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let's listen to a TOEFL speaking sample

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answer for question number two and the

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student struggles with what to say in

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the moment what to say next and that's

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the question we're going to try to

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answer by the end of this what should

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you do when you don't know what to say

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next

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the question that we're going to look at

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question number two is you have to read

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and listen we're not going to do the

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reading and listening passage the

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student doesn't have any trouble with

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content we're going to focus just on

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their delivery how they speak they're

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going to talk about a graduation

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ceremony and the woman's opinion on that

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ceremony

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so focusing on delivery let's listen in

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right now here we go okay first of all

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the women disagree with the idea that

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having two ceremonies uh well the

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reasons are her friends because they

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probably wouldn't be at the same

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ceremony

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and she said that

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um well the man said that it will

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probably last three hours and then she

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said that

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they can reduce these hours

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um limitating the number of speakers

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um

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also the auditorium allows only to

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invitations per student

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so she

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proposed to do this ceremony outside and

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maybe on June when the weather is warm

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so I think she's kind of crazy but

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um that's what she states

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okay so that's his response I

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highlighted and read some things that I

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wanted to talk about so after running it

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through my speaking score he got a score

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of 18 out of 30 and an 18 out of 100 on

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a scoring Dimension called pause

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frequency so that means that basically

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he paused too much so what he needs to

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do is he needs to pause less often when

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he gives his response he says so so and

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she said the man said then she said then

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she states so I can tell that he does

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know some template language like he

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starts with first of all and one of the

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reasons also so he has some good

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discourse markers here he has some good

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template language but he needs a bit

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more because he has some trouble going

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from one sentence to the next sentence

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from one idea to the next idea and so

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that's thinking in the moment what to do

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in the moment so how can he do better

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how can he go from one eye idea to the

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next idea well he should learn a few

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discourse markers and he knows some

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already these are basically words like

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first of all for example in my opinion

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so we're going to call them transition

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words or phrases so he doesn't have to

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learn a bunch of new phrases just a

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couple maybe two or three I gave some

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ideas here these are pretty common for

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example when you want to add information

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in addition as a matter of fact and

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actually I'm going to show you how to

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use these in a minute but I'm just going

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to introduce them first

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when you emphasize information when you

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want to say that something's important

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in fact or more importantly

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and when he's giving ordering ideas so

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another reason secondly she goes on to

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say

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I think he actually knows some of this

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stuff but he needs a bit more because

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he's thinking too much between ideas

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he's saying so too much he's saying she

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said the man said the woman said the man

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said he needs to kind of expand his

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vocabulary a bit and also pause less

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often I think he should also use some

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synonyms for said I think he says say

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the man says the woman says a bit too

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much

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uh mention explain suggests goes on to I

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think is great and talk about because

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those are phrases and phrases give you a

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bigger higher score on TOEFL than just

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one word vocabulary so if you have to

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say he says or he goes on to say goes on

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to say would be a stronger word a strong

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we give you a stronger score because

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it's a phrase It's a phrase length you

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need to say goes and on to say you have

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to say all that together and use it

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correctly that's hard to do so you would

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get a higher score on TOEFL if you use

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more phrases like that so keep that in

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mind so I rewrote a couple things I

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think his beginning was great he said

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first of all and one of the reasons I

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changed this is where he has some

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trouble where and she said the man said

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and she said so I I changed a couple

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things

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instead of and well the man explains

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that it will probably last three hours

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he goes on to say

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and then in addition in addition again

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as a phrase mates who are a little bit

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better than also also is one word in

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addition is two so it's a phrase

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and also dude stop saying so at the end

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he said so a lot way too much and so you

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want to try and I've just said so right

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now

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so it's pretty common to say so but you

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want to try to reduce that as much as

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possible on test day instead of so I cut

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that out and she proposed and also

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instead of so I think in fact he does a

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lot of things really well but those are

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some changes that he should make to to

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try to reduce his pauses that what's

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what we want to do with him reduces

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pauses now he sees my example he knows

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that he's saying so too much and he

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needs to expand his vocabulary a little

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bit and he should use some transition

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words how should he practice that so

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before I'd recommend an activity for him

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I'm going to give a promo shout out to

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speakerenglish.com we have a TOEFL

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speaking study plan that is designed to

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help you improve your speaking by 30

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days and it's guaranteed to work and

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it's pretty simple you practice one

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question 15 minutes a day you take a

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deep look at that one question and

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you've changed a couple things like

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we're doing here basically and you go

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through this process every day you have

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a community you have support from

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teachers like me and others check it out

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speakerenglish.com what activities

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should he do to help him reduce the

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amount of times he says so so this is

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one thing he should do that I've already

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explained that he should write a

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transcript look at his response change

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some words change some vocabulary and

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then do the same response again

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but also he says the word so a bit too

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much and a lot of times people have

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trouble saying uh or um too much and I

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made this video giving some advice and a

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specific activity to help you reduce the

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amount of times you say uh or um or so

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when you speak check that video out

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thanks for watching and I will see you

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there