IELTS Speaking for Success - 🥏 Hobbies (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

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Hello, lovely. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we're the host of the AIL 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 gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high-Ild score. Your bad night score. Rory, what's that? It's my yoga mat. I started a new hobby. Oh, yoga is your new hobby.

Shall we talk about hobbies? Let's talk about hobbies. Not hobbits, hobbies, dear listener. Do you have any hobbies? Oh, wow, yes, loads. I do Jiu-Jitsu and recently got into yoga, and I've been going swimming and climbing for a while. And I get a lot of weightlifting and reading done in the meantime, too.

I love having a really active life and learning about new things. Did you have any hobbies when you were a child? I'm not sure if you can call it a hobby since I wasn't very principled about it, but I did like collecting these small plastic models of different military vehicles. That was cool. That's for their hobbies. Maybe reading, if that counts. Do you have a hobby that you've had since childhood?

Well, I've always been a big fan of reading, though I'd try and vary it a bit more than I used to. Apart from that, I think all of the things I do now are raddying. different to what I did before. Do you have the same hobbies as your family members? Not really. We're all pretty diverse in that regard.

For example, my brother is a pretty good cook, but I hate experimenting in the kitchen. One of my other brothers collects Lego, but I don't have the time or the patience for that. We do have it. Something is in common, though. We all love reading, for example. Hey, thank you, Rory, for your answers.

As you know, we now release all of our premium content for free and it's available for one 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. So dear listener hobbies, Roy, tell me, how often do you use the word hobby? Do you kind of ask people, oh, what's your hobby? Do you have a hobby? Do you ever say this? I honestly, outside of these...

IELTS questions, I have never discussed my hobbies, except for one, someone said I had a lot of hobbies. But I don't think I do. I think I'm very boring. Hmm. So usually people don't use the word hobby. Okay? They say, like, what do you like? What do you do in your free time? Like, what else do you ask? I'm inter reading. What are you into? What do you get up to when you're not working? Yeah. So you can talk about, like, I enjoy. I'm inter. I'm inter. I'm inter. I'm inter. I'm. into climbing, I'm into swimming. I really enjoy reading. I do karate, I do Jiu-Jitsu, I do yoga. Or I'm inter-yoga. I'm into yoga, I'm into swimming. I get a lot of reading done. I do a lot of reading. Reading could be a hobby, right? I love having an active life. I love learning about new things. And actually, I'd say, I'd say,

that Rory does have a lot of hobbies. Yeah. Checking out like wild swimming, yoga, climbing, weightlifting, reading. Wow, Rory is a writer. He's published his novels. So that's writing, being an author.

Podcast. Oh, actually, podcast is a job. Okay. Yeah, Rory, see, so too many hobbies. Okay. If I, well, what should I prioritize then? Weightlifting and reading. There we go.

And yoga. Mm-hmm. and maybe he's swimming. Nice. It's difficult for me to give up my hobbies. I like them. When an examiner asks you about your childhood, you can use used to. I think that should be the trigger.

If you're asked to compare or your childhood to know or talk about your childhood, I think that should be like a used to alarm and immediately just be like, I used to do this. Absolutely deal. It's a common question. Like, did you, ta, ta, ta, ta when you were a child? Blum, used to. You don't do it anymore. So you can say, I used to go swimming, I used to go dancing, but not anymore.

Even in the negative way, I didn't used to do blah, blah, blah, as much as I do know. For example, I didn't use to exercise as much as I do know, for sure. Correct. I did like collecting plastic models of military vehicles, military cars, tanks, some other vehicles. And you can say, like, I did look. like collecting. Like I really liked collecting. Or I used to collect small models of something. Or I used to collect coins. I used to go dancing. Or you can just lie about it. Then present perfect. Maybe you you are still collecting these coins. So I've been collecting coins since childhood. Present

perfect continuous actually. I've been collecting coins in my bank account. My hobby is saving money. Well, I've been into dancing since childhood. So you started dancing when you were a child. You were doing it and still you enjoy dancing. So I've been into dancing. I've been into reading since childhood. Or you can say I've always been a big fan of reading.

So I've done it all my life. So I've always been a big fan of swimming. or I've always been a big fan of sport, snowboarding, so I did it as a child, so all my life. Apart from reading, apart from that, all the things I do are radically different to what I did before. So everything I do now in my free time is radically different, like totally different. Very different. Super very different. two different to what I did before or what I used to do as a child.

Or you can say like my childhood activities are radically different to what I like now. Your family members could have the same hobbies, the same interests, but not for all. So he says, not really, we are all pretty diverse in that regard or in this area. diverse, meaning we are all very different. And then Rory explains why. My brother is a pretty good cook. But I hate experimenting in the kitchen. Well, we know how Rory microwaves his eggs.

I don't anymore. I cook them in a frying pan, in a saucepan. Thank you, dear listeners. To those of you who wrote to Rory personally about eggs. and expressed your distress at this situation. Thank you, dear listeners, for those of you who wrote on our YouTube in the comment section telling Rory like, stop microwaving eggs. Thank you. Because of you, Rory now fries his eggs on a frying pan.

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50% off ancestry DNA only until December 2nd. Visit ancestry.ca for more details. Terms apply. One of my other brothers or sisters collects Lego. And you pronounce it as Lego. Yeah? I pronounce it Lego. has it pronounced any different way elsewhere? Lego.

No, I don't know. Lego. Yeah, but I don't like it. But we all love reading. So we do have some things in common. You can say, like, my family members and I do have some things in common. Or we have some things in common. We all love reading.

Yeah. Very nice. Rory, you know, like I googled top hobby. to try in 2025. Okay. So today.com, so the best hobbies to try in 2025. Are you ready?

The first one is gardening. Really? Uh-huh. But it's so much work. It could be a communal garden, like a local community garden. So kind of you grow things together, herbs, veggies,

together in your community with other people. then at home cooking okay it's a cheap hobby they say come on so you kind of just go to TikTok you watch some recipes and then you cook so today.com okay deal with some

reading number three alright you could join a book club if you can't read on your own knitting or crocheting what's crocheting It looks like crotcheting, but it's not. So my friends will be able to explain this much better than I can,

but if you imagine knitting, the difference between crocheting and knitting, I think, is in the technique that is used to bring the strands together. I don't know that for a fact, though. So crocheting is the activity of making clothes and other things using wool and a special needle with a hook. Ooh. Yeah, I'll just Google it.

Okay. Yeah, so knitting and crocheting. Interesting. They are therapeutic activities. So you're kind of like, you calm down. You know, like, you're just like, ee, I'm calm. Journaling is another activity. Okay.

Collecting scraps of everyday pieces of junk. What? And then gluing this little, pictures, them to journal pages. Oh. So you have train tickets, pay bills, receipts, pictures, and you just glue them onto a special notebook. Oh my God.

Team sports. Okay. And that's it. Wow. So very refreshing, dear listener, isn't it? So much new information in 2025. We haven't known. this before, well, now do you listen. Rory's vocabulary show.

Do do do do do do do do do do. So, let's go right back to the start. And let's talk about the hobbies that I have. Maria, I mentioned about 300 hobbies, but if you can remember three of them, then I will be very impressed. Going climbing, weightlifting, and swimming. Nice. And important to point out, it is go or do the collocations. Do Jiu-Jitsu, do yoga, but go-swimming,

go-climing. Then we talked about the hobbies I had when I was a child, and I referred to things being different in the past to how they are now. But I used a very special expression to do this. What was it? I did like collecting.

I did emphatic do. So you can say used to, but you can also say I did like doing this with the stress on did, which is very important for varying your pronunciation. Then we talked about the hobby I'd had since childhood, and I said that I had one that I started when I was younger and I continued to do now. But what was the grammar that I used to describe that? I've always been a big fan of reading.

And then, For the last one, Maria, you asked me if I had the same hobbies as my family members. And I said, no, I don't have the same hobbies as my family members. But I did not repeat the question in my answer like that. What did I do instead? In that regard. Yes. So, in that regard means in terms of doing things in the same way as your family members. So this is another way we can avoid repeating the question in our answer.

Since Maria got four out of four, I now have a bonus question for you, Maria. I said things were almost completely different to what it was like when I was child. But I didn't say completely different. What did I say instead? We do have some things in common. No, Maria. No, you have failed the bonus question. Radically different.

It's not even the same thing. You did that on purpose. Yes, I did. Yeah, we are radically different. If you say that we do have some things in common, this means that we have similar things. We like similar things. Thank you very much for joining us.

Hopefully you got five out of five, unlike Maria. Nice try, Maria. But I am listening, always, for the incorrect answers. Thank you very much. Bye. Bye. Bye, bye, bye, bye, boy, boy, boy. Oh, you shrewd, shrewd person.

I'm evil. Evil, yes. Do you have any hobbies? Oh, wow, yes. Loads. I do Jiu-Jitsu and recently got into yoga and I've been going swimming and climbing for a while. And I get a lot of weightlifting and reading done in the meantime too. I love having a really active life and learning about new things.

Did you have any hobbies when you were a child? I'm not sure if you can call it a hobby. since I wasn't very principled about it, but I did like collecting these small plastic models of different military vehicles. That was cool. As for other hobbies. Maybe reading, if that counts. Do you have a hobby that you've had since childhood? Well, I've always been a big fan of reading, though I'd try and vary it a bit more than I used to. Apart from that, I think all of the things I do now are radically different to what I did before. Do you have the same hobbies as your family members?

Not really. We're all pretty diverse in that regard. For example, my brother is a pretty good cook, but I hate experimenting in the kitchen. One of my other brothers collects Lego, but I don't have the time or the patience for that. We do have something is in common, though. We all love reading, for example.