IELTS Speaking for Success - 🛜 Internet (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: September 8, 2024

Get our IELTS Speaking parts 1, 2, and 3 episode archive: http://patreon.com/ieltssfs When did you start using the Internet? How often do you go online? How does the Internet influence people? Do you think you spend too much time online? What would you do without the internet? Tune in and have a great day! - Book a class with Rory here: https://successwithielts.com/rory Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s11e01 Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2024 Podcourses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, lovely. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory and we are the hosts of the AILD 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 a high, ILD school. No bad, thanks go. Maria, here we are, back on the internet. Yay! And what a coincidence?

because today we're going to be talking about... The internet. Let us discuss the internet. What could go wrong? Rory, when did you start using the internet? I've never really thought about it before, but it must have been around the time I was 11 or 12, or around about that age,

when we bought our first computer and had it hooked up to the internet then. Not that I did much with it, I would usually just browse and chat to other people using that. How often do you go online? Probably just about every day now. Actually, I can't remember the last time I had an internet free day, to be honest with you. We're so used to just looking at screens from dawn until dusk nowadays, or at least I am. How does the internet influence people? Well, I'm not sure the internet itself does anything to influence people in a particular direction, but the things people put on there

definitely do. They could encourage them to buy things through the fear of missing out, or incite them to take all kinds of actions by exposing them to, well, all kinds of incendiary content, really. Do you think you spent too much time online? I mean, how do you define too much? My on so much that it's a detriment to my health? I wouldn't say so. Although that is what an addict would say, I suppose. However, objectively speaking, I still managed to get all my jobs done for the day, and I'm not usually too distracted by things on there, so I think my time is... Online is pretty reasonable, to be honest. What would you do without the internet?

Life would be turned completely upside down for me. I run my classes on there and communicate with my friends and family and students and colleagues, like with email or just messaging apps. So without the internet to help me to do all of those things, I'd be pretty isolated. and I'd actually have a lot more work to do. It's actually quite scary to think about. So, dear listener, the internet, the big monster and our saviour. Rory, do we usually say the internet or can I use it without the?

Well, you could if it was used as an adjective, but if we're talking about the thing, then the internet, there is only one. Can I say I love internet? No. I love the internet. Yes. Do you love the internet? I love the internet.

That's my life. With no qualms, just the internet. We love you, internet. Thank you for making our lives easier. Thank you for making our life possible. I know. Android, tell us, which proposition do we usually use with the internet? Is it in the internet at on?

It is on the internet. Online, on the internet. Websites on the internet. Look at the internet on your phone. So we go online and we look at the information on the internet. Dear listener, it's always on. A very nice grammar structure Rory used. I've never really thought about it.

When did you start using the internet? Just like, come on. I don't know. Do people record these things? In the diary, yeah, like 1895. That's when I started using the internet. And then, Deleasona, a far more advanced grammar structure, it must have been when I was 11. So, probably I started using the internet when I was 11, but I'm not sure. But it's probable, probably, like, maybe like 80%.

So Rory says, it must have happened when I was 11. Okay? Yes. I see two, band nine. I'm glad you picked up on that because must have been. for logical deduction. Oh, I love it. Yeah, you can say that probably it was when I was 11,

but that's boring, dear listener. Ooh, like, it must have been when I was 11. Nice. And then Rory used a phrasal verb to be hooked up to the internet. Oh, we had it hooked up to the internet. Oh, yeah. So if we had it done, we someone else did it for us because back in those days,

you needed, I think, a telephone engineer to do that. So if you have something hooked up to the internet, like it is connected to something. So my computer was hooked up to the internet. Or I had my computer hooked up to the internet. I paid certain people, they came to my home and they connected my computer to the internet. Very important difference in the use of prepositions here because hooked up to the internet is a phrase a verb, but you could be hooked on the internet, which means you are addicted to the internet. You could be hooked on drink or drugs or the internet. It all means that you're addicted to it.

I'm hooked on the internet. Means I'm addicted to the internet. I can't stop using it. Which verb do we use when we say I use the internet? Oh gosh. There's lots of verbs we're using the internet. Access the internet. Browse the internet. And that is the one I used. Yeah, I usually browse the internet. I go online every waking minute of my life. So when I'm not asleep, I'm online. And a very nice phrase is, an internet free day.

The list is here we use an, which is not about the internet, it's about day. So a day free from the internet can become an internet free day. A, Rory, give us a sentence. Well, here it was, I can't remember the last time I had an internet-free day. But, in general, I don't have internet-free days. So here we've turned the word internet into an adjective with the word free, meaning out. What else can be free? Sugar-free?

Sugar-free, yes. Alcohol-free beer? So any time we don't have something that we expect to be there. Internet-free, sugar-free. It's not there. Problem free world. When you talk about your habits, so it's my habit to use the internet every day. You can say, I am used to browsing the internet in the evening, okay?

Or I'm used to looking at the information on the internet. So I am used to doing something. It's my habit. So here Rory told us, like, today we are so used to just looking. at screens. So we are used to browsing the internet every day. And then a nice idiom from dawn until dusk, pretty much all day long. From the beginning of the day to the end of the day. The internet influences people or you can say the internet affects people or has an influence on people. We can also use it as a verb to influence

somebody, no proposition. So the internet influences people. And people put on certain information on the internet. The internet incites people to take all kinds of actions. A nice verb to incite.

Yes. So that's like to encourage in a negative way. You can incite violence or incite hatred. So it's usually about a negative thing. Hmm. Can I use it like the internet incites me to donate money to charity. I mean, if it was a bad charity, but if it's a charity, it's usually good.

So, no, not really. No, yeah. So usually about something unpleasant, violent, so negative. Like, it incited hatred. Okay. Like, encouraged hatred. Insight revolution. Yeah, all kind of.

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Could you give us another example with insight? Well, people frequently get incited to violence by things they see on the internet. Another phrase of verb is miss out. And we may have the fear of missing out. When I'm afraid, I'm scared that I've missed out on some bargains, on some deals, or me. on some discounts because I need to buy things at a good price. So I hope I have this fear of missing out, not learning about something, not reading the news,

not using the internet, not checking all my social media. How can we use it in a sentence, the fear of missing out? If people are on social media too much, they can suffer the fear of missing out because they see people having all of these fun times that they don't get to participate in. Tell us, how did you paraphrase the thing that the internet is bad for my health? What did you say?

In a bad nine kind of way. Ah, okay. Did you mean it's detrimental to my health? Yeah, but you didn't say detrimental. You've used it as a noun. Yes, I said, it's a detriment to my health. But that just means it's bad for my health. Exactly.

Normally we say it's detrimental to my health. It's like bad. it's negative, but we can also use it as a noun, detriment. It's rather formal, which means harm or damage, like without detriment to your health. And usually two, detriment to my health. What other things can be a detriment to your health? Alcohol.

Going for a walk inside a volcano. No, come on, if the volcano is okay. Perfectly normal human behavior for Maria. Exactly, you know, I was just... I've been inside volcanoes many times, so it's quite cool. And you can feel volcanoes breathing, you know. Like this. No, no, joking.

That sounds absolutely terrible. Yeah, like a dinosaur, ready to attack. That's enough of the funny noise is from Maria. Thank you very much, the listener. No, no, no, no, we are not done yet. An addict. Okay, so if a person becomes an addict, like addicted to the internet, it's detrimental to our health. When usually we get distracted by things online, yeah, to get distracted by ads, videos, social media.

The last question is very interesting. Like, what would you do without the internet? Come on, like, we would die. We would not be here. Life would not be worth living. Can you imagine, dear listener, have you ever been to a place without the internet? When your phone is like a brick, like you can't do anything with your phone. But now, you know, people have started creating these places without any connection, like for travelers, for people to relax.

And actually, more and more people are seeking these places without any connection. Could we say they are internet-free zones? Yes. An internet-free existence. People are looking for internet-free existence. Dear listener? Hmm? Wist about you, no?

Please don't make it about you because you need to listen to this podcast. A very nice phrase, life would be turned completely upside down. Okay, when you turn it upside down. So if I take you, dear listener, your body and I put your head on the floor and your feet up, I would turn you upside down. So without the internet, my life would be turned completely upside down. It would not be normal. I would be pretty isolated.

Okay, alone. Isolated from everybody, like on a desert island. And we use would. I would be. It would be difficult because we are imagining. Because now, like, hopefully you have the internet, right? Like most people, do most people on this planet have the internet worry? I think so.

I think so, yeah. Okay. Well, we can find us out. How many people? Oh, wow, maybe not everybody. No, but most. I say like most people. 5.45 billion internet users worldwide, according to Google, which is 67.1% of the global population.

Okay. Okay, so more than a half. That's crazy. I thought it was more than 67% though. It should be like, I mean, why do these other people not have internet access? That's crazy. No, but people live in the villages, so maybe they just don't need the internet. Okay.

Oh, if I lived in a village, I would definitely need the internet. No offence to village-dwelling people. Okay, dear listener. So, just remember that the human mind is like internet explorer. There are at least nine tabs open, three of them are frozen, and there is no clue where the music is coming from. Did you get that? Did you get the joke? I didn't get that at all because I don't use Internet Explorer. No, but like if you use, what is Internet Explorer?

What is it? It's a web browser. Yeah. If, for example, the human mind is like Google. There are at least 20 tabs open, or maybe like 50 tabs open. or maybe like 50 tabs open, like half of them are frozen. They are loading. And there is no clue where the music is coming from. So there is some ad running and it's kind of like the music is coming from somewhere.

So the joke is that here we are comparing the human mind to Google or Internet Explorer or I don't know, Yahoo, like whatever search engine you're using. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Very funny. It is hilarious. Moving swiftly on. Thank you very much for listening, DeLisand. That's all from us. Bye.

Bye. Rory, when did you start using the internet? I've never really thought about it before, but it must have been around the time I was 11 or 12, or around about that age, when we bought our first computer and had it hooked up to the internet then. Not that I did much with it, I would usually just browse and chat to other people using that.

How often do you go online? Probably just about every day now. Actually, I can't remember the last time I had an internet free day, to be honest with you. We're so used to just looking at screens from dawn until dusk nowadays, or at least I am. How does the internet influence people? Well, I'm not sure the internet itself does anything to influence people in a particular direction, but the things people put on there definitely do. They could encourage them to buy things through the fear of missing out

or incite them to take all kinds of actions by exposing them to, well, all kinds of incendiary content, really. Do you think you spent too much time online? I mean, how do you define too much? My on so much that it's a detriment to my health? I wouldn't say so. Although that is what an addict would say, I suppose. However, objectively speaking, I still managed to get all my jobs done for the day,

and I'm not usually too distracted by things on there, so I think my time is... Online is pretty reasonable, to be honest. What would you do without the internet? Life would be turned completely upside down for me. I run my classes on there and communicate with my friends and family and students and colleagues, like with email or just messaging apps. So without the internet to help me to do all of those things, I'd be pretty isolated and I'd actually have a lot more work to do. It's actually quite scary to think about.