Interview Feedback
Level 6 G2
22/02/12
Noshin Farghadani
Noshin spoke in simple sentences well and was able to comprehend the majority of questions easily enough. Furthermore, she used suitable language in her answers and gave detailed responses. However, she needs to work on her grammar a further because she made some plural and singular verb mistakes, such as, ‘people is …’. Also, she missed the ‘s’ off third person verbs and sometimes she added an auxiliary verb when speaking in the present simple tense.
Mohamad Gandomkar
Mohamad was a very clear speaker who spoke at a natural pace. Also, he had good pronunciation skills and he used a wide range of vocabulary in his replies. Having said this, he needs to work on his listening as when asked the question on nature or nurture, he talked about being an extrovert person. Furthermore, he missed ‘s’ off third person verbs, for example, ‘it make me happy’; and he made a couple of prepositional errors.
Samaneh Mokhtarnameh
Samaneh gave a very detailed introduction and used some excellent opening phrases, such as, ‘to tell you the truth…’. In addition to this, she used an array of words in her replies and always managed to talk at length using example to expand them. There were a few grammatical mistakes, including using a singular noun instead of a plural one as she said ‘some child’ instead of ‘some children’. Also, she used an incorrect verb a few times, for instance, ‘to have on a diet…’ rather than ‘to go on a diet’.
Mahbobeh Keshavarzi
Mahbobeh spoke at quite a fast pace and was able to give fuller responses easily enough. Also, she used a lot of appropriate vocabulary and used simple sentence structures well. However, she need to work on her listening a lot more as on several occasions she gave a slightly different answer to the question being asked. One example of this is when she was asked about her least favourite colour, to which she spoke about her most favourite colour instead. In addition, occasionally she left out a main verb and only used an auxiliary, for example, ‘you don’t enough time’.
Neda Bazargan
Neda was a pleasant candidate who had a good pronunciation of words and was able to stress them correctly. Furthermore, she was able to use the present simple tense well and tried to use a wide range of suitable vocabulary throughout, such as, ‘limelight’. Having said this, she often used the noun form of a word instead of an adjective, like ‘obesity people’ and ‘it’s height in fat’. Also, when asked question eight, she gave an answer for question nine and sometimes she would miss out or miss use articles, so she ought to work on her listening more and grammar.
Neda Efazati
Neda could use complex structures perfectly in her answers as she was able to use a varied amount of tenses, including the present perfect tense. Also, she could use comparative language correctly and gave extremely detailed replies which would more often than not contain brilliant examples to back up what she was saying. She should work a little more on her grammar as she tended to misuse the definite article, for example, ‘the people have changed…’ instead of ‘people have changed…’. Furthermore, at times, she would leave out auxiliary verbs, so she should pay more attention with these.
Mahsa Abedi
Mahsa spoke at a natural speed and had exceptionally good intonation and stress. In addition to this, she used an excellent array of words in her answers and she could use opening expressions and appropriate phrases well, such as, ‘I was really out of shape’ and suitable examples to fill out her replies. She used ‘and’ a lot and once or twice she used ‘and’ for a result, so she work on replacing it with a different linker in the future.
Mandana Dornajafi
Mandana had very good listening skills as she was able to comprehend each question easily enough without having to have them rephrased or repeated. Furthermore, she used brilliant opinionative phrases in her answers and spoke in full sentences. However, she ought to work on her grammar more as she made some prepositional mistakes, like ‘at the first place…’, and she sometimes missed ‘to’ after certain verbs, and she used a singular noun instead of a plural one, such as, ‘I know a few person’.
Faramarz Javanmardi
Faramarz spoke at a good pace He could speak in simple present sentences well and used modals correctly in his answers. However, he needs to work on ways to expand his answers more as he tended to give quite brief ones. Also, he needs to work on his listening skills as he misheard a few questions which resulted in an inapplicable answer being given. Finally, he mispronounced a couple of words, such as, ‘photography/er’, so he should be a little more aware of his pronunciation.
Majid Fasihiyani
Majid was an excellent speaker of English because he was able to use emphasis words perfectly and he used suitable lexis in each of his answers. Furthermore, he used examples in his replies and used verb patterns properly. Having said this, he ought to work on his pronunciation more as there were some issue here, such as when he pronounced ‘seek’ as ‘sick’. Also, he missed the ‘s’ off third person verbs, so he should work on his grammar more.
Moslem Ezi
Moslem demonstrated that he has a wide range of vocabulary as he was able to use alternative words to avoid repetition. Furthermore, he could use various verb forms well and generally managed to use a correct verb pattern. Having said this, there were several occasions when he missed ‘to’ after certain verbs, so he should look over this more. Also, he would use a singular determiner instead of a plural one, such as, ‘this colours’.
Bita Panah
Bita was able to use pronouns correctly to avoid repetition of the same word, which helps with her fluency. Also, she used present tenses accurately and used a set of extremely good phrases in her answers, such as, ‘I am totally captivated by art’. However, she would benefit from paraphrasing her answers as there were a few occasions when she used the same words which were in the questions to open her response. Also, she made one or two errors with using a plural verb with an uncountable noun.
Esmail Pakdaman
Esmail was able to use opening expressions to start his answers and he demonstrated good listening skills as he was able to comprehend all of the questions. Having said this, he generally kept his responses brief and he had to be asked additional questions to gain further information, so he needs to work on ways to expand his answers next time. In addition to this, he made a couple of grammatical mistakes as he missed out auxiliary verbs in his sentences, and he used incorrect prepositions, such as, ‘people working in a long time’.
Amir Khodakarami
Amir gave a detailed introduction and spoke in a clear voice. Furthermore, he was able to speak in full simple sentences, used contractions well and was able to use a variety of adjectives when describing. However, he struggled to comprehend one or two questions and when asked question 2 he gave an answer for question 3, so he should work on his listening skills more. In addition, he made some mistakes with adjective forms and prepositions, for example, ‘I really exciting with his songs’.
Raziyeh Hasanzadeh
Raziyeh was a confident speaker of English and she was able to talk at length for each answer she gave. Furthermore, she used sequencers well and used an array of words in her responses, which related directly to each question. Having said this, she did struggle a few times to comprehend a few questions because she did not know the meaning of a word, such as ‘determine’. Also, on a few occasions, she used an inappropriate subject pronoun as she would use ‘she’ for ‘he’.
Mitra Hoseini
Mitra had good pronunciation skills and spoke confidently in her interview. Also, she used appropriate language in her answers and she used linkers well to join her ideas together. However, she made many errors with preposition patterns by not using a gerund, for example, ‘for cook at home’. Also, she missed ‘s’ off plural nouns and sometimes she gave too much of a short answer, so she ought to use examples more in her answers to fill them out.