IELTS Speaking for Success - 📖 Reading (S08E15) + Transcript

Episode Date: December 19, 2022

Do you often read books? When? Are your reading habits now different than before? Have you ever read a novel that has been adapted into a film? Which do you prefer, reading books or watching movies? What was your favourite book as a child? Tune in and have a great day! - Get exclusive episodes on IELTS Speaking parts 1, 2, and 3: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s08e15 Our IELTS Writing podcast: https://linktr.ee/wfspremium Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2022 Success with IELTS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk, business. Hello, Sunshine. I'm Maria. With the laugh. And my name is Rory, and we're the host of the AILT Speaking for Success podcast. The podcast themes to help you improve your listening skills, as well as your speaking skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you super grammar and gorgeous vocabulary for your high IELD score. Bad 9 score. Rory, look at all those books behind you.

Yes, I've got quite a collection. Shall we talk about reading? Reading. Yes, let's talk about reading. Let's get this done. Do you often read books? Well, I try to, although I've had to put my regular reading on the back burner because of my work schedule, so that'll be like that until Christmas.

But hopefully I'll have more time after that, and I'll be reading a lot more. Are you reading habits now different than before? Well, I definitely used to read much more avidly than now. Actually, that's one of the things I miss the most about childhood. having all that time to read. But hopefully I'll get it back in the future. Have you ever read a novel that has been adapted into a film? Well, off the top of my head, I can't really think of any.

I mean, maybe Harry Potter, but I think everyone's seen that particular adaptation. So that's not very original, is it? Oh, I read Jurassic Park as well. That was adapted into a movie as well. Which do you prefer, reading books or watching movies? Oh, definitely reading. I love the idea of just switching off and plowing through a novel in the space of a day or an evening, although admittedly it's been a while since that happened. But like I said before, I'm looking forward to having the time to do that again.

What was your favorite book as a child? Oh, that's a good question. I'd have to cast my mind back pretty far now that I think about it. I think it was actually the Jurassic Park novel that I talked about before. I think that's a pretty unusual thing to read when you're eight or nine years old. but I really enjoyed it. And, well, like I say, it got me hooked on speculative fiction. So that's what I'm reading, well, that's what I'm trying to read more of these days anyway.

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Are you enjoying the topic, or maybe you hate reading? Oh, sorry if you hate reading. And I've got a joke for you, Rory. Are you ready? Oh, God, there's a joke coming. Okay. When is a blue book, not blue. When it's red. Did you understand that?

A blue book, when is a blue, a blue, a blue, color blue, book not blue. When it's red. Red, you know, read, red, red. That's it. The book is red by me and red, the color, red. It's a pun. It's a language. I'm switching to Russian though.

I'm just going to speak Russian for the rest of my life and then I will not be subjected to any more of these jokes. Yeah, our videos get you more tolerant towards, you know, stupid humor, stupid jokes. And, you know, we are developing your facial expressions like, oh, no, please stop. We are developing not only your grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening skills,

but also your joke tolerance skills. Can I say that? You can. We're building up your tolerance. Oh my gosh. And build up is a phrasal verb. And that is in our phrasal verbs pod course, which is also part of our Christmas sale.

So if you're watching this around about Christmas time 2020, then there'll be a wee link in the description, and you can follow that to find out more about our sale. Yappy! Rory, you did use a very good expression. You said something like, I've had to put regular reading on the back burner. Yes, the back burner.

If you put something on the back burner, it means that you're putting it off until later. And by putting off, which is the phrase of verb, I mean you're delaying it until later. Successwithalths.com forward slash podcourses. Okay, so if I can't write this essay today, I'll have to put it on the back burner. Yes.

And if you're struggling to write an essay, we have a writing course, which we are also advertising as part of the Christmas sale. Okay, I'm in the middle of explaining this idiom. I know. But I'm selling my soul to the money devil. Right, okay, so if I don't want to, for example, go shopping, so I'll put it on the back burner. So everything I put off, I can say I'll have to put it,

or I'm going to put it on the back burner. Or I will delay it. To put something on the back burner is an idiom, right? Oh, it's idiomatic expression. Hidimatic speech for a high score. Bad 9 score? Could you give us a sentence just with this burner thing again? I started reading this book in October

and I had to put finishing it on the back burner because I was working so much. But now it's the holidays soon and I will be taking it off the back burner to read. Hey! When the examiner asks you about present and before, what are you going to use? Yuster.

Of course, Yuster. I used to read much more or I didn't use to read, for example. And Rory told us, I used to read much more avidly. Yes, well, usually people describe themselves as avid readers, but I've broken up here, so reading more and then avidly afterwards. But if you're an avid reader, it means that you're very into reading, you're reading a lot. Yeah, I'm really into reading.

I'm an avid reader. Or you can say, I'm not an avid reader, so I don't read much, right? That's a really good one. So we can have strong reading habits, right? Or we can develop reading habits. Or we can say, for example, I really want to get into the habit of reading. Or I don't have a habit of reading. I don't have strong reading habits.

So a book could be adapted from a film. Yeah? Oh, no, no, no, into a film. No, no, you can have both. Although I'm trying to think of any films that have been made. that were adapted into books. None are coming to me off the top of my head. And if you can't remember something,

you say, ooh, off the top of my head, yeah, so off the top of my head. So off the top of my head, I can't really remember any titles now. Yeah? So could you just write away, I can't remember. So the safest film is Harry Potter, right? So adaptations, so books, and then,

books were made into films, right? So, a book which has been adapted into a movie. A film, a movie, doesn't matter. And you say, I enjoy this particular adaptation. So it's been adapted, and this isn't an original adaptation. It's a nice adaptation. So the difference between reading books and watching a film. Yeah, such like a classic question.

So you say that I, I love the idea of switching off. So you switch off when you read a book and when you watch a movie. When do you switch off? Well, you switch off from technology and everything that's associated with it and focus on reading. I love the idea of switching off. And then Rory used a phrase of a, to plow through a novel. To plow through a book.

So if you plow through something, it just means that you go through the whole thing in a very short space of time, you're just like focused on that task, you just keep going, you're in the zone. It means like in a very short time. So not in a long time, in a short time. No, the idea is that you do it in a short time. And can I, for example, plow through writing an essay,

plow through housework? Plow through work. Plow through work. Okay, could you give us a sentence with this plow through? I can't, because I'm not plowing through anything right now. I'm very lazy. Mm-hmm. Yeah, and also you can say, for example, sometimes I have to force myself through a book

because you have to read it because of school, because of your university, because of the IELS exam. Sometimes I force myself through a book, force myself through something, right? And I've got a joke for you. Are you ready? No, no. We need some kind of a tune, like, hey, joke is coming. Yeah, like the Jaws theme tune. Joke time. I'm in trouble now.

Why does a ghost need so many books? Because it goes through them really quickly. It's a good one. It's a good one. And it's a phrase of love. You see, a ghost, a ghost goes through books really quickly. So quickly, yeah. The ghost goes through books like literally.

I wish we could go through this episode really quickly. The book, you know, the book of a... Queen, right? So it goes through the book, right? But if you go through a book, you read it. You see? You know what they say? Explaining a joke is a lot like dissecting a frog.

The subject dies in the process. Ah, ha, ha. And if you want a serious answer about this reading books, watching movies, so Rory, there you go, I have some science for you that I took from the internet. so we actually believe it. So we believe everyone. So here are some benefits of reading books. Mental stimulation.

Vocabulary growth. So you enlarge your vocabulary. Reading books prevents brain disease. For example, you can say dementia. It prevents dementia. It helps heart rate, increases your knowledge, and gives greater detail than most movies.

There we go. That's an educated answer. Whereas, you can say, like, by contrast, watching movies also has some benefits. Okay, Rory, Rory, are you excited about the benefits of watching movies? I'm excited for the end of this episode, no. You're robbing me of my love of reading. So, the benefits of watching movies. It's a good form of entertainment.

And it's great for your social life. Uh-huh. Watch a movie. It's education. could be educational, okay, depending on the movie. And it gives a better visual picture, although I disagree with that because I think our imagination is much better.

Yeah, there you go. And also, you can say, for example, books are portable. Portable, you can kind of carry a book with you or you can carry it on your device, but also kind of movies are portable. Have you ever seen people watching movies on the metro or on a bus?

I haven't just seen them. I've heard them because they always play it at the maximum volume so that all the other people around them can enjoy. Isn't that a nice thing to do? Isn't that really irritating? Please do not do this on the metro. Could you imagine if someone was playing our podcast on the metro were just like so loud that everyone could hear?

And also you can say that when you go to watch a movie, you have to fork out some money and pay for the ticket. So if you fork out money or some sum of money, you just pay, pay for this, you know? That's another phrase of a, to fork out a significant amount of money for the ticket, for example. When the examiner asks you about your childhood, Roy, what strategy can we use when you kind of, oh, I'll have to go back to my childhood? And remember the days. I'll have to cast my mind back.

Yeah. I love that expression, cast my mind back. and then you just sort of like look around trying desperately to think of something to cast your mind back to. Yeah, but here, the listener, you should kind of act a little bit, right? So you say, oh, wow, that's a good question. So you react to the question. And then you go, like, I'd have to cast my mind back. Well, not like this.

I'm exaggerating, but kind of naturally, like as if you are really remembering, right? Things. Well, you are really remembering, hopefully. I mean, I was. Yeah. I would have or I'll have to cast my mind back pretty far, right? Because when Rory was a child. Especially if you're me and you're old.

As old as the hills. Thanks. And then that book got Rory hooked. He got hooked on fiction. And what kind of fiction? Speculative fiction. So, really? Speculative fiction is just asking like, what if something happened?

So in the case of Jurassic Park, it's like, What if we were able to clone dinosaurs and open a zoo with them in them? But it's also connected to science fiction, which would be like, what if we were discovered by aliens? And then all the possibilities that would come from that as well. But it also released to things like fantasy and horror and all of the things connected to that because it's unreal. It's not realistic. Yeah.

And you can say, like, when I was a child, I used to read horror stories and I got hooked on horror, right, or detective stories. So I got hooked on them, I became really into them. Or you can get hooked on this podcast. Or get someone hooked on this podcast. Check out the Christmas sale information for more. Yeah, you can get hooked on our Christmas sales. Hey.

However, much as I've enjoyed talking about reading, perhaps we should bring this particular chapter to a close. Thank you very much. for listening. We love you. We hug you. Lots of kisses and hugs. Bye. Bye. Do you often read books? Well, I try to, although I've had to put my regular reading on the back burner because of my work schedule, so that'll be like that until Christmas. But hopefully I'll have more time after that, and I'll be reading a lot more. Are you reading habits now different than before? Well, I definitely used to read much more avidly than now. Actually, that's one of the things.

I miss the most about childhood, having all that time to read. But hopefully I'll get it back in the future. Have you ever read a novel that has been adapted into a film? Well, off the top of my head I can't really think of any. I mean, maybe Harry Potter, but I think everyone's seen that particular adaptation, so that's not very original, is it? Oh, I read Jurassic Park as well. That was adapted into a movie as well. Which do you prefer, reading books or watching movies? Oh, definitely reading. I love the idea of just switching off and plowing through a novel in the space of a day or an evening, although admittedly it's been a while since that happened. But like I said before, I'm looking forward to having the time to do that again. What was your favourite book as a child?

Oh, that's a good question. I'd have to cast my mind back pretty far now that I think about it. I think it was actually the Jurassic Park novel that I talked about before. I think that's a pretty unusual thing to read when you're eight or nine years old, but I really enjoyed it. And, well, like I say, it got me hooked on speculative fiction. So that's what I'm reading, well, that's what I'm trying to read more of these days anyway.