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Hello, hello dear listeners and welcome into our Super Premium Episode, IELTS speaking Part 2.
Describe an occasion when you lost something in a public place.
Ok, you should say what you lost, when and where you lost it, what you did to find it and explain how you felt about it.
So describe a time when you lost something in a public place, public place, in the streets, on a bus, in a taxi, or some republic in a park, in the cinema, museum, art gallery, restaurant, cafe, somewhere with other people.
Rory here is a super organized person, but sometimes he tends to lose things.
Right, let's get started.
I'm usually pretty good at keeping track of where everything is, since I'm, well, pretty organized.
But recently I actually misplaced one of my necklaces in the changing room at my local yoga studio.
This was about two or three months ago at Ariel Yoga, and I'd taken...
well, I'd taken it off, since it's not particularly safe to have these kinds of things on when you're doing that sort of exercise.
And it took a day or two to find it, actually, since I wasn't sure what to do beyond rummaging around for it in the immediate area.
And when that didn't work, I'd just ask the guys who run the place if they could keep an eye out for it.
It didn't seem worth the trouble of disrupting other people nearby, and it wasn't likely that it would be stolen or taken away by anyone, well, by anyone who goes there if they found it.
I mean, I doubt people who do yoga are the kind of people who would steal something in general, and certainly not something like that.
Regardless, I was still rather annoyed with myself since I'd taken it off and I'd placed it in the alcove where my clothes were in order to keep it safe, and I wound up losing it anyway, which is pretty ironic when you think about it.
Still, there wasn't much that could be done to change that, so I just waited until I could go back and try again.
Like I say, it wasn't likely to go anywhere.
So the next time I was there, I actually came across it under one of the benches.
It must have fallen off the edge when I was moving around and I couldn't see it on that part of the floor.
Needless to say, I was quite pleased to get it back at that point, and since then, I've made a point of taking off any jewellery I have on at home and keeping it in a safe place there.
I've even set reminders in my diary to remind myself to do that and then to remind myself to put the jewellery back on.
So I don't do that again.
I'd prefer to avoid that happening again in the future for obvious reasons.
And do you often lose things?
No, like I said, I'm quite organised.
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See you soon. Yay, thank you Rory for your story.
Right, dear listener.
So we often lose jewellery.
Okay, rings, earrings, necklaces, especially in the gym.
Maybe you lose your documents.
Unfortunately, it's a horrible thing to happen.
So documents, bags, keys, hats, umbrellas.
But choose an object that is easy for you to describe.
Okay, if you have never lost anything, lie.
I don't know, we had this conversation before because you mentioned umbrellas and I'm always just like, how do you, why do people lose umbrellas?
How do you lose an umbrella?
Yeah, just leave it in the cafe and just you forget to take it with you.
You just, you know, you kind of, because it's an umbrella is something that you don't usually carry with you.
So kind of, it's, it could be easily left in a cafe.
Just, you know, I'll take your word for it.
I always think, well, I never have one, so I suppose this really doesn't count for me, does it?
Okay. All right. Cause like once the rain is over and then you're like, you don't need an umbrella anymore, and then you just leave it.
So it's actually a common topic.
It's actually a common IELTS speaking topic, like losing things in part one.
Like describe a time when you lost something in part two.
So it's an ongoing thing.
Rory told us a story about how he lost his necklace.
Necklace is something like you wear like a piece of jewelry.
Around your neck. Yeah, around your neck.
And he lost it in a yoga studio.
Specifically in the changing room.
I think if you're going to lose something, probably a changing room is where it will happen.
You can start off with, I'm usually pretty good at keeping track of things.
So to keep track of things, you know where your things are.
Or I'm a quite organized person.
Or like I lose things all the time, I'm absent minded.
Okay. I usually misplaced things.
Or I'm pretty organized.
I'm like, I'm really organized.
But once I misplaced one of my necklaces.
So you put it in the wrong place.
You misplaced it. Or I misplaced my keys.
I misplaced my umbrellas and glasses, documents in the changing room or at a cafe or in the gym.
I have a funny story about that, actually, for when it comes to documents.
One of my friends left some documents in a changing room.
But the best part was they realized it and ran back to the shop.
But the documents were for a legal case.
And instead of reading the name of my friend, they read the name of the person in the legal case out over the loudspeaker.
But mercifully, like I say, my friend recognized the name and at first they were like, why are they in here?
And then they were like, oh, oh, no.
You can say that I lost it while I was training or I lost it while I was changing in the changing room.
And then it took a day or two to find it.
Yes. I was lucky. I found the thing I lost.
But if you haven't or you never did find it, then you could just say, and I've never seen it since.
Yeah. You can say that I didn't find it.
So it's OK. The task said like what you did to find it.
So kind of what what did you do?
Like I was looking for it.
I tried to find it.
I came back to the changing room.
I asked the manager.
So I asked people if they saw the keys.
I wrote a note. OK.
But I didn't find it.
And it took like a week for me to find it.
I rummaged around for it.
So if you rummaged around, what did you do?
Well, you looked desperately for it, looking in different places, moving things to the side.
Rummage. You might rummage around in your bag when you try and find something.
Yeah. To search for something that is difficult to find, rummage in your drawers looking for a pen.
So rummage in or through.
So you can say like, oh, I lost my keys in the changing room and I was rummaging around for it.
Or for them. For them, yeah.
Keys for them. It didn't work.
So I didn't find my necklace.
I didn't find my keys.
I asked the guys who run the place.
The guys. So the managers.
I asked people who run the place.
So whose whose place it was.
So the managers, the directors.
Keep an eye out for it.
For my necklace. So if I keep an eye.
If I keep an eye out for something.
Well, that just means that you're looking for something in particular and paying special attention for it when you see it.
Yeah. Keep an eye out for something.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Or keep your eyes peeled.
The same idiom. Watch carefully for something.
Like keep an eye out for something.
I always try to keep my eyes open for good recipes.
Or I always keep my eyes peeled for good recipes.
Or I always keep an eye out for good recipes when I cook.
So I disrupted everybody around me.
I kept asking questions.
Oh, did you see my necklace?
Did you see my necklace?
But it didn't seem worth it.
Or I bothered everyone around me with my questions.
Yeah. I bothered everybody around me.
I disrupted everybody.
But it didn't seem worth the trouble.
It wasn't worth it.
Somebody may have stolen it.
And here we use the past.
So somebody may have stolen it or may have taken it.
But in the yoga studio that wasn't likely.
Or it wasn't likely that it would be stolen.
Or would have been stolen or taken.
As for your feelings you can say I was rather annoyed with myself.
So I was irritated, I was annoyed with myself.
Or annoyed at myself.
I had misplaced it or I was annoyed because I had taken it off.
Before, past perfect.
So you first took it off and then you were annoyed.
So I was rather annoyed because I had misplaced it.
And I wound up losing it.
So I ended up losing it.
And there wasn't much that could be done about it.
So kind of you lost it and you lost it.
There was nothing you could do.
There wasn't much that could be done about it.
That could be done to change it.
So I just lost it. And then happy ending.
I came across it under one of the benches.
So I found it. So when you kind of feel like you were looking and then like ooh wow it's there.
So I came across it.
Like suddenly I found it.
Yay! I was quite pleased.
I was happy, I was glad, I was over the moon super happy.
And then I love Rory's organization.
I even set reminders in my diary.
To kind of remind myself of putting my jewelry in the right place.
So it wouldn't happen again.
Yeah. I'd prefer to avoid that happening again.
Avoid doing something.
So now I avoid misplacing it.
I avoid putting my things everywhere.
Yay, what a happy story.
Rory, what helped you organize this answer?
Well, I follow the prompt mostly.
I deviated slightly in two ways because it can be very difficult, especially if you're like me and you're organized to think of these times.
So to fill up the remaining time or to attempt to fill up the time, I just explained that I'm rather organized to begin with and then talked about one time.
Now I didn't remember the details, so I used things like this was about two or three months ago.
I don't really remember it and I don't really want to remember exactly when.
And then in the same way, I said it took a day or two to find it because again, I'm not really clear on the timeframe here.
I also added a little bit to the end because I found it.
I was talking about my feelings and how I felt about it.
So at first I was annoyed with myself, but then I was happy.
So I'm still talking about my feelings and I'm adding extra detail about why.
Hey, thank you very much for listening and we'll get back to you in our next episode, speaking part three about losing things, losing your heart and your soul and your brain.
Losing your mind. Bye.
Bye. Describe an occasion when you lost something in a public place.
You should say what you lost, when and where you lost it, what you did to find it and explain how you felt about it.
I'm usually pretty good at keeping track of where everything is since I'm, well, pretty organized.
But recently I actually misplaced one of my necklaces in the changing room at my local yoga studio.
This was about two or three months ago at Arial Yoga and I'd taken, well I'd taken it off since it's not particularly safe to have these kinds of things on when you're doing that sort of exercise.
And it took a day or two to find it actually, since I wasn't sure what to do beyond rummaging around for it in the immediate area.
And when that didn't work, I just asked the guys who run the place if they could keep an eye out for it.
It didn't seem worth the trouble of disrupting other people nearby and it wasn't likely that it would be stolen or taken away by anyone.
Well, by anyone who goes there if they found it.
I mean, I doubt people who do yoga are the kind of people who would steal something in general and certainly not something like that.
Regardless, I was rather annoyed, I was still rather annoyed with myself since I'd taken it off and I'd placed it in the alcove where my clothes were in order to keep it safe.
And I wound up losing it anyway, which is pretty ironic when you think about it.
Still, there wasn't much that could be done to change that.
So I just waited until I could go back and try again.
Like I say, it wasn't likely to go anywhere.
So the next time I was there, I actually came across it under one of the benches.
It must have fallen off the edge when I was moving around and I couldn't see it on that part of the floor.
Needless to say, I was quite pleased to get it back at that point.
And since then, I've made a point of taking off any jewelry I have on at home and keeping it in a safe place there.
I even set reminders in my diary to remind myself to do that and then to remind myself to put the jewelry back on.
So I don't do that again.
I prefer to avoid that happening again in the future for obvious reasons.
And do you often lose things?
No, like I said, I'm quite organized.
