IELTS Speaking for Success - 🥳 Parties (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: March 31, 2025

Get access to our episode archive: https://www.patreon.com/ieltssfs Do you like parties? What sort of parties do you like? Have you ever organized a party? How often did you have parties when you were a kid? Will you have more parties in the future? 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/s11e30 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. And my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of the AILT 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 gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high-ILD score. Your bad night score. Oh, wow, Rory, your office is a mess. Yeah, I know. I had a party at the weekend. house still hasn't recovered.

Ah, you had a party, a party, a Rory's party, yay! Mm-hmm. Let's talk about parties. It's my party, then you're going if I want. Do you like parties? Not as much as I used to. As I get older, I find myself less and less inclined to go to big events like that. I just don't like the noise.

and it's a lot of effort when you could have just as much fun with a smaller gathering of friends, or even just one or two of them. What sort of parties do you like? Honestly, I prefer small ones with just a few friends these days. That limits the extent of the cleanup operation afterward. I say this, of course, and then every now and then I throw a bash for my birthday

or some other milestone. Have you ever organized a party? I have indeed. I put together everything for a few goals, away parties before I left my old job and my birthdays as an adult. I wouldn't say I did a particularly good job of them, but I did organize them. How often did you have parties when you were a child? Not that often.

We had people over to play, but I think parties were largely limited to birthdays and occasionally mum and dad would throw something for their work friends. Will you have more parties in the future? I've been meaning to have another big one with my friends, but I haven't quite got around to doing it yet. Maybe just after the summer when we're all together again and I've finished the major alterations to my house. Yay! It's party time!

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. Do you listen, we talk about birthday parties, wedding parties, you know, just like usual Friday party. Every day could be a party, so any party you want, like you get together with some friends, it's already a party. But also you can talk about some special parties, like what do you call a party for boys before a wedding? A stag party?

Yeah, a stag party. or a hen, a hen party for ladies before the woman gets married, only for ladies. I don't know much about that because I've never had or been to a stag or a hen party. Yeah, but you must have seen some crazy stack parties. British people, your people, organize in, let's say, Budapest, for example. Amsterdam. I've heard what people in my country get up to and I just about everything they've done. Yeah, yeah, if you see a group of rowdy men doing all sorts of crazy things, perhaps they're British.

It's not just the men, the women are just as bad. Oh yeah, women are even more horrible. You can say that I love parties. I am a party animal. Or you can say that these days, I'm less inclined to go to big events. So as I get older, you know, I'm 30 years old. So I find myself less inclined to go to parties. So I don't like parties as much as I used to. I don't like the noise.

Or you can say I love the noise. I love a good party. Or you can say I prefer a small gathering of friends. So a party is a gathering. So you get together with your friends. You can call it a get together. Also, like, don't think that a party should always be a big party. Could be anything.

You have your three friends. So there are three of you, it's already a party. Or even with, like, two of you. Or maybe you are alone and it's a party. Yeah. Maybe you're alone and you're just crazy. Yeah, you know, I have a party with my cat or with my dog, with my fish. I prefer small.

parties or I prefer big parties. I prefer birthday parties or wedding parties or there are different kinds of parties. Surprise parties garden parties. Maybe you like cocktail parties. Tea parties. Ooh, tea parties are my favorite. Tea parties, dear listener. Maybe you enjoy your dances and costume parties when everyone wears a mask or a costume, it's called a fancy dress party. So maybe you enjoy these ones. Then pool parties. Oh, nice. I love a good pool party. So a party by the pool. Or maybe graduation parties, Deleisina, when you finish school or graduate from a university, you have a graduation party. Also, there are parties which are called shower. For example, a baby shower.

Rory, what's a baby shower? Is that just a celebration of when someone finds out they're having a baby? Yeah. For example, your friend is having a baby, so they are throwing a baby shower. So the woman and her future baby and everybody comes in with presents. Yay. These days, gender reveal party is a very common type of party

where the gender of a future baby. No, a future baby. Of the baby is revealed. So you kind of find out, is it a boy or a girl? Housewarming party, dear listener. You move house and you have a house warming party. Farewell party.

Oh gosh, so many parties, yeah. Pre-party and after-party. How many kinds of parties are there? So there is a pre-party, then there is a party. and after party. So, do you listen to, choose, choose whatever you enjoy. Okay.

The cleanup operation is our after party, usually. Yeah. So you have your friends over, and then you clean up. Or you hire someone to clean up. Yeah. What does it mean if I throw a bash? Just throw a party? Yeah.

A birthday bash. We throw a party or we organize a party. But usually we say have a party or throw a party, meaning to have a party. Or you can say a bash, meaning a party. Have a bash, have a party. So you can say, oh, I usually throw a bash for my birthday. I put together everything for the party. So I've bought food.

I've hired some waiters maybe. I've sent out invitations. I left my old job. And had a party. A leaving party. Yeah, it was like a farewell party, a living party, goodbye party. Or you can say that I've hired some people and they organized the party for me. So I had my party organized.

When you have a party, you have people over. So you invite them over to your place. You can say, oh, I had a big, massive. Oh, I had a nice birthday party and I had all my friends over. I had them round to my place. And we throw parties for our friends, for our colleagues. If you're planning to organize a party but you haven't done it yet, you can say I haven't quite got round to doing it. So to get round to doing something, like to do it.

Or I've been meaning to have... Yeah, I've been meaning to have a party, but I haven't had it yet. But kind of, it's on my list. So I've been meaning to have a party soon. I haven't organized it yet. Or I haven't got enough time to do it. I haven't got around to doing it. And now, Rory's vocabulary party.

Yes, it's the part of the episode where I Ask Maria questions about the grammar and vocabulary I used in the episode. You can follow along. So, Maria, the first question was, do I like parties? And I did say I preferred to have smaller parties, but I didn't say smaller parties. What did I say? Gatherings. Yes.

And then we were talked about the sort of parties that I like, and I explained I preferred these smaller gatherings. But there was a reason why there was something that was much less of a problem if the party is smaller. But what was that? The problem is the cleanup operation after the party. Yes. Or we could just say the clean-up. Then Maria asked me if I'd ever organized a party and I'd talked about a specific kind of party when you are leaving a place.

Going away, party. Hey! And then you asked how often I had parties when I was a child and I said that my parents would have parties for their colleagues at work, but I didn't say how much. parties what did I say throw parties ah excellent then you asked me about parties I plan I want to have in the future and I said I want to have another big one but I didn't say I want to have that's too simple what is the complex

grammar that I used here I've been meaning to have a party for a long time who it's present perfect continuous I also said I haven't quite got round to doing it which I think is a mixture of perfect tense but also with future oh my god it's so advanced I even I can't name what that is that's your bonus question Maria I said I haven't quite got round to doing it yet what grammar is that well it's just present perfect Rory well what round to doing it yeah it's just present perfect but it's I and G yes do what it is though it's 2 and ING and we almost never have that. Yeah, it's like to get around to doing something. Yes, that's a good one to highlight. It's a set phrase. So this is where, if you're more advanced,

you need to be very careful because usually we use 2 or ING. But here we're using both. Oh wow. And I have a party joke. Oh God. What's the best way to remember your wife's birthday. Forget it once. Yeah, and then you never hear the end of it. Yeah, it's a good one. So if you are married and if you forget your wife's birthday, that's it, you're done. That's it. That's the end of your life, okay? Because like, if you forget a woman's birthday, I feel like if you forget anyone's birthday, you're in trouble. Yeah, so the joke is like, what's the best way to remember when your,

wife, your wife's birthday is. Just you forget it once and then... And that's the end. Yay! Thank you very much for listening. And we'll see you next thing. In our next episode. Bye.

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inclined to go to big events like that. I just don't like the noise, and it's a lot of effort when you could have just as much fun with a smaller gathering of friends, or even just one or two of them. What sort of parties do you like? Honestly, I prefer small ones with just a few friends these days. That limits the extent of the cleanup operation afterward. I say this, of course, and then every now and then I throw a bash for my birthday or some other milestone.

Have you ever organized the party? I have indeed. I put together everything for a few going away parties before I left my party. old job and my birthdays as an adult. I wouldn't say I did a particularly good job of them, but I did organize them. How often did you have parties when you were a child? Not that often. We had people over to play, but I think parties were largely limited to birthdays and occasionally mum and dad would throw something for their work friends. Will you have more parties in the future? I've been meaning to have another big one with my friends, but I haven't quite got around to doing it yet.

maybe just after the summer when we're all together again and I've finished the major alterations to my house.