IELTS Speaking for Success - 🚙 Car trips (S05E27) + Transcript

Episode Date: June 7, 2021

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Hello, Sunshine. I'm Maria. I'm not Maria. I'm Rory. We are both the host of the AILP Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast themes to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way. We started this podcast to give you super vocabulary and delicious grammar to boost your English. Rory, don't you remember the conversation we had about going on a car trip?

Yes, I do. Oh my God, are we going on one? Yes, let's do that in July. Excellent. Yay! What a coincidence again! Because in this episode we're going to be talking about car trips. We should. Rory, last week you gave us a masterclass on how to do product placement in podcasts. Could you give us another one this week, maybe?

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Woo-hoo. Let's talk about car trips now. Rory, do you like traveling by car? Oh, and I'm not the one doing the driving I do, especially by taxi in Moscow. I love looking at the window and enjoying the views of the city as they were all past. I'll really miss them when I have to leave, actually. What's the farthest place you've traveled to by car? Oh, we used to travel to a village in England where one of our friends lived and that, well, it seemed to take forever anyway at the time.

I think it was about 300 miles or something, which isn't much when you think about it, especially if you're living in Russia. But when I was a child, it seemed like a lot. Do you like to sit in the front or back when you are traveling by car? Oh, God, in the front if I can help it, I sometimes get motion sickness and I like having more room for my feet. but sometimes others with more severe issues sort of take precedence and I'm quite happy to let them do that When do you usually travel by car? Oh, whenever I can.

Like I said, I really love taking taxis in Moscow. It's really decadent, I know, but I love it. They get me from A to B with minimal effort. When will your next car trip be? That's a good question. Probably tonight after we leave the studio. Thank you, Rory, for your answers. No problem.

So, car trips is one of the recent, I outspicking topics. So the new topics appeared at the beginning of May. So we're delivering fresh topics to you. Okay. Car trips. You said that I like traveling by car. And, yeah, first of all, we say travel by car or have a car trip, right? Yeah, that's the language you should know.

So, Rory said, I like car. trips when I'm not doing the driving. So you do the driving. Isn't that some kind of, there's an expression for this kind of, there's an expression for this kind of expression. Do the driving. No, when I'm the one doing the, doing the driving, I do. Is that not inversion or something like that? Or like, it's, there's something. No, this is not inversion. This is not the conditional. It's nice though. Yeah. It's like do for emphasis. When I'm not the one doing the driving, I do. When I'm not the one doing the cooking I do. So that could be a nice way of sort of paraphrasing a question.

Yes. So instead of saying yes, when I'm not the one doing the I do. Yeah. Because I do, because do you like traveling by car? Blah, blah, blah, blah. I do. So I do like traveling by car. Yeah, this is really cool. They roll past. Who a roll past? What rolls past?

Well, here are the views of the city roll past. so it's like it doesn't seem like the car is moving. It seems like you're moving. Do you know what else rolls past? What? The time when you're doing our podcourse. Successful.com forward slash podcourse. It's all about phrasal verbs.

Roll past is a phrasal verb. I love it. Right. I don't know what to say to listen. We move on to our next phrasal verb, which is used to. Oh, it's like a phrasal verb. It's like a phrasal verb. There's a verb in a preposition.

Oh, no. Oh. Yes. It's its own special structure. But it was a phrasal verb at the start. and then it became its own structure. The history of the English language woman. Have you just made it up?

No, that's a fact. Did you go to university to study the English language? No, it starts as a... Did you spend five bloody years at university? Do you have a teaching degree? It started as a phrasal verb and then sort of... What's the word? Not metastasized, maybe fossilized or something like that, into this structure.

What? Yeah. Used or used to be a phrasal verb? Mm-hmm. Used or used to be a phrasal verb. Ha, ha, ha. Okay, I'm so googling this because I think it's a... It shares features of phrasal verbs.

How about that? Like, used to is a set structure, and also we have ING and infinitive, for example, enjoy doing. So the verb pattern is an G form. Yeah, it's fixed. I pretend to do something, so it's infinitive. Verb plus infinitive or verbs plus gerent. Yeah, but like it's... Oh, we'll do a grammar for success one day.

Let's just forget this whole five minutes. I'm going to Google it, all right? So, yeah, we'll get it sorted out. However, I said used to. Used to, yeah. So we used to travel to a village in England by car. So, and now Rory doesn't go to a village by car because he lives in Moscow for a month. One more month.

Although maybe by the time people are listening to this, I'll be away. you said that sometimes you get motion sickness you get sick because the car moves or what yeah so motion sickness is well people call it feeling car sick sometimes it's when you're not focusing on the movement in front of you so you might be reading a book or something while the car is going so the fluid in your ears registers that the car is moving but your vision doesn't match up with what your ears are feeling and this confusion makes you sick. Wow. Yeah, people can get sea sick.

It's the same idea. It's the same thing. But you fix it by looking at the horizon. Hmm. Interesting. It restores the equilibrium in your senses. Equilibrium. It just means everything works together.

It's not really... Yeah, and you can sit in the front and in the back or at the back. Yeah. You can sit at the back of the car or you can sit at the front of the car. So the proposition is at or in? Well, to be honest, you can say in or at the front. It doesn't matter. Really?

But more common, they use at. The most important thing is that you'll say in the front, in the back. Not in front of the car. If you sit in front of the car, then you won't be sitting for very long. You'll be dead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In front of the car or you just go out and then you stand in front of the car. If you sit at the front, if you sit at the front, you have more room for your feet.

Yes. You have more leg room. Yeah, you have more leg room. Yeah. The same at the inside the plane. You have more leg room and you pay extra money. But you don't pay extra money for your leg room in the car, I hope. No.

Good. It's very decadent. What does it mean decadent? Decadent. It's like you've spent an excessive amount of money on something that you really shouldn't have just because it's so luxurious. So, for example, getting taxis everywhere is quite decadent. smoking a cigar.

It's decadent. It's quite decadent because you just spent a lot of money on it and it's not really worth it, but it looks nice. So when I talk about traveling by car, I can also mention taking taxi, taxis, right? Yeah, why not? Because it's a car trip, so I usually take a taxi. I don't drive. I take taxis.

Yeah. Because I'm lazy. Yeah, you just throw money at people. To make my problems go away. How beautiful is that? Capitalism for the win. One of the questions was about what's the farthest place you've traveled by car? So the farthest place is like this faraway place, like the farthest place you've been to, you've traveled by car, right?

Can I say the furthest place? Yeah. They're used to mean the same thing. There's probably some small difference in meaning, but to be honest with you, it's not that. Yeah, usually further we use about details, for example. I need further details. But about distances, we use far. So far, the farthest place I've traveled by car.

Don't forget to use present perfect. So you can say, the farthest place I've traveled by car is Mormonsk or Vladivostok. Is it? No. I can not imagine what car trip to Vladivostok would be like, God. I went to the south of Moscow. Vladivostok, it's like 14 days by car. Yay.

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Rory, do you like travelling by car? Oh, and I'm not the one doing the driving I do, especially by taxi in Moscow. I love looking at the window and enjoying the views of the city as they were all past. I'll really miss them when I have to leave, actually. What's the farthest place you've traveled to by car? Oh, we used to travel to a village in England where one of our friends lived, and that, well, it seemed to take forever anyway at the time.

I think it was about 300 miles or something, which isn't much when you think about it, especially if you're living in Russia. But when I was a child, it seemed like a lot. Do you like to sit in the front or back when you are traveling by car? Oh, God, in the front, if I can help it, I sometimes get motion sickness, and I like having more. room for my feet. But sometimes others with more severe issues sort of take precedence, and I'm quite happy to let them do that. When do you usually travel by car? Oh, whenever I can. Like I said, I really love taking taxis in Moscow. It's really decadent, I know, but I love it. They get me from A to B with minimal effort.

When will your next car trip be? That's a good question. Probably tonight after we leave the studio.