Can native English speakers pass the IELTS test? - Bath 🇬🇧
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- Can native English speakers pass the IELTS test? - Bath 🇬🇧
In this video, James and I hit the streets of Bath to ask the average English person IELTS speaking questions to see if they can pass the test or not!
The topic of this test is "Celebrations"
The IELTS test is for people who want to move or study in an English speaking country such as the UK, Australia, Canada etc. The IELTS test contains all four skills: listening, reading, writing and spaking.
Now, the speaking part of the test has 3 sections....
PART 1 - general questions about yourself / topics about hobbies, work, neighbourhood etc.
Part 2 - in this section, you are given a card asking you to describe something, you have one minute to prepare your answer, and then you must speak for a minimum of 2 minutes. In other words, a mini speech!
Part 3 - an academic discussion, similar to debates at school or university.
Also, for anyone who doesnt know, Bath is located in the south west of England, roughly 1 hour and a half from London by train, and is famous for its imposing architecture and Roman remains.
Let me know in the comments if you have any questions about the IELTS exam or even about the city of Bath!
#ieltstest #instantenglishuk #nativeenglish
Who do you think was the best among the people we asked? Let me know here in the comments ❤
I think the fourth person was the best because he was so good at elaborating his thoughts and also I could learn a few new words from him,for instance,prodimently,niche,etc.even loved his accent.So he was definitely the best of all.
Yes indeed, the man with the blue shirt tought me some new words.
Quite honestly, can’t think of who was the best as their answers were interesting as much as informative. 💕
@@Zayithyah yess each one did their best though
@@vaishnavi5733 Absolutely agreed really gave thought to each question he asked and spoke to his mind.
As being an English teacher and ielts instructor,i would say these sort of videos are so valuable to people who are preparing for their ielts exam.Please make these kind of videos a lot for the sake of English learners.Thank you🇺🇿
you gotta fix your grammar dude
Thank you so much! I did make one more video like this in Bristol if you haven’t already seen it 😁 also is that an Uzbekistan flag?
@@InstantEnglishUK Yes
@@InstantEnglishUK yes that is Uzbekistan's flag. Do you know about it?
As an English techer, would say that (-) these. I'm affraid that your students shall not pass the exams.
I think the blue shirt guy might have got a very high score on his speaking level. He addressed the related topics with his fairly wide range of vocabulary and mild voice tone. In terms of fluency and speed, the military woman really nailed it! Thanks for filming this interesting video and I enjoyed watching their articulations. Much love from Korea!
Let's admit they can get full score if they know the structure of the test
Sure, but they don’t 😁
Are you for real dude, Anybody can get full score if it's about his native language, it's a not a rocket science, nobody needs to understand the grammer of his native tongue.
@@yamraaj8871 You misunderstood what he said and the same probably goes to the 3 people who liked your comment. Read again.
@@YoungXelDong Dude prob just rushed straight to the comments without finishing the video
@@yamraaj8871 if i was
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IELTS it doesn’t only measure how knowledgeable are you with English but it tests logical thinking as well.
Not at all, honestly if you can speak the language with a adverse level of speaking and listening meaning thats where you focus your study the test isn't that hard at all
The problem is schools FOCUS on grammar and Vocabulary without giving the students value to those rules and words as in using them in real time.
It blows my mind people spend 5+ years learning English let alone any language and still are bad at it
Modern education for language is just trash
This isn't really true. It's true that without having some level of logic and knowledge it's harder for you to have much to say that the examiner can grade. But they really do simply assess the adequacy of the language the examinee uses to convey what they want to say with adequate detail and quality. The student can reveal lack of knowledge about the subject, and even completely faulty logic, but if they can convey what they think in response to the questions adequately, then they pass. It's a test of their ability to communicate in English, and the documents the examiners refer to to judge that, and the procedures they are taught in order to assess the students, relate to that and only that.
IELTS isn't a tool to guage one's language knowhow!
I am from Pakistan and I can't speak my mother tongue properly.
@@mohammadraza2167 Yeah. It tests communicative ability in the language, that's all. That's all it needs to be, and all it should be. It doesn't test anything else, and would be wrong to test anything else.
@@AngloSaks666 well. It’s ok to be disagree. However, imagine that doing writing test without need to think logically, or doing reading test with the tricky multiple answer where the answer is twisted or related to one another. I don’t think even native speakers can get band 9 by just simply answer them without even think logically
I used to prepare IELTS exam many years ago.. though i didn't take the exam in the end, i learned a lot. .. which also helped me in understanding English.
Why didn’t you take it? 😁
@@InstantEnglishUK My savings was not enough for studying in English speaking countries... So I decided to just work instead of applying any graduate school.
fair enough, i wish you all the best!
@@st840506 How about changing your mind worrying not enough funds to go abroad and settle up, I have more than 50k$ debts right now and planning to leave my hopeless country, the first stop must be ielts, because I know I can earn back the money and obtain much more in the future, just make the first step, dude 😊
I used to prepare, for 30 minutes, then saw the cost and I desisted on the idea. It's ridiculous.
I'm learning your language guys and this video makes me see IELTS not that difficult, greetings from Peru 🇵🇪
Is not difficult...the only impediment is the money
@@mcmerry2846 yeah it's true
The toelf test is a little more difficult
I always wanna tell people English is not an exam, but it is a bridge for people to communicate with a heart.
Yeah, do they want to know whether I can speak or not?? Just ask me the darn questions and that's it, stop squeezing my pockets.
love your comments. I always believed that there is a big emphasis on Ielts exam these days and yes, they have become overcommercialized.
@@phuongho9842 man, in my country the minimum wage is equivalent to $230...and these exams cost $300... It's an insult.
I totally agree with you, in some part of the world the fee for ielts too much high for to bear it’s expense.
So fluent they speak especially that one guy he literally thought and spoke to his mind and that lady too.
Really really cool video cheers.
Which ones?? 😁
That guy in the park especially and the woman who gave his husband a porche 911.
The one with the blue t-shirt
😦been two months already seems like two-three weeks
I love this series from which I learnt a lot how British people speak English in daily life at a normal speed. Thanks.
Brilliant! I’m so glad you liked it! Where you from Sam?
Thanks for video and love from India. Such videos are really very useful and helpful for non-native English speakers like me. Please, Keep it up and bring such more videos for us.
Amazing to hear that India is watching my videos 😁 Check out this similar video Can Native English speakers pass the IELTS exam? - Bristol
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I appreciate your patience in listening.
Thank you!
Actually people talk in a good way, doesn't matter too short or too long conversation. That is how natural they are. I think ielts is expecting more😁
That's the idea. They would not be able to evaluate your range if you only give single sentence answers. Speaking test is probably where English natives will likely get the highest band (8.5/9). Listening and reading requires high level of concentration. But 8+ band is attainable without prep if you can focus. The only part where English natives will need to prepare for is the written test. You will only get around band 7 if you use simple grammatically correct sentences. Even if you manage to stay on topic. They really want you to use different sentence structures and synonyms. This is because, bands 8.5-9 are actually supposed to be professional level users who write journals, articles, Books, research papers etc. Bands 7.0-8.0 is where your average English speaker stands (With little prep).
@@Tpoleful I couldn't agree more thanks for pointing that out because l thought that when you get band 8.5 that means you're an intermediate learner so now l realized getting these results requires you to have a wild rang of sentence structures, using synonyms etc.. and you have to be an advanced English learner to get those results.
I absolutely share your point of view. What does "too short" Mean. They asked her a question. Did she answer that question? Yeah. What problems 🤣🤣😂😂🙈🙈?? No matter if native speaker give short answers to the questions or grammatically wrong or something else... If these people are understood by others then everything is ok
@@денислюбченко-н9щ I definitely meant that😁 Sometimes,especially for some subjects,even in our language, we could not find to say something much.That was the point I wanted to express.
@@Tpoleful do you know a site I can find material of IELTS to study for free? My English is not that bad, but I've a terrible memory, I keep forgetting things and ofc the language, I can fully understand but I can't speak perfectly as I hear because yk I don't practice speaking -which is very very stressful to me, I don't have anyone to practice with, and second I keep forgetting the vocabs, synonyms and the sentences as a whole, I know it but I can't find it in my brain, I know it's somewhere here but I can't recall it on spot 😭😭😭 also I'm not a good speaker even in my native language, I take long time before I respond, sometimes I even respond irrelevantly 💀 I've social anxiety so it contributes very much, I'm very skeptical about taking the exam because idk what to study and whether I can trust my guts and speak confidently or I'll embarrass myself and fail it -ik there's no failing but lower bands, I'm full of doubts that I may not show myself correctly and get a score lower than my actual level because I just couldn't handle it, mentally 😬😭 so any tips please 🥲?
English hit me hard, not gonna lie, I expect more than that, I thought native speaker will say something that we barely understand
Why?
I taught languages in a high school in the UK. I also speak Russian and Polish. We had a lot of children who spoke Polish and some who spoke Russian at home and we always put them in for Polish or Russian GCSE. My job was to prepare them for their speaking exam. I could actually do this better as a non-native speaker with exam experience than a native speaker who didn't know about exams. Before training, they tended to speak as they did with their parents using just ordinary, every day language which was just too simple. To score highly in the exam you have to use a range of different tenses and 'moods', a variety of adjectives, use comparatives, adverbs, express opinions, justify them - the list goes on. The moral of this story is that in every day speech we all speak fairly straightforward language. In exams, we have to 'show off' what we are capable of even if that's not necessarily how we normally speak.
PS I have an English friend who has lived in France for many years teaching English in a high school. At one point he took a CAPES exam in English. He failed his first attempt at the speaking test precisely because the language he used was judged to be not complex enough. He just spoke like a native speaker instead of 'showing off'. He passed second time.
@@InstantEnglishUK I have seen my friends discussing about IELTS, they said it’s very hard, and I thought native speaker created IELTS so they will master it
@@barrysteven5964 my friends told me tenses is not a matter in speaking test so I learned a lot vocabulary
@@barrysteven5964 turns out those guys are dead wrong, so I have to learn tenses and some complicated grammar again
As a foreigner this made me relax a lot, because I thought I would butcher the speaking part of the test and ruin my scores.
But now I feel confident that I would definitely ace the test
Thank you Chris and James for this wonderful video... actually i have recently cleared my IELTS test and i can completely agree that Speaking module is most toughest as an non-native speaker .
Fantastic! I’m so happy to hear that you got your score 😁 what are you going to do now?
@@InstantEnglishUK I'll pursue my Bachelor's in UK .🙃💟
I think the best one was the last bloke that was at the park with a lot of noisy kids around. He had great ideas, great and complex grammatical and sentence structures, and he has a wide range of vocabulary. He's probably a type of a more confident person that gets to talk to a lot of people really often, because he can organize the ideas really well, and he also has a lot of ideas in mind and the thing that makes him great in it is that he is able to express them in a clear and interesting way and with that he can also really nicely grab the listener's attention and make him listen to whatever he's saying or talking about. He's a great speaker.
Very useful. Please keep posting this kind of videos especially for IELTS.
Will do 😁
I would say that the guy with red hair who found the out-of-print bug party book and the grandma with hammaocks are definitely band 9, going to rewatch this video again. Great job! Nice choice of questions
So glad you liked it 😁
Are you going to take the test?
Great video great work, I'm doing ielts, need more videos like this. I hope you guys will make it, really appreciate your work❤️🥰
Fantastic! I hope this one helps too… Can Native English speakers pass the IELTS exam? - Bristol
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You have such decent flawless British English
Thank you
Hi there
I'm looking for someone to practice and improve my English
I wonder if you are interested in? :)
By chance, I saw your video. I am blissfully happy that you shared it with us. As an IELTS instructor in my own country, I can evaluate the one wearing the blue shirt higher than others. I believe if he knows the structure a bit adequately well, he has the ability to score at least 8.5 in the speaking section.
I think the most different is that native speaker can got a 9 in speaking easily without any prepare. But foreign speakers always suffer in this part, especially for many Asians because the grammar and logic have much differences
Of course, I just wanted to show you how natives may answer these questions 😁
Acdemic speaking is hard for native
Don't you understand?
Also is: can get preparation and before foreigner a preposition is needed
The lady in green was too perfect. The guy on the bench too is not be left behind. Bravo
Came for vocab quizes, stayed for the beautiful little snapshots into people's lives.
I just listen to them and realize how far they are in the language. I know that they are natives, but when I put myself on their places, I’d hesitate on every word
Good questions bro. Their answer make me smile and feel good. I can imagined when they were a kid how they happy
Well, as far as native interviewees are concerned, they answered questions subconsciously. I think for non native IELTS candidates it may seem quite a bit weird to answer in this way but for them it is okay. It is how they talk and live that is it
Of course, those in the video were not fully prepared for these questions and that is why I thought it would be an interesting video to make 😁
I liked the comments popping up now and then, they help us to point out good lexis.
The blue shirt man conversation is wow.
I thought I'm good at English, communicating with other people online in English for quite a few years. But the sentences from the first lady with sunglasses on the head are so great. It will definitely take some more effort to be able to speak as good as her.
Wow you guys awesome.. it's thinking like IELTS difficult but its not..be confident nothing is impossible.. first make english you interest then practice everyday with smile 😊
YOU can do it Prince 🤴
You should also try to give them grammar tasks from CPE (some of them are mind-blowing) :D
I will try next time 😁
I was really touched by the Porsche / Leukemia answer. I hope I'm fortunate enough to have someone think like that of me when it's time for me to go.
Wow this video is very useful to me as I'm preparing for my IELTS test in the next month!
I do love this video 😍 Gimme more 🙏
It was brilliant video .
Thank you for making such great things 💖💖😊
Thank you Aram
I just want to let you guys know a bit of info: most non-native English speakers (especially us in Asia) are merely excellent on paper and we focus more on our numerical scores. However, whatever English skills we can apply in real life, where we cannot hide behind a pen and paper, do not reflect our scores at all. Perhaps there are native English speakers who might score lower, but their real-life communication skills are unsurpassed.
Wow , Amazing video 👏 . Please make these kinds of videos more as it will be more valuable for those who are preparing for ielts and want to improve their English. I really appreciate you 😊😊.You are doing well . I wish you gain more subscribers. 😊😊 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳
Thank you for the explanations, so helpful
I’m glad you found it useful 😁
After i managed to get done watching this entire video , I just completely realized they put on normal uses and such a sensationally effortless with noticeable less stress and I think they just dramatically used easy words and conversations that I also should’ve used a lot rather than trying to set up the sentences chaotically
Nice! I think video is helpful for learning English spacialy for them who are learning English as a secondary language.
And I personally have learning a lot about native speakers of English.
Thank you Kain
Absolutely enjoyed and learned so many things. Great !
I really loved this kind of video 😍 thanks friends 🤓🤝💜
It’s very helpful. Hope you have more videos on other topics. Thanks a lot! ❤️
Yesterday I took my LRW test for ielts I guess native would have to go through hard time if they took exam also. Though some of their speaking was much more better. Also there is fact that you have answer on bullet point and sometimes the question you were asked might be something which you never did. Like you would got puzzled between what to say next maintaining the cohesion with question. This is the hard one.
Good luck next time!
A native speaker could also be asked about a topic they have no experience of. It's bad luck, but you need to develop strategies for this. Remember that there is no mark for content in the speaking test.
3:45 so natural I simply love the way this man speaks. Really helpful video. Cheers from Peru 🇵🇪👌🏼🫰🏼
Gracias causita
Hey Carol
I'm looking for someone to practice and improve my English
I wonder if you are interested? :)
I love it.Please keep going making different videos like this.
Chris is such a fine talent 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊
Dear Chris, I'd give the highest scores to the red haired guy, he excellently elaborated the topics.
Hi chris , could you please continue this kind of series, it's literally so helpful.
Btw Thank you
Even being an introvert as native can make you fail the test haha
Well, if you don’t speak, it’s hard to grade you 😁
The guy in blue shirt nailed it for me. He's organized, clear and very intelligent. He's my most eloquent in this video. I'd give it give him without second thoughts. The military woman also did very well. She's excellent. Thanks for educating me tonight, with love from Ghana🇬🇭 in West Africa.
Glad you liked it mate 😄
Interesting video, but I think that given that this video is to help people with developing their English, it would be great if you made sure the subtitles were more accurate. ‘Sought it out’ vs. ‘Sort it out’ and ‘edition’ vs ‘addition’ are just some examples where the subs didn’t really match up - these are quite significant in their differences in meaning and don’t make sense in context the way you wrote them.
Completely enjoyed this one as yesterday, the 10th was my twin sister’s and my birthday. The only time we had a party was on our 7th one and it was very simple. Usually, I spend it with her, her family and our parents, sometimes with our brother if he is here. Anyhow, these last 2 birthdays we had, out of circumstance, were spent apart which is fine as our beliefs now regarding it are different. Honestly, I stopped answering in the middle of the video, as their stories were so compelling as they were heartfelt. 😍🥰
Thank you for sharing Hadassah!
@@InstantEnglishUK Oh! The pleasure is mine Chris, really. 🥰 May YAH bless and keep you! 🤲🏼💕
Speaking is not difficult in the IELTS, the most difficult is the Reading bc of the time allotted to the module.
I’m glad you find the speaking easy, however many people find it quite hard
Writing is easiest.
Woww, I like their accent n it's literally quite complicated to immatate the way how they were speaking is fabulous
I'm from northeast India meghalaya the people living in this region they do speak English probably about 80% of them they can communicate with you in english if you'll travelling in our state...i love learning English n I realized that its wasn't easy I do speak English becuz we were using English as a medium of instruction in our institution and i have been learning about 8 years but still i couldn't speak like the native speakers but well I satisfied with my own capability u knw friends I'm eager to become fluent in english becuz I intended to make videos with some of my companions
Humble suggestion I have for these series video is to make the subtitles fully in a way of sentences. That would be more friendly to foreign learners like me from Asia.
Of course! Could explain what you mean?
It's kinde funny because at the end of the day they're natives so it would be easier for them to pass this test. We the non native speakers encounter the difficulties in such tests cuz we don't have this wide range of vocabularies.
I like this channel all video
This is so lovely and vwry useful
Thank you so much:)
Awesome vídeo. Looking forward to learning more with you. Greetings from 🇺🇾Uruguay
Woow, so cool to hear and see that people in Uruguay are watching my videos 😁😁
a la habla español Gaaa
Thanks a lot for the video, I've always been interested in this question as it seems to me that the requirements are a bit high than they should really be.
Predominantly for children
Natural hotsprings
Ball pits
Have some friends over
It's the thought that counts
Got their way to get you a gift
A lot of niche festivals to do with..
Their accent is very clear unlike other british accents
Really helpful 👍🏻 thank you both are you doing for this video...it's great
Glad you liked it!
When I had to take the IELTS, I was used with Europeans interactions. So basically, I felt so awkward to say more than “Yes” or “No”
How did you do in the test?
Thank you for this video ,very fascinating 😊🤗
Cheers Zehra, where you from?
Hmmm Zehra, your name is so familiar to me (:
James! It’s nice to met you here!
I am from Hello Talk 😊😊😊
My names Chris, this is my channel 😁 you can find James on his channel = Horizons
@@InstantEnglishUK oh, I see. Sorry 😅Thanks for your responding.by the way I have watched your channel many times and I like it. Thank you as always.
I think that Ielts is the one that should adapt to English is spoken normally in everyday life.
You dont think IELTS helps yo improve your over English ability?
Do more!!!! it's great!
I am also started to learn English language . So this british accent is quite difficult for me to understand. But definitely i learned something from this video. Their accent is really pleasant to hear
Have you ever been in the UK?
Love from 🇺🇿
I really enjoyed this video.l want more videos like this. I learnt many natural expressions from this video.
I can't thank you enough.
Love from India 🇮🇳.
Amazing! Try this one ⬇️
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Speaking is really easy n scoring i got 7 bands in speaking who doesn't even speak in English except of in schools. You can give them reading test.
I don’t think that would be a very interesting video mate 😁
We want more video like this
I'm from Bath! I wish I was there when you guys visited...
Next time 😁
Using perfect grammar would be weird in casual conversation
Native English speaker can get 8.5 bands in IELTS easily without any preparation only knowing some rules of IELTS.
yza boy, 24 years serving the british crown but yes they want the german machinery at the end, why not huh? What a freaking beastly good gift!
Thanks sir I'm getting a lot of vocabulary from your videos
You’re welcome mate
Thanx,Yeah it really heals my errors.
No worries 😉
ginger hair guy's speaking amazing
He told us that he’s a teacher 👨🏫
Just jump here from tiktok i am taking ielts soon your videos are beneficial 💝 love u mate
Thank you Dipesh!
What a useful video! Thanks for sharing. Greetings for Mexico City. 👌❤☺
Thank you
Amazing fact that British people always have a long answer😮😮😮
in real life is not about how brilliantly you are good with your grammer but is more about how u know how to communicate with different peoples even if u speak broken englsih and he or she still oustandingly understand u.
Actually, if we are talking about IELTS, 25% of it is about your grammar.
you can't use broken English in a formal setting or in an academic or professional environment. yes people understand you because they have empathy to engage in the conversation and not judging you. but I think it is better to respect other nation buy learning how to speak their language properly and not rely on their empathy.
My observation was: I think the girl who gives shorts answer is an introvert person and was uncomfortable in this situation. And, if the guy on the video explained they were doing an IEFL exam, they could get a better score because are natives.
Anyone can pass ielts so far they prepare well for the test.
I had 7.5 with just two weeks of practice
Not necessarily true
No way. You must have had a reasonably high level at the start of those two weeks for one thing.
What a cool video!
Thank you!
So glad you liked it! I have another one in Bristol, have you seen it?
This one is awesome i can show it to my students as demos
Brilliant!
Great work guys 🔥 please do make similar content more
Can Native English speakers pass the IELTS exam? - Bristol
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Hey, thanks for posting this video. That's very useful when it comes to learn English ! Although, could help me with the sentence below; I don't understand what "niche" as an adjective actually means.
Just know he's talking about local festivals in his area.
"There are quite a lot of very niche ones" (14m)
Its more about how much a person wanna talk :D And answer thoose questions
I'm an English language learner and I'm really admired by these native speakers))) but i thought you guys were going to ask them questions in foreign language not in Englisch 😂
It was test to see how they could handle IELTS questions 😁
I am sorry what is the sense to ask them questions in other (not English) languages? 🤷♂️🤷♂️ if we learn English it's logically correct to come to conclusion that native English speakers will speak English 🤷♂️🤷♂️
@@денислюбченко-н9щ he is trying to find if they are good at their own language.
@@kegenrodrigues the most important for all people is to communicate to be understood but bot to speak very very well and without any "mistakes" att all.
she said "I wake up" when she talked about the past.
My problem is that I don’t like to celebrate my birthday. If I decide to pass this test I will have to make up a true story for making my speech longer.
We need more of there because it is useful
i have another one, did you see it?
Really!!? I will look for it.
They are like answering part 2 question😁😁
Hello from Armenia 🇦🇲 Love this video ❤️💫
Thank you Ann
I would say that the woman in the blue top is certainly the most well-spoken, and either she or the man in the blue shirt is the poshest.