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succeeding in ielt speaking can actually
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be really simple you just need to follow
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five simple
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steps hello it's Keith from the Keith
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speaking Academy helping you become a
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more confident speaker of English now I
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know the I speaking test can be a
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challenging Journey right and for many
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students it can be overwhelming there's
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so much confusing advice out there
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sometimes you just feel lost and
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demotivated but with the right
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strategies you can navigate ielt
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speaking to build your confidence and
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get the score that you need over the
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past few months I've been sharing some
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insights to different aspects of the
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ielt speaking
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test and the
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preparation um to help you now whether
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you are new to IELTS or even if you've
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taken the ielt speaking test several
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times um today's video will help you
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with the five essential steps that will
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help you succeed in the I speaking test
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throughout the video I'm going to give
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you some extra tips to make sure that
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you can Implement these ideas as well
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ready let's go
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now a broad or a wide vocabulary is key
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to scoring well in the I speaking test
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not only does it help you to express
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your ideas more clearly and precisely
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but it also shows the examiner your
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command of the English language now
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there's actually no such thing as IELTS
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vocabulary there's English vocabulary
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that's what you need when you learn
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vocabulary I think one of the best
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things to do is to focus on different
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topics and learn the what I call subject
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related or topic related vocabulary you
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need for that topic and this is where
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IELTS vocabulary comes in because IELTS
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has lots of topics and if you focus on
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those topics the most popular ones and
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build the vocabulary around those topics
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like travel education technology the
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environment things like this the key is
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not only studying the words but is to
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speak out the words to make short
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phrases using them and connect your
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examples or phrases to your real life
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your own personal life experience that
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makes the learning much deeper now you
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can do this on your own or you can do it
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with a partner you actually don't need a
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teacher unless you've got lots of money
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um it's often more productive to do it
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with a partner you can
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just take the the words and each of you
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make a phrase about your personal life
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with that word you can do role plays you
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can have fun right it it doesn't have to
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be realistic it's just to practice for
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example recently um I did a live lesson
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for my gold students on inventions and
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we had words like inventive somebody
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who's good at making inventions to
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invent think out of the
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box and what you can do is you can just
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with another student another person you
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can practice these words are you
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inventive not
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really uh do you like to invent things
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no have you ever invented something uh
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don't think so would you like to invent
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something well maybe but I need to think
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out of the box you see it's just kind of
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lighthearted fun practice but very
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effective now my Pro tip number one keep
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a vocabulary Journal where you jot down
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write down uh new words and phrases that
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you're learning every day and one
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example for each one now I'm old school
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so I actually use you know literally a
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journal and a pen and something small I
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can put in my pocket but you can also do
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this on your phone in fact as the what I
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do when I'm learning French um is I I
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have I do both so I've got a list of
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written words I've noted I then make an
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audio recording just saying each word
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with a short phrase and I have that
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recording then of maybe 10 words and I
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listen to that when I'm going on my walk
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going to the park whatever it is right
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and so I'm Recycling and practicing that
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vocabulary all the time audio speaking
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and there's a written record multimedia
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you can take it a step further I mean
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use ai go and check out Google notebook
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LM put in a list of the 10 words you're
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learning and you can click a button and
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it'll make a podcast all about those
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words just like that absolutely
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brilliant so again you're listening and
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you can repeat those words as you're
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going
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okay sometimes students get nervous they
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think that there's too many words to
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review I just can't I haven't got time
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don't worry
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right um relax because a lot of the
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words you will naturally review when you
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look at other topics and you have other
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conversations there's a lot of natural
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recycling in language yes you need to
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review but natural recycling also
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happens whenever you speak so don't
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sweat the small stuff okay it's fine
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great that's it for vocabulary next
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number two make your speech sound
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natural like natural spoken English I
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know easier said than done here are some
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key things to think about right first of
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all don't recite English from books yeah
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because that's not how we
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speak even reciting dialogues I mean
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reading aloud because most dialogues
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they're not natural they've just been
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invented that's not how we speak much
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better is when you're listening to audio
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or watching something just repeat what
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you hear repeat little phrases repeat
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words um repeat Snippets of a
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conversation that is much more effective
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secondly spend time learning and
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practicing some idiomatic language and
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phrasal verbs in natural spoken English
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we use phrasal verbs a lot we use a lot
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of idiomatic language
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some idioms okay so instead of saying
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gosh I I'm I'm overworked actually
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that's quite good instead of saying I've
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got too much work you can say I'm
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swamped I'm swamped with work idiomatic
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language the thing is do be careful
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don't overuse idioms because we use them
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but they have to be context specific and
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suitable um if you use too many it
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doesn't sound natural so here is my Pro
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tip number two for you when you come
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across nice phrasal verb when you come
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across
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idioms if they sound
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complicated put them in your passive box
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so you've got two boxes there's a
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passive box and an active box of
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language your passive box are things
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that when you hear and see you'll
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understand the active box are things
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that you can actually use as well so
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when you discover idioms and you think
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oh it's a bit complicated I don't really
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know how to use it fine study it put it
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in the passive box when you come across
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come across discover edms that sound
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simple and easy to use put them in your
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active box use those practice those
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focus on those this will help you make
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sure you're confident when you're using
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idioms and not using too many Pro tip
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number three when you're studying
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natural language like idioms um study
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idioms for specific topics we spoke
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earlier about specific ielt topics like
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Education Health transport focus on
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idioms you can use for that topic this
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is what I do again in my gold live
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lessons for students on the course we
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look at specific idioms to talk about
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that topic um it just helps make it more
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practical to use these idioms and then
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when you're in a conversation just take
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one idiom just one and maybe it's in
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your notebook and try and use that in
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your
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conversation don't try and use five just
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choose one have it and see if you can
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use it naturally in your conversation
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where can you find these idioms well on
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my YouTube channel here there's lots of
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live lessons With Idioms there's lots of
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videos of idioms I do have a video a
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video an idioms course 150 idioms around
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30 IELTS topics link down below if
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you're interested in the meantime let's
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move on to step number
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three right step number three build
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fluency through practice it's key right
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fluency is about being able to express
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yourself and speak smoothly without too
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many
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hesitations or pauses pauses are good
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and necessary but not too many one
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effective method for this is what I call
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the Slowdown and speed up method so what
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you're doing is when you're saying a
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phrase or say an answer for a question
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you say it
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normally you then say it again slowing
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down and then you say it again speeding
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up and this really helps you control
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everything you can also record yourself
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doing this let me give you an example
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let's take a question you know where do
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you live I might say I live in santande
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it's a coastal city there's a lot of
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tourists come here it's very popular and
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I like
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it number two I slow down I live in live
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in I live in
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santand it's a coastal city it's very
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popular uh a lot of tourists come here I
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really like
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it and what's happening in this step is
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you you're actually becoming much more
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aware of particularly word stress
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sentence stress and linking and you can
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really control your pronunciation and
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fluency and you'll become more aware of
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phrasing where you pause naturally in a
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sentence step number three then is you
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then speed up this is more difficult but
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I come from Sande it's a coastal city
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there are a lot of tourists who come
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here it's really popular I really like
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it don't worry if the answer changes a
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bit but you can see what's happening
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you're then speeding up this cycle you
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can go around again and again Slow Down
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Speed up it's really powerful okay now
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in addition why not try shadowing I
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think it's again a really good technique
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for fluency and for ination so you take
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an audio maybe 20 seconds or 30 seconds
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you listen and as you're listening you
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say what you hear you're like a fraction
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of a second behind them so you're
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listening and you're saying it on top uh
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it's great for Focus intonation and it
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does help your fluency I think in my
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humble opinion another thing you can do
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for fluency is use signposts connectors
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what we call discourse markers um these
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small phrases or temp they just help you
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connect your ideas firstly next on the
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other hand um and then so but that said
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to sum up things like this um I mean
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don't obsess about them this is not I
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El's writing they don't need to be
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perfect most of them will be very simple
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but they do help your fluency and
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coherence which is making sure your
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ideas
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flow with some kind of logic that's the
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idea my Pro tip number four is practice
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with a partner even recording both of
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you together um answering some I El's
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questions but and this is the key thing
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use this opportunity to focus on
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communication not on accuracy don't
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worry about mistakes mistakes are good
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it's fine but that's not the focus the
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focus is communication and fluency so
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just talk just speak out talk to each
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other communicate forget about the
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mistakes the mistakes are on holiday
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it's a holiday mistake no it's a mistake
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holiday we don't worry about them we
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just focus on communication and this
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will really help you with your fluency
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the more you practice the better and the
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more natural you will sound let's move
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on
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in I speaking you need to use a wide
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range of grammar but use it accurate
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accurately there's that balance right um
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You Want to Build both accuracy and the
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range um the first step for that is to
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make sure you've got your basic grammar
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Foundation solid and that you can use it
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here's the thing most students I think
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make a big mistake is that they when
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they come when it comes to grammar they
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mainly focus on studying learning the
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rules reading and practicing with
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exercises written exercises right your
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Gap fill exercise for example or
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transposing exercise and that's fine but
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really then what happens is they come to
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speak and they make mistakes they can't
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speak it out because they've learned it
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through reading and writing whereas
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that's good but I think you should
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mainly practice through speaking not
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through written
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exercises so yes I mean discover the
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grammar through
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context discover the rules and maybe a
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teacher can help you or most course
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books will show it to you but then
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practice it through speaking mainly
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because that's how you're going to get
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more confidence and use it more
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accurately okay um one of my courses the
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fluent grammar course for I El speaking
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it does this it it's a course where you
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learn grammar through speaking and
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listening there's no writing at all so
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naturally when you come to use it you've
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been learning it by speaking of course
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you can use it when you speak that's the
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key that's how you make sure you can use
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grammar when you're speaking not just
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have it up here okay let's move
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on step number five is to boost your
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confidence in speaking confidence is
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crucial in ielt speaking right in in
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English conversations communication it's
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all about confidence um particularly
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true in the I speaking test the key to
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confidence is practice consistent
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repetitive practice um it also does help
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if you familiar familiarize yourself
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with the different IELTS question types
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you can find the these on my website
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I've got lots of videos on YouTube just
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search for part one part two part three
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you'll find different question types for
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the test it can also help there are many
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ways to build confidence the first way
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is just talking I mean talk with a
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mirror it can help talk to the mirror to
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yourself talk with AI for goodness sake
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there are no excuses anymore chat GPT
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Gemini there are lots of apps developed
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most of them you can try for free and
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just practice speaking with them just
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that idea of not communicating but just
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practicing your speaking stringing a
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sentence together and use AI right um
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another thing to do I think is to do
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more practice where you're improvising
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rather than reciting or reading aloud I
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think what some students do is they have
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a question they have an answer they
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repeat it again and again as many times
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as possible
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I suggest you don't do that I suggest
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you have a question you give a natural
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answer and then every time you answer
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you give a different answer change your
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answer build your
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flexibility and build your ability to
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improvise it's much more important
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another thing you can do is take a topic
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like education take five words from your
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Notepad
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and talk for 20 seconds you've got topic
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five words and just talk 20 seconds then
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do it again but for 40 seconds and then
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do it again but for 60
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seconds and just practice this speaking
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and developing your ideas and speaking
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for a longer turn and remember when
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you're doing this it's okay to pause and
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to take time to think about what you're
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going to say that's fine in IELTS you
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can take time and pause we're not
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looking for Perfection we're looking for
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fluency and confidence building my Pro
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my next Pro tip is try practicing um
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with strangers right there are lots of
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language platforms out there you can you
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can practice or find find a speaking
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partner um on my gold course we have
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breakout rooms where you meet other
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people on the course speak with them
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around the world
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but that idea of speaking to a stranger
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is going to help build your confidence
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ideally someone of the same level right
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um what you do is you begin to learn how
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to communicate with other people you
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become culturally aware of other people
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and their cultures um how they talk how
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they think and just going out of your
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comfort zone a little bit because the
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truth is in real life and in the IELTS
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test you will be out of your comfort
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zone and if you're not used to that
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you're going to be nervous and you won't
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perform well if you've spoken to lots of
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other people around the world you'll be
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used to it and you'll be much more
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confident as well okay so Global
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Connections more confidence let's move
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on so final thoughts remember preparing
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for I out speaking and becoming fluent
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English or more fluent it takes time it
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takes practice and it takes
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patience another thing to remember is
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the
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exam for I speaking exam technique is
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only about 10 to
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20% the other
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80% or more is about speaking good
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English it's your overall speaking
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ability that's where you should focus
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your time right so focus on your
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vocabulary speaking naturally building
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your fluency um having a solid grammar
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base you can use and building your
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confidence and then you'll be well on
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your way to getting the score you desire
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for your eye out speaking and becoming a
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more fluent speaker of English remember
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you know the key to success it is
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practice but it's also a positive
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attitude always look at what you can do
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don't look at what you can't do don't
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think I can't do that I make mistakes I
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can't no this is what I can do this is
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what I can do day by day getting better
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that positive mindset is really
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important for your motivation as well so
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keep going thank you so much for
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watching this if you want to get more
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guidance or more resources you can check
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out the links below to the website to
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the courses and if they're right for you
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go ahead and use them in the meantime
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have a great day and I'll see you maybe
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in the next video take care my friend
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bye-bye
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