IELTS Speaking for Success - 🌆 Evenings (S05E25) + Transcript

Episode Date: May 24, 2021

Do you do the same thing every evening? Do you prefer to spend your evening with family or friends? Do you do the same thing in the evenings as you did when you were a child? Tune in and have a great day! - IELTS Speaking for Success PREMIUM: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s05e25 Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2021 Success with IELTS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, Sunshine. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory. And we are the host. Rory. My name is Rory. My name is Rory. And we are the host of the AILT Speaking for Success podcast. The podcast aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way. It's a musical podcast.

We started this podcast to help you with your English and boost your vocabulary. and grammar with our high-level native speaker Rory language. Camillory for a band nine score. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. So, yeah, but this podcast is not about music. It is actually not. There are no coincidences here. But we're feeling tired because it's almost the evening and we're going to go out.

But Maria, should we talk about evenings? Hmm, yay, but you haven't asked me about my plans. I know. We're going out. Yeah, and I'm going to get Rigggy, Rigggy, Rigggy, Drix. Ah, yeah, you said it. She said the thing. She said the thing.

Oh, well, let's get going. Let's talk about evenings. What do you often do in the evening? It's a pretty set routine, to be honest. On Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, I'll go to the gym after school and then head home. I have dinner and go to bed. Tuesday and Friday are a bit more open, and sometimes I go out or have people around,

but more often I'll do work like writing. So, well, either way, it's not terribly riveting, sadly. Do you prefer to spend your evening with family or friends? I actually prefer to spend it by myself, so I spend the whole day around people. But if I have to spend it with people, I don't mind which group, to be honest. I suppose my friends are more accessible at the moment, so I'd spend it with them. But that's more by virtue of proximity than preference. Do you ever work or study in the evenings?

Well, I try not to these days, but it happens sometimes when there's a lot to do. So usually I'll set aside an hour or so for it and no more, but it has a habit of escalating still sometimes. What's a popular activity for people in your country in the evenings? I'm not sure. Everything is a bit radically different these days. I say a bit radically different. It is radically different due to the crisis. Though I imagine some people still eat together in the evenings, watch the local news and have some kind of fun like playing games or going out.

do you do the same thing in the evenings as you did when you were a child not quite there's a lot less homework and walking for starters I think there's more alone time too so solo activities and more of a thing Rory thank you much for your evening answers this evening don't let the sun I don't for some reason like it's an evening episode but we're singing it's because we are exhausted yeah we're kind of just a little bit

tired. Oh yes, let's moan about how tired we are. I want to sleep. I wouldn't go home. I didn't moan, but then you started. What was that then? Hmm? It wasn't moaning? This is awkward. I've just barked at him, haven't I? I'm sorry telling. You're just like, sass-in-me. You sass in me. So, evenings. You can have that you have a pretty sad, for your evenings to have a set routine. And if you have a set routine all the time, it won't be terribly riveting, which means it's not very interesting.

Wow. But instead of saying it's not very interesting, you say it's not very ribbiting. Ribbiting? Riveting. Riboting is like rabbit, you know, like riveting plus a rabbit. Riboting is what a frog does. Riveting. Riveting.

Ribot. Ribot. Ribot. Ribot. Ribot. Riveting. What else can be riveting. People. he's riveting. Some people, you can have a riveting conversation. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So it's like an interesting conversation. Um, or a movie can be riveting.

Riving. Wow. That's a nice word. Because usually people say interesting, fascinating, but then you say, hmm, it's not terribly riveting. Like, it's not interesting. Well, you can use it to mean, um, it's often used like in a sarcastic way or a self-deprecating way. So it's usually with negative connotation.

which is why I say it's not terribly riveting. Terribly. It's like, oh, you're terribly beautiful. You're terrible and beautiful in the same time. Terribly. Terribly beautiful. Awfully nice of you. Yeah.

No one says that. Yeah, but in Russian, for example, we can say that. But in English, no, it's so awfully nice of you. That's such a cliche. Yeah, it's a cliche, yeah. Don't say that. Back to Rory's evening. routine. What Roy does before he goes to bed is he brushes his teeth. So brush my teeth,

get changed into his Jammies. Jammies. Yeah. I say jammies, but most people say pajamas. Or PJJs. Pajajas. Pajajas. Yeah, yeah, PJs. Oh my God, that's so cool. Pajamas. Jammies. So pajamas, right? Yeah. Jammies, nice. And he applies moisturizer. And it's always apply moisturiser or put moisturiser on. Yeah, apply moisturiser. Can I apply an evening mask? Yes. You can apply makeup, although I wouldn't

recommend doing that before you go to bed. No, no makeup. So, Rory sets aside an hour to do what in the evening? To do any work that comes up. And it's important to point out, it is like set aside. Yeah, you set aside

some time to do certain things in the evening for example. And then you habit of doing something can escalate. Yes, so if something escalates, it's like it becomes more than you wanted it to. So an argument can escalate into a fight, work for an hour, can escalate into work for three hours. Yeah, and the question was about, like, do you ever work or study in the evenings? Yeah. And like, I set aside some hours before I go to bed, right? But it could escalate. It always escalates. there are different activities that you can engage in in the evening

for example you can watch the news you can watch the local news you can eat together in the evenings play games go out have fun what else can you do in the evening listen to our podcast in the evening it could be your routine before you go to bed you listen to our voices loving you into sleep

but if you have to make some significant changes, which you've never made before, it will become radically different. Again, it's music. We have music on this podcast. On a vocabulary-related note, it can, instead of saying because I said due to. Yeah, this is really cool.

Yeah. So it's a bit radically different these days due to, okay, lockdown due to the crisis. Or because, yeah, but due to is nice. Also, it's good for your essay. Solo activities. Some activities are solo. Yeah, like writing, for example. It's a solitary activity.

Could say that, actually. Solo and solitary activity. But what's not solo is our work together, but it's coming to close for this episode. We hope you enjoyed it. We hope you spend your evening listening to it. Maybe in the evening before your test. Oh, yeah, it's a good idea to listen.

to us one day before the test in the evening at night in the morning before your test. Just before binge listen. Yeah, you should binge listen. Listen. Yeah, binge listen to our podcast. And you can have some friends around. So invite some friends around for this level evening with some water. But no solo activities.

No, group. Group activities. Group activities. Group fun. Group listen. Group listen to our podcast. Yeah. Group fun. Anyway, that's all about evenings. So, yeah. And that's all from us for now. We'll see you in the next episode. By the way, in this week's premium episodes, we talk about festivals in part one. In part two, Rory describes the prize he received.

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Because at Desjardin business, we speak. the same language you do. Business. So join the more than 400,000 Canadian entrepreneurs who already count on us and contact Desjardin today. We'd love to talk. Business. Let's talk about evenings. What do you often do in the evening? It's a pretty set routine, to be honest. On Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, I'll go to the gym after school and then head home, have dinner and go to bed. Tuesday and Friday are a bit more open and sometimes I go out or have people around, but more often I'll do work like writing. So, well, either way, it's not terribly riveting, sadly. Do you prefer to spend your evening with family or friends? I actually prefer to spend it by myself, so I spend the whole

day around people, but if I have to spend it with people, I don't mind which group, to be honest. I suppose my friends are more accessible at the moment, so I'd spend it with them, but that's more by virtue proximity than preference. Do you ever work or study in the evenings? Well, I try not to these days, but it happens sometimes when there's a lot to do. So usually I'll set aside an hour or so for it and no more, but it has a habit of escalating still sometimes. What's a popular activity for people in your country in the evenings? I'm not sure. Everything is a bit radically different these days.

I say a bit radically different. It is radically different. due to the crisis though I imagine some people still eat together in the evenings, watch the local news and have some kind of fun like playing games or going out Do you do the same thing in the evenings as you did when you were a child?

Not quite, there's a lot less homework and walking, for starters. I think there's more alone time too so solo activities and more of a thing.