IELTS Preparation Series 3, Episode 9: Speaking Coherently

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Hello, and welcome to Study English, IELTS Preparation. I'm Margot Politis.

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Today we'll look at some aspects of discussing a topic, which is something you are expected

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to do in Part 3 of the IELTS Speaking Test.

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In Part 3 of the Speaking Test you participate in a two-way discussion to test your ability

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to discuss a topic in depth in a number of ways. These may include speculating,

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comparing and contrasting or identifying a trend.

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The speaker in the next clip identifies a trend. What is the trend?

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The fastest-growing area of identity fraud is in internet services, such as people breaking

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into Internet banking accounts, credit card fraud over the internet, people using fraudulent

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credit cards, fraudulent identities to, essentially, break into other people's accounts and, essentially,

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steal their money.

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The trend he's identified is the fastest-growing crime in the world, identity fraud.

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If we listen further he explains why it's a problem.

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The traditional way to protect internet banking and other secure applications is through passwords

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and PIN numbers. And these are totally inadequate in an area where identity-related fraud is

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growing at such a high rate.

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He tells us it's a problem because the traditional ways to protect internet banking are inadequate.

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But he has a solution. Let's hear what it is.

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What we've actually developed here is a technology that allows us to analyse a person's voice

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- a person that is actually sitting at their computer screen accessing a secure website.

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We're able to analyse their voice in order to confirm