IELTS Speaking for Success - 🦙 Wild animals (S09E03) + Transcript

Episode Date: May 30, 2023

What’s your favourite wild animal? Are there many wild animals in your country? Have you ever seen wild animals? Where can you see wild animals in your area? Do you like watching animals in the zoo? 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/s09e03 Our IELTS Writing course: https://linktr.ee/wfspremium Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2023 Success with IELTS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rory, you look like a wild animal. A Scottish wild animal. What's wrong with you? What's your problem, Rory? I don't have a problem. I have a topic. Shall we talk about wild animals? Wild animals, dear listener, it's a comeback.

We used to have this topic, but now it's a comeback. Now they can ask questions about wild animals. What's your favorite wild animal? Oh, there are so many to choose. choose from, but if you force my hand, then I would say capybara's are, well, I like capybara's the best. I just think they're a perfect representation of inner peace and calm that I would really like to have in my life. And I do, but I would like to have more of it, like a capybara. Are there many wild animals in your country? Well, not unless you include

the people, especially those people from Glasgow. Seriously, though, yeah, we do. We have We have foxes and badgers and there are deer roaming around in the forests. And closer to the coast, we have things like otters. I think there are lynxes somewhere as well, although I haven't seen those last two anywhere. Have you ever seen the wild animals? In Scotland, yeah. You can see deer in the meadows and the forests all the time, although particularly in the morning when it's quiet,

because they're a bit skittish, I suppose. And near the coastal areas, there are birds like seagulls, and in between parts of like in the rivers and in the coastal areas. You've also got herons, which are big, I suppose you would call them big birds that feed on aquatic life like fish. So you see them fishing there all the time. Where can you see wild animals in your area? Well, other than where I said already, I'm sure if you wandered into, I'm sure if you wandered deep into the forests and the mountain ranges, they would probably see lots of wild animals wandering pretty much unfettered by humans, unless they're near the roads really, and there aren't many going through the mountains, to be honest.

Do you like watching animals in the zoo? I used to, but the more I think about it, the more I find myself actually being against zoos, to be honest. I think they're sort of a, almost like a species-wide excuse for destroying the natural habitats of other animals, and we think it's, oh, it's perfectly fine because we have them there in the zoo and they're safe, and we can research from them. But what a lot of people don't know is that these animals suffer from something called zucosis, which means that they repeat behaviors or engage in strange behaviors that they wouldn't normally in the wild.

So you can't actually study them effectively. And also, it's cruel if that's happening to them anyway. So it's all a bit pathetic, really, in my opinion. Thank you, Rory, for your answers. Dear listener, we have our premium episodes for you. This week on premium, Rory is going to describe a piece of clothing he often wears. Speaking Part 2. And in Speaking Part 3, we're going to discuss clothes and fashion in general.

The links are in the description, so if you want quality preparation, super grammar, fabulous vocabulary. For your high-iled score, do check them out. Wild animals, dear listener, so cheetahs, wolves. Wild animals, freedom for the wild animals. Giraffes, baboons. What's your favorite wild animal? could you write in the comments, all right? What's your favorite wild animal?

And why is the answer capybara's? Capybara. Capybaras, capybaras are so cute. A capybara, dear listener, is a huge animal. It's the largest rodent, which lives in South America. But now I've heard that in the States, it's legal to keep capybarras as pets. Oh, come on. Don't keep the capybarras as pets.

Let them be free. Yeah, it looks like a huge guinea pig. All right. Please, if you have no idea what a capybara is, could you please Google it now? Capi Barra, C-A-P-B-A-R-A-S. If you don't know what a capy-barra looks like, just look at my Instagram because half of my posts have capy-bara's in them.

I love capy-baras. You can say there are many animals that I enjoy, but if you force my hand... So if you force my hand... lost it. Like to make this choice, I'd go with capybara's or giraffes or pandas. I'd go with pandas, to be honest. But mostly capybarus. My favorite animals are pandas and capybarous. Why do you like pandas? Pandas are so cute and they're like, they're at ease. They do whatever they want and they're funny as well. They do these things and baby pandas are adorable. They're really

cute. Okay, okay, fine. But they think they're, they think. Maybe Capybaras are also cute. Oh, yes, they are, but like, pandas are, you know, they're the big and fluffy, and also this is... That's why. Capybaras are a perfect representation of inner peace and calm. Inner peace. And if you look at Capybaras, they are usually in this lake, surrounded by oranges and water going down their heads and they're kind of like...

Zen. You can see them when they've got birds like resting on their heads and noses and the birds are sitting there doing their thing and the capy barras is just like, yeah, it's fine. Capy barris. Capy barris don't mind being alone but they live in groups

up to 40 capy baras so they kind of flock together. How chill is that? The capy bar can just be by itself and still totally fine. They're strong swimmers. Is there anything that they can't? Cannot do.

No. Yes, they're capable of everything. Maybe take IELTS. Oh no, I think the Capi Bar could take IELTS and get bandline, for sure. Rory does know certain things about the wildlife in his country. So, dear listener, you should also know what wild animals can be seen in your country. So Rory mentioned foxes, badges. What are badges? Who are they?

Well, they're mammals. They're black and white mammals. and they live in, well, they live underground in things called sets. But they're really, like, predatory. They're quite vicious, and apparently a lot of them have tuberculosis. Oh, ooh. So now, badges have colors the same as pandas. They are black and white.

Very cute. Badges. They look cute, but dear God, they're terrifying if you meet one. Also, dear. Dear, you know, baby, dear. Dear roll around. the forests. So when they roam, you can imagine like a field, a forest and then deer roaming there. You haven't mentioned squirrels, wild cats, Scottish wild cats, and Rory, the classic Highland

cow, which could be seen in the Scottish highlands. I don't know if the Highland cow counts as a wild animal. Oh, so really wild. How are they? How are they? They live wild. They live on farms. No, in the highlands. They're all this, you know, this Scottish. They have farms in the highlands. I don't think the highland cow counts as a wild animal. Okay, okay, but wild cat.

Scottish wild cat, it's by the definition. It's wild and it's a cat. Wild cat, one word. Also, Scotland has this coastal area and the, what do you have, the sea, the ocean. I think we have both, but most of the time we're talking about the sea, because there's the North Sea on one side and the Irish Sea on the other. But way up in the far north, there's the Arctic Ocean, which is quite close. And, dear listener, in Scotland we have humpback whales. Do we?

Oh, yeah. I see you still should learn about Scottish wildlife. Listen, you need new other wild animals apart from Capoebaras, all right, so... Yeah. So, dear listener, please mention some specific animals, even if they don't live in your area, just throw in some names, some nice names, like wild cats, humback whales. Capy barras. Capy barras. Tell the examiner you like capy baras and what just your score goes from band five to band nine.

Otta O-D-E-R. Please Google it. Look at this animal. So, yeah, and also links. Rory, there aren't any lynxes in Scotland. Sorry, darned. I'm sure, maybe I was mistaking them for the wildcats then. No.

Because there is some sort of animal that's like that. I've just checked. There are no lynxes. No, they want to kind of reintroduce linkses to Scotland. And there are some websites with people saying why they will be kind of useful. Yeah. So the rural areas. They'll keep the tourists away.

They said the same thing for, they were going to reintroduce wolves to Scotland. And I cannot think of a warps idea. I mean, okay, yes, wolves used to be a natural part of the ecosystem here. But could you imagine if we have wolves just running around Scotland and there are tourists who go into the highlands? I think that's just a recipe for disaster. Yep.

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But to be super cool and full of awesome, choose some strange names of rare animals just to show off your super vocabulary. You can prepare for this now. In the comments, could you write your favorite wild animal, but don't go like a monkey or like a wild cat. Be something, you know, be creative, like otters or, I don't know, what else? Kaffiris.

Have you ever seen wild animals? Well, okay, maybe in the zoo, maybe on television. If you've never seen any wild animals, you can just imagine, yeah, dear listener. So maybe you see a deer in the meadows. Meadows are what kind of like fields? Meadows. I guess so, yeah, they have a couple of sparse trees in them. And you can also say a couple of things about birds.

Well, they're also wild animals, birds. Seagulls, for example. or you mentioned a specific bird is herons. Yes, herons are magnificent birds, if you ever see them. They have very long necks and very long, sharp beaks, which are they used for fishing. And they have a wingspan of about a meter. But they're really big and they're cool.

They look like storks, but I think storks are white, usually, whereas herons are grey and black and white. You said some word like skittish? Oh, yeah, they're... they're skittish, but that just describes the kind of personality, but you know what I mean, the kind of traits that they have in their behavior. So if they see people, then they immediately fly away. Much like me, to be honest with you, but unlike the capybara.

Skittish could be used about animals or people, for example, like nervous or easily frightened. So my horse, my horse, horse, yeah, I have a horse. My horse is very skittish. So it kind of... You have horse? It's easily... No, no, no, no, no, no horses. So it freights...

It gets frightened when there are many people. We watch animals usually in the zoos or in a circus. And do you say, like, we watch animals? We, what? What do you do? We watch films, but we watch animals. Can't watch animals in the zoo or on TV. You can say that, yes, I enjoy.

to the zoo or I used to do it in the past but not anymore. Yeah, because people are destroying the habitats of animals. Because zoos are immoral. I'm sorry if you like the zoo, but it's not cool to go to the zoo. Oh, Rory is so emotional about it. Yeah, we can say that people are destroying the habitat. So the place where wild animals live is called the habitat of animals and animals in zoos, they suffer from zucosis. It's like psychosis for people. Why, I'm showing it myself for other people. Or zucosis for animals.

For example, or this panda is suffering from zucosis. And actually, I googled it. I thought like Rory made it up this word. No, it's real. It's crazy. So zucosis, zucosis, okay, is a form of psychosis that develops in animals, to do you listen, can you imagine?

Held in captive in zoos. So animals are held captive. To be held captive, to be in captivity in a zoo, not in the wild. You can say, oh, I prefer watching animals in the wild on a safari trips, for example, in Africa, not in captivity.

Yeah, not in zoos. Right. Yeah, and if animals have strange behaviors, they're obsessive, they have repetitive actions so these are signs of zocoses It is unacceptable

Rory I have a couple of wild animals and you can use these wild animals and these words in these questions about wild animals just to avoid talking about monkeys pandas, yeah everybody knows things about them so Rory a babirousa

what is a baby russo what do you think what kind of animal it is it's a mammal or a bird But what is it? They describe a baby Russo. A baby Russo is a wild animal. I'm going to guess it's like a small monkey.

A baby Russo, you should Google it now. A baby Russa. So it's a baby, B-I-U-S-A. Baby-R-U-S-A. Baby-Ru-Ruza is a kind of a pig. It looks like a dear pig. Oh, okay. A baby-Ru-Ru-so.

So not even remotely close then. Oh, baby Rusa. Oh, another one. Ai-I is the name of the animal, Jellisna. I've heard of this before. Is that the thing with the... I don't want to say it's the thing with the big eyes, but it's not... Yeah, yeah, it has big eyes, yes, correct?

Yeah, they're like, they're the tiny monkey things. More like a lemmo, what you call it, lemo. A lemur. Limo, yeah. So with the I-I, has a long-fingered limo. Native to Madagascar is the largest nocturnal primate Nocturnal meaning lives at night

Yeah? Yes, well no I mean all animals live But yes, they're active at night Is the strangest primate in the world I-I The name is I-I I don't know about that

I think people are the strangest primates in the world The last one, de Liszt I also think What is it Shoe-Bell Shoe-Bills Yes, like shoes and bills Shoe-Bills That's a bird, yes, correct

and it has a beak like a shoe, a Dutch wooden shoe, you know, like in... Oh, the clogs? The clogs, yeah, yeah, the clogs. In the Netherlands, they have this nice shoes, clogs, and the birds, which is called a shoobill has the beak in the shape of this, like a clog. Oh, dear listener, could you check out our premium episode, speaking part two and three for your super quality hours preparation? There is more vocabulary, even more grammar, not so many jokes, okay, no dead jokes for me, it's more serious.

The links are in the description. And also our phrasal verb course is there for you to kind of boost your vocabulary for bands 8 and above. Thank you so much. Hugs and loves and loves. Loves and hugs. Loves and hugs. Bye. Bye.

What's your favorite wild animal? Oh, there are so many to choose from, but if you force my hand, then I would say capybara's are, well, I like capybara's the best. I just think they're a perfect representation of inner peace and calm that I would really like to have in my life. And I do, but I would like to have more of it, like a capybara. Are there many wild animals in your country? Well, not unless you include the people, especially those people from Glasgow. Seriously though, yeah, we do. We have foxes and badgers, and there are deer roaming around in the forests, and closer to the coast, we have things like otters.

I think there are lynxes somewhere as well, although I haven't seen those last two anywhere. Have you ever seen the wild animals? In Scotland, yeah, you can see deer in the meadows and the forests all the time, although particularly in. the morning when it's quiet, because they're a bit skittish, I suppose. And near the coastal areas, there are birds like seagulls, and in between parts of like in the rivers and in the coastal areas. You've also got herons, which are big, I suppose you would call them big birds that feed on aquatic life like fish.

So you see them fishing there all the time. Where can you see wild animals in your area? Well, other than where I said already, I'm sure if you wandered into, I'm sure if you wandered deep into the forests and the mountain ranges, they would probably see lots of wild animals wandering pretty much unfettered by humans, unless they're near the roads really, and there aren't many going through the mountains, to be honest. Do you like watching animals in the zoo? I used to, but the more I think about it, the more I find myself actually being against zoos, to be honest. I think they're sort of a, almost like a species-wide excuse for destroying the natural habitats of other animals. And we think it's, oh, it's perfectly fine because we have them there in the zoo and they're safe and we can research from them. But what a lot of people don't know is that these animals suffer from something called zucosis,

which means that they repeat behaviors or engage in strange behaviors that they wouldn't normally in the wild. So you can't actually study them effectively. And also, it's cruel if that's happening to them anyway. So it's all a bit pathetic, really, in my opinion.