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I'm going to ask you some questions about neighbours.
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How well do you know the people
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who live next door to you?
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Well, I have to tell the truth that
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I know nothing about my neighbours in New Zealand...
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...I'm sorry...
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...because I'm not a house owner,
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I only rent a bedroom...
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...so... but I know that there is an old lady
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living next door,
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and she's quite...tiny...I'm sorry...
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I mean she cleans up his backyard very frequently
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so I can hear she... I can hear that...
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her is cleaning his backyard at the weekend.
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And what kinds of problems do people sometimes have
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with their neighbours?
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Well, I think the most important one is...
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...is that maybe your neighbours will make some noise
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at the weekend especially
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because you want to have a good sleep.
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At the weekend, you will have a relaxed
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but your neighbour got a little child
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who is always crying
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and you will feel annoying about that.
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I think that's a important question.
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And how do you think neighbours can help each other?
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Well, I think neighbours can help each other
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in many ways.
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For example, I know that my house owner alway
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have a good relationship with the owner,
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I mean the old lady,
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and sometimes they will go for a trip...
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...for a long trip...
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...and they will told their neighbour that
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can you try to take care of my house?
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If there is something happened, can you tell me?
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And, even I can see some signature
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on our window that...
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it says that the neighbour will help each other
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if you want to break the door.
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I'm going to ask you some questions about flowers.
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Do you like to have flowers in your home?
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Yes, of course.
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Yes, I like colourful things and flower is beautiful.
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And where would you go to buy flowers?
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Well, I never buyed some flowers
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because first of all I'm not a boy,
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I don't have to give a flowers on Valentine Days,
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and I will grown some flowers
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if it's possible.
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I prefer to planting.
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On what occasions would you give someone flowers?
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Well, you remind me that
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I only give someone flower for once
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but it's the Mother's Day,
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and it happened in... when I was in university
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and I lived away from my home at the first time,
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it was the first time I leaved my home,
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and I very missed my mum,
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and I can't keep company with her in the Mother's Day
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so I bought some flowers
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and deliver... make someone deliver to her.
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Are flowers important in your culture?
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Well, it's important but
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I think it's not as important as in Western countries,
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but we do use flowers for thanking,
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for thanking someone,
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and flowers usually appeared on hospital I think
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because if someone is getting recover... recovering
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and they will receive some flowers
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from their neighbours, friends, families.
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Hi, my name's Pete Jones
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and I've been helping IELTS candidates like May
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prepare for the IELTS test
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for many years now.
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May got an IELTS Speaking band score 6.0
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a couple of months before we made this recording.
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She also got an IELTS overall band score 6.5,
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which meant that she was accepted on to
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a university course here in New Zealand.
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What I'd like to show you in this video
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is how May could improve her speaking
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and get a higher IELTS Speaking band score.
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When May was answering
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my IELTS Speaking Part 1 questions,
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I noticed that she made some mistakes
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that Chinese speakers often make
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when speaking in English.
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The first of these mistakes was
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using the wrong pronoun 'his'
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when talking about a woman
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who she had mentioned before.
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I don't know if you remember but
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May talked about an old lady
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who lived next door to her,
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and she said that this old lady
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often cleaned 'his' backyard
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when actually she meant
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the old lady cleaned her own backyard.
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This kind of mistake with pronouns
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is a very common mistake
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for Chinese speakers to make.
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The second mistake I noticed was that
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May used the wrong form of the word 'annoy'
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when she was describing
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how we may feel
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if our neighbours make a lot of noise.
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She said that we may feel 'annoying'.
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What May should have said was that
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we may feel annoyed.
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With 'ed/ing' adjectives like 'annoyed' and 'annoying',
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or 'bored' and 'boring',
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or 'interesting' and 'interested',
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we use the 'ed' adjective to describe someone's feeling,
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and the 'ing' adjective to describe the situation.
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So, to describe the situation
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when your neighbours are making a lot of noise,
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you could say it would be really annoying.
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The third mistake was
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using the word 'very' instead of 'really'
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with a verb.
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In the example from May's speaking,
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she said that she 'very missed' her mum,
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and that was the reason why she sent her flowers,
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when in fact she should have said that
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she really missed her mum.
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You cannot use the word 'very' with a verb in English
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to mean 'a lot' or to mean 'really'.
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So, you would have to say that
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she missed her mum a lot,
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she really missed her mum,
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or maybe she missed her mum very much.
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So, to sum up,
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the mistakes that you heard in May's answers
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that are common for Chinese speakers
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are
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using the wrong pronoun
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when referring to a man or woman,
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using the wrong form of an adjective
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like 'annoyed' and 'annoying',
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and using the word 'very' instead of 'really' with a verb.
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Like I said before, the good news is
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May has already got the IELTS band score she needs
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so she doesn't need to take another IELTS test.
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If you need to improve your speaking score, however,
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it would be a good idea to think about
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if you make these kinds of mistakes
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that I've talked about in the video,
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and how you can avoid making them
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when you take another IELTS test.
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I hope you found this video useful,
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and if you don't want to miss my next IELTS video,
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subscribe now.