 So should we start? Hey Chris here from IELTS Advantage so why is an IELTS channel doing a video on Priyanka Chopra? Well, it's because of the fact that we get emails like this every day. Hello there. Many people claim that for taking 7 plus from speaking, we need to speak in one accent otherwise we can't score more. Is it true? So there are a huge number of misconceptions about how to get a high score in the IELTS speaking test and one of them is that you have to speak with an American accent or you have to speak with a British accent and that is not true at all. It's not about speaking with a particular accent, it's about speaking as clearly as possible. In other words, do the people listening to you can they understand what you are saying and it doesn't have to be in any particular accent and normally when people send emails like this, what I do is I say think of someone from your country who speaks English very very well. They don't speak in an American accent or British accent, they speak in their own accent very very clearly and a great example of that is Priyanka Chopra. So what we're going to do is I've looked throughout the internet and I find interviews with her that represent answers to part one, part two and part three IELTS speaking questions and we're going to listen to those answers and analyze them and not only think about accent and pronunciation, we're also going to think about fluency and coherence, grammar and vocabulary. So let's look at clip number one. Now in this first clip she's asked who she follows on Instagram. This is a very typical part one style question where they're asking normal everyday questions about you. Listen to the clip and think about the four marking criteria that the examiners will be thinking about when they are doing the real test with you. So those are fluency and coherence, pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. Who's the coolest person you follow on Instagram? I actually really get entertained by Miley Cyrus' tweets. I mean Instagram pictures. She has pictures of like animals on her bed and she's always like laying with them. My life's so chill. So as you can hear in that clip, Priyanka definitely has an Indian accent but there's nothing wrong with that at all. The main thing that the examiner is going to be thinking about is can I understand 100% of what this person is saying and is there any accent interference? In other words, is her accent so strong that it stops people understanding what she is saying? And I can understand 100% of what she is saying and her pronunciation is therefore perfect in terms of clarity. Grammar no problems at all and her fluency and coherence. So she answered the question directly and then she answered it. She stayed on topic and then what she did was she added some more information. In part one, you don't need to give a really long like two minute answer or anything like that. So that was absolutely fine and her fluency was also good. So good start. So in this second clip, we're going to stick with part one and she's asked what her favorite junk food is. Again, this is a very typical part one question asking about your likes and your dislikes. And what's your junk food? Go to junk food. I love bananas, I love pizza, I love burgers, truffle fry, all good stuff. I'm not a star. So again, no problems with her pronunciation. The main issue with this answer and remember, this is a celebrity interview. This is not a real IELTS test. This is just me helping you guys. The problem with her answer, if it was in the IELTS test was she did something that we call listing. So instead of answering the question with one idea and developing it fully, she just listed lots of different foods. So in real life, that's no problem at all. But remember the examiner is trying to examine your grammar, your vocabulary and by just listing a bunch of stuff, especially for grammar, you're not really giving them enough information in order to judge your answer. Now if Priyanka was in the real test and the rest of her answers were well developed, then it doesn't really matter. You're not being judged on one answer. You're being judged on the totality, the entire speaking test. So not a real big deal. But if she was my student, I would say just pick one food, say why you like it, maybe you could pick a second one and really describe why you like it, maybe say what it tastes like or where you get it, just a little bit more information rather than just listing stuff. Her grammar again was absolutely fine. Her vocabulary, she did show a wide range of vocabulary and she added in, I'm not a starver. Starver is kind of idiomatic language to say, you know, I don't starve myself. So quite rare vocabulary there. So that is very, very good. In this clip, she's asked about her future. And this is a very common question in part one and a common technique that the examiners will use where they will ask you about your past, present and future. The reason why they do that is to test your grammatical range. So she's asked about her future here. So what we're going to listen for is was she able to use future forms to discuss her future? I mean, I never really had, I'm an artist and I'll go wherever my work takes me, whether it is America, India, UK, Greece, I would love to come. Nobody's asked me. You're more than welcome. So what she says here is I'll go wherever my work takes me. So she's using I will, which is a correct future form. So in terms of grammar, very, very good. And she said, I would love to go when she's talking about Greece again. That is great. So she's showing a very wide range of grammar because she can use I will and I would love to go to talk about somewhere she would like to go in the future. So excellent. So so far, so good for Bianca. She's doing very well. There are areas that she couldn't prove again. This is me just showing you guys how you could improve. Obviously, I'm not going to have Bianca Chopra as my student. Now what we're going to do now is move on to part two. Part two of the speaking test is a monologue. That means that you will be given a cue card with a topic on it. Now, the topic is normally something that, you know, the vast majority of people in the world would be aware of and they would be able to speak about for two minutes. And you will just be speaking without interaction from the examiner and they will ask you to speak for up to two minutes. So I find a two minute clip where Bianca Chopra is making a speech, which is basically the same or is a monologue. The topic is the glass ceiling or, you know, discrimination against women and minorities. So what I want you to do is listen to this and think about, do you understand what the glass ceiling is and what it means based on Bianca's answer? Because this is one of the things that the examiner will be thinking about. Like, did the person actually stay on topic and talk about that thing for the entire two minutes? So if you understand what she is talking about and what that topic means by the end of two minutes, she's done a really good job and also think about fluency. The examiner will really be focusing on fluency and pronunciation and of course, grammar and vocabulary as well. So let's see how she does. So my father used to always tell me something, which I want to share with you, that why do you want to fit inside a glass slipper? You know, like we were told, like Cinderella did, why do you want to fit inside a glass slipper when you can shatter the glass ceiling? I want to tell you a little secret. I'm not very fond of this phrase, breaking the glass ceiling. Why does it annoy me? Because it takes the context of everything that I have done, all my achievements, all my hard work and puts it into a box. As if my ambition was, Kire, I want to find a glass ceiling and break it. Not at all. To be really honest, I was never in a mission to break, to shatter anything. All I wanted was to chase my dreams, my ambitions, I wanted to evolve, I wanted to become the best version of me that I could be. And of course, in Priyanka Chopra style, along the way, I wanted to smash and break every obstacle that came my way, which I did. But that does not mean that the glass ceiling doesn't exist. Of course it exists. And countless of women and men, mostly women, run into it in their professional and personal lives. And I'm sure a lot of you can vouch for that right now. The Oxford Dictionary definition of the glass ceiling is an unacknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession, especially affecting women and members of minorities from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy. This metaphor was first coined by feminists in reference to barriers and careers of high achieving women. So as you just heard, Priyanka had no problem talking fluently for two minutes on this topic. So if she was given this topic on test day for part two, no problems whatsoever. Absolutely brilliant. So what I want to focus on is her use of language and very high level vocabulary. Now, if you listen back to that, there is no fancy words or academic words really. There's a few in there, but 95% of the words that she uses are actually quite simple. Getting a high level and a high band score for vocabulary is not about just trying to include as many different high level words and phrases as possible. It's not about trying to use as many idioms as possible. Think about what she said here. She talks about shatter the glass ceiling. So instead of using a simple word like break the glass ceiling, she used shatter. But shatter is not the most amazing high level word in the world, but it is very topic specific. Use shatter glass, which tells the examiner that this person has a very wide range of vocabulary. They haven't memorized a bunch of vocabulary because the person who says shatter the glass ceiling knows that shatter and glass ceiling go together. So it is actually very, very high level. And then she says, I'm not very fond of, again, not very fond of, it doesn't sound very fancy, but this is very, very high level because someone who is learning English might say, I don't like, I don't like that. But to say I'm not very fond of this is a very good way of saying, I don't like. Because if you are speaking in the test and you just say, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like, examiner knows that you have just probably started learning English and you're not at one of those band seven, eight, nine levels. So again, it's not about memorizing big words like plethora and to recapitulate. It is about using effective topic specific vocabulary to help you get your point across. And then she said, I wanted to become the best version of myself. So instead of saying, I wanted to get better, I wanted to become the best version of myself. Now I wanted to become the best version of myself. Each of those words are simple words. But when you put them together, they are very, very high level. So she did an amazing job there. Okay. Priyanka is doing very well so far. Now we're going to move on to part three and part three, in my opinion, is the most difficult part for a couple of reasons. Number one, students start to get tired and they just want the test to be over. And number two, the examiner is looking for you to really develop your answers. And because you're tired and you want the test to be over. Students tend to give very short answers or not even attempt the questions. Because the third reason why part three is quite difficult is they're asking you to discuss more abstract ideas. Part one is about you. So it's difficult to get those questions wrong because you are the world's leading expert on you. Part two is normally quite an easy topic on things that most people know about. But part three, they can ask you about more academic style, abstract ideas. For example, Priyanka is about to talk about feminism and they might ask you about that in part three. Even if you don't know anything about feminism, you should at least try. So what is the examiner thinking about in part three? They're really thinking about, of course, the four main marking criteria. But what they're also thinking about is, has this person really developed their answer? And by develop, we're talking about, have they explained what they mean? Have they given examples? Are they talking at length about the answer to their question? So let's see how Priyanka does in part three. But I think the world has come to that place because the fight for feminism has got a lot of voices now. But yet we live in a world of misogyny. It is not India only. But it's a global issue. It happens all over the world because for eons, women have been told they're second class citizens. And now suddenly, what are we asking for? Feminism has got such a bad name now, the term. Because people think feminism is berating men or hating on men, which it's not. Women are only saying, give us the joy or the ability to make our own decisions without being judged with the freedom that men have all these years. That's it. It'll be a big war. Two things feminism needs. One, women to encourage each other. Instead of pulling each other down, we need to prop each other up. Girl love is very important. And second, feminism needs men to stand up and say that this is the right decision. And hopefully we are walking towards that. It's not going to happen instantly. It won't even happen in the next 10 years. But the debate has become strong. The conversations have become strong. So as you can see, Pranka gave a very detailed, in-depth analysis of feminism. And I actually cut the clip short because she started to give lots of examples after this. She started talking about different examples of women and movies and all of those different things. So she did an excellent job on this. Now contrast that with what a lot of students would say, which is just something like, yes, I think feminism is good because women deserve the same rights as men. That is correct. That's perfect English, but you haven't really developed your answer enough. And in part three, you really need to do that. So in terms of fluency and coherence and developing our idea, Pranka finished very, very strongly. And her grammar was pretty much perfect. I couldn't hear any grammar mistakes. Again, we've already talked about her pronunciation. Excellent. And her vocabulary was also at a very, very high level. So for example, she was talking about for eons. So instead of saying for a long time, she was like for eons or she could have said for ages. She also talked about it's not about hating on men. This is a very idiomatic way of saying this. Idioms are part of idiomatic language, but idiomatic language is not just idioms. Idiomatic language is how native English speakers talk. And I know Pranka is married to a native English speaker. So of course she's going to pick up on these idiomatic expressions and it would really help her if she ever did the IELTS test. I don't think she will ever need to. But overall, Pranka would get a perfect band nine. Her pronunciation, the reason I let's talk about why she would get a band nine pronunciation. She would get a band nine because not only do I understand 100% of what she is saying, her intonation is very, very native like her sentence stress and word stress, her connected speech is excellent grammar. As we just demonstrated, she has no problem talking about any topic or tense you throw at her. So the examiner will ask you a range of different questions. Pranka has no problem with that. She made pretty much zero mistakes. In vocabulary, we've already talked about that use of idiomatic language, topic specific language. She uses less common words instead of the most common words, the simplest words when she can, but it's not about inserting a bunch of high level words. And then for fluency and coherence, she speaks without effort. The only pauses or hesitations she makes is to think about what she's going to say, not because she's trying to think of the correct English and her coherence She not only answered each question and stuck to the topic, but she developed those questions enough. She did have a few little hiccups in part one, but again, remember, you're not being judged on one answer. You're being judged on the totality of your performance. So I hope that you enjoyed that video. If you did, let me know or is there anything I could have added to the video, anything you would like me to do next time. If there is a person, a well known person from your country that speaks English to a very high level, then please let me know in the comments because if this is useful, I would like to do other countries and other famous people so that you can hear them and I can tell you what score they would get on the IELTS test. Thank you very much. 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