IELTS Speaking for Success - ✍🏻 Handwriting 2 (S06E14) + Transcript

Episode Date: October 4, 2021

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Hello, Sunshine. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we are the host of the IEL 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 super English with gorgeous grammar and fantastic vocabulary for your IEL's high school. Your band nine score. Oh, Rory, I'm looking at your Christmas card you gave me like a year ago. your handwriting is basically illegible. I can't read it. Oh, God. Sorry about that. Should we talk about handwriting?

Let's talk about handwriting, yes. What a coincidence on this podcast. We are coincidence generators, dear listener. Yes, handwriting is a new topic in IEL speaking, added in September 2021. You might say that, oh, we've had this topic before. We've had this topic before. Yes, we did. And I think we recorded an episode about handwriting. You can listen to it. Just go to the application that you are using and find it. But as it is a new topic that is being used now, we are going to do it for you to be in the loop and know all the fresh eye out speaking topics. Oh, and if you want more from us, more content, more quality vocabulary and gorgeous grammar, Rory, where should our listener go?

Hmm? Where should they go? Is it our premium? Yes, it's our premium episodes with Speaking Part 2 and Speaking Part 3. Click on the sexy link in the description to this episode and do check our premium episodes. So, Rory, do you often write things? I think I note something down just about every other day, whether it's university notes or something I need to remember in my diary. It sounds pretty old school, but there's evidence to suggest that if you write things down, then they stick in your head longer.

Do you prefer to write by hand or write using a computer? Almost exclusively with the pen and paper, I really don't like typing, even if it can be faster and more effective in terms of storage and options to edit. it's just the way I was brought up, and it's how my head works. Do you often write things with a pen? Again, almost always, I can't imagine writing with a pencil these days. Possibly I would draw with one, but if I'm presented with a choice, then it's got to be a pen. And ideally a fine-tipped one at that. Is your handwriting easy to read?

Well, I certainly like to think so, though if I'm ever in a rush, then sometimes it can be messy and difficult to read, but hardly doctor's handwriting levels of illegibility, especially since I usually write in block capitals, for example. How did you learn to write? Well, I'm not sure, actually. You usually start when you're quite young, so those early days are sort of lost to the midst of time. I did read a paper, though, that said there are stages

where it's just nonsensical scribbling, then words with correct endings, and then fully-fledged words. It's no resimplification, of course, but it was probably something like that for me. me? Did you like writing things when you were a child? Not really. My teachers in primary school had this relentless insistence on accuracy and weren't exactly encouraging if you slipped up or even wrote at a slight angle. So I'd always get

negative feedback on how things looked rather than the structure and content of what had been written. I love it now though. I think I've write everything. Rory, thank you so much for your writing, I mean answers. Oh, you are so old school, aren't you? years. Like you write with a pen and paper, but you use your phone, right? So use Instagram, you're on all over Facebook, and you kind of, you type on your phone, right? How do you manage to do that? Because, well, it's, like, I use my phone, but I don't use it nearly as much as I use my, as much I use a pen and paper, for example. Oh, so you use pen and paper more often than you type on your phone.

Oh, yeah, definitely. Wow. Oh yeah, you wrote your book with pen and paper first and then you had to type it. Yes. Oh my gosh. Wow. Roar is the old school, Roro. Roro. Wow. Yeah, guys, if you are like Roro, Roro is his new name, Roro.

You can say that I'm old school and I'm pretty old school and I prefer pen and paper. Okay. Maybe you prefer stone and you carve things. on a stone? Do they do this in Scotland? No, no. They used to. Oh, God.

You used to get asleep. Carving notes. Carving love notes on a stone, on a Scottish stone. Okay. Anyway, write things down. Also, you can say note things down. Yes, writing is longer than noting, though.

Notes are noting things down is short. So, Rory, notes. things down. Yeah. Write it down, note it down. The difference is that not it down, like you use it for short things. Rory has a diary, like Bridget Jones diary.

No, not like Bridget Jones. What are you writing your diary? Just my schedule and things that need to be done, which the list probably gets longer and longer as the week goes by. But do you write something about your life? Like, oh, today

I realized that Maria is the most beautiful person I've ever met in my life. I type that in my journal. That's different. Oh, wait, wait, so you have a diary with your schedule and you have an online journal, like a blog. I don't have an online journal. I just have a journal that I keep privately. That's for my thoughts. Oh, on a computer? Yes. Oh, wow, that's nice.

Rory said that there is evidence to suggest that if you write things down, they stick in your head longer. stick in your head Yes So when things stick in your head longer It just means you remember them For a longer amount of time Then when we talk about writing things So do I say write with a pen

In a pen By a pen Write by a pen Can you say that? No, you're right with a pen But you write by hand Do you talk about what you're using to write with Yeah, dear listener

That's really confusing I write by hand or I type or I write with a pen or with a pencil. Rory, you've used a very specific vocabulary, so you use a pen, a fine-tipped one. So a fine-tipped pen. What is it? Yeah, a fine-tipped pen is just,

it's got a very narrow ending to write with. Then your handwriting can be easy to read or can be hard to read. So at the very beginning of the episode, we said that it's basically illegible, Yeah, so that basically means that you cannot read it. And when you talk about illegible writing, you can talk about how doctors write. Because, yeah, doctors are notoriously known for their eligibility. Right?

So illegible is an adjective, and illegibility is the noun. Exactly. And if it's illegible, then you might say it's scribbled rather than written, a scribble. is just like a really fast and messy, well, form of writing or drawing. When you talk to somebody on your phone, you can scribble things, right? So like kind of like draw and also doodle, right? That's the verb. So doodle things when you draw things. Yeah, you can doodle in the margins.

Yeah, when you doodle, you draw and when you scribble, you write things down. Yes, usually. But sometimes when you write things down, you can make a little bit. mistake or you can slip up, which is a phrasal verb for making a mistake. Ooh, that's why I enjoy writing with a pencil, because you can just rub it off. When you slip up, you said. Yeah. So, Roy, what do you think?

Is writing with a pen on paper, is it dine out, like dinosaurs? I don't see any evidence of that. I mean, more people are writing, they're typing. but I don't see people writing less. It's probably just given them more opportunities to have things to type. Hmm. So we're still writing and we are typing. Yeah, you do listen.

If you don't write with a pen or pencil, you can say, like, I prefer to write on a computer. I prefer to type things, use a computer, rather than to write by hand. But hopefully we've given you plenty to write down. Yes, and do check. our other episode on handwriting. Okay, we have two now,

but now it's a current IOT speaking topic. Thank you very much for listening. Hugs and kisses. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. So, Rory, do you often write things? I think I note something down just about every other day, whether it's university notes or something I need to remember in my diary.

It sounds pretty old school, but there's evidence to suggest that if you write things down, then they stick in your head longer. Do you prefer to write by hand or write using a computer? Almost exclusively with a pen and paper, I really don't like typing, even if it can be faster and more effective in terms of storage and options to edit. It's just the way I was brought up, and it's how my head works. Do you often write things with a pen? Again, almost always, I can't imagine. so these days, possibly I would draw with one, but if I'm presented with a choice, then it's got to be a pen, and ideally a fine-tipped one at that.

Is your handwriting easy to read? Well, I certainly like to think so, though if I'm ever in a rush, then sometimes it can be messy and difficult to read, but hardly doctor's handwriting levels of illegibility, especially since I usually write in block capitals, for example. How did you learn to write? Well, I'm not sure, actually. You usually start when you're quite young. so those early days are sort of lost to the mists of time. I did read a paper, though, that said there are stages where it's just nonsensical scribbling,

then words with correct endings, and then fully-fledged words. It's no oversimplification, of course, but it was probably something like that for me. Did you like writing things when you were a child? Not really. My teachers in primary school had this relentless insistence on accuracy and weren't exactly encouraging if you slipped up or even wrote at a slight angle. So I'd always get negative feedback on how things looked rather than the structure and content of what had been written. I love it now, though. I think I've write everything.