IELTS Speaking Test- Perfect Band 9


**00:00:00**  
Let's talk about travel.  
我們來談談旅行。

Tell me about the last place that you went to.  
告訴我你最後去的地方。

The last place that I traveled to was Thailand, Bangkok to be specific.  
我最後去的地方是泰國，具體來說是曼谷。

Um, big city, but also has um places that are close by that you can travel to that are not cities, it's more countryside or nature like Karabi.  
嗯，是個大城市，但也有一些較近的地方可以旅遊，那些不是城市，是較鄉村或自然的地方，比如甲米。

Um, one of my favorite countries in the world.  
嗯，是我世界上最喜歡的國家之一。

It has the best food, the best people, quite multicultural, and uh just fun experiences.  
那裡有最棒的食物，最好的人們，非常多元文化，還有很多有趣的經歷。

It has something for everyone, whether you're a man, woman, old, young.  
不論你是男人、女人、老人或是年輕人，都能找到適合自己的東西。

Um you can find something to do in a city like Bangkok or in a country like Thailand.  
嗯，你可以在像曼谷這樣的城市或泰國這樣的國家找到事情做。

**00:00:41**  
So, would you prefer a city break or a beach holiday?  
所以，你喜歡城市休閒還是海灘假期？

Definitely a beach holiday because um I grew up in a city and although it has its perks.  
絕對是海灘假期，因為我在城市長大，雖然城市有它的優點。

I feel like sometimes it can be too much.  
我覺得有時候城市會讓人覺得太過壓力。

So when I like to get away, it's definitely to something that's more in nature and hence a beach holiday.  
所以當我想要逃離時，一定是去更接近自然的地方，也就是海灘假期。

Sun, sand, the ocean, peace, quiet, the slow life is definitely something that I'd like to get away to.  
陽光、沙子、海洋、寧靜、安靜、慢活的生活，都是我想要逃離的地方。

**00:01:15**  
Is there anywhere you haven't been yet that you would love to go to?  
有沒有地方你還沒去過，但很想去的？

Several places.  
幾個地方。

Istanbul, Turkey is at the top of that list.  
土耳其伊斯坦堡是名單的首位。

I haven't been to the Philippines.  
我還沒去過菲律賓。

I'd really like to go to the Philippines.  
我真的很想去菲律賓。

Um, yeah, very many places that I haven't been to.  
嗯，有很多地方我還沒去過。

I'm a huge fan of uh different cultures.  
我非常喜歡不同的文化。

So, any chance that I get, I'm excited to get out of my hometown and go visit other places.  
所以，只要有機會，我都很興奮能離開家鄉，去其他地方旅遊。

**00:01:52**  
Now, let's talk about the future. In 10 years time, what job would you like to have?  
現在，讓我們談談未來。十年後，你想要從事什麼工作？

I would like to have my own business.  
我想擁有自己的事業。

I'm a closeted entrepreneur.  
我是一個藏起來的創業家。

So, um, and it's always been my dream to be able to have a business of my own.  
所以，一直以來，我的夢想就是擁有自己的企業。

Um, hopefully in the home design, buying and selling space.  
希望是在家居設計、買賣的領域。

Uh, I have a passion for interior design on a on a separate note.  
我對室內設計有熱情，這是另外一個話題。

But yes, uh a businesswoman is definitely something that I hope I'm able to be in the next 10 years.  
但沒錯，成為一位女企業家，這是我希望在未來十年能達成的。

**00:02:35**  
And will English be useful in your future career?  
未來你的工作中，英文會有用嗎？

Yes. Uh where I come from, English is a very commonly spoken language.  
是的，我來自的地方，英文是非常常用的語言。

And the places that I see myself living in, uh  
我想像自己會生活的地方，

English is the official language.  
英文也是官方語言。

So English would not only be useful, it would be necessary for me specifically.  
所以英文不僅有用，對我來說更是必要。

So yes.  
所以，是的。

**00:02:35**  
And in your future career, would you like to travel a lot or would you like to be in one location?  
你未來的工作中，你想經常旅行，還是想留在一個地方？

I think when I have children, I will slow down the traveling a little bit.  
我認為等我有了孩子，我會少一些旅行。

Just to have some structure and uh a feeling of groundedness in their lives, especially when they're younger.  
只是為了生活有點規律，也讓他們的生活更有穩定感，尤其是在他們年輕的時候。

But up until then, in the near future, because I don't have any children at the moment,  
但在那之前，短期內，因為我目前沒有孩子，

I would love to travel as much as possible.  
我想儘可能多旅行。

So, a bit of both, I would say.  
所以，我想是兩者都有吧。

**00:03:09**  
How do you think your life will change over the coming 5 to 10 years?  
你認為未來五到十年，你的生活會有什麼改變？

I don't know about how it would change, but I know how I want it to change.  
我不知道它會怎麼變，但我知道我想要它怎麼變。

I would like to get married.  
我想結婚。

I would like to start a small family.  
我想建立一個小家庭。

And by small I mean have three daughters.  
小的意思是我想要有三個女兒。

Um that's big to some people.  
對某些人來說這很大。

Uh I would like to start a business of my own and I would like to retire my parents and see them  
我想創業，也想讓父母退休，並看到他們

uh take care of their health and grow older in a safe place and  
照顧他們的健康，在安全的地方變老。

Um yeah and just be healthy, happy, wiser hopefully.  
嗯，希望我自己也健康、快樂、更睿智。

**00:03:47**  
Now let's talk about social media. Which social media sites do you use the most?  
現在我們來談談社交媒體。你最常用的社交媒體是哪個？

Um, before we continue, I have a gift for you.  
在我們繼續之前，我有一份禮物給你。

I've analyzed hundreds of band nine transcripts from our successful VIP students and I've put the 100 most used words into a PDF for you.  
我分析了我們成功的VIP學生的數百份九分範例，整理出了100個最常用的詞彙，放進一個PDF給你。

If you want that, go to the description or the pinned comment.  
如果你想要，可以到描述或置頂留言下載。

You can download it for free.  
你可以免費下載。

**00:04:22**  
Instagram. It's my most frequently used.  
Instagram，是我用得最頻繁的社交媒體。

I think it's the only one unless YouTube counts as social media, which in that case YouTube as well.  
我認為只有它，除非YouTube也算是社交媒體，那樣的話YouTube也算。

And how much time do you spend on those social media sites?  
你在這些社交媒體上花多少時間？

It depends on the day.  
這取決於天。

So on busy days when I'm working, I don't get a chance to spend too long on my phone or any social media in general.  
工作繁忙的日子，我沒法在手機或社交媒體上花太久。

And then on the weekend when I'm rotting on my couch, uh I can doom scroll for sometimes a couple hours.  
週末躺在沙發上時，我可能會一直滑動，甚至滑上幾個小時。

**00:04:51**  
What kind of information do you feel comfortable and uncomfortable putting on social media?  
你覺得在社交媒體上分享哪些資訊舒服，哪些不舒服？

I feel uncomfortable posting anything any personal information.  
我不舒服分享任何個人資訊。

So I don't like posting anything about my family, about my relationships, about too much about my friendships.  
我不喜歡貼自己家人、感情或朋友的太多資訊。

I'm just not somebody I'm private, so I don't like to post too much about it on social media.  
我比較私密，不太喜歡在社交媒體上分享太多。

But um if it's something related to work, something that I can benefit off of using social media to promote something or promote something that my friends doing or you know just get more eyeballs on something.  
但如果是工作相關的內容，能用社交媒體推廣的東西，或是朋友在做的事，或是吸引更多注意力的資訊，我會願意。

Um I'm happy to post that on social media.  
我願意在社交媒體上分享。

**00:05:27**  
And is there anything that you dislike about social media?  
你討厭社交媒體的哪個方面？

Yes, very many things.  
是的，很多。

I think sometimes social media can have a very negative effect on your mental health.  
我覺得有時候社交媒體會對心理健康造成負面影響。

Sometimes sitting behind a screen and looking at the highlights of everyone else's life makes you feel like you're not doing enough because you see all the things that people are doing, whether it's someone looking really good or someone getting married or someone buying a new house or a new car and it kind of gives you a skewed perception of someone's life without showing you the negative things.  
有時候坐在螢幕後，看著別人生活的精彩片段，會讓你覺得自己不夠好，因為你看到他們的成就：變得很好、結婚、買新房或新車，但卻沒有看到那些負面的一面，導致你對人生的看法扭曲。

And it's very easy to spiral and feel like everybody else has a fantastic life and I'm here and I have these problems and why isn't it working out for me?  
很容易陷入負面循環，覺得別人都過得很棒，而自己卻有問題，為何事情沒有如預期。

And I think that's not a very fair representation of reality.  
我覺得這並不是真實的寫照。

A website that I bought something recently from is called Etsy.  
我最近在一個叫Etsy的網站上買東西。

Etsy.com to be specific.  
具體來說是Etsy.com。

Um I bought a Oh, sorry. The website is basically  
嗯，我買了一個，抱歉，網站基本上是...

**00:06:29**  
uh a place where you can go and buy things from small businesses or people that run businesses from their houses.  
一個可以購買小型企業或家庭經營的商品的平台。

So, it's uh art craft.  
所以，它是藝術與手工藝品。

It's like very niche uh things that you can buy like keychains, mugs, and more importantly, it's from small businesses and um stay-at-home moms and that kind of vibe, if that makes sense.  
它是很小眾的東西，比如鑰匙圈、杯子，更重要的是來自小企業和家庭主婦，這樣的氛圍，如果你懂的。

What I bought was a dog bed for my dog.  
我買的是給我狗的狗床。

It was customizable, so I could get the size that I wanted and I could get the color that I wanted and get a custom dog tag.  
它是可定制的，我可以選擇尺寸、顏色，還可以定制狗牌。

Um, I loved it.  
嗯，我喜歡它。

I loved it because um not only was it something that uh I needed, it fit my home aesthetically in every way because it was it I could pick out the color, I could pick out the texture, I could pick out the height, the width, everything.  
我喜歡它，因為它不僅是我需要的東西，還符合我家的美學，我可以選擇顏色、質地、高度、寬度，所有都可以。

My dog loves it.  
我狗喜歡它。

Needless to say, she doesn't sleep anywhere else other than the bed.  
不用說，她除了這個床不會去別的地方睡。

She's on it.  
牠就在上面。

She's probably on it right now.  
牠現在可能就在上面。

When I go home, I'll see her on it.  
我回家時會看到牠在上面。

Uh, I also like the fact that I could support small businesses.  
我也喜歡我可以支持小企業的事實。

I hope to be a business owner in the future.  
我希望將來成為一個企業主。

So, I like to support small businesses over big corporations.  
所以，我喜歡支持小企業而非大公司。

**00:07:38**  
That's the end of part two.  
這就是第二部分的結束。

So, we've been talking about a website that you bought something from, and we're going to continue to talk about shopping online and online business.  
我們剛才談了你在網站上買東西，接下來我們會繼續聊網購和線上商業。

In your country, what are the most popular things people buy online?  
在你的國家，人們最常在網上買的東西是什麼？

Everything.  
什麼都買。

We buy groceries online.  
我們在線上買雜貨。

where you buy electronics online, clothes, bags, shoes.  
還有電子產品、衣服、包包、鞋子。

Um, Amazon is probably the most uh famous website that  
嗯，亞馬遜可能是最有名的購物網站，

you can buy things on and uh entirely I don't think people go to stores anymore.  
你可以在上面買東西，我覺得現在沒多少人會去實體店。

It's very uh especially our generation.  
這一點尤其對我們這一代來說。

I think online shopping, you can buy everything online.  
我認為線上購物，可以在網上買到所有東西。

**00:08:43**  
And why has online shopping become so popular in your particular country?  
那麼，為什麼在你所在的國家，網購會如此流行？

It can be quite overwhelming in a place like India in the big cities to kind of go through all the stores.  
在印度的大城市，逛所有商店可能會很壓力很大。

It's a lot of stimulus and it takes a lot of effort to do it because there's a lot of people and it's a lot of interaction  
這需要很多刺激，也很費力，因為人很多，互動也多。

with people.  
和人。

It's a little bit noisy and it's, you know, um,  
有點吵，而且，你知道的，

so I think our generation, we're a bit uh I don't want to say introverted, but we like a a personal space a little bit more.  
所以我覺得我們這代人，有點——我不想說內向，但我們比較喜歡私人空間。

So just the convenience of having being able to click things on a screen and have it shipped to your house and not having to interact with people is very enticing.  
因此，只要點點螢幕上的東西，就能寄到家裡，不用與人互動，這非常吸引人。

So um for those reasons I think people prefer to buy things online more than in store.  
所以，基於這些原因，我認為人們更喜歡網購。

**00:09:17**  
Are there any possible disadvantages of the growth of online shopping?  
網購成長可能帶來的缺點有哪些？

Perhaps um in terms of how it may pollute the environment and I say that only because when you buy something online usually with the big corporations they have a pretty good return policy.  
也許在環境污染方面，我這樣說，是因為在網購時，大公司通常有很好的退貨政策。

And although that's very handy as a consumer, a lot of people take advantage of it and they order things that they don't need and return it just to be able to return it.  
雖然這對消費者很方便，但很多人會濫用，點一些自己不需要的東西，然後退貨。

Um, and uh I think that in terms of delivery, in terms of packaging, in terms of shipping, uh, in general, I  
而且，我認為在配送、包裝和運送方面，整體來說，

think can cause a lot of, uh, pollution to the environment that you don't need.  
都可能造成許多不必要的環境污染。

If you go to a store and pick up a shirt, you can just pick it up, put it in a bag, and bring it home.  
如果你去實體店買一件襯衫，你可以直接拿起來，放進袋子，帶回家。

But if the same shirt gets shipped to you, it comes in a lot more excessive packaging than is necessary.  
但如果用運送的方式，包裝會比必要的多。

Um, can be quite uh damaging, a lot of waste.  
這會造成很多浪費，也可能造成損害。

**00:10:27**  
Do you think it's justified that some brands charge more for you to purchase something in store compared to online?  
你覺得某些品牌在實體店收的價格比網路高，合理嗎？

It depends.  
這要看情況。

I think for to be able to buy something in store, if they're able to create a certain experience that differentiates the buying experience from a consumer's point of view, it would make sense.  
如果實體店能提供一個不同的購物體驗，讓消費者感受到價值，收較高的價錢是合理的。

Um, but I imagine if you're going to get the same product online and in store, although I understand it from the business's perspective that that's a brick and mortar store has a lot more overheads that they have to worry about.  
但我猜，如果在網路和實體店買到的產品相同，雖然從商家的角度來看，實體店要負擔更多成本。

Thinking about it from a consumer's point of view, if you can buy the same product online and in store and there's no difference in the experience, as a matter of fact, it's perhaps a bit more of an inconvenience to go to a store, I don't see why it should cost more.  
從消費者的角度來看，如果兩者的體驗沒有差別，甚至網路購買較方便，為何實體店會收更高的價錢？

**00:11:32**  
And do you think that in the future shopping malls will continue to be popular or will they be less popular because of online shopping?  
你覺得未來購物中心會繼續流行嗎？還是會因為網購而變少？

I think it depends on the place.  
我覺得這取決於地點。

In certain places. I recently visited Dubai.  
在某些地方，比如我最近去過杜拜。

Um, and shopping malls are uh a part of the culture because they have such um extreme weather for many months  
購物中心是當地文化的一部分，因為那裡天氣長時間極端。

of the year.  
一年中的大部分時間。

Malls are where people are able to spend a lot of their times when the outside weather conditions aren't as good.  
購物中心是人們在天氣不佳時消磨時間的地方。

And I imagine that's the case for places where there's torrential rain in the monsoon season or it's really hot in the summer or really cold in the winter.  
我想，這在季風季節大雨滂沱、夏天很熱或冬天很冷的地方也適用。

It's it's it has everything.  
它擁有一切。

It has food, shopping, entertainment.  
有美食、購物、娛樂。

So I don't see it being something that will go out of style in a lot of places.  
所以我認為很多地方都不會失去它的流行。

Um but I don't think that it will compete with online.  
但我不覺得它會和網購競爭。

I think online in the long term will continue to grow even more.  
我認為長遠來看，線上購物會持續成長。

**00:12:06**  
And do you think some businesses in the future, for example, banks or travel agents will go 100% online?  
你覺得未來銀行或旅遊業者會全部轉為線上嗎？

I don't know about 100%, but I would say pretty darn close.  
我不知道百分之百，但我認為接近了。

A lot of the services that are offered by banks and travel agencies can be quite efficiently executed online.  
銀行和旅遊業提供的許多服務，都可以很有效率地在線上完成。

So, I'm trying to think of why there would be a reason, at least travel agencies, I couldn't think of a reason why they would need to have a physical store.  
我在想，為什麼需要實體店，至少是旅遊代理，我想不到理由。

Um, with banks, they can have maybe a small section for their VIP clientele, but I would say pretty close to 100% of it can be executed online.  
銀行方面，可能會有小部分專門服務VIP客戶，但我認為大多數都可以在線上完成。

I'll leave the 1% for any extraneous variables that um I I can't think of at the moment.  
我會留一點空間，給我現在想不到的額外變數。

**非常好。那就是測驗結束了。**  
如果你想聽Priyanka的更多表現，我們還有另外兩個口說測試，包括我對她表現的詳細反饋。  
可以查看這個或那個。

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**00:12:40**  
That's the end of the test.  
這就是測驗的結束。

If you want to hear Priyanka again, we have two more speaking tests, including some where I give detailed feedback on her performance.  
如果你想再次聽Priyanka，我們還有另外兩個口說測試，包括一些我會提供詳細反饋的內容。

Check out this one or this.  
可以參考這個或那個。