[0:00]So let's start off by talking about the weather. Can you describe the weather today? The weather today is so nice. It's winter, yet it's still summer, but the temperature is acceptable. You can have like a light jacket. During the day, you can go to the beach. So for me, it's the perfect weather. What's your favorite kind of weather? Uh, summer. I like summer. I like going to the beach, spending time with the family, uh, outside, uh, exploring. Is there any type of weather you really don't like? I like winter, but I don't like to be in a place where it's like minus 20 degrees. I like to go outside, not to be stuck at home. Let's talk about photography. Do you like taking photos? So much. I took a course at the university, photography course, and I had like 19 over 20. It's my passion. And I have my own camera, my own lenses. I like it. Do you like to shoot people or landscapes? Babies, mainly. You can play with the display. You can play with the with everything, like, uh, it's, uh, I don't know. I like it. What do you think it takes to become a great photographer? A good eye, and to know how to capture the moment. You have to have it. Otherwise, you will wait for the... Yeah, let's take a pose. No, don't wait for this person to take a pose. Just follow the person and, uh, capture the moment. Now, let's talk about animals. Do you like animals? So much. Especially dogs. I had dogs in my life, but, uh, my main issue was my mom, so because she used to have allergy, I used to take them back to my grandma. At that time, I felt like I have a baby at home, taking the dog
[1:49]for a haircut, to the doctor. It's, uh, I treat the dog like, uh, like a baby. Do you think that animals should be kept in zoos? Definitely not. It's not their place. We created the zoo, so no. It's their freedom. You cannot put them in a cage where they have to sit there, or the birds. It's not their place. Their place is the sky, it's the forest, not the zoo. Do you have any animals in your home as pets? Now, no. I used to have dogs, but now no, because of the weather here. It's, uh, I feel it's difficult to have a dog at home, to take the dog outside for a walk in 50 degrees, so no. I would love to have, but no, not here. Now, let's talk about colors. In your country, what are the most popular colors? I can tell you about the color of the flag, but we don't have a specific color in the country. The color of the flag is red, white, and green. My favorite color is black, so I don't know. We don't have a specific color in the country. Do you prefer to wear dark colors or light colors? Recently, both. Before, I used to like dark colors more. Maybe when I lost weight, I switched to bright and light colors. Do colors affect your mood? Definitely. If you live in a dark room, you will feel like everything is dark. That's why I like to have white walls, everything white. You feel the house is bright and it reflects on you. So I'll describe the house of my grandma. Who lives there? My grandma lives there, and my grandpa used to live there. Where the property is, it's in the mountain in Beirut, in Lebanon. What it looks like, It looks like a castle for me. It's not a castle, but for me, it's like a castle. We have a lot of memories there. That's why I decided to talk about this house. If you like it, definitely I do. I like this house, as I mentioned, because it reminds me of my childhood, and, uh, the best days we spend there, and we're still spending when we go to see her. We have a lot of memories. We had good food. She used to cook a lot for us. The house is simply like, I feel like home. I just love it. And especially because it's an old house, it's still the same till now. The second I enter the house, I feel like I'm back to my childhood. The memories comes back. As I told you, it's a big and old house. The old houses, you have the... How we say it? The walls are like... You feel like you're in a castle, but it's a house. The smell of the nature, the garden, everything. I like everything in this house. So we've been talking about a house that you like, and we're going to continue to talk about houses. Do you think it's better for people to live in an apartment or a house?
[5:27]For me, it's better to live in a villa than in an apartment, because when you have babies, one, he will wake up, he will wake up the other one, so it's easier to live in a villa or in a duplex to separate them. Do you think it's better for someone to buy a house or to rent? It depends. If, uh, the prices are high like now, it's better to wait because, uh, they will go down. So wait until you find the right time to buy. But definitely, yes, I'm with the buying. I'm not with the renting thing. I feel like I'm losing my money. Do you think that there is a certain age when someone should move out of their parents' home and move into their own home? For me, it's like when I got married, I moved. We don't have this in Beirut. Like at the age of 18, we have to move, or we have to have our own apartment. No. At the contrary, I enjoy spending time with them. So what I'm going to do now is give you some feedback. We did one before and you've come back. To thank you for making it this far in the video, I want to give you 10% off our VIP course. The IELTS VIP course is the most successful IELTS course in the world. That is a fact because we have more Band 7, 8, and 9 success stories than any other IELTS course in the entire world. We do that by simplifying the whole IELTS process, supporting you with some of the best IELTS teachers in the world, and being with you every step of the way until you get the score that you need. All you have to do is just look down in the description. Just click that and you can sign up. If you have any questions about the VIP course, always feel free to get in touch with us. We answer 100% of the questions that we get. Hope that you would become a VIP. If not, enjoy the rest of this free video. Your grammar is good, your vocabulary is good, your pronunciation is good. We really focused on coherence and fluency in the last one. Overall, your fluency and coherence was quite good. At times, you were searching for the correct word and that affected your line of thinking, and you would maybe avoid that. I think, again, you should not be afraid to paraphrase and explain the thing and say, I don't know the word for this, but explain what it is. I think because you live in the Middle East, you can often use Arabic words maybe and say, well, in Arabic, it's this. People will know, even English speakers would know what I'm saying. What you're saying, and of course, more people here speak both English and Arabic and then French and things like that. So maybe you're just not used to operating 100% in English. That could be an issue. But overall, you did well. One thing that you did in Part 2 was you looked at the Q card, and you just said, who lives there? Started talking about that. Where it is, what it looks like, explain why you like it. I felt I'm answering the question. You are very capable of not looking at this at all. I didn't want to skip any question. Yeah, but you can skip them.
[8:44]This is just a guide to help you. But a better way of doing it would be, talk to me like I'm your friend or your colleague, and just use this when you get stuck. When people are looking down and looking at this and reading, they sound less fluent. What also happens is you were getting through each of these very quickly. So then at the end, when you had nothing else to talk about, then you have to think a lot and that affects your fluency. And back to the same idea, and then you repeat the same idea and everything. So if you were doing the test again, I would say, just practice not using these too much. And then Part 3, overall quite good, but you generally just gave your own personal point of view. So you just said, I think this. All right. A way of developing your answer a little bit more would be, Okay, so I think that buying a house is better because I don't want to give money away to landlords. But I can see why some people would prefer to rent because there's a greater freedom with rent. So if you rent a place, you are not tied to that location, and you can leave at any time. So there's a lot of benefits to that. But the drawback is, is you're wasting a lot of money. You were giving very straight, good, good answers. Outside of this test, if you gave those answers, totally fine. But because this is a test that they wanted you to develop your ideas and talk about what what is going on, that that might hold you back a little bit. There's nothing wrong with your English. You you gave a very interesting performance, and I think it's very useful for people to see this video because it shows that someone could have very good English, a very high level, but they're not used to the format of the test, and that can lead to them getting a lower score than they believed that they that they were capable of. Because the IELTS is not just having great English, it's learning the format of the test and giving the examiner what they want. Yeah. And you just have to learn that a little bit more. It just comes down to practice. Half a day of practice, and you would be ready to get the score that you need. Amazing. Okay.
