IELTS Speaking for Success - 🌈 Colours (S04E28) + Transcript

Episode Date: November 26, 2020

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Hello Sunshine, I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we are the host of the AIL 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 started this podcast because we want you to use high-level words and super gorgeous grammar in your I-old speaking and in your English life. This episode is sponsored by our Premium Podcast. You guys, when you subscribe to our premium podcast, it's not just the podcast. So webinars, writing samples, speaking course and vocabulary lists and many more things.

Go check it out. Go to our website, Successwithisdials.com, or click on the link in the description. Rory, darling, did you know that your smile gives color to my life? Maybe we should give some color to the podcast and talk about it. Let's talk about colors. What's your favorite color? Oh, I love all things navy blue. that's one of the darker shades of blue.

I think it's more original in eye-catching them black since you can, well, since people have to look more closely at the person wearing it to understand exactly what colour it is. And then on their further analysis, that's where you can start a conversation with them, which is quite fun. So definitely that one.

Do you prefer light or dark colours? Definitely colours on the darker side of the spectrum, as evidenced by my wardrobe. Although someone said recently that I stand out better and lighter colours, which is why I have this pastel purple t-shirt for special occasions. But I think darker colours suit me better since I have darker features, which is unusual for a Scottish person, but it is something that I can take advantage of.

Are there any colours you dislike? Not really. Maybe like really garish colours, if I'm pushed on the question. Especially on clothes or cars or houses. It's like people are trying too hard to show off and get attention. It's much better to be understated, in my opinion, although that could just be because I'm more interested in people's ideas than their appearances. Did you use bright colors when you were a child?

Well, I didn't. My parents did. They used to make me wear all kinds of loud and lurid colors, which probably explains my attraction to darker colors now. It's just me being reactionary as an adult. Are colors important to you? It's not something that's like, sticks out at the forefront of my mind, at least not very often. I'd miss them if they weren't there.

People sort of take them for granted, I suppose. But it's not... Like, if you ask me to list everything that's important in my life, colour would not be in the top ten. What's the colour of your home? Well, it's a bit of a mishmash right now, actually. The hallway is rather conservative in terms of browns and beige's, and yet my room and the bathroom are much brighter.

for the former it's like lime green on the walls and for the latter it's sea blue. I didn't make any of these decisions of course because I rent my apartment but it's quite funny when I look at it now. What colour would you like to paint your bedroom? I think the walls would be dark with white on the ceiling. I used to live with someone who had this colour scheme in their bedroom and I remember it being very relaxing so I quite like that idea. What colour do you think is good for room?

Depends on the purpose. For rooms filled with activity like the kitchen or the living room, probably brighter colours that complement the decor, for example. If it's a quieter space like a bedroom, then probably something much less vivid, maybe something darker. Is colour very important to you when you are buying something? Well, if we talk about clothes, it's probably almost as important as the fit, although this doesn't really add time to the, well, to do. the time I spend shopping because it's not exactly difficult to find clothes and dark colours, especially not in Russia. For everything else, it's not particularly relevant as long as whatever it is I'm buying works, though I'm unlikely to buy something bright pink, since it doesn't really much my personality and it's a bit girly, probably.

What colours do people in your country like to wear? I don't think it's really limited in that way. My best guess would be it's a seasonal thing, so people wear a dark, darker colors in the winter and lighter ones in the summer. But there's a whole load of colors to choose from if you don't fit the mold in that particular way. Are there any colors that have a special meaning in your country? I suppose blue and white are the national colors. And then whatever colors are in the family tartan or football team colors, those things are quite important. I can't really think of anything else off the top of my head.

Rory, thank you so much for your colorful answer. Let's color up your life, dear listener. Yeah, I love colors, really. It's a great topic. Yes, and in speaking part one, they can ask you about colors. Speaking part two, you can have a card with, like, describe a colorful event. And also in speaking part three, they can ask you something about colors and the influence of colors on people, like psychological effects of colors.

So let's talk about colors. Color, the word color, could be spelled in different ways. Color with a U and color like C-O-L-O-R, which is American English. We go for British English, surely. Dear listener, when you talk about colors, you should know the specific name for your favorite color. So go to Google or listen to Rory. you can repeat the names for colors that he has used. For example, he has said navy blue.

Yeah, navy blue is like a very dark blue, almost black, but it's not. Sea blue. Which is a lighter shade of blue. Pestal purple. Which is a difficult concept to explain. It's kind of like a really light purple color. Like a mixture of white and purple. We can also have royal purple.

for example. We can, but I've no idea what that looks like. Lime green. Yeah, so obviously it's the color of the fruit, I guess. And then you can have turquoise, like the color of the sea, you know, half green, half blue, pink, different shades of pink, for example, French rose pink, lemonade pink, flamingo pink. So just Google and choose a very posh word to describe your, favorite color. Don't go like red, just white, no. Go like turquoise, lime green, navy blue, something like that, okay? Roy, you've talked about different shades of blue. Yes, so if blue is the

category, then shades are subcategories of colors. So they range from dark to light and you always have the medium where there's different colors as well. We can have darker shades of blue and lighter shades of blue. And 50 shades of gray. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah, we can also say that, like, for example, browns and badges. Like, we can use the plural form or, like, blues. Blues?

Blues, jazz and blues. Greens. You can wear blue. I enjoy wearing blue. I enjoy wearing talk voice. And also talking about your room, you can say, I have lime green on the walls. So lime green on something.

Yes. Rory, you've mentioned also different adjectives to describe colour. For example, like colors are original, eye-catching colors. Yes, so eye-catching is a way of getting attention. Oh, sorry, it means it gets attention. So if Rory shows up to us wearing yellow, that would be really eye-catching. That would be a fashion disaster for me. I can't wear bright colors.

I don't think it looks good. Like other people say it looks nice, but I just do not. I look at myself in the mirror and I'm like, oh my God, what am I wearing? Bright colors, right? So they're like yellow, orange. Yeah. But Rory prefers wearing colors on the darker side of the spectrum. Wow, this is so cool.

Color spectrum goes from white to black, basically. So it's like one end to the other end. This is the spectrum. And then all the other colors are mixed in between. I think is the best way of describing it. Yeah, cool. Or I prefer wearing colours on the lighter side of the spectrum. Or you can also mention a colour scheme.

So I prefer a brighter colour scheme. And I don't. Yeah, Rory is on the dark side. Yes, as a child, Rory's parents would put loud and lurid, lurid colours. yeah and vivid colors so this is just like colors which are oh how best to describe just like really bright colors

they're shouting at you yes they are almost like in your face it's difficult to lose a child with that many bright colors on them perhaps that was the intention so you can have like a vivid pink or like a lime yellow well I don't think there was any vivid pink

but there's definitely yellow involved and I don't like that color so there go. What's the word, the second L word? Lurid? Lurid, yeah. Well, I guess that's just another way of describing colors that stand out, essentially. Or... Gairish, Gerish. Yeah, so Gairish and Lurid are more about their negative. Gairish is just colors so bright that your eyes can't really stand it. And Lurid is, again, it's unpleasant to look at something that's lurid. So something like toxic yellow? Like... like scaryish, toxic.

Yeah. It's the same as people that dye their hair those colors. I often think, like, is that supposed to be attractive? Of course, you know, it's not for me to tell other people what they find attractive, but I just look at it and I'm like, oh no, that would not be a choice that I made for myself. But that is my decision, not theirs. So, sorry, that's their decision, not mine. Rory is saying that because when he was a child, when he was a child, basically he,

he was wearing all those colors and now he hates them. Yeah, Roy, you've used a phrasal verb to stand out. So some people wear garish, loud colors to stand out or to show off. Yes. So if you stand out, then you look different from other people and other people notice that. And when you want to show off, it means you're proud of something and want people to notice it. Some colors are quite girly. Girly colors, pinkie.

Yeah. I'm probably going to get in trouble. for saying that. But it's true. Some colors are more associated with women than men. And I think bright pink is definitely one of them. Combined that with the fact I don't really like bright colors anyway,

it's not something that I'm going to pick. Dear listener, remember, pink isn't just the color. It's an attitude. Yeah. What does that mean? It means that, you know, when you are wearing pink, you are confident, you are good at decision-making,

it's sexy, it's pink, it's Pinky. It's yay. Actually, I used to hate pink. I like, oh, no, pink what? No, now everything is pink. Shoes, dresses. So, like, I love pink now. So I've really, I've changed a lot, you guys. I dyed my hair blonde, and now I'm wearing pink. Oh my God. I am a new person. I've been a new person for more than a year now. Okay, back to Rory When you talk about colors You can say that Darker colors

Suit me better Suit me Or darker colors Match my personality Yes I don't know what else I'm supposed to say to that That's a genius answer Rory, yes

Like yes Yes What color is your yes Rory? I don't Wait, wait hold on a minute Was there a question there because I think I'm pretty sure you just listed some vocabulary that you could use and I was like

what am I supposed to do just agree yes yes you're supposed to agree okay Roy when you talked about the rooms and your bedroom you've mentioned that certain colors complement the decor could you comment on this one yeah it's just like a better way of saying that they match the decorations in the house but of course saying that they complement the decor as a higher level set of phrases and collocations than it is to say the other thing. So, like, for example, well, I've got quite a bright room. It's well lit,

and the decorations are also quite bright in terms of their colours. So it makes sense to have bright colours on the walls as well, to match them. It's my understanding of how interior design works. Maybe I'm not so good at this subject. DeLisner, if you didn't know, Rory is living in the Tritikov Picture Gallery,

because he has paintings on his walls. For the moment, I've just discovered that my apartment is about to be demolished and I have to move in the next two weeks. Are you joking? I'm not joking, but maybe I'll find somewhere that's... Demolished, like destroyed forever. Yeah, yeah, they do that a lot in Moscow, especially with the older apartments. Oh, gosh.

So the whole building or just your apartment? No, the whole building. They found out where Rory's living. Now we're going to destroy his flat. Oh, Rory, this is horrible. It's okay. I'm fine. We're going to find the apartment. It'll be okay. Okay. We have premium now, so Rory can get some money of the podcast, so he can rent a nice place.

I don't pay my own rent. It's fine. Everybody relax. The company I work for pays my rent for me. I'm not bothered about this and the slightest, so it's okay for me. Rory, here, I'm trying to advertise our premium. Like, Rory has money of the podcast. He can rent a nice place, and you are ruining everything. How dare I ruin that with facts and being calm? Okay, we are just joking. We are joking. Okay. One of the greatest phrases Rory has used in this episode is a mishmash.

It's a bit of a mishmash. This is such a great word, mishmash. Rory, we need explanation. It is a bit of a mishmash. So if something is a bit of a mishmash, it just means that, well, it's a mixture of things together. not always complimentary. So, for example, my apartment's a bit of a mish-mash in terms of colors because none of the rooms match each other, at least as far as I'm aware.

So that's always interesting. Dear listener, if you're feeling blue, try painting yourself a different color, okay? And hopefully our colorful answers have brightened up your life. And your IOT's band score. Bye! Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. What's your favorite color? Oh, I love all things navy blue.

That's one of the darker shades of blue. I think it's more original in eye-catching them black, since people have to look more closely at the person wearing it to understand exactly what colour it is. And then on their further analysis, that's where you can start a conversation with them, which is quite fun. So definitely that one.

Do you prefer light or dark colours? Definitely colours on the darker side of the spectrum, as evidenced by my wardrobe. Although someone said recently that I stand out best, and lighter colours, which is why I have this pastel purple t-shirt for special occasions. But I think darker colours suit me better since I have darker features, which is unusual for a Scottish person, but it is something that I can take advantage of. Are there any colours you dislike?

Not really. Maybe like really garish colours, if I'm pushed on the question, especially on clothes or cars or houses. It's like people are trying too hard to show off and get a attention. It's much better to be understated, in my opinion, although that could just be because I'm more interested in people's ideas than their appearances. Did you use bright colors when you were a child? Well, I didn't. My parents did. They used to make me wear all kinds of loud and lurid colors, which probably explains my attraction to darker colors now. It's just me being reactionary as an adult. Are colors important to you? It's not something that. It's not something it sticks out at the forefront of my mind, at least not very often.

I'd miss them if they weren't there. People sort of take them for granted, I suppose. But it's not, like if you ask me to list everything that's important in my life, color would not be in the top ten. What's the color of your home? Well, it's a bit of a mishmash right now. Actually, the hallway is rather conservative in terms of browns and beige's. and yet my room and the bathroom are much brighter

for the former it's like lime green on the walls and for the latter it's sea blue I didn't make any of these decisions of course because I rent my apartment but it's quite funny when I look at it now What colour would you like to paint your bedroom? I think the walls would be dark with white on the ceiling I used to live with someone who had this colour scheme in their bedroom

and I remember it being very relaxing so I quite like that idea What colour do you think is good for rooms? Depends on the purpose. For rooms filled with activity, like the kitchen or the living room, probably brighter colors, that complement the decor, for example. If it's a quieter space like a bedroom, then probably something much less vivid, maybe something darker. Is color very important to you when you are buying something?

Well, if we talk about clothes, it's probably almost as important as the fit. Although this doesn't really add time to the time I spend shopping because it's not exactly difficult to find clothes and dark colours, especially not in Russia. For everything else, it's not particularly relevant as long as whatever it is I'm buying works. Though I'm unlikely to buy something bright pink, since it doesn't really much my personality,

and it's a bit girly, probably. What colors do people in your country like to wear? I don't think there's really limited in that way. My best guess would be it's a seasonal thing, so people wear darker colors in the winter and lighter ones in the summer. But there's a whole load of colors to choose from if you don't fit the mold in that particular way. Are there any colors that have a special meaning in your country? I suppose blue and white are the national colors. And then whatever colors are in the family tartan or football team colors, those things are quite important.

I can't really think of anything else off the top of my head. Oh