Next, there are often, there are almost always questions about your work.

What do you do?

Now when they ask what do you do?

What does it mean?

It means what kind of jobs do you have, what's your occupation, okay?

Now maybe you are not actually working right now,

maybe you're a student, so then you could say that too.

But let's look at some possibilities.

So a weak answer would be 'I am engineer'.

It's weak from so many points of view.

First because it says 'I am'.

And again, in conversational English, we would probably say 'I'm'.

Second, it's missing the article 'an', right?

So a correct answer here would be, 'I'm an engineer', alright?

Got it?

Next, Here, 'I am student'.

Again, same issues.

It should be, 'I'm a student', okay?

Or let's say what happens if you don't have a job?

You're not a student and you're not working.

You could, first of all, you decide what you share, okay?

No one is following you home to see whether you told the truth or not.

So you decide what to say.

Decide in advance what you're going to say for this question, which is almost always asked,

so you could say something like, 'I not working', but that's incorrect in terms of grammar.

So it would be, need to be, 'I'm not working currently', okay?

Or 'I'm between jobs'.

That's a very nice way to say that you don't have a job right now, but you're going to get a job, okay?

So, you decide what you want to say.

But whatever you want to say, make sure that you're saying it in this manner.

So let's see how it sounds now.

If someone were speaking in this way throughout his exam, 'where do you live'?

'I live in a house'.

Or 'where do you live?'

'I live in a three-bedroom apartment.'

'The advantages of living in an apartment are…'

That...Or 'The advantages of living in my apartment are that it's very convenient, it's affordable, and it's spacious', okay?

Now, because you know in advance that they are going to probably ask you a question about your home.

It's good for you to prepare some vocabulary to describe your home or your apartment or your family.

Don't learn the whole sentence by heart, right?

Just pick some words, three good strong vocabulary words, two or three.

And try to weave them into your answer, okay?

That will help to raise your score.

Because you're using higher-level vocabulary as well, okay?

So the person says, the, the advantages, the disadvantages, okay?

'I enjoy living in an apartment because of several reasons.'

'My brother is an economist.'

'He works in a bank.'

'I'm an engineer', or 'I'm not working currently', 'I'm between jobs', okay?

So you see that this, this side, these answers sounded so much more fluent, so much more relaxed, so informal,

and of course correct in terms of grammar, pronunciation, expressions, and fluency, alright?

Now, let's look at another very common area, hobbies.

Okay, now let's look at some simple sentences that you might use on the IELTS when asked about your hobbies.

For example, 'I like', sorry, 'I like watching movies', okay.

That's what the student wanted to say.

But even with that simple sentence,

let's look at some things that might be said which would actually be completely wrong

when you are trying to just say 'I like watching movies'.

The person could say instead of like, they might not say the word fully and clearly,

if you don't enunciate it clearly, it sounds like 'I lie', 'I lie watching movies'.

No. Not 'I lie watching movies'. 'I like watching movies'.

Instead of 'I like', a mistake would be to say 'I likes', right?

That's just bad grammar.

This one is incorrect pronunciation.

Here, sometimes students don't realize that there's a difference between present simple and Present continuous.

And when you're asked in general, you need to use present simple.

So, it would be wrong to say 'I am liking watching movies',

because that's present continuous and also because 'like' is actually something called a stative verb and you cannot use it in this way.

You can't use it in a continuous form.

So that's wrong.

'I liking' is wrong.

So these are some of the ways that this simple sentence might have been completely messed up, okay?

So let's look at the correct one.

Next, another example.

The student wanted to say 'I really like to watch movies'.

Or 'I really like watching movies', okay?

They wanted to be more enthusiastic so they said really.

This would be the correct form of that sentence.

But let me share with you some variations that I've heard when I'm coaching students for this.

And these are incorrect.

So, for example, to say 'I like really watching movies', that's wrong,

because there really is in the wrong place, the grammar is wrong.

'I very like watching movies' is wrong, because we can't use very in that way.

And 'I very much like watching movies', this is a popular mistake, I'm sorry, I hear this all the time.

But, it's incorrect to place very much in that position.

If you want to use very much, you need to say 'I like watching movies very much', okay?

Why?

Because in English, English is a SVO language, right?

Subject, verb, object.

'I like watching Movies'.

So we can't put other words 'like', 'very much', 'every day', 'every week', any other details in the middle of it, okay?

Those words have to go at the end, alright.

Another possibility, the student wanted to say 'I enjoy reading'.

Simple. Right? Simple sentence.

How might it be messed up by saying something like 'I enjoy to read'.

Again, 'enjoy' is a verb where you need to have the gerund after that and not the infinitive.

Do you see how even simple sentences that you might be saying right now when you're practicing might or might not be right.

And these are some of the things to watch out for,

which is why I put down for you lots of the errors that I have heard students make and which I've helped them to correct.

And I'm so happy to be able to help you with that before you go for your exam, okay?

So, where do you go from here?

This was like a practice test for you through some of the examples, alright?

There are other topics they can ask you about and so on.

And what you should do is to practice them as much as possible.

If you can get a good teacher to practice with who knows the ELTS,

who understands what the needs are for the IELTS exam, not a general English teacher,

it's very different when you're preparing for an exam than when you're just improving your English in general, okay?

Very different kind of goals.

So as much as possible, look for the right teacher

and I'm also going to give you links to a few of my other videos,

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And have a look and if that addresses some kind of an issue that you have,

then by all means check all of that, and correct all of that,

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