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when you're answering IELTS speaking
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questions do you sometimes ramble go
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round in circles get lost or even forget
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the question so yeah I think that I've
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forgotten the question and if you do
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it's bringing your fluency score down
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but don't worry you're not alone it
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happens to many people and in this video
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I'm going to show you some natural and
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advanced fillers and connectors that
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will up your fluency level
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hi my name is Keith if you don't know me
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I run the website IELTS speaking success
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trying to give you better English better
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answers and get a higher score on IELTS
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speaking I also run free live lessons on
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Facebook Facebook live every Tuesday and
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Thursday check out the link below 10
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a.m. 10 a.m.
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Spanish time I also have an online
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course on udemy IELTS speaking success
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get AB and 7 plus check it out if it's
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right for you today then we're going to
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look at fillers and improving your
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fluency so fluency makes up 25% of your
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score in the IELTS speaking right
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it consists of hesitation I I be I live
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repetition I want I want I want I want I
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want to I want to arrange of connectives
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and discourse markers and what are they
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well connectives and discourse markers a
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rather fancy names for fillers and
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signposts to improve your fluency you
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need to be coherent you need to connect
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your ideas and your sentences with good
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connectors and fillers and show the
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examiner what you're going to say now
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many people have a limited range they
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repeat the same connectors and I think
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also I also think that and I think I
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think for a band 7 and above you need a
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wide range of connectors and discourse
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markers first and foremost I love
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desserts but that said I only eat them
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now and again so let's have a look at
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what we do in IELTS speaking we need to
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give opinions right add information
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emphasize clarify compare and contrast
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conclude and we'll be using different
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language to do this we may be saying for
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example I think also I really think I
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mean but however in conclusion and all
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of these are good but they're not enough
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you need a wider range of connectors to
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impress the examiner and really push up
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your fluency so let's have a look at
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each of these different areas and how we
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can expand your fillers
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so let's look first of all at opinions
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giving opinions take this question do
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you like going to museums well to be
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honest I'm not a big fan of museums
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honestly I'm not a big fan of museums so
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notice if the answers are no we can say
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well to be honest or honestly notice the
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rising falling intonation honestly if
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the answer is a positive Wow
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without a doubt I'm a big fan of museums
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absolutely I'm really into museums
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notice we can say yes or Wow without a
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doubt without a doubt or absolutely with
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quite a bit of emotion as well right
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absolutely
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show the emotion on your face absolutely
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it's nice to give some feeling you know
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IELTS speaking and here's another
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question do you think history is
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important now if your answer is yes it's
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very important you could say yeah I
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reckon it's essential for sure
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in my eyes it's really important because
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without it yep I'd say it's pretty
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important because without it yeah I
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reckon I reckon means I think it's more
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colloquial and really nice to use in
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IELTS speaking you could also say for
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sure in my eyes in my view all of these
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are good you can say yes yeah yep all of
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these are natural English and really
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good to use I would say or I'd say I
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advise you make the contraction I would
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say I'd say I'd I
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I'd say if you're not sure if it's
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important or not you may be using
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language like I guess so
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or I suppose so notice how you can mix
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them up right I guess so
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I suppose history gives us a sense of
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identity and I suppose so I guess
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history shapes our present-day culture
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and identity I guess so
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I suppose history dee dee dee dee I
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suppose so
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I guess history is important and notice
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the number one mistake the most common
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mistake is do you think history is
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important
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I think yes that's not right
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right you have to say this I think so
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yes it is important so be careful with
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that one let's move on
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let's look now how we can use some nice
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fillers and connectors to begin an
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answer here's one question what are the
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advantages of traveling by plane well
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first of all it's fast and really
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convenient
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first of all make sense right logical
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notice we often say well first well
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first of all and you're connecting first
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of all well to kick off its faster than
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most other means of transport well to
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kick off to kick off it's like the
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football match right to begin to kick
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off is just to begin well to begin or to
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kick off for starters it's faster than
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most other means of transport now that's
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a really nice colloquial filler for
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starters often we use it for the first
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course of a meal but also when you're
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talking to say to begin with for
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starters nice let's move on now a look
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at the same question the advantages of
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flying and how we can add information
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what fillers can we use here well we can
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use another thing is on top of that as
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far as I know to my knowledge all of
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these are great let's see these in
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action
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another thing is apparently flying is
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the safest way to travel on top of that
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flying is said to be the safest way to
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travel as far as I know flying is the
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safest way to travel to my knowledge
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flying is the safest way to travel and
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now for emphasizing there are different
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ways we can emphasize
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a nice one rather complex but higher
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level is this one I'd go as far as to
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say which means I would add even more
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emphatically I would go as far as here
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to say something let's have a look I'd
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go as far as saying flying is the best
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way to travel hands down hands down is a
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lovely expression hands down just means
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for sure undoubtedly make notes start
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practicing it we can also use actually
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as a matter of fact in fact and here's
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the thing notice the intonation is
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really important actually usually has
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that falling and rising information and
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that mm indicates you're going to carry
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on actually I think this actually flying
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is the safest way to travel let's have a
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look at these in action
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actually flying is the safest way to
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travel as a matter of fact flying is the
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safest way to travel in fact flying is
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the safest way to travel and here's the
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thing apparently flying is the safest
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way to travel now when we move to giving
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examples
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there are many ways we can do it the
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common ones for example for instance
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take me four eggs take me as an example
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take me as an example let's see some of
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these in action for instance to my
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norwich Qantas airlines has never had a
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fatal accident ever you can see this
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with Qantas airlines as far as I know
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they've never had a fatal accident ever
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I love that last one you can see this
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with Samsung you can see this with Apple
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so whichever your example is it's a
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really nice smooth natural way to give
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an example let's move on
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now apart
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question is often why does some people
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do this now this is a difficult question
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because it's very open and often we want
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to clarify what we mean or what we're
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going to talk about and one of the great
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strategies in part three is with the why
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do some people question is to break it
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down to look at different kinds of
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people right we can talk about young
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people parents old people workers
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unemployed break it down and so to do
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that we use very simple clarifying
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techniques my favorite is this one if
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we're talking about young people I
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reckon they move to the city in search
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of better job opportunities did you get
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that if we're talking about if we are
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talking about something or someone if
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we're talking about mmm great here's
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another example if we're talking about
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parents I suppose they want a better
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school for their children let's look now
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at contrasting contrasting similar to
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comparing but where we look at a and
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then contrast it with B
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so often we use the word but there is
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this but there's that but is the most
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overused connector what other ways we
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can use to express that well however
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that said mind you at the same time and
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notice with most of these we have that
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falling rising intonation that said mind
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you and it just indicates that we're
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going to carry on speaking it's great
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natural intonation lovely connector
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let's see in practice the same question
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as before why do some people choose to
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live in the city rather than in the
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countryside if we're talking about young
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people
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I reckon they move to the city in search
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of better job opportunities that said
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many people who work remotely
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choose to live in the suburbs or even
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the countryside if we're talking about
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parents I suppose they want a better
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school for their kids
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mind you nowadays there are lots of good
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quality schools to be found in rural
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areas too
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can you see how that works brilliant
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start practicing
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and let's wind up with concluding hat
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concluding there are different ways to
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conclude finally to summarize in
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conclusion I think some of the more
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natural ones are these in a nutshell
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overall all in all at the end of the day
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so again let's have a look at these in
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action in a nutshell I think people move
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to the city because it offers more
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opportunities overall I think people
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move to the city because it offers more
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opportunities all in all I'd say people
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move to the city because it offers more
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opportunities at the end of the day I
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suppose people move to the city because
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it offers more opportunities guys that's
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it a whole bunch of fillers that will
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help you improve your fluency and give
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cracking answers in your IELTS speaking
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