IELTS Speaking for Success - 📸 Travel and tourism (Part 3) + Transcript

Episode Date: November 23, 2025

Get our premium episode archive: https://www.patreon.com/ieltssfs Why do some people prefer to travel abroad? Why do some people prefer to travel in their own country? Why do some people like making long journeys? What do we need to prepare for a long journey? What are the differences between group traveling and traveling alone? Do you think it is a good choice to travel by plane? Tune in and have a great day! - Book a class with Rory here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://successwithielts.com/rory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2025 Podcourses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get no frills delivered. Shop the same in-store prices online and enjoy unlimited delivery with PC Express Pass. Get your first year for $2.50 a month. Learn more at pceexpress.ca. Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome into ILD speaking part three journeys and traveling. And there's a special focus in this episode. episode, Rory, what is it? We are going to focus on being vague about things, for when we do not know exactly what we want to talk about.

Yeah, because some questions are pretty weird and strange, and you just don't know the answers. What do you do? Which words do you say? So you're going to learn about them in this episode. Are you excited? Why do some people prefer to travel abroad? Well, I mean, have you seen the prices for holidays in this country? It's extortionate. I don't know about other countries, but I do know about mine.

You get much better value for money if you head overseas. Plus, the weather is usually nicer in foreign countries, at least compared to my own. If we talk about other places, I suppose people want to escape some more routine and boring aspects of where they live. Why do some people prefer to travel in their own country? Oh, well, they could be very rich, and they're able to afford the expense of going to nicer places there. Some people also like exploring aspects of their own country and culture, which is quite understandable. It could also be cheaper as well, depending on where you live. And why do people like making long journeys?

Hmm, it could be about the destination making all worthwhile in the end, or maybe they have something fun to do during it that works for them. something like reading a book or sightseeing along the way. What do we need to prepare for a long journey? I think that's contingent on what the journey involves, isn't it? I mean, if you're travelling over land, then you clearly need a car and some supplies, but if it's a plane trip, you might just need your phone and a book or something. And probably there's some mental preparation that goes into that as well,

just so you know what you're getting into. What are the differences between group traveling and traveling alone? Well, the company, for starters. You might have to deal with personality clashes and personal preferences that could make things less straightforward than if it's just you doing it. On the other hand, you don't have as much of a social experience if you're just by yourself.

It could be a bit dangerous as well, depending on where you are and how you're making your way to wherever you're going. Do you think it's a good choice to travel by plane. Well, you have to keep in mind the context of it all, don't you? If it's the only option or the most economically viable one, then it's a good idea to take a plane. But if it's expensive or takes a really long time and there are other better options, then no, you probably want to explore alternatives and reconsider the whole trip completely.

When you fly an Emirates business class and you're picked up by your private luxury chauffeur-driven car, you'll see that your vacation isn't really over until your flight is over. Fly Emirates, fly better. As you know, we now release 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. The reason why people prefer to travel abroad could be money.

And you can use the word extortionate. So extortionate prices, like super expensive. Have you seen the prices? They are extortionate. It's very expensive. The price of a holiday in my country is extortionate. And you get much better value for money if you head overseas.

So go abroad or head overseas. You get much better value for money. And the weather is usually nicer. Abroad than in my country. Or you can say people travel abroad because the weather is nicer abroad rather than in their own countries.

And people want to escape their routine. So go away from their routine in their country and explore some exotic places. However, some people prefer to travel in their own country. Even if the price is extortionate, they are well off, they are rich and they are able to afford the expense of going to places in their own country. Well, if it's expensive, if it's not then, then no. And if you want to talk about the other places, then you might talk about things being more routine and boring. And people enjoy exploring their own country. So traveling in their own country

or exploring, learning about their own country and culture, it might be cheaper, depending on where you live. We make a journey. What about a trip, Rory? You take a trip. You can make a trip as well actually. Make a trip or take a trip so people enjoy taking long journeys like for eight hours for a day and it could be about the destination. So the place where you're going. So it's worthwhile in the end. So you spend like eight hours of going to this one location and it's worthwhile. So it's useful, important, because it's beautiful. And you have some fun to do during the trip or during the journey, like reading a book or sightseeing along the way, like looking through the window. A good synonym for it depends on, we can say it's contingent on.

It might sound a bit strange, but if you are tired of saying it depends on, it depends on, It's contingent on. It depends on. Yeah, it's contingent on the weather. It depends on the weather. So much depends on the weather. My mood. How good the holiday is, where the holiday will be.

Yeah, and here we can use a tag question. So that's contingent on what the journey involves, isn't it? isn't it? So that is contingent on, that's why a negative question, which is not a question, isn't it? So pretty much you're saying that it depends on the weather, isn't it? So kind of like, yes, it does depend on the weather or it does depend on what the journey involves. If it's a cruise, you go on a cruise, you are on a ship, so you take this stuff with you. But if you go on a hike in the mountains so that's a different story right so you take some other things and if you go to Paris for example to just you know enjoy the city shoes passport credit cards dresses that's all you

need who shoes and other things that cost too much money if you travel over land what does it mean it just means you travel on the land it could be on the road by bus or by train if you don't do that then it could be by air or by sea on a boat or if you just

it's not a holiday but you just go somewhere by car or it's a plane trip somewhere and also you can talk

about mental preparation so if you take a plane or if you go by boat so you should be prepared mentally you know

so getting relaxed like thinking positively for example avoid being anxious or nervous. We have group traveling and traveling alone. And the difference is in your company. Company in this context, meaning people you are traveling with.

You might have to deal with personality clashes if you travel with a group of people. So people have different personality traits. And if they clash, you have a course. you have a conflict right so very often you have to deal with personality clashes

like fights arguments and to clash is a C2 word proficiency by nine yeah it is oh look at me using the highly advanced vocabulary in grammar

so yeah personality clashes or for example you can use it as a verb like students clashed with the police they started fighting or students clashed over money. They started arguing about the money. So if two opinions, statements, qualities clash, they are very different from each other. So our interests

clashed and we couldn't work well together. Yeah, actually two events could clash also see two bad knowing. For example, like my party clashes with your birthday. So Roy's birthday and my party is like are at the same time on the same day. No, but they're not. You must always be there. And if you are just by yourself, if you're traveling alone, you are on your own by yourself, you don't have as much of a social experience. So you are just like on your own. So you don't have. So you don't have much social experience. And it could be a bit dangerous in some places. Like in Rio de Janeiro, for example, you just go there alone and you go outside the city center and that could be really dangerous. And a standard question, is it a good choice to travel by plane or like what is the

advantage of going by plane? Like the usual aisle stuff, you know? And you can say that it could be the most economically viable option. But that just means the ones which are the best use of your money. Yeah, and sometimes really it's much cheaper to go by plane than by car, by train. And viable is an adjective, which is C2, Band 9 again. So viable. Able to work as intended or able to succeed. For example, my plan is economically viable, viable.

So economically, money-wise, it's going to be successful, or my project is financially viable. So it's going to be financially successful. And here, Rory says that traveling by plane could be the most economically viable option. So it's the cheapest option. So you can say, yeah, traveling by plane is cheap. Okay, band five, six, but you can be like band nine and say traveling by plane could be the most economically viable option. especially with code, using modal verbs. Yeah, if it's quite expensive,

then you could explore some alternatives. Reconsider the whole trip by not choosing plane, but maybe like a train, a car, bicycle, horses, going on foot, you know. Rory, in some answers, you were pretty vague. So you didn't know what to say. So what did you say? So, for example, in the first question,

I said if we talk about other. places I couldn't name any specific places so I just said other places other places others another option and then the more routine and boring aspects I don't know what those are so I just said these aspects and then we could talk about things like depending on where you live like it depends on where you live nothing specific about where you live just it depends or it could be about something or they have something fun to do I gave some examples examples here, but I could just say maybe they have something fun to do.

And then some mental preparation, something like that, maybe the ultimate one. You need to keep the context in mind. It depends on the context. Who knows? Maybe it's this, maybe it's that. I have no idea. I'm not everybody. I have no idea.

I'm not everybody. Yeah, dear Lisa, it's normal. If you don't know what to say, you just say it. You know, that's absolutely fine. But something not vague is saying thank you very much for listening and we'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. Why do some people prefer to travel abroad?

Well, I mean, have you seen the prices for holidays in this country? It's extortionate. I don't know about other countries, but I do know about mine. You get much better value for money if you head overseas. Plus, the weather is usually nicer in foreign countries, at least compared to my own. If we talk about other places, I suppose people want to assist. escape the more routine and boring aspects of where they live. Why do some people prefer to travel in their own country?

Well, they could be very rich, and they're able to afford the expense of going to nicer places there. Some people also like exploring aspects of their own country and culture, which is quite understandable. It could also be cheaper as well, depending on where you live. And why do people like making long journeys? It could be about the destination making all worthwhile in the end or maybe they have something fun to do during it that works for them something like reading a book or sightseeing along the way What do we need to prepare for a long journey?

I think that's contingent on what the journey involves, isn't it? I mean if you're travelling over land then you clearly need a car and some supplies but if it's a plane trip you might just need your phone and a book or something. And probably there's some mental preparation that goes into that as well, just so you know what you're getting into.

What are the differences between group traveling and traveling alone? Well, the company, for starters. You might have to deal with personality clashes and personal preferences that could make things less straightforward than if it's just you doing it. On the other hand,

you don't have as much of a social experience if you're just by yourself. It could be a bit dangerous as well depending on where you are and how you're making your way to wherever you're going. Do you think it's a good choice to travel by plane? Well, you have to keep in mind the context of it all, don't you? If it's the only option or the most economically viable one, then it's a good idea to take a plane.

But if it's expensive or takes a really long time and there are other better options, then no. You probably want to explore alternatives and reconsider the whole. whole trip completely.