Live, Work, or Study in Canada: IELTS or CELPIP?

So, do you want to come to Canada, like, live here, like, for real, forever?

Do you want to migrate to Canada?

Welcome.

Bienvenido.

No, that's Spanish.

Bien... something.

Welcome to Canada in French.

Yes, that's it.

Not a French teacher, English teacher.

So, a lot of people want to come to Canada, and it's a beautiful country.

We have so many unicorns and dragons here.

You're going to love it.

Waterfalls, it's fantastic.

But there's this huge, terrible thing called immigration.

And to say it's a process, that's not an

understatement, because it is a huge process.

It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of money, it takes a lot of paperwork.

But you also have to do a test.

Yeah.

They're going to test your English ability, and there are two tests that you can take

in English.

You can take one in French.

If you speak French, take that one.

Again, not a French teacher.

So, I'm going to tell you about the two tests

that you need, you have to take to get either

your PR, permanent residence.

To be cool, we just call it PR, we're like, "Hey, you got your PR?"

To get an express entry visa, coming here as a skilled worker.

And then also your citizenship.

If you want the passport, you get to become a citizen.

So, good luck.

If you need help with any of this, please hit me up on my website, I offer classes in

both CELPIP and IELTS, and I'm here to help you.

So, which one do you do?

Which test do you do?

Do you do CELPIP or do you do IELTS?

I'm here to tell you.

Okay, so the similarities between the two exams are they both have four sections.

They have a reading section, a writing section,

a speaking section, and a listening section.

There's always the debate, "Which one's more difficult?

Which one's easier?

Which one should I do?"

And once you kind of research a little bit after learning this video, after listening

to this video and watching it, I hope that you can make a more of an educated guess at

which one's better for you.

Everyone's different.

I can't say to you, "Hey, John, you should definitely do CELPIP, and hey, Larry, you

should definitely do IELTS because it depends on you and your abilities."

Also, with the IELTS test, there's actually two different tests that you can take.

And be careful, please.

If you take the IELTS general test, this is for immigrating and working in Canada.

If you take the academic test, it's a lot harder, and this is for going to university

exclusively.

Okay?

So, the only thing that differs in these tests,

the speaking part's the same, the listening

part's the same, but the writing part is different.

So, be careful and choose the correct test in the IELTS department, because if you're

set down to do the academic test and your

writing skills aren't university level, you're

going to fail, you're going to waste your money.

So both of these have them.

The CELPIP has one that's LS, it's listening

and speaking only, but for immigration, you

need to do the full four-part CELPIP test.

Again, the differences between the two, you're

going to do the test, you're going to get

your results, and depending on your grade and your score, it'll determine if you have

enough points to apply for one of these beautiful

things that you can get into Canada to immigrate.

All right.

My expertise-I'm an expert-my expertise in

this area is, of course, the speaking component

of the exam.

So, I'm going to run through the differences

of the speaking components with these two

tests.

And again, which one's easier?

This will help you decide.

The CELPIP one is all done in a computer.

There's no humans there.

So, if you like computers, if you're comfortable

speaking to a computer on a screen for your

speaking test, CELPIP's the way to go.

The IELTS one, on the other hand, it's done

by real humans, and I believe that you might

be able to do a computer-generated one, but as it stands now, it's done human to human.

I was an IELTS examiner at one point.

Poor people.

It is challenging, it's difficult, I'm not going to lie to you, but you have to look

at yourself.

Are you good at making eye contact?

Are you good with your body language?

Do you know how to talk to people in English?

If you are, I recommend the IELTS.

If you're kind of not very good with social skills, speaking to people face-to-face, I

would go for the more computer-based speaking

test because you don't have the other person

staring at you, making sure that you're winking

and looking at them, focusing on your body

language.

It's a lot of pressure that's released.

For me, I would choose a real human because I think it's more exciting, but everyone's

different, and you have to think about what is better for you.

Don't get scared about this, okay?

The CELPIP test has eight parts.

The speaking part has eight parts.

That doesn't mean it's, like, five hours, it

just means there's eight different questions

they're going to ask you, whereas the IELTS only has three parts.

You're just thinking, "Ronnie, totally doing

the IELTS one, three questions, CELPIP eight

questions, but hold on, it's not that easy."

You think, "Oh, three questions, go, uh-huh, uh-huh", no, mm-mm-mm.

So, in my opinion, what's easier from a speaking point of view is CELPIP.

Why?

Because the questions are very focused and there's specific grammar that you will use

for each question.

Here, and I will go through some examples of the eight parts.

The first one's always going to be giving advice and scenarios.

They're all very scenario, real-life based,

whereas IELTS is more general, we'll get into

that one.

So, giving advice.

"Oh, so your friend wants to lose weight.

What should she do?"

Okay?

You're going to give your answer.

And this is good because it gives you your own ideas.

Remember, in this test, there's no such thing as a wrong idea.

There's such thing as wrong vocabulary and wrong grammar, but whatever crazy idea you

think of, as long as you set it coherently

with some great grammar forms, you're rocking

this.

If you say, "Well, I think my friend should

go and ride unicorns in the prairies", they're

like, "Yeah, perfect.

Good English."

Personal experience.

In this, of course, you're going to have to use the past tense, and this is a hard one

because, in my opinion, using the past tense

is one of the most difficult grammar challenges

we have out there.

So, you've got your personal experience, you're telling a story from your past.

This is fun.

I like...

I kind of like it.

It's fun.

There's a picture.

You get to describe it.

Yes.

Like, oh, okay, there's this, and this, and this, and cool.

And then, connected to this, you're going to make predictions.

So, this is one thing that a lot of people don't really focus on.

The picture you see in number three, you have

to describe it, and then the next task is

to make predictions, but it's about the picture,

so you have to be careful and focus that what

you talk about in the picture, you can then talk about in the predictions part.

So, let's say you see a scene of people at a café, and you talk about the teacups, and

they're having a nice croissant and a café latte, and then the predictions, you say,

and the monkey's going to jump from the toilet, and you're like, what?

There was never...

You never told me about a monkey.

So, you have to make sure when you're describing

the picture that you're following up with

predictions, using the future, that makes sense.

Mm-hmm.

Compare.

So, you're given a few scenarios, and you

have to say, oh, okay, this one's better than

this one, because...

Or I like this one more, because...

So you're comparing something, and then connected to

this, too-it's a little bit of persuading-example.

So, you are a multi-millionaire, and you want

to buy a house, and you're like, oh, okay,

so I've got a townhouse in Etobicoke, I've got a villa in Vancouver, and I've got an

ocean house in the East Coast.

And you go, yeah, do you know what, definitely

this one's cheaper, this one's by the ocean,

I like this, but then in the next question,

someone's going to go, do you know what, no,

mm-mm, mm-mm.

I want this house.

But you have to persuade them, or make them choose what you've chosen.

So this can be challenging.

You have to...

Like, you're selling it.

Like, no, you should definitely buy the house that I told you, because it's better.

Get it riled up, you'll pass that test.

So make sure that you understand that question

three and four, and question five and six

are related.

Always be ready to be thinking ahead.

Number seven, you're describing a situation.

It's kind of unusual, maybe.

You're asked to give your opinion about it, and

number eight, describing an unusual situation.

Again, number eight has a picture, and you have to probably...

No, not probably.

You definitely have to describe the picture,

and then talk about the unusual situation.

So you want to get some vocabulary.

You're going to have to need some...

You're going to have to need...

You're going to have to get some adjectives,

and it's quite challenging, but like I said,

it's fun.

The IELTS, not so fun.

I mean, it's kind of boring, actually.

I think the test is kind of dropped, it's kind of like, "Meh, okay."

I said it has three parts.

The first part is very general, it can be questions about you.

Where you live, where you're from, what you do, what are your interests, what are your

hobbies, tell me about your job.

And what they're doing in the IELTS test is...

If you're a beginner in English, it's easy to talk about yourself.

Okay?

"My name is Ronnie, I'm from Canada, I like to jump over frogs."

But as the test progresses, the questions become harder.

So they're going from very general questions

about you and your environment to more specific

questions.

So they say, "Oh, well, you said you worked at this job.

Tell me about the job."

And you're like, "Oh my god, okay."

So you go into detail, you talk about your job, what you do, and that's great.

And then the third one are going to be follow-up

questions from what you've already talked

about.

So if you kind of mess things up in the first

part of the test, it's a little difficult

to recover during the follow-up questions, and you have to understand that these first

two questions in the IELTS speaking test are scripted.

So that means the instructor can only ask

you the questions on the paper, but with the

follow-up questions, they can ask you anything.

And this is where they really test your ability,

and this is where your marks on the IELTS

scale can go up or down drastically.

You could be really good about talking about

you, talking about your job, and then they

might throw something in, like, "Oh, well, what about the homeless people around your

house?"

"What's my opinion on poverty?

Uh-oh, that has nothing to do with my job."

So be careful with the third question.

It's the one that can bring you up or down on IELTS scale.

If these sound like really fun tests for you,

that's great, because you're going to need

them if you want to immigrate to Canada, if you want to become a citizen.

And I'm here to help you with both of these tests, the speaking component.

Hit me up at my website, englishwithronnie.com,

and I have both CELPIP and IELTS tests, test

preps to help you.

My stomach's just growled, so I'm going to go get a little snack, and I'll see you at

the airport welcoming you to Canada.

Bye.