Name: IELTS Speaking Practice- Perfect Band 9
Uploaded: 2024-05-28T10:46:32.000Z
Duration: 19 min 31 s
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Gerund

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Growing up, a way to express myself and just generally showing my emotions through whatever medium that I choose.

I actually prefer art more than music in some different ways.

I like to paint and I like to see people how they express themselves as well through their art.

Do you think that art classes are important in school?

I actually feel like art is very subjective.

Teaching basic theories about art and stuff like that.

I feel like, yes, it is sometimes necessary so people can understand, let's say, basic concepts such as color theory and whatnot.

However, I don't feel like following a certain concept or how to draw this or how to draw that is quite necessary.

Like, I feel like your own creative mind can go in whatever direction you want it to go to.

So my favorite artist in terms of the music industry, I would say Rihanna.

I love like every time I put it on my car and I'm driving, I just love listening to her music because it it literally changes my mood.

I love sharing that experience with my friends as well.

And Nooni kind of describes me as a person.

Like we kind of share the same behaviors.

I love how fluffy and sometimes friendly they are.

I also enjoy their company, just them being there.

Would you like a different pet in the future?

And unfortunately, I had to give them up to shelter because I felt like I couldn't properly take care of them in my house.

So in the future, I really hope that I could revisit that memory of taking care of my ducks.

So hopefully in the near future, maybe if I'm fully settled in my own house, I would love to have two more ducks.

Like I think it's because I come from like a Muslim family.

So we kind of have like a taboo or like an idea of dogs, like it's not clean.

It's not, you know, so cats are just the way to go.

Like I love cats, their personality, the way they look, the way they act, everything about them.

Back in middle school, I used to be so into books.

I really, really enjoyed like I had my alone time is just spending my time reading books.

And at one point, my family just told me, like, get out of the house.

And even if I did go out of the house, like I would just carry my book everywhere I go.

As of recently, I kind of fell off of that habit of reading constantly because just with everything happening in my life, I can't keep up.

But I would say once every two months, I would read books.

What book would you recommend to a friend?

So I would recommend All the Bright Places.

I forgot the name of the author, but I think that book really depicts what a teenager would go through.

Like I said, I used to read back in middle school and also in high school.

So I felt like that book really spoke to me.

And I would recommend it to a friend because I generally feel like it kind of relates to, you know, the adolescence or teenagers in general.

Do you prefer to read e-books or paper books?

I generally prefer physical or hard copies because I like the feel of the book being in my hand, especially because I use my phone daily for a lot of things.

I would like to change up my routine every once in a while.

So a hard copy would feel like it's a different vibe to my daily routine.

Whenever I go out or step outside the house, I love taking pictures of whether it's of my friends, my family members or cats.

I actually enjoy looking at things from a different perspective.

So let's say just like the book on the table or the light or even just a bird from afar.

I like taking pictures to show people like through my eyes what I see or how I view the world.

Do you ever put any of your photos in frames?

It's actually interesting because I've seen a lot of people do that online where they print out their Polaroid pictures or like a physical copy of pictures that they've taken before and they framed it.

And actually, I think I've seen my friends do that before.

When you are on holiday, do you prefer to send postcards or do you prefer to take photos and send them to people?

I've never done the postcards thing before.

I feel like it's kind of outdated, but I wouldn't mind doing that or start doing that in my vacations.

But I usually just take photos and send it on WhatsApp.

I send it just to show them like what I've been up to in my vacation.

I would like to talk about the author or the writer that I would like to meet in the future.

Unfortunately, she passed away, but the writer is Jane Austen.

She is the writer of Pride and Prejudice, which is the current read that I'm reading right now.

The reason why I would like to meet her is because of how during her time, which is around 1700s or 1800s, I was always interested in like the Victorian or like how they were in the past, the way they dress, the way they talk, especially because people in the past spoke differently, like the language or the words that they used were very different.

Right now, I'm reading one of her books, Pride and Prejudice, and sometimes I have to Google what she's saying.

It's very interesting the way she writes or like the language that she uses describing her, like the setting, the story setting.

And I would like to find out about her lifestyle specifically, because, again, I'm just very interested or intrigued about the idea of like living in that era of where the time that she was still alive.

Why I would like to meet her is because I'm, again, very interested in how she speaks or how she spoke and the language or language that she uses.

So we've been talking about a writer that you would like to meet.