, like, 70 percent—I'm 70 percent sure—because recently, um, there is a digital transformation going on very fast, so, um, AI can be more useful in the future than the human brain. So, I think in the future, maybe physical work can be more paid off.

Okay. And do you think machines could replace human workers in the future?

Um, not all of them, but maybe 50 percent. Um, for example, like, the work that requires creativity, then robots cannot replace humans. However, if it's not the creativity per se, if it comes to such things as Excel or typing, just like simple work, then robots can replace humans.

Okay, yeah. Alright, really nicely done. We've come to the end.

Oh, really?

Yeah, we've come to the end.

Okay.

Um, so I think you did a really nice job there. So now we can go into some of the things to work on. And remember, the IELTS is scored on four categories. So, there's fluency and coherence, there's pronunciation, then there's vocabulary and grammar. Um, in terms of both fluency and pronunciation, you really have no problems. You speak with only natural pauses occasionally as you're looking for a word, and your pronunciation of single words is very good, and your sentences have a rhythm. Um, so both of those categories are really good. In terms of vocabulary and grammar, it's also really good. I was writing down a lot, but there's nothing to worry about. But those would be the two areas to, uh, if you wanted to move up at all, and we can take a look at a couple of, um, a couple of things to think about.

Um, there is—not one single error—um, because you did really well in the test. It's little small things here and a small thing there. Um, one part in part one when you were talking about your studying, you switched a little bit back and forth between the present and the past tense. It was mostly in the past tense, and then a few verbs, uh, there was a few—there was an "is." Um, but it is important in those questions about the past to keep all of your verbs in the past tense, so keep that in mind.

Um, there were small things about subject-verb agreement too. I think at one point you said "it doesn't depends on," but we want to remember that it depends, it depends. Um, and really minor things around word order. As you were talking about your hometown, you mentioned that it was very popular with cherry blossoms. We'd actually want to reverse those two; we want to say that cherry blossoms are really popular.

Yeah, yeah.

So just minor, sort of minor things. Um, and, uh, similar things in part two and part three. The other, um, the other point might be developing your answers just a little bit more. As you get into those higher IELTS bands, you want to give slightly longer answers. Um, part two was a good answer, but I could tell that after we got past a minute, you started to run out of things to say. The only thing to do to hit the two minutes is to just practice over

 and over again, um, to give more details, to give just a little bit more detail. But it was a really well-structured answer.

Um, you started with describing who the person was and then got more detailed, so I could follow along. And again, with good pronunciation and good fluency, it was good. Within that part two answer, there were a couple of times where I think you were looking for an adjective.

Yeah, yeah.

At that higher end of vocabulary, the thing to work on is just expanding the range of adjectives that you can, um, that you can call to mind in a test situation. Um, but overall, I thought it was a really good test. Um, part three was also, it was like good answers that could have been slightly more developed. Um, but overall really nice, and these grammar and vocabulary points are very small. So I think, um, well done, and thank you for coming.

Thank you.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

好的，您好，欢迎光临。我们开始吧。首先，你能告诉我你的名字吗？

我的名字是Sam Park，我的韩文名字是Jeong Ah Park。

你能拼一下你的名字吗，姓和名？

我的韩文名字？我的韩文名字是J-E-O-N-G，A-H。

你还有英文名字吗？

是的，我的英文名字是Sam Park。

Sam，好。很高兴认识你。你现在在工作还是学习，Sam？

我都没有。我在找工作。

好的。

因为去年我从大学毕业了。

好的。

最近我在找工作，但韩国的就业市场不是很好，所以我现在没有工作。

可以理解。你在大学学的是什么？

呃，我的专业是心理学。我学心理学是因为我以前想成为一个剖析师，因为我是夏洛克·福尔摩斯的忠实粉丝，但后来发现和我想的不一样，所以我有点后悔。

你的家乡是哪里？

我的家乡？呃，我的家乡在韩国，昌原。是的，我出生在那里。

你能介绍一下昌原吗？

它是一个靠近釜山的地方，所以人们更——呃，釜山比昌原更有名。然而，昌原以樱花闻名。你知道，有一条很长的小路，春天的时候满是樱花。

是的，听起来是个好地方。那么，你空闲时间喜欢做什么？

空闲时间，我喜欢看Netflix，听很多音乐。

好的，你喜欢什么样的音乐？

我喜欢嘻哈音乐。是的，我喜欢嘻哈。

好，现在我们来谈谈衣服。你最喜欢的衣服颜色是什么？

哦，我最喜欢的颜色是绿色，因为它很适合我，而且我喜欢绿色，因为我喜欢自然，而绿色是自然的颜色，所以这是我最喜欢的颜色。

那你绝对不会穿什么样的衣服？

哦，永远不会？嗯，黑白的衣服。好的，比如黑白混合的，因为我喜欢颜色，如果衣服没有颜色，我不喜欢。

好的，是的。那你通常穿什么样的衣服？

我通常穿棕色或绿色的衣服。是的，就像我之前说的，我喜欢自然，所以棕色和绿色是自然的颜色，所以我通常真的很喜欢这些颜色。

好的，也许还有一个问题。你工作日和周末穿的衣服风格一样吗？

这不取决于工作日或周末，而是取决于我见谁。比如，如果我要见一个年纪比我大很多的人，那么我会穿得更正式，但如果我见的是比我年轻或年龄相仿的朋友，我会穿一些像嘻哈风格的衣服。

是的，当然。好，很不错的开始。现在我们可以进入第二部分了。好的，在第二部分，你会得到一个话题，并有一分钟的准备时间。这是你的话题。你可以记笔记，任何你喜欢的方式来准备。这是一支铅笔。设置一个计时器，一分钟后我们可以开始。

好的，一分钟到了。所以，在这一部分，你要描述一个你认识的精力充沛的人，你要说这个人是谁，你是怎么认识这个人的，你为什么认为他精力充沛，并解释你对这个人的感觉。你准备好了吗？

是的。

好吧。

我认识的精力充沛的人是托尼·斯塔克。我通过电影《钢铁侠》认识了托尼·斯塔克。这个系列电影有《钢铁侠1》、《钢铁侠2》、《钢铁侠3》，但我是电影中托尼·斯塔克的忠实粉丝。我认为托尼·斯塔克精力充沛的原因，首先是因为我看到他在工作时跳舞，我认为在赚钱的过程中跳舞并享受工作是非常困难的。所以我认为他非常精力充沛。其次，我认为他在与反派打交道时很精力充沛。我从未见过他在被反派打败时感到沮丧或非常——怎么说呢——悲伤。所以，我认为他很精力充沛。而我对他的感觉是，他对自己非常有信心，非常酷，而且非常独立。是的。

酷。关于托尼·斯塔克还有几个问题。除了《钢铁侠》，你知道他还出演过哪些电影或节目吗？

嗯，我没见过他在《复仇者联盟》或《钢铁侠》之外的任何电影中出现。

《复仇者联盟》，好的。他通常穿什么样的衣服？

西装。

西装？像商务西装？

商务西装，是的。

他穿得很时尚吗？

嗯，他穿得很好——哦，不，他不穿西装，他穿牛仔裤和T恤。

好的，嗯，休闲装。

是的。

好的，很好，很好。好吧，我们可以进入第三部分。第一个问题：什么样的工作需要大量体力劳动？

嗯，对我来说，我认为摄影师的工作需要大量体力劳动，因为我知道相机很重。我听说大约有五公斤，但他们肩上扛着它至少12小时。我认为这需要大量体力劳动。

好的，那么体力劳动和脑力劳动的报酬有什么区别？

哦，我认为脑力劳动应该比体力劳动得到更多的报酬，因为脑力劳动需要大量时间来成为该领域的专业人士。然而，体力劳动不需要很多时间就能成为该领域的专业人士。

为什么不需要那么多时间？

嗯，因为体力劳动，如果他们去健身房锻炼一个月，他们可以变得非常强壮，获得很多肌肉。但脑力劳动至少需要一年时间来学习该领域。例如，我学习了，我会说，12年。我学习了12年，所以我认为它比体力劳动更有价值。

是的。那么体力劳动者将来能获得更高的工资吗？

将来？嗯，也许。也许有70%的可能性——我有70%的把握——因为最近，数字化转型非常迅速，所以，人工智能在未来可能比人脑更有用。所以，我认为将来体力劳动可能会得到更多的报酬。

好的。那么你认为机器将来能取代人类工人吗？

嗯，不是全部，但可能有50%。例如，像需要创造力的工作，机器人无法取代人类。然而，如果不是创造力，而是像Excel或打字这样的简单工作，机器人可以取代人类。

好的，是的。好吧，非常好，我们到此结束了。

哦，真的吗？

是的，我们到此结束了。

好的。

嗯，我认为你做得很好。现在我们可以讨论一些需要改进的地方。记住，雅思考试有四个评分类别。所以，有流利度和连贯性，有发音，然后是词汇和语法。嗯，在流利度和发音方面，你真的没有问题。你说话时只有在寻找词汇时偶尔有自然的停顿，你的单词发音非常好，句子也有节奏。嗯，所以这两个类别都非常好。在词汇和语法方面，也非常好。我记了很多，但没有什么值得担心的。但是这两个方面如果你想提升的话，我们可以看一些需要考虑的地方。

嗯，没有一个单一的错误，因为你在考试中表现得很好。只是一些小问题和细微的地方。嗯，在第一部分，当你谈论你的学习时，你在现在时和过去时之间有点来回切换。大部分是过去时，然后有几个动词，呃，有一个是“is”。嗯，但是在这些关于过去的问题中，把所有动词都保持在过去时态是很重要的，所以记住这一点。

嗯，还有一些关于主谓一致的小问题。我记得有一次你说“it doesn't depends on”，但我们要记住是“it depends”，是“depends”。嗯，还有一些非常小的词序问题。当你谈论你的家乡时，你提到它在樱花方面很受欢迎。实际上我们需要反过来；我们要说樱花很受欢迎。

是的，是的。

所以只是一些小问题，嗯，还有在第二部分和第三部分中也是类似的情况。另一个可能是稍微多加一些内容。当你进入雅思考试的高分段时，你需要给出稍长的答案。嗯，第二部分是一个很好的回答，但我能感觉到在我们过了一分钟后，你开始有点缺乏要说的内容。唯一能达到两分钟的方法就是反复练习，嗯，提供更多细节，提供更多细节。但这是一个非常结构化的回答。

嗯，你从描述这个人是谁开始，然后更详细地说明，所以我能跟上。再加上良好的发音和流利度，非常好。在第二部分的回答中，有几次我觉得你在寻找形容词。

是的，是的。

在更高端的词汇上，要努力扩展你能在考试情况下想到的形容词的范围。嗯，但总体来说，我认为这是一次非常好的考试。嗯，第三部分也是，回答很好，但可以稍微多发展一些。嗯，但总体来说非常好，这些语法和词汇问题都很小。所以我认为，嗯，做得很好，谢谢你的到来。