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Band 7+: What's the colour you dislike

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I don't prefer to use white color because it gets dirty too easily and is hard to maintain. Additionally, in my culture, people use white color for funerals.

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I don’t prefer to use white color for it gets dirty too easily and it is hard to keep in addition to this in my cultural people you to utilize white color in a funeral.

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Vocabulary Complexity:
B2 - Upper Intermediate
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Vocabulary Repetition:

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color: 2

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Pronunciation

6.5

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Task Response

This is an excellent response. You have provided a clear and well-developed answer, explaining your dislike of the color white with relevant cultural context and practical reasons. The answer is natural and easy to understand.

Fluency & Coherence

The answer is coherent and mostly fluent. Minor improvements could be made by using smoother transitions between ideas. For example, instead of 'in addition to this,' a more natural phrase like 'Furthermore,' or 'Moreover,' could be used. The slight hesitation and repetition ('it is hard to keep') could be avoided with more preparation.

Lexical Resource

The vocabulary is adequate and mostly accurate. Words like 'maintain' instead of 'keep' would enhance precision. More sophisticated vocabulary could be used to describe the dislike of white, such as 'I find white aesthetically unappealing' or 'I have an aversion to white'.

Grammatical Range & Accuracy

There are some grammatical inaccuracies. The phrase 'it gets dirty too easily and it is hard to keep' should be improved for parallelism ('it gets dirty too easily and is hard to maintain'). The sentence structure could be more varied. Using more complex sentence structures would improve the grammatical range.

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