IELTS Speaking for Success - ⌚ Watches (S07E18) + Transcript

Episode Date: June 6, 2022

Do you like to wear a watch? What kind of watches do you prefer? Is a watch important for you? Have you ever got a watch as a gift? Why do some people wear/like expensive watches? Do you like expensive watches? Tune in and have a great day! - Video version of the episode: https://youtu.be/IIWFLyog1yA Get exclusive episodes on IELTS Speaking parts 1, 2, and 3: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://successwithielts.com/s07e18 Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're the host of the AIL Speaking for Success podcast. The podcast aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way. We've started this super podcast to give you fabulous vocabulary and gorgeous grammar for your high school, Ben Ninescar. Oh, Rory, come on, you're late again. Off, off. I know, sorry, I need to start wearing a watch at weekends.

Hmm, a watch. Shall we talk about watches? Isn't a coincidence? What a coincidence, yes. Yes, dear listener in Ayat speaking part one, they can ask you questions about watches, a fresh IOT speaking topic. Are you ready?

Ready, Rory. I think it's time to watch me answer some questions. Sorry, that was really bad, wasn't it? Rory, do you like to talk to? wear a watch? Only for work purposes, and even then it's just to keep track of the time and maybe sometimes to time certain events with a stopwatch

or alarm function. The rest of the time my wrists are actually rather bare. What kind of watches do you prefer? The cheap and cheerful kind. Lots of people wear smart watches that can keep track of everything under the sun, as if knowing your heart rate at any

given moment is something you should be paying attention to. I just like the watches with a long-lasting strap and batheers. maybe with a backlight function and waterproofing for emergencies, but that's about it. It's not anything very comprehensive. Is a watch important for you? Like I said, only for some parts of work when a clock isn't readily available,

and even then it's less for me and more of the people I'm working with since we need to coordinate things. Have you ever got a watch as a gift? Yes, as it happens, I was given an analogue one with a blank face and a sort of heavy leather strap by my grandmother on my 18th birthday. It's long since stopped working, but I keep it as a reminder of her and our friendship. Why do some people wear expensive watches? I suppose it's a status symbol or part of fitting in with a particular community that values such

things. You can signal the kind of the person that you are that way, and it makes for an interesting conversation piece if you run out of things to talk about, I suppose. Do you like expensive watches? I don't really like expensive anything, to be honest. I've had cheap watches that lasted for ages and I never had any problems with them. Quite why people are so invested in their timepieces, I have no idea since they're otherwise sane and rational people. Thank you, Rory, for your lovely answers. Lovely. Dear listener, we have our super-duper premium episodes for you. We are choosing fresh, I-Lod speaking topics, and you know that they changed in May.

so we are choosing the freshest, freshest ones. The link to our premium is in the description to check it out. Right, watches. So, well, not as bad as sitting or mirrors, I think, watches. You think? I think so. No? What do you think?

Well, I think the first thing that we should point out is what the difference between a clock and a watch. So we have wrists, dear listener, right? Wrists, right? Hand, and this is a wrist. And on my wrist, I can wear a watch, right? Well, I don't, because I never wear any watches. So a watch, but on the wall right here, there is a clock.

Well, there isn't a clock now, but we have clocks on our walls, usually. Yeah? Can I have a clock on my wrist, Rory? Well, you could, but it would be a bit cumbersome. Usually watches are for your hands or wrists, and clocks are for everywhere else. Yes, and sometimes we call them a wrist watch, right? So pretty much all watches that I can put on my wrist,

they're called wrist watches, right, or no, or just watches? Well, that's a good question, actually. I think wrist watches are usually things that are focused exclusively on the time, whereas a smart watch you also wear on your wrist but that's for other things as well it's connected to your phone accessories and things like that. Yeah, you can speak about smart watches

and Rory said that they measure your heart rate they help you keep to keep track of everything of your heart rate or your, I don't know. People need to tell me in the comments why they need to keep track of their heart rate. Why is that important? I mean, I could get it if you had like some sort of medical condition that might be a thing that you would need to know. But under any other circumstances, maybe a professional athlete too, under any other circumstances, why do you need to know that

information? I know, I know. When you go to the gym and you go to some training and then you kind of do some exercises and then the instructor, the trainer asks you, so what's your heartbeat? And then you go, oh, it's this, then you should kind of rest kind of like 30 seconds or rest one minute until you're kind of like, you're fine. So, oh yeah, they do ask you this question. Can you not just count by putting your fingers on your pulse, though? No, it's too complicated.

Oh, gosh. You just look at your watch and you just know. Oh, no. It's just like a measure my, you know. It's just a watch. Do people not have very, very? strong pulses. I just think that's a bit silly. Well, I don't know.

So do you have a smart watch? Could you please tell us in the comments? Why do you have a smart watch? Right. And this watch is connected to your phone, right? This smart watch. I think it's usually by Bluetooth, isn't it? We can use a stopwatch function. So a stopwatch when it's a timer, right?

I was just thinking about my watch here. I've got it in my room, actually. I should really have I should have had it with me. But yeah, it's got usually regular watches have the ability to tell the time and the date, and they have an alarm and a stopwatch, which you just start, and it measures the time between the start of the stopwatch and whenever you finish it. And also a watch has a strap. So a strap. Yeah, it goes around your wrist. Yeah, it goes around your wrist.

So a strap, and Roy said that I prefer a watch with a long, large, large. lasting strap, so kind of it doesn't break down, and battery. And then also there is backlight function. Well, a backlight is just you press a button and in the dark the screen lights up so you can see what the time is. Are you looking of a backlight now? No, I'm looking up the 20 most expensive watches in the world, 2002.

And what's the most expensive one? $2.5 million for a watch. Lange certain grand complication. Complication. Yeah, I have no idea how to pronounce that. Who buys these things? I know rich people.

Rolex. Yeah, Rolex is pretty also expensive. So maybe dear listener, you can say, oh, I prefer to wear a Rolex, or I wish I could have a Rolex. So if you don't like expensive watches, this is a nice structure to use. Oh, you know, I don't have a watch, but I wish I could have a Rolex, like a real Rolex for 4.5 million euros. But, Rory, if you had the chance, like, really, would you buy this a 5 million watch with diamonds?

No, I think that's a phenomenal waste of money. Like, you imagine what you could, like, let's, I assume it's $5 million. Imagine what you could do with $5 million. You could open a business or pay off your friend's mortgages and do something good for the world. Not buy rubbish. It doesn't make a difference. Oh boy. Anyway, yeah, fun is over.

Back to our band nine vocabulary. So what else can we say about the watch? So we can talk about this long-lasting strap and different functions. So you can say I prefer waterproof watches because I often swim in the lakes or swimming pools. And then, like, is a watch important to you? And Rory said, like, only for some parts of my work

when a clock isn't available. But, Roy, you don't usually wear a watch, right? Not usually. Like, I wear one for when I'm at school so that I know, well, what time is because there's not a clock on every wall. then we can get a watch as a gift. So as a present, we can give a watch and then we can get a watch.

Maybe not a $40 million watch with diamonds, but maybe like some other brands. Okay. When we talk about expensive watches, you can say that people enjoy expensive watches because they are a status symbol. So they're kind of like You're statues Louis Vuitton bag

A Rolex What is a Bugatti Rory Are you with me? I am yeah I'm still trying to get over the fact That people spend millions of dollars on watches Yes they do

Well why not You know And also Like some communities value Such things And they are considered to be a statues symbol. And then Rory, you use this word,

uh, timepieces. Did you mean watches? Yes. I just needed to say something other than watches. I was getting bored of talking about just watches. But a timepiece is just another name for talking about watches. But can we paraphrase watches? Chronometers.

Oh, no, but they are different kinds of a watch, right? But usually it's just like smart watch. I don't know. I, I, I like the idea. of calling a watch a chronometer. Some people will beg to differ with me, but if you think about something that measures the time, that does the same thing.

The other thing I was going to talk about was, on the subject of measuring things, watches help you keep track of the time, which is a useful expression to have anyway. Like, you keep track of time, you keep track of how much money you're spending, for example. What's this famous watch brand that... You're not talking about Rolex.

Swatch, there we go. I knew that. That was going to be the one. Swatch, yeah. And can you say like, oh, I prefer to wear a swatch. So to wear a swatch or to wear a Rolex. I think so, although I don't, I don't many people that are taking their eye out. It's exams will turn around and say anything like that.

Yeah, because we can use it like, I want to buy a Monet, for example. It's not just like money you want to buy, but a picture, a painting of this artist. Right. So thank you very much for listening. Hopefully it didn't take too much of your time. But now it's time for us to say goodbye. Lots of love and kisses. Bye.

Bye. Rory, do you like to wear a watch? Only for work purposes. And even then, it's just to keep track of the time. And maybe sometimes to time certain events with a stopwatch or alarm function. The rest of the time my wrists are actually rather bare. What kind of watches do you prefer? The cheap and cheerful kind.

Lots of people wear smart watches that can keep track of everything under the sun, as if knowing your heart rate at any given moment is something you should be paying attention to. I just like the watches with a long-lasting strap and battery, maybe with a backlight function and waterproofing for emergencies, but that's about it. It's not anything very comprehensive. Is a watch important for you? Like I said, only for some parts of work.

when a clock isn't readily available, and even then it's less for me and more of the people I'm working with since we need to coordinate things. Have you ever got a watch as a gift? Yes, as it happens, I was given an analogue one with a blank face and a sort of heavy leather strap by my grandmother on my 18th birthday. It's long since stopped working, but I keep it as a reminder of her and our friendship. Why do some people wear expensive watches? I suppose it's a status symbol or part of it, or part?

of fitting in with a particular community that values such things. You can signal the kind of the person that you are that way, and it makes for an interesting conversation piece if you run out of things to talk about, I suppose. Do you like expensive watches? I don't really like expensive anything, to be honest. I've had cheap watches that lasted for ages and I never had any problems with them. Quite why people are so invested in their timepieces, I have no idea since they're otherwise sane and rational people. Thank you.