IELTS Speaking for Success - 🧑‍🎤 Famous People (S04E22) + Transcript

Episode Date: November 5, 2020

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Hello, lovely listener, I'm Maria. And my name is Rory and we're the host of the IEL Speaking for Success podcast. The podcast aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way. We started this podcast because we want you to use high-level words and gorgeous grammar in your AILD speaking and in your English life. Having fun together with us. If you enjoy what we are doing and want to support our podcast, you can subscribe to our premium podcast. And premium podcast is not just podcast. You have writing samples, you have vocabulary lists, you'll have webinars,

and you'll have our speaking course, all in premium service. So just go to our website to subscribe or click the link in the description. Rory, did you know that we've got over 800,000 listens? What? Oh, that's amazing. We're going to be famous. Yay! And why don't we talk about being famous and famous people and celebrities today? Why not? It's another coincidence after all. Rory, let's talk about famous people. Do you want to be a star?

I think everybody probably does, at least when they're younger. I certainly used to. Although as I've grown older, now I definitely appreciate the benefits of having a quieter life. Have you ever met celebrities or pop stars in person? Well, actually, I married one, but that is a story for another time. That aside, I've met a few singers and comedians and a news presenter, actually. They were all very engaging. You could almost feel the charisma or the aura that they have or whatever it is. So I can see where people get a bit star-struck when they meet celebrities in real life.

What pop stars do you like? And do you like any foreign celebrities? I suppose I like a range of musicians from Adam Levine. Or is it Levine? I can't remember. He's the speaker from Maroon 5, and then we've got people like Kylie Minogue, although I suppose that's probably because she doesn't get involved in the drama of life like other divas do. As for foreign media, I don't really listen to much foreign music, although I listen to some of Sophie Tocker's songs from time to time.

And she's quite good. I'm pretty sure she's Brazilian or Portuguese, so maybe that counts as foreign media. Who's your favorite celebrity? Oh God, I'll probably be cancelled if I say who my favourite celebrity is. But a close joint second is held by two women. One's called Lauren Southern and the other one is called Candace Owens. They're sort of journalist slash commentators in North America. They have a really engaging manner of speaking that I quite like.

Who's your favourite movie star? I think it's probably either Chris Pratt or Chris Hemsworth. All the Chrises, frankly. I think they've got a good sense of style and apparently they're really interesting but respectful outside of their jobs for example aside from playing Thor Chris Hemsworth is an avid surfer

at least I understand that's what he does which is quite a cool sport to engage in I suppose Are international movie stars famous in your country Oh absolutely I think Western media is sort of dominated by figures like that regardless of which country you live in and I think the same is true

for Russia, although there's some homegrown entertainment figures, I guess, here, and they seem equally popular. Do you read news about celebrities? Oh, God, no, I can't think of anything more boring. Not unless it pops up on my news feed or Instagram or Facebook or something like that. Otherwise, I'd try and avoid petty drama like that. How do celebrities influence their fans in your country? Well, I suppose social media is the leading way and people consume whatever content they produce outside of that I think it's quite cool in a way because you can actually speak to them directly

unlike before when they were sort of more abstract figures on the silver screen for example I think it makes people more real Rory, thank you very much for your answers Okay, so famous people we can also say celebrities right or we can say celebs We can, but I don't know why people say celebs.

Why don't they just say celebrities? Yeah, because our life is getting busy and busier and we can't be bothered by using long words. And pretty much celebrities is a long word. That's why we use celebs. Well, I'll stick to the longer, proper version of you, don't mind. Good. But in articles, you can actually come across this word, celebs, celebrities.

We can say stars or pop icons, pop stars, famous people, and Rory has used the word divas. I knew you that was coming, yeah. Yeah. So a diva is, well, a female singer usually, who gets involved in a lot of drama and has a very dramatic life that people follow just as closely as the music they produce.

Yeah, I follow some divas on Instagram, for example, you can say that. It's used as an insult as well, actually, if you call someone a divo. Can I call a man a diva? Oh, he's such a diva. You can, yeah. I frequently do. Rory, are you a diva?

I try not to be, whether that's successful or not is up to other people to decide. Rory, are you a drama queen? Again, I try not to be, but whether I'm successful is up to other people to describe, to say if it's successful or not. No, Rory is not a drama queen. He's a drama king. Oh, for heaven's sake. All right. So when we talk about celebrities, we can talk about singers, musicians. And Rory has mentioned these words.

Comedians, stand-up comedians. I know news presenters. So show presenters, writers, chefs, actors, bloggers, influences, no. Influenza? No, influenza. no. Well, influence people who influence other people. Oh my God. What do you call them?

Yes, influencers. Oh gosh. Podcasters and YouTubers, yes. You can talk about these people. Also some athletes, so people, sports people. And, Rory, you did you get married to a celebrity? What?

Well, talk about that another time. That's probably one for um uh that might be one for the part two actually rory how old are you how old are you rory oh no we're not we're not doing that today no no no rory where were you born give me your passport here's a life hack you have you have life hacks i also have life hacks here's a life hack don't tell everyone everything interesting about yourself in one goal or you'll never have enough to talk about later on oh dear listener he he never tells me stuff, you know, I don't even know how old he is. Okay, right.

Celebrities are engaging, and Rory has used a nice one. ORA. Aura? Ora? What? It looks like aura when you spell it. And I think it's that, it's pronounced that way in Russian. But in English, it's aura. An aura is like, well, it's usually used to describe the light around someone.

It's like a supernatural light people have that's quite. entrancing. Usually angels have an aura or spirits, but it can be used to describe the feeling that you have when you're around someone who's got lots of positive energy, for example. And some people use it to describe people's personalities as well, like a negative aura or a strange aura, for example. Some celebrities have this aura and charisma. Yeah, charisma is much better. Charisma is like a personality trait where you can draw people towards you. And that's why some people get a bit star-stuck. Almost star-struck.

Oh, stuck. Like struck by lightning. I'm stuck with the celebrities business. Okay, yeah, struck. Struck, struck like by a lightning. Struck. So to get star-struck, like to be obsessed with celebrities? I think that's an outcome of it, but star-struck is usually.

well, I think it describes how people behave when they're around celebrities. They go a bit mad or lose control of themselves or say ridiculous things. But it can involve becoming obsessed with people, that's for sure. Oh, I see. So if kind of this fame gets into the head, right? They have this stardom

thing all over them and they become starstruck, right? Yeah, you use it to talk about people who are interacting with celebrities, not the celebrities themselves. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, and we can follow celebrities on the social media. You can unfollow certain celebrities on Instagram. Like, I'm obsessed with certain people. Are you? Who? No, no, no, I'm not. I'm not actually following any celebrities. Are you not? Oh, my God. No, no, no. I don't browse a post. Even I follow celebrities. Like,

some, not all of them. No, no. I have my mind. life and it's quite engaging so no but you can say like I usually browse posts of certain people and be ready to name the people so Rory you've named several people and actually the girl that you think is Brazilian or Portuguese is actually that ta ta ta ta ta German she's German she was born in Germany in Frankfurt in 1992 how old are you Rory no I'm not I thought she was, because she sings in Portuguese, so I just assumed that she was from Brazil or Portugal. No, she's from Germany.

And her partner, or whatever he is, he's an American. And what's the name of the band? Sophie Tuku? What do you call this group? Well, I just had her down to Sophie Tucker. Is that not how you've pronounced? I've never heard it pronounced before. Sophie Taka, okay.

Yes, so do you listen. be ready to name some celebrities, okay? If you have no idea, then go check it up or just say the names that Rory has told us. Oh, I used the word slash to describe things, the combination of things. Tell us about it. Tell us about it. Yes. So I mentioned that people were sort of journalists slash commentators.

This slash is a word, but it describes a piece of punctuation, which is used like between two words to combine them together. You can look this up on, well, on Google, just backslash or forward slash, and you'll understand what I mean. But you use this to combine words or to describe people who have multiple jobs. So for example, like I could say,

I'm a teacher slash podcaster slash author, this kind of thing. I think the way that a lot of people describe themselves now is slashes, if you have multiple jobs. Yes, dear listener, but be very careful, because slash has also another meaning. It does, yeah.

But we're not going to be talking about it on our podcast because Rory is going to say that it's unprofessional. Oh, no, you can talk about slash meaning to like cut something or stab something. No, no, I'm driving at something else. Are you? Oh, yeah, we're not going to talk about that. That is unprofessional. So if you check this word up in the dictionary or some,

Urban dictionary, be careful. Rory, you've mentioned when it pops up on my news feed. Yeah, things can pop up on your newsfeed. It's just like when things appear unexpectedly on your newsfeed. So for me, on my news feed, I usually just follow my friends and my family. But sometimes a piece of celebrity news comes up and it's unexpected and so it pops up. Do I pop up on your newsfeed? occasionally when you post things

I don't think you post that much do you no I don't yeah and some celebrities are involved in petty drama petty drama that's yeah although frankly all drama is petty when you think about it petty just means not worth

much or pointless or frivolous yeah so these divas are getting involved in petty drama yeah I'm glad they do. Celebrities. So celebrities are in the spotlight, right?

So they're figures who are in the public eye or on the silver screen. Well, I think the silver screen describes people who are in movies that are older. At least that's what I use it to describe. Although sometimes you can use it to describe modern film. It's a very old expression, though. So it usually describes films that were made in like the 40s or the 40s. the 50s. And when you talk about celebrities, don't forget to mention that, I don't want to be famous because I don't want to get chased by paparazzi. If you want to quieter life, then it's

okay. Yes, you guys. And I really enjoy Lady Gaga's ideas about being famous, and she says that fame is not external, it's internal. What does that mean? So, dear listener, it means that we are all famous, Rory. We are all famous because fame is internal. It's within us. I don't think people should want to be famous though. It's not very healthy. But we are famous in our wrong ways. Yes, but we're famous because we wanted to help people. We're not famous because we wanted to be famous. Like, that's ridiculous. Yeah, we don't want to be famous, but we're getting famous because of our premium service. Yeah. Amongst other things, yeah. No, seriously. I'm If you want to say thank you and you want to support us,

you now can support us and become our premium subscriber. Dear listeners, so if you enjoy what we are doing, you can share our podcast on your Instagram, on your telegram, in your stories, just hashtag Success with IOTS and let the world, the whole world know that, I-L-speaking for Success podcast is useful and Rory is super cool and full of awesome. And so are you. I'm gorgeous.

Yeah, you just can call me gorgeous. What did I just say? I said that you are cool and full of awesome and you should say and you're gorgeous, Maria. But can they not mean the same thing? No. Let's be different. You are Rorya. You would like me to say that you're gorgeous, wouldn't you?

Yes, yes. I imagine that there are many other people who would like me to say that as well. Shall we move on? Thank you very much for listening. Hopefully our answers will help make you famous. And bring success to your life. Bye. Bye.

Rory, let's talk about famous people. Do you want to be a star? I think everybody probably does, at least when they're younger. I certainly used to. Although as I've grown older, now I definitely appreciate the benefits of having a quieter life. Have you ever met celebrities or? or pop stars in person? Well, actually, I married one,

but that is a story for another time. That aside, I've met a few singers and comedians and a news presenter, actually. They were all very engaging. You could almost feel the charisma or the aura that they have or whatever it is. So I can see where people get a bit star-struck when they meet celebrities in real life.

What pop stars do you like? And do you like any foreign celebrities? I suppose I like a range of musicians from Adam Levine, or is it Levine, I can't remember, who is, he's the speaker from Maroon 5, and then we've got people like Kylie Minogue, although I suppose that's probably because she doesn't get involved in the drama

of life like other divas do. As for foreign media, I don't really listen to much foreign music, although I listen to some of Sophie Tucker's songs for time to time, and she's quite good. I'm pretty sure she's Brazilian or Portuguese, so maybe that counts as foreign media. Who's your favourite celebrity? Oh God, I'll probably be cancelled if I say who my favourite celebrity is.

But a close joint second is held by two women. One's called Lauren Southern and the other one is called Candice Owens. They're sort of journalist slash commentators in North America. They have a really engaging manner of speaking that I quite like. Who's your favourite movie star? I think it's probably either Chris Pratt or Chris Hemsworth. the Chris's, frankly. I think they've got a good sense of style and apparently they're really interesting but respectful outside of their jobs. For example, aside from playing Thor, Chris Hemsworth

is an avid surfer, at least I understand that's what he does, which is quite a cool sport to engage in, I suppose. Are international movie stars famous in your country? Oh, absolutely. I think Western media is sort of dominated by figures like that, regardless of which country you live in. I think the same is true for Russia, although there's some homegrown entertainment figures, I guess, here, and they seem equally popular. Do you read news about celebrities? Oh, God, no, I can't think of anything more boring.

Not unless it pops up on my news feed or Instagram or Facebook or something like that. Otherwise, I'd try and avoid petty drama like that. How do celebrities influence their fans in your country? Well, I suppose social media is the leading way, and people consume whatever content they produce outside of that. I think it's quite cool in a way because you can actually speak to them directly, unlike before when they were sort of more abstract figures on the silver screen, for example. I think it makes people more real.