IELTS Speaking for Success - 🤖 Robots (S01E01) + Transcript

Episode Date: November 2, 2019

In the first ever episode, Maria and Rory discuss robots, a topic that sometimes comes up during speaking parts of the IELTS exam. 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/s01e01 Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2019 Success with IELTS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to our super podcast. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory. And we are the hosts of the AILT Speaking for Success podcast, a podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. Right, the reason we started this podcast is to give you a look at how a native English speaker would answer some of the IOT speaking test questions. I'll be asking some of these questions and Rory will be answering them. We really hope that you take away as much as possible from every episode. This episode is about robots.

So Rory, you've chosen to talk about robots because in speaking part one, they actually can ask you questions about. robots. My first question is what do you think of robots? I think robots are wonderful. They seem to be great labor-saving devices. You can, well now they are at the very least. You can bring them into your home and they can do all kinds of tasks for you that you never had before you would have to do just by yourself. So it's great for saving time, for saving yourself as well. And so I think the more we have of robots in the home, the better. Hmm. So you're positive about robots. Very. Wow. Okay. Did you watch any cartoons related to robots in your childhood?

I think so. I don't remember anything specifically about robots, but something that was connected to it was a program called Button Moon, which was, again, not a cartoon, but it was a stop motion kind of animation. And they had a robot on that show. So it's kind of similar to it. It's probably not a very good one, though. I can remember it, Creek, me out a lot when I was a child. Hmm, okay. Do you like the idea of robots helping you at home or driving your car? Oh yes, both. Like I said,

I think they're great for saving time and saving your labour so you can focus on other things. I just wish we had more of them and they were better developed. This is for the home, of course, but when it comes to driving my car, I'm not so sure just right now if I want them to do that. I know they're testing this, but

I would like to see them tested a little bit more before I trusted my life in the hands of a robot. Rory, would you like to have a robot? Would I? Yes, absolutely. Like I say, as many as possible. Wow. So if you had like 10 robots at home, you'd be very happy. Yes, as long as they were doing different jobs. If I paid for 10 robots to do the same job, then that would be a waste of money. Isn't it a bit scary to have like 10 robots at home? Um, if you're as lazy as I am, I find it quite reassuring.

Super. Rory, thank you very much for your answers. So, dear listeners, let's have a look at some of the vocabulary and grammar. Rory has used that gives him a good score, possibly B.8, band 9 in IELTS. So, Rory, for example, you've said a labour-saving device? Yeah, it's like a compound adjective, I suppose, really. that you can use to describe things that mean that you don't have to work. So something else will work instead of you.

Something can be labor-saving. More common than labor-saving is time-saving. So something that stops you from spending time on something that you don't want to. Right. Also, you've used a phrase of verb like, creep me out. Like, crept me out. Could you make a sentence with this? Absolutely.

Now being in a car with a driven, by a robot would creep me out. So, for example, with this phrasal verb in particular, means that something would make me very nervous, very uncomfortable. Yes, it's a good one, like band nine phrase of a verb. Also about grammar, you've used some of the passive structures, like was connected, right? Also, you've used a nice one, I wish we had. Yes, absolutely. So to talk about things that, well, hopefully will happen in the future or that I would like to happen in the future. And definitely when it comes to robots, I would like to see much more development with them. Yeah. So we can say like, oh, I wish I had a robot at home. Yes, absolutely. So we can

use the second conditional. If everyone had a robot at home, they'd be super happy. Yes, absolutely. Or if I had 10 robots at home, I'd save a lot of time. Absolutely. Yeah. And Rory wants to have 10 robots, exactly 10 robots at home. Dear listeners, could you think of your answers to these questions. So Would you like to have a robot? Did you watch any cartoons about robots? Because this is, well, a common topic, obviously, in AIL speaking. Rory, thank you very much for your answers. Now, dear listeners, you can listen to Rory's answers again

and notice all the advanced structures and vocabulary. What do you think of robots? I think robots are wonderful. They seem to be great labor-saving devices. You can, well, now they are at the very least. you can bring them into your home and they can do all kinds of tasks for you that you'd never had before you would have to do just by yourself. So it's great for saving time, for saving yourself as well. And so I think the more we have of robots in the home, the better.

Did you watch any cartoons related to robots in your childhood? I think so. I don't remember anything specifically about robots, but something that was connected to it was a program called Button Moon, which was again not a cartoon but it was a stop motion kind of animation and they had a robot on that show and so it's kind of similar to it it's probably not a very good one though i can remember it creeped me out a lot when i was a child do you like the idea of robots helping you at home or driving your car oh yes both um like i said i think they're great for saving time and saving your labor so you can focus on other things um i just wish we had more of them and they're

were better developed. This is for the home, of course, but when it comes to driving my car, I'm not so sure just right now if I want them to do that. I know they're testing this, but I would like to see them tested a little bit more before I trusted my life in the hands of a robot. So, thank you all for listening. Thank you very much for your attention, and we'll see you soon. Bye-bye.

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