Band 7+: 4. Did you take music lessons?

Your pronunciation is quite good. Working on consistency and tackling difficult sounds may enhance clarity.

The answer directly addresses the question and provides a clear, logical progression of information. You successfully expanded on the topic by discussing your past experiences in different stages of education, which adds depth to the response. To maintain this level, continue to use specific details and temporal markers (like 'In kindergarten' or 'when we moved to') to structure your explanations naturally.

You answered the question directly and provided a logical progression of time (from kindergarten to high school), which helps the coherence. However, there were some slight hesitations and a bit of repetition in the structure. To reach a higher band, try to use more varied discourse markers to connect your ideas rather than just 'But' or 'Because'.

You used a very good phrase: 'memory-intensive subjects.' This shows an ability to use less common lexical items. However, you made a mistake with 'music instrument' (should be 'musical instrument'). To improve, try to use more synonyms for 'music lessons' or 'subjects' to avoid repetition.

This is your main area for improvement. There were several tense consistency errors. Since you are talking about your past schooling, you should have used the past tense (e.g., 'music lessons *were*' instead of 'is', and 'when we *moved*' instead of 'move'). Additionally, 'music lessons is' is a subject-verb agreement error. Work on ensuring that when you establish a past context, all subsequent verbs remain in the past tense.