IELTS Speaking for Success - 🍿 Snacks (S08E01) + Transcript

Episode Date: September 12, 2022

Do you like to have snacks between meals? What kind of snacks do you like to eat? When do you usually have snacks? What kind of snacks do children in your country like to eat? What was the most popular snack when you were young? Tune in and have a great day! - Watch the video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/I4NhiUupZ8E 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/s08e01 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

Hello Sunshine, I'm Maria. And my name is Rory. And we're the host of the AILT Speaking for Success podcast. The podcast aims to help improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We start in this podcast to give you happiness, joy, super vocabulary and grammar for a high score. For a band nine score.

Maria, are you snacking during the recording? Sure are. What? Are you snacking? during the recording. Um, yeah. Why? Why?

It's an interesting coincidence because today, guess what we're going to talk about? Snacks? Yes. Let's talk about snacks. Let's chew and swallow our food first. No, no, no, no, there's no time for this.

So, snacks. Snacks is the recent super fresh I'll speaking topic, part one. Oh, so good this popcorn. Dear listener, so this episode is really visual because I'm demonstrating different snacks. Obviously, we're talking about snacks, right? And I'm demonstrating different facial expressions. Rory is reacting.

So go to our YouTube channel. The link is in the description to watch the episode. You can listen to it now, but then go and watch. And your task is to choose three snacks that are going to be your favorite, even if you never eat them. We need to impress your examiner. You need to impress your out-speaking examiner with vocabulary for snacks.

Oh, yeah. And don't worry if you can't. We've got some good grammar to help you along the way as well. So, Rory, are you ready for snacks? Yes. I have a few treats in store for you. Hey, let's talk about snacks. And we hope that you are hungry.

For knowledge. What kinds of snacks do you like to eat? Well, I try and aim for the healthier ones like protein bars or low sugar treats, but it's not always possible, is it? When do you usually have snacks? Well, ideally never after dinner, and if I'm going to have them, it'll be mid-morning or mid-afternoon. They're my peak hours, usually. What kind of snacks do children in your country like to eat? Well, too many, if you ask any adult, they always seem to have something sugary or sweet.

I don't really know the names of them, to be honest with you. What was the most popular snack when you were young? I think it would be easier to talk about the ones that we didn't have, to be honest with you. The ones I remember the most prominently are sort of the bar-like ones, but they were pretty much available in any shape and form you'd care to mention. Dear listener, this week on our Super Premium, Rory is going to describe an experience of online shopping in speaking part two. And in speaking part three, we're going to discuss shopping, online shopping and money. These are the new IOT speaking topics. And in our

writing episodes, yes, we do have our writing podcast, we are discussing a horizontal bar chart about income spending in a country in two different years. And we took this task from Cambridge 17 book. The links are in the description. Go and check it out. Shall we talk about the grammar and vocabulary that our viewers and listeners can snack on? Yes. Yeah, oh, to snack on something. That's a good one. Is that a phrasal verb? I think so, or it's a verb and a proposition. Do you know where else that you can find phrasal verbs or similar collocations? You can find them on our podcourse.

Successwithiots.com forward slash podcourses. Oh, oh boy. Okay. So, dear listener, a snack. A snack is what, first of all? A snack is generally defined as any food eaten between meals. So it could be something like that or popcorn. Even like a drink.

A drink together with something is a snack. It could be healthy or not healthy. Yeah? I don't think it's, well, I mean, it could be healthy or unhealthy, to be honest with you. But I guess it depends who you ask whether it's healthy or not. So a snack, to have a snack,

to eat a snack or to snack. So I like to snack on something, or I usually snack on fruit. Or Rory usually snacks on what? Ice cream. No, not ice cream. It's usually, like I say, it's usually something healthier.

I'm on a bit of a health kick right now. So it's like either not doing it at all, or when it is, it's like protein bars or something like that. So, Rory usually snacks on protein bars, but my favorite snack, dear listener, is a crumbar. Yes, you might think that it's very strange

that I'm just eating a cucumber like this, but people eat like apples or peaches like this. You know, why not a cucumber? Why not indeed? It might even be better for you. Hmm. No. So please make sure that, you choose healthy snacks. However, if you don't snack, then there's a couple of things in my answer

that might help you. For example, saying that you try your best to avoid something or try my best to do something, those are quite good structures to use in any circumstance. It could be talking about snacks or it could be talking about doing something else that's quite unhealthy or that requires a lot of effort. I try my best to avoid unhealthy snacks. I try my best to avoid hard work. good for you what does it mean if I say I have snacks when I feel peckish oh when you feel peckish

it just means that you want to eat something but you don't want to eat a lot you want to eat a little bit so if you think about peck like hens pecking the ground pecking like that and they don't eat a lot when they're doing that they're just

taking small bites of things or attempting to find something to take a small bite from for example or I feel a bit peckish so I'm going to have a hook number. Then, what kinds of snacks do you usually have, even if you don't? Dear listener, please make sure that you have a list of your favorite snacks. For example, Roy, you mentioned what? I just was very general when I was talking, so I just said

protein bars or I used different adjectives to describe the kinds of treats, so low sugar treats, so something that doesn't have lots of sugar in it. What is a treat? You didn't say a snack. You said a treat. Yes, but it's like a reward. something nice that you can eat. Although a snack is usually something nice that you can eat as well. Usually, some people eat really healthy and dry and tasteless things like yourself, and that's not so great. But most people consider it a reward for something or something nice to happen to them. And treats are usually like cookies or something sweet or chocolates, something which is high in sugar, usually treats. Oh, I have a treat. I'll have something like chocolate.

So, for example, de Lisin, if you say, oh, I feel a bit peckish, I want to have a treat. So I would go for Turkish delight. So something like, you know, really sweet and yummy. Yum, yum, yum, yum. Some Turkish delight. Also, what kinds of snacks? You can say, I prefer savory snacks or sweet snacks. What other snacks can we have, like, for example, savory?

What would be a savory snack? To be honest with you, most things at bakeries that break up when you pull them apart, they're savory. So they're drier than average. So things like, I'm trying to think of a concrete example, crisps. Crisps, yeah, cheese, roasted nuts, for example. Yeah, you can say like, oh, I prefer some nuts. What's the best way to describe savory? It's to do with the drying sensation that you get.

So you can say I prefer sweet snacks or savory snacks or sweet and savory. Also, you can say I prefer crunchy snacks. So for example, crunchy is something that's crunches like crunchy. So this one is not really crunchy. It's like soft, this chocolate pie thing. So it's not really crunchy, right? Crunchy like apples, like crackers. When do you usually have snacks?

So Roy, you said that never after dinner. So you have your dinner and then no snacks. Well, ideally never after dinner. I mean, actually, that's a good adverb to have or to start off with, because you could say anything afterwards, but you're talking about what you would really want to happen. So ideally never after dinner, although sometimes that's just not possible because maybe dinner wasn't enough or wasn't filling enough in this case.

And then an if structure. If I'm going to have a snack or if I want to have a snack, it will probably be the mid-morning. I usually have snacks in the middle of the morning or afternoon. The mid-morning, the mid-afternoon, because they're my peak hours, because I'm a primary school teacher now, so I have to work lots and lots in the middle of the morning and in the middle of the afternoon.

But also, you can have an bedtime snack before you go to bed. Yeah, if you hate yourself. Well, can I imagine anything worse than eating before bed. Do you do this? Sometimes. Yeah. I'll have some cheese or some, for example, something savory or sweet. What about children? Roy, what did you say about children? I had a little bit of fun with that one. So it's like, really, the question is about the specific kinds of snacks that children like to eat in your country. But instead, I took that to mean

how much or how often they have them. So I said too many or too much. And so that's like a joke. and then you go into more details about what they have. But to be honest with you, and I wonder if this is just true in my country or if it's true everywhere. Like, I think there's no limit to the different kinds of snacks that kids can have. So you can just say, like, they come in different shapes and sizes, different forms. They cater to a variety of tastes.

And actually, that's a good use of taste here because we're talking about snacks and eating and taste is what people prefer. So it all fits together quite nicely. and you haven't even given a very specific answer because really, I mean, children enjoy different things, don't they? Yes, they do, and usually they seem to enjoy sugary snacks. So snacks with sugar, high in sugar, sugary snacks. What about the most popular snack when you were young, Rory?

A long time ago, Rory was young. So? So like Mars bars and Snickers bars and things like. like that. Again, you don't. How let's be realistic? How many people remember these kinds of details about their childhood who were like, oh, what was I eating other than the fact that I was enjoying it? Maybe you did have a favorite kind of sweet. But if you didn't, and you could just say, like, it was, there were bars, bars of chocolate or bar type sweets, you know, and the examiner will get the idea. And really, like realistically, how many people remember these specific products

from, well, in my case, it was 20 years ago. So what we were eating back then will be different to now. You can also say that my snacking behavior is what? Well, you could make a comparison between now and the past. So what, my snacking behavior hasn't changed much over the years. So it's the same thing. I still eat chocolate bars. And I eat chocolate bars back then.

Also, make sure that you avoid, you do your best or you try your best to avoid emotional eating and also emotional snacking. So snacking out of boredom. No, don't do it. Okay, this is not a good idea. Right. Rory, I have kind of a quiz for you. Not a quiz, but you're going to now choose your favorite snack. And your listener, write in the comments, which snack out of the ones that I'm going to give you now would you prefer?

So which snack would you prefer? Is this the list that starts with guacamole? Wait, wait, wait, you're not supposed to read that. Oh, okay, sorry. Look at me, Rory. This is the problem. Okay. Right, tell me.

Dear listener, listen, watch and write in the comments which snack is your favorite. Rory, you listen to me very attentively, okay? Okay. And choose the snack of the day, the snack of the week for you. So first of all, bliss balls. I don't know what that is. You should Google. Wait, you've just told me to listen to you very attentively and now you're asking me to put attention.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right. Bliss balls. If you don't know what it means, go to Google and put bliss. Bliss, like BLI-S-S, balls. So, bliss balls, all right, that's number one. Oh, I know what those are. Right, okay. I just didn't realize that's what they were called.

Bliss balls. Then, apple with peanut butter. Okay, that's the second one. Popcorn, watermelon, okay. Guacamole. How do you pronounce that? Guacamole. Guacamole?

Guacamole is the thing from avocado. Yeah, it's the avocados and I think peppers in it as well. Hummus. Hummus. And the last one, Greek yogurt with fresh berries. Okay. And I have to choose these ones that are my favorite. Yes, one.

So one that you would like to have and your favorite, yeah. Which one? Probably the Bliss Bowls, even though I didn't know what those were until I googled them. there. I've had them before. They're nice, but I didn't realize that's what they were called. Yeah. So, bliss balls, you can Google them. So they could be very creative, could be savory or sweet. And this is kind of like we have this healthy trends or trends of 2022. So bliss balls are on the list. Dear listener, so now you do know what snacks you should have. And also if you show it off, if you show off your vocabulary in front of the exam and say,

Oh, yeah, I prefer to have hummus or roasted chickpeas. Or, for example, dark chocolate covered almonds. You see, this is a different level of vocabulary. This is a different level of snacks. Just in the exam say something fancy. All right, so for what band, Rory? For a band nine score. Band nine score.

However, if you're like me and you're not a big fan of snacking, then you can always just give very broad answers using the structures that we talked about because you're assessed on your grammar as well as your vocabulary. Thank you very much for listening. The link to the transcript is in the description, so thank you very much.

I will see you next week. Bye-bye. What kinds of snacks do you like to eat? Well, I try and aim for the healthier ones like protein bars or low sugar treats, but it's not always possible, is it? When do you usually have snacks? Well, ideally never after dinner, and if I'm going to have them, it'll be mid-morning or mid-afternoon.

They're my peak hours, usually. What kind of snacks do children in your country like to eat? Well, too many, if you ask any adult, they always seem to have something sugary or sweet. I don't really know the names of them, to be honest with you. What was the most popular snack when you were young? I think it would be easier to talk about the ones that we didn't have, to be honest with you. The ones I remember the most prominently are sort of the bar-like ones, but they were pretty much available in any shape and form you'd care to mention.