My name is 주명, 주명남, and my English name is Jude.

Okay, so as you know, the IELTS test has, the speaking test has three different sections.

So the first section is just some like questions about yourself.

The second part, you will get a prompt, and you will get one minute to prepare your response.

You can speak for up to two minutes, okay?

If you go over two minutes, I will have to stop you.

Okay.

Okay, and then part three is kind of just some general questions, okay?

Okay.

Okay, so let's get started.

When was the last time you had a few days off?

Oh, I'm already taking many days off as I graduated my grad school a few weeks ago.

And the last time actually I took a day off while I was working is, was, I think it was about two years ago.

And it was before I quit the job, and I had to use all, use up all my vacations.

Ah, okay.

So what do you usually do when you have days off?

Oh, I try to make an appointment with many social groups as much as possible.

And I just generally enjoy going to, going to events, conferences, like parties or any, any events that involve social activities.

And would you usually spend your days off with your parents or with your friends?

I would prefer to spend my time with my friends more than my parents because I'm already living with my parents.

And I think spending time with my friends is more valuable as it's, is less accessible to me.

Okay.

And what would you like to do if you had a day off tomorrow, which you said you're taking some days off, so...

Oh, I'm basically asking me what I would do tomorrow is,

I have actually a conference tomorrow.

I'm attending a networking event for, related to my major that I graduated in a few weeks ago.

Oh, what was your major?

It's called FinTech, financial technology.

It is basically finance with, with the elements of IT technologies.

Okay, very good.

So you are going to a financial technology conference tomorrow.

Yes.

Okay, so now we are on to part two.

So you will need to prepare something about an important decision that you made.

You will have one minute to prepare your response starting now.

Okay, your one minute of prep time is up.

You will have two minutes to describe an important decision that you made.

So, before I was, I am here right now, I was in a school in the United States.

I was, I actually got accepted to a university in California.

And the reason I was there is because I, I had to, well, obviously I had to apply for, for universities.

And I could have gone to Korean universities, but I chose U.S.

university over Korean university because, because at that time I wasn't sure if I wanted to go, wanted to take a, you know, a step out of Korea.

And then suddenly it came to my mind that I, I really want to experience something new other than what I've already experienced.

And it actually changed my personality because back then I was more of a, more reserved and

I wasn't ready to experience the world.

I mean, I, I just hate it.

The fact that I just, when I see someone that I'm not used to, it just made me feel uncomfortable.

And I'm just, I was more of an indoor person and just thought, oh, maybe I should, you know, challenge myself and try to take a leap of faith.

And it was, it's, it was, it was not a good, I mean, not, not an easy decision.

It was many pros and cons.

And I, I like to think this decision to go abroad was probably the best decision in my life.

Okay.

Very good.

Thank you very much.

You spoke for almost a full two minutes.

So good job there.

One minute and 40 seconds.

Very, very good.

Okay.

So we're going to continue with some questions about decision-making now.

So do you think that children sometimes need to make important decisions?

Yes.

And also, no, it, it, I think it depends on the, the, how serious the issue is.

I think children definitely need to make, definitely have to develop a skill for decision making.

And I think it can be very important in the future for them.

And then, but it also has a, it follows, also follows some risk element.

That is that if the decision that they're making is about to be like risky in a way that they can, they, it can affect their future and their, their life in general.

And that, then, then I think they should get some help with their decision-making.

But then in the future, they will also have to be, have to be responsible for themselves.

And that, in order to get, be responsible and have some kind of skill in decision-making, they should definitely try out in some part of their life.

Okay.

And what important decisions do teenagers need to make after graduation?

Oh, after graduating high school?

Yes.

High school.

Then they will first, well, in Korea, the, well, there's not much of a choice because they're going to university anyway.

But I also think some, there should be some option that there are other, something else than going to university.

Or they can start working right away, or they can try traveling abroad and see the new things that they've never seen before.

Okay.

And who can children turn to for help when making a decision?

Well, their parents or their guardians, or possibly their, their teachers, maybe high school teachers or mentors in general, who have better experience, more, far more experience than they are.

Okay.

And do you think advertisements can influence our decisions when shopping?

Oh, definitely.

It affects, advertising involves some part of sales and marketing, which is designed to affect the buyer's mentality and which will make them want to do this or not want to do this.

And especially for children, it will affect bigger than the adults.

And do you think the influence of advertising is good?

I think it's harmless.

Some people think, some people don't like the fact that they are being, they feel like they're being like hypnotized or brainwashed, but I don't think it is that serious of an issue.

And in general, advertisements can be a good source of information.

And it is basically giving the, them opportunity to advertise themselves,

I mean, more promote themselves.

And I think it's a good thing that the, the corporates or any organizations can have opportunity to advertise that what they are selling or their, the products.

Okay, very good.

And now our final question.

How do people usually make an important decision?

Oh, in general and other people.

I think it's, there are two ways people can make decisions.

Is that when the first one is using, well, thinking with intuition.

And, you know, it's more like more of a gut feeling that they feel like, oh, this is a, this is what it must be done.

Or this is what I should be doing.

Or they can probably also use their experience, past experiences.

And they could probably think like, oh, I've done this before and it worked.

And, or it doesn't work.

Therefore, I should or should not be doing this.

I think that's mainly two ways of making decisions for just in general.

Okay, so thank you very much.

The test is over now.

And now we are going to get into the feedback.

And so there's four different sections that the IELTS test is judged on.

It's like fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.

And you really did extremely well in all of those.

Your fluency was great.

Your pronunciation was excellent.

Thank you.

And there was like a small few like grammatical things before I am here.

So before I came back here, it would be a little bit more like natural sounding.

The corporates instead of the corporations.

So just using the incorrect part of speech.

But there were very, very few errors.

So you did a really good job.

And you used a lot of idiomatic expressions correctly.

So for example, in your last answer, you used got feeling perfectly.

So you did really, really well.

The first section, the answers were a little bit short, but they were maybe not like the perfect questions to get right now.

Yeah, because you said, like, you're taking a lot of days off right now.

So maybe it was a bit like difficult to think about like, oh, you know.

So yeah, that was like a little bit short, but that's okay.

Your extended response was very good.

And your part three answers were very well developed and very well structured.

So I would give you a band nine score in the IELTS test.

Oh, thank you.

You're very welcome.

So thank you for coming today.

And very well done.

Thank you very much.