Name: 아이엘츠 스피킹 Band 8.5 한국인 모의시험 (피드백 포함) IELTS Speaking [edm아이엘츠]
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Modal verbs - A2

Alright, let's begin. So start, could you tell me your full name, please?

Won Chang, could you spell that for me, please?

Okay, very good. And could you tell me, do you like your name?

Do I like my name? Yes, I do, because usually most people have three syllables in their Korean names.

For example, the most common Korean name that I can think of on the spot right now would be 김치훈, which would be three syllables, but mine is two, which kind of makes me feel special.

Okay, very good. And are you a student right now or are you working?

Right now I am a student, but I am not going to school right now because I'm on leave.

Okay, and could you tell me about your major?

My major is business management, and I'm studying in King's College London right now.

And, yeah, I mean, it's definitely not a major that I wanted to pick, but I thought that, because back at the moment when I was choosing my major, I guess I didn't really have a lot of choices because I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

And my parents told me that business is kind of like the go-to major if you don't really know what you want to do.

Okay, very good. And what do you like to do when you have some free time?

My free time? I got a couple of things on my list.

Well, usually I think I spend most of my time on YouTube watching all these videos.

I watch a lot of League of Legends videos because it's my favorite game.

And also I'm really into music and movies, so I watch a lot of movie review or critic videos and stuff like that.

Very good. Now we're going to talk about the area you live in.

Yeah, so do you like the area you live in?

Yeah, I do like my neighborhood because, well, on the broader aspect, I live in Seoul in terms of which city I live in.

But within Seoul, I live in this area called Gubanpo.

And as a lot of people know, Seoul is a super populated area.

I'd even say overpopulated considering how small the city is.

And despite the fact that Seoul is such a crowded city, my neighborhood is really quiet.

And I don't even want to say that it's populated that much.

It's very quiet, not a lot of, I'd say, noises.

And the greatest part of my neighborhood is that you can find pretty much everything, like every other block.

Like say, for example, if you want to buy like a video game, like a game CD or like a game pack, you'd have to go to like a special neighborhood.

Like you don't find that every neighborhood, but we have that.

We even have elementary school, middle school, high school, a lot of institutions for, you know, like private education.

Okay, good. And have there been any changes to your area recently?

Recently? Recently, I don't think so, but I've lived in my neighborhood for almost 20 years.

And probably the biggest change that, the most noticeable change that happened was that about like 10 years ago, we had this, we had a new subway station installed in our neighborhood.

The closest one before that was probably about like a mile away.

But now we have a subway station like, like 300 meters from my house.

Another change was that we used to have like a huge department store, but now it's like a, it's like a wedding convention.

I think that's about it because, yeah, it's a, it's a small neighborhood and it's not even like a, like a transportation hub.

So you can't really find a lot of, a lot of big changes, but I guess those would be the biggest two.

Okay, perfect. Right. That'll do us for the first part of the test.

So now I'll give you one minute to read the question and you can make some notes as well.

Describe an occasion when the weather stopped you from doing something.

So I'm going to talk about this, this time when the, when there was a huge typhoon that hit, that struck Korea.

That was back when I was in the military.

So I think it was my third month as, or actually like the second or first month as a corporal.

And I was supposed to go on leave for vacation.

And I don't remember the exact date, but I know that it was Monday.

I was supposed to leave on Monday, but the weather forecast, the media was talking all about this huge typhoon that's going to strike Korea that week.

And our commander decided to not let, to ban the soldiers from going on leave.

And an occasion where there's like a weather or like a disaster forecast, we're not allowed to leave base because we have to maintain a certain amount of force.

So all the soldiers were devastated, including me, because all we wait about and all we care about is vacations, to be honest with you.

And so I was supposed to leave on Monday, but I was banned to leave.

And we were either going to be let go the day after, depending on how the weather goes.

And on Monday, all my mates at the base, all we could possibly do was just desperately pray for the weather to get better and for our commander to make the optimal decision.

And the next day, thankfully, the weather got better and the commander let us all go and we were all able to go on vacation.

Okay, cool. That's two minutes now. All right. All right. So you're all able to go in the end?

Very good. And was it common for the weather to affect like proceedings in the military?

Usually when it's not as that bad, they would just let you go if it's just like a slight breeze or a small rain.

But this one, when the whole country is talking about this typhoon, it's considered a natural disaster, right?

So in a case like that, they'd have to go through a lot of, I don't know, discussions on the high board.

And after that, they decide whether to let us go or not. So that would be like a very, very special occasion.

Okay, glad it worked out. Right. So we're going to the third part of the test now. Okay, so we'll keep going.

All right. Yeah. So do you think the weather has much impact on people's daily activities?

Daily activities? Yeah, definitely. Because we have these, I don't know what the exact term is called in English, but I'm just going to say micro dust because that would be the literal translation.

Actually, every like this time of the year, every year, we have a lot of micro dust that comes sweeped in from China.

And as of now, the coronavirus is on the main issue.

But usually during this time of the year, the weather forecast always talks about how bad the micro dust is.

And I think that definitely affects people's daily lives because around this time of the year, especially like during spring, people would like to go out to the park and have a picnic with their families.

And it's always after winter. So people are so wanting, so desiring to go out and have some time with their beloved ones. Right.

But like the micro dust, if there is micro dust present outside, people would probably want to stay in instead of going outside.

Okay. And do you think people in your country talk about the weather a lot?

Talk about the weather a lot? Yeah, I think we do.