IELTS Speaking for Success - 🍫 Chocolate (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: June 2, 2024

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Hello, Sunshine. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we're the host of the AILT Speaking for Success podcast, the official Band 9 podcast that helps you with your speaking, as well as your listening skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELS school. Rory. Rory, are you eating in the middle of our recording? What are you eating?

Oh, sorry. Sorry, it's just that I got this chocolate from a friend and it's really good and I couldn't wait. Stop it. Stop it. Just stop eating. We're recording, Rory, come on. Let's talk about chocolate then. Chocolate deliscer is back on the podcast.

Yum, yum, yum. Do you like eating chocolate? Doesn't everyone? I probably like it a bit too much of I'm honest. My protein shakes are often chocolate. chocolate flavored and even some of the bars I eat have similar flavorings. So I think it's safe to say that I really enjoy it. How often do you eat chocolate?

It depends on the type. If we mean something like a milk chocolate bar, then maybe, oh, I don't know, maybe like once a week. But if it's something with a chocolate flavor, then that's a daily occurrence. What's your favorite chocolate flavor? I really like white chocolate, actually, though I'm told it's one of the worst for you. to all the additive in it. I quite like mint chocolate chip as well when I have ice cream. That's a good combination, at least in my opinion.

Is it good to use chocolate as gifts to others? Well, assuming you're not giving it to a diabetic, yes. Then again, you do get sugar-free chocolate these days, so maybe that wouldn't be so bad. It's easely accessible. This is chocolate in general is easily accessible. And if you're in a rush, it should be okay, like, 99% of the time?

Did you often eat chocolate when you were a kid? Uh, yeah, again, probably a bit too much since I used to be a large child, but it was so nice, probably because it was packed with sugar. As you know, we now release all of our premium content for free, and it's available for one month. After one month, it goes into our super secret archive. To sign up for the archive, click the link in the description below. See you see you see you.

soon. Chocolate. Mmm, hot chocolate. Yum, yum, yum. Dear this. Are you a chocoholic? Like, you know, shopaholic, chocoholic, like you love chocolate. You can say that I love eating chocolate. I just like chocolate. I'm a chocoholic. And if you like everything sweet, you can say I've got a sweet tooth. My protein shakes are often chocolate flavored. So Rory drinks these shakes, which are chocolate flavored. Or for example, you can say my porridge is chocolate flavored, my coffee is chocolate flavored. What do you have in the morning? I don't know. My fruit is chocolate flavored. My fruit is chocolate flavored because my fruit is chocolate. My water is chocolate. My water is flavored so if you add chocolate something becomes chocolate flavored because it has this

chocolate flavor taste chocolate taste and I have some bars so we call this little thing is chocolate bars like sneakers nuts twigs the other ones like chocolate bars with similar flavorings and what's the difference between a flavor and flavoring. I, well, the flavor is what the actual thing tastes like, but flavoring is something that's used to make something different taste like that previous tale. It's like a cover almost that makes it look different or taste different in this case.

We can say like artificial flavorings when they add something to food or drink. And we can say that I like chocolate flavor. When the examiner asks you how often do you do something, you can say, I often, usually, rarely, hardly ever, like almost, never, like once a week, twice a week, every day. And you can say that it depends on the type, because there are lots of chocolate types. We can have a chocolate bar or a milk chocolate bar or we can have like a hot chocolate. for example to drink. And usually like a once or twice a day or once or twice a week.

Really? You have like a chocolate bar once twice a week? Maybe. I don't think it's a very common occurrence. No, unless the protein bars that are flavored like chocolate count, but many people would say that doesn't count. That's a different product.

And the question is like my favorite chocolate flavor is what? White chocolate. told us. Although I realized that's the color, but I think we all know what white chocolate tastes like. Or I like mint chocolate chocolate. Yeah, mint chocolate chip. Chip is like little thingies, like little... Little chips of chocolate. And when I have ice cream, I usually ask for some mint chocolate chips. It's a good combination. If we talk about different chocolate flavors, for For example, we can have spicy chocolate or lavender chocolate.

Lavender is this, what's lavender? What is lavender? Is that a plant that's got a particular taste as far as I know? An educated native speaker, lavender. A plant that has gray, green leaves and it's like when it blooms, it's beautiful because of this purple flowers. Mmm. And it has this nice smell.

Mmm. Delicious. And we can say that. I enjoy lavender chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, vanilla chocolate, for example, rose chocolate. They put some, you know, like petals of roses in the chocolate, coconut chocolate, peanut, also like different kinds of nuts. Peanut chocolate, for example, or hazel nut chocolate. Here, just a good idea is for you to remember two words, very specific words, dear listener. For example, I love lavender chocolate and hazelnut chocolate.

Beautiful, okay? So just remember two specific words for types or like flavors of chocolate. Yeah, then you can also say like, ooh, I enjoy Swiss chocolate from Switzerland. Why is Swiss chocolate so good? Or so famous even, I should say. Because Swiss chocolate is known for its smooth texture and creamy flavor. Oh, fancy. Yeah.

And this chocolate in Switzerland, they make it with a higher percentage of milk than other types of chocolate. So they put more milk and that's why it's creamy. It's, you know, smooth. And it's less sweet than other types of chocolate. Swiss chocolate. And you can say that I like Swiss chocolate because it has a delicate and velvety texture. Delisina, okay?

So now you are a chocolate connoisseur. You're like an expert on chocolate. Even if you hate chocolate, de listener, just use the words. If we ever decide to stop doing this, Maria's got a career ahead of her in, chocolate connoisseurring or chopteteering. Yeah, you can also say that I like truffles, like chocolate balls,

and I like chocolate fondue. Roy, do you say fondue? I say fondue, but some people will say fondue, and I think that will be fine too, because as far as I'm aware, that's a French word. So the French pronunciation will also work here. Fondue, a cheese fondue. a cheese fondue or a chocolate fondue

when we have hot chocolate and you put different fruits and stuff in there Belgian chocolate, Swiss chocolate Belgium waffles you know, yum yum yum with chocolate And you can have them by themselves or in combination So that just means together Like mint and chocolate together

You can give chocolate to different people as a gift. So don't say present people with chocolate. No, no, no. Give chocolate as gifts to others or or just like give chocolate for people's birthdays. And if a person is diabetic, so he's a diabetic. He has a person who has diabetes. So a disease in which the body can't control the level of sugar. We have sugar-free chocolates or sugar-free chocolate. Well, we have chocolate without sugar. We have dark chocolate, for example. Yeah, it's complicated, you know.

Vegan chocolate, soy-free chocolate. I don't know. Do they have chocolate in this chocolate? You can say that if I am in a rush and I need to give a present, I might pick chocolate, but I don't usually give any chocolates to people. or I might give handmade chocolates, Swiss chocolate, or a box of expensive truffles. Truffles are these like chocolate balls.

Chocolate balls. Okay, you've made your point. Yum, yeah, yum. Stop it. Get some help. I was hoping you would only say it the one time, but now you've discovered you can get away with it on this episode. When I was a child, I ate chocolate, probably a bit too much. So I ate a lot of chocolate.

We use yuster. I used to eat a lot of chocolate. I used to eat chocolate every day. And we know that Rory was a large child. So Rory was fat as a child. He was a fat child. He was really big. So he ate a lot of chocolate.

And I ate chocolate which was packed with sugar. So lots of sugar, lots of chocolate. Yum, yum, yum. Well, it might be yummy, but it's bad for you. Well, yeah, especially chocolate with sugar. But these days, you can get sugar-free chocolate, chocolate without chocolate. I don't know. Like, what can't we get these days?

And to wrap it up, we have a chocolate joke. Rory, are you ready for a chocolate joke? Uh, do I have a choice but to be ready? No, no, no, you don't. You just say, it's a rhetorical question. You just say, yeah, of course. God's Maria shoot. And Rory, the joke has a question.

So I read out the question. You keep silent. So you don't have to answer it. Okay? I love it. Yeah. Instructions. And dear listener, also kind of like, you think about the question and then you'll

listen for the answer. So Rory, do you answer the question in the joke? Yes or no? No, I don't answer the question in the joke. Rory, do you laugh at the end of the joke? If it's funny, yes. Right. Okay.

So, when we talk about sweet products, we call them sweets or candies. So a candy is something sweet. So the joke is, what kind of candy is never on time? What kind of candy is never on time? Chocolate. Stop it. Get some help. Did you get a do listener?

Choker. late. So late to be late. And choco, chocolate, chocolate has this late at the very end. But we say like chocolate or chocolate, chocolate, so what kind of candy is never on time? So what kind of candy is always late? And we say, chocolate. Rory, did you laugh? I didn't hear your laughter. I laughed internally. Thank you very much for listening. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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I probably like it a bit too much, if I'm honest. My protein shakes are often chocolate flavored, and even some of the bars I eat have similar flavorings, so I think it's safe to say that I really enjoy it. How often do you eat chocolate? Depends on the type. If we mean something like a milk chocolate bar, then maybe, oh, I don't know, maybe, like, once a week. But if it's something with a chocolate flavor, then that's a daily occurrence.

What's your favorite chocolate flavor? I really like white chocolate, actually, though I'm told it's one of the worst for you due to all the attitude in it. I quite like mint chocolate chip as well when I have ice cream. That's a good combination, at least in my opinion. Is it good to use chocolate as gifts to others? Well, assuming you're not giving it to a diabetic, yes. Then again, you do get sugar-free chocolate these days, so maybe that wouldn't be so bad.

It's easely accessible. This is chocolate in general is easily accessible. And if you're in a rush, it should be okay, like 99% of the time? Did you often eat chocolate when you were a kid? Yeah, again, probably a bit too much since I used to be a large child. But it was so nice, probably because it was packed with sugar.