IELTS Speaking for Success - ⛈️ Weather (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: August 4, 2024

Do you prefer cold or hot weather? Do you check the weather? What do you think the effects of climate change in recent years are? Would you like to visit other cities that have different climates from where you live? Tune in and have a great day! - 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/s10e30 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. My name is Rory. We're the host of the AILT Speaking Per Success podcast. The podcast teams 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 ILD school. Your band nine score. Oh, Rory, look at you. You're all tanned. Like cappuccino and omokka. Yeah, I've been out in this. The weather here is great.

The weather. Do you listen, what are we going to be talking about today? The weather. The weather, it's very British. However, Rory is Scottish. But we're going to be talking about the weather. Yeah, like in Scotland, people do talk about the weather. Well, especially now the sunshine is out.

Do you prefer cold or hot weather? I genuinely don't mind either way. but if I'm pushed on the subject, then I'd say warmer weather. Since I live in Scotland, I can get cold any time I want. Warmer weather is harder to come by, unless we have a heat wave. Do you check the weather? I look at the forecast every day. It helps me plan my day and when I'm going to go out from my morning walk,

or afternoon walk if it's pouring in the morning. I take an umbrella in the morning if it rained, but I don't actually own one. What do you think the effects of climate change in recent years are? Well, we seem to be getting more extremes in temperature, so summers are hotter and winters are colder. Along with that, the weather itself seems to be more extreme. So there have been more torrential rains and high winds, along with heavy snowfalls and heat waves.

Would you like to visit other cities that have different climates from where you live? I would, and I have. I've lived all over the world from Russia, where the winter is pretty brutal, to Turkey in the summer when it can go as high as 40 degrees in the day. This is radically different to the more moderate weather conditions in my country. Hey, deal is now weather the weather topic. Don't you love the weather topic? We've talked about the weather before, so make sure you listen to our previous episodes about the weather. Did we have a video on weather? I think so, yeah. Go to our YouTube to enjoy our video about the weather. cold or hot, hot or cold. Rory doesn't mind either way. So if you are not bothered, if it doesn't matter,

you can say, I don't mind either way. Like I love cold or hot weather doesn't matter to be. But you can say, I prefer warmer weather or I prefer colder weather. Or I love horrible winters when it's minus 30 degrees. I wonder if anyone gives this answer to the quest. No, maybe some people enjoy the cold, I don't know. Some crazy people. You can say, if I'm pushed on the subject, so if I'm pushed to answer this question,

like if I'm pushed to choose one, I prefer warmer weather. In my country, I can get cold weather anytime I want, so in my country it's usually quite cold. That's why I prefer warmer weather. Roy, what should we remember about the word weather? Because we don't say air weather. The weather. The weather.

So it's always the weather. What's the weather like? Unless it's being used as an adjective to describe things like weather conditions. Yeah. Can I say I usually have a hot weather in my country? Nope. Please don't say that. It's not a good idea.

Dear listener, remember, I have hot weather in my country. No article. Yes, you do. say I have a good time, I have a nice book, but I usually have cold weather in my country. No, eh, all right, well, the weather in my country is usually cold. I prefer warmer weather, no article. We sometimes check the weather. The weather forecast, it's cold. I check up the weather forecast, and is the forecast usually accurate, Rory? Is it kind of flat according to real life? Well, in my country it is, most of the time.

Obviously, it's difficult to be 100% accurate. No one is 100% accurate about anything. So you can say I usually check up the weather when I go out for my walks. Or check the forecast. I check the weather forecast every day. And then you can use the second conditional. I would take an umbrella if it rained. But I don't own one.

I don't have an umbrella. So Rory here is imagine. If I had an umbrella, I'd take it when it rains, but Roy doesn't have an umbrella. So I can't. Roy, why don't you have a freaking umbrella? It's just an umbrella. I know, but I don't, I've never had the chance to, or the occasion to buy one. Really?

Yeah. In Scotland, it rains, it often rains. I know, but I work from home, so it's not really something that affects me. We are experiencing a climate change, delissela and certain effects of climate. change. Now, what are they? No, there are many. But I think the ones that stand out the most are the big changes in weather or the extremes. Yeah, so you can say we are getting more extremes in temperature. Our summers are hotter and our winters are colder. So spring is non-existent. So it's either summer or winter. There's all kind of in between. The weather seems to be more.

more extreme. Okay? So we have more torrential, torrential, yeah, rains? Yeah. What are they? Tarrantial rains.

It's just really, really heavy rainfall. Like a monsoon. We have heavy rainfalls. We have heavy rains. What torrential rains? We also have high winds.

Dalystonal, like strong winds. If the wind is strong, we say strong winds or high winds. And also heavy snowfall. In winters we have heavy snowfall. No article, yeah, yeah. Like, we have heavy snowfall. If we're talking in general, then yes, we don't need an article.

But if we talk about a specific day, then it might be there was a heavy snowfall recorded somewhere. And in summers, we have heat waves. For example, it's super hot during a week, like plus 40 degrees. Oh. If you have this experience, you can say, lived all over the world. I've lived in a country with brutal winters. So in Russia, for example, winters are pretty cold. Pretty brutal. Especially in some regions of Russia. So brutal winters, or we can say severe winters. Oh, really cold, right? So you can say like, oh, like, I've never lived

in a country with brutal winters or with severe winters. Oh, yes. They're very severe. And you can say, like, oh, like, I've never lived in a country with brutal winters or with severe winters. Or I have lived. And also I've lived in countries where it can go as high as 40 degrees in the day. Like very hot. So these are radically different climates. Okay, so like radically different temperatures in comparison to the moderate weather in my country. So if the weather is moderate, it's kind of like not cold, not hot.

it's okay, you know, it's not extreme. And, Rory, like, would you prefer to live in a place where it's colder or, like, in a hot country? That's a good question. Probably in a hotter country, I suppose now. I really liked my time in Turkey, for example. Although, just because the country is famous for being hot doesn't mean it gets, it never gets cold. And you stayed in Turkey for, like, two months, yeah? Yes, just over two months.

And did you drink hot tea when it was super hot, boiling hot? I did drink a lot of tea, actually, now I think about it. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you. Bye. Hi. Do you prefer cold or hot weather? I genuinely don't mind either way, but if I'm pushed on the subject, then I'd say warmer weather. Since I live in Scotland, I can get cold any time I want.

Warmer weather is harder to come by, unless we have a heat wave. Do you check the weather? I look at the forecast every day. It helps me plan my day and when I'm going to go out from... my morning walk or afternoon walk if it's pouring in the morning. I take an umbrella in the morning if it rained, but I don't actually own one. What do you think the effects of climate change in recent years are? Well, we seem to be getting more extremes in temperature, so summers are hotter and winters are colder. Along with that, the weather itself seems to be more extreme.

so there have been more torrential rains and high winds along with heavy snowfalls and heatwaves. Would you like to visit other cities that have different climates from where you live? I would, and I have. I've lived all over the world from Russia, where the winter is pretty brutal, to Turkey in the summer when it can go as high as 40 degrees in the day. This is radically different to the more moderate weather conditions in my country. You know.