IELTS Speaking for Success - 💬 Chatting (S09E27) + Transcript

Episode Date: November 13, 2023

Do you like chatting with friends? What do you usually chat about with friends? Do you prefer to chat with a group of people or with one friend? Do you prefer to communicate face-to-face or via social media? What will you do if you disagree with others? Tune in and have a great day! - Book a class with Rory here: https://successwithielts.com/rory Get exclusive episodes on IELTS Speaking parts 1, 2, and 3: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s09e27 Our IELTS Writing course: https://linktr.ee/wfspremium Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2023 Success with IELTS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello Sunshine, I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we're the host of the IEL Speaking for Success Podcasts. The podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and super vocabulary for your high IELS school. Your band nine score. So what have you been up to, Rory? Tell me.

Me? Oh, well, so far this morning, I went to the gym. And I got ready for the podcast. What about you? Yeah, I just like woke up, I think, about, like, an hour ago. Had my coffee. Do you wake up, like, super early or still quite later in the day? No, not really.

Sometimes, like, at 8. m., sometimes 9, sometimes 10, sometimes 12. All right, right, right, guys, enough. Let's get on with your episode. Enough chatting. Fine. Enough chatting? What?

Shall we talk about chatting? That's a coincidence. What a coincidence. Ah, did you hear that voice of the third person? Of God. That's our Vanya, our super Vanya, who makes this podcast possible. Let's talk about chatting. Do you like chatting with friends?

Yeah, it's fun to shoot the breeze when you're relaxing. You can catch up and come up with new ideas for things you'd like to do in the future. What do usually chat about with friends? Well, the finer details are kind of private, but nothing particularly out of the ordinary. It's all very run-of-the-mill stuff like hobbies, relationships, things that are going on at work, and what we're getting up to in general and what we've been up to since we were last together. Do you prefer to chat with a group of people or with one friend? Well, if we're going for depth, then probably a one-on-one experience would be better.

because you can talk for longer and, well, like I said, in greater depth than you would if it was a group of people. However, if it's just people chit-chatting at a party, for example, then I think a group would be fine. Do you prefer to communicate face-to-face or via social media? Well, similar to what I said before, really. If it's important, then face-to-face would be the ideal. However, it was just random conversation or sharing memes, then social media would work.

I mean, it's what is designed for. What will you do if you disagree with others? Well, in the course of a casual conversation with a friend, that seems rather unlikely. Although if it did happen, then I suppose I would just steer the conversation in a direction towards something we agree on. Dear listener, we have our premium. episodes for you. This week, in Speaking Part 2, we are discussing a famous athlete, you know. Yes, this is a fresh Speaking Part 2 topic, and in Speaking Part 3, we are discussing athletes, sports

in general. Do check out our premium. The links are in the description. Chating, Dele-Sena. So chat with friends. What synonyms do we have here? So we can chat with friends or you can shoot the breeze. It's fun to sit and shoot the breeze. Shoot the breeze is a very informal, nice synonym to chat with friends or shoot the breeze. So when we chat to people, it may just be chatting. Nothing serious, you just like, blah, blah, you just chat about everything in the world. Or you shoot the breeze.

Rory, give us a sentence, how can I use this idiom? Sometimes it's fun to just sit with your friends and shoot the breeze for a while. What else? Was that not good enough for you? I just prefer. For meeting my friends, shooting the breeze. And shooting the breeze. Oh, good parallelism there.

Meeting, shooting. You can also say talk with friends or chit-chat with friends. So chit-chat with friends. A more formal synonym would be have a conversation with people. What if I say chatter? Chatter. Would it be a synonym to chat with friends? Chatter?

No, I think chattering is more of a sound, to be honest with you. You hear it in the background. people chattering in the background, but that describes the kind of noise, or your teeth chatter when you're cold and you're, uh, uh, uh, uh, this is a common experience in Scotland and Russia at this time of year. Or I can say, for example, like, stop this chatter. Yes, but then you're referring to the noise, not, um, anything specific like the conversation, it's just the blithering.

You can also say gossip. So gossip with your friends about other people, so when we discuss other people behind the bags. So, oh, you know this Sarah? Oh, she married this Bob. You know, and this is like, sometimes we gossip, or sometimes I gossip with my friends, we can catch up on things. So when you meet your friends, you chitch chat with them and you catch up on things, you catch up, like you talk about what they had before, what's going on now, so we just catch up on things. But it's fun with prepositions because you catch up on things, but you've got to catch up with people. So just be careful because on is for the subject and with is for the thing that you do together.

Could you use it in a sentence? It's fun to catch up on recent events or I try to catch up with my friends at least once a week. We come up with new ideas. We create new ideas. We invent something new. So we come up with new ideas while we're chatting away. So to chat away also is a synonym, yeah? Is it? So we just chat away forever. But that's like talking about the length of time you spend talking. What do you usually chat about with your friends? Well, about IELD, dear, examine her.

And here, Rory told us just about, like, run-of-the-mill stuff. So I usually talk about run-of-the-mill stuff. Yes. But run-of-the-mill is just normal things to talk about. Most people talk about their relationships or their work with people. I think that's the two most common things. You can talk about other things, but I don't think you would talk about them for very long.

So run of the mill, ordinary, nothing special. And usually people chat about what? About other people, relationships, friends, work, their flat, their children, family. Or you can also say, I usually talk about our mutual interests. Mutual interests we have together. Yeah. So Rory and I often talk about podcasts, our podcast. So this is something like we have in common, right? Usually we talk about something we have in common or we discuss our mutual interests or we gossip about people. Yeah? So we talk about other people. Or you can say I enjoy discussing my feelings with my friends. I share my experiences like what I've been up to. So I am. I've been up to what I've been doing.

And Rory told us what we've been getting up to. So we usually talk about what we've been getting up to. But that's just what we've been doing. Yeah, we usually talk about what we've been doing, present perfect continuous, or what we've been getting up to. You can also say we enjoy talking about what we've been up to. So what are you up to or what have you been up to? we enjoy discussing what we've been up to, what we've been doing.

We can chat with a group of people or with one person. So here, if we are going for depth, so if you have some philosophical conversations, if we are going for depth, then one on one experience. So one on one experience, you are talking to one person, right? So you can discuss things in greater depth. So in greater details. To discuss things in great detail or in greater depth, I prefer one-on-one experience.

But if it's just chitch-chatting, I can talk to a group of people. So just chitch-chatting, just shooting the breeze, communicate face-to-face or communicate via social media. Rory, also, what do I say? I talk to people on WhatsApp, by WhatsApp, via WhatsApp. Oh, on WhatsApp because it's the internet. So everything is on when it comes to the internet, which is funny because it's got the word in the word internet,

but it's always on the internet, on WhatsApp, on Facebook, on Instagram. So whatever app you have, I talk to people on blind, then you name the name of this app application you have. Maybe you talk to people on Facebook or on Telegram, on Instagram. Could you write in the comments? what social media platform are you using to talk to people? Okay, so I usually chat with people on, ta-t-ta, right in the comments.

Face-to-face communication would be best if blah, blah, blah. Yeah, or if it's just random conversation, random about anything. So if it's random conversation, social media is perfect, for example. I don't know why it's perfect, to be honest with you. thinking when I gave that answer, but I suppose if you're talking to random people on the internet, then some distance would be good, so social media does that. We can also say social media is designed for sharing memes, for sharing pictures, for like random conversations, oh, just shooting the breeze.

A casual conversation with a friend. A casual, like is informal, is like nothing serious. So if it's a casual conversation like casual clothes, trainers and jeans. It's such a strange question, though. What would you do if you disagree with others? I mean, surely most people would just move on from the subject and just be like, well, we don't agree about that, but okay. And then it's moving on from there.

No, I think like some people would just continue the conversation and they would. Try to convince people that they're correct. Yeah, try to convince people that I'm correct. or argue about something, or raise your voice and start shouting. Oh my God, do you think people would admit to that, though? Like, that seems like pretty belligerent behavior. Well, dear listener, just to use the vocabulary, you can say, okay, I would love to convince this person that I'm right.

Okay, it's hard for me to accept that I might be wrong, and I'm just, you know, what do you say? Like, when you have a conversation and then you kind of feel it is kind of, it's coming, you know, I said, ah, and you can feel the tension in the air. But what do you do when you disagree with people, Maria?

No, I just like, okay, I see there's no point. So I just like, I don't go in there. I'm just, okay, fine. Like you,

you think, what you need to think. But sometimes I do give my ideas and I want to convince another person for some time. But when I feel the tension inside myself and I feel the tension

in the air, I just go, okay, fine. But super sensible, you will live a lot longer. You do a good job convincing me that things are right though, usually. No, to you, I just tell you that you are wrong and I'm right and that's it and we'll finish everything. And then I then I comply. That's it. You can steer a conversation towards something you agree on. Okay? So you can say, when I disagree with the person, I prefer to steer our conversation to something we agree on. Or I prefer to choose.

change the subject, for example. When you start talking about clothes, you change the subject, you talk about films. That's enough chit-chatting for now. Thank you very much for watching, for listening. Make sure you do check out our premium episodes, speaking part two and three. We're using fresh I old topics. The links are in the description. Please write in the comments like what platforms, what apps do you use to chat with people?

so I usually chat with my friends on da-da-da, okay? Yes, just before we go. Time for a reflection activity, and the focus today is remember. So, without rewinding the video or the recording, can you remember what the answer to the question, do you prefer to communicate face-to-face or on social media was? And write what you can remember in the comments,

and I'll give you some feedback on any of the mistakes that you made to help you get better at it. Thank you so much. Bye-la! Ella McKay, coming to theaters December 12th. Your father's here. Why?

A heartwarming new comedy from James L. Brooks. I'm a different person. I have never in my life out this way about any other woman. Jesus! I wasn't counting your mother! It's a perfect holiday comedy about an imperfect family.

You can use a scream, Ella. Starring Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Camel Nanjani, Iowa Debrie with Albert Brooks and Woody Harrelson. You should do that every afternoon. Ella McKay. Do like chatting with friends?

Yeah, it's fun to shoot the breeze when you're relaxing. You can catch up and come up with new ideas for things you'd like to do in the future. What do you usually chat about with friends? Well, the finer details are kind of private, but nothing particularly out of the ordinary. It's all very run-of-the-mill stuff like hobbies, relationships, things that are going on at work, and what we're getting up to in general and what we've been up to since we were last together. Do you prefer to chat with a group of people or with one friend?

Well, if we're going for depth, then probably a one-on-one experience would be better because you can talk for longer and, well, like I said, in greater depth than you would if it was a group of people. However, if it's just people chat chatting at a party, for example, then I think a group would be fine. Do you prefer to communicate face-to-face or via social media? Well, similar to what I said before, really.

If it's important, then face-to-face would be the ideal. However, if it was just random conversation or sharing memes, then social media would work. I mean, it's what is designed for. What will you do if you disagree with others? Well, in the course of a casual conversation with a friend, that seems rather unlikely. Although if it did happen, then I suppose I would just steer the conversation in a direction

towards something we agree on.