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Rory, don't you remember the conversation we had about going on a car trip?
Yes, I do.
Oh my God, are we going on one?
Yes, let's do that in July.
Excellent.
Yay.
What a coincidence again.
Because in this episode, we're going to be talking about car trips.
We should.
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Sure.
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Awesome.
Gorgeously, beautifully awesome.
Let's talk about car trips now.
Rory, do you like travelling by car?
Oh, and I'm not the one doing the driving, I do.
Especially by taxi in Moscow.
I love looking out the window and enjoying the views of the city as they roll past.
I'll really miss them when I have to leave, actually.
What's the farthest place you've travelled to by car?
Oh, we used to travel to a village in England where one of our friends lived.
And that, well, it seemed to take forever anyway at the time.
I think it was about 300 miles or something, which isn't much when you think about it, especially if you're living in Russia.
But when I was a child, it seemed like a lot.
Do you like to sit in the front or back when you're traveling by car?
Oh God, in the front if I can help it.
I sometimes get motion sickness and I like having more room for my feet.
But sometimes others with more severe issues sort of take precedence, and I'm quite happy to let them do that.
When do you usually travel by car?
Whenever I can.
Like I said, I really love taking taxis in Moscow.
It's really decadent, I know, but I love it.
They get me from A to B with minimal effort.
When will your next car trip be?
That's a good question.
Probably tonight after we leave the studio.
Thank you Rory for your answers.
No problem.
So, car trips is one of the recent IELTS speaking topics.
So, the new topics appeared at the beginning of May.
So, we're delivering fresh topics to you.
Okay.
Car trips.
You said that I like traveling by car.
And yeah, first of all we say travel by car or have a car trip, right?
Yeah, that's the language you should know.
So Rory said I like car trips when I'm not doing the driving.
So you do the driving.
Isn't that some kind of?
There's an expression for this kind of?
There's an expression for this kind of expression.
Do the driving.
No, when I'm the one doing.
Do the talking doing the driving I do.
Is that not inversion or something like that, or like it's not inversion.
This is not the conditional.
It's nice though it's nice though yeah, it's like do for emphasis when I'm not the one doing the driving I do.
When I'm not the one doing the cooking I do.
So that could be like.
That could be a nice way of sort of paraphrasing the question yeah, and saying it so, instead of saying yes, when I'm not the one doing the I do.
Yeah because I do because like, do you like traveling by car?
Blah, blah, blah.
I do.
So I do like traveling by car.
This is really cool.
They roll past.
Who roll past?
What rolls past?
Well, here are the views of the city roll past.
So it's like, it doesn't seem like the car is moving.
It seems like you're moving.
Do you know what else rolls past?
What?
The time when you're doing our pod course.
SuccessfulIants.com forward slash pod course.
It's all about phrasal verbs.
Roll past is a phrasal verb.
I love it.
Right.
I don't know what to say, dear listener.
We move on to our next phrasal verb, which is used to.
Oh, it's not a phrasal verb.
It's like a phrasal verb.
There's a verb and a preposition.
Oh, no.
Oh.
Yes.
It's its own special structure.
But it was a phrasal verb at the start and then it became its own structure.
The history of the English language, woman.
Have you just made it up?
No, that's a fact.
Did you go to university to study the English language?
No, it starts as a... Did you spend five bloody years at university?
Do you have a teaching degree?
It started as a phrasal verb and then sort of... What's the word?
Not metastasized, maybe fossilized or something like that into this structure.
What?
Used to be a phrasal verb?
Used to be a phrasal verb.
Okay, I'm so googling this because I think it's just a structure.
It shares features of phrasal verbs.
How about that?
Like used to, is a set structure, and also we have ing and infinitive, for example.
Enjoy doing so.
The verb pattern is ing form.
Yeah, it's fixed.
I pretend to do something, so it's infinitive.
Verb plus infinitive or verbs plus gerund.
Yeah, but like it's...
We'll do a grammar for success one day.
Let's just forget this whole five minutes.
I'm going to Google it, all right?
So we'll get it sorted out.
However, I said used to.
Used to, yeah.
So we used to travel to a village in England by car.
So and now Rory doesn't go to a village by car because he lives in Moscow for a month.
More.
One more month.
Although maybe by the time people are listening to this, I'll be away.
You said that sometimes you get motion sickness.
You get sick because the car moves or what?
Yeah, so motion sickness is...
Well, people call it feeling carsick sometimes.
It's when you're not focusing on the movement in front of you.
So you might be reading a book or something while the car is going.
So the fluid in your ears registers that the car is moving, but your vision doesn't match up with what your ears are feeling, and this confusion makes you sick.
Wow.
Yeah, people can get seasick.
It's the same idea.
It's the same thing.
But you fix it by looking at the horizon.
Interesting.
It restores the equilibrium in your senses. equilibrium it just means everything works together it's not really yeah and you can sit in the front and in the back or at the back yeah you can sit at the back of the car or you can sit at the front of the car so the proposition is at or in well to be honest you can say in or at the front it doesn't matter Really?
But more common they use at.
The most important thing is that you'll say in the front, in the back, not in front of the car.
If you sit in front of the car, then you won't be sitting for very long.
You'll be dead.
In front of the car or you just go out and then you stand in front of the car.
If you sit at the front, you have more room for your feet.
Yes, you have more leg room.
Yeah, you have more leg room.
The same inside the plane.
You have more leg room and you pay extra money.
But you don't pay extra money for your legroom in the car, I hope?
No.
Good.
It's very decadent.
What does it mean, decadent? decadent.
It's like you've spent an excessive amount of money on something that you really shouldn't have, just because it's so luxurious.
So for example, getting taxis everywhere is quite decadent.
Smoking a cigar is decadent.
It's quite decadent because you just spent a lot of money on it and it's not really worth it, but it looks nice.
So when I talk about traveling by car, I can also mention taking taxi.
Taxis, right?
Yeah, why not?
Because it's a car trip, so I usually take a taxi.
I don't drive.
I take taxis.
Yeah.
Because I'm lazy.
Yeah, you just throw money at people.
To make my problems go away.
How beautiful is that?
Capitalism for the win.
One of the questions was about what's the farthest place you've traveled by car.
So...
The farthest place is like this faraway place, like the farthest place you've been to.
You've traveled by car, right?
Can I say the furthest place?
Yeah, they're used to mean the same thing.
There's probably some small difference in meaning, but to be honest with you, it's not that unusual.
Yeah, usually further we use about details.
For example, I need further details.
Mm-hmm.
But about distances, we use far.
So far, the farthest place I've traveled by car.
Don't forget to use present perfect.
So you can say, the farthest place I've traveled by car is Murmansk or Vladivostok.
Is it?
No.
I cannot imagine what a car trip to Vladivostok would be like.
I went to the south of Moscow.
Vladivostok is like 14 days by car.
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Rory, do you like travelling by car?
Oh, and I'm not the one doing the driving, I do.
Especially by taxi in Moscow.
I love looking out the window and enjoying the views of the city as they roll past.
I'll really miss them when I have to leave, actually.
What's the farthest place you've travelled to by car?
Oh, we used to travel to a village in England where one of our friends lived.
And that, well, it seemed to take forever anyway at the time.
I think it was about 300 miles or something, which isn't much when you think about it, especially if you're living in Russia.
But when I was a child, it seemed like a lot.
Do you like to sit in the front or back when you are traveling by car?
Oh God, in the front if I can help it.
I sometimes get motion sickness and I like having more room for my feet.
But sometimes others with more severe issues sort of take precedence, and I'm quite happy to let them do that.
When do you usually travel by car?
Oh, whenever I can.
Like I said, I really love taking taxis in Moscow.
It's really decadent, I know, but I love it.
They get me from A to B with minimal effort.
When will your next car trip be?
That's a good question.
Probably tonight after we leave the studio.
