IELTS Speaking for Success - 🙇🏻‍♂️ Describe a situation when someone apologized to you (Part 2) + Transcript

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

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Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into IOT speaking part two. Describe a situation when someone apologised too. You should say, what happened, who apologized to you, how you reacted and explain how you felt after the incident. Rory, give us your story. Well, this certainly doesn't happen very often because usually everything in my life goes to plan. But recently someone said sorry to me for mess. something up. Mersively, it wasn't serious. I was due to have a yoga class at about half six in the morning a few weeks back, and I go at the same time about three times a week, so I'm

used to getting up early and throwing on some clothes to head there about 15 minutes before the class is due to start. So I was a bit surprised when I rocked up at quarter past six, and there was no one to be seen. Usually people there are pretty prompt with letting people in, but this time all the lights were off and there was no one to be found. And I was waiting for a solid 25 minutes before I called it a day and headed home. Like I said, it wasn't a huge deal just because I'm quite experienced and can find other things to do at that time. But I wasn't a big fan of waiting out in the cold for ages.

As it turned out, the yoga teacher who was supposed to let me in, had completely forgotten about the class and sent an email expressing his apologies about the oversight. Like I said, they are usually pretty reliable and very good at their job. So the fact this could be a slip of his mind was extremely surprising. When it was all done and dusted, I just walked up to the next class and said hello and thanked him for the apology. It wasn't a big deal, and we've been fine since then. I suppose if I were more highly strong, I'd have made a big deal out of it, but I'm not that kind of person. 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. Yay, thank you for the story. So, a situation when someone apologized to you. So someone said sorry. It could be something, you know, like. Rory talked about the situation with his yoga, teacher, they forgot, something like a light

and not serious or something serious, Diocesa. And you can start off with this certainly doesn't happen very often. Because usually my life goes to plan, so I plan and this is how everything goes. Things happen. It unfolds in the normal way. Yeah, but recently someone said, sorry to me. So someone apologized to me, to me, or someone said sorry to me for doing something. So like my brother said sorry for eating my cake. My friends said sorry for being late. So my friend said sorry for

forgetting my birthday. And then you explain a situation. So here, Rory went to a yoga class at freaking half six in the morning. Can you imagine, Dillis, no, it's just... What's wrong? It's going to a yoga class at half past six in the morning. Six a.m. in the morning, no, it's just crazy. No, I would be really upset if I had to get up at freaking 5 a.m. and go somewhere as early as 6 a.m. in the morning and they forgot the lesson.

No, I think I would be just, you know, furious. To be fuming. But Rory was, you know, all chill. It was cool. He does his yoga, so, you know. It was funny, though, because there were other people there. And as I was leaving, they said, oh, you're not staying. And I just said, no, they're not coming.

I have things to do. It's Rory's habit to get up as early as 6 o'clock. So he says, like, I'm used to getting up early. So he does it every day. It's his habit. and he usually goes there 15 minutes before the class so, you know, no rush to get ready for some yoga and they say, you know, like if you have to rush to yoga

you're doing something warm because usually we kind of should be relaxed no rushing about I was a bit surprised when I didn't see anybody because usually there are people there and the lights were off, so there was no light, and I waited for a solid 25 minutes. Solid means that I waited exactly 25 minutes, but nobody came there and I headed home. So I called it a day.

So when you call it a day, you stop waiting, you go home. You give up and you go home. Yeah. And worry, really at that time you didn't feel any, you know, what's going on? You didn't feel angry or frustrated, so you just go, okay, it happened. It's just like, well, obviously they're not here, so I'm just going to go. And you see Delisnicki say, well, it wasn't a huge deal. So I was fine with that, all right?

I accepted the reality. It wasn't a huge deal, it wasn't a big deal. Or you can say I was angry, I was furious, I was, I was enraged, like very angry. It was a big deal because I woke up at an ungodly hour, 6 freaking a.m. I just think it's really funny. I mean, I was just like, well, it's fine. But, you know, of course, you might not be a chilled out person. You might be highly strong, which is what I said.

As it turned out, the teacher had completely forgotten about the lesson. So it turned out that the teacher had forgotten about lesson past perfect because he first forgot and then the class didn't happen. And the teacher sent an email expressing his apologies. So he expressed his apologies. He apologized to us. He called me to express his apologies or he apologized. and he overslept, perhaps, because yeah, preking 6 am in the morning. As a yoga teacher, yeah, you can kind of oversleep. Anyone can oversleep. Yeah, that's true, yeah.

The world will not end because one yoga class does not happen. Usually this teacher is pretty reliable, so he comes to all his classes. And it was very surprising. And perhaps it just slipped his mind. So if something slips your mind, you just forget about it. at adobe.com slash do that with acrobat. And it was a pretty forgivable. Oversight. What's oversight?

Oversight is just, well, it's like when something slips your mind, you just forget about it. So if you talk about something that other people forget, and then they apologize to you, you can say, well, he apologized for his oversight. A mistake made because of failure to notice something. It was an oversight. And it was forgivable. Forgivable, something that you can forgive easily. So a forgivable mistake.

Or it was not unforgivable. And we've all had times when we forgot something, and I think you also, dear listener, sometimes forget things. So it's fine to forgive other people when they forget something. Even if you woke up at freaking 5 a.m. in the morning, if all your plans were... I didn't wake up a 5 a. I woke up at sick.

I'm walking down the road. It's hardly a big deal. Maybe for other people it was a big deal, but for me, I was just like, okay, let's move on. And it wasn't a huge inconvenience and you can say that no one was seriously inconvenienced as a result. Or in more simple words, you can say, it wasn't a serious inconvenience for me. So it was okay, not a big deal. Or I wasn't seriously inconvenienced. It was just one of those things, you know.

Just a regular thing. Okay, he forgot. Not a big deal. And here Rory does tell us that, well, it's pretty ironic for a yoga student to lose their koon. So if Rory kind of started being mad like, hey, what's going to? I'm going to call everybody. So kind of like, if Rory started like this, coming to a yoga lesson, that would have been strange.

But Rory kept his school. He was fine with life. And Rory just went to the next lesson, some other days, said hello, and thanked the teacher for the apology. So here we are using a noun, an apology. And people usually make an apology. You make an apology, right?

Yes. And then you accept an apology. Ideally. I accepted his apology. So he made an apology. He apologized and I accepted. And we've been fine ever since. So present perfect. He apologized. We have been fine ever since. So we didn't fall out. We didn't obviue. We are still friends. So I didn't make a big deal out of it. It happened. Okay. I didn't make a big deal out of it. Because I'm not that kind of person. I'm not a kind of person to think. throw a scandal, so that was cool. Right, you listen up, you can pick your story. When did someone apologize to you?

Maybe someone broke something, or they forgot something, or they were late, or they didn't do what you asked them to do. And Rory, like, usually people apologize for what? Maybe like for breaking things, for being late, for, I don't know, forgetting, yeah? Stepping on someone's foot. No, but this is like, but a situation, like seriously, like maybe like... Or maybe you're in a restaurant and someone makes a mistake or a cafe and someone messes up your order. Yeah, like in a restaurant or they messed up your order, for example.

So there you go. You don't need to talk about my yoga story or do yoga to use some of the things here. For example, someone usually apologizes if they mess something up and I said mess up. And then I said I was a bit surprised. It was a little surprised. and then rocked up as you arrive somewhere. And then I said as it turned out, but you could also say it turned out that to describe the result. And then we could talk about things like it was a forgivable oversight

or it was absolutely unforgivable. There are lots of words here that you could use to describe any situation, not just when some freak accident happens at yoga. Yeah, people apologize for something. so he apologized for arriving late and he apologized to me he apologized to my friends like he sent me an apology email

or he made apologies I accepted his apology so it was sincere sincere like honest true and often we say like oh you owe me an apology mister so okay you kind of forgot to send me

flowers, oh, you owe me an apology. So you must apologize. And you can say that, oh, he didn't apologize, he owes me an apology. Roy, do you often apologize to pick? No, because I'm flawless. Yeah, you always remember stuff because you have everything written down. No. I remember the last time I apologized to someone, but I'm sure I've gotten something wrong at some point.

My dear listen, thank you very much for listening and we'll get back to you in our new episode about apologies. And we'll see you then. Bye. At MedCan, we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation of good health, from the big milestones to the quiet winds. That's why our annual health assessment

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Visit medcan.com slash moments to get started. Describe a situation when someone apologised to. You should say, what happened, who apologized to you, how you reacted and explained how you felt after the incident. Well, this certainly doesn't happen very often because usually everything in my life goes to plan, but recently someone said sorry to me for messing something up. mercifully, it wasn't serious. I was due to have a yoga class at about half six in the morning a few weeks back,

and I go at the same time about three times a week, so I'm used to getting up early and throwing on some clothes to head there about 15 minutes before the class is due to start. So I was a bit surprised when I rocked up at quarter past six, and there was no one to be seen. Usually people there are pretty prompt with letting people in, but this time all the lights were off, and there was no way. wanted to be found, and I was waiting for a solid 25 minutes before I called it a day and headed home. Like I said, it wasn't a huge deal, just because I'm quite experienced and confined other things to do at that time. But I wasn't a big fan of waiting out in the cold for ages. As it turned out, the yoga teacher who was supposed to let me in, had completely forgotten about the class and sent an email expressing his apologies about the oversight. Like I said, it's, well, they are usually

pretty reliable and very good at their job. So the fact, this could be a slip of his mind was extremely surprising. When it was all done and dusted, I just walked up to the next class and said hello and thanked him for the apology. It wasn't a big deal, and we've been fine since then. I suppose if I were more highly strong, I'd have made a big deal out of it, but I'm not that kind of person.