IELTS Speaking for Success - ☕ Tea and coffee (S09E23) + Transcript

Episode Date: October 15, 2023

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IELD score. Your pen and score. Sorry, I haven't had my morning coffee yet. Well, you should get it, Rory. Come on, man up. Today we're going to be talking about coffee and tea. Yay! Where's my coffee? Yes, dear listener. On the 16th of March 2020, we talked about coffee, so make sure you listen to the first episode about coffee three years ago.

And now it's a comeback. In speaking part one, they can ask you questions about tea or coffee. Do you prefer coffee or tea? Oh God, coffee. Coffee for days. Love the rush and the focus that you get from the caffeine, especially with black coffee in the morning. How often do you drink coffee or tea?

Well, every day, especially in the morning. I have it with my protein shake. And then, when, oh, whenever I'm out with my friends or my family and we're shopping in the town, it's nice to stop by a coffee shop. Like Starbucks, for example. Starbucks, pay me money. Do most people prefer tea or coffee today? Oh, and I guess, I'd say coffee.

It seems to have proliferated much further and wider than tea. I mean, you see more coffee shops than tea rooms, for example. So that's probably a good indication, isn't it? And there are more coffee-flavored products as opposed to tea-flavored products. At least it seems that way, I could be wrong. Are coventy popular in your country? You would imagine so, since it seems like there's a coffee shop on every street corner, to be honest with you. And apart from two of the houses I've been in have had supplies of it in every cupboard or even a jar on the kitchen counters.

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So, coffee or tea? Coffee or tea is a beverage, dear listener. Coffee is my favorite beverage or my favorite drink. What's the difference between a drink and a beverage? A beverage is a more formal word, but you can use this beverage. Oh yeah, that's my favorite beverage. That's my favorite drink. So, yeah.

But usually people say, just I prefer tea, I prefer coffee, or this is my favorite drink. Like champagne is my favorite drink, water with ice is my favorite drink. And I prefer latte. Do you say latte? I say latte when I need a latte, which is almost never. What kind of latte do you? a hat. So latte is like coffee and milk. Okay. Hold on a minute. So is cappuccino. So what's the difference? The difference is that in latte, tea, yes, latte? Latte. Yeah. So kind of like a latte is more creamy

and we have less coffee in latte and more milk. But I sometimes I do cappuccinos. Yeah. Nice. Same. And I also like a chai latte, which I think is a kind of tea that comes from India. I could be wrong, but there's also macha, which is a replacement for caffeine or caffeinated drinks. At least, again, I think so. Caffeine, dear listener, okay? I need caffeine in my life, in my... everywhere. So we pronounce it as caffeine. And I love the rush and focus you get from caffeine.

So all this rush like... What is the rush? Rush, like when you are in a rush, when you are in a hurry. but coffee gives you this, you know, like energy. Yes. So rush is like a surge of energy then, isn't it? Or it can be as well as being in a hurry. Rory, but I thought tea is in your blood.

What about all this tea culture in Great Britain? What about all this tea culture in Great Britain? Where are all the tea rooms? I only ever go to coffee shops. So I think coffee is definitely, or it seems to have taken over. I don't know if that's a fact or not. Yes, dear listen. I've done some research on the internet, okay?

and one of the articles said that more coffee is sold than tea in the UK. Can you imagine that? So tea is becoming outdated. They say outdated is like old-fashioned. So even for English people. Those poor English people, it's a good thing that I'm not English. So, dear listener, if you enjoy coffee, you can say, I can't imagine my life without coffee or without tea.

or, for example, I stick with tea. Like, I stick with coffee. Like, I prefer coffee or tea. Like, oh, I enjoy a nice cup of tea. If you prefer tea, you can say, for example, I enjoy herbal teas with herbs with different plants for the evening. Or ginger tea, ginger, you know, this spicy fruit. Ginger tea, when I'm ill, or English breakfast tea is really common. this Earl Grey, Earl Grey tea, cinnamon tea. Also in summer we prefer iced tea or

Jasmine Green tea. Jasmine with this, you know, what's Jasmine? Isn't Jasmine, well, it's a spice from India, but is Jasmine not extremely expensive or am I thinking of saffron? Saffron is expensive, yeah, saffron is this orange thingy. Also you can say I prefer flavored tea. So Earl Grey is a type of flavored tea. Like we have cherry tea with fruits, spices, berries. You can say that, oh, sometimes I drink Chinese tea, like, for example, uh, uh-ulong tea or yellow tea, red tea, white tea. So, Chinese tea. In terms of coffee, you can say espresso, I prefer latte, right, black coffee, Americano. How do you say Americano? Americano.

Americano? Well, I said black coffee in my answer, and I also talked about coffee-plavored products and tea-flavored products. So even if you are not totally into your tea or your coffee, you still have some general vocabulary to talk about. Well, the subject. You can also say cappuccino, yeah, cappuccino or flat white, for example. Or, for example, frape.

Frappe? Frape? It's like iced coffee? Yeah. Ice coffee, yeah. And, you know, my favorite one is Afogato. What's that? Have you ever heard this? I've heard of it, but I don't know what it is.

I've never had it. So they put a scoop of ice cream and then they pour hot espresso. And this, you know, this taste, like ice cream and hot coffee. Amazing. Afogato dearest. Okay. Beautiful. It's like more of a dessert than a beverage than a drink.

Oh, it's like coffee and ice cream. So a nice dessert. You can say that you drink coffee every morning or every day. I have it with my protein shake. So you have coffee and protein shake together? Yeah, I mix it together because it's efficient that way. Some people have it separately, though. I've seen this. Snap up Ancestry DNA's lowest price ever in our incredible cyber sale.

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Yes, I'm fueled up right now because this is my second coffee of this. I'm going to be a lot of fun to be around later. You can say it's nice to stop by a coffee shop or to stop at a coffee shop to have a coffee, your favorite latte with coconut milk. Yes. You can say I drink coffee regularly or if you don't, you can say, oh, I wish I could drink coffee, but my stomach can't handle too much coffee. So my stomach is not, coffee is not good for my stomach. Coffee also is not good for your anxiety either. So be careful when you drink it, or any kind of caffeine, to be honest.

Or you can say I drink coffee regularly or I drink tea regularly. And also I like this one. I'm living on a steady caffeine flow. So flow is like you're like, flow of coffee. So I'm living on coffee. I'm living on caffeine. People today prefer coffee or tea. You can say, at a guess, well, if I were to guess, at a guess.

Like, I'm guessing, maybe, right? I'm taking a wild guess. At a guess, I'd say coffee, or I'd say tea. And actually, if you read about coffee or tea online, you'll see that coffee is the winner. But if you're not an expert like me, then you could probably just guess, because there's lots and lots of coffee shops, but not many tea rooms. Coffee shops, tea rooms. And you also said, coffee seems to have proliferated.

Or coffee has proliferated. Proliferated. To proliferate just means that something has increased its numbers dramatically far and wide. So usually we talk about nuclear proliferation, but I think the proliferation of coffee shops is much more positive to talk. Yeah, and that's true. We do have some tea rules, especially Chinese. tea rooms where you can taste different Chinese teas, but far more coffee shops. And Rory made a contrast like coffee-flavored products, like coffee products, different types

of coffee, as opposed to tea-based products, as opposed to, like coffee shops, as opposed to tea rooms. Of course it's important to finish off my answer by saying, at least it seems that way I could be wrong. because I have no idea about these things. And if you have no idea, you can tell the examiner. It seems that way. I could be wrong. You could use that for a lot of answers, actually,

or answers on different topics at the very least. There is a coffee shop on every street corner. So coffee is, of course, really popular. I didn't get it. You said, like, you've been to different bars and they have tea. No, no, it means this word bar is like another way of saying but for and then whatever you're excluding from your answer.

So if I say every house bar two or barring too, it just means every house I've been to except for two specific ones has these jars or these cupboards where they keep coffee and tea. Oh, wow. Could you give us another example with this bar? I like all books bar those which are made from recycled paper because they smell bad. I don't.

So it means I don't like the ones made of recycled paper. Isn't it formal? Well, yes, but also it was a nice thing to say. Ad variety. So, for example, everyone is leaving the village, bar the very old and ill. So everyone is living, but the old people stay.

Oh, la, la, you listen up. Oh my God, what a controversial example sentence. Why the old and the infirm? What are you doing with them? I know, it's Cambridge on my dictionary, okay? It's your people. Cambridge people. Robby.

Not my people, they're English. Scotland freedom! Yeah, Scottish people would never say this. Cheers. Yeah, let's finish off with, what do we say? What do we say this, like, fresh coffee beans? Yeah, it's like beans, the thing is? Yes, but I'm drinking instant coffee, so I should just be quiet.

Instant coffee? Really? Oh, wow, woo. Instant coffee, you're listening, you're psh, psh, and Bob's your uncle. Coffee is ready. So, instant coffee? But if I have the business, you know, you know, beans, this little coffee beans, what do I do with them? I grind them and I make coffee from coffee beans? Yes. You can get coffee making machines that are quite professional these days. Two of my friends have them. They're amazing. So they use coffee beans to make coffee, yeah? I think so. I don't know

the fine points of it or the fine details, but yes, I think you just put the beans in, do something. And then coffee appears magically. It's magic. That's what it is. It's magic. we make tea. Yeah, you can have a tea bag. Like a tea bag, bag of tea. Interestingly, you get a teaspoon, but you don't get a coffee spoon. Why? Because, um, you have with coffee, wait a second, wait a second, do you know, I said that is a very idle question, like not expecting a serious answer, but now I'm going to get one. Yeah, this, this, you have this, you see? What the heck is that?

It's the wooden thing. A stirring stick. Yes, yes. It's a deal with it. Take a look. It's a stirring stick. And sometimes they make it out of wood. Sometimes out of other material.

So we have a stirer. Right. Thank you for listening. Tell us, are you a coffee person? Are you a tea person? Write in the comments. What kind of coffee do you prefer? So if you were a tea person, if you were like,

Imagine that you are a tea person, what tea would you prefer? Tell us in the comments, okay? We also have our premium episodes for you. The links are in the description. Do check them out, okay? Speaking two and three, fresh topics. Fresh topics and fresh coffee. Bye.

Bye. Do you prefer coffee or tea? Oh God, coffee. Coffee for day. I love the rush and the focus that you get from the caffeine, especially with black coffee in the morning. How often do you drink coffee or tea? Well, every day, especially in the morning.

I have it with my protein shake. And then whenever I'm out with my friends or my family and we're shopping in the town, it's nice to stop by a coffee shop, like Starbucks, for example. Starbucks, pay me money. Do most people prefer tea or coffee today? Oh, and I guess I'd say coffee. It seems to have proliferated much further and wider than tea. I mean, you see more coffee shops than tea rooms, for example, so that's probably a good indication, isn't it? And there are more coffee-flavored products as opposed to tea-flavored products.

At least it seems that way, I could be wrong. Are coffee and tea popular in your country? You would imagine so, since it seems like there's a coffee shop on every street corner, to be honest with you. and apart from two of the houses I've been in have had supplies of it in every cupboard or even a jar on the kitchen counters.