Sample TOEFL® speaking: People enjoy living in a location that has a warm climate

[Yamilet]

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Some people enjoy living in a location that has a warm climate all year. Other people like to live in a place where the seasons change. Which type of climate do you prefer and why?

This is a sample speaking, please let me know what do you think of my response. Thank you.

TOEFL listening lectures: A lecture from a life sciences class (4)
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[Yamilet]

Sorry at the end of it i got interrupted by my son :) haha.
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Which place do you want to see in the world and why? Another sample of speaking questions
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[Kitosdad]

Good morning Yamilet. A strange name for a little boy HaHa. :) :)
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Keep it simple ... Keep it interesting.

[PapiK]

Your English is very fluent and you give some nice examples.
However, you don't really answer the question in the second speaking sample. You talk about your experience and how you want to visit Egypt. So far so good. Then you start talking about what's really like to get to know a culture, which you shouldn't be doing, and your conclusion doesn't fit with the topic. If you hadn't said all this about living with the natives and so on, your answer would've been perfect.
That's just my opinion. Don're rely on it too much, I'm still preparing for my TOEFL exam. :)
Good luck. :)

[Yamilet]

Thank you very much, i think you are right. I should have concentrated on the topic nothing else
Thanks a lot.
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[Yamilet]

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Kitos my son's name is Syrus it is the name of a king of persia
We call him bayan (Bayion) it is the name of a Bahai Book.
Both his names are iranians :)
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[Kitosdad]

Good morning dear Yamilet. Your son's name came through loud and clear. Hopefully he will develop into a very intelligent boy, even more so than his mother.

Stay healthy and take care.

Bill.
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[Mixmixi]

Hi Yami,
Are your Persian too, or you just like Persians?

Regards
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[Suspensi0n]

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I hope it's okay if I answer this speaking topic here. I don't know if I have to create another page for that..

As you can see I'm completely "lost" in this speaking part. I don't know what to say or how to organize my thoughts... Could you give me advice please ?

[Mixmixi]

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You are good Suspensi0n, Indeed more better than me. You just need confidence which I promise you will achieve during the rest of your time until your exam. :-)

Mixmixi
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[Suspensi0n]

Haha "confidence", I don't know this word (irony) !

[Mixmixi]

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Then you will learn it. By the way, I don't know the meaning of irony, could please tell me what it means?

Mixmixi
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[Suspensi0n]

Oh ok so if you don't know what irony means, you didn't get my message. Irony means that you say a sentence but you think the opposite. Example : you find a girl really ugly and you say "Oh she is sooo beautiful". It's like sarcasm.
So, when I said "I don't know the word confidence", it meant that I know the meaning but that I'm completely not confident. you see ?

[Mixmixi]

Good point, Thank you! I really didn't know that. By the way, you will never ever achieve 'self-confidence' even after your test or maybe after that. (A BIIIIIIIG IRONY) lol.

Good luck my friend.
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