IELTS Speaking for Success - 🏕 Nature and Environment (Part 3) + Transcript

Episode Date: January 21, 2026

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Visit medcan.com slash moments to get started. Hello, hello, dear listener, and welcome into ILD speaking part three. We are talking about natural places, trees and forests. Ooh, are you into, you know, greenery and plants and trees? Nature. Natural things. What kind of people like to visit natural places? Well, doesn't everyone?

I feel like you'd have a harder time finding people who prefer unnatural places. We need to pick particular groups, though. I suppose people into things like outdoor sports would love it, like hikers and hill walkers. That would cater nicely to their interest. Why do people like visiting places with trees or forests? Well, lots of reasons. It's a nice way to unwind, for starters. Actually, being in nature can create a sense of something called nature-connectedness,

which can improve our well-being. It's also a chance to get out of the sort of fast-paced environment of cities and rely. more generally since it should be quieter than with fewer people to make demands of you. Are natural views better than city views? I imagine that depends on your individual tastes, really. Seems like the countryside or other landscapes might be more calming with all the natural contours, while city views are more inspiring since they represent opportunities and possibilities. Do all people need some nature?

Well, based on what I said about nature connectedness, I'd certainly say so, though there might be people who need it more, like the ones that spend their lives cooped up in towns with nowhere to escape to. What can people gain from going to natural places? Other than what I already mentioned, they probably get the chance to disconnect from their lives in towns and reconnect with nature, breathe fresher air,

oh, and they get the chance to see animals and plants, and their natural habitats. Do you think that going to the park is the only way to get close to nature? Well, it might be for some, especially like people in urban sprawls, but that's not the be-all and end-all by any means. The countryside of most places, or most countries, is usually rather accessible. And of course, there are many opportunities to travel around to natural places these days. What are the differences between a natural place and a city?

Other than the obvious buildings and people pack together in close quarters, there tends to be more development in general, I suppose. Fewer wild animals, more pollution. I suppose I could go on forever about them, but hopefully you get the idea. 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. Natural places. And actually, Roald are natural places? Places with nature, parks, the outdoors, the countryside, away from the city. The urban sprawl. Mountains, deserts, forests, oceans, waterfalls. So not only parks, but also, you know, like mountains, waterfalls, the sea. You said not only, but also nice. Not only, but also, yeah, nice grammar. Yeah, I'll do with

but usually we talk about parks, but yeah, think about other interesting and beautiful natural wonders of the world like caves and hills. And what kind of people? like to visit such places. Like what kind of people? Old people. Everybody enjoys nature. Yeah, but maybe some people dislike nature. I don't know.

Who? Where are these people? We must help them. And usually people who are into outdoor sports. Hikers, hill walkers. So people who walk the hills. So hikers, they go on a hike. They go on a kind of like short tour to the mountains, for example. Yeah, what kind of people?

people. Outdoorsy people. Yeah, people who enjoy being outdoors like this. Or you can also talk about nature enthusiasts, okay? Adventure seekers, people who seek adventures. So people who enjoy adventure, adrenaline, also families. You can talk about families who enjoy being in nature or solo travelers. People who travel alone. People who travel alone. who prefer being in nature. Photographers, also, what kind of people? Photographers. Visiting natural places is a nice way to unwind.

Dear listener, unwind means... Yeah, to chill out. Relax, chill out. To unplug yourself from the stress of modern life. Recharge. It's a nice way to clear your mind. And then we start a sentence. with ING.

So being in nature creates a sense of nature connectedness. A very good way to use complex grammar is to start with ING. Being in nature is ta-t-ta-ta. Spending time in nature is peaceful. Here, nature connectedness. Connectedness like connection, connection to nature. to listen, right? So when you are in nature,

you feel connection to nature. Connectedness, the state of being connected. The state of being connected to nature. Well done. So being in nature improves our well-being, improves our health and mind and everything. And people prefer getting out of the fast-based,

environment. Paste meaning speed. Not the hustle and bustle. I'm very tired of hearing that. I think maybe we should just stick to the fast pace of city life rather than the hustle and bustle because any time someone says that they say to get out of the hustle and bustle and it's very stressed. I'm just like that does not that does not start natural at all. Yeah the hustle and bustle of a huge city means the chaos, this noise and all this, just like this. But we say that in nature you feel this slow pace. So slow speed and a slow pace or a slow speed.

And here we make it an adjective, fast-paced environment or slow-paced environment. So people get out of the fast-paced environment of cities to enjoy a slow-paced life in nature. And people enjoy the quiet of a forest, and it's nice to have a quieter place. Quiet, not more quiet, no. Quieter. It's a calm, calmer, easy, easier. Hot hotter.

Yeah? Well, I mean, you might get away with it. Some native speakers say more quieter. Really? Or they stay more quiet. Obviously, I do not let them get away with that. But I was listening to someone the other day, and they said, If you can be accurate, then do.

Yeah, maybe it's a native speaker, a native speaker error. Like less people, fewer people. Yeah, I don't think that would prevent band nine. Maybe it depends how much. No, if they make two such slips, it's okay, burn nine. They say less people and then more quieter. It's okay. But what they should say is fewer people and more quiet.

Yeah. Yeah, because like classical grammar rules, so we say hot, hotter, easy, easier, quiet, quieter. But in real life, even native speakers, even educated native speakers, such as Rory, himself, Mr. Rory Duncan, something, something, who writes books. So he may even say more quiet or more quieter. There we go. Scenes. So we have video.

Nature views or sins like the countryside. Pretty much like views. Scenes of the countryside. Sin, S-C-E-N-E-S, sins. Like from a movie, a scene from a movie. Landscapes are more calming. So, countryside landscapes are more peaceful than city views. They make people feel calm.

They have natural contours, but that just means natural shapes. Contours or shapes. If you are contrasting, you should use but or while. So countryside views, blah, blah, blah, while city views are more inspiring. So cities inspire us to do something. They give us inspiration, motivation, motivation to work, to shop, you know, to do stuff. Yeah, let's go, let's go.

to leave for the countryside? Yeah, and then like when we burn out, we move to the countryside. For opportunities, possibilities that cities provide, that cities give us. When you talk about nature, you can say that, well, based on what I've read about nature connectedness, I'd say that yes, all people do need nature. So kind of you demonstrate that you do the reading, you have done the reading, you have done the reading about nature, so you're super smart, and educated. Okay, so you say, well, I remember something from what I've read about nature connectedness,

so I can say that, yes, all people do need nature in their life. And Rory, you've used an interesting verb. Coup-up. It's a phrasal verb. Coup-top. Contained with no chance of leaving. Coup-up. like coop somebody or something up means to keep someone or something in a closed space.

For example, if I stay in my house for days in winter without leaving it, I say I was cooped up in my flat for days because the weather was horrible and I didn't go out. And the people spend their lives cooped up in towns. So they just, they are stuck there. They just stay in towns without going out. People could benefit from being in nature or they can gain something from being in nature. They get the chance to disconnect from their lives. Disconnect, like lose the connection and connect to nature.

And again, we can talk about people can unwind, they can relax, unwind or relax the same thing. They can connect to nature, they can clear their mind, they can reconnect with nature, people can breathe fresh air, people can get their chance to see wild animals. Where do they see such animals in their natural habitats? The listener, this is the phrase for you,

Natural habitats, natural places of life for animals, habitats. Oh, it's a good collocation. Cities or urban sprawls. Rory, what are urban spruals? Just endless houses and no green space. Yeah, could you use it in a sentence. America, or at least suburban life in America, is dominated by urban sprawl. So that just means there's lots of houses all packed together, not much green space, not many open spaces for people to get out.

For some people, the only way to get close to nature is going to a park, especially in urban sprues, especially in cities. Sometimes the countryside could be accessible, so people could go there easily, but not everywhere. and in some places it's difficult to travel around to natural places. People are packed together in cities. So they're stuck in cities, they are cooped up in cities, and there is more pollution in cities, fewer wild animals. So we normally don't have any wild animals inside the city. Only if a city has like massive.

massive parks. For example, Moscow, like we do have wild animals inside the city. Amazing. Yay! Right, dear listener, thank you very much for listening

and we'll get back to you in our next episode. Okay? Sending love. Hopefully our grammar and vocabulary comes to you naturally. Sweet. Bye.

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Well, doesn't everyone? I feel like you'd have a harder time. finding people who prefer unnatural places. We need to pick particular groups, though. I suppose people into things like outdoor sports would love it, like hikers and hill walkers. That would cater nicely to their interest. Why do people like visiting places with trees or forests? Well, lots of reasons. It's a nice way to unwind, for starters. Actually, being in nature can create a sense of something called nature-connectedness, which can improve our well-being. It's also a chance to get out of the sort of fast-paced environment of cities and relax more generally,

since it should be quieter than with fewer people to make demands of you. Are natural views better than city views? I imagine that depends on your individual tastes, really. Seems like the countryside or other landscapes might be more calming with all the natural contours, while city views are more inspiring since they represent opportunities and possibilities. Do all people need some nature? Well, based on what I said about nature-connectedness, I'd certainly say so, though there might be people who need it more,

like the ones that spend their lives cooped up in towns with nowhere to escape to. What can people gain from going to natural places? Other than what I already mentioned, they probably get the chance to disconnect from their lives in terns and reconnect with nature, breathe fresh air oh and they get the chance to see animals and plants and their natural habitats do you think that going to the park is the only

way to get close to nature well it might be for some especially like people in urban sprawls but that's not the be all and end all by any means the countryside of most places or most countries is usually rather accessible and of course there are many opportunities to travel around to natural places

these days. What are the differences between a natural place and a city? Other than the obvious buildings and people pack together in close quarters, there tends to be more development in general, I suppose. Fewer wild animals, more pollution. I suppose I could go on forever about them, but hopefully you get the idea.