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Okay, from here it starts. This is the speaking test of the International English Language Testing System, taking place in RWS Academy. The candidate is Fernando Alonso Lopez. Candidate's number is 0143278. The examiner is Marafi, examiner number 443533.

Good afternoon, my name is Magi. Would you please tell me your full name?

Sure, my full name is Fernando Alonso Lopez Velasco.

What can I call you?

You can call me Fer.

Fer, sure. And Fer, can I see your identification, please?

Sure.

Thank you very much. Great, thank you. Welcome. Very well, so we can now get started with the first part of the exam. In the first part, I will ask you some personal questions. First, let's talk about your accommodation. Do you like a house or a flat?

Um, to be honest, I prefer living in a house than a flat. As in a flat, that will take me to live with people around, like I really don't like neighbors. Um, I like spacious places, so that's why I prefer houses. Um, I like having my own bathroom, and the house I'm living in right now is pretty big, so I always like houses.

Perfect. And, uh, how long have you lived there in your house?

I've been living there for like five years so far. Um, as I said, it's my grandfather's house. Um, it's pretty big, spacious, and at the back, it has like a big yard. Um, it also has like a separate place from my bedroom, which is like across the yard.

Okay, great. Would you plan to live there for a long time?

I'm not really sure about it. Um, I would like to have my own place at some point, so I think I will be working right now more time, um, unless I have enough money to buy my own place.

Thank you very much. Now let's talk about music. Do you like listening to music?

Um, I do love listening to music. Um, I think music, uh, basically cures your soul. Um, I love listening to music after work and before I go to sleep, especially to catchy tunes.

And how much time do you spend listening to music every day?

Um, I haven't thought about that until now. I guess that I listen to around like two, three hours of music a day, that, uh, especially when I'm working. But I try not to work with, uh, with songs that I can sing, um, because that would distract me.

Great. And do you also like to listen to live music?

Honestly, I don't, um, because when I listen to live music, you can hear old people singing or trying to, like, then you can listen to encore, and I don't like it. Uh, but, um, basically I love when it's like a band I do like, um, a singer.

Great, perfect. Now let's move on to talk about travel. Do you like traveling?

I do love traveling. Um, I love knowing new places, meeting new people, um, making new relationships. Um, that's like just, uh, I imagine that I can have a friend in another country that, uh, at some point, this friend can just say, "Come on and spend your summer here."

Right, and do you often travel by air?

Not as much as I would like to, but I do like traveling by air. Uh, however, I don't like turbulence because that makes me feel nauseous and sick sometimes.

Um, and which country would you like to travel to in the future?

Um, actually there are two countries that I would love to visit at some point. Uh, one is Italy, and the other one is Japan. Japan especially for their food, because I love Asian food here in my city. Uh, I like trying that kind of food, so I would like to try the original one.

Great, thank you very much. Great, now we are done with the first part of the exam, so we can move on to the second part. In the second part, I will give you a card with a topic and you will have to talk about this topic for two minutes. But before you do so, you will have one minute to think about what you're going to say, and you can make some notes to help you if you wish. Do you understand?

Yes, I do.

Perfect, so now I'm giving you your cue card and a piece of paper for you with a pen to make notes. In this part, I would like you to describe an ambition that you have had for a long, long time. So here you go with the cue card, here's the paper to make notes, and here's your pen.

You're welcome. So now you have one minute to think about this topic, and it starts now.

Okay, now your one minute is over and you may talk about this topic for two minutes. Do not worry if I stop you. So you may start talking now.

Alright, well, this is kind of funny, uh, because when I was writing this, a lot of things came to my mind, but I chose this specific one. Um, I am planning to participate in a dancing contest in February, um, which is kind of curious. I didn't dance before; like, I started dancing like four years ago. Before that, I thought that I was not able to dance. I was actually at parties sitting down and just watching people. And when people invited me, I was saying, "No, I'm not able to. I don't like it." Um, but this actually took me out of my comfort zone. It was pretty funny the way it worked out. Um, and I think that just participating in this contest will move me to another level in my life. Um, I'm going to create like evidence that I can do things that I have always thought that I was not useful or good at. So, um, I have been participating—well, I have been practicing for this contest for the last three months. So it's kind of difficult, not because of practice, actually, but it's more about being in front of a lot of people, getting, um, all these comments, and I don't know, like, not knowing what they're thinking about me dancing. Um, it's kind of like curious because I am used to being in front of people because that's what I've been doing for 10 years in my life. That's my job. But this is different because this is not what I'm comfortable with. So this ambition is important for what I said. Uh, it's going to, to—I think I'm going to feel that I'm growing as a person.

Thank you very much. Now your two minutes are over.

Okay, great. Can you please hand me back the cue card?

Thank you so much. Wonderful. Okay, now that you're done with the second part of the exam, we can move on to the third part. In the second part, you talked about an ambition that you have had for a long time. And now in part three, I want to ask you some questions related to this topic. Do you share your ambitions with other people?

Uh, yes, I do. Um, but as I am a shy person or not a very extrovert person, I do share my ambitions with very specific people in my life, especially family and friends.

And which one do you prefer, like sharing your ambitions and your thoughts with your friends or with your family members?

I think that depends on the thing that I want to share. Sometimes it's easier to share with friends, um, expecting like they're going to say something useful, maybe giving some recommendations. Um, on the other hand, your family gives you a different kind of information, like, or they talk to you in a different way, maybe because it's your family. So, I don't know. I think it depends on how I feel, like what kind of, uh, information I want.

Okay, and how about the children? Do you think that children should consult their parents before setting their goals?

Well, it's funny because children, um, what kind of goals would they have? Like being a firefighter, maybe policeman, astronaut. Uh, I think it's a little bit different from the goals that we have as adults.

And how about the people in your country? What kinds of ambitions do they normally have, like where you live?

Now I think here where I live, people just want to be happy. Like from the last 10 years, I think people's minds and thoughts have changed. I think people just see themselves in the future just being happy. Like, "I don't care how. I don't care about money. I don't care about what job I'm performing. I just want to be happy."

And now that we're talking about accomplishments and being happy, let's talk a bit about failures. So what can be the result of failures in your idea?

That's, um, kind of an interesting question because failing is a very important part in your life. I think everybody has failed at some point, and you can either learn from it or just cry about it. But in the end, it's just experience that you learn. Um, you just want to take it in a positive way or a negative way. If you take it in a positive way, you just grow as a person, you become more mature.

Um, but what if some people do not have any ambitions? Like, do you think that without any ambitions, our growth may come to a standstill or nothing will change in a negative way?

I think they will stay wherever they are. Um, I don't think that's negative, but they're not going to know like what life has for them. Um, I think when you don't have ambitious goals that take you out of your comfort zone, as I said before, just you're just going to be there in a

 known place where nothing happens.

So why do some people lose their ambitions gradually as they grow older?

Because it's more comfortable to just stay there where you are. Um, and it's scary to try to look for new personal growth. Personal growth hurts, that's for sure. Going to psychology therapy, coaching, because they will always ask you and recommend you to try different things, but people who are not ready just won't.

Thank you very much. Great, now this is the end of the speaking test, and I will just need a minute or two to add up your score in different criteria, and then I'll give you the feedback based on those criteria.

Okay, thank you.

You're welcome.

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Okay, now let's see what you did. But before I get started, I would like you to tell me what do you think of your performance? Like, was it a familiar topic to you in part one, part two, and part three, or was it kind of difficult to answer the questions?

Well, the first questions were easy. Um, I found them kind of easy, but the second part, I was not sure about what ambition I was going to talk about, so it took me a while to think about that one.

But you managed it well. Like, you talked about one of your ambitions and you covered the bullet points, and you covered the two minutes.

So yeah, um, okay, I want to start with the first criteria to talk about your fluency and coherence. I can say that what I liked about your fluency and coherence, the first thing was how you were developing the topic. Like, whatever question I was asking you, whether it was familiar or unfamiliar, you were able to give explanations and examples on that. As you said, part one was easier because normally part one is all about short questions and short answers, so you find it much easier to answer some personal questions. But part two, yeah, I do agree with you, it's much harder because you have to cover the two minutes and you have to cover the bullet points, and you did so. So how you answered the questions and how you covered your ideas, I really liked that. And, uh, you had some hesitations, especially in part two, because you were trying to come up with the next idea, but your hesitations were mostly content related, like it was because you were trying to think of the next idea you want to elaborate on. And, uh, you had some self-repetition, uh, in part two and part three, like you repeated several words or several ideas. Maybe you could just refer to some newer ideas, but basically, I can say that what you did regarding your fluency and coherence was really good. And, uh, of course, the last thing that I should mention here, um, I can refer to the range of connectives and discourse markers that you are naturally using. For example, you used the words "also," "either," "this one or the other one," "basically," "at some point," "on the other hand," "unless," "however." So it was really good how you were using these words in all the three parts and not just one part. It was used very flexibly and naturally, and that was a good performance.

Now to talk about your lexical resource, your vocabulary. I can say that how naturally you were using the fillers and boosters to start your answer or to buy some time to just move on to the next idea was really good. And, uh, you were kind of paraphrasing the question I was asking you or even your own words or structures that you were using. And, uh, I could also hear some, um, some less common idiomatic vocabulary and collocations in different topics. For example, you used the word "spacious" instead of "big," like a spacious house, a spacious place of my own. And, uh, also it came—something comes to my mind—to take out of the comfort zone, something worked out, or the personal growth. So you referred to these words to, um, give more explanations on your answers, and that was a good one. Maybe just you could use more idiomatic vocabulary and reduce your self-repetition by using a wider range of words to talk about the topics.

And, uh, now to talk about your grammatical range and accuracy. Your grammar, I can say, is really to the point and neat, the way you're using the complex grammatical structures and a range of tenses. Like you showed awareness to the different styles and the different tenses. I could hear your present perfect, present perfect continuous. You just, like, talked about the chain of events that happened to you from past to the present to the future, so that's a very good thing. And the most important thing here is that you were error-free when you were giving me those sentences. There are some minor mistakes here and there, but generally how you used the grammatical structures was really good.

And finally, to talk about your pronunciation, um, I can say about your pronunciation that, um, how you were using the pronunciation features was, uh, really, really good because it was all natural. You were not trying to, uh, speak too fast or too slowly or maybe use an accent where the intonation is not really correct. So, um, for example, the pace of your speech was fine and the hesitations were not really negatively impacting how you were speaking to me. Uh, your intonation, how you were playing with your voice naturally, and how you were linking up some sounds or some words, that was also a good one. And your own accent, uh, had no negative impact on being understood and everything was clear here to understand. So this is also about your pronunciation.

Generally, I can say that I liked your performance even though, I mean, even if you said that maybe the first part was kind of unfamiliar and I didn't know what to say, but anyways, you maybe by going off the topic or faking your answer or referring to something just to keep talking and having that flow of speech, you did a really, really great job.

好的，从这里开始。这是国际英语语言测试系统的口语测试，地点在RWS学院。考生是Fernando Alonso Lopez，考生编号是0143278。考官是Marafi，考官编号443533。

下午好，我叫Magi。请告诉我你的全名。

当然，我的全名是Fernando Alonso Lopez Velasco。

我可以怎么称呼你？

你可以叫我Fer。

Fer，好。Fer，我可以看一下你的身份证明吗？

当然。

非常感谢。好的，谢谢。欢迎你。非常好，现在我们可以开始考试的第一部分了。在第一部分，我会问你一些个人问题。首先，我们来谈谈你的住所。你喜欢住在房子还是公寓里？

嗯，老实说，我更喜欢住在房子里，而不是公寓里。因为住在公寓里，我需要和周围的人住在一起，我真的不喜欢邻居。嗯，我喜欢宽敞的地方，所以这就是为什么我喜欢房子。嗯，我喜欢有自己的浴室，我现在住的房子很大，所以我总是喜欢房子。

很好。那么，你在你的房子里住了多久了？

我已经在那里住了大约五年了。嗯，就像我说的，这是我祖父的房子。嗯，它非常大，宽敞，后面有一个大院子。嗯，它还有一个从我的卧室过道的独立地方。

好的，很好。你打算在那里住很长时间吗？

我不太确定。嗯，我希望有一天能拥有自己的房子，所以我现在会继续工作，除非我有足够的钱买自己的房子。

非常感谢。现在我们来谈谈音乐。你喜欢听音乐吗？

嗯，我确实喜欢听音乐。嗯，我觉得音乐基本上能治愈你的心灵。嗯，我喜欢在工作后和睡觉前听音乐，特别是那些朗朗上口的曲子。

你每天花多少时间听音乐？

嗯，我之前没有想过这个问题。我猜我每天听大约两到三个小时的音乐，特别是当我工作的时候。但我尽量不听那些我会唱的歌曲，因为那会分散我的注意力。

很好。那么你也喜欢听现场音乐吗？

说实话，我不喜欢，因为当我听现场音乐时，你会听到老人在唱歌或尝试唱歌，然后你听到Encore，我不喜欢。但基本上我喜欢是乐队演奏的音乐，我喜欢的歌手。

很好，非常好。现在我们谈谈旅行。你喜欢旅行吗？

我确实喜欢旅行。嗯，我喜欢认识新地方，结识新朋友，建立新关系。嗯，就像我想象的那样，我可以在另一个国家有一个朋友，某个时候这个朋友可以邀请我去那里度过夏天。

那么你经常乘飞机旅行吗？

不像我希望的那样频繁，但我确实喜欢乘飞机旅行。不过，我不喜欢颠簸，因为那会让我感到恶心和不适。

嗯，那么你将来想去哪个国家旅行？

嗯，其实有两个国家我希望某天能去。一个是意大利，另一个是日本。特别是日本，因为我喜欢亚洲食物，这里我的城市，我喜欢尝试那种食物，所以我想尝试原汁原味的。

非常感谢。非常好，现在我们完成了考试的第一部分，我们可以进入第二部分。在第二部分，我会给你一张带有话题的卡片，你需要就这个话题说两分钟。但在你说之前，你会有一分钟的时间来思考你要说的内容，你可以做一些笔记帮助你。你明白吗？

是的，我明白。

很好，那么现在我给你你的提示卡和一张纸，还有一支笔给你做笔记。在这部分，我想让你描述一个你长久以来的抱负。所以这里是你的提示卡，这里是笔记纸和笔。

不客气。那么现在你有一分钟的时间来思考这个话题，现在开始。

好，现在你的时间到了，你可以开始说这个话题，时间是两分钟。如果我打断你，不要担心。那么你现在可以开始说了。

好吧，这有点有趣，因为当我写这个的时候，很多事情浮现在我脑海中，但我选择了这个特定的。我计划在二月份参加一个舞蹈比赛，这有点奇怪。我以前不跳舞，我大约四年前开始跳舞。在那之前，我认为自己不会跳舞。我其实在派对上坐着，看别人跳舞。当人们邀请我时，我会说不，我不会，我不喜欢。但这实际上让我走出了舒适区。它的过程非常有趣。我认为参加这个比赛会让我在生活中迈上一个新的台阶。我会证明我可以做那些我一直认为自己无用或不擅长的事情。所以，我已经为这个比赛练习了三个月。所以这有点困难，不是因为练习，而是因为站在很多人面前，听到各种评论，我不知道他们对我跳舞的看法。这有点奇怪，因为我习惯在很多人面前做事，因为这是我过去十年的工作。但这是不同的，因为这不是我所习惯的。所以这个抱负很重要，因为我说过的原因，它会让我感到我作为一个人正在成长。

非常感谢。现在你的两分钟时间到了。

好的，很好。你能把提示卡还给我吗？

非常感谢。太棒了。好的，现在你完成了考试的第二部分，我们可以进入第三部分。在第二部分，你谈到了你长久以来的抱负。现在在第三部分，我想问你一些与这个话题相关的问题。你会与别人分享你的抱负吗？

是的，我会。但由于我性格内向，不是非常外向的人，我只会和生活中特定的人分享我的抱负，特别是家人和朋友。

你更喜欢和朋友还是家人分享你的抱负和想法？

我认为这取决于我想分享的事情。有时候和朋友分享更容易，期望他们会说一些有用的东西，也许给一些建议。另一方面，家人会给你不同的信息，或者以不同的方式和你交谈，因为他们是你的家人。所以，我不知道，我认为这取决于我想要什么样的信息。

好的，那么孩子呢？你认为孩子在设定目标之前应该咨询他们的父母吗？

嗯，这很有趣，因为孩子们，会有什么样的目标呢？比如成为消防员，也许警察，宇航员。我认为这和我们成年人的目标有点不同。

那么在你所在的国家，人们通常有什么样的抱负，比如你住的地方？

我认为在我住的地方，人们只是想要快乐。在过去的十年里，我认为人们的思想和观念发生了变化。我认为人们只是看到未来的自己只要快乐就好。我不在乎怎么，我不在乎钱，我不在乎我做什么工作。我只想快乐。

既然我们在谈论成就和幸福，让我们谈谈失败。那么在你看来，失败会带来什么结果？

这是一个很有趣的问题，因为失败是你生活中非常重要的一部分。我认为每个人在某个时候都失败过，你可以从中学习或者只是为之哭泣。但最终，这只是你学到的经验。你可以以积极的方式或消极的方式来看待它。如果你以积极的方式来看待它，你会作为一个人而成长，变得更加成熟。

但如果有些人没有任何抱负呢？你认为没有任何抱负，我们的成长会停滞不前吗，或者什么都不会改变，情况会变得更糟吗？

我认为他们会停留在他们所在的地方。我不认为这很消极，但他们不会知道生活对他们有什么意义。我认为当你没有抱负性的目标，这些目标将你带出舒适区时，就像我之前说的那样，你只会呆在一个什么都不会发生的已知地方。

那么为什么有些人随着年龄的增长会逐渐失去抱负？

因为呆在原地更舒服。寻找新的个人成长是令人害怕的。个人成长是痛苦的，这是肯定的。去心理治疗，辅导，因为他们总是会问你并建议你尝试不同的事情，但那些没有准备好的人不会去做。

非常感谢。好的，现在这是口语测试的结束。我需要一两分钟的时间来汇总你在不同标准下的分数，然后我会根据这些标准给你反馈。

好的，谢谢。

不客气。

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好的，现在让我们看看你做了什么。但在我开始之前，我想让你告诉我，你觉得你的表现怎么样？比如第一部分、第二部分和第三部分的话题对你来说熟悉吗，还是回答这些问题有点困难？

嗯，第一部分的问题很容易。我觉得它们很容易，但第二部分

，我不确定要谈什么抱负，所以我花了一些时间来思考。

但你做得很好。你谈到了你的一个抱负，并涵盖了所有要点，也达到了两分钟。

是的，嗯，好吧，我想从第一个标准开始，谈谈你的流利度和连贯性。我可以说，我喜欢你的流利度和连贯性，首先是你如何展开话题。无论我问你什么问题，无论是熟悉的还是不熟悉的，你都能给出解释和例子。正如你所说，第一部分更容易，因为通常第一部分都是简短的问题和简短的答案，所以你发现回答一些个人问题要容易得多。但第二部分，是的，我同意你说的，它更难，因为你必须覆盖两分钟并涵盖所有要点，而你做到了。你如何回答问题和展开你的想法，我真的很喜欢。而且，你在第二部分特别是有一些犹豫，因为你在试图想出下一个想法，但你的犹豫主要是内容相关的，因为你在试图想出你要详细说明的下一个想法。而且，你在第二部分和第三部分有一些自我重复，比如你重复了几个词或几个想法。也许你可以参考一些新的想法，但基本上，我可以说你在流利度和连贯性方面做得很好。而且，当然，我应该提到的最后一点，我可以提到你自然使用的连接词和话语标记。例如，你用了"also"、"either"、"this one or the other one"、"basically"、"at some point"、"on the other hand"、"unless"、"however"。所以你在所有三个部分中使用这些词的方式非常好，不仅仅是在一个部分中使用。它们使用得非常灵活和自然，这是一个很好的表现。

现在谈谈你的词汇资源。你的词汇，我可以说，你自然使用填充词和增强词来开始你的回答或争取一些时间继续下一个想法的方式非常好。而且，你有点在解释我问你的问题，甚至是你自己的词或结构。我还听到了一些不太常见的习惯用语和搭配在不同的话题中。例如，你用了"spacious"代替"big"，像是宽敞的房子，宽敞的私人空间。还有"something comes to my mind"、"take out of the comfort zone"、"something worked out"、"personal growth"。所以你用这些词来进一步解释你的回答，这是很好的。也许你可以使用更多的习惯用语词汇，并通过使用更广泛的词汇来减少自我重复。

现在谈谈你的语法范围和准确性。你的语法，我可以说，非常到位和干净，你使用复杂语法结构和时态的方式。你展示了对不同风格和时态的意识。我听到了你的现在完成时，现在完成进行时。你就像是从过去到现在再到未来的事件链条一样谈论了发生在你身上的事情，这是非常好的。而且这里最重要的是，当你给我这些句子时，你是无错误的。这里有一些小错误，但总体来说，你使用的语法结构非常好。

最后谈谈你的发音，我可以说你的发音，你使用发音特征的方式真的非常好，因为这一切都很自然。你没有试图说得太快或太慢，或者使用不正确的口音或语调。所以，例如，你的说话速度很好，犹豫没有对你与我交谈的方式产生负面影响。你的语调，你自然地使用你的声音，如何连接一些声音或一些词汇，这也很好。你的口音没有对理解产生负面影响，一切都很清楚，容易理解。这也是关于你的发音。

总体来说，我可以说我喜欢你的表现，即使你说第一部分的话题对你来说有点陌生，我不知道该说什么，但无论如何，你可能通过偏离话题或编造答案，或者参考一些东西只是为了继续说话并保持说话的流畅性，你做得非常非常好。