IELTS Speaking for Success - 🛌 Staying at home (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: June 9, 2024

Do you like to stay at home? What do you do when you stay at home? How much time do you spend at home? What's your favourite place at home? Would you like to stay at home a lot in the future? Tune in and have a great day! - Get exclusive episodes on IELTS Speaking parts 1, 2, and 3: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Book a class with Rory here: https://successwithielts.com/rory Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s10e22 Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2024 Podcourses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, hello, dear listener, I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we're the hosts of the AILD Speaking for Success podcast. Podcasts the aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELS score. Your bad night score. What's that noise, Rory? Oh, that's just the rain. I'm just going to be staying at home today, it seems.

Oh, I see, staying at home. What shall we talk about today, hmm? Staying at home? Yes, why not? Staying at home, dear listener, is our topic. Are you excited? Rory is super excited because he stays at home like every day. I love staying at home.

Do you like to stay at home? Well, now it's all done up. I absolutely love being at home. It's very comforting to be surrounded by all your possessions and appreciate the hard work you put into making a place feel like home. for lack of a better term. What do you do when you stay at home? Oh God, what don't I do?

I put my feet up, reads, watch TV and write. I mean, since I work and work out from home, I'll often do that too. Aside from the sports I do that need a course or a dojo, I can pretty much do anything I like. How much time do you spend at home? Now, oh, probably 90% of it, really. I even have a treadmill so I don't have to go out for a walk of it's the cold or a rainy day. Of course, I like going out to see my friends and stay over at places,

but the vast majority of the time I spend in my own space. What's your favorite place at home? Hmm. Either my couch or my office. I have a favorite perch on the edge of the couch on one of the arms. Even though it's massive, I feel most comfortable there when I have people around. My office has this great desk and tier set too that I spent a fortune on so I could sit there and work away all. day. Both of the rooms are really light and airy too, which I also like a lot. Would you like to stay at home a lot in the future? I'm not sure I can stay at home much more than I already do, really, to be honest with you. But, I mean, on the one hand, it would make life a lot easier.

But on the other, it might be good to go on more adventures. I'd need to think about it more. Hey, dear listener, staying at home. It means like you don't go out, you stay in. And now Rory has a new home and he said that now my new home is all done up. Yes, it's finished. The decorating is done or finished.

So it's all done up. Yeah, so Rory repaired his home. He decorated it and he says like now my home is all done up. So it's kind of it's ready to live in. And you can also say this, even if you didn't move into a new house, you can say like, oh, it's all done up. And I absolutely love being at home in my house, at my place. It's comforting. Okay, it's kind of, it comforts me, calms me down.

It's comforting to be surrounded by all your possession. I'm surrounded by my furniture. but by my decorations, by my stuff. By everything you put the hard work into getting. And if it's always put work into doing something or put hard work into doing something, you worked hard. I've put a lot of effort into making this place feel like home. Okay, so you put efforts into something.

And my place feels like home. It feels like home. Or I feel at home In my home No, but this is very strange to say That's why we say kind of I love my place I feel at home

In my place Yeah And even I was running out of words To use to describe the word home So at the end I was like Feel like home For lack of a better term So if you run out of words

You could always say For lack of a better term Like of a better term And then a funny question Oh, what do you do at home Okay so what do you do? What do you do? What do you do at home?

What do you do in your bedroom? What do you do in your toilet, Rory? What? I love that. What do you do at home? It's a very personal question. But Rory, here is an educated native speaker. He's super professional.

He answers with a question. What don't I do? Okay? Because I do pretty much everything, you know? You can't even imagine. So he goes like, oh, what don't I do? Hmm, what don't I do indeed? What don't I do?

Like, I put my feet up. Is it an idiom? I don't know. Because if you put your feet up, you're relaxing. And in my case, I literally put my feet up on my exercise bowl. So for me, it's not an idiom. It's like a physical action. It's a phrasal verb.

Oh. According to Cambridge Online Dictionary, it is an idiom. Means to relax, especially by sitting with your feet, support it above the ground. So you go home and put your feet up. But for me, I put my feet up by putting my feet up. Like I put my feet up on the exercise ball.

It's so comfortable. I work out from home. Aside from the sports, I read books, I watch TV, I cook, I sleep. And then Rory, you use this a dojo. What's a dojo? Oh, a dojo is where you do Jetsu. or any kind of martial art.

So you don't have it at home. Oh, like a dojo is like a padded room, or at least it's got a padded floor, so if you fall on the ground, you don't knock yourself out when you get thrown around. So no, most people do not have this in their home. If you have this in your home, you are a millionaire, so you probably will not be taking eye else.

We don't know. Maybe you have a swimming pool in your place, you know, like a tennis court inside. Why would I have a swimming pool where I live when I have a river next to my house? Oh, yeah. Wild swimming delis. Just Rory, when he wants to swim, he just goes to the river. Ra, ha, rah, like a true Scottish man.

And these are the noises that Rory makes when he's swimming. I can do pretty much anything I like at home. Okay. Pretty much anything. That means almost anything. Oh, aside from is good to note as well, because people often say besides from or beside, but it's not the same thing.

The whole phrase is aside from and then whatever the exception is. For example. Well, aside from the sports I do, or if people don't work at home, they could say, oh, I do pretty much anything at home aside from work, because I need to go to an office or apart from work. Yeah.

I even have a tree. treadmill. The listener, Rory has a treadmill in his house. So a treadmill is this thing you run on. It's cool. I'm not doing it now. I'm not using it now. I should use it though in recordings, to be honest. That might be quite a nice thing to be able to do while I'm sitting in the chair, but it's a nice chair as well, so it's no great loss. However, if you don't have a treadmill at home, you can always say probably about 70% of my time, but I have to go out for a walk, even if it's cold or rainy. So you could still use some of the vocabulary. You just need to change it a little bit. You can say I spend a lot of time in my own space, to paraphrase at home. Yeah. Also, you can say that

I enjoy staying over other places. I enjoy going to my friends' places to visit my friends. Your favorite place at home. It's my couch. It's my bed. For me, it's my mattress. Oh my God, I love my mattress. Is it a special kind of mattress? Oh yeah, it's super special. I think it's one of the most expensive things I have ever bought in my life. But it's so good, dear listener, it's this luxury kind of mattress. Even in a super expensive hotel, the mattress is like not as good as mine. Wow, it's amazing. Sometimes I just miss my mattress, you know? This is so good. But Rory, you told us about your couch or your office. Yes, it's a massive

couch which just means it's very big. And if you sit on one of the arms, the arm of the couch is one as part of the very end. It's on the left side or the right side and it's usually a space where people put or rest their arms. Some people call it the armrest and I just sit

there and work, which is funny because of course there's this huge three-seat area that anybody could sit on but I sit on the place that does not have a seat. I feel most comfortable on my couch It could be, yeah, sitting on my couch Or perched on my couch

A perch is a place to sit by the way Okay, we need more information Perch is a verb or a plate? Well, it's both Here, if I say it's a favourite perch Then it's a favourite place to sit In a cozy manner But you could perch on the edge of the couch

And that will be a verb Could you give us another example with this word. Well, I perch on my couch. Where else do I perch? I'm perched on this chair right now, making this recording. When I have people around, I usually sit on my couch. So when I have people around, I invite them and they come to my place. I spent a fortune on my couch. I spent a fortune on my mattress. Oh yeah. I spent a fortune on this desk and chair. It was worth it. Now we're doing it again. My room is airy.

It just means there's lots of air, there's lots of space. Yeah, you can say, oh, this room is spacious and airy. Okay? I have very high ceilings, which I'm told is a cool thing to have. Yes, de Lisina, please now choose your favorite place at home. Yeah, I've been talking about a mattress, but it's not a place. It's like a thing. But you can also talk about your favorite thing.

Why not? You know, add details. Okay. My favorite place is bedroom. and super mattress. If I had the choice, I'd stay at home every day. Or if I had the choice, I'd stay at home less. Okay?

The second conditional, if I had passed, so we're imagining, I'd, I would. But in my case, I have absolutely no idea. It might be good to go on more adventures. Okay, so maybe, look, it might be good for me to go on more adventures. adventures in the future instead of staying at home. It might be not good. What's your situation, dear listener? We'll wrap it up with a joke, but it's going to be a proper joke.

This time, not one sentence, but it's kind of like, what do you call it, an anecdote, like a short joke. Okay. And, dear listener, understanding jokes in English is important. Okay. Yeah. You can tell it to your friends. You can write it to your friends.

So, at school, the teacher asks, What do you do after school, children? The first student says, I always go and buy cigarettes from Josh. The second student, I go and buy drugs from Josh. The third student says, I go and buy drinks from Josh.

The fourth student says, I always stay at home and do my homework. The teacher says, you are a great student. So I appoint you as the class monitor. You are a good example to other students. What's your name? The fourth student says, my name is Josh. God.

Ah, delicious. Should I explain it? Rory will explain it. Rory will explain. Josh is selling drugs and drinks. and drink and cigarettes from his home while he does his homework, but a responsible and enterprising young man. And now that we've said that,

we're going to be cancelled or censored heavily. And it's funny because the teacher says, oh, you set a good example, so you're going to be the leader of the class. Like a school monitor is like kind of the boss of the class, the main person in the class. And it's funny because like the system, the school, the teacher, appoints this student as the monitor as like setting a good example to other people.

Funny. A real life, do you listen, a ha-ha joke. Okay? Did you understand it? Did you understand the English? Yes, you did. Well done you. The enthusiasm.

I love it. Anyway, thank you very much for listening. Bye. Do you like to stay at home? Well, now it's all done up. I absolutely love being at home. It's very comforting to be surrounded by all your possessions and appreciate the hard work you put into making a place feel like home,

for lack of a better term. What do you do when you stay at home? Oh God, what don't I do? I put my feet up, reads, watch TV and write. I mean, since I work and work out from home, I'll often do that too. Aside from the sports I do that need a course or a dojo, I can pretty much do anything I like. How much time do you spend at home?

Now, oh, probably 90% of it really. I even have a treadmill so I don't have to go out for a walk of it, it's a cold or a rainy day. Of course, I like going out to see my friends and stay over at places, but the vast majority of the time I spend in my own space. What's your favorite place at home? Hmm, either my couch or my office. I have a favorite perch on the edge of the couch on one of the arms,

even though it's massive, I feel most comfortable there when I have people around. My office has this great desk and tier set too that I spent a fortune on so I could sit there and work away all day. Both of the rooms are really light and airy too, which I also like a lot. Would you like to stay at home a lot in the future? I'm not sure I can stay at home much more than I already do, really, to be honest with you. But, I mean, on the one hand, it would make life a lot easier. But on the other, it might be good to go on. more adventures. I'd need to think about it more.