IELTS Speaking for Success - 💃 Going out (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

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Hello, lovely. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we're the host of the AILT Speaking for Success podcast. The podcast dreams to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way. We started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high-I-old school. Your band nine score. Oh, Maria, what a lovely outfit. Oh, thank you. I'm going out. Perfect. Let's talk about going out.

Going out, de listener. Yes. you go out for fun. You go to a restaurant, you go clubbing, you know, you go to a bar, or just like go out for a walk, you know, a nice, lovely walk. How often do you go out? Well, that depends on what you mean. If you mean just leaving the house, then I think I'm out and about just about every day. But if you mean going out to socialize, then not that often, unless going to, like, the houses of my friends counts. Where do you usually go?

Well, like I said, it's usually someone's home for a get-together. I don't think I've ever been one for going to a bar or clubbing or anything like that. Even when I do go out, I really don't like it. Have your going out habits changed? Well, I certainly used to go out in town more often, but that was just because it was the done thing. So it was more about giving in to peer pressure than any genuine desire. to be out and about. Nowadays I'm much more into staying at home or visiting friends in their

homes. Do you always take your mobile phone with you when you go out? Almost always, yeah. It's good to have in case of an emergency or when you want to share something with friends. Or, I'm almost afraid to admit, if you get bored and want some light entertainment, even when you're already at a party. Do you ever bring food or snacks with you when going out? to someone's home absolutely it's a great way to thank someone for inviting you over or just asking you around to their place I always try to bring something for everyone like

well champagne or oh and something for myself like some kind of pre-mixed cocktail or something like that food can be a bit hit and miss since I'm no cook and you never can tell what people might be allergic to these days as you know we now release all of our premium content for free and it's available for one month 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. Going out. So Rory, tell us like,

what does it mean? So go out. What's the meaning of this? I think it just means going out from your home to have a nice time. Most people do that by going out to a different part of their town or city or maybe another city and partying there. But for many people nowadays, going out can also mean going to someone else's house and having a nice time there. We also have go out as a phrasal verb, which means to have a romantic relationship with somebody. For example, we've been going out for five months.

So we've been boyfriend and girlfriend for five months. But here going out, yeah, it's like just go somewhere for fun, Dallison. it doesn't mean work or studies. Usually we go to a restaurant, to a cafe, to visit somebody's house. Okay, so that's all going out. So pretty much you go out of your house to do something fun, pleasant, all right? Yeah. And we can also say eat out, dine out, when you have some food outside your home.

So, oh, sometimes I eat out on the weekend. So you go to a restaurant outside your house to have some food. But if you go to a park, if you go to a garden, a park, it's also going out. I mean you're just for a walk. I'm out and about every day. So I go out my house, I walk somewhere, I come back. So you can say like, yeah, I'm out and about just about every day. So pretty much every day.

Well, it's a fact about you, Rory, you are out and about. Am I? You never stay at home just all day long, you know, just at home. I do. I like staying at home. Do you not like staying at home? Oh, yeah, I love it. You know, when the weather is dreadful, it's like it snows and it rains at the same time. And it's just gray and dark. I just stay inside like for a week. I just don't go out for a week because it's just horrible. The weather is just... That sounds ideal.

It's so nasty and you just can't go out. Yeah. So all the shopping, you know, I order all the shopping. But that's in winter. But then I'm out and about when it's sunny and spring, summer. Yeah. Right, you listen. You can say that I usually go to my friend's houses. So, Rory, what do I say if I go to my friend's houses? How do I put it naturally? I don't know. I go and visit them in their homes or we have get-togethers there instead. Can you say, like, I go to my friend's place. Yeah.

Or my friend's places, maybe you want to have more than one friend. Yeah, because go to someone's place means to visit there in their home. And when do... Where do people usually go out? Maria is now Googling this. Yeah, I'm Googling. So where do people usually go when they go out? It's around the world.

So AI tells me that restaurants, bars, coffee shops, parks, but also entertainment venues, you're listening. Maybe you go out to the theater, to the museum. Mm-hmm. Not, not Rory, dear listener. Because Rory just tells us boring stuff. Oh, thanks. Usually it's someone's get-together.

So I get-together is when you meet your friends and you just, yay, let's go to someone's house for a get-together. You just meet your friends at somebody's house. Or sometimes I go to a bar. I sometimes go clubbing. Or, you can say, I go to the gym, I go to a shopping mall, I go to, I don't know, a museum, I go to the beach, so that's all going out. Zoos, maybe you go to a zoo every week, I don't know. And then like, The Guardian.com has an article, Meet Generation, stay at home.

Hey, it's us. So, yeah, like, no, why bother? Like, stay at home, people. You don't need to go out Just stay at home What do you call people who enjoy staying at home, Rory? Normal people? What do you call people?

Like me? I call them like myself. Home bodies. Yeah, home bodies, yeah. You can say that my going out habits haven't changed over the years Or I've changed my going out habits. I used to go out to the centre but now I don't, right?

Or I used to go clubbing a lot. I used to go out every Friday night. And it was a night out, so I would come back at 4 a.m. in the morning, something like this, you know. But not anymore. Now I prefer staying at home. Rory, what did you mean when you said it was the done thing? Oh, the done thing is just like the thing that everybody does, or the thing that is expected. And dear listener, if you partied all night, so you went partying all night long,

perhaps your friends made you do it. So you gave in to peer pressure. Because everybody went out partying all night, maybe you felt this pressure from your friends and you had to do it just because of them, not because you wanted to, right? You gave in to peer pressure. It wasn't my genuine, genuine, like real desire, my wish. It wasn't my genuine desire, but I did it because of peer pressure.

And you can say that today I'm much more inter staying at home. I'm much more into visiting friends in their homes. Visit friends in their homes. So I prefer visiting friends in their homes, or I'm more inter-visiting friends. in their homes. So Rory, like, when was the last time you went, where you went out, like, to a bar or clubbing, maybe like till 2am?

I can tell you the answer to that exactly. I went out to a bar about three weeks ago and it was the worst experience I've ever had. So it just confirmed everything I am doing normally is right. Really? So, like, you stayed till what? I stayed for about five minutes. it was so bad

we went out for context it was my friend's birthday so we went out to a restaurant and that was nice I had a good time and then people said oh let's go to this bar now again for context this is a bar that we went to when we were teenagers it's like a really

really old bar it's not the best bar in town and they were like oh it'll be fun it'll be like old times and I was thinking old times were about 20 years ago. Why do we want to repeat this? So I was already not thrilled

about it. And then we went here and there were people singing karaoke really badly and the place smelled a bleach. I went to the bathroom and I regretted that also because that was just terrible. And then I asked for

a drink of, they asked me for what I wanted to drink at the bar and I asked if they had any bourbon and they said no. And I was like, oh yeah, That's about right. So yes, it wasn't a great time. I wish I'd never gone. It seemed like a huge waste of money.

You see, dear listener, Rory gave in to peer pressure. He didn't want to go, but still. Well, even when I did go, I made my thoughts clear, even as I was carried along by the peer pressure. I have my mobile phone with me in case of an emergency. An emergency, dear listener. Or in case of an emergency, he's just something... A situation, a dangerous, serious situation, an accident.

Oh, but in case of emergency is a collocation. But in case of is a good way of talking about conditionals without using if. Yeah, for example. So, I do take my phone in case I'm bored. Or in case of emergency. Or in case I need to call my mother. I don't know. Maybe not when I go out.

I don't feel the need to call my mom when I go out. In case of, like, if I'm bored, I take my mobile phone. if I'm bored or in case I'm bored. Excellent. We can bring some food or snacks when you go out, especially when you visit someone in their home. And it's a great way to thank somebody for inviting you over. So people invite you over to their place or people invite you over round to their place. Right. And you bring some something. usually a bottle of wine or a bottle of champagne. Rory brings a bottle of nice champagne.

And Rory brings a pre-mixed cocktail. So you can if you mix a cocktail and you bring it in a bottle in a special glass or how does it work? Oh, yeah. It's like pre-mixed. Like usually you make the cocktails by putting in everything when you're there. But if it's pre-mixed, then it's made before that. I should say these things are usually filled with sugar

and are not very good for you. So I would definitely not recommend them for like a regular thing. But maybe once every couple of months is okay. And you can say that food can be a bit hit and miss. Heat and miss means that you never know what food people enjoy. So it's kind of a bit dangerous, risky to bring food. So if something is hit and miss, you can't depend on it to be of good quality or like it may be not accurate.

So you can say I don't usually bring food because it can be a bit hit and miss. So I usually take a bottle of wine. People might be allergic to food that I bring. So to be allergic to something. As is allergies. Like havcha, hafcha, allergies. And you never know what people might be allergic. too.

Though you don't, you could kill someone. Right, because people, some people are really allergic to nuts. And if you make a cake using nuts and then you don't know that they're allergic to nuts, yeah. And then you're a murderer and how are you going to feel that? Oh, right, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Horrible.

We have an idiom. They listen about going out. Paint the town red. Oh, we used that before, though. Yeah, but do people use it? It's kind of like cliché, it's old, old-fashioned. Well, I was using it sarcastically there because I am very much not the kind of person who paints the town red. I'm the kind of person who doesn't, maybe paint the town transparent.

Yeah, and if you say, like, paint the town red, that means go out, enjoy yourself by drinking alcohol, dancing, laughing with friends. So that's pretty much what you usually do. When you're like 21 years old, 22 years old, you just, yeah, yeah, all nights long, you know, like, Yeah, party, clubs, bus, alcohol, lots of friends. So paint the town red, an idiom, informal. So when I was young, I... I like to paint the town red. Yeah, but if you don't, dear listener, then you can say,

I'm getting on a bit. So, Roy, what does you mean? I'm getting on a bit. I'm getting older. I'm getting older. And going out is not my thing. Painting the town red is not. by thing. And you can say

partying all night seems a bit Oh, Rory, why are you using such strange word? Uncuth. What's that? What's this? What's wrong with uncouth? It means that you don't have grace or good manners.

Oh. A refinement. And I am very refined. Everyone that knows me knows that I'm refined. Uncuth, delisner, behaving in a rude, unpleasant way. So I prefer

A quieter life. So a calmer life. I prefer peace and quiet. Sweet, and now we're ready for a joke about going out. Are you ready, dear listener? The joke is amazing. Well, I think the joke is my social life. So, dear listener.

Rory, you keep silent. Okay? Oh, okay. That was very uncouth. Why didn't the skeleton go out on the town? because he had nobody to go with. Rory could you explain the joke? Well, nobody means like no people,

but if you're a skeleton, you have no body, you just have bones. Oh, wow. Thank you for listening. Thank you very much for listening. We'll get back to you in our next episode, okay, dear listener? Bye. Bye.

That was horrific. How often do you go out? Well, that depends on what you mean. If you mean just leaving the house, then I think I'm out and about just about every day. But if you mean going out to socialize, then not that often, unless going to the houses of my friends counts. Where do you usually go? Well, like I said, it's usually someone's home for a get-together. I don't think I've ever been one for going to a bar or clubbing or anything like that.

Even when I do go out, I really don't like it. Have your going out habits changed. Well, I certainly used to go out in town more often, but that was just because it was the done thing, so it was more about giving into peer pressure than any genuine desire to be out and about. Nowadays, I'm much more into staying at home or visiting friends in their homes.

Do you always take your mobile phone with you when you go out? Almost always, yeah. It's good to have in case of an emergency or when you want to share something with friends. Or, I'm almost afraid to admit, if you get bored and want some late entertainment, even when you're already at a party. Do you ever bring food or snacks with you when going out? To someone's home? Absolutely. It's a great way to thank someone for inviting you over,

or just asking you around to their place. I always try to bring something for everyone like, well, champagne or, oh, and something for myself, like some kind of pre-mixed cocktail or something like that. Food can be a bit hit and miss since I'm no cool. and you never can tell what people might be allergic to these days.