Part 1 · Band 4

What hobbies do you enjoy in your free time?

Source-reported band score · 46 words

Sample answer

Hello, good afternoon. What do you enjoy in your free time? My leisure time includes a lot of activities, such as what I feel or my mom's help with health workers. I enjoy watching K-dramas because they are very beautiful and make my life feel useful.

Answer analysis

Fluency & Coherence

The answer starts with a greeting and repeats the question before naming one clear hobby: “I enjoy watching K-dramas.” The next sentence introduces several possible activities, but “what I feel or my mom's help with health workers” is difficult to follow, so the response does not develop those ideas clearly. Practise a 30-second answer: name two activities, give one reason for each, and add one simple detail.

Lexical Resource

The answer uses relevant words such as “free time,” “activities,” and “watching K-dramas,” and “beautiful” gives a reason for enjoying them. However, “my leisure time includes a lot of activities” is wordy, while “make my life feel useful” is an unusual collocation. The phrase about “my mom's help with health workers” is also unclear. Practise a few natural hobby-and-reason phrases and use them in complete examples.

Grammatical Range & Accuracy

Simple sentence patterns are mostly understandable, including “I enjoy watching K-dramas because they are very beautiful.” However, “such as what I feel or my mom's help with health workers” does not form a clear parallel list, and the final clause could connect more smoothly to its subject. Build sentences with a clear subject and verb, then check that examples after “such as” have matching grammatical forms.

Pronunciation

Pronunciation cannot be assessed from this text, so this is a practice guide, not an assessment of a recording. Practise the word stress in “activities” and “beautiful,” and group the answer into thought units: “In my free time / I enjoy watching K-dramas / because I find them beautiful.” Record yourself reading it, mark the stressed syllables, then listen back and check that each phrase is easy to understand.

A transcript shows language and organisation. Fluency, delivery and pronunciation require an audio recording; the synthetic voice demonstrates the text, not the original speaker.

  • Answer the hobby question directly in your first sentence instead of repeating it back.
  • Add one specific detail about K-dramas, such as when you watch them or what you enjoy about them.
  • Clarify what you mean by the activities involving your feelings, your mum, and health workers; use a short, complete sentence for each idea.

Plan your answer

Try your own response before reading the samples.

Ideas to explore

  • Explain how you discover recipes, for example, by watching YouTube channels.
  • Describe what you enjoy about cooking, such as the smell and taste of the dishes.
  • Say why preparing meals is a satisfying or enjoyable way to spend free time.

Suggested structure

  1. Name your favourite hobby directly.
  2. Explain where or how you learned to do it.
  3. Describe one or two parts of the activity that you enjoy.
  4. Finish with a short overall reason the hobby matters to you.
Useful vocabulary & examples
put a recipe into practice
to try following a recipe in real life

I enjoy finding recipes online and putting them into practice.

combine ingredients
to mix or use different foods together

I like learning how different ingredients can be combined.

a cooking technique
a particular method used to prepare food

Watching recipe videos can help me learn a new cooking technique.

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