IELTS Speaking for Success - 🔑 Keys (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

Get access to our episode archive: https://www.patreon.com/ieltssfs Have you ever lost your keys? Do you always bring a lot of keys with you? Do you often forget the keys and lock yourself out? Is it a good idea to leave your keys with a neighbor? Where do you keep your keys? 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/s13e15 Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2025 Podcourses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, Sunshine. I'm Maria. My name is Rory, and we're the host of the AILD 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 grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELD school. Your band-num score. Rory, so I'm going to make a noise now. I'm going to make some noise.

Make some noise. Yeah, yeah. And you have to guess what this week's episode is about, okay? So I make the noise and you make a guess. Dear listener, you can also make this guess. What are we going to be talking about today? Ooh, it sounds like coins. Is it coins?

No. Take another guess. Hmm. Is it keys? Yeah, keys. Yeah, I have here. my keys, actually like two keys and another key on a key chain. Yay. Right, dear listener, keys are back. Yeah, we've talked about keys before. So you can listen to our first episode.

All right, just Google. IELTS speaking for success, keys. And you have two episodes. This one and the one we recorded, I don't remember when, but you have two episodes. Keys. Yeah, I else people do this thing. They return old topics. So keys, there we go. Have you ever lost your keys? Not properly for a very long time. Like when I was in high school maybe, I misplaced them the other day though when I put them in the wrong pocket and I had a momentary panic. It wasn't very serious. Do you always bring many keys with you? Not a lot of them, no. I think I only have one on me now, actually. It's my front door key. Everything else in the house isn't locked, so there's no point on having any other ones, unless I'm looking after my parents' house or something. They have lots of

different ones for the front door and the back door and even the garden sheds. Do you often forget the keys or lock yourself out? No, it's never happened to me, actually. My front door just has a standard lock and key, really, so it's impossible for anything like that to go wrong. The worst thing that could happen is locking myself in, but I almost always know where my keys are, so that seems unlikely. Is it a good idea to leave your keys with a neighbour? I suppose, though, if you trust them, I don't really know mine, so I wouldn't do that, but my best friend lives just up the road, so he has some backup keys just in case. Where do you keep your keys?

I have a keychain that's almost always with the key itself in the door lock. And when it's not there, I just stick them in my pocket or a little bag if I'm going away and then I won't need to worry about them for a while. 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. Right, dear listener, keys. I haven't lost my keys

or once I've lost my keys present perfect or you can say once I've misplaced them. Them meaning keys right? So the examiner asks you have you ever lost your keys? You can say yeah, I've lost them once or twice, right? For example

as for me, I've lost keys several times it was horrible, okay? Rory has never lost his keys or no, like in maybe when I was at school, right? So in the past. I misplaced my keys the other day. So for example, last week I misplaced my keys. So I put them in the wrong place and then I thought I had lost them.

But I just like put them in some other place. So you can use this verb. I usually put them in my back pocket. Back pocket or like I usually put them in my back pocket. or like I usually put them in my backpack, right? But I misplaced them. You can also say like, well, I usually get paranoid, very anxious, nervous, like, where are my keys, where are my keys, where my house key?

So house keys, car keys, maybe you have a car, you have car keys or car key, right? So I always get paranoid and I'm afraid to lose them, right? Maybe you have a key card, right? Because some apartments can open up with a key card. So do you have keys, do you have a key card? Do you have, I don't know, one key for everything? How many keys have you got? How many keys do you have?

I have three keys, my front dokey, my second dokey and my third dokey. My God. No, the first key is kind of like. Like a usual key, it's like a strange key. None of you stick it to the thing and the door opens. You know, it's not like, you don't turn it. Oh, like a key fob. Key fob it's called.

Yeah, I think it's called. I call it a key fob anyway. Yeah, I mean, the entrance door to the house to a block of flats. You kind of look, blubb, and you really? And I have two doors when I'm on the floor, on my floor. And the second door, which is to my apartment. Yeah, say it again, What do you call it?

Key fob Fobb, Dillisner. I go to Google Images if I need to understand what it's like. So if you Google key fob, Fobb, so yeah, pretty much, yeah, I have a key fob. I always bring many keys with me, a lot of keys, or I have like two keys, one key. A set of keys, maybe, if it's all for one thing. A set of keys. I was given a set of keys because where I live right now, used to be a place, a house of multiple occupancy.

That means, like, there were many unrelated people living here at the same time. So they all had their rooms locked, but they shared different rooms. You can say that I usually have only two keys on me, kind of with me or on me. It's my front door key, it's my phob key, it's my car key, or khis. And everything else is locked. example. And we say like a key for something, a key for my house, a key for my, I don't know, room. It's a key to my front door. Not a key for. It could be, a key to my front door or a key for my front door. Have you ever locked yourself out? So to lock yourself out is a situation when the door is

closed and you are outside and the key is in your apartment. So you'll look. You'll look yourself out. So you'll lock yourself out. Oops. But these days, I don't think like we have such doors. They just don't close automatically. Well, I mean, we sometimes do.

At least we do in my country. But I don't think it's very common for people to lock themselves out unless it's someone else's house by accident. So you can say like, yeah, once I forgot my keys or I left my keys in the flat and locked myself out. It was super stressful.

Yeah. or it has never happened to me. My front door has a standard lock. So we have keys and we have locks. So a lock is in the door. So a lock is the place where you turn your key. So you turn your key inside a lock. So I have a standard lock.

So it's impossible to lock yourself out. Actually, once I did lock myself out, but it was a long time ago. Yeah, I was cool. cooking and then just we opened the window. I left the apartment and bam, the door slammed shut. I was outside, everything else was inside and then it was fun. Luckily my mother was working very close to the house, so I had to just run to her. It took me about 10 minutes and then she gave me the keys. I was told off. I was actually shouted at.

for good 10 minutes. Horrible. Horrible. Did you show it back? At my mom. Of course not, Rory. No, I was just like, maybe crying. Oh, no.

So, yeah, people, locking yourself out. And can you imagine, like, if you lock yourself out and you are there, half naked, maybe in your towel, you know, somehow you went from the shower outside the apartment, for some reason, I don't know why, but can you imagine, like being without your phone, without money, anything, just you close yourself, just it. And the door is locked. Horrible. What an adventure, dear listener. That's why the next question is about your neighbor.

So sometimes it's useful to leave your key, another set of keys, with your neighbor. So if you lock yourself out, you just knock on your neighbor's door. Roy, what do you call it? I have an extra key. I have another pair of keys. Oh, a spare key. There we go. Yeah.

So it's useful to have a spare key. So that's the same key that you have, but maybe it's hidden. You know, in films, they hide a spare key like in the garden under a rose. or, you know, like they hide a specky somewhere by the door. Do you do this delisina? No, maybe you should, you know? So, yeah, it's a good idea to hide a specky or to leave your specky with a neighbor or with your parents with somebody who lives close to you.

So it's a good idea to leave your specky with somebody who lives up the road to back you up. So this person has some backup keys just in case. And if you lock yourself out, you can't get into your apartment. So I couldn't get into my apartment. I was stressed out. It was a nightmare. Or I was in a panic. Yeah.

Where do we keep your... Where do we keep our keys? Usually we have a key chain. So something, you know, like this thingy, and then we put our keys on it. So I have a key chain. And what do you call this little thing is that, beautiful thing is that we put on a keychain. I can't remember.

No, because, you know, like some women can keep their lipstick on a keychain, you know, a mirror, like everything. Ah, okay, so you keep something on a keychain. It doesn't have a special name then. Maybe keychain accessories. Okay, but now we can have some interesting items on a keychain, like a flashlight, for example. If it gets dark, you kind of, you turn it on.

like bam or a pocket knife. What do you keep on your keychain? Maybe something else or maybe something fluffy, some accessories, right? So kind of you have a keychain and then on a keychain you have keys, you have your tamagotchi, you have your, I don't know, lipstick,

you have a pocket knife, a mirror. You have like everything on there. Yeah, you have all your life there. There you go. Forever Gifts. 10 awesome things to put on a keychain that will make your keychain multifunctional. There we are. So what accessories?

Dillistener accessories. So they're called keychain accessories. So I have keys plus I have some accessories. What are they? Flashlight. That's boring. Pocket knife also boring. Oh, come on.

Why is a pocket knife boring? It's got different things on it. Hearts. What? a rabbit's foot for good luck oh yeah if you are superstitious you have some like a rabbit's foot

but it's not like a foot of a rabbit or you do have like a rabbit foot I don't have a rabbit's foot I can't think of anything worse than carrying bits of animals around with you yeah because some people put some you know fur some furry things and to kind of to scare away evil spirit

and you can have a rabbit's foot or some other thing is like that. Lucky real rabbit food, keychain food. Ready, listen. So, what do you have on your keychain? Maybe nothing. Maybe something. All right. What do you have on your keychain?

Oh, I have some fluff. Some fluff. Okay, so, Rory, what do you call this? So first of all, I have this. I don't know. A bubble? A bubble? Yeah.

You cannot see what Maria is showing me, but it's a big furry ball. Yeah, I have a big furry ball. It's very soft. It's very nice. It's kind of like, woo-hoo-hoo-hoo. Yeah, but it's quite big as purple. And it's like furry. Then I also have this little thing.

So what do you call this one? I just call that a keychain. Again, I'm looking at something metal. And it's a dragon. Maybe it's just a charm or something nice? It's a charm. Yeah, there we go. There you go.

It's a charm. So a charm, it's a nice metal. metal dragon. I'm not sure what metal it is. And also I have this little thingy from somewhere, from Thailand, I think. So I have charms and I have a big furry bowl. Souvenirs. Souvenirs and keepsakes. Keepsakes. Yeah, dear listener, there we go. Keepsakes. Yes, so I have some charms, some keepsakes on my keychain. A keepsake is a small present. A keepsakes. He's a small present. usually not expensive, that someone gives you or you buy it, like souvenirs, accessories. Excellent.

Now, we are ready for a joke about keys. What's the joke? Dalyz, now you're ready? So, if you ever get locked out of your house, talk to your lock, because communication is key. Ha ha, ha, ha, ha. It is very funny. But not as key as our vocabulary. Vocabulary is key.

You see, a key to the door and something is key in communication, for example. Key to success. Key to success. And here, key is used in two different ways. So if you get locked out of your house, you should talk to your lock. Lock? Imagine that your lock is a person and talk to the lock. Or it's a joke.

Like, oh, my door, please, you know, understand me. and I'm in this difficult position. Could you just, you know, do something and just open? Because communication is key. Right. Okay. Thank you very much for listening. I'll go back to you next time.

Bye. Bye. Have you ever lost your keys? Not properly for a very long time. Like, when I was in high school, maybe. I misplaced them the other day, though, when I put them in the wrong pocket. and I had a momentary panic. It wasn't very serious. Do you always bring many keys with you?

Not a lot of them, no. I think I only have one on me now, actually. It's my front door key. Everything else in the house isn't locked, so there's no point on having any other ones, unless I'm looking after my parents' house or something. They have lots of different ones for the front door and the back door and even the garden sheds. Do you often forget the keys or lock yourself? out. No, it's never

happened to me, actually. My front door just has a standard lock and key, really, so it's impossible for anything like that to go wrong. The worst thing that could happen is locking myself in, but I almost always know where my keys are, so that seems unlikely. Is it a good

idea to leave your keys with a neighbour? I suppose though, if you trust them, I don't really know mine, so I wouldn't do that, but my best friend lives just up the road, so he has some backup keys just in case. where do you keep your keys? I have a keychain that's almost always with the key itself in the door lock

and when it's not there I just stick them in my pocket or a little bag if I'm going away and then I won't need to worry about them for a while.