Sunday 9th September 9am.
1. Saeed
75%
Saeed used the present tense well with adverbs of time, such as often and never. There were a couple of vocab errors, such as healthy instead of health, and scenic instead of scenery. Answers to number 1 and 2 could have been longer.
1. I am no lazy. I get up at 6 am.
2. exercise useful for healthy. Exercise for body very good.
3.I go running and swimming every weekend.
5.i get up at 7 o clock. I cook breakfast and I wash the dishes and I eat breakfast. (And what else do you do?) I go work, in 9 o clock, because I work in my own company. In Saturday and Sunday I go Fakher College for study English.
8. I wear formal clothes, such as suit and coat.
I often / never T shirt and jeans. Because no informal for work.
11. 2 years ago me and my family went to North Iran There is a nice scenic and beautiful beach. We go/ we went to beach every morning and every evening.
13. Accident. Road is very bumpy. And in hotel windows won’t close or open. Sink it was usually cloudy/clogged (?)
2. Sahar
60%
In this interview fluency was poor, because there were so many pauses in conversation. Grammar was poor, such as the use of the present continuous tense instead of present simple to describe routine. Past simple tense error with ‘I’m went…’ Sahar had adequate vocabulary to answer the questions at a basic level.
1. I am very …very…very…a morning person, because I’m very busy. I’m not a couch potato. (What is a couch potato?) It is very bad. Is fatty and not good for body.
2. Exercise is good for body. And…walking…and urm,…go running is good…for healthy,
7. I’m morning exercise , then urm…then…urm…urm…then…go to bed…and I’m walking…and in the park…I’m exercising…
3. eat …urh…no smoking…and eat bad salt and oil its bad for healthy, because is fatty and is very bad for body.
11.i’m two yyears ago…was vacation…I was go to mashad with my mother…and its…. Great time.
(what did you do) I’m went in …and went to basar…and saw…we are…very good…time…
13.yes, urm…well…urm..vacation…was…the airplanes..is bumpy..and not good food…in the restaurant..and the people is unfriendly..and urm…that’s it.
14.i’m…very…good…time…and vacation…is …good…. (I asked question again) I’m studied Parisian literature in university.
3. Samaneh
92%
This was a fantastic interview. It started off with a lot of hesitation in the first question, but throughout the rest of the interview the grammar was almost perfect with a mixture of tenses and vocab was excellent, for example, words such as ‘in moderation’, ‘laid on the beach’, ‘snorkelling’, ‘liberal attitude’. Samaneh needed prompts to talk about her morning routine-it would’ve been good to use some times such as 6am etc. and a bit more detail.
2. I think people exercise for healthy and good feel…and…good feel…and good feel…healthy.
3. I eat everything and exercise and don’t smoking and do everything in moderation and I usually eat good food.
5. I wake up early and I go running and in the evening I play tennis with my friends and I watch tv in afternoon.
(I repeated question-after you wake up what do you do next?)
I sometimes go running in the park and…play football with my sister…and…eat breakfast…good breakfast…and then I take a shower.
10. I should wear mantel and jeans and a scarf and cover my hair because my country’s very conservative and there are strict rules for clothing and …they have some…liberal attitude about clothing. Because Iran is very conservative. (so they have a liberal attitude about clothing? ) don’t have liberal attitude.
11. Last year I went on vacation to Malaysia. I took an airplane. It was so relaxing…the weather was hot and warm…and more time it was raining…but the hotel was not very good. The food was terrible. I like to do lots of activities and I laid down on the beach and I learned how to do snorkelling.
Fantastic!!
4. Mohamad Hosein.
90%
Excellent grammar and some good phrases such as ‘they exercise to be in shape’ and ‘they want to fill their free time’. Present tense was good and I was impressed with his use of the future: ‘my clothes will become dirty.’ Jut answers were too short.
1. Of course not. I’m not a couch potato. But I’m somewhat lazy because I’m from Shiraz. Shirazians are all couch potatoes.
2. To be in shape, of course they exercise to be in shape, and they want to fill their free time. Let’s see…that’s it.
4.I exercise in the morning. When I get up I exercise in the morning, for 10-15 mins.
I go bike riding in Shiraz and sometimes I go walking.
5. (morning routine fine) after that I come home and eat lunch and then I go to our shop to help my father.
8.i try to wear casual clothes and old clothes because in the shop my clothes will become dirty and I want to be comfortable in the shop.
5.Fatemeh
62%
Fatemeh was able to respond to most questions but he was difficult to understand sometimes, for example in number 11. Speech was disjointed and answers were short. Present tense was fine, and good use of time adverbs such as ‘every day’ and ‘twice a week’. In question 13 Fatemeh would have gained marks for using ‘there could be’, or ‘there might be’.
1. No. I’m not a couch potato. I’m morning person…I get up at 6 and I go to bed at 11.
4. Every day… ( what do you do to stay healthy?) go running in the park…every day…and I go swimming twice a week. (What food do you eat to stay healthy?) I eat seafood, because they have high calories and they has get provide energy and high fat.
10. In general the woman wear mantel and pants and men wear t shirt, jeans and casual clothes.
11…I like..sea…I love walk (?)…I like going to Italy, because…it has…very..historical place..i like beach…there are…I like go Venice…there are … (I couldn’t understand)
14. I ..7 day…I stay in Italy.
I stay in Italy.
13. They cancel my flight and I get sick …there’s someone stole my wallet.
6. Hamid.
98%
Wonderful vocabulary and grammar. Question 2 was exceptional. A couple of errors, in question 11 you should say ‘…to historical places and go sightseeing’. And in question 13 you should say ‘are seasick’. Great interview.
2. Well people exercise because they want to be in shape and they want to have healthy body and people exercise because it’s good for your mind and soul and in addition they can concentrate and they can start their day well, good, great…
3. Well, I exercise regularly and I eat healthy food and I usually go swimming. Well, that’s it. (What kind of food do you eat to stay healthy?) Well, I usually eat dairy food every day…also I eat healthy snack for example vegetable and salad.
5. I usually get up at 6 and I get washed and dressed and I go to the English class at 7. I arrive there at 8 and I’m back home at noon.
6 .I usually take a nap in the afternoon and after that I study English…some days I hang out with my friends in the evening. If I stay at home I study more.
11. I’m really into history. I usually go to the historical place and visit sightseeing. Also, I like to have fun and I go to interesting places also.
13. Well, we had an accident. We had a mechanical problem…sometimes there is an overbooking or maybe you be sea sick.
2 years ago when I went to…we had an accident and we ran out of gas.
7. I usually wear conservative clothes because in Iran there is a conservative attitude and I like it.
I usually wear casual clothes at a party or when I want to hang out with my friends, and when I go camping at the weekend.
We usually check the weather, but it’s rain it’s interesting.
7. Maziyah
72%
Maziyah was able to answer questions generally well. It was good to hear words such as ‘at least’ and adverbs of time. Present simple tense was generally good, just an error in question 5, with ‘I have eat breakfast’ and in question 11 with ‘I like take…go…’instead of ‘I like taking a boat…going to the beach.’
1. No, I’m not, because I get up early in the morning and I …early…I’m high active.
7.I usually go swimming at least once a week, and I go, I usually go bike riding and I sometimes play soccer, football and I like play ping pong.
2….I think…exercise is good for body…and it keeps active our and…it’s good for entertainment and I think our body need to exercise.
5…I usually exercise in the morning and I have…I have eat breakfast. At first I get up at 6 o clock, after that I get washed and beside I eat breakfast. After that I brush my teeth. Finally I go to school.
6. I come back home at 1 o clock. After that I clean the house and make lunch, make and eat lunch and beside I take a nap in the afternoon. After that, I start my homework at 3 o clock. Until 6 o clock.
11. I like exciting vacation…I like … for example…take a boat to the ocean and go to the beach and go swimming and I like sightseeing, for example…cathedral and mosque and…it’s that.
8. Reza
62%
Reza used generally adequate vocab to answer the questions; however, there was a general lack of fluency to the conversation, as sentences did not make much sense, for example in question 1 and 3. There were errors in present tense, where Reza mixed up the present simple and continuous as in questions 3 and 7. There were some good examples of problems in question 13.
1. Actually, two weeks I am going to active, because of my work and coming to class.
Not really couch potato, because I like some active.
3. Healthy is very important because you should be good mood. I don’t like be healthy. Because I think when you wanna die …why you and it’s you.
7. Yes, I’m going to mountain climbing and biking in the afternoon and sometimes on Friday.
11. I like going to…Europe, because it’s fantastic, I think Sweden don’t have conservative, and beside you can go…you can do anything in there, it’s good and have a fantastic hotel. You can go relaxed.
13. Maybe your flight’s bumpy, the hotel toilet don’t flush, some people stole your money or card. I went to…the flight was very bumpy.
14. In a hotel because I’m really couch potato.
9. Ali
75%
Ali gave good examples in his answers and spoke well in the present tense. He used ‘usually’ a bit too much though. Good information in question 13, just try to start your sentence with ‘there could be…there might be…’A couple of vocab errors such as saying ‘culture’ instead of the adjective ‘cultural’, and he used ‘modest’ to describe a building, which wasn’t the right word. Also it is correct to say ‘go sightseeing’, rather than ‘visit’. Generally a fairly fluent and accurate interview.
1.Not really, I like to do something and study hard. I like learn something.
3.I usually exercise. For example I use walk and I usually study English and I usually watch TV and do housework chores, and I go shopping.
5.I …first I get up at 6 o clock and I usually get up at 6 o clock and after that I usually wash my face and I eat breakfast and I…then I…study English, I go to English class, I come home, take a nap.
6. In the afternoon I usually go walking and sometimes I go mount climbing.
11.I prefer historical and culture vacation, because I like traditional clothes and traditional people and I like modest building and I like to visit sightseeing and I like to visit church and nature and…
13.Flight or car or hotel. ..the air condition won’t work and the sink is clogged and the hotel apartment is very dirty and the flight cancelled and the flight delayed and overbooking and they have …mechanical problem for car or flight, the flight is bumpy, the taxi is accident and…
10.Habibeh
80%
This was a good interview, because answers flowed nicely and grammar and vocab was generally accurate. It was good to hear the phrase ‘because it burns calories’ in the first question. Habibeh spoke well in the present tense with lots of times and it was good to hear ‘if’ phrases too. One error in pronunciation with the word ‘clothes’. ‘People’ is plural, so you should say ‘maybe the people are unfriendly’ in question 13.
2.Because it burns a lot of calories. I like to exercise because it makes me relax and me happy. I like to do aerobics and I go walking every day.
5.I get up at 7 o clock in the morning and after that I have breakfast and I brush my teeth and after that I go English class and I reach home about 1 o clock.
6.I sometimes hang out with my friends and I go shopping. If the weather is very good I go camping with my friends for …also I study English every evening…about 3 or 4 hours.
10. In Iran the people have conservative attitude and we should wear formal clothes and…we shouldn’t/we can’t wear modest clothes and informal clothes. I like to wear formal and comfortable clothes (pron clothe-es), especially in office place.
11.I prefer travel to Italy on my vacation because it has historical and romance places. It has a beautiful sea and I like go walking on the beach there and…it is very scenic.
13.Maybe the flight’s cancelled and maybe the weather’s terrible and maybe the people’s unfriendly there, and…maybe it has the transportation has problem…the car has accident and the flight has bumpy, and the flight has air sick…
11. Absent.
12.Elham.
70%
Elham was able to answer questions at a basic level. Also, Elham used the third person singular well in the affirmative and negative. Some simple mistakes, such as forgetting the plural when talking about ‘two brother’, and forgetting to use ‘my’ when talking about ‘mother’ and ‘father’. Also, question 10 wasn’t accurately answered initially, as I asked what her mother and father ‘look like’, not what they like.
1. I am 20 years old. I’m a student in University. I study Computer Programming.
I have two brother and one sister. A sister is married but brother is single. My mother is housewife but my father is Engineer.
4. All fine except April, (pronunciation)
6.I go to shopping, I sleep and I go to cinema and park.
7.Yes, twice a week. I… basketball. with my friends.
9.Because a small family is better…advantage is parents save money and each other is calm and relaxed.
10. Father is tall and mother is short. Father likes basketball but my mother isn’t/doesn’t. Father likes coffee but my mother doesn’t. My father likes coffee and my mother either. (I asked original question). His hair is short, brown and curly. My Father has beard and moustache.
11.Mother has … and glasses…and her hair is short and black and straight…and my mother is fat.
13. Fahimeh
62%
Fahimeh was able to answer all questions at a basic level and she spoke clearly. However, answers were very short; I needed to keep asking questions. There were simple grammar errors in present tense, such as not using ‘have/has’, and not using present simple 3rd person singular, such as ‘my father don’t’ and ‘my mother looking like…’
1. I was /am 24 years old, I’m in a nurse, I work in hospital. Sure, …I was one older sister and two younger brothers. I am single. My brothers single. My sister’s married.
5. (all said perfectly)
4. Fine.
6. Usually I read a book and take a nap and go shopping.
7. I walk and I play basketball. I usually, twice a week.
10. My mother looking like me, but my father don’t…my mother and I like…and thin...and white skin…and short. But my Father is different…is fat…and I don’t…my father is brown hair and me, I has black hair.
13.My father is manager and my mother housewife.
14. I am a nurse…(how many days do you work? Every day. One day in the month I don’t work.
14. Farahnaz.
62%
Farahnaz needed to use the present simple tense to describe facts and habits, but she used the present continuous tense. Farahnaz also failed to use ‘has’ to say that her father has ‘black hair’. Answers were short.
14. I’m an accountant.
15. I’m a student. I’m study engineering.
I work at a store. (How many hours?) Two years. I go to work 6 hours.
6.I take a nap, I’m going to the movies. I exercise. I read and listen to music.
7. I’m going to swim. Twice a week. (pron of twice is tweece).
10.My father is tall and black hair and brown eye. My mother is short and brown hair and black eyes.
13.My mother is homeworker and my father is retired. (What does he do?) He’s a teacher. (He was or is a teacher?) He was. (What does he do in his free time?) My father free time, go to the park, go shopping, listen to news…
16. I live in Shiraz.
4. (perfect)
5. incorrect pronunciation of April, October said before September.
9. I like small family because I have big room , I relax, I could get sleep, and much money.
short.
15. Amin
60%
Amin was able to answer some questions, but he struggled with the days of the week and the months of the year. He made a mistake in the simple present tense, when he said ‘I’m study…’ and a vocab error ‘manager sales’. Amin’s answers were too short.
1. I’m married, I have a son, he’s 8 years old.
My wife is…and teach at University. I am a manager sales.
I;m graduated, I’m study management…
6.Always I go to my garden or go to cinema with my son and go to park with my son.
7.Yes, sometimes I play soccer. With my friends or with my father in law.
4. (Thursday and Wednesday mixed up. Finally it was correct).
5. I can’t say very well. (Okay, what is the first month?)
January,September…I don’t know.
8. Now I have a small family.
9. I think my family better than big family. Because I think we need some money for big family and big house and some time for education and something. But in a small family problem are few.
10. They are thin and tall. My mother’s hair is blonde but my father’s hair is white.
14. My mother and my father…they were teacher…but now is retired.
16. I live in Shiraz. I live in a house.
16. Shahnaz
65%
Shahnaz was able to use the present tense fairly well in the first and third person. There were some errors, such as ‘my brother have one children’, where she needed to use ‘has’ and ‘child’. Also, when I asked her if she lived with her parents she answered, ‘yes, I live with your parents’. Also, errors in using the present simple continuous instead of present simple for habits, such as ‘I’m going to camping etc.’ However, vocab was adequate and she was able to answer all the questions.
1. I am single, I am an English student, I am 29 years old. I go to hospital three times a week. (Do you work at the hospital?) I am work in the office.
2. No.
8 .I have a big family. I have three brothers and three sisters. Do they have children? No, I am single. My brother have one children.
9. Small family. (Why?) Small family I have more money and it’s relaxing and I have…
11. My mother is pretty, short and brown hair, and wavy hair.
10. My father has black hair and he’s tall and he has a moustache and beard and he is handsome.
13. My father is manager and my mother is housewife.
16. Yes, I live with your parents.
I’m going to camping, I’m going to movies and I’m going to exercising. I exercise yoga. Yes, I very like Yoga. I go in the morning twice a week. I’m going sometimes with friends and someone only.
4. (No problems)
5. ( fine)
17. Mohamad hadi.
80%
Mohamad hadi answered questions well, with good vocabulary and well prepared answers. A common problem was mixing up optimism/pessimism with optimist/pessimist. Also, he failed to use the present perfect tense in question 3, for example ‘changed my mind’. Question 11, he needed to change ‘live beyond your means’ to ‘my means’. Despite the errors, I was impressed with the vocabulary and opinions he expressed.
1. Actually I’m more an optimist, because optimist can help us to see the solution when we deal with difficulty in life. Of course when I see a difficulty in my life I see the full half of the glass instead of the empty half.
3. For me, I think going to University has a real effect on my mind and changed my mind that I can be now impressive people. If I try to be an instructor at University. It was one of my best life altering experience.
4. Of course, because you cannot perceive the reality, and always you want to think everything is nice, so it can be harmful for you. You need to a little pessimistic to find the facts. A healthy dose.
10. For me, it helps me unwind and helps me to concentrate on my studying. I prefer pop music. It helps me concentrate on the text.
9. I think sometimes music therapy can help them to be more cheerful and help them concentrate in their life and help them relax. It depends on the personality. They must design music sessions for them.
11. Unfortunately no. I live beyond your means. All month I pay all of my money and I borrow some from my money.
14.I think they must put some money away for the rainy days and they must cut down their expenses. Because I don’t save a lot of money I can’t help them.
18.Aida
87%
I was impressed with Aida’s vocabulary, for example, ‘keep a budget’, ‘a schedule for expenses’, ‘put everything in perspective’. She also expressed her opinions well. There was a problem with the nouns ‘pessimist’, ‘realist’, ‘optimist’, as Aida did not use the article ‘a/an’, and perhaps it would have been better to use the adjective ‘pessimistic’, ‘realistic’, in question 1.
1.To be honestly I think I am more pessimist. I always want to be more realist in more situation. When I be in situation I don’t want to have bad effect in that situation and in that event and I face difficulties and I try to see the bright side, I’m trying to be optimist.
3. Sure, events in our life that completely change the way of our life, for example, birth of child, travel, jobs, make change in our life. I have changed with my first job that I talked about…I rented a field and I planted broccoli and I found many difficulties because it was far from my city, diseases and strange people really changed my traits, I think it was a good experience for me, I knew the real society and I feel more confident…
2. Pessimism and optimism can be useful. In some situations we should think more logically and put everything in perspective.
4. It’s not good in any situation. In some situation we should compare any ways together and make good decisions. Maybe with being more optimistic people can’t make good decision.
11. Yes, actually when I was children my mother taught me to save money in any situation . Anytime when I have no job I save money, I have money maybe a little for emergency.
14. Well, they should do it. Because all the people need to have saving money. They should make balance between their saving and earning money and keep a budget for themselves and a schedule for expenses should be useful for them and they should live within their means.
19.Davood
80%
Davood had some interesting answers and was able to speak freely about the topics with good vocabulary. The major problem, however, was the grammar- sentences were not accurately constructed, which meant that answers did not flow.
3.Later I worked with my father and I wasn’t completely satisfied. One of my friends gave me a book from Chris… and after that I completely changed my business style. I don’t have enough income but I am satisfied because I earn a lot of experience.
I gave money from my father and I afraid from risk in the business but after that that book told me if you want satisfied you should risk in your life.
1. Usually I try to be optimist because without be optimist we always have problems in our life and sometimes I am pessimist because I think it is necessary in our life.
Because we are completely optimist maybe we lose something such as our money our emotion, if we are being completely optimist about our friends maybe they have some problems for us.
6.yes, of course it’s important, because that helps us to be relaxed sometimes and we can learn a lot of things from music because of music I listen that have good beat and lyrics, so they are necessary in our life and they help to learn things better such as study and listen to music.
8.sometimes I’m depressed and I’m upset so I listen to blue music or Iranian local music that helps me to be relaxed and forget my problems.
9.yes I think it help to nervous problems, and other emotional problems, but about body I don’t think because I never see somebody have treatment with music.
7.i like iranian local music, because it’s very good and it show my culture to people around the world, for example, I like…he’s a good musician and local singer, he has a good voice, he has a voice about problems in our country and he all the time helps to us being relaxed and have a good idea and have a make our mind for future and he thinks in future everything…and I like him
20.Alireza
85%
Alireza displayed some good vocabulary such as ‘occur’, ‘confront’, ‘spendthrift’, ‘thrifty’, ‘prevent’. He answered questions well with good examples. The problem with the fluency was the grammar. Some of the phrases were not correct and this made understanding difficult.
1. I consider myself as an optimist. Because always I have a great hope for future and sometime if a difficulty occur I try to solve it and I try to confront it and find a solution to solve the problem I’m not such kind of person that stop trying to get the situation better than it is.
4. Sometimes a person who is optimist doesn’t pay attention to the realities that may exist and maybe take risks that …take fortune for him or her to cost the risk. Sometime optimist don’t pay attention to the reality of their environment or their abilities.
5. Yes I do. I don’t have regular programme for listening. Every time I feel I like to listen to music I do it, for example in car while driving or when I do exercise, any type of music I listen to, like western or traditional…
8. It depends on the person. But generally I think yes. Especially I read in our book that was interesting for that classical music has effect on young children to improve their abilities, talents and also it gives them being calm;
11. I save a little but not much because I almost spend as money as I earn.
13. I don’t spend more than I earn. And I am not spendthrift person and I think I am more freegle or thrifty person to spend money but I try to look at my budget all the time to prevent put myself in a difficult situation.
15. Yes I saved money last year to buy a new car and I’m glad for that programme or plan that I made to buy this car.
21. Pariya.
90%
Pariya gave good, complete answers, and she used lots of great phrases and vocabulary, such as ‘a big spender’, ‘keep track of my expenses’ ‘tight’. Sometimes she attempted to use phrases but got the grammar a little wrong, such as ‘should stand on my foot’ instead of ‘should stand on my own two feet’ , and ‘solve my problems with myself without helping…’ instead of ‘solve my problems by myself without help…’
1.Frankly I should say I try to be an optimist but in different situation I’m sometime I’m an optimist and sometime pessimist, but I try to be optimist because I see glass is half full and all the times think that life can be better and life is full of enjoy and can make their life better. But pessimist person think that life is bad and awful and with a lot of problems. Truly sometimes I see the glass as half empty.
3. Two years ago I got married and my life was changed a lot. Because before that my father and my mother supported me all the time. For example I never went to market to buy food but now I should go to the market for buying my necessary things and I learned that I should stand on my foot and I solve my problems with myself without helping my parents and for example I try to be a realistic person and find my problems with myself without helping.
6. yes I think yes because when listen to the music they feel better and they can do better and for example we can learn a lot of things with listening to the lyrics of the songs or when we are fell down we can feel better .
9. Yes, when we listen to the music we can approve ourself. When sick people listen to the music they can forget their illnesses and when they feel down in a dump listening to music is important for ourselves.
13.frankly I should say I am a big spender and try to save a small part of my salary every month because when I want to buy my necessary things I have enough money to buy them and I try to live within my means and I keep track of my expense all the time. And I don’t like tight people. I try to be generous and help poor people. All the months I spend even a small part of my salary to give to the people and to help the poor people.
22. Niloofar.
Absent.