IELTS Speaking for Success - 🛫 Traveling (S10E17) + Transcript

Episode Date: May 5, 2024

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Hello, lovely. I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of the AIL Speaking for Success podcast. Podcast that 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 aisle school. Your bad ninth score. Oh, Rory, what are you doing, Rory? What are you doing? Sorry, I'm just checking flights for my next holiday. Shall we talk about traveling?

Yes, let's. Oh, let's talk about traveling. Dear listen, are you excited? I'm excited. Rory is a super traveler here. And you should listen to this episode till the very end because at the end of it, Rory is going to choose a super holiday for himself

because I'm going to tell you about the recent trends in traveling. The recent 2024 traveling trends, okay? So to be the trend and to find out what Rory is going to choose, listen till the very end. Do you like traveling? Well, you would think someone who's been all over the place as much as I have would enjoy it, but I think I prefer the idea of being in a place more than getting to it. Oh, unless you're including wandering around in the definition of traveling, which can be fun to do. How often do you go traveling? Not as often as I used to. I'm very much a whole. I'm very much a home body these days because I have a house to look after. I would like to go to a few more places

though. It's my dream to visit a place called Piran in Slovenia one day. It looks amazing and Slovenians are great people I'm told. Where do you usually go traveling? Good question. I think I spent a great deal of time poking about Europe like most Europeans do but I wouldn't say I frequently go to any one spot in particular anymore. What do you enjoy about traveling? Well, when I was younger, I used to love the novelty of just being in a new place with new surroundings, but now I'm older, I like the sense of freedom and adventure. I can go anywhere I like and do anything, and I love it. Stop on freedom!

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The discount is only available for the first 50 people. Make sure to sign up before the offer runs out. Now, let's get back to the episode. So, you listen, traveling. Okay. Do we like traveling? Maybe, yes. Most people like traveling.

I think most people like being on holiday. I don't know if they like the idea of traveling so much. But you know, being on holiday isn't the same as traveling, because like traveling is kind of, I don't know, like you move, you go from one place to another, you just go to South America and you travel there, you know, alone or with friends. But is that the traveling that you enjoy or is that being with your friends? Well, I think both. You are with your friends and you travel. No, you must choose one.

No, you are going to choose one at the end of this episode, but I can do whatever I want. Oh, okay. So, dear listener, traveling and tourism are two different things. Okay? Are you a traveler or are you a tourist? Rory here gives us one huge sentence, which is, I wouldn't do that, but Rory is an educated super native speaker, so he can do whatever he wants with his own language, English.

That's why here we have a massive sentence from Rory. Yes, it is one sentence, but Rory made pauses. So, for example, before, like somewhere in the middle of this massive sentence, he just made a pause and kind of started a new sentence. Which is a good example of something called chunking, which native speakers do all the time to break up long sentences into understandable pieces of information. We use present perfect here. I've been all over the place, meaning I've visited many countries. I've traveled to many countries. I've been to many countries.

And we can say also like, wander around. A phrase of a verb. What does it mean? It just means to go around places with no fixed plan, just wandering, seeing what you can see. Yeah, I enjoy traveling. I enjoy wandering around. Like, I go to Europe. I wander around different cities, different countries.

Yeah. If you don't like traveling, you can say, oh, traveling, I can't be bothered. Like, no. I don't like it. Or you can say, I prefer a staycation, for example. What's a staycation, Rory? Is that when you just stay at home? Yeah, you stay at home, but also kind of you explore the places in your country, I think.

Yeah, it's kind of like you go somewhere near your home. So maybe like you go to the countryside. It's kind of like domestic tourism, okay, or you visit places in your country. So you stay in your country, but you can go to a different city or town. And also, if you don't like traveling, you can say, oh, I don't like traveling or I hardly ever travel because I don't like splashing out on expensive hotels. Splash out on something. Rory, tell us what it means. If you splash out on something, it means you spend a lot of money on it.

So, for example, well, if you're splashing out on a hotel, then you, you spent a lot of money on it. Like my friends are going to a music festival and they splashed out a lot of money on their hotels. They've spent hundreds of pounds. I have not though. I have only spent 200 pounds on my hotel. Yes.

Yeah, you see, so you can say, yeah, I do love traveling, but I just like splashing out on expensive hotels. So I prefer kind of to travel on a tight budget. Travel on a tight budget? Like don't spend much money while you are traveling. Here you can say not as often as I used to, like I used to travel a lot, but now not as often as I used to. Rory is a homebody. Who is a home body?

Someone who stays at home, I have to. No, this place will not look after itself, you know. Yeah, you can say, I'm a homebody, a person who likes spending time at home rather than going out with friends or traveling to different places. So even if you're not a homebody, you can say, well, sometimes I'm a homebody. Because I have the house to look after, I have my family to look after, or maybe I have a crazy cat to look after. A crazy cat? Yes, crazy cat. A needy cat.

And then Rory mentioned a specific place in Slovenia. Rory, what's the place? Piran, I feel like I'm a walking advert for the Slovenian tourist board at this point, but I really, I'm determined to go there and I'm determined to go there this year for my birthday, even if it kills me. Oh, okay. Rory, and what can you say, like, this Piran is list? Oh, Piran is on my bucket list. Yes, well, it is because it's a place I need to go before I die.

Exactly. Do you have a list of places you should go to before you die, dear listener? Rory does. I do. What about you? I have one. I have one place. I have one.

I only have one more place I want to visit. Really? Is the whole world? Yeah. I only wanted to go to Piran and then I'm done. Are you joking? Oh. Wow.

Okay. And then you can say like, well, I'll go anywhere. You can also say that I'm always dreaming of my next destination. So all the time, I'm always dreaming of my next destination, maybe something exotic. and I'll go anywhere if it's adventurous. So I enjoy adventurous traveling. I enjoy adventures and traveling. So, yeah, adventurous activities.

Reacting to the question is a good strategy. Like, where do you usually go? Where do you usually go traveling? So, hmm, a good question. I'm like, oh, a tricky question. A difficult question. So you react to the question naturally and then you answer the question. With a phrase of the dear listener, poke.

about. Yes, but poking about is just having a look in places, not really trying to find anything in particular, just seeing what happens. And here you can say, I spend a lot of time poking about Europe. So kind of like traveling around Europe, looking around, poke about means to search for something, but here it just means like to visit a place, to look around a place or a sport. So if I say I don't usually go to any particular spot Like a place

Like a city or a country Yeah But it could be talking about places in your hometown Like oh I prefer to go to spots around my hometown Yeah To visit spots to visit places In my own country Rory

Do you ever go to places Of the beaten track I used to But I don't know Because I'm old So we have touristy places Like very popular places I know like Rome

Paris But there are some places Off the Bitten Track Places not as popular as the other places For example this Piran in Slovenia Is it off the beaten track or is it a touristy place Super popular place Well it's funny because it might be both

I think it's off the beaten track for British travellers Because not everybody goes to Slovenia but I think Slovenia is a very popular tourist destination for lots of people on the continent. So it's yes and no. If you are from Slovenia and you have a lot of tourists in Pyran, please feel free to correct me. But I think it's both. I don't think many people from Britain go there, but I think Europeans go there all the time. I used to love the novelty of traveling.

So when I was younger, now I'm super old. I used to love the novelty, like new things about traveling. Because usually when you travel, you see lots of new things, people, food. So the novelty of being in a new place with new surroundings, surroundings what surrounds you. But now I'm older. I like the sense of freedom. So Rory goes to Slovenia and he feels freedom. But you could go to a different country.

Or actually, you probably could go to Slovenia as well and feel a sense of security also. or safety. So you can feel a sense of lots of things. I like the sense of adventure. I like the sense of freedom. Yeah, nice. You can also say that I love backpacking. When you just grab your bag,

back, not you don't grab your back, you bring your bag. You can just say, I love backpacking when you take your backpack and you go traveling around Europe only with one bag. Or I love camping in the woods.

you know, with a tent. I enjoy sleeping in tents. I love trying out different food. Roy, would you like to comment on anything else from the answers? I have a couple of favorite phrases. This is not just about traveling, but this is in general. So things I say a lot are not as often as I used to. And I think at this point, everyone is used to me saying, oh, good question.

And do I need an article? Do you say, oh, good question or a good question? Do I need a or just like, oh, good question? do I need a or just like oh good question a good question you can have both however if you say a good question it's like the other questions have been bad so it could be quite rude I would not use the article here with the examiner hmm just like good question

and of course I also frequently say I wouldn't say but that could be for this where I said I wouldn't say I frequently go somewhere but I could also say oh I wouldn't say I'm a addicted to traveling, but I go traveling a lot. So, nothing specific about traveling, just lots of small phrases that can be transferred to different topics, which is useful for your exam, because you might not be asked about traveling, you might be asked about something else. Excellent. Bye!

Do you like traveling? Well, you would think someone who's been all over the place as much as I have would enjoy it, but I think I prefer the idea of being in a place more than getting. to it. Oh, unless you're including wandering around in the definition of traveling, which can be fun to do. How often do you go traveling? Not as often as I

used to. I'm very much a homebody these days because I have a house to look after. I would like to go to a few more places, though. It's my dream to visit a place called Piran in Slovenia one day. It looks amazing and Slovenians are great people, I'm told. Where do you usually go traveling?

Good question. I think I spent a great deal of time poking about Europe, like most Europeans do, but I wouldn't say I frequently go to any one spot in particular anymore. What do you enjoy about travelling? Well, when I was younger, I used to love the novelty of just being in a new place with new surroundings, but now I'm older, I like the sense of freedom and adventure. I can go anywhere I like and do anything, and I love it.