IELTS Speaking for Success - 🎂 Cakes (S10E02) + Transcript

Episode Date: January 21, 2024

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Hello, lovely, I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we are the host of the IELT Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast that aims to help improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you delicious grammar and yummy vocabulary. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, for your high ILD school. Rory, are you ready to get started? Yeah, it'll be a piece of cake.

A piece of cake? Let's talk about cake, dear listener, again for the third time. We talked about cakes in May 2020 and in March 2020, Deleasona. So, this is Cakes Part 3, starring Rory Tequila Godzilla and Maria cheesecake tiramisu. Have you ever made a cake yourself? Oh, not in a boat. I think 20 years? And even then, I had help from my parents. I think the closest thing I've come to making in terms of something like a cake was Sierniki, and that's like a Russian

cheese dessert, I suppose. But nothing like a cake. I'm absolutely useless at baking. I hate to think of the kind of mayhem that would ensue of I tried baking a cake in the kitchen. Even my Serniki turned out burned, and that's a very simple recipe. Do you like cakes? Every now and then, yeah. But I don't eat them terribly often because my gut bacteria don't respond very well to that much sugar in me and I get all bloated and feel ill. But it's nice to have something sweet every now and then, and then abstain for another three months. Did you like cakes when you were a child? Yeah, a bit too much, probably.

I remember my grandmother would give us cakes almost every time we went to visit. I like the icing in particular, which is basically just pure sugar. and that is not good if you had, or if you're a child with poor impulse control, which I definitely was. Do you eat cakes or other sweet things after a meal? Well, as you might have guessed by now, not really, no. I think the closest thing is the bland protein flapjack I have every day. Although I'm fine with that, because I think it makes me appreciate the rare sweet things when I do have them. So it's not so bad.

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a cake. Yum, yum, yum. We can have a homemade cake, okay, for example, or a slice of cake, a slice of cake, a slice of cake. Rory told us that he is useless at making cakes. I'm useless at baking cakes. I am. Useless, I am not good. I can't bake. I mean, I could do it for myself, but if I baked for other people, I would be so worried I would poison them, so I just don't do this. So I'm not good at making cakes. I'm no, I'm useless at baking cakes. When I do this, a cake turns out to be burned. So my cakes turn out to be burnt. Turn out, they kind of happen. Well, my serenicky turned out burned. My cakes, I don't even want to imagine what that would be like. I've not made one in a very long time. Um, so God only knows what would happen. You can say,

that once I was making a cake, a cheesecake, once a Rory was making sireniki. Serniki is, well, they call it like Russian curd cheese pancakes. It's not a dessert. It's not. Oh, I thought it was. I'm sorry. No, it's not a dessert.

It just goes to show. You don't have to be factually correct when you're giving an answer to Niles question. You just have to make sure that you use the appropriate vocabulary. And if not then, I did say it's. kind of like or it's a kind of so it's not exactly what I said. Mayhem is a very good word. So every time I try to bake something, there is mayhem or I create mayhem. Yes. So mayhem is like, well, it's similar to chaos or just a really unregulated and disorderly situation, which is exactly what would be the case if I did some baking because I don't

have a clue what to do, even if I followed the recipe book. It would just be a mess. Do some baking. Okay? I did some baking when I was a child. For example. I sometimes have cakes. Rory, what did you say? You didn't say sometimes, but you said something else. What did I say? Oh yeah, every now and then. Every now and then. Like, do you have cakes? Every now and then. Like, sometimes, not often, not always, sometimes. If you don't, then you can speak about your gut bacteria. Gut is like inside your stomach. No, inside your belly, you have guts here. And Rory has some bacteria in his guts and his bacteria don't respond well to sugar, to

cakes. And Rory gets all bloated. So when you get bloated, you get bloated, you, You feel an expansion of your stomach. It's not very pleasant. It's not a nice feeling. Yeah, so kind of like, like a balloon, I usually get bloated and ill after I eat a cake. Anything with sugar. And then worry has to abstain for three months

or abstain from sugar for a year. I might be exaggerating slightly there. When you abstain from something, what do you do? You just don't do it or don't have it for a period of time. So usually I don't eat that much sugar. Maybe not terribly often. I said once every three months, but that was just kind of a joke. It's probably maybe once every two weeks or so.

It's not often. You could say it's once in a blue moon. When you abstain from something, you don't do something enjoyable. Okay? So I have to abstain from sugar. I love sugar. I have to abstain from coffee or from smoking, from alcohol, usually from these kind of things, which you enjoy. Can you abstain from English? You can, but only if you, I mean, you'd have to lock yourself in a dark room because English is everywhere now, isn't it?

Dear Listen, here you can show off your vocabulary about cakes. I usually eat New York cheese cake or chocolate cake or carrot cake. Carot cake will be very good. Walnuts. Walnuts, like kind of types of nuts. Or I prefer cupcakes, like little cakes, cupcakes. Or I prefer gluten-free cakes, gluten-free or vegan cakes. You can also say, like, apple and strawberry crumble. Crumble is a kind of type of cake.

Like a vegan banana cake. Like choose like two types of cakes, which are kind of like nice. Like a strawberry crumble. You see, like nice vocabulary. Also, Rory, did you know the recent trends in cake industry? No, how does this? Well, you should, okay? In addition to everything else that you're doing, like getting ready for IELs,

you should also follow the cake industry. Well, you speak about cakes in the, what, so 22nd century, 21st century now. So, Dillison, I'm going to tell you now, I've researched. Now, shaped cakes are really popular. shaped, you can get a cake with any shape you want. Okay? So, for example, a dinosaur cake. A cake with the shape of a dinosaur.

Or, like, they're called dimensional sculpted cakes. 3D cakes. 3D, dear listener. Okay? For example, a cake in the shape of freaking Titanic. Who has the time? and money for this. No, people do that.

Believe me, there are like many companies now. So, it's Rory's birthday. What kind of cake are we going to give to Rory for his birthday? A regular cake, please. I don't want anything like the Titanic. A cake in the shape of a Scottish flag. A kilt cake. A cake in the shape of a kilt or a backpipe.

So, dear listen. So, there are all. kinds of designs. So please, if you want to be interesting, mention this in the test when they ask you about cakes. So there are three-dimensional 3D cakes, sculpted cakes. You can get a cake in the shape of anything. I would love to have a cake in the shape of a football or a cheeseburger. Also, dear listener, they put edible photographs on cakes. For example, a photo of me, a photo of me, a photo of Rory on your cake and you can yam, yum, yam, yam, yam. You can eat those photos, dear listener. So they print your photo with edible colors. Edible colors on edible paper. Edible, you can eat it.

Yum, yum, yum. Can we try and use that in one of the questions then? Go on, ask me. All right, Rory, so do you often eat cakes? Ah, no, I think the last time I had a cake was, Oh, it must have been at my birthday party. And on that, on the icing, there was like a photo printed on it with edible ink. So we could eat the photo. There you go.

You see, much more interesting. You're in the trend. Our podcast gives you the recent trends in cakes, sunglasses, well, pretty much shoes, hair, anything you want. When I was a child, I ate cake a bit too much. Yes. Too much cake, dear listener. So, Rory, tell us, can I use cake without an article? Yeah, it's uncountable.

Cake. Okay, like love. I need love, I need cake in my life. Like in general, cake. What is the icing? It's usually the sugary covering on top of the sponge is how I am going to describe it. There's probably some baker somewhere going to go

or having a nervous breakdown because I've just given the wrong description. But it's the closest thing I can think of. Yeah, so if you have your cake, something like on top, you know, of different colors, so it's like an icing, an icing or just icing. Just icing or the icing. The icing, yeah, not an icing, no, it's just icing or the icing on a cake. It's an idiom as well. The icing on the cake is something positive in a situation that's all,

already good. So a cake is good, but icing, because it's got sugar in it and it tastes nice, is something that makes it even better. Could you give us an example of this idiom? The podcast is good, but the icing on the cake is you can take classes with me if you look at the link in the description below. Self-promotion. Super grammar for you, dear listener, is to use wood about the past. So the examiner asks you, did you eat cakes when you wore a child? Past. So you can say, I used to eat cakes in the past, a regular action in the past, or my grandmother would give me cakes. Would give me cakes. It means my grandma gave me cakes when I was a child.

All right? So this is super advanced. Or my parents would give me a lot of sweets or cakes and I ate them. As a child, Rory had poor impulse control. Well, most children have poor impulse control, don't they? You can't control yourself, so you just like keep eating eating things in an uncontrollable way. I had poor impulse control.

After a meal, after dinner, breakfast, lunch, you can have some sweets. And Rory told us that he usually has a bland protein flapjack. What? It's not a cake. It is something that people eat. It's made with oats, compressed like that. This one's got a bit of chocolate on the top, but it's dark chocolate. It's bland, so it's not got much flavor to it, or not as much as a cake, I would say.

Yeah, deal is now. So you can mention all different kinds of sweet things, like protein bars or muffins, brownies, cookies, fruit tarts. Tarts, like little thingies. and they have fruit on top, pies, okay, like protein musli bars, dear listener, and all like different, you know, like sweets, like chocolate. And a nice thing to say is, as you might have guessed by now. So the examiner asks you a question and then you go like, As you might have guessed by now, dear examiner.

Yeah, it's just another way of saying I'm just going to give you, a very similar answer to everything I've given you before, because I don't do much baking and I'm not very good at it. Could you say it again, like naturally with your beautiful Scottish accent? As you might have guessed by now, not regularly. Dear listener, could you tell us what kind of cake would you like to him? Could you write it down in the comments, let's go wild and crazy? Hmm, I would like a cake in the shape of a dragon.

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Buy yours at gotransit.com slash tickets. Have you ever made a cake yourself? Oh, not in about, I think, 20 years? And even then, I had help from my parents. I think the closest thing I've come to making in terms of something like a cake was Sierniki, and that's like a Russian cheese dessert, I suppose. But nothing like a cake. I'm absolutely useless at baking.

I hate to think of the kind of mayhem that would ensue if I tried baking a cake in the kitchen. Even my Sernicke turned out burned, and that's a very simple recipe. Do you like cakes? Every now and then, yeah, but I don't eat them terribly often because my gut bacteria don't respond very well to that much sugar in me and I get all bloated and feel ill. But it's nice to have something sweet every now and then, and then abstain for another three months. Did you like cakes when you were a child? Yeah, a bit too much, probably. I remember my grandmother would give us cakes almost every time we went to visit.

I like the icing in particular, which is basically just pure sugar. And that is not good if you had, or if you're a child with poor impulse control, which I definitely was. Do you eat cakes or other sweet things after a meal? Well, as you might have guessed by now, not really no. I have, I think the closest thing is the bland protein flapjack I have every day. Although I'm fine with that, because I think it makes me appreciate. the rare sweet things when I do have them.

So it's not so bad.