IELTS Speaking for Success - 🪙 Coins (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: September 23, 2024

Get our IELTS Speaking parts 1, 2, and 3 episode archive: http://patreon.com/ieltssfs Do you use coins in your daily life? Do you often carry coins with you? Have you ever collected coins? Is it convenient to use coins? Did you use coins as a child? Tune in and have a great day! - Book a class with Rory here: https://successwithielts.com/rory Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s11e03 Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2024 Podcourses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, lovely. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of the AILT Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you super grammar and gorgeous vocabulary for your high IEL score. Your band nine score. Rory, what's that? What's that? Oh, sorry, I'm just moving some coins off. my desk. Shall we talk about

coins? Yeah. Coins, dear listener. Yes, Coins is a new speaking, part one topic, coins. Money, money. You guys this is the money sound again, Roy.

Oh yeah. My favorite sound. It makes the world go around. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Like, these are queens, but, you know, still money. Do you use coins in your daily life? If I'm honest, I can barely recall the last time I use notes in my country, let alone metal coins.

It's all being superseded by cashlet's payments these days. Do you often carry coins with you? Not really, aside from when I'm on holiday, and I always seem to get them back whenever I use paper currency. Have you ever collected coins? I have, and I still do from the different countries I've been to over the years. I have Sedi from Ghana and dollars from the US and now Soms from Kyrgyzstan, just to name a few. It's a nice little souvenir that costs next to nothing and doesn't take up too much space in my luggage. Is it convenient to use coins?

Not these days, unless cashless payments aren't an option, why would you haul around a load of metal with you and you can just pay for everything via credit or debit card? There's not what's point in it, at least in the short term. Did you use coins as a child? Definitely more compared to now. I think we were given one pound a week as pocket money, or an allowance. It's not worth much now, but back then for a child that would buy you a lot of things to make your weekend more fun. When you're flying Emirates business class, dining on a world-class menu at 40,000 feet,

you'll see that your vacation isn't really over until your flight is over. Fly Emirates. Fly better. Right, delisina, coins. What the topic? Like, when was the last time you held a coin in your hand, Delecena? Huh?

Uh-huh. Actually, today, I found a bag full of coins, and I was thinking, well, I should use them to buy maybe like an ice cream or some chewing gum, just, you know, to pay everything with these coins just to get rid of them. Yeah, de list, so coins, if you don't remember when you last had coins in your hands, well, this is for you to lie, to imagine, or just to tell the truth. Like, I never use coins and explain why.

It's also okay. So we say coins and the paper money, we call them notes. Can I say bank notes? You could say bank notes. I think most people just call it notes these days or call them notes. Yeah, so paper money. Notes, coins are coins, like metal, coins. And you can say, like, if I'm honest, like, come on, examine it. I want to be honest with you. I want to tell you the truth. So you say, if I'm honest, I can barely recall. I can barely remember the last time I used notes or coins. Like, oh, hardly, like, I can't even remember. Okay? And, dear listener, we pronounce coins, z.

Rory, how do you say coins? Coins. Yeah, because nz, and maybe in your language, it's like, coins. No, coins, zz, z, coins, say it, say it now, do you listener, after me, coins, coins, nz. So, metal, coins. and we use metal coins and we don't use notes for example use is the verb and what's this verb it's all been super seeded oh superseded just means it's been replaced by something better

well at least in theory cashless payments that you make with your various cards or with your phone are better than carrying metal coins with you so most people do that in my country so it's been superseded. Supersede, de listener. A verb, to replace something, especially something older or more old-vashions into something

new. What could be superseded? Well, landlines, landline telephones have been superseded by mobile phones mostly. Yeah. Or replaced, if you want.

We say cashless payments, dear listener. So no notes, no coins. Everything is, you know, online. We don't see the real money anymore. So cashless, no cash. And we also can say pay by cash or use cashless payments. Make cashless payments. Rory, do you use your phone to make a payment? Just like, you know, you touch it. Do you and the bad? I don't, but I'm seriously thinking. that I might start doing that. And what do you call it in English? When you go like,

and money is gone. Oh, it's just tapping your phone. Contactless. Make a contactless payment. Yeah, contactless payment. We don't even need cards anymore. Uh-la-la. We carry coins. So I carry coins.

Well, I don't carry. I can have them with me. Or I can have coins in my... Where do I usually keep coins? In your wallet if you're a man and in your purse if you're a lady. Exactly. Yeah, maybe in your pocket. And no, we usually don't.

Well, maybe do you, dear listener, do you carry coins with you? When I'm on holiday, yeah, when I change money, and then I'm stuck with all these coins, I bring them home. And then never use them again. Exactly. I prefer using the paper. currency. Again, notes, bank notes, like not coins. Or for example, many people give coins to the homeless or, you know, to people asking for money. You can, it's a good way to get rid of all your coins. Some people collect coins. What do we call them? Numerousatist.

Neumismatist. Yeah, someone who studies. or collects coins, paper money or medals, also medals, a numismatist. So, dear listener, if you can remember this numismatist, you can say, well, I'm not, I've never been a numismatist. Does that mean I'm an amateur numismatist then? Oh, yeah, because you do collect coins. Yeah. Yeah.

So you can say, I don't collect coins, but I have different coins from different countries because I changed money and now I'm stuck with them. Yeah, I just have a few. from different countries. It's a nice little souvenir. Okay, souvenir. And they take up not too much space, but actually if a person is a mesematist,

then they have special bags for coins. And, you know, they hold coins in a special way because we kind of put our fingers all over the coin. But to a true numismatist, it's just like, oh, they go, no, no, don't do that. And they kind of like very careful, they take a coin and they hold it, what do you call it? I guess they hold it between their fingers, their index finger and their thumb. Yeah, yeah, like this, you know. And they don't put the fingers on the face.

What a truly bizarre thing to do. Okay, everybody needs a hobby. Yeah, but the rules, you know, the rules. There's the rules of numismatism. Interesting, right? Yeah. It's convenient to use coins or it's not convenient to use coins. Again, you can say like, well, not convenient, they're heavy.

And if you carry the whole bag of them, your bag is really heavy. So you can say I use cashless payments. And then Rory asks a question, why would you haul around a load of metal with you? haul around it would be like to carry something heavy around with you why would you do that C2 word de listener Band 9

Hall 8 a UL pull something heavy slowly with difficulty You know when there is this heavy boat And you just haul the boat Out of the water

So you can say like Oh why would you haul around A load of metal A load, a lot of metal a lot of metal coins. You can just pay for everything via credit cards, or you can pay using cashless payments, contactless payments,

so there is not much point in it. Or you can say, I love coins. You can say, I am old school. I don't use, you know, all this, you know, high-tech stuff. I don't have a smartphone. So, and coins. Nice. When you compare the past to now, you can say,

say definitely more than compared to now. Rory, you use coins more than compared to now? Really? No, the question was, did you use coins as a child? And I said definitely more than compared to now. So I used them more as a child compared to now when I don't use them at all. Yeah, you can also say I used to use coins, but not anymore. Pessive voice, we were given one pound a week. So one pound coin. Oh, I love those coins. They're so pretty, so nice, like a one pound coin. Pound coins, really?

Yeah. Not very nice. Why do you think they're so nice? Because they're like heavy and small and also like thick. They're sick. I love the shape. And Roryo, what do you call these special coins they make on certain occasions? Like with

the Olympic Games or... Oh, commemorative coins. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Do you listen to, you can say, oh, I hate coins, but I love commemorative coins because they're special. They're usually, some of them could be quite rare because they issue only, I don't know, like 10 coins or like 100 coins in the world. And kind of you get it. Oh, I have coins the World Cup with the World Cup.

You do? Yeah. Oh, yeah, because of course the World Cup was in Russia in 2018, I think. Yes. Yeah, so we have like special World Cup coins. Yeah, and now, dear listener, I think you can make a coin with your face on it. Rory, would you like to have a coin with your face on it? No.

And like saying like, Rory, Duncan Fargo is ta-da-da-da-ta. And you're kind of like... It's been almost five years now and Maria still cannot say my name correct. Oh, dear listener, what a topic, coins. Well, now you know the basic vocabulary and the very vocabulary. and the vocabulary for Ben 9, okay, you can use synonyms, just say coins correctly. Or say it again. Coins.

Coins, coins, coins, coins. It's quite difficult, you might just forget and see. The word coin is also a verb to coin a phrase. Oh, really? Yes, so hopefully we've given you some words to coin for your IEL exam. Oh, yes. Oh, and can I use coin as a verb to answer questions about coins? Rory, come on, come on, we can do it.

I mean, you could if it was a pun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for example, like, oh, like, do you use coins? I'm trying to think of a way to do it, like, to make a joke on the fly, but I can't. Sorry. Oh, come on. Come on. You can't just say, come on and expect it to happen. Yeah, but maybe, like, oh, we can say, do you collect coins?

And you say, like, no, I don't. I used to, when I was a child. If I can coin a phrase and then say a phrase. Yes, say a phrase, Maria. We're waiting. Say the phrase, Maria. Come on. Okay, okay, okay, okay, wait, dear listener, wait.

See, this is what it feels like. Okay, okay, okay, I'm doing, I'm doing it. Quote about coins. We need a famous quote from smart famous people about coins, okay? Time is the coin of life. Yeah, yeah, this is the phrase, time is the coin of life. Ha, ha.

Okay, so, dear listener, check it out. The examiner asks you, do I use coins in your life? Well, not much. But, you know, if I can coin the phrase, time is the coin of life. Doesn't make any sense, no. Please, please don't do that. Oh, it's so bad. Are the examiner just going to execute you on the spot?

Yeah, de listener. It's quite horrible. Yeah, maybe you can come up with a phrase and maybe you can kind of use it naturally to coin a phrase. Life is like a coin. Oh, there you go. You know, I don't normally, I never use coins in my life. But you know, if I can coin a phrase, life is like a coin. So I do have a lot of coins in my life.

Oh, there you go. There you go. No, I don't think so. No. Band, disallowed, no, you must stop now. If anyone can think of a more natural way to say it, write it in the comment. Oh, yeah, we can say life is like a coin, because what do we do with a coin? We flip a coin, yeah?

We just like, boom, yes or no, what do I do? We flip a coin and then we find out the answer. Yeah, it does. Thank you very much. No, no dear listener. Do not do that. But thank you very much for listening. Bye.

Crazy person. Do you use coins in your daily life? If I'm honest, I can barely recall the last time I used notes in my country, let alone metal coins. It's all being superseded by cashlet's payments these days. Do you often carry coins with you? Not really. Aside from when I'm on holiday, and I always seem to get them back whenever I use paper currency. Have you ever collected coins? I have, and I still do from the different countries I've been to over the years.

I have Sedi from Ghana and dollars from the US and now Soms from Kyrgyzstan. Just to name a few. It's a nice little souvenir that costs next to nothing and doesn't take up too much space in my luggage. Is it convenient to use coins? Not these days, unless cashless payments aren't an option. Why would you haul around a load of metal with you and you can just pay for everything via credit or debit card? There's not much point in it, at least in the short term. Did you use coins as a child?

Definitely more compared to now. I think we were given one pound a week as pocket money, or an allowance. It's not worth much now, but back then for a child that would buy you a lot of things to make your weekend more fun.