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There's a long article in today's Guardian, by Suki Kim, comparing politics in Korea and America, that you might be interested in:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/08/my-two-messed-up-countries-an-immigrants-dilemma-south-korea-us

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Second example I would like to give is Korean public healthcare system. In korea, if you happen to be a citizen or have a job legitimately you are automatically joind the public health insurance. The public health care system covers literally everyone. It is not guarantee 100 percent of medical cost but there are local health center for poor people, pregnant woman, babies and communitys wellness.

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Second example I would like to give is Korean public healthcare system. In korea, if you happen to be a citizen or have a job legitimately you are automatically joind the public health insurance. The public health care system covers literally everyone. It is not guarantee 100 percent of medical cost but there are local health center for poor people, pregnant woman, babies and communitys wellness.

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Public health care system benefits good for everyone.

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Public health care system benefits good for everyone.

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first, i give a example about private health care system in USA. before the OBAM care, USA public health care system covers only very poor people and elders. so other people such as middle class who have proper jobs and private insurance can not  use public health care system. therefore it looks like working before incident happens when those people have a cancer or seriouse injurys from accident. however , private insurance does not cover to whole things perpectly. it means the people have to deal with big disease with them selves without helps..

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The diagram illustrates the popularity of five candidates of French presidential during the first round.

General points are: Macron is the one of the most popular candidates among the five of them; the people's voting intentions of Fillon has mostly changed; at the begining of the first round, the gap was large between candidates but it has narrowed in the end of the April.

There were big gap between five candidates in Feburary - approximately 10 % of each. But between February and April the percentage of all candidates' fluctuated from maximum range of 10% of Melanchon's to minimum range of 3% of Le Pen.

The popularity Macron, the most popular candidate, slightly decreased. But still remained on first place, around 24%. But it looks like it is not easy to stay as the most popular candidate because of Le Pen.
The gap between of them was only 2% at the end of the first round. So the rest of the race will likely be unpredictable.

However the popularity of Fillon declined during 3 months - approximately 6%. Whereas Melenchon's popularity began to rose sharply - around19%. Hamon's popularity jumped to over 17% but began to decrease steadily from the peak to 8%

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Do not use contractions!!!!

They are too informal, so they make it seem like you are unaware of writing in an academic style.

"In public hospitals doctors don't need to work hard because...'
"In public hospitals doctors do not need to work hard because ..."

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The main reason why investing in arts is beneficial is art can improve people's quality of life. Imagine the life without art. It should be boring and depressing. However with art, people can easily overcome hard time. When people suffer from stress from work or school, they could easily recover their mental health by listening to music, drawing artworks and watching films. So, government should spend tax on art industry as it help people to access to the culture and maintain mental health.

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Spending tax has always been a hot potato; people are especially critical about public funding of arts. I partly agree that investing in arts is sometimes waste of public budget. I think investing in public service is more essential for people, and should be prioritised.

Although Korea has developed quite a lot, there are still some places in need of infrastructure, like hospitals, schools, and transformations. I think we have to invest the budget on public services in rural areas first before investing money on art. Also, when the investing these sectors goes on, it will bring job openings in that areas.

Even though arts are subsidised, tickrts are still expensive. There are just few people who enjoyart andcould afford to expensive tickets. For instance,the tickets for concerts and plays are usually more than 50,000 won as they are private.

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The main reason why investing in art is beneficial are economic. For example, traditional cultures and folk performances are part of the national heritage of the country. So, protecting national heritage is the way that country interacts with its own civilization.This kind of art can attract a lot of tourism. So, many people who are interested in country's history from all over the world will be willing to visit and discover more about the country.

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The main reason why investing in art is beneficial are economic. For example, traditional cultures and folk performances are part of the national heritage of the country. So, protecting national heritage is the way that country interacts with its own civilization.This kind of art can attract a lot of tourism. So, many people who are interested in country's history from all over the world will be willing to visit and discover more about the country.

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The government has limited budgets in taxes so many people want to use taxes for appropriated policies.

There are many reasons why investing in arts can be a good idea. In order to some gain advantages from the arts the government should invest more money in them.  One of these is  preserving national heritage, which is a symbol of the nationality and can promote national brands better. For example when we think of Japan, we think of Manga animation and comic books, or when we think of France we think of fashion and fine arts.  This shows that these arts have had big impact on people internationally.  There are big commercial markets, which brings foreign money into the country, and it also brings tourists in, by creating interest.

Other advantages is help local business such as annual festival which can bring fixed profit for local area. The Busan internatinal film festival is a good example for this idea.

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One of the most significant negative effects is an addiction. For examples, addition to smartphone and computer games. Some of students using frequently a smartphone spent too much time on games and chatting with friends.They often spendtime on games around more 5 hours than studying, was written on the internet article in the latest news.

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Young people are much more vulnerable to addcition to home entertainment than the older generation. When people are young, they need to meet  various groups of people and learn how to socialize with others. However if they lose chance to do this, they might become lonerwhen are the grown-up.

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Young people are much more vulnerable to addcition to home entertainment than the older generation. When people are young, they need to meet  various groups of people and learn how to socialize with others. However if they lose chance to do this, they might become lonerwhen are the grown-up.

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Technology can have a significant negative effects. For instance, people get addicted easily to video games, especially teenagers. They can not focus on their lives, for example, pursuiting their hobbies and spending more time with their families. The second negative thing is that the Internet has many rumors and many people believe that rumors and will effect badly in their life.

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Technology can have a significant negative effects. For instance, people get addicted easily to video games, especially teenagers. They can not focus on their lives, for example, pursuiting their hobbies and spending more time with their families. The second negative thing is that the Internet has many rumors and many people believe that rumors and will effect badly in their life.

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Technology can have significant positive effects on people's lives. It makes life more convenient and it is cheap. One example of this is shopping on-line; if we don't have this type of technology thesedays, it is hard to buy important things while we are living busy life. Also, downloading movies, we can see the latest movies at home. For people who live in small village, they have to travel to the city that it has movie theatre.

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For example, comparing computer game and golf, in the case of computer games, people just pay for price of game CD which cost around 40,000 Won. However, Golf people should pay for equipment and book the golf course. This costs more than 1,000,000 Won. Also, technology makes people's life convenient. People can enjoy movie or drama through smart TV, instead of going cinema.

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Nowadays people can entertain themselves everywhere, anytime, and whatever they want to enjoy. For example there is Netflix that is streaming company in U.S.A but their service is worldwide. Their contents are international so as their audience.  In the past Korean people would only have been able to watch Korean shows, but now, in my own case, for example, I can watch all kind of things like Game of Thrones; we can watch whatever we are individually interested in.

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Nowadays people can entertain themselves everywhere, anytime, and whatever they want to enjoy. For example there is Netflix that is streaming company in U.S.A but their service is worldwide. Their contents are international so as their audience.  In the past Korean people would only have been able to watch Korean shows, but now, in my own case, for example, I can watch all kind of things like Game of Thrones; we can watch whatever we are individually interested in.

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Young people easily be addicted to internet games and shows. When someone spend too much time to it, the person tend to be alone with home entertainment facilities. In this case they could lose the sense of realities and relationships.

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hook up with another student - go for lunch or coffee, and practice a range of part 3 topics.  do it informally - just have a chat, or do test practice.

Please keep your handouts!!!

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Education outside of school.

Extra-curricular education.

After school classes.  After school education.

Private academies / institutes / institutions.

In Korea there's massive emphasis on extra-curricular education.   This has it's pros and cons ....

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What if the examiner asks you a question about something you've never considered?

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What if the examiner asks you a question about something you've never considered?

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For example:

Examiner: "Do you think governments should raise taxes on unhealthy food?"

You've never thought of this before, and don't know what to say.  what can you do?

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How are the topics different, in part 1 and part 3?

How is the interaction with the examiner different?

What kind of skills do the questions try to test?  (e.g. comparing)

What will the examiner try to do if you start talking about yourself?

What might happen if you give very short answers?

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Some guidelines on using the long dash, here:

http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/em-dash.html

And some points on colons and semi colons on the same website.

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Please send me general IELTS data!
k1082745@naver.com

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Hazel, right?  K1082745! ;-)
Sorry.  I meant to give you some General paper tasks, last week.

You can look online.  Just Google, 'Writing Task 1, General IELTS,' and look at that to start with - that's the biggest difference.  Here's a couple of examples, but there are a lot more

https://www.ielts-exam.net/general_writing_samples_task_1/

http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/prepare-test/free-sample-tests/writing-sample-test-1-general-training/writing-task-1

Try a couple of the tasks from the first website.  I recommend writing one by yourself, first.  Then look at the model answer on the site.  The you can try another, and let me have a look at it.

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Practise using this sentence structure, for your overviews, please.  Also the use of long dashes — like this — to add detail in a sentence.

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Since 1990, the gap between China's and India's population has  narrowed from 300,000 to 100,000.

Until now, India's population has increased more sharply than China's population, moving from 0.85 billion to 1.35 billion compared to China's growth of  200 thousand.

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China's population is now 0.1 billion higher than India's population, but numbers will be equal by 2035 , when they will both reach 1.45 billion

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The population of two countries increased gradually from 0.85 billion to 1.35 billion in India, and 1.15 billion to 1.4 billion in China.

The gap between two countries declined from 0.3 billion to 0.05 billion.

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In 1995, China's population was 0.3 billion higher than India's - China had 1.15 billion where as India had only .85.

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In 1995, China's population was 0.3 billion higher than India's - China had 1.15 billion where as India had only .85.

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The population gap was wider at that time but it has been getting narrower and it is now only 0.1 billion.

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Remember this structure.  it is really important to include a separate overview, and to compare the specific numbers in separate paragraphs.

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" will reach a peak of .... by ..."

" will catch up with

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In 2030, the population of China will reach a peak of 1.45 billion before starting a gradual decline.

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The population of India will continously increase, whereas China's will decrease after 2030.

Between 2015 and 2025, the population of China will slightly increase before

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The chinese population will decrease after 2030. On the other hand, the number of people of India will continue to rise.
By 2030, India will pass China in terms of popularation size

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Here 'rank is appropriate, because the data is about the best quality of life.

"Norway is ranked the highest."

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India's population will have been overtaking china's population by 2050

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India's population will have been overtaking china's population by 2050

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China's population will have been slightly decreasing for 20 years

The population gap between China and India was 0.3 billion, in 1990

The graph shows that India will catch up with China's population in 2035

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Be careful using the word 'rank,' or 'ranking' in writing task 1.  We use this to describe something like a race or a competition.   Here we are simply talking about a number of people in a country.  India is not 'winning,' anything because there are more people, so 'rank,' is not appropriate here.

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The population of India will have increased continuously.

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The population of India will have increased continuously.

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The population explosion in India will continue even after the Chinese population has started to decline.

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The population explosion in India will continue even after the Chinese population has started to decline.

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After 2035 the population of India will keep increasing

By 2040 the population of India will have been 1.5 billions

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The population of two countries will be at the same level of nearly 1.5 billion in 2030.

After 2030, the population in India will increase rapidly by 2050, reaching at 1.6 billion.

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Write few sentences  about the future projections, please.  Remember to focus on the main points, and practise using different future forms.

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Hello, I'm Eunsung. I've lived in the southen Seoul. I usually take a tube at the BC. In my free time, I go for a walk, go swimming or read newspaper. I try to chill out by enjoying my pursuits. And, the reason why I study Ielts is because I am going to study for pre-master course in Manchester on september. Nice to meet you and Thank you!

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Hi! I'm Sol Lee. You can call me Sol or Enae. Enae is my other name. I live in Seoul, Chang-dong. It takes about 1hour by subway to get to the BC. 

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Hi! I'm Sol Lee. You can call me Sol or Enae. Enae is my other name. I live in Seoul, Chang-dong. It takes about 1hour by subway to get to the BC. 

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In my free time I usually watch movies or read books. I also like walking when weather is good. These days I spent a lot of free time to talking on the phone with friends. Because my close friends are all have issues about their love-relationship. It's spring now, Maybe more phone calls will come.
It's my first time to prepare IELTS. I hope I can get the score I need! Thanks!

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Nice to meet you all! This is Jin-young Jeon and, you may call me just Kelly.

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Nice to meet you all! This is Jin-young Jeon and, you may call me just Kelly.

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I live in Seoul. I usually listen to pod casts and walk around the town in my freetime. I've been relaxing for a year though. I am very happy to attend this class and hope you all enjoy it. Thanks !

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I'm Donghyun. My English name is Daniel. I live in Mok dong,
From my home to BC it takes a half minutes by bus &tube.

in my free time I like playing football, reading, having a cup of coffee.
Thank you for reading my posting.

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Hi, everyone. I'm Luna. My Korean name is Hea in. This is my first time to learn IELTs course. I live in Ilwon dong, I take a subway for 1 hour to go to British council.

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Hi, everyone. I'm Luna. My Korean name is Hea in. This is my first time to learn IELTs course. I live in Ilwon dong, I take a subway for 1 hour to go to British council.

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In my free time, I listen to music and read books.
I like swimming too.

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Hi, I'm Hazel and Korean name is Hyewon Kim. It's the first IELTS class for me. I lived in Jung-Ja before. But a few days ago, I moved to In-cheon (a little far...).

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Hi, I'm Hazel and Korean name is Hyewon Kim. It's the first IELTS class for me. I lived in Jung-Ja before. But a few days ago, I moved to In-cheon (a little far...).

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In my free time I read some books, listen to music, especially IU's and just sleep.

I want to enjoy this class and improve IELTS skills.
Thank you :-)

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I'm alistair.  I've been working at th BC for five years now, and really enjoy working here and teaching IELTS.  I moved to Dongtan about two years ago, so get the bus in every morning.

In my free time I like reading, watching moves and playing music.  I started playing piano and saxophone again recently.

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make a post to padlet to introduce yourself to the class.

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Hi everyone, thanks for coming today.   Good job with speaking task 2.  i look forward to getting to know you, and hope to help you improve your IELTS skills.

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Hi everyone, thanks for coming today.   Good job with speaking task 2.  i look forward to getting to know you, and hope to help you improve your IELTS skills.

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Alistair

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1  Pie chart on expenses for American citizens. 155-180 words

Don't forget: write an overview.  Use data to support your description.  Separate the overview from the paragraphs on detail.  Leave spaces between paragraphs.

2. Prostitution should be legalised. Note down three reasons for and three against.

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The given two pie charts compare the expenditure of American Citizens in 7 different categories - food, cars, petrol, restaurant, furniture, computers, and books - between 1966 and 1996.

First of all, Food and cars made up the biggest proportion in both years. Food accounted for 44% in 1966, and this figure was very similar for cars, at 45%, in 1996. But this two expenditure ratio had changed reversely each from 23% in 1966 to and 14% in 1996. Moving on to other section, The percentage of restaurant expense is doubled from 7% in 1966 to 14% in 1996. On the other hand, petrol had been dropped by 1% from 1966 to 1996. What is most interesting is that computers and Books have the lowest percentage in 1966 and 1996 respectively. And as computer expenditure had been rose to 10%, book expenditure dropped at 1%.

To conclude, the expenditure style of American Citizens had been changed continuously during thirty-years.

** I am sorry i would not be able to attend your class today so i upload here for the moment. Thank you !

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The two pie charts illustrate the proportions of the expenditure in seven categories in each 1966 and 1996 years in USA.

In general, the most noticeable points are food accounted for a biggest percentage in 1966, whereas, in 1996, American citizens considerably spent their money on cars.

In 1966, food was essential production to make a living for American people, accounting for 44% of the total. However, in 1996, this proportion dropped to approximately one in seven of the whole percentage, in contrast to the expenses of food in this period, cars’ consumption rose double from 23% to 45%. A majority of expenditure in 7 categories for US people was food and cars, ranging from 60% to 70% for 30 years.

Moving on the low percentage at least than 10%, it is interesting to note that computers and books were less popular items in America between 1966 and 1996. In terms of books, its percentage was at 6% in 1966, with a decrease by 5% in 1996, whereas the proportion of computers significantly increased from 1% to 10% until 1996. It can be concluded that American citizens preferred to buy computers compared to books.

Hi Eun Sung,
Please can you divide this into paragraphs, and then resend.

Thanks,

Alistair

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IELTS Speaking Practice part2_Hansol Park

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Describe a place that you like to go.You should say:

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Describe a place that you like to go.You should say:

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where the place is

how you get there

what it looks like

and explain why you like this place.

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Remember, the aim of this activity is to build up some descriptive detail.  So focus on what it looks like, and why you like it.

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Remember, the aim of this activity is to build up some descriptive detail.  So focus on what it looks like, and why you like it.

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Hi everyone.  Please upload a recording of yourself

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Hi everyone.  Please upload a recording of yourself

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doing speaking part 2, by Saturday morning at the latest, please.

I will listen to your recording and give feedback on Monday.  Thanks,  AC.