Interview feedback
Level 11& chat & IELTS
3/03/12
Marjan Farhadi
Marjan spoke clearly and was able to use a wide range of advanced vocabulary, such as, ‘accomplish’. Furthermore, she gave very detailed answers and could comprehend all of her questions. However, she needs to work on her grammar and pronunciation because she sometimes missed out relative pronouns, used ‘and’ instead of a contrasting linker and mispronounced a few words including ‘turkey’.
Behroz Bozorgghalati
Behroz was able to use opening phrases well and had good pronunciation skills as he stressed words correctly. However, he made some grammar mistakes as he did not use correct word collocations, for example, ‘make a salary’ instead of ‘earn a salary’. Furthermore, he used unsuitable prepositions, missed out articles and did not use examples to give a fuller response.
Saeed Reza Mohandes
Saeed Reza could use the passive voice correctly and had good listening skills as he was able to understand all of his questions easily. Furthermore, he used an array of words and supported his answers with personal examples and advanced expressions e.g. ‘it depends on the situation’. Having said this, he sometimes used the wrong noun form as he used the job form instead of the subject (architect instead of architecture), and he repeated ‘for instance’ for every example he gave, so he should try to vary this.
Mona Ghanad Shirazi
Mona was able to speak at a natural pace and used advanced language throughout, including idioms as she said, ‘out of my mind’ and ‘keep my cool’. Also, she used examples well and had good grammatical skills as she was able to speak in numerous tenses correctly. Having said this, she sometimes missed an ‘s’ off plural nouns and mispronounced a few words, such as, ‘gold’ rather than ‘goal’.
Ehsan Golabi
Ehsan had excellent listening skills and used proverbial language in some of his answers suitably. Furthermore, he stress words correctly and had good intonation. However, he needs to work on some grammar areas more because he used incorrect prepositions, such as, ‘better to people to say no’ instead of ‘better for people to say no’. Also, he made a couple of mistakes with linking words as once or twice he used ‘and’ not ‘but’.
Ali Ghaedi
Ali was a pleasant candidate who spoke at a steady pace. Also, he used suitable vocabulary for his questions and attempted to answer all of his questions. However, he needs to work on his listening a little more as he misheard a question about ‘adversity’ because he gave an answer on ‘advertisement’ instead. Finally, he should work on his grammar more as he made some errors with verb patterns and word forms.
Siam Sohrabi
Siam could paraphrase her questions and used excellent personal examples to support her opinions. Furthermore, she used phrasal verbs a lot, used advanced linkers, like ‘therefore’ and gave lengthy answers. However, she tended to say ‘erm’ too much when thinking, so she should try to reduce this. Also, there were a few occasions when she missed an auxiliary out, so she be careful with this too.
Ali Lavari
Ali could answer personal questions well and demonstrated excellent listening skills as he was able to comprehend all of his questions with ease. Furthermore, he spoke clearly and could speak in full sentences in both the present and past simple tense well. He should work on a couple of grammar areas more as he used an incorrect preposition and sometimes missed out indefinite articles.
Azita Amiri
Azita used frequency adverbs correctly and used comparative language accurately. In addition, she used idioms in her replies, which enhanced her fluency, and she correctly used pronouns throughout. She tended to use ‘has’ instead of the verb to ‘be’ and made a couple of word form mistakes as she said, ‘she has very knowledged’. Also, she made some verb pattern errors.
Leila Shakiba Pour
Leila could speak in full sentences and was able to put an ‘s’ on third person verbs in positive statements. Furthermore, she spoke at a good pace and could use personal examples to give extra information about her personal life. Having said this, there were a few occasions where I had to ask ‘why’ in order to obtain a fuller reply, so she should try and word on his a little more, also, she made one or two grammatical errors when talking in the past tense.
Mohamad Reza Pakdelan
Mohamad Reza could comprehend the majority of his questions and could speak in both simple and perfect tenses properly. In addition, he used excellent opinionative language as he said ‘it depends on the situation’. There were some pronunciation errors including ‘lyrics’ and ‘really’, so he ought to work on this more. Also, he would use two main verbs when talking in the present perfect continuous tense as he said, ‘I have been visit Spain’.
Faezeh Ramzjoei
Faezeh used conditional language well and could answer part one questions relatively well as she tried to give more than one or two sentenced answers. Furthermore, she used examples in her answers and spoke clearly. However, she rarely used opening expressions, so she ought to use them more next time, also, she did not answer all parts for a part three question as she only spoke about the advantages, but she was asked about disadvantages too.
Samaneh Hasanshahi
Samaneh gave a lot of information when asked personal questions. Also, she used suitably fitting language throughout and had good intonation. However, when asked broader questions on transportation she struggled to give a detailed answer. So she needs to work on expanding her transportation vocabulary more. Furthermore, she used the wrong form of a words a few times as she said, ‘I image’ instead of ‘I imagine’.
Saeed Torfenejad
Saeed used a wide range of opening phrases to start his responses and used argumentative and suggestive language well. Furthermore, he could use numerous examples to pack out his answers and he used a wide range of directly suitable vocabulary throughout. He sometimes missed an ‘s’ off plural nouns because he would say ‘there are several condition/ situation’ and once or twice he repeated the same words which were in the question, so he ought to paraphrase them more.
Raziyeh Dehghaniyan
Raziyeh could speak in simple sentences well and managed to answer the majority of part one questions correctly. In addition, she seems to have some good ideas and used appropriate words which directly related to her question. Having said this, she struggled to comprehend the broader questions and had to have them rephrased a lot, or ended up with her not being able to answer the questions at all. Finally, she did not use pronouns and instead repeated the noun and this reduced her fluency.
Sara Keshmiri
Sara spoke at a natural pace and used stress and intonation perfectly. Furthermore, she gave extremely detailed responses and could use personal examples suitably for many of her part three questions. Finally, she used verb collocations correctly and used advanced vocabulary including idiomatic language. However, she occasionally missed an ‘s’ off plural nouns and sometimes used a plural verb instead of a singular one, for example ‘this city have a…’.