IELTS Speaking for Success - 🏛 Museums and collections (Part 3) + Transcript

Episode Date: November 8, 2025

Get our premium episode archive: https://www.patreon.com/ieltssfs Why do people keep old things? What kind of old things do people in your country like to keep? What can people learn from a museum? What can people see in a museum? What are the differences between the things that people keep today and the things that people kept in the past? What are the differences between the things old people keep and those young people keep? 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://linktr.ee/sfspremium 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

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Hello, hello, dear listener, and welcome into ILD speaking part three. We're talking about old things in general. Me, I am an old thing. No, Rory, you're what, like 34, 33, 36. Old. Before we get into the episode, though, there's a theme. And the theme this time is talking generally about things. Part three questions are about things in general.

We are talking about old things in general. So specialist vocabulary for old things and specialist vocabulary for talking generally. Keep an eye out or an ear out, try to listen for them. Can you hear them? Why do people keep old things? I suppose generally there are two main reasons. It's either the money value or the sentimental one. Lots of antiques are worth a great deal, having been around for so long,

and assuming they're in a good condition. And, of course, there's the obvious symbolic value of something that's been in the family for generations. What kind of old things do people in your country like to keep? In general, it seems to be furniture and jewelry, like old rings and necklaces made with various precious metals. lots of people well lots of people keep

and inherit their parents' engagement rings for example I'm not sure about the reasons why but those are the ones you tend to hear about what can people learn from a museum I often find myself wondering that honestly especially in the age of the internet

when information is just there for free and close to hand but generally speaking they might find out things that they wouldn't have otherwise looked for or searched for. For example, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has this coin display and it demonstrates the evolution of money over human history. Most people wouldn't have learned anything about that if they hadn't seen it.

I certainly wouldn't. It's not really something you think about, is it? What can people see in a museum? It's probably easier to talk about what they don't see, really, but by and large it's a collection of things, usually old things related to a particular theme or area. So anything in the collection, relates to that will be there.

What are the differences between the things that people keep today and the things that people kept in the past? I'm not sure. I mean, well, conceptually, they still get access to the things with monetary or sentimental value

and the forms these things take haven't changed much. Maybe the sophistication of the depictions of materials they're made from has evolved with time, but largely they seem more similar than different. What are the differences between the things old people keep and those young people keep?

Well, largely, they will probably be a difference in the age of the things they want to keep hold of, since older people have been around longer, so you'll have older things. I imagine young people will have more stuff that's just random bits and pieces, since they pick things up all over the place and are less discerning. Older people might have thrown more things out over the years as the sentimental value faded, so they might have a smaller collection too. At Desjardin Insurance,

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Lots of antiques, antiques like old things, are worth a great deal. So antique items, things, cost a lot. Antique things are worth a great deal. And things that have been around for a long time usually cost a lot of money. And another value is a sentimental value, like symbolic value of something that has been in a family for generations.

People usually keep furniture, jewelry, old rings, necklaces, jewelry made with various precious metals like gold, silver, and jewelry with precious stones like diamonds, emeralds. So you can learn the names of some special stones. Emerald, a nice stone, bright green, a valuable stone. For example, like emerald necklaces. And lots of people inherit these things from their relatives, from their grandparents, for example. Lots of people inherit their parents' engagement rings.

And usually they are rings with diamonds, like antique rings, old rings. Then some questions could be about museums. You know, like, oh, what about museums? That's where we keep old things. Yeah, yeah, it's the same, you know, like where do we keep things in a museum? And if you don't know the answer, you can say like, oh, I find myself wondering that. I often find myself wondering that. But I'm thinking about it, like why, like what can people learn from a museum?

Especially in the age of the internet. Yeah, like, what can you learn in a museum? Generally speaking, people might find out things that they usually don't see, find out, like, learn about things. And then you can give us an example of a specific museum. Rory told us about the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, but you can say, for example, in the Louvre, for example, in the British Museum, for example, in the Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam. to them. Just pick your favorite museum. Yeah, and talk about it. Pick a museum. Anyone. There's hundreds of them. No, but like the most famous museum. What's the most famous museum, Lori, do you know?

I don't know. What is, probably the natural, I want to say it's the natural history museum. No, the British Museum is more popular. Oh, the Vatican. There we go. Is it? Oh, my God, is the Vatican currenting as a museum? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Museum of Vatican. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so the Louvre, okay, Vatican Museums, National Museum of China. Well, I mean, that makes sense that would be popular there because China has a billion people, so I imagine millions of people go there. How do you say the Louvre? I don't know. It's a French word, the Louvre.

The Louvre. I say the Louvre. The Louvre. That's what they say in America. We are cracking jokes to listen, so the Louvre. And this museum has a coin display or a display of paintings or portraits that shows the evolution of money over human history. Your business doesn't move in a straight line. Some days bring growth, others bring challenges.

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I love the Louvre and I enjoy their collection of Egyptian mummies. That was quite impressive. They have a collection of Egyptian mummies. No, but kind of like they do have this, like several halls dedicated to Egypt. and there are like mummies, there are like lots of exhibits from ancient Egypt. That's crazy. Do the Egyptians know about this? A good question.

People usually see different exhibits in a museum. Exhibits like items, things, objects. So they go to an exhibition and see different exhibits. A collection of things, a collection of coins, of paintings. of mummies from Egypt, a collection of ancient things. Ancient means very old or a collection of antique things. Or antiques, antique furniture, or vintage clothes, for example. You can say that these things seem more or less the same.

So what people keep today and what people kept in the past seem the same right or they are very similar it's just old things basically um yeah you can say like materials have evolved with time so now we might use different materials less durable materials or like echo friendly materials but you know jewelry paintings furniture i don't know gold diamonds that's the same you know all the stuff kind of what do people keep what do people keep it Memories. Keep memories, not things. Things that remind them of anything, really. Clothes, furniture, books.

Yeah, books, for example, some rare books. Icons. Do we call them icons? Religious paintings. Anything that's got value people will keep. Otherwise, they wouldn't keep it. Like, that just makes sense. Yeah, some people like keep coins, vinyl records, for example, vintage toys. A comic books. Oh, yes.

Some comic books are very, very valuable these days. Yeah, comic books. And antique furniture, right? Antique tools. Also, like, vintage clothes are pretty expensive. Cars, dear listener. Some people collect and keep cars. Ooh.

So the things have stayed the same, we can say. I think it's always been things that had some kind of value. people keep hold of different things. So old people keep hold of everything. They might tend to hoard things. So if I hoard things, I collect items in large amounts. So I don't throw anything out. I hoard things. So all my house is full of plastic bags and clothes and boxes and flowers and everything. So some older people might tend to hoard things, which is not good. Young people might collect, might keep some random stuff, some random bits and pieces.

You know, like jewelry, makeup, keys, souvenirs. Pens. It could be anything that reminds them of something. Chewing gum, photos, bags, shoes. other people's bags and shoes so random bits and pieces they pick them up all over the place which makes sense they're young people there shouldn't be any sort of principle behind things

yep we think that it's much better to collect memories happy moments rather than things because the material world dear listener everything you know will disappear right but you have yourself you have your memories your happiness what an end to this podcast

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And, of course, there's the obvious symbolic value of something that's been in the family for generations. What kind of old things do people in your country like to keep? In general, it seems to be furniture and jewelry, like old rings and necklaces made with various precious metals. Lots of people, well, lots of people keep and inherit. their parents' engagement rings, for example. I'm not sure about the reasons why, but those are the ones you tend to hear about.

What can people learn from a museum? I often find myself wondering that, honestly, especially in the age of the internet when information is just there for free and close to hand. But generally speaking, they might find out things that they wouldn't have otherwise looked for, or searched for. For example, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has this coin display. and it demonstrates the evolution of money over human history. Most people wouldn't have learned anything about that if they hadn't seen it.

I certainly wouldn't. It's not really something you think about, is it? What can people see in a museum? It's probably easier to talk about what they don't see, really, but by and large it's a collection of things, usually old things related to a particular theme or area, so anything in the collection that relates to that will be there. What are the differences between the things that

people keep today and the things that people kept in the past. I'm not sure. I mean, well, conceptually, they still get access to the things with monetary or sentimental value and the forms these things take haven't changed much. Maybe the sophistication of the depictions of materials they're made from has evolved with time, but largely they seem more similar than different. What are the differences between the things old people, keep and those young people keep?

Well, largely, they will probably be a difference in the age of the things they want to keep hold of, since older people have been around longer, so you'll have older things. I imagine young people will have more stuff that's just random bits and pieces, since they pick things up all over the place and are less discerning. Older people might have thrown more things out over the years as the sentimental value faded, so they might have a smaller collection too. You know what I'm going to be able to be able to be a new