IELTS Speaking for Success - 🖊️ Pens (S02E04) + Transcript

Episode Date: February 22, 2020

We are back with weekly episodes! This week Maria and Rory talk about "Pens" as it is of the new topics of 2020 IELTS Speaking test and you guys should be ready for it! We've had some difficulties with the sound quality (as if it ever was perfect), so please excuse us for that! We'll make it up in the next episodes! Stay tuned! Tune in and have a great day! - IELTS Speaking for Success PREMIUM: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s02e04 Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2020 Success with IELTS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And my name is Rory, and we are the host of the IELD 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 started this podcast to give you a look at how a native super English speaker would answer some of the most common IELD speaking questions. We also go over the vocabulary and grammar for high score, band nine score. Ben 9 score. Rory is here to talk about...

Oh, no, no, no, no, Rory, could you crack a joke first? Yes, okay. Well, I've had this penciled in on my diary for quite some time. Yes, today we're going to talk about pens and pencils, dear listeners, because in IEL speaking questions 2020, they can ask you questions about pens and pencils. Rory, do you usually use a pen or a pencil? I like using pens. It's smoother and less messy than a pencil,

especially if I'm using gel pens or roller balls. Do you prefer to use a pen or a pencil for writing? Almost always a pen. For the reasons that I mentioned before, I'll sometimes use a pencil if I have a fear of making mistakes, and then that gives me an excuse to rub things out. but usually it's penned. Rory, when was the last time you bought a pen or a pencil?

I can't remember the exact time, actually. It was sometime last year. And I remember it, well, I remember doing it, not when, because it was online. And it was these thin-tip gel pens. They were from China. And I had to order them specifically because I found one of them a few years ago. And it ran out of ink. so I went to order some new ones.

So Rory's wearing French jeans, Italian t-shirts, and Chinese pens. Right, interesting? The only thing British about me is my voice. Okay, moving on. How often do you buy pens and pencils? Not too often, actually. I'm quite good at looking after them. So like I say, the last time I went out and bought one was a year ago.

Did you like to write with a pen or pencil when you were a child? Yeah, actually. I loved it. You could almost say that writing is in my blood because my mum and dad are both journalists and I'm an author, so I really like to write when I was younger and I like doing it now. Being an author, do you use some special pen, your favourite pen? Yeah, I always have a favourite pen. I think a lot of people who write are like this.

There's always one pen that you're attached to for quite some time. How would you feel if someone gave you a pen or a pencil as a gift? I think it depends. If I like the kind of pen or pencil that they bought for me, then I would be extremely happy. But if I don't like it so much, then I would still pretend to be happy, of course, but maybe I would put it away in a file somewhere and not use it unless I was really desperate.

Would you pay a lot for a pen or pencil? I think it depends on how much it. a lot. I wouldn't pay more than 20 pounds or I think it's about 2,000 rubles for a box of pens. I certainly wouldn't pay that amount for a single pen. I think maybe £10 or a thousand roubles is the maximum for a single pen or a box of pens. Anything more than that is just excessive. So you wouldn't use some fancy parker pen? No, I don't believe in that. I think it's a con. Because The pen that I use right now, which costs, oh, I don't know, I think it was 50 rubles.

It writes just as well and it lasts forever, so I don't see a problem with using. What about fountain pensions with ink? I think, well, it's like I said before when we were talking about pencils. I think pencils are quite messy and I find fountain pens quite messy as well. That's just for me. I think other people can use them quite effectively, but I can't. Rory, thank you very much for your answers. Thank you.

Rowie, shall we look at the words you've just used? Yeah, why not? So when we talk about pens or pencils, well, specifically pens, we can say that you use gel gel, like a hair gel? No, I think it's a special kind of ink that means it dries faster. So with regular ink, it takes a long time to dry, and sometimes you can accidentally move it on the paper and it makes a mess. But with gel pens, I think it's supposed to be smoother and dry faster.

So this helps. Smoother? What do you mean by smoother? Smooth. It comes out of the pen more smoothly, really. So if you're using a pen with regular ink, sometimes you can find little drops of ink coming off or building up in the pen. But with a gel pen, that doesn't happen.

And it just makes the writing look nicer and cleaner. You can also write with a fountain pen. You can. Well, you do. I don't. Yes, I have a German fountain pen. Or you can use a roll ball. Exactly. Roller ball, which has this ball. It does, yeah.

It's like in the very top of the pen, you have the tip, and then inside that, there's a ball. And as the ink comes out of the pen and your pen moves on the paper, the ball will move around, and that puts the ink on the paper quite nicely. Dear listeners, are you following this? If not, then you just Google a fountain pen, like a fountain, you know, a fountain with water, or a roller bowl pen or a gel pen, like G-E-E-L. And you'll see some nice diagrams for your aisles writing as well, maybe. Yeah, or nice pens.

You said that you bought a thin tip pen online? Yeah, a tip, what is it? Tip is another word for the top of the pen. So a pen can have a broad tip or a thin tip. I find it easier to write with a thin tip because my hands are smaller and my fingers are quite narrow so it makes it easier for me to hold.

So dear listeners, could you please research what kind of pen you use and make sure that you have a precise name for it? You've used a nice phrasal verb, rub it out. Yes. Could you give us a sentence? If I make a mistake when I write with a pencil, I use a rubber to rub it out. Excellent.

Yeah, or you can have, for example, a fear of making a mistake. Yes. Right? When you talk about your favorite pen, you said you are attached to it. What does it mean to be attached to something? Well, you can be physically attached to something, so it's almost like it's part of you. but in another way to be attached to something is to find something that's your favorite thing and so you don't want to give it to anyone else, you don't really want to share it so much.

You're emotionally attached. Yeah, uh-huh. I'm emotionally attached to my parker pen. I'm quite emotionally attached to my buy-ro. Right. When we spoke about gifts and the question was like, how would you feel if someone gave you a pen? the question already has the second conditional, so you gave an answer, if I liked this pen,

I'd be very happy. Yeah, but if I didn't like it, then I would pretend to be happy and then hide the pen. Yeah, like pretend to be happy or hide the pen or put it away, which is another phrase of verb. What else can you put away? Put away pens, put away paper. So anything that you want to tidy or anything that you want to remove from your sight, you put away. Yeah, like you want to forget about these things, like put them away.

We can say extremely happy. What else can you use, like, in the meaning of I was extremely happy or I'd be extremely happy? Oh, ecstatic, I think. That's quite a good one. I'd be ecstatic. Yeah. Can you say I'd be over the moon? You can say that.

I think it's not so common for native speakers to say, but it's still quite a good expression. It's an idiom. We want idioms. It is an idiom, so use it. I don't think anyone will be too upset if you do this. Yeah, but if I say, like, I'd be over the moon, should I mean it? Should I use some special intonation? Like, I'd be over the moon. Or I can, like, say, like, I'd be over the moon. I think it depends on the situation you're in. If you're talking about yourself being over the moon, then, yeah, you want to use the special, like, higher intonation. But if you're talking about someone else just to describe them, you could just say, oh, she's over the moon, that's okay? Yeah, like over the moon or ecstatic. Like super happy.

Dear listeners, now you can listen to Rory's answers again and this time notice all the good grammar and vocabulary he's used for high score. Rory, do you usually use a pen or a pencil? I like using pens. It's smoother and less messy than a pencil, especially if I'm using gel pens or roller balls. Do you prefer to use a pen or a pencil for writing? Almost always a pen. For the reasons that I mentioned before, I'll sometimes use a pencil if I have like a fear of making mistakes

and then that gives me an excuse to rub things out, but usually it's pens. Rory, when was the last time you bought a pen or a pencil? I can't remember the exact time, actually. It was sometime last year. and I remember it, well, I remember doing it not when, because it was online and it was these thin-tip gel pens. They were from China and I had to order them specifically because I found one of them a few years ago and it ran out of ink, so I went to order some new ones.

So Rory's wearing French jeans, Italian t-shirts and Chinese pens. Right, interesting. The only thing British about me is my voice. Okay, moving on. How often do you buy pens and pencils? Not too often, actually. I'm quite good at looking after them. So like I say, the last time I went out and bought one was a year ago. Did you like to write with a pen or pencil when you were a child?

Yeah, actually. I loved it. You could almost say that writing is in my blood because my mom and dad are both journalists and I'm an author, so I really like to write. when I was younger and I like doing it now. Being an author, do you use some special pen, your favorite pen? Yeah, I always have a favorite pen. I think a lot of people who write are like this.

There's always one pen that you're attached to for quite some time. How would you feel if someone gave you a pen or a pencil as a gift? I think it depends. If I like the kind of pen or pencil that they bought for me, then I would be extremely happy. but if I don't like it so much, then I would still pretend to be happy, of course, but maybe I would put it away in a file somewhere and not use it unless I was really desperate. Would you pay a lot for a pen or pencil?

I think it depends on how much is a lot. I wouldn't pay more than 20 pounds or I think it's about 2,000 rubles for a box of pens. And I certainly wouldn't pay that amount for a single pen. think maybe £10 or 1,000 rubles is the maximum for a single pen or a box of pens. Anything more than that is just excessive. So you wouldn't use some fancy parker pen? No, I don't believe in that. I think it's a con because the pen that I use right now, which costs, oh, I don't know,

I think it was 50 rubles. It writes just as well and it lasts forever, so I don't see a problem with using. What about fountain pens with ink? I think, well, it's like I said before when we were talking about pencils, I think pencils are quite messy and I find fountain pens quite messy as well. That's just for me. I think other people can use them quite effectively, but I can't. Thank you very much for listening. And don't remember to like, comment, subscribe and leave us a nice review online. Thank you very much for everybody who has already done that. We really appreciate it. But we'd appreciate even more feedback,

because we like to see your comments and see your ratings. So have great pens and pencils in your life. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. And have a good day. Bye.