IELTS Speaking for Success - 🖋 Writing (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: September 9, 2025

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Hello, Sunshine, I'm Maria. And my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of the IOT Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way, to the band nine level. We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELD school. Your bad nine score, which we both have in speaking, but not singing. Roy, what are you doing? What are you doing?

Sorry, I'm just writing something down. I need to remember it for my next class. I see. Shall we talk about writing? Let's talk about writing. Roy, do you write a lot? Well, that depends on how you define a lot, I suppose. Compared to before when I wrote a whole books, I don't write a great deal, but I probably still write more than the average person, considering I constantly have to put together notes on various books and plan for classes and things like that.

What do you like to write? I used to love writing fiction, especially science fiction, and various things about teaching, though I don't have much time for it these days, sadly. Plus the need isn't really there, given how saturated the markets and internet are with these things. So usually I just write down notes for lesson plans. And I do like that because that's effective.

It's just the volume is not so high. use a pen? Oh, every day. I need one to write my diary, my lesson plans, and make and take notes during lessons while I'm listening to people, and so I have a record of decisions that I make. If I didn't do that, then I'd forget everything that happens or needs to happen throughout the day. Do you prefer typing or handwriting when you are writing? Well, for longer pieces, I'd like to write them by hand first and then dictate them to an AI to create the text for me. But usually I write shorter bits and pieces, so typing works just fine for that since I'm less likely to get a repetitive strain injury or something like that. Do you think the things you write will change?

Assuming I'm always a teacher, I doubt it. I'll always need to have a plan and follow it. It's possible the content might change. Actually, that's certain, but the format is unlikely to unless some revolution in teaching happens that I've yet to foresee. 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. Writing, dear listener. Do you write? Hmm, maybe not, huh? You prefer typing? Yeah. So you can say that I don't write a great deal, so I don't write much. And writing we mean like you take a pen or a

and you write things down, like physically. Okay? You can say, like, I don't write much. I prefer typing, or I always use my phone. And here, Rory is like, yeah, like, when I wrote books. Yeah. Nice. How lovely.

Well, I did. Yeah, but Rory did. But normal people, like me and you, dear listener, we don't write books, right? So you just... Well, I mean, I imagine most people write books. things like essays, for example. So you probably don't do that now, or at least you don't do it as much as you might do now. Yeah, because I used to write a lot at school, at university, even after that, but now you just type, right, on your phone or on your laptop. I do know,

deal is now. What about you? And you can say that I write more than the average person, so I write a lot or I don't write much. I have to put together notes and prepare for classes, so I prefer writing everything down. Or you can say, I don't write at all, I just type. I used to love writing fiction. I used to love writing poems or books, science fiction. Like, what did you write or what do you write, dear listener, maybe you write notes, lists for yourself, like what to buy.

Maybe you write down by hand. And, Roy, I say write by hand with a hand, with my hand. Yes, write things by hand, I think is the main way to talk about it. Yeah. Or you can say I write down lists by hand, shopping lists, or some notes to myself. Or I don't have much time for writing these days. Sadly. Or you can say, you can say like, sadly, I don't write much. Or maybe I write essays, I write notes for my blog before I type it in, right, type everything in. Or I write things at university while listening to a lecture.

We write with a pen. So I write by hand and I write with a pen, with a pencil, or buy a pen. No, I think we always write with a pencil or with a pen, not buy. You write by hand. Yeah, I write by hand. I write by hand. I write with a pen. I usually write with a pen. Or I usually write with a pencil.

Or I never use a pen because I type everything. Or I use my phone. Or it doesn't matter what to use my pen or my pencil. So when I write things in my diary, I usually use a pen or I write with a pen. I take notes during lessons with a pencil or a pen. or I prefer writing with a pen. I record decisions I make, or I record things, so I write it down. I jot it down, so I record things in my diary.

Ooh, that's a good phrasal verb. I wish I'd used that now. Jot it down, yes, a nice one. Yeah. Take note. Could you give us an example with jot something down? Yes, I frequently jot things down in my diary as I add things to my to do-do throughout the day. Yeah, there you go.

And it slowly expands from like five things to 50 million things. I prefer handwriting or I prefer typing, right? Or you can say that my hand writing is horrible, so that's why I have to type everything. For longer pieces, like for longer pieces of writing, I write them by hand and then dictate them to an AI to create the text. So you can write it down and then use AI to create the text for you. Nice. But for shorter bits and pieces, I usually type things. Yeah, and I remember at university, I used to write quite a lot and my hand would ache, like my fingers, my hand, like from writing so much. Yeah, I have, I used to have this, you know, like a sports from a pencil or a pen on my fingers.

like so much writing. Wow. Yeah, your hand gets sore. During lectures and yeah, yeah, the fingers got sore. But nowadays it's so easy. Our fingers get so from typing. Or you can say like I'm a very slow typeer. I'm super slow at typing. So I have to write things down.

By hand, I'll always need to have a plan to follow. So I'll always need to write things. things down, or I'll always take notes in my diary, I'll always write down what notes, little reminders. I'll write down what I have to do. Yeah, my to-do lists by hand, so this will not change, but perhaps in the future I'll write more essays, I'll write, I don't know, what will you write, dear listener? What do people write in general?

Essays. I think since we're getting ready for an exam where you have to write essays, people people will be writing essays quite a lot. So you can talk about your IELS essays, your IELTS letters. Are you googling what people have to write these days? Yeah, yeah, I'm just like, uh, not a clear answer. Like to-do lists, they write in the diaries, short stories, postcards, but come on like we don't do it, poems, seriously. Oh, people write their will. Oh my god, that's a bit dark. Yeah, people write articles. Yeah, but do we, like a normal person, what, what does,

Does a normal person write? Don't ask me, I'm not normal. True. He was a superman. Rory Superman. Yeah, but like usually people write down to-do lists, right? Or shopping lists, to-do lists, their plans. People plan out the day.

So they write down their plans. And also they write reminders. So drink water. You have to remind yourself to drink water. Yeah, some people do that. So reminders, right? and also short notes for people at home, for example. Yeah, like the chicken is in the fridge, for example, or like clean your room.

Also, we write when we make comments. There we go. Comments on social media, de list. Yeah, I usually make comments on social media. So you write? Do you? Yeah, I reply to comments. Do you write nice things?

Yeah, I write nice things. I write, yeah. I write more nice things. And also we use social media, so we text each other. We don't write, but we type. So texts, messages on social media. That's it pretty much. Seriously, that's it.

Nothing else. So you may write things when you fill in some application forms, when you go to a bank to, I don't know, get a delivery or something. That's not really extensive writing, or is it? No, no. Yeah, but if you are a university student or if you go to school, yeah, that's a lot of writing you do, right? But I'm talking about like after university. Yeah, but if you go to work, do you go to work? So, working writing. So what's your working writing? Like, do you kind of write in the documents? Well, emails. Everybody writes emails at some point.

Yeah, but we type emails. We don't write them by hand. Yeah, but typing could be part of writing. Yeah, that's Rudy listener. So writing, handwriting and also typing. Everything is writing. Thank you very much for listening. Hopefully we've given you a lot to talk about when you have to talk about writing. And we'll get back to you in our next episode.

Bye. Roy, do you write a lot? Well, that depends on how you define a lot, I suppose. Compared to before when I wrote a whole book, so I don't write a great. deal, but I probably still write more than the average person, considering I constantly have to put together notes on various books and plan for classes and things like that. What do you like to write? I used to love writing fiction, especially science fiction, and various things about teaching,

though I don't have much time for it these days, sadly. Plus, the need isn't really there, given how saturated the markets and internet are with these things. So usually I just write down notes for lesson plans. and I do like that because that's effective. It's just the volume is not so high. How often do you use a pen? Oh, every day.

I need one to write my diary, my lesson plans, and make and take notes during lessons while I'm listening to people, and so I have a record of decisions that I make. If I didn't do that, then I'd forget everything that happens or needs to happen throughout the day. Do you prefer typing or handwriting when you are writing? Well, for longer pieces, I'd like to write. write them by hand first and then dictate them to an AI to create the text for me. But usually I

write shorter bits and pieces, so typing works just fine for that since I'm less likely to get a repetitive strain injury or something like that. Do you think the things you write will change? Assuming I'm always a teacher, I dare to, I'll always need to have a plan and follow it. It's possible the content might change. Actually, that's certain, but the format is unlikely to, unless some revolution in teaching happens that I've yet to foresee.