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hi guys and welcome to number two in the

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fluency gym and this is where you're

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going to really improve your IELTS

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speaking in particular improve your

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fluency not only improve we will boost

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level up even rocket your fluency to the

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moon and believe me you will be over the

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moon with the results let's get straight

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into it

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if you haven't seen the first one of the

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fluency gym go and have a look up here

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and you can go and check it out but

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don't worry I will explain everything

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you need to know here so the fluency gym

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is a bit like a healthy snack bar the

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healthy snack bar gives you your

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vitamins your iron your fiber your

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protein

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well the fluency gym will give you

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improved fluency better intonation

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excellent grammar and some brilliant

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answers for your IELTS speaking there is

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a big focus on intonation so that you

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can sound more English maybe more

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British if you want to sound British oh

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hello right you can sound like the Queen

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maybe if you're a bloke or a man you

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don't want to sound like the Queen

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actually but it will improve

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pronunciation as well as fluency the

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perfect health bar Before we jump in

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just to remind you if you haven't joined

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the YouTube and Facebook live lessons

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come and join us Tuesday and Thursday

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10:00 a.m.

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Spanish time it's free it's fun we're

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having a ball we're having an absolute

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whale of a time come along and join us

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great now let's begin

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this is how it works okay I will repeat

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some answers to questions and you just

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have to repeat the phrases it's a piece

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of cake all you need are your ears to

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really listen carefully to the

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intonation and your mouth to speak out

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it's all about playing with sounds right

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there's a big focus on intonation so you

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not only repeat the phrase but when I

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also say dee dee dee dee dee you repeat

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the dee dee dee dee

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I love the dee dee dee bit and that's

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getting your ear trained to listen to

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the sound and the intonation right so if

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I say hello

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I'll say dee dee hello dee dee if I say

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hello

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I'll say dee dee are you paying

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attention

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can you hear that dee dee that tunes in

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your ear to the intonation it's great

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fun trust me do this for a couple of

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weeks at least practice and practice and

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I guarantee you will notice a difference

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in in in everything about your English

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and your IELTS speaking so let's begin

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today's grammar focus is the present

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perfect continuous

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hurray one of my favorite tenses right

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and the present perfect continuous like

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I have been driving can be used to

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describe an activity that began in the

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past and continues today right so it's

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great as you'll see for part 1 questions

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about you and your experience let's do

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it the first question is do you drive ok

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so repeat with me yes I do

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dee dee dee yes I do

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I've been driving since I was 18

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I'll slow it down for you I've been

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driving since I was 18

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dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee I've

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been driving since I was 18 gets it

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excellent notice the Waze becomes worse

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since I was since I was 18

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got it great there's another example do

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you drive

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yes I do dee dee dee I've been driving

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since I left University dee dee dee dee

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dee dee dee dee dee dee I've been

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driving since I left University next one

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do you practice any water sports yes I

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do actually

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I swim dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee

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yes I do actually I swim I've been

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swimming since I was a kid

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dddd dddd I've been swimming since I was

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a kid

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great notice again I was uh I was sir I

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was a kid I was a kid it's one sound I

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was a kid one more time I've been

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swimming since I was a kid

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excellent great here's another one yes I

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do actually I surf

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dddd dddd yes I do actually I surf

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I've been surfing since I was in high

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school

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dddd dddd dddd I've been surfing since I

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was in high school nice great one more

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do you run I do as a matter of fact the

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dddddd I do as a matter of fact I've

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been running for about three years now

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dddd dddd Edie I've been running

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about three years now nice well done or

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we can say I've been jogging for around

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five years now dddd dddd dddd I've been

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jogging for around five years now

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great notice for around becomes fur

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around for round fur around gray it's

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the real rough fur around for around

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five years try again I've been jogging

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fur around five years now

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brilliant got it now I'm gonna look at

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some more questions but here using the

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present perfect continuous but about a

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recent activity so it's the same form

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I've been running but focusing on a

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recent activity which is the other use

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of this phrase or this tense so let's

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have a look the question here is are you

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interested in science let's go yes I'm a

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big fan of science dee dee dee dee dee

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dee dee dee yes I'm a big fan of science

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recently I've been listening to a new

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podcast about science dee dee dee dee

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dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee

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dee dee

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long right recently I've been listening

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to a new podcast about science so you

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can hear the stress right I hope I've

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been listening to a new podcast about

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science listening and he dared a DD DD

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DD DD DD DD DD DD recently I've been

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listening to a new podcast about science

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excellent and that's what makes your

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English your English so English that's

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let's have a look at another question do

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you cook yeah I love cooking ddddd yeah

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I love cooking recently I've been

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learning some new Japanese dishes dee

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dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee

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dee dee dee recently I've been learning

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some new Japanese dishes nice you can

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hear the stress again right I've been

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learning some new Japanese dishes DDT

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excellent or you could say recently I've

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been trying out some new Japanese

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recipes similar thing dee dee dee dee

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dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee

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dee dee recently I've been trying out

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some new Japanese recipes nice keep at

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it these are quite long but keep

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practicing next question how do you

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usually spend time by yourself

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well recently I've been learning how to

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meditate dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee

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dee dee dee dee dee well recently I've

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been learning how to meditate

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it's great fun actually dddddd

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it's great fun actually fantastic that's

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great so listen this is present perfect

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continuous we can use it for something

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that began in the past and continues to

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now or for a recent activity that's been

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happening all you've been doing I have

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been doing that's it

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thank you very much for joining me today

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the part three of the fluency gym just

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around the corner take care bye bye

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recently I've been listening to it dddd

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dddd ggggg well I've been we can use it

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for something that we can in the past

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and continues to net remember repeat