Band 6: What do you do in your leisure time? (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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I tend to watch a lot of YouTube videos in my leisure time because watching YouTube has become a hobby of mine. Literally scrolling down and down, all the new content that comes up in my feed is quite interesting. I'm a person who's addicted to knowing more about unknown things. Let's say I'm interested in... Why am I thinking so much? I'm interested in exploring unknown things, things that are new. I find them pretty fascinating. There are so many mysteries in the world that we could explore. When you have the ability to see them, it's geography. For example, I recently came across this one video where a scuba diver goes very deep down to the ocean floor and finds this one particular ocean specimen. It was super long, something I have never seen before. It had glowy skin that sparkled in its surroundings. That was quite interesting to watch because YouTube, through its algorithm, somehow always tends to amaze me. Most of the time, I'm quite speechless when I'm exposed to such videos, and I'm glad I do this. Other than that, I speak like this, like a dog right now, within this website to improve my English speaking ability. I also do origami, which is fun.

Actual audio transcript (What native speakers are likely to hear):

I tend to watch a lot of YouTube videos in my lazy time because watching YouTube has become a hobby of mine. Literally scrolling down and down and all the new content which comes up to my feed are quite interesting. I’m a person who’s addicted to knowing more of unknown things. Let’s say I’m interested in… Why am I thinking so much? I’m interested in exploring unknown things. Things that are new. And I find them pretty fascinating. There are so many mysteries in the world that we could… When you have the ability to see them, it’s geography. For example, I recently came across this one video where the scuba diver goes very deep down the ocean floor and he finds this one particular ocean specimen. And it’s super long. It is something I have never seen before. It was long. It had a glowy skin. The skin just sparked a lot of its surroundings. And that was quite interesting to watch because YouTube, through its algorithm, somehow just always tends to amaze me. And most of the time I’m quite speechless when it comes to when I’m exposed to such videos. And I’m glad I do this. Other than that, I speak like this, like a dog right now, within this website to improve my English chocking ability. And I do origami too. That’s fun.

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