IELTS Speaking for Success - 🦫 Describe a wild animal that you want to learn more about (Part 2) + Transcript

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

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Hello, dear listener and welcome into speaking part two. A very interesting topic today. Describe a wild animal that you want to learn more about. You should say what it is, when and where you saw it, why you want to learn more about it, and explain what you want to learn more about it. A wild animal, dear listener. And you can say, well, I'm going to talk about myself

because I am a wild beast. I'm a wild animal. Rory, give us your story. Well, there are lots of animals I could afford to learn a bit more about. But the one that sticks out for me in particular is the Capibara, which I suppose is best described as something like a big rat. It makes it sound a bit unappealing, but they're actually very friendly and quite cute.

I think so. In fact, I think they might be my favorite animal. I realize the irony of that, given that I'm, talking about an animal I don't know much about. When it comes to when and where I've seen it, I think scarcely a day goes by when I don't see something about them or involving them on the internet. They're quite popular in memes just for their general look and disposition. I have actually seen them in real life when I was younger though at this, it was a zoo or a wildlife sanctuary place in English countryside. They were just wandering around freely and that was really sweet. With regards to

why I'd like to learn more about them. I know I said they were my favorite animal, that I'm not exactly Ophi, but the ins and outs of the sort of finer details of their lives and habits and things like that. Though I could guess at them. I don't know anything for certain, and it's always better to be in the know about these things, even if it's just to, I don't know, clear them up in your mind or to talk about them casually, like now. In terms of exactly what I want to learn, I think I should probably know a bit more about their diet. I don't actually know what they eat, although I assume they are herbivores. I think if they were carnivorous, then I doubt they'd be allowed near people. That, well, could be pretty dangerous. I also don't

know very much about how they live in the wild. You see them often in zoos, but I'm not sure that's an authentic representation of how they actually live. That being said, if I never find out any of this. I won't feel too hard done by. I mean, it's not like it's essential for my job or anything, it's just a passing curiosity. And what about your friends? Would they like to learn more about this animal? I don't know. I've never talked to them about it. 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. You're listening, if you don't know what a Kappibara is, Google it now, C-A-P-Y-B-A-R-A. Copy-B-B-A-A. Copy-Bara is a South American animal that looks like a large guinea pig. If you don't know what guinea pig, also Google guinea pig.

G-U-I-N-E-A pig. Well done, Maria. I don't know how to spell guinea pig, so good for you. Capabara. I love capybara's. What a nice choice. But do you know what they eat?

What they eat? They're herbivore. That means that they eat, well, they eat plants and grass. And also they eat their own feces in the morning. So, feces deal with them, that means poo. They eat their own pool. Because, because their poo is very poo is very, protein rich because they eat a lot of plants and grass. So therefore contains a high number of

microbes, you know? We can't talk about that. Why can't I say they eat their own feces? That's National Geographic.com, Rory, come on. They also eat their own feces. Fesis is an academic word. I don't care. Oh, politicians, politicians also talk a lot of feces. Excuse me. You've just asked me, what do Capabaras eat? I tell you, plants, grass, and they also eat their own feces. Yes, I know. I was expecting, and I wasn't expecting an honest answer. Yeah, Capibara, DeLisna, the largest rodent on earth. And here, DeLisner, this topic is very specific, so you have to talk about an animal.

And to talk about an animal, you should Google it. A tiger, an elephant, I don't know, a leopard. But if I wore you, I would talk about capybara because you can steal Rory's vocabulary. Even if you hate copaybara for some reason, just talk about them. Okay? Well, you could talk about any animal in the same way as the capybara, to be honest with you, because all I said, I didn't see any capybara specific words. I just said, I assume they're herbivores.

That's a scientific piece of vocabulary. Surely that is C1. Or if you want to talk about an animal that eats meat, you could say they are carnivorous. So really, none of these things. are particularly capybara unique words. Capybara sensitive. That's true, yeah. Herbivore, an animal that eats only plants.

So cows and sheep are herbivores, like herbs, plants. And you can start off with, I'd really like to learn more about capybara. Or there are different animals I'd like to learn more about, but the one that sticks out for me, in particular, the capybara and now Rory tell us why do we say the capybara oh just because it's this the name of the species like all capybaras the tiger the elephant the capybara so when you mentioned for the first time you can say I'd like to learn more about the capybara and then you just say capybaras capybaras a cababara leaves a capybara eats or just

just use plural like tigers, elephants, rats. They are friendly and cute. They are not unappealing. They are not unpleasant. Yeah. They might be my favorite animal. I see them in popular memes, because capybara's are stars on the internet. So we have a lot of memes with capybarras because of them look and disposition.

and by disposition we mean they're just like they're friends with everyone it's about their personality really or how they behave their disposition their type of character they're just sitting there

munching on some grass with oranges you know in warm water they're just cool you know like they're just yeah keep your barras and disposition is C2

Ben 9 so for example she's of a cheerful disposition a cheerful character I've never seen them in real life or I've seen them in a zoo. It's important to say in real life. They were just wandering around.

They were like walking around freely. They were wandering around freely. When we change the topic, you can say with regards to why I'd like to learn more about them, it's because blah blah, blah. Rory, what did you mean when you said, I'm not exactly, and then you use this phrase strange word. Oh, O'FAY. It means extremely familiar with something. Yeah, to be O'Fey, two words, or O'Fey with something, to be familiar or to know about something. So, for example, are you O'Fey with the rules of the game? Like, are you familiar? Do you know the rules of the game?

So you can say that I'm not exactly O'Fey with the ins and outs of their lives. So I don't know much about their lives. I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of their lives and habits. It's another binomial. We don't say outs and ins. We say ins and outs. And ins and outs are the important or the interesting details about something, the most important things to know. And I don't know much about the habits, things like that. I could guess that. So I don't know much about that's why I want to learn more about them. What I want to learn about is I should probably know more about their diet. Diet what they eat.

And here we change words like I should probably know more about, not just I want to learn, but I should probably know more about the diet, about their habits, some interesting facts about some these animals. I say I should know, like it doesn't really matter. It's just a wild animal that I don't deal with too much. And if you don't know something, you can assume, like make assumptions. So I can assume that they eat grass, their herbivores. I can assume that they are not dangerous.

And I don't know much about how they live in the wild. In the wild, like in nature, because I've seen them only in, zoos or in, what did you call these places? Yeah, wildlife sanctuaries. There are places where animals are kept safe. I'm not so sure if it was a wildlife sanctuary or a zoo that we were at. Maybe it was both.

And you can finish off with, like, if I don't find it out, it's okay. So if I never find out any of this, if I never find out these details, I won't feel too bad. I'll be fine. I'll be fine, you know. I won't die if I don't find out such details about capybars.

It's not essential for my work. It's just, you know, it's a passing curiosity. What's a passing curiosity? It's something you're interested in, but it's not a serious interest. It's just like, ooh, that's interesting. Yeah, that's interesting. It's a passing curiosity, really. Yeah, but you, dear listener, should not.

know that capybaras don't mind being alone. They live in groups up to 40 capybaras, but they're quite okay being alone, you know. In some areas, capybaras are threatened by people who hunt them for their skin. Can you imagine? Oh, evil people! Where do we find them? How can we stop them? Yeah, this is horrible.

Jaguas, pumas usually eat capybar Hmm. Capoe baras are strong swimmers. So they are very good at swimming, Delisa. Now you know. Maria's finding out all the Kapibara facts. Yeah, because like even if you don't know anything about this animal, like you can, you know, you can know a couple of things.

But then you can say, yeah, I want to learn more about capybarras. And when capybarras are threatened, they jump into water and they hide beneath the surface. Oh, they can hold their breath. What are they threatened to buy crocodiles? No, they beat up crocodiles. So, take listen. Is that a fact, or have you just made that up? No, no, I'm just making it up.

But this is a fact from rainforest.org. So, capybarus jump into the water and they can hold their breath so they don't breathe for five minutes. Roy. That's crazy. Right, dear listener, how are you doing? Are you okay? Are you full of capybara now? Good. Thank you very much for listening. And we'll get back to you in our next episode about animals and wildlife. All right? Bye. Describe a wild animal that you want to learn more about. You should say what it is, when and where you saw it, why you want to learn more about it, and explain what you want to learn more about it. Well, there are lots of animals I could afford to learn a bit more about, but the one that sticks

out for me in particular is the Capibara, which I suppose is best described as something like a big rat. It makes it sound a bit unappealing, but they're actually very friendly and quite cute. I think so. In fact, I think they might be my favorite animal. I realize the irony of that, given that I'm talking about an animal I don't know much about. When it comes to when and where I've seen it. I think scarcely a day goes by when I don't see something about them or involving them on the internet. They're quite popular

in memes just for their general look and disposition. I have actually seen them in real life when I was younger though at this, it was a zoo or a wildlife sanctuary place in the English countryside. They were just wandering around freely and that was really sweet.

With regards to why I'd like to learn more about them, I know I said they were my favourite animal, but I'm not exactly Ophay with the ins and outs of the sort of finer details of their lives and habits and things like that. Though I could guess at them. I don't know anything for certain and it's always better to be in the know about these things, even if it's just to, I don't know, clear them up in your mind or to talk about them casually, like now. In terms of exactly what I want to learn, I think I should probably know a bit more about their diet. I don't actually know what they eat, although I assume they are herbivores. I think if they were carnivorous,

then I doubt they'd be allowed near people. That, well, could be pretty dangerous. I also don't know very much about how they live in the wild. You see them often in zoos, but I'm not sure that's an authentic representation of how they actually live. That being said, if I never find out any of this, I won't feel too hard done by. I mean, it's not like it's essential for my job or anything, it's just a passing curiosity. And what about your friends? Would they like to learn more about this animal? I don't know.

I've never talked to them about it.