IELTS Speaking for Success - 🎤 Singing (Part 1 ) + Transcript

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

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When you're flying Emirates business class, sampling our range of vintage wines from the largest selection in the skies, you'll see that your vacation isn't really over until your flight is over. Fly Emirates, fly better. Hello, lovely. I'm Miriam. And my name is Rory, and we're the host of the I-Lat Speaking for Success podcast, the official Band 9 podcast that aims to help improve your speaking skills as well as your. listening skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you fabulous vocabulary and gorgeous grammar for your high-eyed school. Your bad nine score. Hmm-hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, all you need is love, love, love, love. I keep forgetting you're an amazing singer. I am, hmm? We're talking about singing today and Rory is going to sing

at the end of the episode, so listen till the very end. And Vori doesn't know that he's going to sing. But he will sing for us. I've just discovered this. Now, Rory, you have to sing? Let's get to the answers of these questions first. Let's talk about singing. Do you like singing?

I like it when no one can hear me. I'm convinced I can't really hold a tune or stay in key, so it's a bit embarrassing. and maybe uncomfortable when people have to listen to it. Have you ever learned how to sing? No, actually. I've learned how to speak properly and deliver lines, but singing is a bit beyond me at this point,

which is a bit sad in some ways because it would be a great way to entertain people, I suppose. Can singing bring happiness to people? Well, yeah, like I said, it's very entertaining, especially if you can incorporate it into some kind of act or performance, and it's fun to join in with big crowds. especially if it's a funny song. Who do you want to sing for?

Ideally, no one ever. I find that idea mortifying. I might sing for my partner or my best friend if we made something up to make us laugh, but that's it. I'm no performer, for sure. Will you sing in the future? Privately, yes.

I have no intention of going out there and singing for people en masse. As you know, we now really 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. Right dear listen up, so first of all we say singing.

How do you pronounce it, Rui? Singing. Singing. Yes, it's not kind of like singing, it's singing. So no g-g-go-go, no, singing. So I like singing, I'm into singing. I think Roy's got a lovely voice, but, well, he doesn't like singing. But Maria often makes mistakes, and this is one of them.

I'm fine with my singing, I'm fine with people disliking my singing, so it's okay. I like it when no one can hear me, you can say. Or when no one is listening to my singing, I can't really hold a tune. tune. So if you can't hold a tune... Well, it's just part of singing consistently and clearly. So if you cannot do that, then you can't hold a tune and it doesn't sound very good. Or you sing out of tune. So usually I sing out of tune. So I'm out of tune. Or you could stay in key.

So when you stay in key, you sing well and you understand the notes, you understand how your voice should work up or down, so the scales. Or for example, I can't sing on key, or it's difficult for me to stay in key. It's embarrassing. So I'm embarrassed by my singing. I'm not impressed by my singing. Or it could be uncomfortable for other people to listen to it. Listen to. I've never learned how to sing or I've never learned singing properly like well I've never learned how to deliver lines and what do we do when we deliver lines

we just uh... we say them correctly yeah to say lines over song uh well there's that or it could be lines from a performance like a plate for example singing is a bit beyond me so I can't do it it's not for me I'm not able to do it I don't have

this, what do you call it? I don't have a musical ear I don't know you could be if you don't have it then you're tone deaf but you might have an ear for music

Yeah I don't have an ear for music There I go do you listen So I'm tone deaf or I don't have an ear for music Or you can say that yes I've learned how to sing I went to this school

They taught me and then you say I can hold a tune, I usually stay in key, my voice pitch is, what can we say about one's voice pitch? Well, the pitch is inconsistent or variable, I suppose, if it's not good, or it's a good pitch, or pitch perfect, if it is good. I enjoy entertaining people with my singing, so when we get together, I usually sing for my friends. singing can bring happiness to people. Yay! Because everybody enjoys a good singer.

Singer, singing. It's really entertaining. So it's exciting, it's lovely. Everybody enjoys listening to nice music, right? Nice voices. It's fun to join in with big crowds. So if lots of people start singing, you join in and it's fun.

If it's a funny song, if it's your favorite song like yay and everybody is united and happy. Yay! We usually sing for other people and Rory finds this idea mortifying. Oh, it's mortifying. So it's like it's dreadful. It's not good, yes. Embarrassing.

So Rory doesn't like this, but if you do like it, Rory, what can our listener say? Oh, I love it. It's amazing. I'm ecstatic when I'm singing, I feel fabulous, I don't know, all of these other good emotions. I find it terrifying or mortifying. I usually sing for my partner, for my family, for my friends, for everybody, or I enjoy singing just in the street. As I'm listening to music, I just sing things out loud. Or you can say that I'm no performer.

So a performer performs on stage, sings or delivers. lines like I don't know does a stand-up comedy so I'm no performer or I enjoy performing I enjoy singing or for example you can say that I enjoy singing at karaoke maybe enjoy karaoke you can say that my vocal cords vocal cords you have these like inside your throat my vocal codes are not for singing my ear is not trained And you can say that singing gives us endorphins and dopamine. Unless you find it mortifying, in which case it will not do those things. I don't know, like, why do you find mortifying, Rory? Come on, like...

Because it's embarrassing. Oh, yeah, and you promised to sing. I didn't promise to sing. No, you did, you did. You said that I would sing, and I don't know why you did this because that was a lie. What's your favorite song, Rory? Or maybe like, what's the song that you like? Anything by the Beatles?

I like lots of different songs. I mean, I like a song for the Lonely by Cher, for example. But there are others, too. Love. Do not look up that song. I'm not singing it. Mm-hmm. Okay, okay, how does it go like,

love don't need a reason? Okay, great, Rory, how about I sing the first line and then you sing the second one? How about no, that's not going to happen. Not on this podcast. Love don't need a reason. Oh, yeah, so check out a song for the Lonely by Cher. Cher.

Oh, what a lovely woman. Nicer than Madonna. You can say that I have a good singing voice, delisnum. I'm a good singer. Or my voice sounds good or my voice doesn't sound good. And like, I'm in control of my vocal chords. I have clear enunciation, the listener. Inunciation is the way you pronounce different words and syllables.

So I enunciate words very clearly so everybody understands. And I can sing at a suitable volume. Yeah, and singing suits my style, you can say. I usually go to karaoke to sing with my friends, for example. Or I just hate singing altogether. And dear listener, to wrap it up, we have a joke for you. I mean, we, I mean, I have a joke. for you. Oh, it's a nice one, Ron. It's a nice one. Come on. Okay. So, so it's actually really funny.

So, are you ready to laugh? Ha-ha joke. So singing in the shower is all fun and games, until you get shampoo in your mouth. Then it just becomes a soap opera. Oh my God. Carver is funny. So the joke is singing in the shower. You know, you sing in the shower. It's all fun and games. It's all fun and nice until you get shampoo in your mouth. So you get some shampoo in your mouth. It's disgusting. And then shampoo in your mouth becomes a soap opera.

A soap opera is when people are like, Oh, when were you? Where did you go? Rory. So this is an opera style for Maria. Oh, you're going to thank you. Thank you so much. Come on, it's a funny joke. It is funny. Yay.

Yay, dear listener. Feel free to read some articles why singing is good for you, for your well-being. Roy, come on. Could you just sing something for us? I would love to, but the signal is breaking up, Maria. I can't hear you anymore. Oh, oh, it's the end of the episode. Bye. Thank you very much for listening. Bye. Bye.

Do you like singing? I like it when no one can hear me. I'm convinced I can't really hold a tune or stay in key, so it's a bit embarrassing and maybe uncomfortable when people have to listen to it. Have you ever learned how to sing? No, actually. I've learned how to speak properly and deliver lines,

but singing is a bit beyond me at this point, which is a bit sad in some ways because it would be a great way to entertain people, I suppose. Can singing bring happiness to people? Well, yeah, like I said, it's very entertaining, especially if you can incorporate it into some kind of act or performance, and it's fun to join in with big crowds, especially if it's a funny song. Who do you want to sing for?

Ideally, no one ever. I find that idea mortifying. I might sing for my partner or my best friend if we made something up to make us laugh, but that's it. I'm no performer, for sure. Will you sing in the future? Privately, yes. But I have no intention of going out there and singing for people en masse.