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A candidate gives a fluent IELTS Part 2 talk about an old photo from a childhood fishing trip with his grandfather.
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The structures this recording uses most, with the exact words you will hear:
| Structure | In the recording |
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| Passive voiceIntermediatebe + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it |
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| Past perfectIntermediatehad + past participle — an action finished before another past moment |
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| “As if / as though”Intermediateas if / as though + clause — how something seems |
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| Spoken sentence framesIntermediateThe thing is…, What I mean is…, It's worth -ing — set phrases that frame a sentence |
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| For / since / agoBeginnerfor + a period, since + a starting point, a time + ago — how long, from when, how long before now |
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| Phrasal verbsIntermediategive up, find out, end up, come up with — a verb + particle with its own meaning |
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| Present continuousBeginneram/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now |
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| Future with “going to”Beginnerbe going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming |
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| “Would like” for polite wishesBeginnerwould like / 'd like + to-verb — a polite way to say what you want |
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| Adjectives ending in -ed and -ingIntermediatebored vs boring, interested vs interesting — how you feel vs what causes it |
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| Past simple (irregular verbs)Beginnerwent, saw, took… — a finished action in the past, with an irregular verb |
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| Questions with do / does / didBeginnerdo/does/did + subject + verb — asking a question in the simple tenses |
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| Reflexive pronounsBeginnermyself, yourself, themselves, by myself, each other — the same person as the subject |
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| QuantifiersBeginnera few / a little, much / many, a lot of, plenty of, none of — saying how much or how many |
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