Love Your Mom on IELTS - IELTS Energy Podcast 1387
Summary
TLDRIn this engaging podcast episode, the hosts discuss strategies for IELTS speaking and writing, focusing on expressing emotions and connecting with loved ones, particularly in the context of Mother's Day. They introduce four phrases to enhance vocabulary and share personal anecdotes about bonding over shared interests. The episode also includes a key poll for listeners to guess their mom's hypothetical IELTS score and an insider tip from an examiner about not strictly adhering to the Part 2 topic, emphasizing the importance of interesting details for higher scores.
Takeaways
- 🎤 The video script discusses how to connect the topic of Mother's Day to IELTS, suggesting that talking about one's mother can elicit strong emotions from the examiner.
- 📝 The script introduces four phrases to help with IELTS speaking and writing, emphasizing their formality and smart sound.
- 🤝 The first phrase 'to bond over something' is highlighted as a way to express shared experiences or interests, which can be used to describe connections with anyone.
- 🔗 The second phrase 'to connect over our mutual love of' is similar to the first, but allows for a more detailed expression of shared interests.
- 🎁 The term 'carefully curated' is suggested for describing gifts, emphasizing the thought and effort put into selecting them.
- 💡 The script provides an example of using 'carefully curated' in the context of a retirement journal given as a Mother's Day gift.
- 🎉 The phrase 'the thought that counts' is presented as a way to acknowledge the effort behind gifts, even if they are not ideal.
- 🚴♀️ The script shares a personal anecdote about a Mother's Day celebration involving a bike trip and watching favorite TV shows, illustrating the use of the discussed phrases.
- ⏱️ An insider tip from an examiner friend is shared, noting that IELTS candidates do not have to talk about the exact topic for the full two minutes in part two of the speaking test.
- 📚 It is advised that candidates can talk about anything as long as they mention the topic first, allowing for a more relaxed and natural response.
- 🤓 The script encourages creativity in IELTS speaking, suggesting that examiners are unaware of a candidate's personal life, so it's acceptable to invent stories if it helps to provide interesting details.
Q & A
What is the main topic discussed in the script?
-The main topic discussed in the script is about sharing phrases and experiences related to Mother's Day and how to connect them to IELTS speaking and writing.
What is the significance of the phrase 'all the feels' in the context of the script?
-The phrase 'all the feels' is used to express having a lot of good emotions or feelings, particularly in relation to discussing someone you love, like your mom, on IELTS.
How many phrases are provided in the script to talk about connecting with someone you love?
-Four phrases are provided in the script to talk about connecting with someone you love.
What is the first phrase mentioned in the script for connecting with someone?
-The first phrase mentioned is 'to bond over something,' which is a phrasal verb used to describe a shared experience or activity.
Can the phrase 'to bond over something' be used in IELTS speaking and writing?
-Yes, 'to bond over something' can be used in IELTS speaking and writing to sound smart and formal, especially when describing connections with others.
What is the meaning of 'carefully curated' in the context of the script?
-In the script, 'carefully curated' refers to a gift or present that has been thoughtfully selected and intentionally chosen for someone based on their interests or preferences.
How is the phrase 'the thought that counts' used in the script?
-The phrase 'the thought that counts' is used to express appreciation for the effort someone put into a gift or an event, even if the outcome wasn't perfect.
What is the insider tip from an examiner mentioned in the script?
-The insider tip is that in IELTS speaking part two, students do not have to talk about the topic for the whole two minutes; they just need to mention the topic first and can talk about anything as long as it includes the topic.
What is the significance of the key poll mentioned in the script?
-The key poll is a fun interactive element for listeners to engage with the podcast, asking them to guess what score their mom would get if she took the IELTS exam.
What is the final advice given by the script regarding IELTS speaking part two?
-The final advice is that examiners do not know the students personally, so students can make up stories for part two as long as they mention the topic and provide interesting details.
Outlines
😀 Connecting with Loved Ones on IELTS
The first paragraph introduces a discussion on how to connect with loved ones, particularly mothers, in the context of IELTS speaking and writing exams. It suggests using slang like 'all the feels' to express strong emotions and introduces four phrases to help students sound smart and formal. The paragraph also mentions a key poll and a sample IELTS band 2 answer with an insider tip from an examiner friend. It celebrates a student named Bruno for his high scores on the IELTS exam and encourages listeners to participate in the poll and stay tuned for the episode's end.
🎁 Describing Gifts and Personal Connections
This paragraph delves into the topic of gift-giving, particularly in the context of IELTS speaking part one about gifts and presents. It introduces the term 'carefully curated' to describe a thoughtfully selected gift and provides personal anecdotes about Mother's Day gifts. The speaker shares her experience of receiving a retirement journal, which she considers a carefully curated gift due to its personal significance. The paragraph also touches on the phrase 'the thought that counts,' which is used to express appreciation for the effort behind a gift, even if the gift itself isn't ideal.
🚴♀️ A Day of Celebration and Insider IELTS Tips
The final paragraph narrates a personal story of a Mother's Day celebration that included a home-cooked breakfast, watching favorite TV shows, and a 20-mile bike trip. It emphasizes the importance of shared interests and bonding over activities. The speaker also provides an IELTS speaking part two sample answer, demonstrating how to deviate from the exact topic while still mentioning it, based on advice from an examiner. The tip suggests that candidates can talk about anything as long as they reference the topic initially. The paragraph concludes with a bonus secret about making up stories for the IELTS exam, as examiners do not know the candidates personally, and encourages listeners to participate in a poll about their moms' hypothetical IELTS scores.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡IELTS
💡bond over
💡connect over
💡carefully curated
💡gifts and presents
💡the thought that counts
💡sample band n part two answer
💡insider tip
💡Mother's Day
💡key poll
Highlights
Discussing Mother's Day in relation to IELTS, suggesting that talking about one's mom can evoke strong emotions in the examiner.
Introduction of four phrases to help IELTS candidates connect with someone they love.
The use of the phrase 'to bond over something' to describe a shared experience or activity.
Personal anecdotes from Aubrey about bonding with her children and friends over shared experiences.
The phrase 'to connect over our mutual love of' as a way to express shared interests.
Using 'carefully curated' to describe a thoughtfully selected gift or present.
Aubrey's example of a carefully curated gift for her mother, a retirement journal.
The phrase 'the thought that counts' for describing the intention behind a gift, even if it's not perfect.
A sample IELTS Band 2 answer provided, discussing a Mother's Day celebration instead of a party the speaker would host.
An insider tip from an examiner that candidates do not have to talk about the exact topic for the full two minutes in IELTS Speaking Part 2.
Advice that examiners do not know the candidates personally, so it's acceptable to make up stories for the IELTS Speaking test.
Highlighting the importance of sharing interesting details in IELTS Speaking to achieve higher scores.
A fun key poll question about what score listeners' moms would get if they took the IELTS exam.
Encouragement for listeners to call their moms and express their love.
A congratulatory note for a key student, Bruno, who achieved high scores on his first IELTS exam attempt.
The suggestion to use high-scoring vocabulary phrases to replace common expressions in IELTS Speaking and Writing.
Transcripts
Aubrey uh as we are recording this we just celebrated Mother's Day how are we going to
connect this to IELTS yes I love this to think about talking about your mom on IELTS you can
connect in so many ways and I guarantee you the examiner is going to have all the feels
if you bring this up all the feels that is such great slang guys just to say like I have a lot
of good emotions right now like a lot of feelings right now um so that's great slang to use to talk
about anyone you love right um so today guys we are going to give you four amazing phrases
to talk about really connecting with someone you love we'll share a little bit about our
own amazing Mother's Days and at the end Aubrey we have some great stuff happening at the end
of today's episode also yes we have a really fun key poll today so be sure to stay to the end so
that you can answer that in Spotify and even if you listen on Apple podcast go answer the
poll in Spotify we love seeing these results and we will share it soon on the podcast yes
it's so funny I love this questions so much and guys also in the second half of today's episode
uh I'm going to give you a sample band n part two answer and share with you an Insider tip from a
conversation I had this morning with my examiner friend okay so I'm not going to tell you what
that is you got to stay until the end all right so let's get to this a vocabulary oh wait first
of all I want to say a huge congratulations to three key student Bruno who took the Isles exam
for the first time and got amazing scores Aubrey what scores did Bruno get yes a nine on listening
reading eight writing seven and speaking seven well done Bruno we're so excited for you those
are amazing scores amazing so tell your mom to buy you the course go to alls english.com
K Ys okay awesome so we thought of four amazing phrases that you guys can use today to sound
pretty darn smart on I speaking and writing actually they're pretty formal so the first
phrase is to bond over something so that is a phrasal verb right to bond over a noun um as a
mom Aubrey what do you feel like you can Bond over with one of your kids yeah oh was funny cuz the
way I thought of it was like what I can Bond over with friends about my kids cuz this happens a lot
that friends will share about something exciting happening with their kid at school totally or
maybe something um you know disobedient that their kid has done and you Bond over this shared
experience yes but also yes of course I could bond with my own kids that's funny that that wasn't top
of mind but I mean these are all great examples of this like formal sounding phrasal verb it's
a smart sounding phrasal verb right I can see a lot of students trying to use the verb Bond
and using the wrong preposition or no preposition over it right after it so um you Bond over a noun
a shared experience or activity so James and I Bond over our love for really gross horror
movies and stories but you know you're you are connected to people for a variety of re reasons
but some of them are always a shared love right so you Bond over that thing um the next phrase is
similar but longer um but you can use it in much the same way to connect over our mutual love of
blank of activity or noun um where can students use that phrase on Isles this could be G really
good if you're talking about music or movies or anything you're interested in I just connected
with my daughter last night over our mutual love of a song she wanted to start learning it on the
recorder it's like a little flute that she's learning at school and we played it she was
like I want to learn this on the recorder and it was really fun to help her with that so anything
you're interested in anything you love if you find someone else is also interested also loves it you
can Bond over your mutual love of them it's such an impressive sounding phrase and it's
so positive so anytime guys on the test you are asked about family friends new friends co-workers
anytime you're describing a connection to another human you can use this right like um Aubrey Aubrey
is my co-worker and we can connect over our mutual love of fantasy sci-fi stories you can
always find something in common right exactly right we connect over lots of dist everything
we talk food restaurants movies books right and when you are sharing on IELTS you will be asked
personal questions about your opinions about your tastes and this is great this is extra information
to share who you have that in common with so yeah think about the boring vocabulary that
this replaces right we both like science fiction movies right instead of saying that you could say
like you know my coworker and I have really bonded over our our um love of sci-fi movies or we've
connected over our mutual love of blank so you can use them to describe the same connections right
but they're both very high-scoring vocab phrases um now something else when we talk about friends
family holidays connections we talk about buying people presents and there is a whole speaking
part one topic just about gifts and presents so we can describe a gift or present as being carefully
curated um a a carefully Cur at it gift or present is something that you've really thought about and
looked hard for before you bought it for someone so I'm gonna tell you what I got my mom for
Mother's Day um I found a a retirement journal for her this is a carefully curated gift because she
is going to retire in six months and she's kind of anxious about it and I want her to be excited
so it's like a my bucket list retirement Journal I love this love that you got your mom that and
I love the word curated for you guys to use on it is band n it is more unique and impressive
you'll often hear when someone's talking about Museum they'll say a curated exhibit a carefully
curated exhibit means they're choosing certain pieces that go really well together and we use it
this way to talk about a gift when you selected it intentionally for someone based on something they
love so if you're ever sharing about maybe you you know carefully curated the words you chose
when you wrote a note to someone just whenever you've selected something intentionally this
is a great adjective to use and what if you're not a Gift Giver because not everybody is like
Aubrey you and I have talked about this right like you're not like a gift person and I'm a total gift
person so um again there is the whole topic about gifts and presents on is so what if you're asked
like are you a good Gift Giver then Aubrey could say like I don't I'm I do not carefully curate my
gifts no exactly right you can share that you don't have a tendency to do this I actually
just for Mother's Day a couple of different friends gave me something and I'm like okay
I thank you now I've got to give them something it just creates stress for me like I'm grateful
but also I'm like oh no now I have to go buy a present that's that's terrible gifts should not
create stress okay so the last phrase guys before we get to that sample answer and examiner advice
um it's the thought that counts so this is also great for describing gifts and presents if it's
a gift that maybe was carefully curated but wasn't a great gift for you you could be like no I mean
it's the thought that counts like it wasn't an awesome present but this person thought about me
and that's what matters yes this would be great if you're talking anytime something didn't go exactly
as planned if there was a party that was planned and you know it it wasn't as great as you were
hoping but the thought that counts because thought was put into that and you appreciate that even if
the end result wasn't ideal or like what if you did something for someone else and it didn't turn
out great you know you're like well I tried to make my partner breakfast this one time but I'm
a terrible cook and um luckily he was still you know he still felt loved because of my effort I
mean it it is the thought that counts that's what they say the thought that counts absolutely this
will be so useful on so many different answers I'm excited for you to sneak this into one of your e
speaking answers okay so let's get to our sample part two I am going to be uh providing this model
answer today Aubrey what is the part two question all right describe a party you'd like to give for
a friend or family member okay um all right so are you ready to time me I had already started
let me start it over okay oh shoot I should have said go all right go ahead Okay so so honestly I
I I don't like to host parties it seems like so much work and I don't have time or space or the
resources to actually throw a fantastic party for anyone but what I will tell you about is a
whole day of Celebration that someone planned for me recently and that was Mother's day yesterday
um so my son put so much like thought and effort into this it was a a carefully Cur
to day just for his mom in the morning he made me uh waffles with sausage and scrambled eggs and he
did it all himself he cooked everything himself he was super proud of it and I was just laying on
the couch reading a book and I was like this is the life I am not doing anything someone else is
cooking for me it was amazing um and then after breakfast we uh we wanted to watch something on
TV and I I wanted to watch my favorite show of all time which is called Supernatural because I am in
love with the main character Dean Winchester and I don't mind you know looking at him on Mother's day
and this is a it's a great show we watched three episodes yesterday I have seen all three episodes
numerous times I knew exactly what was going to happen um but I didn't mind I loved it and it was
what made it better is James also loved it that would have not been a great day if he did not like
the things that I chose or he chose we we really can Bond over these activities that we both love
like watching horror shows and bicycle riding so the main event of the day um was a 20 mile
bike trip that we took from our front door to a little town with the Great Name Of A Boring Oregon
which just that moniker alone is like you oh Dar I barely even got I got like halfway through our day
you barely scratched the surface I love that and I mean 2 minutes is a long time I'm watching the
time I'm like good thing you reminded me to start it because it feels like a long time as I'm timing
right gotta be sure to time yourselves guys It's tricky to get used to how long two minutes feels
it is I have gone from it feeling long to feeling too short there were so many other things I wanted
to talk about I didn't even get to like half of my not notes okay so here is The Insider examiner tip
guys you may have noticed that I did not talk about that topic for the whole time because
I wanted to demonstrate that you don't have to okay this morning I was talking to my examiner
friend she was saying um one of the biggest mistakes that she gets on the ielt speaking
test is students thinking they have to talk about that part two topic for the whole two minutes and
what she said this morning I'll literally quote she said they can literally talk about anything
as long as they mention the topic on the card first that is straight from a current examiner
lips guys um so I uh I modeled that behavior on that speaking answer I still would have gotten a
nine I mentioned the topic and then I told a great story this is such a great inside tip because this
is this takes what makes part two so hard off the table like as long long as you mention the topic
at all like Jessica did she didn't describe a party that she shared for a friend or family
member she talked about that briefly at the front saying she doesn't like hosting parties and then
talked about something someone else did for her and this is going to really open up what you're
able to the branches you're able to follow as you do your part two so you can share lots of
interesting detail without feeling you have to stick to the topic yeah and here's a second bonus
secret guys I love to throw part parties I love to plan like get togethers and stuff like that I
lied just so I could talk about Mother's Day cuz I knew that would be easy to talk about um that
is another thing my examiner friend said is we don't know you you can make it up that's the last
takeaway today guys The Examiner doesn't know you you do not have to only talk about that part two
topic um listen up for our advice so you get the true way to get increased scores on Isles yes talk
about whatever you are going to be able to share a lot of interesting detail about that's how you're
going to get those good scores all right we want to make sure that you guys fill out our poll this
is a very fun one today our key poll is if your mom took the a exam today what score would she
get you're GNA probably just have to guess but I'm so excited to hear to see the results here
yeah so definitely guys if you are listening to us on SP ify answer that poll question because we
can't wait to see your answers and we will share those answers on a future episode awesome so fun
everyone call your mom tell her you lover call your mom okay thanks Aubrey see you Friday bye bye
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