5 Tips for Maximizing Your English Speaking Test Score

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hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia
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the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them
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maybe first question comes from meu ki I'm Yuki Yuki says I want to know about
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test taking tips okay I will give you five tips tip number one is to know your
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test on your test do you need to write do you need to read listen speak what do
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you need to do first make sure you know the test and know the requirements of
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the test number two check and see if the sections are timed check to see how much
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time you have for each section of your test number three is to ask yourself
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have you taken the test before what was good for you what was not good for you
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so what do you need to improve review your past tests to see what you need to
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work on for the next test number four if you can if it's available take a
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practice test practice tests can help you find your weak points and your
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strong points and help you if you have timed sections in your test as well
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number five if your test includes speaking you need to practice speaking
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if you don't practice you won't be able to do it at the time that you need it so
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if you don't have a language partner you can look for one online or you can
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practice with media like repeating shadowing media so those are five quick
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test tips I know they're very general but I hope that they can apply to lots
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of different tests so I hope that this helps you thanks for the question ok
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let's go on to your next question next question comes from nerd on Emma net hi
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again nerd on nerd on says hi Alicia what's the difference between blame
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accuse and charge alright blame accuse in charge these are three verbs that
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have very similar meanings let's begin with blame to blame means to assign
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someone responsibility for something this has a negative nuance to it some
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examples my parents blamed me for the broken vase
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the police blamed the accident on a broken traffic light to accuse someone
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means to suggest that someone did something bad so it's a little bit
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different from blame blame is like assigning responsibility to someone for
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like a negative effect to accuse someone of something is like someone did
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something wrong maybe on purpose and you want to suggest that it was that person
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some examples the landlord accused him of not paying
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rent she accused the company of fraud let's move along then to the last one -
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charge - charge is a legal term this is a legal word which means you formally
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accuse someone of wrongdoing so we do not use charge in everyday conversation
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when we're saying like you did this bad thing or I think it was you charge is
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used in courts to charge someone with a crime means to officially and legally
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accuse them of a crime examples the suspect has been charged with murder
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she's been charged with breaking and entering so that's a quick introduction
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to the differences between these three verbs I hope that that helped you thanks
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for an interesting question okay let's move on to your next question next
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question comes from Isaac Alexander Hagen Isaac Isaac says hi Alicia what's
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the difference between soccer and football yeah soccer is just the word
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that people from the u.s. used to talk about what the rest of the world calls
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football so to my knowledge most if not all other countries use the word
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football to talk about the game with the black and white ball the players kick
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around a field we do have a football of our own we have what many people call
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American football which is a totally different game which involves passing
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and a little bit of kicking if you're speaking with an American English
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speaker soccer refers to the black and white ball sport football refers to that
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kind of egg-shaped brown leather ball sport if you're talking to maybe a
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British English speaker football probably means what American English
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speakers call soccer I hope that that helps you thanks for the question all
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right let's move on to your next question next question comes from Ahmed
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McGee hi Ahmed Ahmed says hi Lee show what does whiplash mean
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with flash this is an injury whiplash is an injury that happens when the body is
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like jerked in a strong way like in a car accident or maybe another like
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transportation related accident whiplash is an injury around like the head and
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neck and shoulders where the body and the head moves like separately if this
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is the body and this is the head they move separately like in a very quick
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like jumping like whip like motion if you know a whip it's like this Indiana
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Jones has one it's like so - like whiplash is the name of the injury we
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get from our bodies being moved in this way so I hope that that helps you thanks
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very much for the question okay let's move on to your next question next
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question comes from Karima heigen Karima karema says hi Alicia I want to ask you
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what does the preposition up mean or refer to in the following sentence what
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exactly are you up to I'll write this up doesn't have any
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meaning so what are you up to or what's up this is just a set phrase up doesn't
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have any like directional meaning there's no movement or positioning just
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consider this a set phrase like what's up means how are you or what are you
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doing same thing with what exactly are you up to it means what exactly are you
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doing up doesn't really have a function here it's just a set phrase so don't
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worry too much about what exactly up means here it's sort of just it's just
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an expression that we use so that's everything that I have for this week
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thank you as always for sending your questions remember you can send them to
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me at English class 101.com slash ask - Alicia of course if you liked the video
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not already and check us out at English class 101.com for some other things that
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can help you with your English Studies thanks very much for watching this
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episode of ask Alicia and I will see you again next week bye
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