Interview Feedback Level 6 Group 1
Farzane Hajhashemi
Farzane’s listening skills are excellent and she was able to provide interesting and thoughtful answers to my questions using a wide range of vocabulary and some good basic structures, including the past simple. She must spend some time working on her use of verbs + gerunds or infinitives and remember that ‘enjoy’ is not followed by ‘to’.
Raziye Khoda Parast
Raziye was able to describe her personality with some good vocabulary and tried to expand her answers on occasion but unfortunately struggled to understand some of my questions. She must remember to use ‘my opinion’, not ‘my idea’ when offering her views and has to stop saying ‘that’s it’ at the end of every answer in order to sound more natural.
Mohammad Sheykhnia
Mohammad used the past simple when required and self-corrected a mistake with countable and uncountable noun quantities. His answers were natural and well-expanded he managed to include an accurate future form, which is great to see at this level. He must be careful not to use ‘to’ with ‘enjoy to’ and must be aware that we ‘do’ martial arts, not ‘play’.
Elham Ghasemi
Elham provided a detailed introduction and was able to self-correct a couple of her mistakes with he/she. She was able to give some good reasons for why fast food is so popular these days but must spend some time working on the difference between ‘very’ and ‘really’ and focussing on her general sentence structure.
Shirin Zamani
Shirin provided naturally-developed answers using great vocabulary, including some really interesting verbs and nouns. She was able to provide a variety of adverbs and expressions of frequency but, going forward, Shirin needs to be cautious of her subject verb agreements. She must also be careful not to confuse her adjectives and nouns e.g., ‘self-critical’ and ‘a self-critic’.
Behyar Zaeri Dost
Behyar understood my questions without any difficulty and his range of vocabulary is good. His answers were personal but he should try to expand them slightly more in the future. He must also work on his expressions of frequency and his general sentence structure.
Pedram Azadi
Pedram’s variety of adverbs and expressions of frequency were good and he discussed his love of art in great depth, with some really interesting vocabulary. His use of prepositions and superlatives was generally accurate. Pedram must remember that ‘homework’ is already a plural noun so there is no need for an ‘s’ and the verb ‘enjoy’ is not followed by ‘to’.
Negin Motafaff
Negin spoke with confidence and was able to understand my questions without difficulty. Although her fluency is very good, Negin must spend some time working on her overall accuracy, including not forgetting to include the verb ‘to be’ when necessary and ensuring she has the correct subject verb agreements. She frequently added her ‘s’ to ‘it’ rather than her verb e.g., ‘It’s help me...’ and ‘it’s give me...’.
Mohammadreza Khorsand
Mohammadreza was able to provide some good examples of what he does in his free time and how he would describe his personality. He was also able to talk about why fast food has become so popular using accurate superlative adjectives but made a number of mistakes with his comparative adjectives. He must also try to get some extra listening practice as he struggled to understand quite a few of my questions and relied only on picking up on keywords rather than understanding the question as a whole.
Ali Salari
Ali’s answers were very natural and unrehearsed and he was able to understand my questions without any issues. He is very articulate and was able to get his answers across without difficulty however, he should really be trying to push himself to expand his answers in order to show examiners what he is really capable of. He must also remember to add the ‘s’ to the verb, not the subject e.g., ‘it’s come from..’.
Saber Ganjipour
Saber has a good range of vocabulary and clearly has a good grip of sentence structure in English. He used a variety of adverbs and expressions of frequency and used staging language verb well when talking about how he would cheer a friend up. He would benefit from spending some time looking at the rules for articles when speaking generally and must remember fast food is a plural noun.
Amirabbas Mosaeipouri
Amirabbas seemed quite nervous during the interview took his time and answered carefully. His use of comparative adjectives and prepositions was good but he must remember that ‘people’ is already in plural form so does not require an ‘s’. He must also be aware that ‘enjoy’ is not followed by ‘to’.
Maryam Paradan
Maryam was able to describe her personality well and she used a nice range of expressions of frequency. Her listening skills are generally good although she made a couple of little mistakes which may have been avoided with more attention to what was being asked. She needs to work on both her superlative and her comparative adjectives as she made a number of mistakes in both of these areas.
Sahar Liyaghat
Sahar has a great range of vocabulary and has a good understanding of sentence structure in English. She included some slightly more advanced structures including, ‘used to’ and a simple conditional. Sahar confused ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert’ and could consider working on trying to bring her pronunciation up the same standard as the rest of her language skills.
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Mohammad Nikbakhsh
Mohammad provided some good explanations as to why fast food has become so popular and included some accurate examples of superlative adjectives. He also used a variety of adverbs and expressions of frequency to talk about his free time activities but didn’t use the past simple when referring to the past and used ‘going to’ when talking about his hobbies so I would recommend he spend some time working on his basic tense usage.
Ali Soltani
Ali was able to provide some good examples as to why he thinks he is a mixture of an extrovert and an introvert and used superlative adjectives well throughout. He self-corrected an adjective error but he needs to spend some time working on his use of prepositions and when to use gerund or infinitive + to.
Amirhossein Andali
Amirhossein has a good range of vocabulary and has a good understanding of the use of prepositions and sentence structure in English. His answers were personal and natural, rather than rehearsed but they lacked a little fluency so I would suggest he try to get a bit more speaking practice in his free time. He must also remember to use plural noun forms when speaking generally.
Eshagh Akbari
Eshagh provided thoughtful and personal answers to my questions and used some good vocabulary to express his ideas. He included a future time expression with ‘hope’ which worked well but must be more careful with his subject verb agreements. He must also not to forget the ‘to’ after ‘listen’ and ‘prefer’.
Sedighe Khodaparast
Sedighe’s listening skills are fine and she tried hard to develop her answers. She gave some good reasons for why she thinks she is an extrovert but must be careful not to miss out the main verb in her sentences. She also included some past simple forms of verbs when talking in the present which she should focus on correcting in the future.
Faranak Khodadadi
Faranak used lots of interesting examples when describing her personality and self-corrected a pronunciation mistake. She spoke about the different things she likes to do in her free time but must remember to include the definite article ‘the’ when talking about places in the town e.g., ‘the park’. She also struggled with understanding exactly what my questions were asking and instead picked up on only the keywords which meant that some of her responses were not quite suitable. Listening practice should be her priority going forward.
Nilofar Khodadadi
Nilofar provided some good examples of why people like fast food so much and included some accurate superlative adjectives that worked well. She must be careful not to confuse nouns and adjectives like ‘health’ and ‘healthy’ and must work hard to expand her vocabulary to provide more variation on her reasons than the repeated ‘because I like it.’