IELTS Listening · Cam 5

Test 2 Part 3

First of all, I'd just like to say, Christina and Ibrahim, That I really enjoyed watching your video about student life last week,

Level: B1 · 96 sentences

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  1. First of all, I'd just like to say, Christina and Ibrahim,
  2. That I really enjoyed watching your video about student life last week,
  3. And I could see that the rest of the group did too.
  4. You did really well,
  5. And I hope that you got a lot out of it.
  6. I'd like to use this tutorial as a feedback session
  7. Where you reflect on the experience of doing the project,
  8. So, Christina, I was wondering,
  9. What did you enjoy most about making the video?
  10. I liked using the camera.
  11. Is it the first time you've operated one like that?
  12. Yes, it is.
  13. Well, the results were very good.
  14. Anything else?
  15. I also enjoyed visiting one of the British students we filmed.
  16. I'd never been inside a British home before.
  17. OK, Christina, thanks.
  18. What about you, Ibrahim?
  19. What did you enjoy?
  20. Well, for me, it was a very good chance to get to know students
  21. Who are on other courses,
  22. Because everyone in our group is studying English,
  23. And we don't usually have much to do
  24. With the rest of the college.
  25. Yes, good.
  26. Do you think you'll maintain the contact now?
  27. I hope so.
  28. I've invited three of them to have dinner with me next week.
  29. Great!
  30. If you haven't decided what to make yet,
  31. I can tell you they'll love trying Arab dishes.
  32. And, of course, it's good for your English, too.
  33. Christina, what did you find?
  34. What was the most useful aspect of the project
  35. From the point of view of the English practice?
  36. I think when we were being shown how to edit the film,
  37. We had to follow the instructions,
  38. And that was very good practice for me.
  39. And I also learned some technical words that I hadn't heard before.
  40. What about you, Ibrahim?
  41. What was the most useful for your English?
  42. It was listening to the British students,
  43. Because they don't speak as slowly
  44. As most of the tutors on our course.
  45. I think they speak at natural speed,
  46. So it forces me to get used to it.
  47. And they use a lot of slang.
  48. So you'll learn some new words which will be useful?
  49. Yes.
  50. Good.
  51. I'm glad it helped.
  52. Well, we've talked a little bit about enjoyment and about language practice.
  53. Were there any other benefits?
  54. What else did you feel you'd learn from the project?
  55. Was it useful in other ways?
  56. Yes.
  57. Well, firstly, I learned how to use a video camera,
  58. And also I think I really learned a lot
  59. About working together with other people.
  60. I've never done anything with a group before,
  61. And we had to find ways of cooperating and compromising and sometimes persuading people
  62. When they don't agree with you.
  63. Yes, that is a very useful experience, I know.
  64. What about you, Ibrahim?
  65. I think I learnt a lot about how important editing is.
  66. When you're filming, you think that everything's going to be interesting,
  67. But in fact we cut around half of it
  68. In the end, and then it was much better.
  69. Good.
  70. Well, one last thing I'd like to ask.
  71. What mistakes do you think you, as a group that is, made?
  72. I mean, to put it another way,
  73. If you had to do it all over again,
  74. Is there anything you'd do differently?
  75. We didn't plan very well.
  76. For example, we didn't decide on dates
  77. When we'd complete each separate step of the project,
  78. And we should have agreed about that in the beginning,
  79. Because we were always late with everything.
  80. Right.
  81. Anything else?
  82. I think we should have tried to experiment more with the camera.
  83. I mean with angles and focus and that kind of thing.
  84. So you should have been more ambitious.
  85. Do you agree, Ibrahim?
  86. Not really.
  87. In fact, I think we were too ambitious.
  88. We were inexperienced and we didn't have a lot of time
  89. And we tried to do too much to make a long film.
  90. Next time I would make a shorter one and try to get the quality better.
  91. Well, that's very interesting.
  92. Next semester we will be doing another video project with...
  93. A different content, of course.
  94. But you'll have an opportunity to put
  95. Into practice what you've learnt this time.
  96. Do you have any ideas about...