CELPIP LIVE! - CELPIP Speaking Practice: Giving Advice (Task 1) - S2E17 

Congratulations, Leon!

Hello, Sharon Do you have any test materials for the test?

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Passed?

Yeah... I got my result after four days... level 8 for this section. I never knew I would even score that. Such if I had time like most of you, to practice enough and learn more, it would be straight level 12. But am glad with my result. Sincerely you need to see me still dancing now. Please people don't be discouraged. I listened to Brandi and John Haggerty and Aswahti and Meaghan, like, I listend to them as if my life depends on them. I literally swallowed all they said. I watched their mouth move, observed their faces, obeyed all they said, did practice test several times, recorded my voice and played it back. The first time I accessed my recording with their teachings, sincerely I scored myself even below level 4. It was a mess. So I started working on myself with no physical teacher around me, no other test taker around and above all, no time. My office was hard on me. I even keep awake till 1am...daily... all struggling to improve my faults. Until I saw my interjections has reduced... my vocabulary improved... and so on... However I was still struggling with task fulfilment and time management. See my dear, just listen to their teachings and instructions, they are absolutely real. This is exactly what you will see very glaring while seated at your test centre. Also they said breath in and breath out after each section. I did that, all through my test and it helped me suppress tensions. Tension and pressure is real. Breathing in and out does help get you relief. They say, record yourself, please people do that. Don't assume you know it, do record yourself and listen to yourself. Print out your response, please do that. They say, Time yourself, please do. These little things helped me, I would have ended at level 3 or below. See, I listen to them daily, and not once, not twice, not thrice a day. My dear, I mean, I switched my entirety as though my life depends on them all. I literally grab every single stuff from their mouth. I've seen all celpip RU-vid videos, and mean all. Everything you can imagine. See, I work 14hours here in Dubai and I have little or no time to prepare. All my body is full of pains. But today, am happy and I can now sleep like a king. Please put all your spirit and soul into their teachings, you will make it and smile like me at the end of the day. Gods blessings Johnny Dubai

Give me some ideas how to prepare for this exam

@@ilyanovikov2064I guess he is by now at least 😅

Hi Emanuel. Yes, you can create details to guide the response as long as they relate to the question. In this case, identifying a specific country where your friend has been offered a job, and then giving her advice to help her decide if she should move there, is a great strategy. - Brandi

Using a male name instead of a female one as requested is such a small error that it will not impact the score. Some examples of major errors that would negatively affect the score include not including any specific details in a response, making many grammatical errors, and using common, vague vocabulary.

CELPIP said the technical difficulties were due to an “unprecedented volume of demand for test registrations.”

I think you don't need to. This exam is about using English correctly or properly like vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, spelling etc.

Hello! Here are a few of the episodes we were referring to: Fun ways to developed your English Proficiency (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zVR362vnWao.html), Understanding Common English Mistakes (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P0p3FA4E7_A.html), and Using Descriptive Language (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FkM71mAegF4.html - this is another episode where we focus on a Speaking task).

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Hi there, how did your test go? Hope you nailed it. I'm about to take the test too in a week.

@@catherinelustado Hi, I have passed everything except the reading, you need prepare yourself, and good luck 👍😉

@@anislaham5460 congrats!

@@catherinelustado thanks and good luck to you, I need to repeat it again 😉👍

For this question, we are offering advice, or ideas, for our friend to consider that will help him make a decision about whether he should move overseas for the job or not. (We are not making the decision for him). - Brandi

@@CELPIPOfficial Yesss! Thank you Brandi

@@CELPIPOfficial Hello. I just noticed that the question refers to a female but in the answer, the name (Mark) is for male. I noticed that after watching the whole video, I am afraid that could happen during the real test and then lose points.

You can certainly add in your own details for background context as long as they clearly support the topic. It might be best to directly address the test question in your opening, however, and add specific details after that. For example, you could begin this response with, "Hi Mark. Congratulations on your graduation and job offer..." and later, when you start providing advice to help him decide if he should move, mention that he'll need to consider whether it would benefit the family if he was working overseas while his wife and newborn child were living here. - Brandi

@@CELPIPOfficial appreciate the response Brandi ! Thanks

Hi mark first and formost congratulation for new job offer, your mom told me to speak with you as you are in confusion, see if i were you i definatley grab this pretigiouse offer, since your peers already there you will not feel lonely overthere furthure more uk is wonderful place to explore from tourist pointof view as well you will have relaxing weekend over ahead, try to arrange accomodatio in advance as one of my friend overthere spoke with me yesterday as per his observation lanloard doesnt preffer single for flat so its good to arrange it in advance , furthure more dont worry about your family, i will look after them, once you settle you can able to serve high living of standard to your family.

Someone can give it marks out of 12

Hi. tell on exam format

Hi, should we've exam paper on hand ,paper and pen,reply

Hi Nagma. The CELPIP Test is a fully computerized test. Your speaking tasks will be recorded by the computer.

Hi Sasha. Yes, you are correct, the speaker's response in this episode does not truly address the question from the test. The test question asks him to give his friend advice to help them decide if they should move overseas for a new job, but the speaker only provides one general piece of advice in his answer, namely, that moving overseas will provide the friend with new experiences. This weakness is explained at length in the video from 24:59- to 25:39. If you would like to review the man's score for this response, you can rewatch the segment from 26:05-to 27:54; it identifies both the strengths and weaknesses of this response, again, emphasizing the weak content details. Most importantly, a detailed discussion takes place from 29:00-42:40 where we take suggestions from our live audience that would improve this response by offering numerous pieces of advice that the speaker could have given to his friend on the test. You'll see that many suggestions offered by our viewers are the same as the ones that you've suggested too. - Brandi