Nice to see you all and today we have Saskia's practice mock test. Now, you've just finished your test, Saskia. How did it go? I think it went pretty well, yes. I'm pretty confident.

很高興見到大家，今天我們請來了薩斯基婭的模擬測試。薩斯琪亞，你剛剛考完試。考得怎麼樣？我覺得很順利，是的。我很有信心。

Good. If you guys want to watch and see what Saskia did well and how you could improve, then keep watching. Do you think that the IELTS speaking test is difficult?

很好。如果你們想看看薩斯基婭做得好的地方，以及你們可以如何改進，那就繼續看吧。您認為雅思口語考試難嗎？

Well, I agree with you. The great news is that we've made some fantastic mock exam videos with a real practice exam, with real students and a real practice examiner. During these videos,

我同意你的觀點。好消息是，我們已經制作了一些精彩的模擬考試視頻，其中包含真實的模擬考試、真實的學生和真實的考官。在這些視頻中

I'm going to be looking at what the students do well, how they can improve and also how you guys can use some of their tips, techniques and ideas in your speaking test.

我將介紹學生們在哪些方面做得很好，他們可以如何改進，以及你們可以如何在口語測試中使用他們的一些技巧、方法和想法。

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. It is Chris from IELTS Daily and I'm here to help you pass your IELTS speaking test. We have another mock exam video for you today with a practice examiner and a practice student. If you haven't already seen this student, she is one of our channel's very favourite students. Her name is Saskia and you can see her other video by clicking the link in the description below. You'll see it on the screen now. It is a wonderful video on how you can improve and score really highly during the test. Saskia is back for another video.

女士們，先生們，歡迎回來。我是來自《雅思日報》的克里斯，在這裡我將幫助大家通過雅思口語考試。今天，我們又為大家帶來了一段模擬考試視頻，視頻中的考官和學生都是練習生。如果你還沒有看過這位學生，她是我們頻道最受歡迎的學生之一。她的名字叫 Saskia，您可以點擊下面描述中的鏈接查看她的其他視頻。您現在就能在螢幕上看到。這是一段關於如何在考試中取得高分的精彩視頻。薩斯基婭又回來了，她將為大家帶來另一段視頻。

We're very happy to see her again and she has some different questions and I want to talk about confidence today. One of the most important things when you're sitting the test is to feel confident about the way you're speaking. IELTS is about speaking naturally. You don't have to show off or try to speak with really high level words. Your language, and this is from the band descriptors, needs to be natural with some less common words, idiomatic words. But for the most part, you just have to give reasons for your answers, speak fluently without stopping and try to vary your language as much as possible. So we have Saskia for her second mock test today. Let's see how she does. Hello and welcome to this practice exam conducted by IELTS Daily. My name is Maddie and I'm your practice examiner. The questions in this test are designed to simulate the IELTS speaking test. Let's start. What's your first name please? Saskia. Thanks Saskia. At the beginning of the IELTS test you'll be required to provide an ID, but as this is a practice test we don't need to do that today. I want to begin by talking about you. Do you have a large family? I don't actually, it's just myself and my brother so it's very tight-knit. And how often do you speak to your family? Every day I make sure to call my parents, both my mum and my dad at least once a day and my brother and I are very close so I'm actually going over to see him after this. Because of the distance, I make it a point to, you know, call them every day so we don't feel such a large gap.

我們很高興再次見到她，她有一些不同的問題，我今天想談談自信。參加考試時，最重要的一點就是要對自己的口語有信心。雅思口語講究自然。您不必炫耀或試圖用非常高級的詞彙說話。您的語言（這一點來自於分數段描述）需要自然地使用一些不常用的單詞和慣用語。但在大多數情況下，您只需為自己的回答說明理由，流利地說，不要停頓，並儘可能地變換您的語言。今天是薩斯基婭的第二次模擬考試。讓我們看看她的表現如何。大家好，歡迎來到《雅思日報》舉辦的模擬考試。我叫瑪蒂，是你們的模擬考官。本次考試的試題旨在模擬雅思口語考試。讓我們開始吧。請

What do you think about the language tight-knit? Great high-level idiomatic language there.

你認為緊扣語言如何？那裡的高級成語很棒。

Saskia uses it naturally during her speech. She says we're a tight-knit family. It's a description which says that they are very close. You'll see it in the description below. A tight-knit family.

薩斯基婭在演講中很自然地使用了這個詞。她說，我們是一個緊密團結的大家庭。這個描述說明他們非常親密。您將在下面的描述中看到這一點。親密無間的家庭

Okay, let's move on to the topic of water. Do you drink a lot of water? I try to, I know you're supposed to have like six litres a day, that does not happen, but I try to keep a bottle on me as much as possible. Do you ever drink bottled water? I do, yes, because in Sri Lanka where I grew up you don't actually drink water from the tap, you can't, you will get sick. But yeah, so I do drink quite a bit of bottled water. Now I want to talk about the sky. Do you like to look at the sky? I do, it's very peaceful and just calming to look at the sky. Do you prefer to look at the sky during the day or the night? If you're not in the city, I think the night sky is stunning because you don't have the light pollution, so you just see a lot of stars and it's just beautiful. But if you are in the city, I can see why the sky during the day is a lot more pleasing. Okay, so we're talking about confidence today. Saskia comes across as a very confident person, she answers the questions very naturally. However, and this is an area where Saskia could maybe improve, occasionally some of the questions she answers are a little bit short. When she gives the answer, she probably could elaborate a little bit more. So we talked about drinking bottled water and she just said, yes I do, and then she kind of felt the need afterwards to explain a little bit more.

好了，讓我們來談談水的話題。你喝水多嗎？我儘量喝，我知道你應該每天喝六升水，但這是不可能的，但我儘量隨身帶一瓶水。你喝過瓶裝水嗎？我喝，是的，因為在我成長的斯里蘭卡，你不能喝自來水，否則會生病。不過是的，我確實喝過不少瓶裝水。現在我想談談天空。你喜歡看天空嗎？我喜歡，看天空讓人感到寧靜和安詳。你喜歡在白天還是晚上看天空？如果你不在城市裡，我覺得夜空非常迷人，因為沒有光汙染，你可以看到很多星星，非常美麗。但如果你在城市裡，我就能理解為什麼白天的天空更令人愉悅了。好了，今天我們來談談自信。薩斯基婭是一個非常自

She didn't push herself quite as much, but then she spoke at length about the next topic.

她並沒有那麼咄咄逼人，但接下來她又長篇大論地談到了下一個話題。

So just make sure that for every question that you answer, try to speak as much as possible.

是以，只要確保你回答的每一個問題，都儘可能多地發言。

And do you enjoy learning about the stars and planets? I do. I think it's very interesting how the stars and the planets really influence how people perceive their lives. I'm not saying that they actually influence your life, but I'm saying how, you know, I feel like people always want something to blame when things go wrong and the stars have been a very good scapegoat for them.

你喜歡瞭解星星和行星嗎？我喜歡。我覺得恆星和行星如何影響人們對生活的看法非常有趣。我並不是說它們真的會影響你的生活，但我想說的是，你知道的，我覺得人們總是希望在事情出錯的時候找一個可以責備的對象，而星星一直是他們很好的替罪羊。

The stars have been a very good scapegoat for them. To be a scapegoat for something.

明星是他們很好的替罪羊。成為替罪羊

Lovely, lovely language. She speaks really naturally. She's talking as though she's talking to a friend. She's sitting back in her chair. She's looking directly at the examiner.

可愛的語言她說話非常自然。她就像在和朋友說話一樣。她坐在椅子上她直視著考官

Great body language. It won't help you in your test, but it might make you feel a little bit more relaxed and confident in yourself. Good job. Great. I'm going to give you a topic and I'd like you to talk about it for one 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. Here is a paper and pencil for making notes. Thank you. And here is your topic. I would like you to describe an older person who has inspired you. Okay. So remember, you have one to two minutes for this, so don't worry if I stop you. I'll tell you when the time is up. Can you start speaking now, please?

精彩的肢體語言。這不會對你的考試有幫助，但可能會讓你感覺更放鬆，對自己更有信心。幹得好很好我會給你一個話題，希望你能談一到兩分鐘。在你發言之前，你有一分鐘的時間思考你要說的內容，如果你願意，你可以做筆記。這裡有做筆記用的紙和筆。謝謝。這是你的題目。我想讓你描述一位激勵過你的長輩。好的，記住，你們有一到兩分鐘的時間，所以如果我打斷你們，不要擔心。時間到了我會告訴你。現在可以開始發言了嗎？

So an older person who has inspired me would be my mother. She is, well, I know her because she is my mother. And I don't see her very often because we live so far apart, but I make it a point to call her every day, communicate. And literally if I'm doing something, she'll be on the phone there with me and I'm just talking. I'm just wasting time, but I am just talking.

是以，激勵過我的長輩應該是我的母親。她，嗯，我認識她，因為她是我的母親。我不常見到她，因為我們住得太遠了，但我每天都會給她打電話，和她交流。實際上，如果我在做什麼事，她就會在電話裡陪著我，而我只是在哈拉。我只是在浪費時間，但我只是在哈拉。

And the reason I find her so inspiring would be because she didn't finish, like she didn't go to university. She started, she got dragged into, like she got a modeling job, started that. And from that point on, she has gone on to, she is a director of finance at my parents' companies.

我之所以覺得她如此鼓舞人心，是因為她沒有完成學業，比如她沒有上大學。她開始，她被拖入，就像她得到了一個模特的工作，開始了。從那時起，她一直到現在，是我父母公司的財務總監。

And she built buildings for, like she built the office buildings herself. She built a house herself. And she didn't have the educational background that so many people think is necessary for you to do so many things with your life, but she has done everything. And she's one of the most intelligent people that you would ever meet. Like you can have a conversation with her and you'd think that she was the most learned scholar, but really she just has an opinion and she just goes with it and she'll make sure she knows. She makes sure that she knows, you know, that her opinion exists and is valid. And yeah, so that's why I find her so inspiring. It's just that she never let anything stop her. When she grew up, she grew up in the height of the war back home in Sri Lanka, and she still didn't let that inhibit her getting an education or getting places in life. She always made sure that regardless of what happened, she and her family were well looked after. She was a working mom, but she always made sure that by the time three o'clock came and my brother and I were out of school, she was hands on. She would drive us to classes, take us back, swimming practice, drama classes, this, that and the other. She was very, very involved, which with a working mom, you don't always expect. Great. Thank you.

她還自己蓋樓，比如她自己蓋辦公樓。她自己蓋房子。她的教育背景並不像很多人認為的那樣，是你一生中做很多事情的必要條件，但她什麼都做過了。她是你見過的最聰明的人之一。就像你和她談話，你會覺得她是最博學的學者，但實際上，她只是有一個觀點，她只是順其自然，她會確保她知道。她會確保自己知道，你知道，她的觀點是存在的，是有效的。是的，這就是為什麼我覺得她如此鼓舞人心。她從不讓任何事情阻止她。在她成長的過程中，她的家鄉斯里蘭卡正處於戰火紛飛的時期，但她仍然沒有是以而放棄接受教育或在生活中取得一席之地。她總是確保無論發生

Wow. Saskia spoke at length for the whole of part two. Great. She elaborated on her answers.

哇薩斯基婭在第二部分講了很長時間。太棒了。她詳細闡述了自己的答案。

She gave her opinions, her thoughts, explained about who the person was who inspired her, gave details. She did look down at the card a couple of times, but that's normal.

她提出了自己的觀點和想法，解釋了啟發她的人是誰，並提供了一些細節。她確實低頭看了幾眼卡片，但這很正常。

She looked for some prompts from the card. No major mistakes. Great features of language.

她從卡片上找到了一些提示。沒有大的錯誤。語言特色鮮明。

Fantastic pronunciation. Really top quality job.

美妙的發音。真是一流的工作。

Now, let's talk about older people. Generally, who normally looks after older people in your country? Well, the family back home, as much as possible, you wouldn't put anybody older into a home. You look after them yourself. You look after your parents yourself, because we have the idea that my mother looked after me. It's my turn to look after her. That's the sort of mentality.

現在，讓我們談談老年人。一般來說，在貴國，通常由誰來照顧老年人？儘可能由家裡人來照顧，你不會把老年人送進養老院。你自己照顧他們。你自己照顧你的父母，因為我們的觀念是我的母親照顧我。輪到我照顧她了。就是這種心態

But I think now with migration becoming so big, you have a lot more people who put their parents in homes and then just migrate to other countries like Australia, the UK, wherever else. But for the most part, we look after our parents and our older people.

但我認為，隨著移民潮的興起，越來越多的人將父母安置在養老院，然後移民到澳洲、英國等其他國家。但大多數情況下，我們都會照顧自己的父母和老人。

Does the government provide good social care for elderly people where you live?

在您居住的地方，政府是否為老年人提供良好的社會關懷？

Not really, because we are a developing country. And because of that, I feel they don't actually they don't actually take the time to make the space. I don't know how best to explain this, because it's such a complicated and dynamic thing, because there's so much political involvement with the social lives of people, but somehow it's not always for the best.

其實不然，因為我們是開發中國家。正因為如此，我覺得他們實際上沒有花時間去創造空間。我不知道該如何更好地解釋這一點，因為這是一件複雜多變的事情，因為政治與人們的社會生活息息相關，但不知何故，這並不總是最好的結果。

I'm just going to pause there. And I just want you to notice this is a feature of all our language.

我在這裡暫停一下。我只是想讓你們注意到，這是我們所有語言的一個特點。

She started talking about one topic, and I think she was trying to buy herself a little bit more time, and then completely changed the way that she was going and expanded on her answer then.

她開始談論一個話題，我想她是想為自己爭取更多的時間，然後完全改變了思路，擴展了她的答案。

So this would be a completely normal thing to do. Start talking a little bit about something, and she's looking for ideas. This is content-related hesitation, and we've spoken about that in a previous video. And then she realises she has her answer and starts talking more.

所以這是很正常的事情。開始談論一些事情時，她在尋找點子。這是與內容有關的猶豫，我們在之前的視頻中已經談到過。然後她意識到她已經有了答案，於是開始說得更多。

Totally normal to do that. And when it comes to having a good social programme for older people, it's hard to say that it exists. Not for a lack of trying, but it's just a lack of follow-through,

這樣做完全正常。說到為老年人制定良好的社會計劃，很難說有這樣的計劃。不是沒有嘗試，只是缺乏後續行動、

I think. Now, if I listen to the substance of Saskia's answer, she didn't actually explain too much about her thoughts, but she did give an answer. I think this was a tricky question.

我想是的。現在，如果我聽聽薩斯基婭回答的實質內容，她實際上並沒有解釋太多她的想法，但她確實給出了答案。我認為這是一個棘手的問題。

Remember that part three questions are always quite difficult. She didn't really give a reason for whether the government really supports elderly people. She kind of skirted around the topic, but did give somewhat of a vague answer. And that's okay. There's no right or wrong answer in IELTS. You just have to be able to speak fluently, which she did.

請記住，第三部分的問題總是相當難。對於政府是否真正支持老年人，她並沒有給出理由。她有點繞開話題，但確實給出了一個模糊的答案。這也沒關係。雅思考試的答案沒有對錯之分。你只需能夠流利地說話，而她做到了。

How can society ensure that older people are not neglected?

社會如何確保老年人不被忽視？

I think it comes with teaching the younger generations to respect their elders, because neglect, it's something that, you know, if you see your parents neglect their parents, you're more likely to neglect your own. Does that make sense? And if you teach young kids that this is how you are supposed to care for somebody, regardless of how old they are or how valuable they are to you and your society, I think then you'd make sure that, you know, there's less neglect going on of older people. Great. Thank you very much. That is the end of the speaking test.

我認為這與教育年輕一代尊重長輩有關，因為忽視長輩，你知道，如果你看到你的父母忽視他們的父母，你就更有可能忽視自己的父母。有道理嗎？如果你教導年輕的孩子們，這就是你應該照顧別人的方式，不管他們有多老，也不管他們對你和你的社會有多大價值，我想這樣你就能確保，你知道，對老年人的忽視就會減少。很好。非常感謝口語測試到此結束。

Wow. A little bit shorter today. Normally, a speaking test would be about 10 minutes long.

哇今天的時間有點短。一般來說，口語測試會有 10 分鐘左右。

This was a little bit shorter. It was a mock test, a practice test. What did you think of Saskia in her speech? I was really thoroughly impressed. She speaks so well, so confidently. And remember, we talked about confidence today. She answers really naturally. Sometimes you'll find her looking up, looking for ideas, but that's completely normal. Remember on the test day, you're going to be nervous and you're going to be facing the examiner that maybe doesn't give you any emotions back. So don't be put off by that. Try to just speak as naturally and as honestly as possible. I was really impressed and I think a typical examiner in this particular case would score nine for fluency and coherence. She spoke at length. Nine for lexical resource, nine for grammatical range and accuracy, and nine for pronunciation. This was an example of an excellent band nine speaking answer. So well done to Saskia. If you watched her previous video, she did make a small pronunciation mistake and lots of people said, how can the examiner be so strict in pronunciation? Well, that's just how the test works, I'm afraid. So be prepared for a really strict examiner. Today, Saskia did fantastically well. So good job to her. If you like these videos, please share them with your friends. Come back and watch more. We have lots of vocabulary and ideas generation videos that you can watch on our YouTube channel.

這次的時間稍短。這是一次模擬考試，一次練習考試。你覺得薩斯基婭的演講怎麼樣？她給我留下了深刻的印象。她講得非常好，非常自信。記住，我們今天談到了自信。她的回答非常自然。有時你會發現她抬起頭，尋找思路，但這完全正常。記住，在考試當天，你會很緊張，你要面對的考官可能不會給你任何情緒反饋。所以不要是以而沮喪。儘量說得自然、誠實。她的表現給我留下了非常深刻的印象，我認為在這種特殊情況下，一般考官都會給她的流利度和連貫性打 9 分。她說得很長。詞彙資源 9 分，文法範圍和準確性 9 分，發音 9 分。這是一個優秀的

We'll see you in the next video. Take care of yourselves. Bye for now.

我們下期視頻再見。保重再見