IELTS Speaking for Success - 🎨 Colours (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: February 17, 2025

Get access to our episode archive: https://www.patreon.com/ieltssfs What is your favourite colour? Do you prefer bright colours or dark colours? Are there any colours that you dislike? Are colours important to you? What is the colour of your room? 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/s11e24 Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2025 Podcourses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, lovely. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory. I'm the host from the AILT Speaking for Success Podcast. The podcast 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 gorgeous grammar and super vocabulary for your high IELS school. Your band nine score. Mm, Rory, I like the color of your jacket. Mm. Thank you.

Should we talk about colors today? Let's talk about colors, dear listener. What a colorful life we have. Mm, colors. What's your favorite color? I'm a big fan of dark colors, especially blue, although I've been known to wear brighter things on occasion. I quite like black as well.

Even though I know that's a shade, I'd still consider it a color. Do you prefer bright colors or dark colors? definitely dark ones. I have a huge collection of black and navy blue shirts. I have a nice dark green one too, actually. I'm not sure why. It just comes more naturally to me. Are there any colors that you dislike? I wouldn't say I hated any colors in particular, though I'm not a huge fan of fluorescent colors in any great amount. I just find it a bit overwhelming. It's nice when it's just a hint of color, though, to catch the eye and like at an event, for example. Are colors important to you? I mean, I have my preferences, but I wouldn't have a nervous breakdown if I didn't get to wear or see a particular color. I sometimes coordinate colors or color code things, and that's helpful, but it's not the be-all and end-all. What's the color of your room?

Which one? Most of the rooms in my home are magnolia, or at least the walls are. But the walls in my bedroom I had painted Oxford Blue to let me relax and sleep better. The only exceptions are the window frames and the shelves which are sheer white. 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 soon. Right, dear listener, colors. Hey, they are back.

They are again. Yeah, quite a common topic, you know, in ILD speaking part one, colors, your favorite color, and Rory is a big fan of dark colors. He's in the dark, this Rory boy. I'm a big fan of dark colors. I'm a big fan of bright colors. I'm a big fan of yellow. Or what other colors do you have? big fan of pale magenta magenta what's magenta purple um this is a fancy way of saying purple

no i think magenta as far as i'm aware is bright purple i could be wrong though i'm not a big color buff it's reddish purple magenta nice you can say like oh i'm a big fan of magenta colors. Or you can say that I'm not a big buff. What did you say? I'm not a big color buff. It just means that I'm not into colors. Yeah, I'm not into colors. I just wear black. That's all. And gray. You can say I enjoy different colors, especially blue or navy blue. Or I've been known to wear brighter colors. So people know me and I wear brighter. colors. I like different shades of black or different shades of gray. Remember the film? Or different shades of pink or red. We have bright colors and we have dark colors. All right. So if they're

closer to black then they are darker colors, but if they're closer to white then they are lighter colors or brighter colors. And you can say that I have a huge collection of black and navy shirts. That just means I have a lot of them. Navy blue. Oh yeah, yeah, like, navy blue. So don't say just like blue, I like blue. Say like, okay, I like navy blue.

Don't say let's, oh, I like red or pink. Say I like magenta. And then you can say like, I enjoy dark green or dark yellow, dark red. And I don't know why I like this color. It comes more naturally. to me. So that just means it feels natural. You can also say like this color suits my face color. It matches my face color or it matches the color of my skin. I'm not a huge fan of

fluorescent colors. You can say I'm not a huge fan of black or I'm not a huge fan of yellow. Oh, Arroyon told us about this fluorescent colors. This, you know, like bright... Neon pink or neon yellow. But even then, I just don't think having a lot of it is very pleasant to look at. That's just my opinion, though. I find such colors a bit overwhelming. Overwhelming.

There, a bit, you know, too much. Like, all this pink and green and red. and red. They're a bit overwhelming. It's nice when it's just a hint of color. Like, not too bright, not too dark, a hint of color. To catch the eye. So colors catch the eye of other people. But that just means they get the attention of them. Yeah. Can I say if I want to catch the eye of people, the eye of the public, people's eye? Uh, you could, I suppose. So if I want to be the center of attention, if I want to catch the eye, I would wear pink or red or different colors, different bright colors. I have my preferences. So I prefer dark colors. I have my color preferences.

But Rory is not like super enthusiastic about colors. So I wouldn't have a nervous breakdown. if I didn't get to wear my favorite color. Okay, so I'm just okay with colors. It's a nice phrase. Like, I wouldn't have another breakdown if I didn't wear my favorite color all the time. I coordinate colors. Hmm.

So what do you do when you coordinate colors? It just means that you match them or use them in a particular way with purpose. And you can say that I sometimes coordinate colours or colour cold things. So when you colour cold things, what do you do? Oh, it just means that you associate a particular colour with a particular meaning. So some things in my diary are marked in black, which means they're just normal things. Others are marked in blue, which means they need special attention.

And something in red is something that really needs to be thought about. Yeah, we can also colour cold. clothes. That's super interesting. And it's about like discovering your emotional connection to different colors. Because when you wear a certain color, you kind of, you feel certain emotions, you feel good or not so good, you are sure of yourself, you are not sure. So yeah, colors are connected to our feelings and emotions. Sometimes you are in the mood of wearing happy colors, sometimes not. And you can get a consultation on different colors and style for just like 250 pounds,

one hour and a half, Rory. What do you reckon? I'm not paying for that, that's crazy. A color analyst will focus on your personal style and would give you advice on color and style, Video consultation. One half hours, 250 pounds. Oh, it's on a video as well. Like... Yeah. Okay.

So color styling is a good business. DeLis, no. What's the color of your room? And Rory goes like, huh, which one? I have a house with a lot of rooms. Usually the examiner means like your room, your bedroom, where you spend most of your time, for example. Maybe it's a toilet, maybe it's your kitchen that you pretty much sleep in. Rory told us about most of the rooms in his house, which are Magnolia.

Magnollia. Previously we had magenta, but Magnolia is a tree, and the flowers of this tree are kind of like a pinky. So it's like a pale cream color. actually it's not pinkie magnolia color um deal is now we need to Google it so I go to Google images and just type Magnolia color it's just a plain white color it's like the standard color for most rooms to be honest I am not very imagine too yeah Magnolia it's kind of like a beige kind of color really nice one

pleasant like no less you can say mm like most of the rooms in my house are Magnolia but the walls in my bedroom are painting blue. So what do I say? The walls are painted in blue? The walls are painted blue or just the walls are blue? Well, I had the walls painted, so it wasn't me that did it. It was someone else. So you say that I had my walls painted Oxford Blue. Yes. I had my walls painted Oxford Blue. I hired special people and they painted my walls. Oxford blue is just this dark blue color. Very nice one.

Not too dark, Rory. Yeah, it's on the darker side, probably, I would say. Okay. And also if you have white, you can say that some walls are sheer white. Shia meaning like they are only white. Like almost brilliant white. Yeah, they're like super white, white, white. You know, like they used to...

Shia is used to... to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or a feeling is. It's kind of its sheer nonsense. It's like true nonsense. It was sheer coincidence that we met. Like, I was walking in Rome and then like, whoa, Rory. Hey, hello Rory. You could just say that about our normal workplace. It was a sheer coincidence that we met because it was huge. Right, dear listener. Now Rory's showtime. Marori's Vocabulary Show. Yes, it's the part of the episode where I asked Maria questions about the grammar and vocabulary

I used. You can play along. We'll leave a pause before Maria answers and you'll find out of your right. So, an easy start, Maria. What did I say or what phrase did I use to show that I really liked something in the first question about my favorite color? I'm a big fan of dark colors. Yep. So if you're a big fan, then you really like it.

Then, in the next one, there is a special collocation that I used to say instead of a lot of something. I have a huge collection of. Fantastic. We're back on track. In the third question about the colours that I dislike, I mentioned that sometimes colours can be too much. But I didn't say they were too much. I used a different word. I just find some colours a bit overwhelming. Yes. And then we talked about if colours were important to me.

And I again used another special collocation to describe what might happen if I thought it was too much and I really hated the situation and I was emotionally unstable about it. To have a nervous breakdown. Yep. But I wouldn't have a nervous breakdown. And in the last one, I talked about my room. which is almost all Oxford blue,

but there are some parts that are not. But I used a special words to talk about the parts that are not blue. What did I call them? They are sheer white. Oh no. No, Maria! You have fallen at the final hurdle. What word did I use to describe the ones which are not blue?

Frames and shelves. No, that's three words. Exceptions. Exceptions. Oh, Marino. But you got most of them right, which is the most important thing. So we have recovered from our previous disaster. However, that's it for today.

Thank you for listening to our colorful answers. No, no, no, no, no, no. The joke, the color joke. Oh, it is my turn to suffer. Okay, let's go. Okay, okay, again, like two jokes for you and Rory, your job is to assess them. Ailes style, so from band 1 to band 9. The first Joe.

What's a cat's favorite color? Purple. Oh my God. Band 5, Maria. That was cringe. It made me laugh, but only because it was so bad. Okay, okay. Here's another one.

What color is the wind? The wind, you know. What color is? Is it? What color is the wind? Shush. What color is the wind? Blue.

Okay, that's like a band six because that's a funny language joke. That's a pun. Yeah, because we know that the wind blows, dear listen. And in the past, yesterday, the wind blue. And the wind blue sounds like blue, blue color, hey, hey, hey. So what color is the wind blue? Ah ha, ha. Thank you very much for listening.

We'll get back. to you in another episode. Bye. Bye. What's your favorite color? I'm a big fan of dark colors, especially blue, although I've been known to wear brighter things on occasion. I quite like black as well, even though I know that's a shade, I'd still consider it a color. Do you prefer bright colors or dark colors? Definitely dark ones. I have a huge collection of black and navy blue, shirts. I have a nice dark green one too, actually. I'm not sure why. It just comes more naturally to me. Are there any colors that you dislike? I wouldn't say I hated any colors in particular,

though I'm not a huge fan of fluorescent colors in any great amount. I just find it a bit overwhelming. It's nice when it's just a hint of color, though, to catch the eye in, like at an event, for example. Are colors important to you? I mean, I have my preferences, but I wouldn't have a nervous breakdown if I didn't get to wear or see a particular color. I sometimes coordinate colors or color code things, and that's helpful, but it's not the be-all and end-all. What's the color of your room? Which one? Most of the rooms in my home are Magnolia, or at least the walls are. But the walls in my bedroom I had painted Oxford Blue to let me relax and sleep better.

The only exceptions are the window frames in the shelves, which are sheer white.