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Hello, please take a seat. My name is Ash Patel. Can you tell me your full name, please? Hello, Mr. Ash. My name is Li Junchen. Can you tell me where you're from? China. Can I see your identification please? Yes. Here's my passport. Thank you. That's fine. Now, I would like to ask you some general questions. Let's talk about what you do. Do you work or are you a student? Actually, I'm studying in Hong Kong University for program English.

How long have you been studying there? Just six months till now. Actually this is my first semester. What do you like about studying there? It's a nice place to study there. It's a nice room and my teachers are nice. I like my friends and yeah, it's a good place and I like it. Is your university close to your home? Yes, my home is in five minutes from the college How do you travel? I travel bus Just ten minutes but there's much traffic on roads

Now let's talk about food. What kind of food do you like to eat? I like to eat dim sum. It's national food in this country. Why? Because... It's very delicious and it's traditional. What sorts of new food would you like to try? I'm not sure about that, but maybe I would like to try some Mexican food. like um vegeta why um i'm interested in mexican food because i like the spicy and

I'm interested with these national dishes and some friends talk about it and so I'm interested in try this dish. And do you cook for yourself? Actually, not too much. I actually just like to eat. Cooking, I'm not good. My mother is good. I'm not cooking. Why not? I don't like... I don't know how cook and I didn't like to cooking. Do you prefer eating at home or in restaurants?

actually I prefer my mom cooking because it's great cooker and there's a benefit at home but sometimes I don't have someone to cook so I just eat food in restaurant. What type of restaurants do you like? Usually I like like pizzas, burgers, and noodles. Lots of food like that. Now let's talk about friends. What do you like to do with your friends? Usually going to cinema and watch together film and sometimes have dinner. Why?

Because we have good time and we laugh, we talk a lot. Have you kept in contact with friends you had as a child? Not really. Because... We have a lot of chance to get on with new friends in their lives. No Why not? Because I come from Shenzhen and now I live in Hong Kong and university in Hong Kong So I have chance to make lots of friends and I enjoy very much How do you usually communicate with your friends? It depends

Some I see everyday in class or library, so speak to each other. Friends not in Hong Kong, I text my phone or use online. What do you think a good friend is? I think support each other. Like I feel sad and my friends helps me and ask. If I okay or not? Thank you. Now, I'm going to give you a topic and I would like you to talk about it for one to two minutes. You will have one minute to prepare and you can write notes if you want. Do you understand? Yes.

Okay, here is your card and some paper to write some notes. I would like you to describe a hobby that you enjoy doing.

Can you start speaking now? I like and I have one hobby that I like very much. It is good for me and also my friends. It is playing football. I like it too much. Playing football is a good hobby because you must run and jump and everything in your body is just moving. and after this when you finish football you will be happy and hungry and you should be playing football with other people so everybody will enjoy this way but there is also

bad way about football if you have injury. It is the bad thing about football. My friends and I play club in Hong Kong. it is very good club and we win lots all my friends watch and that's good we win I also like watch football on TV. I like many many clubs like Barcelona, Liverpool, PSG, but my favorite is Barcelona. I also play games computer and at home weekends I like too many computer games and I also play friends

We play car and war games. I like too much computer games. Thank you. Do you play football very often?

Yes, one time or two times, or weeks. We've been talking about your hobby, and now I would like us to talk about hobbies and interests in general. Do you think having a hobby is a benefit for people's social lives? Yes, I think so. Yeah, it has benefit. It's good for health. And if you play football, you can do a lot of exercise. For the big. For the small. The short. And the tall. Peacemakers. Risk takers. For the optimists. Pessimists. For long distance love. For introverts.

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Yes, actually, if you do a lot of time on football or hobby, you will waste your time. Its advantage will be disadvantage. And if you have too much time, you will lose your work. How? Perhaps you're late for work and your boss is angry. Why do you think it's important to have a hobby? To make life interesting. Without your hobby your life will be very boring and not interesting. You need something else. You just go to...

college and go home and go to work, that's not good life. Why not? Because it's important to try new things, to exercise, to learn things. and not just work and sleep only. Let's talk about leisure time now. In your country, do people have a lot of leisure time? It depends. Some companies are very loose, so you have too much time for your leisure time. But some companies are very strict, you have to work very long hours.

And you have no time for anything else. You just sleep. Do you think people in your country have good work-life balance? Sorry? Is there a good balance between working and relaxing in your country? Only if you work in those good companies, I suppose. Why is that? Because some companies are very strict. You have to work long hours, but other companies...

only small hours and many holidays. Would you think people have more free time in your country now compared to the past? Yes, I think so. Yeah, I think... they have more free time, not like in the past, like my grandfather. He can't have any free time in the past, like now.

now we have more free time because technology makes everything faster and in the past it takes more time to finish things so we have more free time right now Can you give me an example? My grandfather He's a farmer and He gets up sign up work all days no machines like now now farms very very big and have very big machine do all the work and not like using hands like grandfather. Do you think people will have more or less free time in the future?

Actually, I think it will have more time. Technology every day is developed and we don't need to do anything like before. In the future, some technology will do everything. We just do our hobby. What type of technology? Robots. Robots can do all the work in house, in business. What type of work? In house? Robots can do clean all house and fridge tell shop. food we need and shops send food so nobody go to shop and at work robots build robots can build everything like a car plane

not human, and computer can do much work in office. Thank you. That is the end of the speaking test. Thank you.