IELTS Speaking for Success - 🏋️‍♂️ Describe a popular place for sports (e.g. a stadium) that you’ve been to (Part 2) + Transcript

Episode Date: January 14, 2026

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Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into ILD Speaking Part 2. Today, the topic for you is describe a popular place for sports. For example, a stadium that you've been to. You should say where it is, when you went there, what you did there, and explain how you felt about this place. Rory, give us your story. Well, I don't play or do a little. lot of sport, so I'm not exactly Ophay with all the various places people go to and do things like that. But one place that does stand out in my mind is my local gym. It's just a short walk

from my house, maybe 15 minutes along the road near the center of the city. I go there with my friend Sean every Thursday morning, even though it's early when we go like 7 o'clock in the morning. It still seems pretty well frequented, at least from what I can see. You can always. You can always see people on both floors operating the various machines. I suppose the closest sport it's related to is probably weightlifting and you can definitely see people who clearly do that as a hobby. It's not really a hobby for me. I just like the company. But I usually just do the same things as most of the more regular gym gores. We use the various machines like the lad pull-down machine, which is like a bar suspended overhead on a cable that you have to well pull down while it's attached to various

We also use free weights like barbells and dumbbells, though I have a set at home, so I just tend to use the heavier ones at the gym that I don't have regular access to. I've never used the treadmills there since I don't like running, but it's certainly an option if I get bored in the future, and lots of people who are obviously not bored by it seem to be using them quite frequently. When it comes to my personal feelings about the place, I suppose it's nice to have the option of going there, but I'm not bored by it. I'm more in it for the socialising than anything else. If it wasn't there, I suppose I'd have fewer opportunities to hang out with my pals, but I don't think I'd be too cut up about it. We see each other at other times. Maybe if I start going with more people or more often, I'll feel differently about it.

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You can steal Rory's story and just say exactly the same as Rory, because Rory's description of a gym is quite cool. You can talk about a stadium, but what else? How many people go to stadiums, right? regularly. Oh, I don't know. A stadium or a specific sport like hockey, a park for running, but is, I mean, is running a sport? Who knows? And where else? A boxing gym? A yoga, a yoga studio, yeah. But again, dear listener, even if you don't go to a gym, talk about a gym. All right? Just lie and imagine stuff. And you can start off with, I don't play a lot of sports. Or, if you're not, you. You don't play a lot of sports. Or if you're not. You know, if you're not, you know, you can say, yeah, I'm a sporty person, I'm into sports, I'm a big fan of sports, or I'm not into sports, but one place that stands out in my mind is my local gym. One place that I kind of can talk about, I remember, is my local gym.

It's a short walk away from my home, so it's very close to my house, or you can say it's like, it's far away. But, well, if it's your local... Gym then, it's very close to your home. So do you listen to steal Rory's words. It's a gym close to my home, but you could say it's a gym that's far away from where I am. Actually, you can talk about a swimming pool. Oh, yes, if you have access to a sewing pill.

Again, you can say that it's 15 minutes along the road. So it's 15 minutes from my place, from my house. It could be along the road, up the road. down the road. The direction really is not important. It does describe a specific direction, but the examiner is not going to know where your home is or where your gym is. Or you can say like it's a 15 minute walk from my house. A 15 minute walk. I go there with my friends. I go there with my friend. I go there alone. I go there by myself. Okay. Or I go there with my coach or like a trainer.

What do you call it? A trainer, a coach, a person who helps you professionally in the gym. Oh, wow. Well, it could be a personal trainer or a trainer in general. Okay, I have a personal trainer or just I go there with my friends. We go every Thursday morning or every weekend, every evening or once a week. Yeah, Rory goes there at an ungodly. the hour, freaking 7 a.m. in the morning, because Rory is crazy, flat out of his mind.

It's not out of your mind to go early in the morning, then you have the rest of the day. Yeah, but if you spend 15 minutes, just walk in there, well, then yeah. Well, then you leave at, what, 6.45? Oh, God. 6 a.m. You just get up at 6 a.m. No, Rory is crazy, dear listener. It's just, it's just a walk. It's not that bad. No, a walk is not bad, but waking up at freaking 6 a.m. That's...

I thought you're going to say, but waking up in general, absolutely not. It's nuts. So, dear listen, in the gym, we operate different machines. So you see these horrible machines, they are aliens. To me, aliens is like, you know, these creatures in the space. So to me, like absolute aliens. I have zero idea what to do with them, and they look awful.

So, yeah, it's just like some alien creatures, you know. They're like this. Maria, come to me. It's dreadful. So you operate these machines. I sometimes do weight lifting. You can say that I sometimes do weight lifting, so you lift a lot of weights.

Even if you don't do it, just say you do. And lots of people go there to do the same thing. So there are lots of people going to a place. It is well frequented. It's not frequented. It looks like frequented, but you say frequented. And that's got to be a C2 level word, surely. And you can say that I go there to hang out with my friends.

Just so, you know, I have some chitchats, spend some time with my pals, with my friends. So I just like the company. I like people who are there. So it's just like, for me, it's just fun. plus I do some workout, I do some exercise, but the main point of me going there is just I enjoy the company. There are some regular gym goers, so people who visit a gym regularly, often we call them regular gym goers. They use various machines and then were renamed specific machines. the way forward for you is to just Google these machines.

Just to name some things. Yeah, kind of name two machines. This is like Ben 9 super topic specific vocabulary. And if we Google, the let pull down machine. Let's just Google it and go to images. And listen to Maria's horrified reaction. Oh, this is just what is this? Oh, it's a dreadful thing.

Yeah, and it's called the let pull down. machine. But if you don't like machines and you like free weights, which are just weights that are not connected to machines, then you'd use barbells and dumbbells. Oh yes. Yeah, just Google barbells and go to Google Images, take a look. And then you can remember this, yeah, barbells. So different barbells and dumb bells. So everything is like bells. Bells like ding ding ding ding ding bells. Except these are not bells. Dumb, dumb bells. And I use heavier dumbbells, for example. Sometimes I use a treadmill, treadmill, and again, go to Google. I would rather die than use the treadmill. Treadmill, actually, I like treadmills. What a fan.

Yeah, you see, like, you can say, I'm not a fan of treadmills, but, or like, I sometimes use a treadmill. Treadmill, one word, like, you just do, you go running in the gym. on the treadmill. On, yeah, I go running on a treadmill. And to wrap it up, you talk about your feelings, so you can say that when it comes to my personal feelings about the place, it's nice to have this option. Yeah, kind of like, it's nice to have it around.

I'm happy to go there. I'm pleased, I'm glad. Just like happy feelings, yeah. And I'm happy to socialize with my friends there. I'm happy to hang out with my pals, with my friends. I feel relaxed there. I feel inspired, you can say. I see all other regular gymgoers who work out and I feel inspired, peaceful, delighted, like.

Joyful. Energetic, you can say, I feel really energetic, joyful. Then when I come away from the gym, I feel knackard. Yeah, naked, like very tired, exhausted. Radio listener. Thank you very much for listening and we'll get back to you in our next episode. Okay? Bye.

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Visit medcan.com slash moments to get started. Describe a popular place for sports. For example, a stadium that you've been to. You should say where it is, when you went there, what you did there, and explain how you felt about this place. Rory, give us your story. Well, I don't play or do a lot of sports, so I'm not exactly O'Fay with all the various places people go to and do things like that.

But one place that does stand out in my mind is my local gym. It's just a short walk from my house, maybe 15 minutes along the road near the center of the city. I go there with my friend Sean every Thursday morning, even though it's early when we go like 7 o'clock in the morning. It still seems pretty well frequented, at least from what I can see. You can always see people on both floors operating the various machines. I suppose the closest sport it's related to is probably weightlifting, and you can definitely see people who clearly do that as a hobby.

It's not really a hobby for me. I just like the company. But I usually just do the same things as most of the more regular gym gores. We use the various machines like the lad pull-down machine, which is like a bar suspended overhead on a cable that you have to, well, pull down, while it's attached to various weights. We also use free weights like barbells and dumbbells, though I have a set at home,

so I just tend to use the heavier ones at the gym that I don't have regular access to. I've never used the treadmills there, since I don't like running, but it's certainly an option if I get bored in the future, and lots of people who are obviously not bored by it seem to be using them quite frequently. When it comes to my personal feelings about the place,

I suppose it's nice to have the option, of going there, but I'm more in it for the socialising than anything else. If it wasn't there, I suppose I'd have fewer opportunities to hang out with my pals, but I don't think I'd be too cut up about it. We see each other at other times. Maybe if I start going with more people or more often, I'll feel differently about it.