What's your favourite season of the year, and why? · Band 5

Sensei Lo-Fi: Welcome, friend... just relax, there's no rush.

What's your favourite season of the year, and why?

You: To be honest, I love all all of them, but spring is really um attractive and beautiful for me because um the weather it's not too hot or too cold. So I extremely um big fan of that. Um season. And again, uh go for um for for outside uh for meeting with my with my friends or uh relatives. So I uh why I love this? Because um I ex um I can go outside and play something. This my friends. Sensei Lo-Fi: I see. And do you prefer to relax during this season, or do other things, like travel or sport?

You: improve my body and I'm not I want to uh uh do my productive day and I like travel sometimes I go to my uh grandparent Sensei Lo-Fi: That's nice. Do you prefer to travel with friends or with

You: grandparent's house Sensei Lo-Fi: Do you prefer to spend time with family or friends during that season?

You: I think uh to be honest uh friends with friends because uh if the weather uh winter I can I have to stay a house with my family and I can uh communicate with uh them and watch TV together and spend time together uh with my family. Uh the spring I can go outside and play something with my friends or um go for a um morning jokes like this. Sensei Lo-Fi: That makes sense.

Now, let's move on to part two. I'd like you to describe a place you'd like to live in the future. Say where it is, what it's like, and why you'd want to live there.

You have one minute to think about your answer, and then you can start talking.

Do you need any paper and a pencil?

You: Yes. Sensei Lo-Fi: Okay, your one minute starts now.

You: there are a lot of elected things or places. But I want to go uh Saturday there uh because uh I want to open my uh own business in there uh with my friends. Also uh I also want to uh travel another countries. Uh which is really attractive and not far. Like this. Sensei Lo-Fi: And do you think you'll continue to enjoy living there, or might you move somewhere else?

You: football with my friends. in Turin. Sensei Lo-Fi: Okay. Well, that's the end of part two. Now, let's talk a bit more about living in different places.

Do you think people have a better quality of life in cities, or in the countryside?

You: I think. Sensei Lo-Fi: That's interesting.

Some people say that the close-knit communities in the countryside can feel a lack of privacy. Do you think that anonymity in the city is better?

You: Sorry. Sensei Lo-Fi: Some say that people in small countryside communities know too much about each other. Do you think having more privacy in the city is better?

You: it's there is extremely good for me and we can go for um go to a neighbor neighbors for ah just communication or talking. Ah but I think cities are not there are not here not have like this things. But Sensei Lo-Fi: Alright. Well,

You: I think Sensei Lo-Fi: well, thank you very much. That's the end of the speaking practice. You can relax now.

Overall, your fluency is pretty good, you keep talking without long pauses and you generally connect your ideas well. You also have some good vocabulary, like "productive day" and "historical places". To really push up your score, focus on some small grammar points, like using the right prepositions, and make sure you're pronouncing words like "weather" consistently clearly.

This is just an estimate, not an official result, but I'd place you around a 5.0 overall, with your fluency looking like a 5.5, and lexical, grammar, and pronunciation around 5.0. Keep practicing, friend.