004（8.0）

All right, from here starts the speaking test. This is the speaking test of the International English Language Testing System taking place at Ross IELTS Academy. The candidate is Mariam Bakdiori. The candidate number is 36205581. The examiner is Samson Sees. Examiner number 443533.

Good afternoon. My name is Samson. Can you please tell me your full name?

Good afternoon, it's Maria Martial here.

Thank you. And can I see your identification?

Yes, definitely. Yeah, yeah, please.

All right, wonderful. Thanks very much.

Thank you very much.

Okay, now in the first part of the exam, I'm going to ask you some personal questions. First, I'd like to talk about your hometown. Where is your hometown?

Actually, I was born in Iran, and I used to live here for about like 27 years. So Iran is my hometown, and Tehran is my city where I was born. And this is the city that my parents live, my family live, and I live too. But maybe about 10 years ago, there was a chance for me to get out of Iran.

Okay. And do you live in a house now or a flat?

No, it's not very small and not very big flat that I bought maybe a year ago.

Okay. And what would you change about your home?

Actually, it was a long time that I was... I have decided to change the design of my house, my home. So I did it maybe about one month ago. I changed the design totally. I changed the curtain, the furniture, and the color of the walls and the kitchen as well. So it was my decision to do it, and I did it.

Nice. Okay, now let's move on to talk about hobbies. Do you have a hobby?

Of course. Anyone, I think anyone has a hobby because if we don't have a hobby, we get bored. So we cannot enjoy the life, we cannot enjoy the time, and definitely we will waste the time, and we get bored. So I have a hobby like others, and the most important hobby that I have is going out and catching up with friends, having dinner outside, going to see my friends, and spending time with them.

Okay. And do you think hobbies should be shared with other people?

In my opinion, I think no, because I'm a close person, so I don't have many friends. So I prefer to have just one close friend or two and share my hobby only with them. So this is my character. I don't say anyone has to be like me. This is me and how I am.

Great. And did you have a hobby as a child?

Yes, when I was a child, I was about like seven years old. I really wanted to sing. I was crazy about singing and started learning from my father because my father also used to sing. So I got the tricks about singing from my father, and I continued. When I was like 18 years old, I started working with the group that they were singing in Iran. They call the Aryan, so I used to be their local team in their locality.

Right, now let's talk about the internet. How often do you go online?

Good question because I think I am online every single minute because my work is online, and I answer to my client, a customer through WhatsApp or other social applications. So I am a person who is most of the time online, and I have a page, a business page. So after getting along with clients, I take pictures and I post pictures on my business page. So that's why I can attract more clients for improving my work.

Wonderful. Okay, so that's the end of this part. Let's move on to the next part of the question. So now I'm going to give you a topic, and I'd like you to talk about it for up to two minutes. Before you talk, you'll have one minute to think about what you're going to say, and you can make notes if you wish. Do you understand?

Yes, sure, definitely.

Brilliant. So your topic is this: describe a time that you invited family or friends to have dinner at home or in a restaurant. So this is your cue card.

I'm lucky.

Okay, so I'll give you one minute to make those notes.

Yes.

Okay, you may start speaking. Go ahead.

Okay, I remember it was two years ago, the night of my birthday. So it was the beginning of COVID-19 virus that which was started. So I was in doubt about what to do for my birthday. So I decided to invite my parents for a dinner outside. It was risky, but I thought, okay, no problem, nothing will happen. So I took them, my parents, my father, and mother outside to a beautiful restaurant which is located in Bombland area. Bombland is a beautiful place at the west of Tehran where you can find many restaurants, different kinds of food, and shopping malls. So actually, Bombland is my favorite place, and I mostly go there and visit restaurants and shopping stores. So I gave the offer if they are okay to come with me for having dinner, so they accepted. And we went to Bombland, we went to a beautiful restaurant which serves Arabic food. We had the hummus in Bubble Baja restaurant, and the area was beautiful. The design was amazing. So we spent about like one or two hours there, and we started talking about the future, how beautiful life is, how easily we can enjoy life with just eating a small portion of food and enjoying the beautiful weather and being together. This is the God mercy that we are together.

Thank you. Let's get into the two minutes. All right, let's move on. Right, okay, so I'll take back the...

Yes, sure.

Thanks very much. That's wonderful.

Okay.

Okay, so we've been talking about a time when you had dinner with family or friends, and now I'd like to ask you some questions related to this. So, do people in your country prefer to eat at home or in a restaurant?

What I should say is before, maybe about like 20 years ago, it was in my culture. I mean, people used to eat out, not out, outside, but at home. They used to cook. The mothers, they were the only ones who cooked, and others used to eat just the food, not to do anything. But nowadays, maybe the last 10 days, 10 years, it's more common for people to eat outside and use restaurants to not to get starving. So nowadays, it's common to eat outside for people. It's, you know, in our culture now.

Okay, and what would you say are the benefits and drawbacks of eating in a restaurant?

The thing is, if you eat inside the home, most of the time, maybe you get bored, not to enjoy the food the way it should be. But if you go out, not every day, I mean, if you go outside sometimes and try different kinds of food, like Chinese food, Mexican food, which is my favorite, of course, and Italian food, so you can do people-watching. You can see different kinds of people, you can meet different people, and of course, taste different kinds of food and enjoy the food more.

Right, more than eating at home.

Absolutely. So, what do people usually cook for special festivals?

We don't have many special festivals like Thanksgiving and this kind of stuff. In Iran, we have like a month called Ramadan. Here, they don't eat from morning to evening, and in the evening, they have a small one, very, very thin kind of food, not to get very, not to get problem for the stomach. So most of the time, they eat ash, which is some kind of food. There are noodles inside, and the yogurt, some kind of yogurt inside the ash, which is very good for the stomach after fasting. Right, so and the very famous, most famous food in Iran is gourmet that everyone likes it. Even I have some friends which are not Iranian, they are crazy about it. I cooked maybe two or three times for them, and they asked for more.

Wonderful.

Cool. And next, what more and more people, so they're having, people are having or getting their meals delivered. So would people cook at home these days now in Iran?

Yes, these days. Before, they used to cook like traditional food, which are very common in Iran, and everyone can eat it. But nowadays, as far as I know, even me, I prefer to cook some kind of food which are cooking them is easier than maybe preparing everything for traditional food because it takes so long time to make a traditional food. I mostly could give fast foods and foods that are very easy to cook. I think everyone is the same.

Absolutely. And what do you think? Do you think cooking will become less common in the future?

Yes, this is what I think because, and the reason is nowadays people work outside. Before, just men used to work outside, but nowadays, as far as you can see, girls and women, they are working outside, so they don't have time. After work, they have to come back home and take care of kids and, I don't know, make up the home and this kind of stuff. So they don't have time, and in the future, it will be more common because they will have many things to do, and there will be no time for cooking.

Absolutely. Thanks very much. That's the end of the speaking test. Thanks, guys.

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How do you feel?

Oh, just amazing. It was very nice talking to you. Thank you very much.

All right, so just you can catch your breath for a second.

Thank you very much.

I'll give you, you can stay. I'm going to give you some feedback. So, okay, just bear with me here. I'm just going to add up your score, so we'll just see how you did.

It was a bit stressful.

It was a bit stressful?

I was a bit stressful. The test was just okay and amazing.

Yeah, I told you there's no need for stress. It's all good.

It's just for the first time I'm doing it. That's why.

It's the first time you're doing it? Oh, that's interesting. Okay, so we'll get to that in a minute. I'll just...

Sure, take your time, please.

Okay, here we go. So, well, I've got some interesting news for you here. You, right now, we're looking at an eight.

Wow, how do you feel about that?

It's okay because, as I told you, it's for the first time I'm doing it. I never did a speaking test, and I was, because of being so much stressful, I was expecting something less.

You were expecting something less?

Yeah, I mean, I was on... It was on the verge. I mean, it's a little bit of a shaky eight, but it is an eight, and eight is an eight. And you can even increase that by one band score.

Definitely, I'll do it.

You can do that. We'll just... Let's look over the feedback here on your four criteria that you have been assessed on. So, we've got the fluency and coherence, the lexical resources, your vocabulary, the grammatical range and accuracy, and pronunciation. Let's start with the fluency and coherence. So, you know, the way you were speaking is, to me, it sounded very natural. I mean, you were giving reasons for your answers, elaborating on them, making every part of your speech in part one, two, and three sound interesting, which is a very good point. It's a very good technique to have your stories and ideas sound interesting for the examiner, even though it's, you know, it's sort of indirectly an extra point.

That's a good thing.

Yeah, and so being something interesting like that, you had a few fillers, but the fillers were not language-related, they were content-related. That was you searching for an idea, which is not a problem ever. That happens to everyone, including native speakers. And you used boosters, you know, when you were starting one of your answers, I think it was in part three. You see, basically, you were comparing two things together before you even answered it. So, that was a good thing. You used that as a booster and then developed your idea.

So, I'm happy to hear that.

These are good things.

Absolutely, these are wonderful, wonderful techniques that you're using. And if we're looking at your vocabulary, so, spot on. It was very much varied, in my opinion. Maybe you could use even more complex words at some point, but you were using all the necessary words, and they were quite varied and very much related to the topics. So, this is very good. Strong vocabulary and being related like that, sometimes you are paraphrasing and using more of your vocabulary, and you can even use more if you'd like to, if you want to go for the eight eventually.

Grammatical range and accuracy. So, you know, your tenses were complete, past, present, future. It was wonderful. You were accurate most of the time, and you were using some nice expressions, idioms, like saying, "I'm crazy about singing," using that kind of expression. That's good. That shows that you know how natural you are and how accurate you are to express those opinions like that with the grammar. At one point, you said, "Get starving." So, it's like to get hungry. So, we don't really say "get starving." Maybe that would have... This was taking you away from the nine-band score, just a couple of things.

So, I shouldn't say that I'm starving?

No, it's okay. It's just to get the grammar correct.

Okay, okay, that's fine.

Yeah, if I was really starving or something like that, to really make sure it's correct. And so, "long time," "such a long time" would have sounded a little bit better. So, it was just a couple of those. But, you know, you were covering all of that with the command of English that you have, which was very good as far as I'm concerned, and stuff like that, using these sort of idioms and starting your sentences. It shows to the examiner the wide range of language structure you have. Pronunciation, I didn't have any problem with your pronunciation. I thought you were clear enough. I understood everything you said. So, yeah, it was just maybe one or two errors in the grammatical range and accuracy, then it would have been even higher. So, congratulations. I mean, you've done a great job.

Thank you very much. I've learned a lot from you in this matter. So, it was really kind of you about the explanation and really nice meeting you here.

Same here. And do you have any other questions for me?

No, that's fine. That's everything.

Good, yes. Great. So, we'll just go quickly, just one more. Fluency and coherence, everything. I think that's your strongest part. Definitely, it's so conversational and speaking so naturally. Vocabulary is just one more thing. Maybe expand on it a tiny little bit and just watch it with the practice more. It's just practice makes perfect. But all together, you know, this is a very good band score we're looking at here.

Thank you very much. Very kind of you.

Pleasure. I hope you have a great day.

Thank you.

好的，从这里开始口语测试。这是国际英语语言测试系统的口语测试，在罗斯雅思学院进行。考生是玛丽亚姆·巴克迪奥里，考生编号是36205581。考官是萨姆森·希斯，考官编号443533。

下午好，我叫萨姆森。你能告诉我你的全名吗？

下午好，我叫玛丽亚·马沙尔。

谢谢，我能看看你的身份证吗？

当然可以，给你。

好的，非常感谢。

非常感谢。

好的，现在在考试的第一部分，我会问你一些个人问题。首先，我想谈谈你的家乡。你的家乡在哪里？

实际上，我出生在伊朗，我在那里生活了大约27年。所以伊朗是我的家乡，德黑兰是我出生的城市。这是我父母生活的城市，我的家人也住在那里，我自己也住在那里。但大约10年前，我有机会离开伊朗。

好的，你现在住在房子里还是公寓里？

不大不小的公寓，我大约一年前买的。

好的，你会改变你的家吗？

实际上，我很久以来一直想改变我家的设计。大约一个月前，我完全改变了设计，换了窗帘、家具、墙壁的颜色和厨房的设计。这是我自己的决定，我做到了。

不错。好的，现在我们来谈谈爱好。你有爱好吗？

当然，任何人我想都有爱好，因为如果我们没有爱好，我们会感到无聊。所以我们无法享受生活，无法享受时间，肯定会浪费时间，感到无聊。所以我和别人一样有爱好，我最重要的爱好是出去和朋友见面，在外面吃晚餐，去看朋友，和他们一起度过时光。

好的，你认为爱好应该与别人分享吗？

在我看来，我认为不应该，因为我是一个内向的人，所以我没有很多朋友。我更喜欢只和一个或两个亲密的朋友分享我的爱好。这是我的性格，我不认为每个人都要像我一样，这就是我的样子。

很好，你小时候有爱好吗？

是的，当我还是个孩子的时候，大约七岁，我非常想唱歌，我对唱歌非常痴迷，开始向我父亲学习，因为我父亲也曾经唱歌。所以我从我父亲那里学到了一些唱歌的技巧，并继续学习。当我大约18岁时，我开始和一个在伊朗唱歌的团体合作，他们叫做阿里安，所以我曾经是他们当地团队的一员。

好的，现在我们谈谈互联网。你多常上网？

这是个好问题，因为我觉得我每一分钟都在上网，因为我的工作是在网上进行的，我通过WhatsApp或其他社交应用程序回答客户。所以我是一个大部分时间都在线的人，我有一个商业页面。所以在与客户沟通后，我会拍照并发布在我的商业页面上，这样我可以吸引更多客户，提升我的工作。

太好了，好的，这部分结束了，我们进入下一部分的问题。现在我要给你一个话题，我希望你能谈论它最多两分钟。在你开始说之前，你会有一分钟时间考虑你要说什么，你可以做笔记，如果你愿意的话。你明白吗？

是的，当然，完全明白。

太好了，你的话题是：描述一次你邀请家人或朋友在家里或餐馆吃饭的经历。这是你的提示卡。

我很幸运。

好的，我会给你一分钟做笔记。

好的。

你可以开始说了，请。

好的，我记得那是两年前，我生日的那天晚上，那时刚开始爆发新冠病毒，我不确定该如何庆祝生日。所以我决定邀请我的父母出去吃晚餐。这是有风险的，但我想，没问题，不会有事的。所以我带着我的父母，我的父亲和母亲去了一个美丽的餐馆，这个餐馆位于德黑兰西部的Bombland地区。Bombland是一个美丽的地方，你可以找到很多餐馆，不同种类的食物和购物中心。实际上，Bombland是我最喜欢的地方，我经常去那里，去餐馆和购物店。所以我提议，如果他们愿意和我一起去吃晚餐，他们同意了。我们去了Bombland，我们去了一个美丽的餐馆，这家餐馆供应阿拉伯食物。我们在Bubble Baja餐馆吃了鹰嘴豆泥，那个地方非常美丽，设计非常棒。我们在那里度过了大约一到两个小时，我们开始谈论未来，生活是多么美好，只需吃一小份食物，享受美丽的天气和在一起的时光，这就是上帝的恩赐，我们能在一起。

谢谢，两分钟到了。好的，继续。

好的，我会收回这些...

当然。

非常感谢，非常棒。

好的。

好的，我们刚刚谈论了你和家人或朋友一起吃晚餐的一次经历，现在我想问你一些相关的问题。那么，在你的国家，人们更喜欢在家里吃饭还是在餐馆吃饭？

我想说的是，大约20年前，这在我们的文化中，人们习惯在家里吃饭，而不是外出吃饭。母亲们是唯一的厨师，其他人只负责吃饭，不做其他事情。但是现在，也许是过去10年，人们更常去外面吃饭，使用餐馆来避免挨饿。所以现在在我们的文化中，外出吃饭是很常见的。

好的，你认为在餐馆吃饭的好处和坏处是什么？

如果你大部分时间都在家里吃饭，也许会感到无聊，不能像应该的那样享受食物。但是如果你外出吃饭，不是每天，而是偶尔出去，尝试不同种类的食物，比如中国菜、墨西哥菜，这是我最喜欢的，当然还有意大利菜。你可以观察人群，看到不同类型的人，认识不同的人，当然还可以品尝不同种类的食物，比在家里吃饭更享受。

绝对是。那么，人们通常为特别的节日做什么饭菜？

我们没有很多像感恩节这样的特别节日。在伊朗，我们有一个月叫做斋月。在这期间，他们从早上到晚上不吃饭，晚上会吃一种非常清淡的食物，以免对胃造成问题。所以大部分时间他们会吃一种叫做“ash”的食物，这是一种有面条和酸奶的食物，非常适合在斋戒后吃。这种食物对胃非常有好处。伊朗最著名的食物是“gourmet”，每个人都喜欢它。我有一些不是伊朗人的朋友，他们对它非常着迷，我为他们做过两三次，他们总是要求再做一次。

太棒了。

接下来，越来越多的人选择订购外卖，那么现在在伊朗，人们会在家做饭吗？

是的，这些天。以前他们习惯做传统食物，这是在伊朗非常常见的食物，大家都可以吃。但现在，据我所知，包括我自己，我更喜欢做一些比较容易烹饪的食物，因为准备传统食物需要很长时间。我大部分时间做快餐和非常容易做的食物。我想每个人都是一样的。

绝对是。你认为未来做饭会变得不那么常见吗？

是的，我认为是这样的。原因是现在人们在外工作，以前只有男人在外工作，但现在，如你所见，女生和女性也在外工作，所以她们没有时间。在工作之后，她们要回家照顾孩子，还有打理家务之类的事情。所以她们没有时间，我认为将来这种情况会越来越普遍，因为她们有很多事情要做，没有时间做饭。

绝对是。非常感谢，这就是口语测试的结束。

谢谢大家。

你想知道你在雅思口语测试中能得多少分吗？也许你想提高自己的表现，为真正的考试做好准备？那么为什么不预订我们的在线模拟测试呢？测试将持续25分钟，测试本身12分钟，综合反馈13分钟。另外，我们会给你提供一些有用的技巧来提升你的表现。记住，我们所有的考官都是由英国文化协会导师特别培训的，所以我们知道如何帮助你。加入我们吧。

你感觉怎么样？

哦，感觉很棒，和你聊天很愉快，非常感谢。

好的，你可以喘口气。

非常感谢。

我会给你一些反馈。好的，请稍等一下，我要加一下你的分数，我们来看一下你的表现。

有点紧张。

有点紧张？

我有点紧张。测试还可以，挺棒的。

是的，我告诉你不需要紧张，一切都好。

这是我第一次做这样的测试，所以...

这是你第一次做这样的测试？哦，这很有趣。好的，我们稍后再谈。请稍等。

当然，请慢慢来。

好的。好了，我这里有一些有趣的消息。你现在的分数是8分。

哇，你感觉怎么样？

还可以，因为正如我告诉你的，这是我第一次做这样的测试，我从来没有做过口语测试，因为太紧张了，我以为自己会得更低的分数。

你以为会更低的分数？

是的，我的

意思是，我有点在边缘，分数有点摇摆不定，但它确实是8分，8分就是8分。你甚至可以再提高一个分数段。

绝对，我会的。

你可以做到的。我们来看看你的四个评估标准的反馈。我们有流利度和连贯性、词汇资源、语法范围和准确性以及发音。我们从流利度和连贯性开始。你的表达对我来说听起来非常自然。你给出了答案的理由，详细解释了它们，使你在第一部分、第二部分和第三部分的每一个部分都显得很有趣，这是一个非常好的技巧，让考官觉得你的故事和想法很有趣，虽然这在某种程度上是间接的额外加分。

这是一件好事。

是的，所以让事情变得有趣。你有一些填充词，但这些填充词不是语言相关的，而是内容相关的。这是你在寻找一个想法，这没有问题，这对每个人，包括母语者来说，都会发生。而且你用了提升语句的技巧，比如在你开始回答一个问题时，我认为是在第三部分。基本上，你在回答之前就把两件事进行了比较。所以这是一个好事，你用它来提升，然后发展你的想法。

我很高兴听到这些。

这些都是好事。

绝对，这些都是你在使用的很棒的技巧。如果我们看你的词汇，非常好。我的意见是，它非常多样化。也许你在某些时候可以使用更复杂的词汇，但你使用了所有必要的词汇，它们非常多样化，并且与话题非常相关。所以这是非常好的。强大的词汇量，与话题相关，有时你会进行一些释义，使用更多的词汇，如果你想最终达到8分，你可以使用更多的词汇。

语法范围和准确性。你的时态非常完整，过去、现在、未来都非常好。你大部分时间都很准确，并且使用了一些很好的表达，比如说我对唱歌非常痴迷，使用了这样的表达。这很好，显示了你表达这些观点的自然和准确程度。你曾经说过“get starving”，意思是饿了。我们通常不会说“get starving”，这可能会影响你获得9分的成绩，只是一些小问题。

所以我不应该说我饿了吗？

不，这没关系，只是要确保语法正确。

好的，没问题。

如果我真的很饿之类的，确保它是正确的。还有“long time”，“such a long time”会听起来更好一些。所以只是一些小问题。但你用你的英语掌握度覆盖了所有这些，这非常好，至少在我看来，用这些习语和起始句子。这显示了考官你掌握的广泛语言结构。发音，我没有任何问题，我认为你很清晰，我理解你说的所有内容。所以也许只是语法范围和准确性的一两个小错误，否则分数会更高。恭喜你，你做得很棒。

非常感谢，我从你那里学到了很多。在这方面非常感谢你的解释，很高兴在这里见到你。

我也是。你有其他问题吗？

没有，这就够了。

好的。太好了。我们再快点看看，流利度和连贯性一切都好，我认为这是你最强的部分。非常自然的对话。词汇只是再多扩展一点点，更多练习，熟能生巧。总的来说，我们看到的是一个非常好的分数。

非常感谢，你太好了。

荣幸，希望你有美好的一天。

谢谢。