IELTS Speaking for Success - 🎾 Free time (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: December 2, 2024

Our New Year Sale is live: https://successwithielts.com/sale What do you like to do in your free time? Who do you spend your free time with? Did you have a hobby as a child? What would you like to do with your free time in the future? Tune in and have a great day! - Book a class with Rory here: https://successwithielts.com/rory Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s11e13 Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2024 Podcourses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello Sunshine, I'm Maria. And my name is Rory. We're the host of the AILT Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELD score. Your band night score.

Oh, Rory, what do you do in your free time? I stalk. Oh, really? Oh, well, I go swimming and I play music and I go for long hikes. Oh, I know. Do listen, did you get the joke? Did you get the joke? Stalk, you know, like stalking, this stalking, paparazzi and crazy fans usually...

Following people? Yeah, yeah, they usually follow people. If, for example, I'm super famous and crazy. Crazy fans stalk me. They follow me everywhere. And this activity they do is called stalking. And I will joke. Our joke, did you get the joke?

I go, oh yeah, Rory. And I go swimming, ha, ha. And Roy goes, I know. Because he's following me. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Very funny. Yes, we're going to talk about free time, Jelis. Free time.

What do you like to do in your free time? I do a lot of exercise these days like weightlifting and yoga and I try and balance that out with reading and video games as well which is probably a good thing since if I didn't do that I'd probably knacker my joints

Who do you spend your free time with? Mostly by myself really Weightlifting is pretty solitary So I only have the company of whatever I'm listening to on YouTube and then well for yoga and climbing that's usually my friends or whoever's in my classes. And I don't really mind either set up, to be honest.

Did you have a hobby as a child? I did a lot of drawing and writing and reading, but nothing like stamp collecting or anything like that. Oh, actually, that's not entirely true. I did have a small model collection, but I wasn't very principled about adding to it or anything like that. What would you like to do with your free time in the future? more of the same, I think.

I'd like to get into Yokemore and find more time to read, but I haven't planned on doing anything new, frankly. I'm more of a creature of habit these days. And maybe I always have been. 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. Hey, free time, dear listener, or you can say leisure time. So what do you do in your free time or what do you do in your leisure time? Any other synonyms, worry? Oh, when you have the time, that's a phrase. When you have the time, meaning when you have the time to do stuff or things with your free time. Yeah, when I have the time.

Yeah, when I have the time, I go jogging, for example. And dear listener, free time is important for our sense of self-worth. Okay? So like we love ourselves. We take care of ourselves. Yes. And free time is important. Free time outside of work.

So to kind of to get in touch with yourself to find a good work-life balance, dear listener. All right? So you should develop a routine that allows you to have some spare time. is also another synonym. So leisure time, spare time, and to have the time for something. So what does Rory do?

I do a lot of exercise. I do yoga. I do weight lifting. Okay. I do reading. I play video games. And I balance between sports and playing computer games, for example. Can you draw attention to the phrasal verb?

Yeah. What's the phraseal verb? balance out and if we type in balance out I wonder if it will be a band nine word hmm I can't find it in Cambridge Online dictionary I can oh so

oh I can but it doesn't tell me the level where is the level um nothing here about the level but I would bet that balance out is a band nine or a C2 level. Accent. If only there was some sort of course for phrasal verbs. We have a course on phrase of verbs, dear listener.

Not to mention that in quite some time. Yeah, so what does it mean to balance out and what can I balance out? You usually balance out like a lot of something with something else. So something, let's say you balance out something positive with something negative to keep things equal. unbalanced. For example. For example, you balance out a lot of exercise, which is very intense, with something more chilled out like reading a book.

Hmm. I mean, most books are quite chilled out. The last book I read was a bit of a roller coaster. Can I say that I balance out dancing with reading? Yeah. Mm-hmm. You can balance out most intensive exercises with reading, to be honest. I balance out mountain climbing with a little bit of reading.

And then you said something like Neca my joints So to Neca is a verb And my joints Yes Or just to destroy or Damage and your joints are The things that connect your

body parts and bones So you have your elbow That's a joint that helps you move your arm Or you have your knee That's a joint that helps you move your leg Necker Neca means to break something.

Well, it could be to break something or just to exhaust it or render it unusable. So, dear listener, if the examiner asks you what you're usually doing your free time, it's much better to speak about something unusual, some interesting free time activities. For example, beekeeping. I enjoy beekeeping. I enjoy bees, you know, like, you can lie, imagine, but these are like good words. Or, for example, you enjoy. enjoy calligraphy, delisina.

Colligraphy is this, you know, like Chinese characters. Like, well, calligraphy is very therapeutic. It's very relaxing. So you kind of, you draw all these Chinese characters. Or you enjoy brewing. You enjoy making beer brewing. So you can Google unusual hobbies or unusual free time activities and choose, all right? Soap.

making, dear listener. Maybe you enjoy making soap. It doesn't matter if you do it or no. Just use the freaking words, okay? And then you will be very interesting for the examiner and the examiner, oh wow, I've just met a person who makes beer. I usually spend my free time or my spare time by myself, like alone, or with my friends.

Or you can say I usually do some solitary activities. So I'm by myself. Solitary? Like I do something alone. Like solitude. Solitary activities. Or for example, like weight lifting is pretty much solitary. So you do it alone. By yourself. Yeah, by yourself. Yoga, climbing. You can do these activities with your friends. And you can say, I don't really mind doing something by myself, to be honest. You can say that, yes, as a child, I did have a hobby.

I collected soldiers, I collected, I don't know, chocolate. People collect chocolate? I don't know. I collected chocolate in my tummy. Yes, I collect food. I ate everything. Yeah, so I collected small models, I collected models of cars. But I wasn't very principled.

about adding to my collection. So to be principled about something means, like, to do it regularly, yeah? Yes, well, it could be to do it regularly, or at least to have something that guides your actions. Usually people that collect things, they have a system for tracking and filing everything, and they would do it regularly, or they do something with their collection regularly.

Yeah, we can say I used to collect, but I wasn't very organized about adding to it. So you add items to your collections, so I didn't do that. And again, dear listener, Google unusual hobbies. And you can say, ha, ha, I used to do ice sculpting. Okay. Ice sculpting, like ice sculpture. Or you do.

talk about some regular hobbies and how they balance each other out. No, no, it's boring. As a child, I used to make ice sculptures. You see, de list, and then the examiner looks at you like, Really? Did you? Oh, how interesting. Ben nine. That is absolutely not what the examiner does or will say. No, come on. Oh, fire eating, of course. How could I forget about fire eating?

Dole listener, have you ever seen these people who eat fire? you know. Okay. Um, moving on from there. Returning to planet Earth, where people do not do that as a regular hobby. Yeah. When the examiner asks you, what would you like to do in your free time? What would you like to do with your free time in the future?

You can use the second conditional. If I had more time, I'd... If I could, I'd learn fire eating. Oh, like, I'd like to get into yoga more. Okay? If you want to start yoga, for example, you can say, I want to take up yoga. Or I'd like to get into yoga, to get into something. Rory, for example, you want to start cooking.

What do you say? I want to take up cooking? Yes, sweet. If you want to start fire eating. Of course, I would never take up cooking because I don't cook. So that's not something I'm likely to say. Exactly. But fire eating is a different thing.

It's daring. It's, you know, it's mesmerizing. And it is a captivating hobby. It's, you know, all these flames and fire and kind of warm. Floating, DeLisner, is also a nice hobby. You know, when you go to a special center and they put you in a capsule and you float. Float in water. That's a hobby.

Wow, you can do it regularly. It could be your hobby. Yeah. Like swimming, but floating. But when you swim, you swim, but when you float, you do nothing. You just, you know, I just... Chill out in the water. Yeah, you just relax and meditate.

So it's a kind of a meditation. Floating, check it out. You see, your listener. Your examiner will be like, whoa. Amazed. I think your examiner will be hitting the panic button, probably. Or you can say that I'm a creature of habit. I'm a creature of habit, I don't do anything new, I stick to my routine, so I do what I always do.

I'm boring and I stick to my routine. I haven't planned anything, I haven't planned on taking up any new hobby. Which makes sense because if you're taking ails then you're probably thinking, I'm going to emigrate to another country, do I really have the time to take up a new hobby? But you can kind of talk about the future, so when I, you know, If I have more time or if I had more time, I'd start soap carving. Ooh, extreme unicycling. What's unicycling?

Unicycling is like bicycling, but it's one wheel instead of two. Oh, God, what is extreme unicycling? Doing it on a tight rope. Yeah, I think. Yeah, rocky terrain, narrow paths. So are you a creature of habit? I think I've given you some ideas And if you feel bored

You know, with your life Like, oh, what do I do? Maybe start playing quidditch Or go learn fire eating Just for fun, you know Oh, there's also ostrich racing Yes, for all of those spare ostriches You have lying around

Oh, check it out Worm charming Oh my God These like worms, you know, like little insects and really worms and you can attract worms from the ground using vibration. Vibrations

sir. Could we talk about the idiom that I used instead of these insane hobbies? What idiom did you use? I used a creature of habit. A creature of habit is someone who likes to do things regularly. They like their habits. They don't change things a lot.

And because it's an idiom, it's more likely to result in a band nine score rather than making up Crazy hobbies, which Maria has done for the last five minutes. I'm not making them up with the Internet. Oh, good. Well, let us put the Internet in charge of everything. I'm just saying, dear listener, that you should be interesting, okay? And if you talk about interesting things, you use different vocabulary items.

Your examiner is interested. Everyone is happy. So, why not say... You're off your head. I'd like to take up fire eating. Come on. It's much better than like, oh, I enjoy swimming. I enjoy reading. Boring. Right, the listener, now you know what to do, okay?

Me personally, I'm choosing extreme ironing, okay? Ostrich racing and fire eating, definitely. Oh, also soap carving, all right? And worry, Rory will do pie eating, I think, fire eating, Rory. Rory is going to do a lot of meditation to get over what I've just been subjected to. Rory's going to do floating. Thank you very much for listening. Now you're full of super unusual hobbies and activities to do in your free time.

Bye. Bye. What do you like to do in your free time? I do a lot of exercise these days like weightlifting and yoga. And I try and balance that out with reading and video games as well, which is probably a good thing since if I didn't do that, I'd probably knacker my joints. Who do you spend your free time with? Mostly by myself, really.

Weightlifting is pretty solitary. So I only have the company of whatever I'm listening to on YouTube, and then, well, for yoga and climbing, that's usually my friends or whoever's in my classes. And I don't really mind either set up, to be honest. Did you have a hobby as a child? I did a lot of drawing and writing and reading, but nothing like stamp collecting or anything like that.

Oh, actually, that's not entirely true. I did have a small model collection, but I wasn't very principled about adding to it or anything like that. What would you like to do with your free time in the future? More of the same, I think. I'd like to get into yoga more and find more time to read, but I haven't planned on doing anything new, frankly. I'm more of a creature of habit these days.

And maybe I always have been.