IELTS Speaking for Success - 🏄‍♂️ Describe a time when a person persuaded you to do something and you were happy about that (Part 2) + Transcript

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Visit medcan.com slash moments to get started. Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into ILD Speaking Part 2. Today, here's the topic for you. Describe a time when a person persuaded you to do something and you were happy about that. You should say who this person was, when, where it happened, what they persuaded you to do, and explain why you were happy. So persuade means kind of like convinced. make someone do something, make someone believe something.

So they can have made you do something. Rory, give us your story. To be honest, I'm seldom persuaded to do anything I don't want to do. But one exception that does stand out in my mind is when my friend convinced me to come and visit her for a month in Kyrgyzstan. That's a country in Central Asia. When it comes to exactly who she is, Chiewe is a far. former colleague that started out as a teacher and who laterally became a teacher trainer.

We used to work together in Russia and kept in touch after we both left. It was during one of those times that we were catching up when she suggested coming to visit and maybe do a little bit of teaching and teacher training. This was quite a while back. It must have been in mid-2023 when it came up in the course of conversation. At first, I was a bit reluctant to go since I had a lot of my plate at the moment or at that moment and didn't want to add more on top of that. However, she made the point that I could continue to work remotely and I could also relax and do things while I was away and I started to see the upside of what she was on about. So after a bit of time to deliberate and

think things through, I decided it might be fun to head off and join her later that year. As it turned out, It was a great decision and I went up having a really fun time. I've actually been back since then and I've not once regretted it, actually. Hopefully I'll get the chance to go again soon. But if I don't go back, then at least I'll have had the chance to go a couple of times and enjoy myself. So even though I'm not usually want to be convinced to do things or persuaded to do things, I'm glad that I let myself be talked into this one. That was a really rewarding experience and I very much hope that I get the chance to do that kind of thing again.

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, Roy, for your story. So, dear listener, do you have such a situation when another person made you do something? They persuaded you to do something. Or Rory, can I say like they convinced me to do something?

Yes, they talked me into it, which is a great phrasal verb, I guess. Fraser verb, yeah, they talked me into doing something, which means persuaded me to do it. Dear listener, so this is the verb for you. So I was against the idea, but they talked me into it. So please use this one. Like my friend talked me into traveling to Japan. He persuaded me to do something. And if they persuade you not to do something, they talked you out of it.

Out of it. Yeah. And you can start off with, to be honest, I'm seldom persuaded to do anything. I don't want to. very seldom, like rarely people talk me into doing something I don't want to do. But one exception stands out in my mind. So I remember one exception when my friend or my partner, my mother-father, convinced me to do something.

Convinced me to come and visit her in Japan, in London, in anywhere. Or convinced me to, I don't know. enter university, find a job. But again, dear listener, it's your choice. What action to talk about? Then you describe your friend or the person who convinced you to do something, who talked to you into doing something. When it comes to who the person is, it's my colleague, it's my friend,

it's my partner, it's my, I don't know, wife, husband. And if you talk about your friend, you can say, we keep in touch very often. We've been friends for a long time. We met when I was, da-ta-da. And she, he convinced me to do it when we were living in London, when we were studying at university, a past continuous. When we were talking or having a catch-up or just catching up. Yeah, like I met my friends.

Like we were catching up, we were just chitcheting. And then she suggested. So here, the listener, a verb, suggest is interesting, because we say she suggested or he suggested coming to Japan, for example. So she suggested doing something. So it was a suggestion and we can't use it with an infinitive. Like you, it's a mistake to say she suggested to visit her. So she suggested visiting. Suggested plus I-N-G.

Right. She suggested that I should visit her. Please write her down. Or like, he suggested that I should buy a car. She suggested that I should rent a house. It was quite a while back. A while back, it was a long time ago. And if you don't remember when it was, you can use like, oh, it must have been, like, last year. Like, maybe it was last year, so it must have been like two weeks ago. I love modals of deduction. Must have been or must be.

I was a bit reluctant to do it because kind of the person convinced you to do it. So you didn't want to do it first. So you can say I was a bit reluctant to do it. Like, I kind of, nah, I wasn't excited about this idea. I was not willing, I didn't want to do it, I was slow kind of to do it, and I was reluctant to. Okay, C-1. Because at that time I had a lot on my plate. So I had a lot of things. A lot to do. I was busy. But I was busy is very simple. You say, I had a lot on my plate, a lot of things, a lot of activities. Busy, busy.

busy. My friend made the point that, ta-t-ta-ta, like, again, she was convincing me, she made the point that she explained that she started talking me into it. And I started to see the upside of this suggestion. So kind of, at first I was reluctant to do it, but then I started to see the upside. Like the upside, meaning like the advantage of this plan suggestion, the advantage of a situation. At first I was reluctant to do it, but she made the point that I, and I started to see the upside of this situation. The positive aspects. And, Roy, you said like deliberate. Yes. But if you deliberate something, it just means. you think about it.

Hmm. To mull it over. To think or talk seriously or carefully about something. So I deliberated on the suggestion. So I was kind of thinking about it. So after I took some time to deliberate on the idea, I decided it might be fun to do it. I decided it might be fun to head off to Japan or to start, I don't know, driving.

As it turned out, it was a great. great decision. So usually kind of like even if it turned out not so well for you, you can say like, well, it was successful. Just lie. As it turned out, as it happened, it was a great decision. And I wound up having a great time. So to wind up, I ended up having a great time or I wound up having a really fun time. I had a fun time, I had a really great time. And I didn't regret it. I've not once regretted it.

Not once have I regretted it. Oh my gosh, inversion. Or here, sort of semi-inversion. That's got to be C-2. Come on. Because usually it would be, I haven't regretted it once, but I said I have not once regretted it for emphasis.

Oh. Yeah, super cool. yeah you can say like I enjoyed myself in the end I'm happy that I had the chance to do it to have the chance to do it but again if it wasn't pleasant you can say well it turned out to be awful I was

exhausted I wasn't happy but well it's better to wrap it up on a happy note to make it examine a happy and to just tell happy stories. Rory, what helped you organize this story? Oh, wow. I think I just talked about things in the order

which they were mentioned. So, for example, I had to say who the person was and I did that. Then I moved to where it happened. Well, there's more about when it happened, really, because we were talking online. And then what I was persuaded to do in particular and explaining why I was happy about it.

I'm glad I was talked into this. If I hadn't done it, then it wouldn't have been bad. If I don't get the chance to do it again, it will be okay. But it's good we had this chance. Yay! Thank you very much for listening. And we'll get back to you in our next episode.

Okay? Bye. Describe a time when a person persuaded you to do something and you were happy about that. You should say, who this person was, when, where it happened, what they persuaded you to do, and explain why you were happy. To be honest, I'm seldom persuaded to do anything I don't want to do.

But one exception that does stand out in my mind is when my friend convinced me to come and visit her for a month in Kyrgyzstan. That's a country in Central Asia. When it comes to exactly who she is, Chiewe is a former colleague that started out as a teacher and who laterally became a teacher trainer. we used to work together in Russia and kept in touch after we both left. It was during one of those times that we were catching up when she suggested coming to visit and maybe do a little bit of teaching and teacher training.

This was quite a while back. It must have been in mid-2023 when it came up in the course of conversation. At first, I was a bit reluctant to go since I had a lot on my plate at the moment, or at that moment, and didn't want to add more on top of that. However, she made the point that I could continue to work remotely, and I could also relax and do things while I was away, and I started to see the upside of what she was on about. So after a bit of time to deliberate and think things through,

I decided it might be fun to head off and join her later that year. As it turned out, it was a great decision, and I wound up having a really fun time. I've actually been back since then, and I've not once regretted it, actually. Hopefully I'll get the chance to go again soon. But if I don't go back, then at least I'll have had the chance to go a couple of times and enjoy myself. So even though I'm not usually want to be convinced to do things or persuaded to do things, I'm glad that I let myself be talked into this one.

That was a really rewarding experience, and I very much hope that I get the chance to do that kind of thing again.