1. Abubakr
Flowed nicely. Positive elements were use of ‘if clause’, ‘I avoid/I prefer/First of all’ and use of comparative ‘freer than…’
Number 11 required the simple past tense. Some vocab issues, such as ‘abroad country’ and ‘country’ needed to be in plural.
My mother is a house work
- Actually…couch potato is not healthy, and I will be fatty
- To be in shape, to be healthy, if we want be healthy we must exercise and eat healthy food. Every day I walk.
- I avoid junk food and eat healthy food, and drink a lot of water. I always exercise, I walk and do aerobics.
(What healthy food do you eat?)
I like eat sea food, especially fish, I like prawn.
5. I get up and pray, after that I take a shower, after I take a shower I have a breakfast and I collect my book and go to work.
6. First of all, I pray, after I have lunch and I sleep. After that I get up and some day I go to park, or if I have work I go to work.
11. I prefer to …I like abroad country, because some country freer than my country, for example I went to Bali one month ago, I ride an elephant and go swimming and walk in the sea.
2. Mohammad
Grammar clear, just question 4 needed to be said in 1st person, and the last question was misunderstood at first.
1.As a matter of fact I am a couch potato, because I am unemployed now and I have a lot of free time, and I watch a lot of TV especially soccer.
2. Yes, I go running and go walking twice a week.
4. Yes, avoid sweets, avoid junk food, drink water a lot, eat everything in moderation, eat raw vegetables for snack
10. Iran is a conservative country. Woman can’t wear short in street and they have to wear a scarf and men can’t wear short in street.
11. I’d like historical places for vacation, for example, Venice and Egypt. (Have you been there before? ) No. (Ok so what kind of vacation do you usually go on?) In summer, I usually go to north of Iran, I like swimming and the weather is good.
3. Mohammad Ali
Good construction with ‘when…’ ; however, error with ‘I have exercise’-should be ‘I exercise’. Good use of adverb ‘usually’, although initially an error as it was used after the verb in ‘eat usually’. Problems with past and future tenses, and conditional.
1.No, I’m really not couch potato. I eat usually healthy food. I usually eat vegetables and meat, white meat, white meat is healthy food, more than red meat. And sea food is healthy food.
3. Yes, I go skydiving, and running.
2.Exercise is necessary in my life, because when I have exercise I relax and I enjoy it. You know, I think exercise come me self confidence to me and this reason is very good.
5.I like to watch Tv and go to Facebook and study. I eat breakfast, and study English, and check my e-mails.
6.In the afternoon I go to class and shopping.
14.I usually…I like to go to the Paris, and I like go in November, because the weather is good. I don’t go to Paris, I think next year I go to Paris.
4. Bahram 70%
Present tense generally accurate, although for number 5, you should say, ‘I go walking’. Number 4, adverb always should come after the verb ‘go’. Some good phrases, such as ‘it helps me…’ and ‘these days’.
- No, because I go running, and walking, because of this I am not a couch potato.
- I think because they want to be in shape and they want to be healthy. It helps me to think better.
- Always I go to the gym in the morning. All of the mornings are the same for me. I brush my teeth, I eat breakfast and I go to the gym.
- These days, I go to the English class, four days a week and I think I go to the class and sometime I go for walking and I see some friends and I go to the cinema.
8. Usual clothes, shirt, sometimes t-shirt, sometimes jeans
10.Because Iran is conservative country, women can’t wear a skirt, and men can’t wear tie at the office. (They can’t wear a tie?) Yes, they can’t wear.
5. Mehdi
Able to use present tense fairly accurately. Good phrases, such as ‘I’m crazy about’; just be careful to use the gerund after this. Also, number 3 should have been in the first person, rather than imperative. Use the plural for ‘movies’ and ‘liberal countries’.
1. Yes, I’m crazy about watch movie, exactly horror film.
3. In the day I can’t exercise because I am very busy and always watch movie and going with another friend.
Eat healthy food, eat vegetable and fruit, avoid junk food and avoid drink soda and alcohol and avoid sweet. (in imperative, should be in 1st person)
5.I go to the bank, and I visit my mother, because I am an only child.
8.I wear shirt and pants. I can’t wear a tie, because in Iran you can’t wear a tie. Because my society is different to others.
11. I prefer to go to liberal country, I like Turkey and India, because they have a lot of hobbies, like surfing and snorkelling, and bike riding, and walk on the beach.
6. Esmat
Described their morning routine well in question 4, great pronunciation, especially of the vowels, such as ‘o’ in ‘go’. Question 4- ‘have to’ not used correctly; it was not required. Present tense error in question 5, ‘I not come to English class’.
1. No, I;m not, sure I’m not, because I’m too busy with two children, I can’t be couch potato.
4. I have to avoid fatty foods, sweets, eat vegetables and fruit.
2. (Do you exercise?) I do exercise twice a week because I want to be in shape, I like aerobics, because I exercise at home. (Why do people exercise?) Because they have to be in shape and most of them like exercise.
4. I wake up at 6 o’ clock every morning , I take a bath and brush my hair, make breakfast for my children at 7 0’clock and we eat a t 7:30. I make my lunch and do laundry and clean my house and watch Tv.
5. In the evening I, now I come to English class 4 times a weeks. When I not come to English class I go to park with my children or go shopping.
I like to go to North of Iran, once of a year we go to North of Iran with my family and eat breakfast in the park and eat lunch and dinner at the good restaurants in Iran.
- Arezu
Great detailed and flowing intoduction. Speech was relaxed throughout, and grammar was of a very high standard. Good phrases, such as ‘I am trying to exercise more/ it depends/ I mentioned before…’ and good use of the comparative ‘in England it is colder’; however, in Question 3 you should have said ‘healthier food’ and ‘important for our health’.
1. No, I’m not a couch potato, because I don’t have any free time. I have a job , I work in the morning and I have to go to my office in the afternoon.
3.Nowadays, I am trying to exercise more, because I am a little out of shape, I want to be healthy, I am trying to eat more healthy food, such as vegetables, salad and avoid sweets. I don’t eat fast food these days. Exercise is important for our healthy.
It depends, at home I wear skirt of jeans, but when I’m in my office or in the court, because I mentioned before,I’m a lawyer, when I am in court we have to wear flat shoes, pants, formal clothes, and at home I wear casual, colourful clothes.
I prefer to travel to foreign countries, because I prefer to visit places, to be relaxed , to have entertainment with my children. I have visited Malaysia, Turkey, Dubai , France, and Singapore, India. I wish I come to England.
In our city it is cold these days, but in England it is colder.
- Shariar
Great grammar and vocabulary, such as ‘burn calories’ and ‘household chores’. Good construction in past ‘when I went…’
Problems with passive in question 13.
1. Yes I am a couch potato, because I watch TV.
3. I like sea food and vegetables, I like salads. I don’t eat fast food and I avoid fast food.
2. Because they get healthy, because for healthy is very important. People can burn a lot of calories from exercising. I go swimming twice a week and I often running and walking around my home, and sometimes I go horse bike riding around Shiraz.
5. I usually get up at 6 o clock , and on weekdays I usually go work and on weekends I usually visit my parents and go swimming and park. I English class in the afternoon, from 4 until 8pm. After English class I go home and study English and sometimes I do household chores, like ironing and throw out garbage.
12. I visit museums and I like to do relaxing activities and sometimes I do interesting activities like I like to go rafting and snorkelling. When I went to Turkey 4 years ago I went rafting, in Antalya!
13. Might I got bump from flight, and it might accident my car and cancelled or delayed my flight.
9. Amin
Fantastic!!! Amin used excellent phrases and vocabulary, and his grammar was also ‘spot on’. In the last question you should use ‘vacation’ in the plural.
I am going to give you some info on my family. I have two brothers , I don’t have any sisters, I wish I did, but in fact I just have brothers. If you want to know about my academic background, my field is Urban planning.To tell you the truth I am preparing myself for IELTS exam because I have the intention of going abroad and continuing my education there.You know, one year ago I wanted to go to Canada, but due to situation of our currency I couldn’t go.
1. It depends on my circumstances, when I am free I like to sit in front of the tv and watch movies , but nowadays I don’t have time.
3.You know I don’t follow any kind of particular …sorry I didn’t understand you. You know I really think about healthy habits and healthy diet but it is so difficult for me to follow a kind of habit. But I want to have a healthy diet, I eat veg and fresh fruit as much as possible, and I avoid eating dinner, because it is detrimental to my health. (?) if you exercise it doesn’t matter if you eat dinner.
Because I don’t exercise I’d better avoid eating dinner.
4.I am an early bird, because I am organised. I get up about 8 o clock in the morning and have a cup of tea and start studying English, and after two hours I eat breakfast,
5.Afternoon, you know when you want to be professional in English you have to enlarge the size of your vocabulary, so I spend most of my time learning and memorising ..
11.You know, the significance of vacation cant be overstated, but I want to tell you I don’t have anything in common with my brothers, so I don’t like family orientated vacation, so I prefer vacation with my friends and buddys.
Excellent!!!!
10. Marzie
Great intro, but perhaps a bit too long! Marzie was able to use the present tense, and vocabulary was adequate. However, in question 2, she should have spoken in first person with ‘I…’ There were grammar issues, with question 11-should have been ‘I like going…’, and also question 12 she should have said ‘I don’t understand’. Struggled with question 13, grammatically.
My brother is lawyer and my sister is housewife… my favourite hobby are listening music, and reading book, …!
1. No, I haven’t because I don’t have time
2. Avoid sweets and avoid fatty foods and avoid junk food, and I drink milk and I eat fruit and veg every day and a lot of water every day. I exercise. (oh what kind do you do? No I don’t because I don’t have any time)
Play music, and read and watch tv. Ok so what do you do after you wake up? I go to English class.
11.I like go to north of iran because it has beach and jungles, its very nice, very beautiful.
12. no understand. Yes, I play music and walk in the city and visit new history museum and visit a mall in the city.
13. delaying, and cancelling, cancelled (pronounced cancel-ed)
14. i needed to repeat, do you stay in a hotel? Yes of course.What kind of hotel?i like 5 star hotel, fine.
11.Ali
Ali responded to questions with adequate vocabulary, but his answers lacked preparation. There were some issues, such as ‘believe about’-should be ‘believe in’, and ‘health’ and ‘healthy’ were mixed up in question 4. Also question 8 needs infinitive-‘to go to work’.
Instead of saying ‘about TV, and about facebook’, you could say ‘in terms of TV and facebook I am/ with regards to TV and Facebook I am.’
1. You know I don’t know the meaning. Ok, yes I am. Not completely, but yes about TV I am, and about facebook I am couch potato.
4. if I want to be honest I don’t believe about this thing, about healthy food, because I believe about enjoy the life, but I know about vegetables and some food you don’t eat to be health. Something without sugar and we don’t eat, we should don’t eat something like snacks for example and something like this that is a lot of oil, a lot of sugar. About cokes, I prefer the diet coke.
2. Because they want to be healthy and I think our bodies need exercise to be health, and we should exercise. I know somebody who does exercise for fun, and they enjoy it, but the main thing is exercise is for healthy.
8. I haven’t any job, because I am a student so I am free for wearing something to go to school but I know for job I should be formal to going to job. If I go to job I prefer suit and shirt, formal shirt. I love t-shirts and jeans and sneakers for wearing, but it depend on weather. For example now is a little cold here, so I can’t wear t-shirt. But I still wear my sneakers and jeans.
12. Mahmud Reza
Mahmud was able to use present tense for first person in the affirmative, but he had problems with the negative, for example, ‘didn’t eat junk food’, instead of ‘ don’t eat…’ Also error with second person negative, ‘When you not healthy you didn’t do…’ Should be ‘When you are not healthy you can’t do…’ Question 10 demonstrated a problem with the comparative. However, it was good that Mahmud attempted to use ‘when clause’ and comparative construction.
1. No actually I’m not, because I’m very busy, actually I go to work at 8 am and come back at 10pm.
4. I avoid sweets and didn’t eat junk food and I eat fruit. When you not healthy you didn’t do anything you want to do. If you are fat you have problems.
2. Because help to thinking well and it is important for all the people in the world.
11. I like to go vacation to abroad. Last year I was in Malaysia and go on beach and relaxing.
10. For woman there is hijab and men is freedom than to woman.
13. Niloofar
Ability to answer questions in present tense, conjugating the verb correctly. Good use of conditional. Problem with question 13, with the passive and mark were lost, as there was no past tense when describing holiday.
1. Because I always sit in front of Tv and I like soap opera.
2. I go to gym three time a week. People exercise because it’s necessary and I exercise I be in shape.
10. The women have to wear a scarf and can’t wear skirt. And men can’t wear tie in the street.
I like to go something, do something new and different and unusual , I’d like to go to Las Vegas.
Have you been to a different country? Yes I go to turkey and dubai. Yes turkey, it’s a lot of fun, I go rafting, and just this.
13.maybe the flight was cancelled and maybe have an accident and maybe the ticket be overbooking.
What do you normally wear when you go to college?
I start at 4pm. I wear a scarf and sneakers, in the college I wear a sneaker and jean, but at home I wear anything.
14. Soroor.
Soroor was able to use the present tense and had an adequate vocabulary in order to answer questions. Grammatical errors; question 3 needed to be in first person, and question 11 should have been in simple present tense. Student answered the wrong question, for question 12.
1. Yes I am because I always watch tv and take a nap and listen to music.
3. Avoid fatty food, junk food and eat a lot of fruit and vegetable and drink a lot of water. (what about exercise?) exercise, because the people went to in shape, and happy and healthy body, body healthy.
6. i like to drive and sometimes study and teach maths and because I am a teacher.
11. I like to north of iran because there is beach and the weather is good
12. maybe travel flight is cancel or bumpy. (she answered wrong question)
(what kind of activities? What do you do? I like to drive, and I like to listen to music when I drive. (I had to repeat twice.) i always shopping and see walk on the beach and visit my family.
15. Maryam
Maryam had a good vocabulary to talk about hobbies, and she spoke about her daily routine well. Problems were with vocab, eg ‘healthful’ instead of ‘healthy’, and ‘German country’, instead of ‘Germany’. Also, she tried hard to use the correct relative pronoun in question 11, but she should have said ‘where the weather is good.’
1.No I do exercise I crazy about sport, I go bike riding, running with my friends. i go to the gym, I lift weights, i play tennis. Always I go walking and running.
2. i want to healthful. I dont like the fat woman.
5. I always get up early at 8 o’clock and take a shower and eat breakfast, then I go to the gym, then I do the homework and eat lunch.
6.after the eat lunch I take a nap and then do my homework then in the evening at 6 o clock I go with my friends to the park, the cinema, in the afternoon I always take a nap. In shiraz all the people take a nap!
11.i like to go another country, that the weather is good and go shopping, go dancing. I like to go German country, because my friends and my cousins live there.
16. Mojgan
Mojgan spoke about hobbies and daily routine well. He used a good variety of adverbs. He got confused with ‘have to/don’t have to/allowed to’, so I advise him to revise this. Also, there were problems with the passive in question 13.
1. To tell you the truth no I’m not, actually I hate watching TVs and movies, I never watch tv and I prefer listening to music. I think TV is too boring. You know I usually prefer to do physical activities like going to the gym.
2. if they don’t do exercise some illnesses occur to them and they become fat.
3.i go to the gym five times a week and I drink a lot of water during the day and I avoid sweets and I avoid fatty foods and I try to eat in moderation.
5.i’m an evening person and I usually get up at 10 and do some exercises, then take a bath or shower, then eat a small breakfast, then I study for my English class.
10. well I live in a conservative country so people especially women have to dress /put on some uniforms and they don’t have to put on something like shorts and they don’t allowed to put on heavy make up. And men shouldn’t wear shorts in street,
13. there might be some problems like cancelling the flight, overbooking the flight or maybe some mechanical problems may occur. Or maybe someone stole my thing or my baggage.
17. Abdulah
Abdulah had a good vocabulary; he did especially well , giving a variety of examples in question 13, and gave a good example in the passive, ‘your reservation is cancelled’. He used the past tense well in question 13 too. A couple of grammatical issues; question 3 should have been in first person, and question 2 had a couple grammar problems.
3. eating moderation, don’t eat fatty food and do the exercise and eat vegetables and drink milk or yogurt or generally dairy product.
2. because they want to stay in shape and they want become health and because I think exercise keep people safe of illness and when you are exercise you are happy.
11. I like to go to north of iran on my vacation because I love the beach and jungle and we can go swimming and there is beautiful view for you if you want to have a good time. if there are two or three days. You can see some kind of animal in zoo.
13. maybe weather is bad or maybe they cancel your flight and maybe you cant reserve the hotel or your reservation is cancelled, maybe people are unfriendly and sometimes you don’t have enough money for something you want to buy. 2 years ago when I went to north iran with my friends the weather was too hot.
18. Adnan
Adnan conjugated verbs well, and his vocab was impressive, in question 4.
In question 1 Adnan needed to say ‘to be’ and ‘to learn’, instead of ‘for’. Error in question 7 with ‘I playing’. Also, question 7, ‘every time’ is an error- you could say ‘I can’t exercise all the time, or I can’t exercise a lot.’
1. I don’t have any time for be a couch potato and I’m at work until 2 o clock then I must come to college for learning English and then I’m really tired.
4.you can start your day, eat a good breakfast, you can eat products with low fat and you can cut down your portion size and if you like to eat meat you can cut visible fat and for snacks you can eat raw vegetables.
7.i exercise just in the weekend because of my job I can’t exercise every time. I playing football and I go walking the morning and just this.
8.i have to wear ugly form, (uniform? )yes, it’s a yellow shirt with the same pants and its loose and with a hat and I hate, I hate it!
19. Ebrahim.
Ebrahim was able to use the correct vocabulary to answer the questions at this level. He did not use the past tense where it was needed, in questions 13 and 16. Also, there was a grammatical mistake in question 3-he should have said, ‘if a natural disaster happens…’ and in question 1 he should have said, ‘we don’t know what time it will happen’.
1.it’s about earthquakes, we have earthquakes, flood, hurricane, and drought.
Its I think earthquake is the most deadliest because we don’t know what time its happen, and earthquake depends on quality of construction and its deadliest at midnight
2. we need non- perishable food, first aid kit, and shelter, evacuation,
3. if happen natural disaster we need shelter, and because they are homeless and we need food for them
12. of course technology changed the world a lot because everything around is technology for example car, aeroplane, trains and for communication and transportation.it make us to have an easier life and its good for us.
13.i think its wheels, because it’s important for transportation. In past we don’t have anything to transport heavy things, for example, for making buildings, in the past we cant do this but now we can carry heavy thing
16.so difficult, because people can’t from one city to another city because they had to walk and something like that and if they had a car it’s so easier it’s so convenient.
20. mohammad hadi
Mohammad Hadi was not able to answer questions well due to lack of preparation. Grammar was generally poor, but the correct use of the conditional in question 13 gained marks.
1. (Too much hesitation. He wasn’t able to answer question.)
2. You should watch TV and take some date sheet for prepare for disaster. For example when disaster when happens, you can control for them. We have lots of series that they can teach you to control of the disaster. You should care of the children and depend on the disaster. For example, an earthquake, you can go to the health area of the building, a corner of the room and you can go under the table, and…
12. All of the machines work by electronic and for example, and now we have lots of gadgets such as laptop, mobile phone and another they can help us to improve my life.
13. I guess cell phone is the best, because everybody couldn’t leave their house without cell phone, cell phone is good for the people to search of the children and everyone can use the internet right now and cell phone is good.
21. Porran
Good use of phrase in introduction, although it should be ‘chalk and cheese’.
There were mistakes with ‘fewer time’ and ‘many time’-it should be singular, ‘less time’ and ‘a lot of time’. Another issue was the lack of the past tense in number 16. Take care to use plural where necessary, eg in question 1, ‘construction’, ‘victim’, and ‘problem’.
Overall grammar and vocab was average, and the content was comprehensible.
My sister and I are as different as cheese and chalk…
1. Hurricane, one of them, and to be honest I finished the level 8 at summer. And earthquake and tsunami, flood. In my opinion I think earthquake is the worst, because I afraid of earthquake, it destroy many construction and we have many victim. We have problem to reach food.
2. We should prepare some cans and some food, that date of expired is longer than other and we need flashlight, camp and we need blanket.
13. The most important invention is , I think, wheels, because all of our, today’s transportation it’s about wheels, and we spend fewer time than past to transport and to travel from somewhere to another side of world.it waste fewer time than when I imagine wheel didn’t have been invented. I think we waste many time without wheel. It’s very hard to arrive somewhere and we can’t see the world easily.
16. People travel with camels, with horse, and it’s the fastest way to travel, the most important point is about travel, we can’t travel without them.
22. Ahmad
Ahmad had a good vocabulary, and his knowledge of different world disasters was impressive. However, the question required more of an explanation of different types of natural disaster, such as drought, earthquake etc…and which was the deadliest, rather than a description of specific world disasters.
Grammatical issue with ‘happened’- this is a verb so it should come second place in the phrase, eg, ‘an earthquake happened’. ‘Occur’ is a better word to use in this circumstance actually, eg, ‘an earthquake occurred in Japan…’
A couple of vocab issues, such as ‘newses’-it is always singular (news), and ‘many information’-it should be ‘a lot of information’, as it is also singular.
1.in the past happened bad disaster in the Ukraine and destroyed refinery and many people were bad casualites and makes politics to get new information. Some natural disasters, 3 months ago, happened earthquake and I think bad disaster around the world was earthquake in japan and national second war.(what else?) tsunami in the Philippines
12.technology you get many information about people in your cell phone on google or yahoo or facebook, many information about important poliiticans around the world. Tech causes great communication , for example, I am in iran and you in Us.
13.i think computer, because contribute and get many information about you and you get many things downloaded such as music and many newses in the past and future and it makes to understand my country future.
16.people in the past didn’t travel with aeroplane and didn’t travel with fast speed but today travel to another country in just a moment.