IELTS Speaking for Success - 🎻 Creativity and the arts (Part 3) + Transcript

Episode Date: November 14, 2025

Get our premium episode archive: https://www.patreon.com/ieltssfs What kind of jobs require creativity? How does drawing help to enhance children’s creativity? What can we do to help children stay creative? Do you think pictures and videos in news reports are important? How do artists acquire inspiration? Do you think children should learn to play musical 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://linktr.ee/sfspremium 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, hello, dear listener, and welcome into Ailes speaking part three. We're talking about creativity in general. Ooh, exciting. Being creative, inventive, original. What kind of jobs require creativity? I don't know, really, but probably. all of them to a certain extent since all kinds of problems come up even in the simplest jobs and people need to make up solutions on the spot and that needs people to get creative with what

they have. How does drawing help to enhance children's creativity? I don't really know. I'm not a child psychologist though I imagine it might let kids express their ideas more clearly if they can show what they're thinking, if they don't have the vocabulary. for the idea, then they can at least create a visual representation of it. Plus, you use different materials to draw in different ways, and that has to account for something as well. What can we do to help children stay creative? Apart from the whole drawing thing, I'm not sure.

Maybe we could provide them with access to other materials to build things and showcase their ideas in different ways. I've seen some pretty interesting and novel uses of cardboard boxes, so that might be an example of that. Do you think pictures and videos in the news reports are important? I have no idea, frankly. It's possible you don't. I mean, if it's a report on the radio,

then you have to rely solely on the words of the newscaster. So it's certainly possible not to have them. However, it's easier to convey the gravity of the situation with pictures, at least in my opinion. I like seeing what people are on about. How do artists acquire insights? inspiration. You'd have to ask them, I don't know many, or even any. At a guess, though, I'd say they sometimes see something interesting, or they have a person, a muse, I think it's called. It gives

them their inspiration, though how they act, or through how they act and move and speak. Aside from that, it's really hard to say. Do you think children should learn to play musical instruments? Yeah, I mean, they should certainly be given the chance. I can't see a reason why not. It could help them develop their hand-eye coordination or even just their coordination in general, and it's certainly something productive to do with your time. 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-supers. secret archive. To sign up for the archive, click the link in the description below. See you soon. Yay, thank you, Rory, for your answers. Hopefully they were creative. And talking about being creative, I did something in each of them. I don't know if you noticed. I found different ways to talk about possibility, which is important if we are speaking in general, but it's It's important for IELTS to avoid overgeneralizing. For example, what's overgeneralizing?

It just means like we're constantly saying how things are, like lots of present simple. So instead of saying, probably all of them need to do something, it would be all of them need to do something, all of them, no exceptions. So by using probably, we soften this, we open up to possibility. In the same way, I said drawing might let kids express their ideas more clearly. But if we just say drawing lets kids express their ideas more clearly, always, all the time, then that might be generalizing too much. Some people will not be very expressive when they are drawing.

Right, dear listener, so different jobs require creativity. If you work as an artist, you need creativity. This job needs creativity or requires creativity. And you can say that all jobs, to some extent, to a certain extent, require creativity. Because like all kinds of problems come up. So in different jobs, professions, we see different problems and different problems come up. They appear, they pop up. And even in the simplest jobs, people need to be creative to make up solutions on the spot.

Make up solutions, like create solutions, invent solutions, make up on the spot right away, you know, without any preparation. Bam, you make up a solution or you come up with a solution. Or develop a solution. Develop a solution, nice. Drawing helps children stay creative, so they're into drawing, doing something with their hands. And we could provide children with different materials to build things. Like literally you give them paper, pasta, soft dough, I don't know, different wood, stones, and the children create something.

Yeah, also from food, you know, like uncooked food, like pasta, sugar, salt, but it's dangerous. Oh, I thought you meant uncooked meat for a moment there. I was like, oh my God, don't make, don't make heart. from that, that will... No, but sometimes they give children pasta, you know, like uncooked pasta, and they... Yeah, it's very nice. That's okay. That's cool. But not uncooked meat. Oh my God. No, no, no way.

Control what you are giving to your children, all right? So different materials, but safe. And you can say that I've seen novel uses of cardboard boxes. Like usually we give children paper, cardboard. Cardboard is this material, like paper, but it's harder than usual paper. Thicker paper. Like very thick, stiff paper, usually brown. And we have a cardboard box.

If you order something online, you get it usually in a cardboard box. So you give cardboard boxes to children and you can see novel uses, novel uses, like new uses. How these boxes could be used, because children are super creative. We usually have pictures and videos in the news reports. So when you read something online, you see pictures, videos, it's easier to convey the information. So easier to provide the information to people. Maybe. I don't know.

I think it's easier because if I can see a picture, then I understand what people are talking about. or rather, I know what they are on about. If you are on about something, you're talking about it or discussing it. Some questions could be about artists. And, dear listener, it's important that an artist is someone who paints, draws or makes sculptures. Okay. So a painter, a person who draws or makes sculptures.

An artist. Artists. Careful, you shouldn't confuse it with an... actor or actors, right? So art, artist. And artists need inspiration. They need to get inspired. And the question is, how do they acquire inspiration?

Acquire means how do they get inspiration? Like, we acquire knowledge. Acquire resources and money. Yeah, we acquire wealth, for example, money, right? And we acquire inspiration. We get inspiration, how? And you can say, well, I don't know, I'm not an artist. At a guess, though, I'm guessing, but, okay, at a guess, what can we do?

Like, a person might have a muse, usually a woman, muse. For example, Dali. Dali had his muse, Gala. So, Dali had his gala, who was his muse, his favorite woman. Do we have one? Oh, huh, do we? Hmm. I don't, yeah, yes, yes, we do.

I don't know who and what, but yes, we do have a muse. But amuse is always a person, right? I think so. At least it's normally used to refer to a person. Yeah, a person or it could be an imaginary being or force that gives someone ideas. For example, when you feel in love, so you have this feeling of love inside you're like ooh and you get inspired so but you feel love towards a certain person right but this feeling you know of your happiness and you can say oh

the muse has left me i can't write an essay yeah but that's like a good question like how do artists acquire their inspiration like you can ask them you know yeah you can say that okay through personal life experience, it's nature. So nature is a great source of inspiration. And also art, like music, literature films. So when artists watch a film or listen to music or read something else, they can get inspired. Yeah, nature actually. Everyday life, just personal experiences, emotions, and just meditation, you know, daydreaming. So from their own life, Artists acquire inspiration. A standard question about children and musical instruments.

I don't know what IELTS people have with children and musical instruments, but this question is a very common one, you know? This comes up a lot, yeah. Should children play musical instruments? Yes. They keep asking, hoping for the day someone will say, no, no, they shouldn't. They should be kept in cupboards.

And we say that, so. It could be helpful to develop children's hand-eye coordination. What is it? Hand-eye coordination. Oh, that's just the ability to understand where your hands are based on what you can see. So if you look at something, you can move your hand towards it effectively. Yeah, like you have some visual input, you see something, and your hand movements. So how to control your hand movements. see things, and just their coordination in general.

And also it helps children to spend their time productively learning something new. Oh, there we go. Crawford's International University 10 reasons why children should learn to play an instrument. Yeah, you can say like, children should be taught to play an instrument. Don't say a musical instrument. It's fun, the first reason. Oh yeah, that's a lot of fun. Yeah, that's true.

I mean, that's as good a reason as any. What nonsense? Yeah, it is fun, but it's so frustrating and difficult and just annoying. Wow. Improved coordination. That's reason number two. So it improves a child's motor skills. So they're kind of like movements, right?

And yeah, coordination. Reduced anxiety and depression. So playing an instrument reduces children's anxiety and depression. Are children depressed? Maybe. Creates responsibility, dear listener, right? So every instrument needs to be cared for. So guitars and pianos needs to be tuned.

That's why children learn responsibility. Exposes children to new cultures. Well, that's true, different music, different cultures. Increases memory. When learning a musical instrument, children need to memorize music and finger placement, dear listener. So they memorize, remember finger placement, how they place their fingers and where. Improves social skills. See if a child plays in a group, in a band, in an orchestra, they have to socialize.

So now you know. now we've covered it in a very scientific kind of way thank you very much for being with us stay creative okay always make up different ways of solving things and come up with you know a variety of words and solutions all right and we'll get back to you in our new episode Bye. What kind of jobs require creativity? I don't know, really, but probably all of them to a certain extent, since all kinds of problems come up, even in the simplest jobs, and people need to make up solutions on the spot, and that needs people to get creative with what they have. How does drawing help to enhance children's creativity?

TV team. I don't really know. I'm not a child psychologist, though I imagine it might let kids express their ideas more clearly if they can show what they're thinking. If they don't have the vocabulary for the idea, then they can at least create a visual representation of it. Plus, you use different materials to draw in different ways,

and that has to count for something as well. What can we do to help children stay creative? Apart from the whole drawing thing, I'm not sure. Maybe we could provide them with access to other materials to build things and showcase their ideas in different ways. I've seen some pretty interesting and novel uses of cardboard boxes, so that might be an example of that. Do you think pictures and videos in the news reports are important?

I've no idea, frankly. It's possible you don't. I mean, if it's a report on the radio, then you have to rely solely. on the words of the newscaster, so that it's certainly possible not to have them. However, it's easier to convey the gravity of the situation with pictures, at least in my opinion. I like seeing what people are on about. How do artists acquire inspiration? You'd have to ask them. I don't know many, or even any. At a guess, though, I'd say they sometimes see something interesting,

or they have a person, a muse, I think it's called. It gives them their inspiration. It gives them their inspiration, though how they act or through how they act and move and speak. Aside from that, it's really hard to say. Do you think children should learn to play musical instruments? Yeah, I mean, they should certainly be given the chance. I can't see a reason why not. It could help them develop their hand-eye coordination or even just their coordination in general. And it's certainly something productive to do with your time. I'm going to be a new. You know.