7.0-7.5 Speaker 2

Task 1

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E: Examiner

S: Student

E: I'd like to ask you some questions about yourself. First of all, let's talk about what you do. Do you work? Or are you a student? 

S: I'm currently a student … I'm currently a Uni student. So I'm studying in the Education University of Hong Kong. I'm doing a double degree in English Education and English Language Studies. And I'm currently in the third year of a five years program. 

 

E: What will you do with your degree after you've finished? 

S: Well, likely be a teacher. Luckily, because I'm doing a double degree, s quite different from how ed, education degree actually works in Hong Kong, which only limited you to only teaching primary or secondary. My double degree allows me to teach in both levels. So, I'll be teacher but likely I'll prefer secondary, because I feel like for teenager, you're more likely to treat them as like a peer, instead of really treating them as students, which I'll feel more comfortable with. 

 

E: Let's talk about free time activities. What do you like to do in your free time? 

S: In my free time, I practice CrossFit. So I, I, I go to the gym, I go to CrossFit box in Hong Kong and Kowloon Bay a couple of times a week. Actually, I did that last night. So CrossFit consists of a lot of weightlifting, gymnastic, and a lot of cardio. And I feel like it's a good way for me to de-stress myself from all of the heavy workload I have from school and I do enjoy having a great sweat as well. 

 

E: Do you prefer to spend most of your free time indoors or outdoors? 

S: Um, I'm an introvert. So indoors. I like the typical Netflix and staying home, laying in bed. And the CrossFit exercises actually in an indoor environment, so it's indoor as well. So yeah. 

 

E: What did you like to do in your free time when you were a child? 

S: Back in the days I would say I'm a bookworm. So I always travel with a book even though I'm going out on family days, on weekends with my parent, my mum always have a book with me. So whenever she's driving, or whenever waiting, I'll literally spend every single possible seconds glued to a book, reading. 

 

E: What do you plan to do in your free time this weekend?  

S: This weekend … tomorrow is the 31st of October. So it's Halloween. I can't do trick or treating. But I'll probably have a Halloween party with some friends. We'll play some games. And we'll probably have some light drinking and a good night out talking and chit chatting. Just relaxing ourselves. 

 

E: Let's talk about travel. Do you like to travel? 

S: Yes, I actually just came back from an exchange semester from Germany. So I spent six months from March till August in a small city named Karlsruhe. That's an hour away from Frankfurt. I stayed for six months, I did … so I took a course … I took some courses from a local university and I get to travel a bit as well. Because you know Europe … the, the traveling it's easier despite the Corona. So I was able to visit Zurich in Switzerland and Strasbourg in France as well. 

 

E: Where do tourists who come to your country like to go? 

S: I woultake Hong Kong is known for two things - food and shopping. So from … whenever our friends or any visitor that's coming, I'll recommend them to try it out a lot of locals food except  especially those, Hong Kong involve all away from high end, Michelin stars restaurants to typical local every day, street food, from hawk … hawkers and, and vendors and etc. So I feel like … I would recommend to just try everything out in every single possible district in Hong Kong because you have a taste of everything. 

od question. I would like to travel the Europe, yes, because I haven't been there. Yes. And I want to communicate with the Europe people and, and maybe ... I, I like to go to the German and, and participant the Beer facilitate … Beer Festival. Yes. 

General Descriptions:

FLUENCY AND COHERENCE

General Description 

 

Repetition: 7 times 

 

Self-correction: 2 times 

 

Discourse markers (4 times) 

Well: 1 time 

Actually: 2 times 

Yes: 1 time 

 

Like: 2 times (Fillers) 

You know: 1 time (Fillers) 

Yeah: 1 time (Fillers)  

 

Connectives (26 times) 

So: 15 times 

And: 5 times 

Because: 4 times 

But: 2 times 

 

Average length of response:  

Total duration: 208.1s ÷ 8 responses = 26.01s 

 

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LEXICAL RESOURCE

General Description 

 

Less common words: 6 less common words are coded (weightlifting, cardio, introvert, bookworm, literally, hawkers). 

 

Paraphrase: 5 paraphrases are coded. 

Indoors → Introvert → staying home 

When you were a child → back in the days 

Bookworm → travel with a book 

Have a Halloween party → playing games → have some light drinking and a good night out talking and chit chatting → relaxing ourselves 

Travel → visit 

 

Idiomatic expressions: 1 idiomatic expression is identified (glued to a book). 

 

Collocations: 3 collocations are coded (heavy workload, light drinking, high end). 

 

Appropriacy of the words used: 5 inappropriate uses of words are found. 

Inappropriate word form: 3 times  
(gymnastic → gymnastics;  
locals food → local food;  
Michelin stars restaurants → Michelin star restaurants) 

Inappropriate collocation: 2 times  
(laying in bed → lying in bed;  
I would take Hong Kong → I would say Hong Kong) 

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GRAMMAR

General Description 

 

Error (18 times) 

Inappropriate tense: 6 times 
(I would say I'm a bookworm → I would say I was a bookworm;  
So I always travel with a book even though I'm going out on family days → So I always travelled with a book even though I was going out on family days;  
my mom always have a book with me → my mom always had a book with me;  
I'll literally spend every single possible seconds glued to a book → I’d literally spend every single possible seconds glued to a book;  
get to travel a bit as well → I got to travel a bit as well) 

 

Inappropriate verb form: 4 times  
(which only limited you → which only limits you;  
you’re more likely to treat → you’re more likely treating;  
I'll recommend them to try out → I’ll recommend them trying / I’ll recommend they try;  
I would recommend to just try → I would recommend just trying) 

 

Singular/plural form of noun: 4 times  
(a five years program → a five-year program;  
for teenager → for teenagers;  
to treat them like a peer → to treat them like peers 
every single possible seconds → every single possible second) 

 

Subject-verb agreement: 2 time  
(our friends or any visitor that's coming → our friends or any visitor are;  
Hong Kong involve → Hong Kong involves) 

 

Missing article: 1 time (I’ll be ^ teacher → I’ll be a teacher) 

 

Inappropriate article: 1 time (Back in the days → Back in those days) 

 

Complex verb group (6 times) 

Present continuous: 4 times 

Passive: 1 time 

Emphatic ‘do’: 1 time 

 

Subordinate clause (17 times) 

Adverbial clause: 7 times 

Noun clause: 6 times 

Relative clause: 4 times 

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PRONUNCIATION

General Description 

 

Consonant error1 time (waiting) 

 

Vowel error1 time (waiting) 

 

Syllable stress errornot coded 

 

Sentence stress errornot coded 

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