BAND 8 SPEAKING
Why did this candidate get a Band 8?
THINGS SHE DOES WELL
- Continues speaking – gives extended answers with examples
- Good range of vocabulary – “everybody needs an anchor point or a balance …”
- Fluent
- Uses natural fillers (and, and / is a, is a / I mean / but, ah)
THINGS SHE DOESN’T DO SO WELL
Grammatical errors
- “People are looking forward to their holidays.”
(Ooops! Should be present simple – People look forward to their holidays. She makes this particular mistake with present continuous Vs present simple several times.) - “Family life isn’t that what it was before.”
(Ooops! The word ‘that’ should be in there. Family life isn’t what it was before.)
Pronunciation
- hobby – hoppy
- jogging – jocking
- Germans – Chermans
- jobs – Chobs
- survive – surwive
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