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most people think that the secret to I
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speaking success is learning how to do a
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few things really well but after helping
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thousands of students get a band n and
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high out speaking I can tell you the
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opposite is actually true the real
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secret is Ban n students avoid traps set
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for them by I speaking examiners and if
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you fall for them you will fail this
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video will show you what those traps are
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how to spot them and how to avoid them
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so that you can m massively increase
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your score and at the end of the video
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I'm going to reveal the biggest I
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speaking secret that's contained in one
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of my favorite movies understanding this
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secret has done more to help my students
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get a band n than anything else and you
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can learn it instantly the first trick
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they play is really sneaky and it's the
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same trick my dad used to play when he
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worked here as a chef Young Chefs would
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come into his kitchen and ask him for a
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job sure my dad would say come back
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tomorrow cook me something something if
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I like it you can have a job and just
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before they left he'd say is there
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anything you do not like to cook and
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when they arrived the next day for the
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cooking demonstration he'd asked them to
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cook the thing they hated so what has my
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sneaky father got to do with I speaking
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if you look online for topics that will
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definitely come up on test day you'll
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find these three topics but if you look
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at the official Cambridge questions
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you'll find
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very unusual topics that you weren't
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expecting you see when I examiners ask
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about your home or your work or your
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hometown they often get answers like
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this I am over the moon that you ask me
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about my hometown it is only once in a
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blue moon that I get to talk about a
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topic that is so close to my heart there
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are a plethora of reasons why one would
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enjoy my hometown let's talk first about
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the 18th century architecture but if the
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examiner was to ask them about a topic
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they weren't expecting such as wigs The
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Examiner might hear an answer like this
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I don't know anything about wigs I've
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never worn a wig in in my entire life
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and things are going to get much worse
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for this student because the examiners
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are trained to spot memorized answers
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and what they will do if they think that
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you are giving memorized answers for
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example about your hometown they will
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ask you more and more iCal questions and
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unusual topics and here's the scary part
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The Examiner has your memorized answer
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and your answer to the questions you
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weren't expecting they will not base
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their score on this answer they will
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base their score on this answer alone
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because as my father used to say a chef
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is only as good as their worst dish not
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their best dish your memorized answers
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are not your real level your real
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speaking level is dealing with questions
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you work not expecting so if you do get
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an unusual question on test day answer
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it like this no I've never worn a wig I
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think that people who wear wigs sound
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and look ridiculous I think they really
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just do it for attention or to be funny
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which isn't funny at all to be honest
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now if you thought the examiners were
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sneaky in part one you're really going
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to hate them after I reveal their sneaky
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trap in part three of the test now
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before I tell you what it is let me tell
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you why they do it because once you
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understand the why you'll be able to
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spot it immediately and deal with it
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much more easily so when I was a kid in
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primary school I really struggled
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academically I couldn't even write my
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own name properly I couldn't understand
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most of the lessons and I wasn't allowed
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to sit with the other kids but despite
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all this I was able to eventually
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graduate from one of the best law
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schools in the world you see when I did
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a test I got all the easy questions
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wrong but the few really difficult
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questions at the end of the test that no
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other students could get correct I would
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always get those correct and this is
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exactly what the examiners are training
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to do in part three of the speaking test
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if they believe that you are at one of
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the lower bands let's say a band four or
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a band five they will ask you quite easy
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questions like these ones but if they
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think that you deserve one of the higher
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bonds a b seven eight or even nine they
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will ask you more and more difficult
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questions notice how in the book here
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the questions get more and more
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difficult but the key here is how you
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react to these more difficult questions
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these questions will come at the very
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end of the speaking test when you are
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stressed you are tired and you just want
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the test to end and when the examiner
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asks these questions often students will
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give answers like
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uh yes
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um I don't know the thing you have to
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remember with these questions is the
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examiner is testing you they are testing
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are you capable of answering these band
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Seven 8 and N questions cuz they have to
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separate out the band sevens from the
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band eights from the band 9es one of the
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ways they're try to do that is ask these
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really really difficult questions and
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then see how you react to them so what
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if you know nothing about the topic or
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you just find that question really
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really challenging are you going to
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automat Ally get a low score no let me
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show you how to cope with those
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questions so if I was doing the test and
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I got this question and I know nothing
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about this topic I am a complete idiot
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when it comes to this topic I could say
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something like this to be honest I don't
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know anything about this topic I'm not
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from India and I don't know much about
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cooking but if I had to give an answer
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um it's very difficult to predict the
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future but what I would say is Maybe the
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AI will change how the restaurants take
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orders and how they deliver the food to
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their customers but that's just a
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complete guess now is that the best
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answer in the world no but it is much
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better than uh and by attempting an
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answer and telling the examiner what I
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think about that topic even though I
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know nothing about it I have indicated
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to The Examiner that I am good enough to
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deal with those questions and they might
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then steal the conversation to a topic
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that I'm more comfortable with and then
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I can really show them how good I am now
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the last trap is the sneakiest of them
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all and it's got to do with how they
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test your vocabulary there are thousands
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of words in the English language and the
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examiners only have between 10 and 15
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minutes to test your ability to use
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English vocabulary so they came up with
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a genius way of testing it in around 10
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minutes see some words we use to talk
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about this topic some words this topic
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and some words this topic but if we try
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to use these words to talk about this
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topic it doesn't work these are called
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topic specific words and we can use them
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to talk about different topics knowing
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this information is crucial for two
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reasons first the examiners are trained
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to ask you a range of different topics
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on test day so that you can't just
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memorize a list of band nine words and
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put them into every answer and cheat the
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test in that way secondly the examiners
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are more impressed with a simple topic
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specific word than a more complex word
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that doesn't really help you answer the
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question this is why so many students
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failed the test when they were expecting
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to get a really high score because they
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memorized lists of band nine words and
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this is why so many of our VIP students
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get a band S8 and N not by memorizing
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lists of high level Bond nine words but
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using the simple topic specific words
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they already know it's actually impos
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whoa It's actually possible to avoid
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100% of the traps that might come up in
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the speaking test not just the speaking
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test but all areas of the I test every
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part of the I test reading listening
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writing has traps contained within it
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but there is one way that you can spot
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all of them and avoid all of them and
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massively increase your score in the
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movie Catch Me If You Can Leonardo
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DiCaprio plays a criminal that is being
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chased by FBI man Tom Hanks Leo's
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character plays a criminal who pretends
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to be an airline pilot and a doctor and
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a lawyer he also steals money by making
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fake checks and stealing credit cards
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The crucial scene in this movie comes
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when Tom Hanks asks Leo how did he fake
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passing the bar exam the bar exam is an
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exam all lawyers have to take before
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they can become a lawyer it is one of
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the most difficult tests in the entire
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world and Tom Hanks can't figure out how
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a criminal how a con man would be able
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to fake passing this test and here's how
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he did it I didn't
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cheat I studied for 2 weeks and I passed
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you see he didn't need to fake becoming
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a doctor or lawyer or an airline pilot
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he didn't need to steal money to become
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rich he was already talented and smart
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and intelligent enough to do all of
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these things without cheating without
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stealing he just needed to stop cheating
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all of the is traps are used to catch
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cheaters like Leo's character most I
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students don't cheat because they are
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bad people they cheat because they lack
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confidence they are scared that they're
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going to to fail and then they get
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desperate and resort to listening to
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these tricks and cheats and hacks and
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the most fascinating thing is this movie
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is a true story he now actually works
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for the FBI and credit card companies
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have paid him millions of dollars to
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help prevent future criminals taking
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advantage of the system if you believe
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that you're good enough and you don't
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cheat The Examiner is going to give you
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your real score on test day and you'll
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be rewarded with a new life in a new
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country getting paid way more than you
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currently are you are more than capable
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of doing that you just have to show them
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but many of you are probably still
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worried right now and you want some tips
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to help you improve your speaking score
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check out this video where we help
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prianka jump from a band six to a band
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eight by just giving her four simple
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tips it's really going to help you check
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that video out made it acoss didn't die
