IELTS Speaking for Success - 👕 T-Shirts (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: June 23, 2024

Do you usually wear T-shirts? Do you like wearing T-shirts? Would you buy T-shirts as souvenirs on holiday? Do you like T-shirts with pictures and prints? Are older people who wear T-shirts fashionable? Tune in and have a great day! - Previous episode about T-Shirts: https://youtu.be/Rlr9SHdz550 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/s10e24 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, lovely. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we're the host of the IEL Speaking for Success podcast. The podcast dreams to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way. We've started this podcast to give you happiness, joy, perfect jokes and gorgeous grammar with vocabulary for your high IELS school. Your bad nine school. Oh my, your T-shirt isn't black. What's the occasion? Rory, is it a holiday? It's your birthday? Can you guess? We're talking about t-shirts.

Absolutely. Let's talk about t-shirts again. Again, dear listener, it's a comeback. We talked about T-shirts in February, 2003, so kind of a year ago. And now IEL's people decided to have this topic again, so T-shirts, here we go. Could you please watch our super video about T-shirts where Rory actually changes, his t-shirts. It's like one of the only times I've done a costume change. I know. Rory tends to wear only black t-shirts, and it's usually only like one t-shirt, Rory is.

You have one t-shirt? That's all? Yes. One black t-shirt? I just buy one black t-shirt for the whole year and then wear it until it falls apart. So when you get ready for the topic of t-shirts, watch the video, listen to our episodes in 2023,

and to this episode two. Do you usually wear t-shirts? These days only if I'm out with people. Normally I just wear a vest or a singlet and a hoodie, since it's easier to throw on and just wear casually. And I don't need to get dressed up all the time, do I? Do you like wearing t-shirts? I don't really have a problem with them, to be honest,

but now I work from home, there's little need to have them on all the time. I like them when I'm out, though. They go up with just about anything. Would you buy t-shirts as souvenirs on holiday? I used to, but no, not really. I don't think it's very sustainable or economical, to be honest. Better to take nothing but photos and leave nothing but footprints. Do you like t-shirts with pictures and prints?

When I was younger, I would often buy them, but again, not now, I think it makes me come across as a bit childish or silly, in my opinion. It's just not to my taste, or at least not to my grown-up taste. Are older people who wear t-shirts fashionable? I have no idea. I don't have much of a passion sense myself, so I can't exactly pass judgment on others. But I would consider it normal for an older person to wear a t-shirt if they wanted to.

It doesn't sway me one way or the other. I wear t-shirts. I think everybody wears t-shirts. When I'm out with people. So I'm out, out of the house, I'm with people. I wear a t-shirt or I wear t-shirts. So careful with shirts. And then Rory uses some topic-specific vocabulary.

What kind of clothes does you wear? Wear a vest or a singlet. So what's a singlet? A singlet is just a kind of best, to be honest. So go to Google Images, a singlet. Like, you know, like I'm single, a singlet. Although as it turns out, there are many kinds of singlet. There's one for wrestling, which obviously I don't wear, but there's also just the kind of best, to be honest.

Oh, okay. So, but I singlet for working out, yeah, to go to the gym? Yes. Well, I mean, I don't think it makes a difference, to be honest. I don't wear that to go to the gym, but you can if you like. Yeah. Always sometimes I wear a hoodie, but a hoodie is not a t-shirt. It is not, no, but that's what you wear over it. Yeah. So, um, make sure you... use two of these words. For example, like, oh yeah, I usually wear a t-shirt or a vest or a singlet.

And usually I put a hoodie on. A hoodie. It's easier to throw on. So kind of a hoodie, it's easier to throw a hoodie on a t-shirt. It's easier to throw on a hoodie, that a t-shirt. It's easier to put on a hoodie

rather than a t-shirt. I think so, yeah. It's like looser. So you just put up your hand and it falls on you. Ah, so you don't wear a t-shirt under your hoodie. No, wear a vest. Ah, okay, okay. So, and the verbs we can use, I put on a t-shirt,

I wear a t-shirt, I put on a t-shirt, and then I put on a hoodie. Or I kind of, it's easy to throw on, throw on a hoodie. I wear casual clothes, so if you wear t-shirts and hoodies, these clothes are casual, and you can say that I don't. don't get dressed up every day because I wear a hoodie and a t-shirt. And Rory used a tag question here. I don't need to get dressed up all the time, do I? Although I think I might be pushing it a little bit if I say putting on a t-shirt is getting

dressed up, but for me it is. What is dressed up? Dressed up is just making an effort with your appearance in my opinion. And I think T-shirt is making an effort. but other opinions are available. To listener, look at him. Yeah, so to get dressed up is to put on something nice, like a lovely dress or a nice jacket.

And for Rory, wearing a simple t-shirt is getting dressed up. Oh, my God. Okay. But you can say, like, okay, like, I don't need to get dressed up all the time. Do I? Or, like, everybody wears t-shirts, don't they? That was also nice. Tag question.

I love wearing t-shirts. Rory said, I don't really have a problem with them. So I'm absolutely okay with t-shirts. I have them on all the time. Or there's little need to have them on all the time. Yeah, you don't say put them on? You can say just, okay, I have them on. I wear them. So to have something on means to wear it. T-shirts go with just about anything. Here we are talking about style. So t-shirts match jeans, they go with any other clothes. Okay? But we know, dear listener, that t-shirts don't go with anything. Well, it should be like a special t-shirt or a kind of a nice t-shirt to go with these trousers or with jeans. So, you know, I should think about it. It's not just like, like, you put things on randomly like Rory does. I don't put things on randomly.

I just put things on which are comfortable. Well, that's not random if it's consistent. We usually buy t-shirts as souvenirs. Do we? Yeah. Well, I used to buy lots of t-shirts. Yeah, when I visited Ireland, I have a t-shirt from Ireland, from London. I have a hoodie from Oxford.

Oh, my God, why? Oh, it's a must. Is it? Do I need to buy one when I'm there? Yes, Rory. Absolutely. Rory, yes. And says Oxford. Come on. By the time this episode is going out, I will be in a store in Oxford buying the hoodie just because consumerism. Yes, but this is just a must. It's like tradition.

And you're listening, yes, our Rory will go to Oxford, but not like to study, but to teach people. Can you imagine our Rory in Oxford? Wow. In an Oxford hoodie. Actually, that's not a bad idea because my current hoodie is falling to pieces, so I'm going to make a note of that in the diary now. There you go. You can say that I used to buy t-shirts as souvenirs, but not anymore. And then you can quote Rory. It's better to take nothing but photos. So don't take any souvenirs.

Take photos. And leave nothing but footprints. So after yourself, you leave only your footprints which are on the ground. You don't leave any rubbish, any, you know, bad energy. That's actually a phrase. Take nothing but pictures and leave nothing but footprints. It's to encourage people not to mess up the area that they're visiting, I suppose. Yeah, like don't buy stuff.

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Visit Ancestry.ca for more details. Terms apply. Let's talk about what sustainable means. Sustainable, yes. One of the core concept of sustainable is that it's something that can be done over a long period of time. So if you are just producing T-shirts for people to buy as souvenirs on holiday, that's not very sustainable. Because they have to be manufactured cheaply and shipped across the world and it creates pollution. And then people buy them and because they're cheaply made, they fall apart. And the people who make these things are not paid well.

So all in all, it's not a very good thing to be unsustainable. Yes, so you can say like buying t-shirts as souvenirs is not very sustainable. Hey. And it's not economical. It's not economical because you spend money, right? Well, it's not just to do with that. It's also because, well, usually they're expensive and then they fall apart. So I don't see the point in buying it if it's not going to last for a reasonable amount of time.

T-shirts could be with pictures, prints or different patterns. And here you can use wood. So you can speak about your childhood or your earlier years when you were a child and you can say that when I was younger, I would often buy them with prints and pictures with, I don't know, different faces of famous musicians, for example. So you see, would. This means that when I was younger, I often bought t-shirts with pictures and prints. Instead of bought, you can say would often buy.

But this means that in the past, you did it regularly. You can also use used to. When I was a child, I used to buy t-shirts with pictures and prints. When I was younger, I would often buy them. But not now. Such t-shirts make me come across as a bit childish or silly. Come across. So if I wear a t-shirt with pictures or prints, I come across as silly.

So come across, like people see me as a silly person, as a childish person, like as a child. Yes, the impression you create. Hmm. And you can say, like, well, such t-shirts are not to my taste. I don't like such t-shirts, they are not to my taste. I prefer plain t-shirts like yellow or black or black or black. Also, I enjoy black. Who are you describing here?

plain black t-shirts, plain lack of, fully black. All the people who wear t-shirts could be fashionable. Rory has no idea. And you can say, hear the examiner, I have no idea. It was just the way that Maria said that. Like, Rory is obviously not fashionable. Goodbye. Yeah, but older people can be fashionable. Like, doesn't matter what they wear. Yeah?

Yeah, I think so. And here, Rory explains it, like, I don't have much of a fashion sense myself. So I'm not in the fashion. I don't have a fashion sense myself. I can't pass judgment on others. To pass judgment on people. What does it mean? It means to discuss something about their character

or how they look just based on their appearance. So this is passing judgment. They're a good person or a bad person. They dress well or they dress badly. But if you are like me and you don't have much of a fashion sense, you're not very good at fashion. And you can't turn around or you can't talk to people and say, well, you have no fashion sense. Because that's hypocritical.

Yeah, and then Rory uses an idiom, it doesn't sway me one way or the other. What does it be? It just means I don't care if they're, I don't think about them being fashionable or unfashionable. Just whatever they're wearing doesn't sway me in this direction. It doesn't send me in this particular direction. And could you give us another example? Well, you'll need to ask me a question first. Preferably one with two possible answers.

Are people who wear jeans fashionable? Well, I don't know. I don't have much of a taste in jeans, so I can't exactly pass judgment on. But it's normal for people to wear jeans if they want to, so, I mean, this doesn't sway me one way or the other. So if they wear jeans, you're okay, and if you don't wear jeans, you don't care.

I don't mind if they don't, yeah. Just wear something, trousers. Shorts, anything. Okay, what about some other topic? Yeah, and for example, like beautiful people, do you think that beautiful people are always smart? Yeah, so in the same way, I mean, you could be beautiful and you could be clever, but I don't think those things are, they go hand in hand,

they're not innately connected to each other. So if I see someone good looking, it doesn't sway me one way or the other. I need to hear what they have to say about different topics. Yeah, sweet. Right, dear listener, make sure you listen to our episodes in 2023. The link is in the description. And watch our video to see Rory changing his t-shirts. It's fun.

Well, no, to see the different t-shirts, not to see me getting in and out of them. Yeah, like, how many t-shirts did you change? Like, five? Five, six. Wow. Yes, a legendary episode, dear listener. Go to our YouTube, the link is in the description.

Bye. Bye. Do you usually wear t-shirts? These days, only if I'm out with people. Normally, I just wear a vest or a singlet and hoodie, since it's easier to throw on and just wear casually. And I don't need to get dressed up all the time, do I? Do you like wearing t-shirts?

I don't really have a problem with them, to be honest, but now I work from home, there's little need to have them on all the time. I like them when I'm out, though. They go up with just about anything. Would you buy t-shirts as souvenirs on holiday? I used to, but no, not really. I don't think it's very sustainable or economical, to be honest. Better to take nothing but photos and leave nothing but footprints.

Do you like t-shirts with pictures and prints? When I was younger, I would often buy them, but again, not now. I think it makes me come across as a bit childish or silly in my opinion. opinion, it's just not to my taste, or at least not to my grown-up taste. Are older people who wear t-shirts fashionable? I have no idea. I don't have much of a passion sense myself, so I can't exactly pass judgment on others, but I would consider it normal for an older person to wear a t-shirt if they

wanted to. It doesn't sway me one way or the other.