IELTS Speaking for Success - 🤾‍♀️ Describe a successful sportsperson you admire (Part 2) + Transcript

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

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Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into IOT speaking part two. Describe a successful sports person you admire. You should say who here she is, what you know about him or her, what he she is like in real life, what achievements he or she has made, and explain why you admire them. Rory, give us your story. Roy story To do do do do do

To be honest There aren't many sports people I look up to that often Since it's not really my thing But one that does stick out in my mind Is Andy Murray He's a tennis player from Scotland Though I think he's fairly well known Maybe even internationally renowned

Though I don't really follow tennis Or any other sport for that matter so that could also not be true. That's probably why I don't know a great deal about him as a person. Obviously, he comes from the same country as I do, and he went to school in a county that's quite close by. But I think that's about all I can say for certain. I imagine, like many sports people,

he runs lots of events for students in the local area to encourage them to take up tennis and be healthier. I know for a fact his mother does that, so maybe he's something of a chivalry, off the old block that way, and that's quite admirable. As for what he's like in real life, again, having never met him, I can't say for sure, but from what I have seen in the passing, when he's in various interviews and things, he doesn't seem to have let fame go to his head, and he comes across as fairly level-headed.

I think that's also something people could aspire to, since modesty is something people really like in others, at least in my country. When it comes to his achievements, well, obviously he's a very good tennis player. And I think he's either won or come close to winning Wimbledon or other various competitions on numerous occasions. It's not something I ever planned to do myself, but you have to give him some credit for the dedication it takes to rise up in your fields, especially to get to the top like that. And that's why I think he's definitely a good role model for others. If we didn't have Andy Murray, we would definitely be short of those in my country. There are not many people who live there.

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To sign up for the archive, click the link in the description below. See you soon. Yay! Thank you, Roy for your story. So, dear listener, a successful sportsperson. So a sports person could be a tennis player, it could be football player, Hussein Bolt, Mohamed Ali, Michael Phelps swimming, Leonardo Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo. So you can just choose any person, but you should know about their life. Michael Jordan, Serena Williams, all right?

How much do we really know about these people though? We need to guess. No, Rory, you need to open the internet. Go to Google and learn about your favorite athletes. lid. Well, I'm not a computer, Maria. I can't remember absolutely everything that is true about somebody's life. So you can guess and you can say maybe or it's possible. Or if you know something for sure, then you can say obviously this is true, but the other things I'm not so sure about. If you're still not sure, you could say something like I did, which was, I can't say for sure.

Or having never met this person, I don't know. But maybe. That's true. But also, dear listener, Google them. Choose one person. And this person could be a famous person you'd like to meet in the future. So you can talk about this person when you get this card. Like talk about a celebrity or a famous person. A sports person.

Talk about someone you admire. So you can use this person in different speaking cards. Okay. Yeah. And Rory talked about sir. He's a sir. Oh really? See, this is it. I didn't know that. He's Sir Andy Murray from Scotland.

He's a knight. Can you imagine that? A Sir. It's like Sir Paul McCartney. He's 38 years old. Pretty young. Yeah, he's like a former professional tennis player. Now he's a coach. So, yeah, he's pretty renowned. Famous. Internationally renowned. There's a collocation. nationally renowned, really famous, you can Google him, Dear Listener, and you can steal Roy's story and also talk about Sir Andy Murray, Murray, yeah, pretty nice guy from Scotland. And we start the speech with, to be honest, I don't know many sportspeople, or I don't know many athletes, or I don't have any sports people I look up to. Because here the card says,

Who you admire, we can use a phrasal verb, I look up to, I respect to this person, I like them, I admire them, like a nice silly. I look up to my father, for example, I respect my father, right? Look up to someone, admire, and respect someone. And so you see, like I don't know many athletes I look up to, but the one that does stick out in my mind is, is Andy Murray. So one person that does stick out, like he really sticks out, sticks out like I remember this person, is Andy Murray. So you can just write down the sentence and use it pretty much in every speaking part too. I love it. Something that sticks out. He's well known, he's internationally renowned, internationally

famous. You can say I don't follow tennis. I don't follow tennis. I don't follow sport or I'm not into sport. It's not my thing, dear listener. Okay, so I don't know many athletes. It's sport is not my thing. And then as Rory told us, you can say that to be honest, I don't know much about this person. But you should Google them. And you should know. Another phrase of luck to use is take up. Like he took up tennis. He started playing tennis a long time or like his parents encouraged him to play tennis. He's quite admirable. So somebody I admire is admirable, like a nice adjective to use. He is an admirable person. Maybe. He's probably an admirable person. If you look at his photos, he's quite admirable, quite nice, deserving

respect. We change the topic and you say, as for what he is like. in real life. And here we mean his character. He's kind, he's determined, hard working, he's lazy, negative. He complains all the time. And the card tells me, like, what he or she is like in real life, not what they like. Or like, he likes coffee, he doesn't like tea. But what about his character? For example, if I ask Rory, like, what? What's your brother like? When the weather cools down, Golden Nugget Online Casino turns up the heat. This winner, make any moment golden and play thousands of games like her new slot, Wolf It Up,

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level-headed means calm, able to deal easily with difficult situations so he comes across as a calm person, he comes across as a very generous person kind person, professional

and people could aspire to him or aspire to be like yeah and if I aspire to be like him. Then you would like to be like him or something similar. For example, like many people aspire to a career in business.

So they want a career in business very much. Then we change the topic to his achievements, achievements, accomplishments, like what he's done. If you talk about a person who is alive, you should use present perfectly. He's done, he's won, he has achieved. If the person died, then he won, he did, he saw, he rode, he got. And here we talk about tennis, Wimbledon, he's won three mages at Wimbledon Championships. Ooh, he has also won two gold medals at the Summer Olympics.

Really? I didn't know that. That's cool. That's something to aspire to. And we should give him some credit for this. So what does this phrase mean? It just means that he should be admired or thought positively of. Give someone credit for something is a collocation. So to say that someone deserves praise, approval, honor for what they've done. Usually we use this phrase with famous writers, or somebody who has done important things in their life.

We have to give credits to the other team for never giving up, so they continued competing or give her some credit. She is hardworking. She tried really hard. And his dedication. This is a nice word. Usually sportsmen, athletes, sports professionals are quite dedicated. They have dedication.

This means the willingness to give a lot of time and energy to somebody. thing. So, like, Usain Bolt, for example, like a famous, ooh, what do you call him? Runner. I suppose so. Or athlete. Yeah. The fastest man on earth. Usain Bolt. Oh, 39 years old. Wow. Really? Yeah. Wow. Doing good for 39. Yeah. So he's a sprinter. Yeah. He's a retired sprinter. so like the greatest sprinter of all time yeah but like if you look at his photo he kind of looks like 55 oh I thought he looked quite young never mind yeah maybe like

the Wikipedia photo is not quite good so you see like he's dedicated so all his life he's dedicated to running to sport so we can give him some credit for this kind of dedication and it takes dedication and motivation to rise up in your field to the top like that. Rise up. Well, develop and progress, especially in a hierarchy. Yeah, like rise up to the top.

You can wrap it up saying that he's definitely a good role model for other people. Like a role model, so we admire this person, we look up to this person. and we want to copy this person's behavior, for example. So he's a good role model. C1, band 8, a person. Yeah, role model is a collocation. Good for essays as well. Like celebrities are or are not good role models for children.

So a person who someone admires and whose behavior, they try to copy. Okay. And usually we say like sports, stars are role models. models for many children. Who is your role model, Maria? In terms of organization, you. And who is your role model for being a normal human being? Oh boy, I don't have one.

Thanks. Yeah, because if I'm being disorganized, I'm messy. So I always remember you, Rory, and your organization, you know, like timetable. I always remember you. And thank God I'm not like that. But you are organized, right? You write everything down and it's like... Goes in a logical order.

Yeah, I really look up to it. You see? And also, dear listener, you should like admire Rory's organizational skills. However, for the moment, you can admire what we've said about an admirable person. But do Google them, okay? Still Rory's story or Google a famous, no admirable athlete. Okay. Bye.

Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Describe a successful sports person you admire. You should say who here she is, what you know about him or her, what he is like in real life, what achievements he or she has made, and explain why you admire them.

To be honest, there aren't many sports people I look up. to that often, since it's not really my thing. But one that does stick out in my mind is Andy Murray. He's a tennis player from Scotland, though I think he's fairly well known, maybe even internationally renowned, though I don't really follow tennis or any other sport for that matter. So that could also not be true. That's probably why I don't know a great deal about him as a person. Obviously, he comes from the same country as I do, and he went to school in a county that it's quite close by, but I think that's about all I can say for certain. I imagine, like many sports people, he runs lots of events for students in the local area

to encourage them to take up tennis and be healthier. I know for a fact, his mother does that, so maybe he's something of a chip off the old block that way, and that's quite admirable. As for what he's like in real life, again, having never met him, I can't say for sure, But from what I have seen in the passing, when he's in various interviews and things, he doesn't seem to have let fame go to his head and he comes across as fairly level-headed. I think that's also something people could aspire to, since modesty is something people really like in others, at least in my country.

When it comes to his achievements, well, obviously he's a very good tennis player. And I think he's either won or come close to winning Wimbledon or other, various competitions on numerous occasions. It's not something I ever planned to do myself, but you have to give him some credit for the dedication it takes to rise up in your fields, especially to get to the top like that. And that's why I think he's definitely a good role model for others.

If we didn't have Andy Murray, we would definitely be short of those in my country. There are not many people who live there. And what about your friends? Do they like this person? I imagine so. We haven't talked about him that much, to be honest. I'm going to be able to be able to be a