IELTS Speaking for Success - 😖 Describe an event you attended in which you didn’t enjoy the music played (Part 2) + Transcript

Episode Date: June 12, 2026

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free of charge. BetMGEMGEMP operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into Super IELTS Part 2. Describe an event you attended in which you didn't enjoy the music played. You should say what it was, who you went with, why you decided to go there and explain why you didn't enjoy it. So, an event you attended, this means that an event you visited. You went somewhere and you didn't like the music there. right

Rory Hello Hello Musical Rory Give us a story I suppose the one that immediately comes to mind is the last time

I had lunch with my friends or the place or I had lunch with my friends speaking about what it was it wasn't anything special we just decided to have a small get together

at this new venue up the road from where we live Apparently it's been open for a while, but we, well, I'd never been before. So we decided to try it out. It's like a big open plan eating and drinking space inside this brewery with live music. If we consider who I went with, like I said, it was just some friends who live locally. We've been getting together at each other's houses for years now, but for whatever reason we had decided on a change of scene. So when I think about why I decided to go there, it's actually quite vague.

I'm pretty sure it was just for a bit of variety. And it definitely seemed like a good idea at the time, although it turned out later not to be such a good idea. Because as for why I didn't enjoy it, or at least as far as why I didn't enjoy it as concerned, it wasn't the music itself that was the problem. It was the volume they played it at. It was way too loud, and you could barely hear yourself even think, let alone understand what the person next to you was saying. And that seemed totally unnecessary, and I wish they'd just turned it down. In fact, I'm pretty sure that some of us asked at some point, but that was to no avail.

Unfortunately, we'd already paid for lunch, so we just had to put up with it. If we ever decide to do something like that again, I think we'll probably end up going somewhere very different, or maybe just back to our usual haunts where the music is a lot less intrusive and there's a bit more peace and quiet. I know that's my preference for sure. This episode is brought to you by Activia. You might already be eating yogurt, but not all yogurts are created equal. Activia contains over one billion probiotics per serving to survive and reach the gut alive. When it comes to gut health, Activia is the number one family doctor-recommended probiotic yogurt brand.

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So instead of the one that stands out, the one that comes to mind. Kind of the one is like this situation, right? An event. The event that I want to talk about. Or like what comes to mind is the last time I had lunch with my friends or I went to a cafe or I went to the theater. Speaking about what it was, It wasn't anything special. It was a small get-together. So we got together with my friends. I met my friends at the new place, at this new venue.

Venue is like a place. It could be a cafe, a restaurant, a concert hall, a mall. So it's kind of like a place. Venue. So we went to this venue. Venue. I'd never been there before. Pass perfect, dear listener.

So I went there. with my friends and I had never been there before. I had never been. We went there to try it out. A phrase of verb. To try it out just to see what it's like. So it's a venue with life music and food and it's like it's it's out is it outside, Rory? Part of it was outside. Although the inside part is open plan but that means there's not any walls to divide things up. It's just like a big space with tables. So it's an open. It's an open. space place with life music. Life music is when a band is playing and it's life. We write it like live, but we pronounce it live music, not a recording. I went there with my friends,

I went there with my family, I went there alone, right? I was on my own, and we decided to have a change of scene. So if you go somewhere, it might be because you want a change. You change of scene, a new situation. I wanted a change of scene, so I decided to go to this new place. But not all changes of scene are good, as I discovered. I don't know why I decided to go there. It's also possible.

You don't know why. You just did. I don't remember. I can't recall. I don't remember why I did this. Perhaps it was because I wanted a bit of variety. So I went there for variety, to have variety in my life. And it seemed like a good idea at the time.

It seemed like it looked like a good idea. I thought it was a good idea. Yeah, at the time, yeah. But actually, it wasn't. Then we changed the topic. As far as why I didn't enjoy the music, it was because the music itself was the problem. The volume.

The volume. Yeah, it was the volume they played the music at. It was intrusive. So it was too loud and it disrupted things. Intrusive music. Yeah, intrusive music, annoying, unpleasant. If something is intrusive, it affects you in a bad way, so it annoys you. It makes you feel uncomfortable. You can say that the music made me uncomfortable. The music was intrusive, like intrusive lighting, for example. The light is too bright. It's intrusive.

Intrusive journalists who ask a lot of questions. Too many questions. Or too many of the wrong questions. True. So you can say, like, the music was playing too loud. They played loud music. I didn't like the volume. it was way too loud.

It was super loud. So it was way too loud. I could barely hear myself. So barely is a nice one. Like almost. I almost didn't hear myself. Or couldn't hear myself. I couldn't hear myself speak.

Right? So I could barely hear. hear myself. Or you can also say, I could barely hear my friends. You could hear them, but kind of very little, not everything. So I could barely hear myself or I could barely hear my friends. Rory said, I could barely hear myself think. So kind of, I didn't hear my own thoughts. So I was thinking and I couldn't hear my thoughts because the music was too loud. I couldn't organize my thoughts either. And it's kind of a joke, but kind of, yeah, it was too loud, so I can't, I couldn't think.

I couldn't hear what my friends were saying. Bus continues. So at that time, I couldn't hear what my friends were saying. And then Rory used a superstructure with I Wish. Rory, what did you say? Oh, I can't remember. What did I say? Foodish.

Oh, I wish they turned it down. So Rory was annoyed, and they wanted the administration of the restaurant to turn down the music, the volume, yeah? Just to turn down the volume. So you can say, I wish they had turned it down. But they didn't. We even asked somebody to turn down the volume, but I don't. but unfortunately they didn't do it. And we had already paid for lunch.

Again, pass perfect. Because we had paid for lunch before, we asked them. First paid, then asked them to turn the volume down. So we had to put up with it. Put up with, he is a nice phrase of verb, like we had to tolerate it, accept the situation. We had to put up with this. loud music. Rory, could you give me two more adjectives or like three more adjectives to describe the

music? So intrusive. Intrusive, overwhelming, overbearing. Yeah. If the music was terrible, like not the volume, but it's just like unpleasant music itself. Terrible music, horrible music. Gostly. Gossily. Ooh. Disgusting. Yeah. Not pleasant. Unpleasant. Hmm, ghastly. Yeah, dear, listen. Unpleasant, shocking, ghastly music. Like, ugly, extremely bad. Yeah, the weather could be ghastly, for example. Yeah. Another phrase of a verb, which is good to use, is end up doing something. So, for example, we ended up... Leaving. We ended up leaving the place because I couldn't stand it. Like, I hated it. So we ended up going something. somewhere else. So end up is like when you find yourself doing something. We didn't like the music at all, so we ended up changing the restaurant. Or we ended up making a scandal with the waiter. And you can use a real conditional. So if we ever decide to go out, we'll end up going somewhere else.

Somewhere with less intrusive music or something. Somewhere with better music. Exactly. Did you enjoy the fault? It was okay. I just wish the experience hadn't been ruined by the music. Ooh, that's another structure with my wish. Our experience was ruined by the music.

Talking of structures, I've changed a few of the ways to organize part two, just to give us some variety. It's not that the old structures were bad. It's just that we like to change a few things. So when I was introducing the task, I didn't say the one that stands out. I said the one that comes to mind or immediately comes to mind. Then when we talked specifically about what it was, I said speaking about what it was. And then move to the next part saying, if we consider who I went with, then onwards to when I think about why I decided to go there.

and then as far as why I didn't enjoy it as concerned or so as far as why I didn't enjoy it is concerned so all of these could also be used to move the task forward in a different direction. Sweet. Thank you very much for listening. We'll get back to you in our next episode speaking part three about music events and festivals and music in general. It's music to my ears.

Bye. Bye. Describe an event you attended in which you didn't enjoy the music played. You should say what it was, who you went with, why you decided to go there and explain why you didn't enjoy it. I suppose the one that immediately comes to mind is the last time I had lunch with my friends, or the place where I had lunch with my friends. Speaking about what it was, it wasn't anything special.

We just decided to have a small. get together at this new venue up the road from where we live. Apparently it's been open for a while, but I'd never been before. So we decided to try it out. It's like a big open plan eating and drinking space inside this brewery with live music. If we consider who I went with, like I said, it was just some friends who live locally. We've been getting together at each other's houses for years now, but for whatever reason we had decided on a change of scene. So when I think about why I decided to go there, it's actually quite vague. I'm pretty sure it was just for a bit of variety. And it definitely seemed like a good idea at the time, although it turned out later not to be

such a good idea. Because as for why I didn't enjoy it, or at least as far as why I didn't enjoy it, is concerned. It wasn't the music itself that was the problem. It was the volume they played it at. It was way too loud and you could barely hear yourself even think, let alone understand what the person next to you was saying. And that seemed totally unnecessary and I wish they'd just turned it down. In fact, I'm pretty sure that some of us asked at some point, but that was to no avail. Unfortunately, we'd already paid for lunch, so we just had to put up with it. If we, decide to do something like that again, I think we'll probably end up going somewhere very different, or maybe just back to our usual haunts where the music is a lot less intrusive,

and there's a bit more peace and quiet. I know that's my preference for sure.