IELTS Speaking for Success - 🍦 Ice-cream (S09E07) + Transcript

Episode Date: June 26, 2023

Do you like ice cream? What’s your favourite flavour? Did you eat ice cream when you were a child? Are there any shops selling ice cream near your home? Can you make ice cream by yourself? Tune in and have a great day! - Get exclusive episodes on IELTS Speaking parts 1, 2, and 3: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Book a class with Rory here: https://successwithielts.com/rory Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s09e07 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 Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, lovely, I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we're 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 started this podcast to give you joy, happiness and super vocabulary with grammar for your high IOT score. Your band nine score. Rory, look at yourself. What about it? What have you got all over your face?

Oh, I was eating ice cream earlier and some of it. must have been left behind. Oh, ice cream. What a coincidence! Let's talk about ice cream. Yes? Yes, the listener, this is a recent I-alt speaking part one topic,

ice cream. Do you like ice cream? Doesn't everyone? I think they have types that catered to just about every taste these days, especially if you're like me and you have a sensitive stomach, so you need stuff that's lactose or sugar-free. What's your favorite flavor? I'm going to be very vanilla here and just say vanilla.

It's simple and straightforward. It always gets the job done. I suppose a close second place would be mint chocolate chip. I quite like that one. It's got quite a sharp flavor. Did you eat ice cream when you were a child? Oh, absolutely. Like, didn't everyone?

We used to get them with cones and aflaken them whenever we went to the beach. and there was an ice cream van nearby. That was quite nice. Are there any shops selling ice cream near your home? I think so. There's a Tesco store at the garage just along the road from where I lived. It must have something. Not that I've ever looked for it.

It's a pretty small place though, so I imagine it would be just sort of standard fare, nothing terribly complex or intriguing in terms of flavor. Can you make ice cream yourself? I mean, I could if I had, the time and the ingredients and a recipe book and the patience. But I don't have any of those things, so not right now, sadly. Sorry.

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Do you like ice cream? Doesn't everyone? So the answer to this question could be a question. Like, doesn't everyone like ice cream? Come on, like... Everybody likes ice cream. Yeah, like, who doesn't like pizza? Come on. Where are these people?

Yeah. But some people dislike ice cream. Okay. And we can say that different types of ice cream cater to almost every taste. So different ice cream produces cater to different tastes. Should we talk about cater to? Yeah. So cater to means to make the effort to help or to support something. And different tastes. Oh, every taste, it's a pun. Because you taste ice cream, but taste can also mean your preference. And you can say that some ice creams are lactose-free. So this is lactose, this ingredient, or sugar-free. You can also say that I prefer non-daery ice cream, like without any milk. It's like dairy product, milk product.

So no milk, non-dairy ice cream. Or I prefer vegan options, right? Or low-calorie ice creams with high Protein, for example. And these days, did you know that they have plant-based ice cream? Oh, like, so no animal products in them at all? No, they use brown rice, they use organic cocoa powder. So pretty much everything is green, plants, organic, no, you know, these chemicals in there. So, yeah, plant-based ice cream. I hope there are no chemicals.

Oh, hold on, wait. If it's in the universe, then it's a chemical. What do you mean? It's like harmful chemicals, right? Yeah, no harmful chemicals. Yeah. And also you can say like, oh, if you have, I have a sensitive stomach. A sensitive stomach. Stomach is this, this organ, yeah?

It's where your foot goes. Yeah. It's like you eat some of these, yeah, like ice cream. And then your stomach feels funny. So I have a sensitive stomach. So I prefer plant-based ice cream, a sugar-free ice cream. And also you can. can here you can talk about different types of ice creams. Can I say ice creams?

I don't see why not, to be honest, because there are different kinds of ice. Well, I would say different kinds of ice cream. I consider it uncountable. But if we talk about the individual flavors, then yeah, but that's like super specific. Different ice creams, different flavors, tastes, yeah? And also different types, for example, sobe, gelato is Italian, ice cream gelat. Oh, gelato, banana gelato. Mama me. Also, we can have some frozen yogurt as a type of ice cream. Ice popsicle.

Rory, what is an ice popsicle? Oh, you call them ice popsicles. Where I'm from, we just call them ice pops. But at least where I'm from, an ice pop is like a plastic tube that's filled with flavored water, basically, and it gets frozen. And that's an ice pop. But you also have ice lolly. I don't know if they can be counted as ice cream, though. I feel like the cream part of ice cream means it's got to have some kind of milk in it.

No, no. Yeah, we go crazy with this like plant-based ice creams, non-dairy ice cream, so everything is that ice cream. Yeah. Like, well, milk, it's a milk substitute, though. It's stuff that's used instead of milk. But it's still, there's the milk element is still there, the idea of it. Flavor, different flavors. Rory went vanilla.

I went vanilla because I'm boring. Yeah, you're boring. Vanilla. And actually vanilla is one of, I think it's on top. Maybe the first most favorite vanilla, no, flavor of ice cream is vanilla. But also you mentioned chocolate chip. So chocolate chip ice cream or ice cream with mint chocolate chips. Right?

So what's this? Mint chocolate chips chips. It's like mint flavored ice cream with chocolate chips and it's quite nice. Chocolate is just chocolate thing is, right? And you said that it has this sharp, flavor. What did you mean that? A mint? Just, you taste the mint and it's like, oh. It's fresh, right?

I think sharp is usually used to describe citrus flavor, still, like orange or lemon flavor. But also, mint can be quite sharp, I think, if you, although I'm quite sensitive, so that might be why it's sharp for me. For example, some cheeses have a sharp flavor, right? It's kind of like, hmm, it's sharp. So I enjoy minty flavor I enjoy this minty ice cream It's refreshing It's sharp

It's like hmm It's not too rich Ice cream could be rich in flavor Like a lot of like creamy rich flavor Lots of sugar Lots of milk It's probably very bad for you

Another topic specific A vocabulary item The word is cones So what are they cones Ice cream cones At ice cream cone her best to describe it, well, it's a cone shape. It's like a hardened pastry that you scoop the ice cream out of the tub and you put that inside.

And then you can hold the cone while you wander around. And then you can eat the cone too. That's the advantage of it over a cup. Ah, yeah, yeah. So the cone is this thingy, yeah. Usually it's like a brown and then kind of you yum, yum, yum, you eat it. And then what do you call this actual bowl, this ball of ice cream? that they put on top.

So you have the cone. The scoop. The scoop, right. So not an ice cream ball. A scoop, you know, like, one scoop. How many scoops? Like, three scoops. You can have, like, huge ones, but probably one scoop is enough.

And when I was a child, I used to get cones, ice cream cones, and with some scoops at the beach, for example. And there they wore ice cream vans. So usually, usually. these, what are this ice cream vans, vans like vehicles, cars. Yeah, they just go around. They're big vans that have ice cream in sight

and they sell them. I think they're pretty common, like everywhere. You have them in Russia, right? They're not vans, though. They're kind of like kiosks. They don't have an engine. Oh. Yeah.

But sometimes we have vans, but maybe for burgers, or some fast food. This was such a bad episode to film in the morning when I've not eaten. Really, I'm getting hungry now. Yum, yum, yum, yum. What did you mean when you said that I think it will be pretty standard fare?

Fair like the price? No, standard like fair is just sort of foodstuffs. It's a very old word meaning foodstuffs. It's just like saying it's pretty standard food, basically. It's an old word meaning food. Oh, okay. Could you give us another example then? Yeah, like the local stores aren't very big.

So they just sell like standard fare, to be honest with you. I should say it's quite an old word. Like standard food. Yeah, just like normal food that you wouldn't find anywhere. It's usually standard fare. It's another way of describing things which are quite boring as well, because it's standard. It's just what you expect.

It's nothing very exciting. I think I went to the restaurant and it was just pretty standard fare, to be honest with you. And you can say that, yeah, there are some ice cream vans near my house or along the road, and there are some stores, which sell like usual ice cream, or maybe there's an ice cream shop. We can make ice cream ourselves.

If you are brave, I'm not brave. And Rory used the second conditional. So if I could. Yeah, so you're imagining things. If I could. Oh, sorry, I could make ice cream if I had the right ingredients. So we're talking about the present and future. Kind of kind of real.

so I could make ice cream if I had the right ingredients but Rory doesn't have them, maybe he'll get them in the future. And a recipe book. So a recipe book. A recipe book, like a big book with instructions and a list of things that you need to make something. Yeah, a recipe book. A recipe book, you follow the instructions and you make your ice cream. And then you need patience.

Patience for it. So patience for cooking, patience for making ice cream. What ingredients do you usually need to like milk, sugar, some flavorings? I think you need more than milk. I think you need like cream, no? Cream, yeah, cream. And that's like very rich milk. And also, for example, you can mention that, oh, I prefer to use coconut milk or oat milk,

like replacements for dairy products for usual milk or almond milk, you see, so really nice words. Oh, fancy. And Rory. I'm going to give you three options for weird ice cream, like strange ice cream. Okay, could you choose one option? Yeah. Number one, ice cream which glows in the dark. Actually, an English ice cream maker added some proteins which make jellyfish glow.

So he added something from jellyfish into ice cream and the ice cream glows. in the dark, so it just lights up in the dark. So number two, pizza-flavored ice cream. Hey, pizza-flavored ice cream, tomato, oregano. Wait, what kind of pizza flavor, though? Is it like margarita pizza? Yes, margarita, yeah, like tomato, basil, salt, garlic. Number three, pear and blue cheese.

Peer is this kind of fruit, and blue cheese is this cheese. Why are they together? Do people eat their pears and blue cheese together? Yeah, very often. Yeah, we have pizza with pears and blue cheese. So it's just... And pear and blue cheese, they go very well together. I'll take your word for it.

Ice cream, which glows in the dark, pizza-flavored ice cream or pear and blue cheese. I'm not eating pear and blue cheese. That's gross. But, okay, so we've got pizza flavor. I like pizza. Pizza-flavored ice cream. But also the...

novelty of like glow in the dark ice cream. It's interesting, eh? Yeah. You can have ice cream all over you and just glow. Because I'm a creature of habit, I will say I will have the pizza-flavored ice cream, please. See, that wasn't too difficult. It wasn't like a whole load of disgusting options. You know, Rory, life is like ice cream.

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to listen to free premium and sample episodes. Do you like ice cream? Doesn't everyone? I think they have types that catered to just about every taste these days, especially if you're like me and you have a sensitive stomach, so you need stuff that's lactose or sugar-free. What's your favorite flavor? I'm going to be very vanilla here and just say vanilla. It's simple and straightforward. It always gets the job done.

I suppose a close second place would be mint chocolate chip. I quite like that one. It's got quite a sharp flavor. Did you eat ice cream when you were a child? Oh absolutely. Like, didn't everyone? We used to get them with cones and a flaking them whenever we went to the beach and there was an ice cream van nearby. That was quite nice. Are there any shops selling ice cream near your home? I think so. There's a Tesco store at the garage just along the road from where I lived. It must have something. Not that I've ever looked for it. It's a pretty small place though, so I imagine it would be just sort of standard fare, nothing terribly. complex or intriguing in terms of flavor.

Can you make ice cream yourself? I mean, I could if I had the time and the ingredients and a recipe book and the patience. But I don't have any of those things, so not right now, sadly. Sorry.