IELTS Speaking for Success - 🤙 Helping people (S09E24) + Transcript

Episode Date: October 22, 2023

Do you usually help people around you? How do you help people around you? Did your parents teach you how to help others? Did your parents help you much when you were a child? What have you done to help the elderly? 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/s09e24 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 at the AIL Speaking for Success Podcasts, the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We started this podcast to give you fabulous vocabulary and gorgeous grammar for your higher AILD score. Your band nine score. Rory, could you help me out with the microphone?

Yeah, sure. So we talk about helping people? Help! So Rory, are you going to help me or what? Are you going to help me with my essays, with my students' essays, and check them for free? Not for free, but you know what would help with their essays? A writing course. Oh.

Dear listener, I do have a writing course for you. So if you are struggling with writing, graphs, essays, you can get my writing course with videos with me telling you how to write graphs and essays. just go to your iodes.net. Okay, and get my super writing course. The link is also in the description. Do you usually help people around you? If it's asked for, of course, it's important to help people out when they need it,

or when they want it. How do you help people around you? Well, whenever my mom and dad wants some shopping done, I'll definitely lend them a hand, and the same is true for all the people around me. Although, thinking about it now, most of the people I know are actually quite self-sufficient, so this isn't really something I have to do very often. Did your parents teach you how to help others?

I don't think they said explicitly how to help people, just that it was important and the importance of asking if the help was wanted and maybe what kind of help people would want, rather than just leaping in and trying to save the day. Did your parents help you much when you were a child? Oh, loads. I think most people support their children as best they can. They gave us a place to live and a good standard of living. Again, all of that is something that parents should be doing, especially for their children, when they are children. And now, they often lend an ear when they want to listen to our woes or hear about our successes, although that's not to do with helping people that last one.

What have you done to help the elderly? I like going to see my older relatives. I think that's one of the best things that you can do because otherwise they're just sort of left to sit and vegetate in cure homes. And I'm determined to avoid letting that happen to them as much as I possibly can. Dear listener, we do have our premium episodes for you. Speaking part two and three,

we're using fresh, I old speaking topics, give your grammar and vocabulary. difficult topics. This week on our premium, in Speaking Part 2, we are talking about describing a foreign person. And in Speaking Part 3, we are talking about learning languages in general. The links are in the description. So helping people, what synonyms do we have for help? Help, support. Help support. Okay. Or land a hand. So a hand, you land a hand. You help others. Yeah, sometimes I lend a hand to my parents, for my parents.

Well, sometimes I just lend a hand, but if we have to include it in a sentence then, and in the middle of a sentence, then, lend somebody a hand, lend a hand to someone. Sometimes I lend my parents a hand. I lend them a hand. Or just, sometimes I lend a hand at home. So I help at home. Can I use assist? Assist is very formal, but yes, uh-huh, assist, uh-huh, assist. Give assistance. REND assistance, render aid. Another good one is help out. Sometimes I help people out.

See, help people out. Is it a phrasal verb? It's a phrasal verb. Oh, yeah. Imagine, God, you know, it would be great if there was a phrasal verbs course somewhere that somebody had made that would help people learn all these complex expressions.

Where can I get this phrase of course? I know, where could you get such a course, eh? I imagine it would probably be called something like Successwithyltz.com forward slash pod courses. The link is in the description. Something like that, but that's just off the top of my head. That's an idiom. We're working on an idiom's course,

but we only have a phrasal verbs course right now. Help people around you. So help people around you, and you can say, like, if it's asked for. So if my help is asked for, I'll help out. Okay, so passive voice. If it's asked for, I'll help out.

And is it a conditional sentence? It is, yes. Oh, first conditional and passive voice. Oh my God. Want some shopping done, which is a nice construction. So if my parents want something done or if my parents want something fixed or they want some shopping done,

I'll help out. So to have something done. Well, I'll lend them a hand. And then you can joke around like, no, no, no, I don't need your hand. I want your leg. Yeah, prop on English humor. Self-sufficient. Who is self-sufficient?

People that can support themselves are self-sufficient. So most of my friends are very self-sufficient, which is, well, they unrightly so. Most people should be. But that doesn't mean to say they don't need help from time to time. I mean, those bottles of champagne are not going to drink themselves. Oh, oh, delicious. Yum, yum, yeah. So, dear listener, she, Rory just tells us that,

okay, people around me are self-sitient, so I don't help them out much. But you can also say that sometimes I donate to charity. So how do you help people? I donate to charity. Even if you don't just use the vocabulary, okay? If you don't do anything to help the others around you, I donate to charity.

Or, for example, I prefer listening to people. So listening is also helping, right? It's really helpful. Or sometimes I offer a homeless person a meal. Like some people buy homeless people, clothes or food. Roy, do you do that? Not regularly, but I did give a homeless person some food the other day. Oh my God.

It was funny because the sweets that were there because I try not to eat sweet things these days. So I gave them to somebody else. They were like personalized ones from somebody's wedding. I was thinking, what is this homeless person going to think when they open this bag? It's going to be a really weird experience. Another good way of helping people is redirecting your gifts. So for example, it's my birthday.

And instead of just getting all the gifts, I say, okay, so if you want to buy me a present, direct this money to this charity. Okay? So all people who want to kind of get me something, they send money to this charity. Okay, so it's called like redirecting your gifts. So you ask people to donate gifts for your birthday to a certain charity. Again, like you're using nice vocabulary. Usually I redirect my gifts and help, I don't know, homeless children.

I feel really bad now. I know, worry, you should, you know. You live in freaky Scotland, you know, and you could. do some help there. I could, but I'm busy working. Okay, okay, okay. How about a Gucci dress? If not a bag, then a dress.

It will help me. You are not a charity case, Maria. No matter how many requests you make, it is not going to happen. Shoes? What's the next piece of vocabulary or grammar? And another thing that you can say, I just smile and spread positivity.

Positive. Positive. Positive. Right? Positiveity. I smile and spread positivity. Obviously, I don't do that. That is not something I am accustomed to doing, but you could do that and say it's helping. Yeah, so how do you help? I smile and spread positivity around me.

I'm just super positive about life. And then if you smile at the examiner, I go, do you feel my positivity? And then the examiner fails you because you're not doing anything. No, it's good collocations. I know. You don't lose marks for your behavior. spread positivity or okay donate money donate close to charity okay help homeless people very good language all right not just like oh I don't help much everybody is self-sufficient like okay parents didn't say it explicitly so when we do something or say something explicitly how do

we say it clearly and directly and make it known that that is what we are talking about so if it had been explicit about it they would have said Now I am going to show you how to help someone, and this is important because, I don't know, helping people is something that we all should come to expect from each other in order to have a functioning society. That is very explicit. Almost nobody says that. They should probably, though. So parents usually just show children what to do. So this is a homeless person and just, or they don't explain, but they just give something to homeless people or to.

homeless people or to somewhere, I don't know. I have this amazing image in my head now of your mother's saying, and this is a homeless person. This is explicitly, in a very like matter of fact way, just feel like, this is a homeless person. Hi.

Save the day. Is an idiom. Yeah, listen. I read him. Save the day. But that is another, well, is it an idiom? I guess. It's an idiom, or an idiomatic expression meaning to rescue somebody or to help someone out. really quite profoundly.

It's associated with superheroes. Superman saves the day frequently. Yeah, to do something that prevents a failure or disaster. So the team scored a goal and saved the day. So they won the championship, for example.

And here, we use it in the context of... Well, the context of helping people. Yeah, so because you shouldn't help if the help is not asked for. So if they don't want your help, you shouldn't try to save the day. Okay, you shouldn't just grab them. I'm going to help you anyway. Whether you want it or not. Because then it's less about helping people and more about you looking good, which is not something that you should be doing, at least in a healthy society, it's not something you should be doing. There are all kinds of people

who do things to save the day to make themselves look good. And it has disastrous consequences because the people that they are trying to help either don't need it or don't want it. And what did you mean when you say leaping in? Leaping in is just a phrase of verb or idiomatic expression that means, well, to go into a situation without much thought beforehand. So this is the point. If you leap in, you haven't thought about it, you haven't thought about the possible repercussions,

which is the usually unfortunate consequences of something. And it can be really bad. For example, if you think about wildlife documentaries when lions are going after something that they're going to eat, you know, you could leap in and save the day, but then you have deprived the lions of food and you have upset the natural balance. And this has all kinds of consequences for the wildlife in that area. So don't do it, even though it's very sad. So leap means to provide help very quickly. I think it just means to enter a situation. It doesn't mean it's nothing to do with help.

It could be, but it's not explicitly connected to this. But in this context, kind of, we provide some help. For example, Rory lipped in to explain. So we are talking about something. We don't understand each other, and Rory leaptin to explain things. Or leaptin. Leptin. Yeah, yeah, sorry, so Rory leaptin.

I mean, it could be leaptin or leaptin, frankly. Parents could lend you an ear. So we talked about land a hand, help people, but also people can lend you. And yeah, land is like, okay, could you take this for some time and then give it back? Yes. Land money, right? So Rory, could you lend me 10,000 euros, please? No.

You know, Gucci products. I know where this is going and the answer is no. Absolutely not. Rory gives me his money, he lends me. His money, I should give it back. No, not. maybe. And parents could help a child by landing their ear. Their ear, right? Lending an ear, landing their ear. But the idea is that you're not actually giving them the ear physically,

like this ear, you are giving them attention and listening to their problems. Listen to their woes. Their problems. So Shakespearean, whoa. We can help the elderly, the elderly or senior citizens, like older people. Can I just point out, like I did earlier, what a weird question this is? Like, what a random question to ask somebody? What have you done to help the elderly? You could ask by, like, what have you done, examiner? Yeah, go ahead.

What have you done? What have you, like, what, that's weird? Like, why specifically the elderly? What have you done? It could be what have you done to help others? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, very, very strange. So all the relatives or all the people and Rory,

tends to just listen to them to give his attention to them. And Rory, you said, like, they tend to just get left to sit and vegetate. So if I vegetate, I become a vegetable. Yes. You just sit and do nothing, basically. If you're at a, it's something that happens to coma patients in hospital. If you're in a vegetative state, then you don't do anything. You just lie there, and that's all.

You do nothing. And all the people tend to get. left. So they are left alone, so they get left to sit and vegetate. Right. In care homes. So there's special places for the elderly care homes, the elderly dealers. Okay. Thank you very much for listening, for helping us, buying our premium and our Fraser WebS scores. You really do help us by liking the video, by subscribing, by spreading our videos to your friends. Thank you so much. Bye long. Bye. Do you usually help people around you?

If it's asked for, of course, it's important to help people out when they need it, or when they want it. How do you help people around you? Well, whenever my mum and dad wants some shopping done, I'll definitely lend them a hand. And the same is true for all the people around me. Although, thinking about it now, most of the people I know are actually quite self-sufficient, so this isn't really something I have to do very often. Did your parents teach you how to help others? I don't think they said explicitly how to help people,

just that it was important and the importance of asking if the help was wanted and maybe what kind of help people would want, rather than just leaping in and trying to save the day. Did your parents help you much when you were a child? Oh, loads. I think most people support their children as best they can. They gave us a place to live, a good standard of living. Again, all of that is something that parents should be doing, especially

for their children, when they are children. And now, they often lend an ear when they want to listen to our woes or hear about our successes, although that's not to do with helping people that last one. What have you done to help the elderly? I like going to see my older relatives. I think that's one of the best things that you can do, because otherwise they're just sort of left to sit and vegetate in care forms. And I'm determined to avoid letting that happen to them as much as I possibly can.