IELTS Speaking for Success - 🌍 Geography (S09E31) + Transcript

Episode Date: December 11, 2023

Do you like Geography? Do you think Geography is useful? Have you ever studied Geography at school? Do you want to be a geographer in the future? Tune in and have a great day! - Book a class with Rory here: https://successwithielts.com/rory Get exclusive episodes on IELTS Speaking parts 1, 2, and 3: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s09e31 Our IELTS Writing course: https://linktr.ee/wfspremium Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2023 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're the host of the AILT Speaking for Success podcast. Podcast themes to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We started this podcast to give you a gorgeous grammar and super vocabulary for your high IOT school. Maria, you get around a lot. Where were you recently? Oh, Bikal. Al-Tai. Turkey. Oh my God, it's like a geography class. Let's talk about geography.

Yes. Yes, dear listener, Geography, again, it's the second episode on geography. Make sure you listen to our first episode and now it's a comeback geography again. Do you like geography? Well, like the subject. To be honest, I wasn't a great fan of it in school. It wasn't very well taught. I did like finding out about the effects of geography on human history, though.

There's a brilliant book called Guns, Germs and Steel on the subject. and I found that quite fun to read. Do you think geography is useful? I think a basic grasp of it is important and knowing how to navigate, but things like understanding or working out the incline of a hill is the sort of thing that sends most people to sleep, including me.

It's just sort of useless, to be honest. Have you ever studied geography at school? Yeah, and it was extremely boring and the logic behind it wasn't very clear. I remember the teacher droning on about tectonic plates and convection currents, but I'd already read about that in the book beforehand, so it wasn't exactly new information. Do you want to be a geographer in the future? No, I'm quite happy being a teacher, thank you. I'm not sure I have the patience to learn everything about geography all over again.

And I'm not even sure what that job would involve now. We've got satellite mapping to do everything for us, and not sure what being a geographer even involves. Dear listener, we do have our premium episodes where Rory and I are discussing fresh topics in Speaking Part 2 and 3. This week on our premium, Rory is describing a party that he enjoyed and in speaking part 3, we are discussing parties in general. The links to our premium super episodes are in the description. Do check them out. So geography, dear listener, I wasn't a fan of geography in school or at school, so I wasn't a fan of geography or maybe I was a fan of geography, I was into geography, I was into geography, I liked geography.

What were you a fun of at school? Nothing, just hanging out with my friends after school. I was a fan of the fact when it was over. I was a fan of escaping school. classes, you know, going just for walks, endless walks. Yeah, but sometimes I did miss classes and it was quite fun. And I lived like two minutes away from school, so when I didn't go to classes, I went home. Two minutes and I'm in my bed. You can say geography wasn't taught well. So passive voice, geography wasn't taught well, or it was taught well. I loved the teacher. I was a fan of geography. Or it was boring, dull. It was the dullest thing in the world. And also, dear listener, remember that we have different kind of types of geography. For example, human geography,

physical geography, studies or hills, mountains, rivers, oceans, earth, science, and also just geography. And geography of the soul. I found this quote on the internet. Okay, so it's very, smart. What's geography of the soul? I'm time I'm going to tell you. There is an internal landscape. A geography of the soul. We search for its outlines all our lives.

Josephine Hart. Oh, it's nice. You see geography of the soul. Rory, so kind of like, you search for geography of your soul. Do I? Do you?

I feel really bad. After, after, after that really nice poem, I'm just like, do I do that? Am I? The geography of our soul, dear listener, kind of the outlines. We do search for the meaning of life, who we are. You see how philosophical we can get here? And, dear listener, you can say that, like, do you like geography? Yes, I prefer the geography of the soul.

A basic grasp of geography. Rory, what is the basic grasp of? geography. Well, that's just a simple understanding, like being able to know what a hill or is or what a mountain is and being able to identify different things on a map, that's pretty useful. So if you've got a basic grasp of geography, you should be able to do things like understand what you're seeing on a map. So you can say, I reckon, I think that a basic grasp of it is useful, right? So a basic grasp of geography is important. And how to navigate. So geography is about maps. So how to navigate. So how to navigate, how to find your way around things, is useful. What is the incline of a hill?

Well, oh great, it's wonderful. I said that that was the boring, the most boring thing ever, and now I'm going to talk about it. So the incline of a hill is just how steep it is. So here we've got a flat incline and here is quite a steep incline. But you see them shown in percentages or in degrees and I think that's the most boring thing ever. We had to do it in geography at school. like just working out what the different levels were and things and it was so dull. I don't really understand why it couldn't have been so, like, why it couldn't have been more interesting, but it wasn't. So I don't like it. So physical geography studies like hills, mountains, the incline of a hill.

And here to show off your beautiful Ben 9 vocabulary, a specific vocabulary you can say, well, knowing about the incline of a hill is not. important in today's world. Well, it's not important for most people. It's important for geographers. You can say that geography sends most people to sleep. So it's boring. Geography?

Yeah. So, oh, it sends me to sleep. Or it sends most people to sleep. Another specific word is tictonic plates. So geography, physical geography studies, studies tectonic plates. One of the subjects of this subject is tectonic plates. What are tectonic plates, Roy?

We've already explained this in a previous video, but tectonic plates are created by fractures in the earth's crust, so the crust sits on top of the magma, and they move around, and the big sections that move around are called plates. And when they overlap with each other and separate suddenly, they create earthquakes. This topic sends me to sleep.

Likewise. So you can say it's extremely boring or it was extremely boring at school. And the teacher wasn't great. The teacher was boring. And I was bored to death when I studied things about tectonic plates. So the ink line overhael, tectonic plates. So it's like two phrases for band nine. Also you can say that at school we had to analyze

maps, charts, it was boring and we studied things about soil, oceans, what else, like climate landforms, because physical geography studies landforms, so kind of like the form of the land around us, below us. Rory would not like to be a geography in the future, Rory. Like, why not, you know, such a prosperous career? I don't know what, maybe. Maybe it is. I don't know anything about being a geographer, like the actual job itself. I don't know what that involves. Okay, okay. So... Do you have an idea? Oh, yes, I have a very clear idea. Thanks to National Geographic. I did read a very interesting article there.

So geographers explore their research the physical properties, qualities of Earth surface and human societies. So there is also this human geography. Rory, did you know about that? I knew about human geography, but I didn't know that that was something that geographers research. That sounds like something an anthropologist does. No, no, no, no, it's like a human geography. And again, there are different types of geography and different types of geographers. And also they investigate the impact, the geographic impact,

of human activities and the role of humans in our environment. You see, it's not just geography, it's geography. And also geography involves, I told you, like physical geography. And physical geography also has different disciplines, like subjects. For example, geomorphology, glaciology. Glaciology, I think about glaciens. this ice things hydrology, climatology,

biogeography, oceanography, dear listener. Roy, what's oceanography? Well, that's the study of the geography of the ocean, but that's a totally different job from being a geographer. That's like an oceanographer, an oceanographer, sorry. Roy, de listener, when the examiner asks you, would you like to be a geographer, you go, no, I would like to be an oceanographer.

and study the ocean Wow So I would like to study ice Beautiful So the article is amazing It's quite long But it gives you a very good idea about human geography

Human geography But we post it in the description Oh yeah yeah It's in the description Dear listener so make sure you read it Thank you very much for listening And for watching Right in the comments

Would you like to be an oceanologist Oceanographer A oceanographer. Would you like to be an oceanographer or a geographer and what kind of a geographer? Let us know in the comments. Yes, speaking of the comments, today's reflection task is application. So that means you've got to use the language. In the comments on YouTube or if you want to on our Instagram, use the vocabulary from the episodes to answer one of the questions. Only one, not all of them, because otherwise you'll be writing paragraphs and that won't be very effective. and once you'd send them, I'll give you some feedback. Bye.

Do you like geography? Well, like the subject. To be honest, I wasn't a great fan of it in school. It wasn't very well taught. I did like finding out about the effects of geography on human history, though. There's a brilliant book called Guns, Germs and Steel on the subject, and I found that quite fun to read. Do you think geography is useful?

Well, I think a basic grasp of it is important and knowing how to navigate, but things like understanding or working out the incline of a hill is the sort of thing that sends most people to sleep, including me. It's just sort of useless, to be honest. Have you ever studied geography at school? Yeah, and it was extremely boring, and the logic behind it wasn't very clear. I remember the teacher droning on about tectonic plates and convection currents, but I'd already read about that in the book beforehand, so it wasn't exactly. new information. Do you want to be a geographer in the future? No, I'm quite happy being a teacher, thank you. I'm not sure I have the patience to learn everything about geography all over again. And I'm not even sure what that job would involve now.

We've got satellite mapping to do everything for us. I'm not sure what being a geographer even involves.