Name: IELTS Speaking Interview | Band 9 | Real Exam!
Uploaded: 2024-05-31T13:17:16.000Z
Duration: 14 min 35 s
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I live in North Rhine-Westphalia in a very small town, so I think you maybe won't know it.

Now, in this first part, I'd like to ask you some questions about yourself.

Let's talk about where you're living now.

Tell me about the town or city where you're living at the moment.

At the moment, I'm here in Oxford in the UK.

So yeah, I'm living in Oxford in a homestay with a host family.

And yeah, I'm in Oxford for three more weeks, and then I will go home to Germany again.

Do you think you will move to a different place in the near future?

I will have an internship in a law office in Schwerin in the North East of Germany, so quite far away from home.

And yeah, I will move there for another four weeks.

And yeah, in July, August, I will move to Hamburg, also in the North, for my studies.

So there will be a lot of changing in the next few months.

What kinds of emails do you receive about your work or studies?

So first of all, of course, private emails from friends, maybe with photos.

Maybe WhatsApp is a little bit more popular at the moment.

But yeah, also we have some emails from time to time.

From university, I also receive emails, for example, for tests that I had to take or for some documents that I still need from the A-levels, for example.

And for work, I'm currently working in a language school as intern.

So I have several different emails there, for example, for homestay, when new students have to be allocated to other host families, from the other staff members when they need information, from the students themselves if they have a problem, for example, and don't know my telephone number, then they write an email.

Do you prefer to email, phone or text your friends?

So really good friends, I often call them.

So I'm here now for seven weeks in Oxford and my really good friends, I have like once a week, a little chat on the phone.

I think it's more personal than WhatsApp or than emails or something like that.

For short messages, just to get information, I would rather prefer WhatsApp.

But yeah, good family members, good friends, I would always prefer a phone call.

So emails are kind of not very personal and really it's like distance when you write an email to your friends.

Do you reply to emails and messages as soon as you receive them?

Also depends on the message, to be honest.

So yeah, when it's really urgent, then I reply as soon as possible, whenever I have time.

And when there are emails that are not really urgent, not really important to me, then maybe I don't answer them.

Maybe I answer them a few days later, a few hours later.

Are you happy to receive emails that are advertising things?

It's really annoying if you have all these spam emails with people trying to advertise things to make you buy things.

I always delete these emails as soon as I get them to clear everything and to have the really important emails.

And I really must say here in Oxford, I'm only using buses since I don't have my car here.

I think for Germany in particular, most people like their cars.

Most people, it's like a symbol for some Germans of freedom.

And I really like to go on the autobahn, to go on the highway, to go fast.

And I really can relax while driving, hear music.

Of course, stay concentrated, but I really like that.

And I'm coming from an area where you need to drive.

There's no good bus transfer because it's a very rural area.

So you need a car to get to your friends and, I don't know, to go shopping or anything.

My father, I think, because he's working 50 kilometres from where we live in Münster and he has to drive like one hour a day.

What kind of car would you like to own one day?

And that's an interesting question, since there are so many different cars.

Maybe a fast sports car, a cabriolet, so where you can open the top for driving in summer when it's warm.

That's like maybe the real feeling of freedom then when you have a car like that.

Would you like to travel in a driverless car?

In a driverless car where I can still influence the driving.

So I would still need a steering wheel to actually have influence on the drive itself.

Now, I'm going to give you a topic and I'd like you to talk about it for one to two minutes.

Before you talk, you'll have one minute to think about what you're going to say.

Here's some paper and a pencil for making notes.

Please don't write anything on the booklet.

I'd like you to describe a hotel that you know.

Remember, you have one to two minutes for this, so don't worry if I stop you.

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