IELTS Speaking for Success - 📍 Getting lost (S06E13) + Transcript

Episode Date: September 27, 2021

Have you ever got lost? How can you find your way when you are lost? Have you ever helped someone who got lost? Do you ever use any applications with maps? Tune in and have a great day! - Get exclusive episodes on IELTS Speaking parts 1, 2, and 3: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Success with Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s06e13 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

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to more episodes for you to be well prepared for your IOT speaking exam. Rory, you're late again for our recording. I know, I'm sorry. I got lost on the way to the studio. Oh, but you are not recording in a studio. You're at home.

I know, but it's a coincidence. It's a totally not manufactured coincidence. Shall we talk about getting lost? Yes. Rory, have you ever got lost? Isn't there a joke about men never getting lost? They just use their own directions. Seriously, though, I've lost my way once or twice,

but it was nothing terribly serious. When was the last time you got lost? I actually, despite the coincidence at the beginning, I actually did have trouble finding the studio we were working at once. I just misread the directions and wound up one street over or something like that. It was hardly a big deal, but that was the last time I was lost. How can you find your way when you are lost? Oh, GPS has saved me so many times.

I usually have a reasonable sense of direction too. I'm just not very good with specific place names, but I'm very good at navigating by sight, and of course, tall buildings make good reference points, in my case. Are you good that's reading a map when you get lost? Reasonably well. I wasn't great at orienteering when we were in the scouts. I'm much better at finding my way around by what I can see around me,

like I said, rather than what's on a map. Have you ever helped someone who got lost? I've tried. People in Moscow always used to ask me for directions, and I always thought I gave pretty good answers to their questions, but sometimes they would go and wander off and talk to another person, probably just to double check what I'd said. Do you ever use any applications with maps?

I do, yes. I use Google Maps often, And when I lived in Moscow, I used the Yandex taxi app. It's got a map on it and it helped me find my way to places or at least understand the direction I was headed in. Thank you, Rory, so much for your answers. Dear listener, we hope that you were not lost in his answers. At Capital One, we're more than just a credit card company. people just like you who believe in the power of yes. Yes to new opportunities.

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They were. And you know what they say? They say, it's nice to be lost in the right direction. You could be lost in the moment. Oh, yes. Let's be lost in the moment. Let's lose ourselves in the moment. Yes.

Oh, by the way, so to get lost, it has two meanings. It does, yeah. I was thinking about that. So what are these two meanings? Well, to get lost is like to lose your way, which just means you don't know what direction you're traveling in. To lose your way is a great paraphrase for getting lost. by the way. Yeah.

But get lost is also a phrasal verb for, well, it's not a phrasal verb, is it? It's like an idiom for basically go away and leave me alone. It's so rude. It's like, it's not as true to see effort and off, but like it's pretty good. Yeah. So if we are recording with Rory and then Vanya interrupts us, we're going to go to Vanya, get lost. No, we don't usually say that to Vanya. We are very polite and nice to him. So in this sense, actually, it's like an instruction, isn't it? to get lost. Go and lose yourself. Get away from me. Go away. Yeah. But in the aisle speaking, getting lost is about losing your way, right?

And synonyms to getting lost. So, for example, Rory used, I've lost my way to lose your way. Yes. And, well, I lost my way once or twice. This is a good way of talking about situations in general. like, it's like from time to time once or twice. It doesn't mean it's literally happened one or two times. It's just another way of saying sometimes. Yeah. Or occasionally. Can I say I lose my bearings?

Oh, well, yeah, I lost my bearings. Yeah, I didn't think about that. But lose your weight is more common, but lost my bearings is also quite a good one. Yeah. You can also say I took a wrong turn. So turn like when the road turns. So I took a wrong turn and I got lost Or I became disoriented for example

Or I misread the directions Which means you didn't understand the instructions For moving the direction you should be going in Yep And the direction is like just where you should go basically Yeah I misread the directions Yeah I misread the directions But also do you can say

I stayed on track So you can use an Anthony So I got lost. When you don't get lost, you stay on track, right? This is the expression. Yes. Keep on track. Cute.

And then you said, like, I just misread the directions and wound up one street over or something. I think that's my favorite phrase of her. People always say that I say that wound up doing something. So I ended up or I wound up getting lost or I wound up in a strange name. neighborhood late at night. Right, Rory? Is this what is usually happens to you in Dundee these days? I think like all neighborhoods in Dundee are strange, aren't they? You need to come and visit, seriously. Like, it's fun. I know. Yeah. Shall we just gather all our listeners from all over the world and all yeah, let's go to Dundee? Maybe not all, maybe not everybody, but like you and

Vanya, absolutely. On the subject of my hometown, because people might be wondering more about it and the culture and the people there. So if you are interested, there is a wonderful podcast called Dundeecast. And you can find it at Dundeecast, that's D-U-N-D-E-C-A-S-A-S-T-S-A-S-O-U-N-D-R. They're not paying us to advertise for them. I just happen to know the person who does this podcast and I thought if you're interested in where I'm from and finding out more about it,

then you might want to try that out. So, dear listener, if you want to get some insights into Rory's soul, listen to Dundicast. Okay. Rory, you also mentioned the expression navigate by sight. Yes, so you could talk about, because people often will say like, directions, directions, directions,

but in terms of finding your way around, you navigate, you go around, you determine the direction. It's navigation, navigate. So navigate by sight is like what you see around. You use your eyes to go in the right direction. But it sounds so much better when you say that way, like, I navigate by sight.

You can navigate by stars. I don't think many people do that nowadays, but... Yeah, and then you can mention. some devices like a GPS tracking device or a GPS app application on your cell phone. I know a personal locator beacon, a satellite phone. Oh my days. Just say GPS. The global positioning system.

Do you know that the global positioning system was developed by the US military and they made it available after the Soviet Union shot down a Korean Airlines flight because their GPS was rubbish? They couldn't find their way, so they made it available so that would stop happening. Wow. I didn't know that. Yeah. Ronald Reagan. Very helpful man. Thank you, Ronald. Now we know. Rory. Thank you. So, you can be good at reading a map.

I'm good at reading maps or I'm not good at reading maps. And I usually get lost, you can say. But if you're not good at that, you could use your GPS and follow the directions. It's like follow the instructions So read and use the instructions Yeah, when people tell you like go left Go straight You follow their directions

Oh you don't and make a mess of it like me I'm terrible at following directions Hmm So you do your own thing, Roy You just don't listen to people Telling you where to go Yeah I'm not very good at it

Oh Should I go left Okay so I go right this is what you are doing that seems to be like just a logical consequence of living in Moscow sometimes or having lived in Moscow because I remember every time

I used to ask Russian people for directions in Moscow they would always send me in the opposite direction every time for a whole year You can also say I'm great at orienteering Orientering is like a well at least

when I did it when I was in the Boy Scouts It was you follow up a map and work out what direction you're going in based on the map. You can also look at the stars and you have a compass, a compass. I think a compass is a thing of the past, right? Because everybody is using their phones, apps, Google Maps, whatever they're using. Have you ever seen a person with a compass? Compass is a device, yeah, that shows you like a southwest. I haven't seen a compass, like not a mathematical one, but a direction-finding one.

Have you ever? No, I have. I've seen compasses before. We used them in the Boy Scouts, but like I've not seen one in 20 years. That's how long it's been. Yeah, do listen. Have you ever seen a compass? I wonder. Yeah, so when you go into the wild, when you go trekking or hiking, and usually, not usually like sometimes hikers do lose their way right so they get lost that's why they say like

you should have a map and a compass because your phone can die your phone needs charging so yeah and you can't use navigation apps all the time when or you can't use any navigation apps when your phone is dead oh they also say that you should print out a map of the area and have it in your pocket Rory, when was the last time you had a paper map in your pocket or in your bag? When I moved to Moscow, because my Russian teacher gave me a map of Moscow. But we are, again, like, we're talking six years ago. Oh, I'm so old. It's been such a long time.

Yeah, so do listen, you can say that I usually read a map on my phone or I use navigation apps, right? Yes. and then people people can ask you for directions yes so I always help those who ask me for directions yes I can't think of anything else to say about that

you just ask someone for directions it's always ask for directions yeah and then a good expression is I'm good at finding my way around so to find my way around is just to stay on track

well it's like to understand where you are and where you're going yeah I'm very good at that like I can I understand what I see I just can't translate that

into where it is on a map that's why no one asks to me for advice in terms of finding your way but hopefully our answers have helped you find your way around this troublesome subject of getting lost

yes and hopefully we got You unlost. We've got you unlost. Get yourself unlost with our podcast. Get yourself unlost in this IELD speaking world. What's the opposite of get lost? Get found.

Stay on track. Get unlost. Unlost isn't a word. I found myself. And trouble for your word formation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Be very careful because I'm being creative with the language. So unlost.

doesn't actually exist. So you should say like, okay, I found myself or I stayed on track. I didn't get lost. So yeah, you should be very careful. Avoid creating your words in your speaking exam, you know. Yeah, do it in your free time. Because the examiner could look at you like, what is this a word? Yeah.

What word is this, mate? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a speaking exam, you know? and you go all Shakespeare on me so don't go all Shakespeare on your ILD speaking examiner okay do you listen? Thank you so much for listening and we'll see you next time

bye bye bye bye Roy have you ever got lost Isn't there a joke about men never getting lost They just use their own directions Seriously though I've lost my way once or twice But it was nothing terribly serious

when was the last time you got lost I actually despite the coincidence at the beginning I actually did have trouble finding the studio we were working at once I just misread the directions and wound up one street over or something like that it was hardly a big deal

but that was the last time I was lost How can you find your way when you are lost Oh GPS has saved me so many times I usually have a reasonable sense of direction too I'm just not very good with specific place names, but I'm very good at navigating by sight. And, of course, tall buildings make good reference points in my case. Are you good at reading a map when you get lost?

Reasonably well. I wasn't great at orienteering when we were in the Scouts. I'm much better at finding my way around by what I can see around me, like I said, rather than what's on a map. Have you ever helped someone who got lost? I've tried people in Moscow always used to ask me for directions and I always thought I gave pretty good answers to their questions

but sometimes they would go and wander off and talk to another person probably just to double check what I'd said Do you ever use any applications with maps? I do, yes I use Google Maps often

and when I was when I lived in Moscow I used the Yandex taxi app it's got a map on it and it helped me find my way to places or at least understand the direction I was headed in.