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And what shall I call you? You can call me Justin. Okay, Justin. Can I see your identification, please? Yeah. Thank you. It's all fine. Now, moving on to the first part of the test. I'd like to ask you some questions about yourself. Sure. So tell me, Justin, where are you from? Uh, yeah, so I'm from a very small, famous town called Dunkirk. It's in France, and it's on the English Channel. That's interesting. Now, do you work or are you a student? Yeah, I study here. I'm a student for the Bachelor's of Science in Computers.

Ah, very good. Now, let's talk about how you keep in contact with others. True. How do you usually get in touch with your friends? Yeah, so I have a mobile phone, so usually I just will call them if I want to talk to them. If it's something urgent and I can't talk on the phone, I'll just text them. But yeah, I usually call them.

So do you prefer to communicate with people by phone or writing emails? Oh, definitely phone. Just because I prefer talking to them because I can hear their voice and kind of get like a feeling for how they're feeling. Just communication is better in my opinion. But with emails it's kind of, you know, it takes a bit for back and forth, you know. It just doesn't feel as personal to me. And why is that? I really think it's just because you can't see their face. It's definitely just not the same, I think I'd probably say.

See so is there anything you dislike about mobile phones? Yeah. Yes, definitely. Um first off. I'm in public I'm on the train you can hear someone else on their phone talking with their speakerphone on in public It's the most important thing ever. I'll tell you that you know you hear their whole conversation. You know I mean I Don't know it's true now. Let's talk about traveling sure oh

Do you enjoy traveling to different places? Oh, absolutely. I love traveling to new countries. If you probably took a map out right now of the UK, I probably visited almost every place here. You could point at a spot, I've probably been there. The only reason I don't travel as much as I would like is just because I don't have as much time and money, you know, as I feel like I would need to do that. But I love it. I get to meet new people, see new faces, things like that, you know. So tell me, what places have you been in the UK?

I've been to London, Birmingham, Manchester with my friends during the holidays. London Bridge is probably my favorite and then probably next would be the prehistoric museum and after that probably the art galleries around there. Excellent. Now, moving on to talking about your hometown in France. Sure. Is your hometown a good place for young people to live? Oh yeah, absolutely. And why?

Oh yeah, children, absolutely. Just because there's a bunch of open fields and parks for them to play in. Teenagers, I'd probably say not so much just because there's not as much facilities like movie theaters and gyms and things like that and cafes. But definitely children, yes. Younger children, definitely. And your hometown, has it changed much over the years? Hmm, that's an interesting question.

Yeah, Dunkirk is a very historic town, especially after World War II. Just because a lot of the town was left in ruins after the war and you can still see now to this day old churches and shipwrecks and things like that which are still standing to this day and it's pretty cool. But I would say that it's definitely industrialized a lot. There's a lot of modern houses now, you know, more factories, things like that. Interesting. And what sort of jobs do the people in your hometown do?

Yeah, so a lot of them are farmers. They'll grow a lot of vegetables over the summer, potatoes. And they'll have farm stands and sell off what they grew and things like that. So a lot of them are farmers. I see. Now, moving on to the second part of the speaking test, I'm going to give you a topic. I'd like to give you a minute or two to talk about it. But before you talk, take a minute, think about what you're going to say, and make some notes if you wish. Do you understand? Yes.

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Here's some paper and a pencil. You have a minute to write down some ideas. Oh, you want me to go right now? I'm sorry. I'm just really nervous. No, that's fine. You have a minute. Describe a time when you help someone. Okay. Your preparation time is over now. Remember, you have one or two minutes for this, so don't worry if I stop you. I'll tell you when your time is up. Can you start speaking, please?

Yeah, so basically there was this one day where I was driving by in the neighborhood after work and I noticed this lady on the sidewalk freaking out. So I still remember this pretty clearly, honestly. I go to pull over, I stopped, asked her what's happening, and she goes, "Sir, my cat is stuck in the tree." I know this is very cliche. I'm sure you've heard of a cat being stuck in a tree all the time.

but it happened so i got out of the car assess the situation and there was no way i was reaching that cat it was scared it was so up it was up high no way i could possibly climb it so out of luck a white van with the ladder on the top so a work van was driving by i waved it down they pulled over which was a miracle i'm surprised they even pulled over um they were like oh my goodness yeah you can totally use our ladder

So I grabbed the ladder off the truck, propped it against the tree, climbed up the ladder,

Grabbed the cat and I'm telling you when this cat saw me and I put my hands on it this thing Freaked out it scratched me up and down my arms it bit it tried biting me It was it was just freaking out. I wasn't mad at it, but you know it hurt it hurt pretty bad Grabbed this cat took it down the tree. I handed it to the lady. Oh my gosh. Thank you You know she was very thankful for for the help um

Yeah, honestly it was just heartwarming to be honest. I think that's why I still remember it, you know? Wow, that's a wonderful story. So did you manage to even eat some nice food that night? I went home with my friends and told them about it at dinner. Yeah, I definitely did pretty well. Okay, now before we start the third part, can I have your papers and pencil back please? Yeah, sure. Okay, now in this third part, I'll first ask you some questions regarding helping others.

Do people who live in small towns and villages help other people more than those in the city? Yes. Probably because when you're in a smaller village, you kind of know everyone and they kind of know you in a sense. Like you could go to the store and you probably see after going to the store 10 times, you've probably seen a good 60% of the population of the town, right? You know someone, they know someone else, and then it's just kind of a small loop because there's not many people, right?

You could walk by your neighbor's house and see them leaving to go to the store, right? You can ask them, "Hey, can you bring me some eggs?"

when you're at the store and bring it back. Sure, you know, they'll come back, bring you some eggs. It's kind of like that close, close friends, neighbor idea, I guess you could say, behind it. Everyone knows everyone. You know, the very nice, kind, helping people. But with the city, you don't really know anyone. There's so many people that no one really cares about you. You know, you'll never see anyone, half the people there ever again.

Yeah, I really think that's why, to be honest with you. Just less people, right? You can talk to them. I see. Do you believe that the salaries for the jobs that involve helping others are generally too low? Definitely, definitely. I mean, look at celebrities, right? These guys are making millions a year.

playing football you know singing whatever and then there's people who actually go out of their way to help other people right like firefighters police you know nurses they literally save people's lives every single day and yet these people are being paid kinda the least if you think of it and comparing to the celebrities so yeah I would definitely definitely say that these people are definitely underpaid not paid what they should be at least

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Oh, I agree. Now, tell me why you think some people don't want to help others. You know, personally I think it's a lot of people just don't want to get involved, right? Like, for example, you'll see a car accident on the side of the road and you'll see it happening, but instead of stopping to help, a lot of people will just call 911 and that's it. They'll let them handle it.

I feel like they just don't want to be bothered or bother anyone else and interfere in a way. But then there's also people who are selfish. So it's a mix of the two. I feel like that's kind of why. Now let's talk about communities. Which people usually need the most support in a community?

Definitely children with special needs and disabilities and things like that. Along with that is definitely old people in general just because they have, you know, a lot of them have Alzheimer's and like other diseases where they can't really function, you know, at a normal rate, I would say. And then on top of it there's like homeless people and, you know, people like that really can't provide for themselves. And who do you think should pay for the services that the people in the community use?

Honestly, I think it depends on what, right? Like a library or a park, right? That should be kind of like a one-time membership thing per year. You know, if you're going to use it, you pay for it, right? It's kind of that sort of deal. But if it comes to like medical or something, I feel like that should be kind of government funded. And, you know, they kind of take care of it through taxes, I'd say. That's all good. That's the end of this speaking test. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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