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Hello, hello dear listener and welcome into IELTS Speaking Part 2.
Describe a person you know who loves to grow plants.
You should say who this person is, what he or she grows, where he or she grows these plants and explain why this person enjoys growing plants.
What a strange topic, Rory, hello.
What a weird topic and thank God I live with someone who grows plants because otherwise I would have no idea who to talk about.
Yeah, dear listener, you should imagine a person who grows plants and any plants, like green thingies, outside, inside, the flowers, vegetables, fruits.
Or just imagine this person or steal Rory's story, okay?
Rory, give us your story.
well my flatmate seems to be a dab hand with house plants just based on the sheer number of them we currently have in the apartment um pete's a phd candidate specializing in neglected tropical parasites they probably think he was some sort of botanist just based on how much greenery we've got all over the place honestly there must be plants in just about every room of the house when it comes to the specific plants i honestly have no idea what they are called to be honest honest with you um the my best guess is they're mostly something like monsteras just based on the large green leaves and the long
thick stem they have we have a few smaller ones like um i think they're climbing plants but again the exact name escapes me since i'm not that great with growing or knowing much about plants myself i i think i've killed all the plants i ever had to be honest in terms of where they are like I said we have them in just about every room of the house one even popped up in my office the other day I think the only place that doesn't have them is my bedroom not only because it's my room so my responsibility but it's also on the side of the house with the least amount of sunlight so they would probably
shrivel up and die there whether or not they were in my care to tell you a bit about the reasons behind the need for all this in the house I have no idea, really.
It seems like a lot of extra work to keep them all fed and watered.
Not to mention all the potting and repotting that needs to be done.
And I guess I'd say it's because it makes the place look nice and makes it feel a bit less sterile.
Though that's just a guess, I've never really asked, to be honest with you.
I probably should. If Pete didn't have all these various plants in the house, well, I think it would be a lot less green, for sure.
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See you soon! Ruri and I are plant murderers.
So we murder, kill all the plants that we have I'm a plant murderer.
They don't survive very long.
It's not our fault.
Yeah but But now I have a plant and it's still alive.
It was almost half dead, almost dead.
But then I watered the plant and now it's living.
That's an achievement.
It's alive, somehow.
It's alive. So, dear listener, a person who loves to grow plants.
Rory told us a story about his flatmate, who seems to be a dab hand with...
Rory, what's this? What's this language?
a dab hand with what what's it it's a well as far as i'm aware it's an expression to describe a person who's an expert at something really so like you say uh he's a dab hand with something i usually say a dab hand at something at growing but why do you say with oh okay well i usually say at but it could be with i suppose it doesn't make a difference to be a dab hand at something something means that you are particularly good at this.
For example, I'm a dab hand at tennis.
So, I play tennis very well.
Or I'm a dab hand at cooking.
I cook very well. Yeah, if you don't like this expression, forget about it.
It's informal and it's the UK English, okay?
So, you can say that, okay, my flatmate is very good at growing plants, very good with plants.
What do do you say well i said very good with didn't i he is not a botanist so a person who deals with plants is called a botanist botanist and the science of growing plants is called what but oh botany so you can say that um he's not a botanist but he enjoys botany oh the scientific study of plants.
Interesting, yeah, because we have like chemistry, botany, but physics, mathematics, but botany.
And I have a lot of greenery in my apartment.
So, plants or greenery?
Greenery, all the plants and green plants that you have at home.
So, you can say I have a great deal of greenery.
I have greenery all over the place.
All over my place. All over my apartment.
When it comes to specific plants, I honestly have no idea what they are called.
And seriously, we don't want to remember all these crazy names for different plants, dear listener.
You can google just plants.
Or you could live with someone who grows plants and ask them about it.
So, you Google names for plants and then you go to Google images.
Dear listener, images, okay?
And then you have cute pictures and names.
And my recommendation is to learn two words for plants that you can remember.
For example, herbs and bamboo.
Yeah, maybe your friend grows bamboo.
Names for plants are crazy.
No, these are names for plants.
I'm not sure I pronounced them correctly.
That sounds crazy. Exactly.
Shaflera. Shaflera.
What is this? But we can remember English ivy.
Although, if you have that growing in your apartment, would that be a good thing?
I don't know. It's another story.
Is it good or not? You know, just you remember the name.
Just you need to show the examiner that you know specific names for plants.
Like choose two herbs and English ivy.
Or herbs. Herbs are just like mint, rosemary that, you know, Jamie Oliver, when he cooks, he just goes in there.
He just grabs some fresh herbs from his kitchen and puts in his pasta.
Yum, yum, yum. oh for example african violet is a flower not this uh diffin bark here but you should do just a podcast where she tries to read plant names do you have do you have oh dear examine i have a do you know oh funny so i have no idea what they are called to be honest like to be honest with you i have no idea what they're called they are called something the rhododendron i seriously can't remember the names you can just crack a joke dealis and just say like oh these plants name are horrible they are impronounceable yeah they are in impronounceable uh let's have a look oh it's as it turns
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Plant names are difficult to pronounce.
They're difficult to say, so they are unpronounceable.
They have large green leaves, long, thick stems. Stems are just like these sticks.
You know, like we have a spine, and flowers, plants have a stem.
And usually their stems are thick, like fat.
Specific plant vocabulary.
The exact name escapes me.
So I don't know the exact name for this plant.
Oh, you can make it up.
Why not? We've just made up words.
throughout this episode.
We make up words for, yeah, for brain parts and also you can make up words for plants.
Something like aminosta.
Oh my gosh. Roy, do you have an aminosta at home?
I mean, maybe. That could literally be anything.
Yeah, like, sounds like a disease.
Yeah, but you examine it and you will have a laugh for, like, two minutes before you can continue with the exam.
Oh, funny. I'm not that great with growing plants.
Or pronouncing their names.
Or pronouncing their names, yeah.
In terms of where they are, so we're moving to a different topic.
In terms of where they are, they are in every room, they are all over the place.
And are they in pots, Rory?
Like where are they physically?
They're physically in pots in the rooms. they are in yeah pot is of special thingy that's a plant grows in and they are in every room so that they get enough amount of sunlight if they don't get sunlight they will shrivel up it means die well shrivel up might mean they die or they don't have enough water either way they're not in good condition shrivel means to dry to become smaller and then just you know so when you forget to water your plant it shrivels up and dies for example you grow some lettuce lettuce you know like for the salad and then you forget to water it to put water on it so it shrivels
up and dies it seems like a a lot of extra work you do need to work hard to keep them all fed and watered so my friend keeps the plants fed and watered yeah he feeds plants maybe put some stuff some food some special food yum yum yum for plants and watered so plants need to be watered and also you have to report pot them so a plant grows in a pot and you need to change pots once in a while as far as i know reporting but the plants make the place look nice it's all green and without all the plants my place would be less green yeah dear listener so i don't know what you'll be talking about out.
Google two plant names that you can remember.
Imagine the story. And you can talk about the person, your friend or your parents who enjoy, for example, growing herbs, herbs like rosemary, mint, what else dill for cooking.
It's a popular activity, perhaps.
It's a popular activity in Russia.
Everything has dill on it there.
Or you can talk about people with gardens so they have a house and then outside they grow some flowers or vegetables but the vocabulary is going to be a bit different yeah because like a flower garden a vegetable garden all this like what do you call these places where vegetables grow in a garden they have like this special well a vegetable garden or it could be a vegetable plot yeah you see we We don't even know because we don't have green fingers.
We are not good at plants.
We are plant murderers.
If it's a certain kind of vegetable.
It's a vegetable patch where vegetables grow or a flower bed.
Or a French word, potager.
Special place outside where flowers grow.
That's a lot though.
Thank you very much for listening.
and we'll see you in the next episode where we talk even more nonsense about plants because we know nothing about them Rory you're benign what I mean to say is join us again in the next episode where we will grow your vocabulary successfully more successfully than we can grow plants bye at blinds .com it's not just about window treatments it's about you your style, your space, your way.
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fly. Describe a person you know who loves to grow plants.
You should say who this person is, what he or she grows, where he or she grows these plants, and explain why this person enjoys growing plants.
Well, my flatmate seems to be a dab hand with houseplants just based on the sheer number of them we currently have in the apartment.
Pete's a PhD candidate specializing in neglected tropical parasites they probably think he was some sort of botanist just based on how much greenery we've got all over the place honestly there must be plants in just about every room of the house when it comes to the specific plants i honestly have no idea what they are called to be honest with you um the my best guess is they're mostly something like monsteras just based on the the large green leaves and the long thick stem they have. We have a few smaller ones, like I think they're climbing plants.
But again, the exact name escapes me, since I'm not that great with growing or knowing much about plants myself.
I think I've killed all the plants I ever had, to be honest. In terms of where they are, like I said, we have them in just about every room of the house.
One even popped up in my office the other day.
I think the only place that doesn't have them is my bedroom.
Not only because it's my room, so it's my responsibility, but it's also on the side of the house with the least amount of sunlight, so they would probably shrivel up and die there, whether or not they were in my care.
To tell you a bit about the reasons behind the need for all this in the house, I have no idea, really.
It seems like a lot of extra work to keep them all fed and watered, not to mention all the potting and repotting that needs to be done and i guess i'd say it's because it makes the place look nice and makes it feel a bit less sterile though that's just a guess i have never really asked to be honest with you i probably should if pete didn't have all these various plants in the house well i think it would be a lot less green for sure
